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Took you all morning and that's what you managed to come up with? SAD! As to Mr. Time Management, does Twitting at 3am constitute "responsible time management"? An old fella like that ought to be getting himself some shuteye, then he wouldn't fall asleep in the courthouse or ramble meaninglessly when his teleprompter has a breakdown. Does golfing 261 rounds or visiting his properties 428 days during the 1,461 days of his presidency count as "managing his time responsibly"?

There are myriad ways to spoil one's ballot, and these spoiled ballots are recorded and recognized as "protest votes". Just like some people would rather behave like toddlers and "hold their breath until they turn blue", your choosing to not vote will be just as effective. Can you give us an example of which individual (from either party or non-affiliated) within the USA would get your vote should they run? Or haven't they got someone odious enough for you?

Do you have a reading comprehension issue? I noted that he has already debated with the "presumptive" nominee when it was Biden, because he was running without any opposition so it didn't matter that the debate happened before he was the official nominee. Harris is now the presumptive nominee who is running without opposition. What's changed? I also find it mystifying that you believe that DJT "waste[d] his time" by debating with Biden. Even I had that as a massive win for DJT and it would have swung the election his way for sure in my opinion. Given that he achieved a great victory with his stirring inspirational answers and clear grasp of the facts, and that his Uncle was a professor at MIT - very smart - why wouldn't he want to lay this incompetent DEI hire to rest by whupping her on national TV like he did Biden? I don't get it.

Here's a clue because you could use some. The reason you can only see her race, and are so fascinated that you are busily breaking it down into sub-categories by percentage, is that you are racist. Just like a hammer can only see nails, you can't get past her background, appearance and gender to the place where you can begin to discuss her qualifications for the presidency. You'll note that we don't attack Donald because he's a White man, we attack him based on what he says and what he does. We don't break down his Caucasian-ness by how much is German or Irish because it's not important at all, just like whether Kamala is "more" Indian or African-American is utterly irrelevant. We don't think he is a Fascist because he has a German grandfather, but because he embraces fascists and supports fascist policies. The reason she was chosen is right before you and will continue right up until she is the first to be referred to as "Madam President" - she's smart, tough and has appropriate qualifications and background to be President as a former prosecutor and successful politician. The diversity you so despise reflects the population that you wish to have vote for your candidate, so keep on flinging that poop! You're just alienating the people you need to win the election. Now can you please provide an explanation about why Donald is so afraid to debate this supposedly DEI-based incompetent hire?

Yes, that's a great line of thinking and I would encourage this! I mean, nobody would really conclude that the Right are actually completely racist. To the point of breaking down the ethnicity of the father to "prove" that she's more Indian than she is Black. Because, you know, that's what REALLY matters in your candidate. And as everyone knows, the Black folks in America are racially pure Africans who pride themselves on that. This is the problem with being fundamentally racist. You actually believe that Black people are so simple that you can win their votes by talking to them as if they were children. Love that Harris is following the Michelle Obama playbook - when they go low, we go high! The enthusiasm is building very quickly and the negativity of the GOP is already biting them in the buttocks. But they have no way of moving towards the Center because that would require compromise with the Far Right base, and so they're doing the only thing they know how to do - fling poop. Harris very deliberately and specifically decided to protect her flanks before moving her forces forward in the Center. You know, just like how selecting an abortion zealot like JD Vance has protected their Base, while they attack on one side of the battlefield and abandon the Center.

What? You mean politicians have speechwriters that write their speeches? NO WAY! This is groundbreaking news! Have you shared this breaking story with the Associated Press? Luckily DJT doesn't do that! So you're saying that when she speaks extemporaneously, she'll flop like a fish out of water? But what if she's in an electric-powered boat, for example? Remember this string of pearls of wisdom? "The problem is the boat is so heavy it can’t float. Also, it can’t go fast because of the weight. So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’" You are probably correct in that she would never be able to on the fly concoct an allegory of such brilliance and depth, illustrating her understanding of complex technical matters and the risks that one typically faces while underwater boating with electric engines in shark-infested waters, a typical situation for people on the East Coast. She also wouldn't pretend to have had this conversation that hopefully never occurred. I say hopefully because if that word salad represents the "thinking" of DJT, he's pretty far along the road to Reagan's dementia. Given that you're so confident that DJT would absolutely destroy Kamala in a one-on-one debate, can you explain why he's already backed out of the September debate he had committed to? Don't try to tell me the ol' "wait until she's the actual nominee" because he already debated with the presumptive nominee before the Democratic Convention. What's changed?

"a cackling, California communist" - sounds like some quality journalism. I wondered why there wasn't a source indicated nor a link. Something called "The Western Journal" apparently, never heard of it. It was started by a Conservative political consultant in 2008, the same guy who started the Political Action Committee (PAC) "Citizens United" that eventually were able to get that decision made by the Supreme Court that has caused much of the political trouble in America. This is the one that has led to corporations having the same 1st Amendment rights as citizens and opened the door to the unlimited money that has swamped US politics and shifted democracy to where an outsized voice is given to billionaires and corporations who can corrupt the system by throwing unlimited amounts of money at it via PACs and Super PACs. If I were the Democrats, this would be the first thing I would focus on destroying, it is unlimited money in politics that has fundamentally corrupted the system.

You do - so long as the result is what you want.

I think you're not taking into account how most people are finally tired of Trump and all his Narcissism and drama. Florida is actually going to be back in play, and there's even a longshot of Texas being there too. They made a big overreach on doubling down on abortion and JD Vance emphasizes that choice every time he appears next to DJT. Trump wouldn't dare get on the stage with Kamala because he knows he'd be beaten like a red-headed stepchild so he's just going to sling mud and dodge. I think the American people are finally tired of it and shifting to a positive candidate is a great move.

Stop pretending that it wasn't Trump who appointed the lyin' judges who perjured themselves in front of the Senate by stating during their confirmation hearings that Roe vs. Wade was settled law. By those judges striking it down, everything that followed is the responsibility of Trump. And pretending it's all about "States' rights" is the same lie and BS excuse that the Right pretends to use when they talk about how the Civil War wasn't about slavery.

You're Right-Wing and a Trump supporter so of course you'd find her unlikeable. Fortunately it's not your votes that are "up for grabs", so it's not really relevant. And I don't find Harris unlikeable at all, much prefer someone with a brighter personality who smiles rather than scowls and who can form sentences that actually have meaning and relevance.

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Of course. It's a campaign tactic that signals to the Democrat base that these are things they would do if given the mandate by the electorate. You know, similar to the same things the GOP does when they're in power knowing that the legislation won't change anything. Or, for example, when the GOP adamantly want something (border security) then after negotiating a deal for what they want they then back out of it because they want to use that as an election issue.

I apologized because I shouldn't have said that, not because you asked. When I make a mistake, I own up to it and try to atone for whatever damage it may have caused. Please re-read my posts while ignoring the part about you joining MAGA. They are all about appreciation of differing viewpoints well expressed and lamenting about the lack thereof. You provided some good ones, but once the debate got a bit warmed up this morning you stopped doing so. My point about the swing voters for example was logical and hardly controversial, but you chose for whatever reason to throw doubt on it even though you understood it and agreed with it pretty much, rather than discuss the wider and more interesting points. I'd enjoy hearing your views since we so seldom get someone on the conservative side who is willing and able to engage in principled debate.

Why was Trump willing to debate Biden who also was not the official Nominee? You are aware that the Democratic Convention hasn't happened yet, correct? Yet Trump was willing to debate the presumptive nominee before even HE was the official nominee. What's changed? Biden was presumptive because pretty much all the delegates had already committed to him while he was in the race. Same situation is now in place with Harris.

You were reasonable until you started spitting trite one-liners in response to serious posts like the rest of them. I spent the majority of that post pointing that out and encouraging you to return to principled and serious debate. That you seemed to be eschewing it in favour of the usual one-line nonsense was discouraging, I'll admit. I resorted to calling you names as a result which was wrong and I apologize. That you are offended by being called part of the MAGA crowd does indicate there remains hope for you.

Did you? If you haven't, what does that mean about you? Nothing whatsoever of course. I'm enjoying this now, I think the magnitude of how things have changed has finally hit, and you're flailing. Great to see. Let us know if you have anything of substance to debate, good luck on the poop flinging in your quest to find some magic bullet to make people hate Harris. Don't think the laughing thing is going to work, it will counter DJT's anger and negativity perfectly. The Jewish thing she's got covered so that's a non-starter. And even your own people are recognizing that attacking her as being there just because she's a woman and a person of color is counterproductive. Hard one, but I'm sure you'll coalesce around something unethical and horrible. But this is turning into a campaign of those who see America as a great place and moving forward versus those who think it is a terrible place and want to move it backwards to a point in time somewhere around 75 years ago. I'll take that, Reagan succeeded in fomenting this disastrous swing to the Right because of his sunny disposition and positivity for America. I think Kamala has the same vibe and is moving in that direction. It's great to see.

I had hope that you might be an interesting interlocutor, unlike the MAGA crowd. We do miss principled conservatives in the debate, they've been shivved by their own party and are now called names along with the rest of the non-MAGA such as "RINO". Must be annoying as hell, I know I find similar issues with the idiots on the Left who've bought into the propaganda campaign of HAMAS and friends. But instead you give us this take? You don't think the majority of the swing voters are in the Center? Okay, where do you think they are? Of course I was not making a statement that EVERY swing voter is in the center, why would you conclude that? Did you agree with my assessment of how the race has changed once Biden dropped out? This forum and fora in general are sadly lacking much substantive and good-natured debate between people of intelligence on different sides. Much of the MAGA crowd are just here to troll. Pity you have decided to join them.

I think you underestimate the depths to which politics has sunk in the present day and age, and with AI tools available to continuously make stuff up, I expect there will be a flood of misinformation about him just like every other politician. And this is the area where the Republicans have been incredibly effective, remember how they managed to "Swiftboat" John Kerry and make his service in the war a negative even when they were running a guy who basically dodged the draft by signing up for the National Guard (Bush II)? I would not be surprised if they went right at him since it worked before. On the other hand, they may well decide that they're much better off not mentioning him and focusing on Harris.

She's married to a Jewish guy, that line of attack has already been debunked. Try the next one, whatever it may be.

You are not aware that these two terms are in opposition? A "swing voter" is one whose views are in or around the Center, hence can see the case for voting either Democrat or Republican or Independent candidate depending on the candidate and the policies they are advocating for. A "progressive" is one who is Left of Center and will vote for Democrats or if they're further left perhaps Jill Stein. This is why moving to Harris was brilliant - many of the swing voters would have been appalled by Biden's "dead man talking" performance at the debate and would therefore reconsider voting for him as he was clearly too old for the job. Harris on the other hand is all that Biden is not, so would be an attractive choice in comparison. This is one reason why the polls have tightened significantly since the switch. The other reason is that Harris has energized the Democrat base. It is likely the turnout amongst the Democrat voters would have been low with Biden at the top of the ticket, with the enthusiasm for Harris it is now moving in the other direction. If we get big turnout, the Democrats win. This is why the Republicans have consistently been trying to reduce ways for people to vote and claiming fraud as the reason for it despite there being pretty much zero evidence of voter fraud, never mind voter fraud on the scale that might actually affect an election result. The GOP doesn't even have policy to speak of other than the wide-ranging set of crazy ideas that comprise Project 2025. It's a cult of personality built around one of the worst people to have ever run for the office.

Harris has been around for long enough, doubt something new will suddenly be found. Good luck on digging up dirt on Mark Kelly, the more you find out about him the better he looks. We don't need new dirt on Donald or Vance. All we need is for them to keep talking about their policies and ideas. Both are a liability every time they open their mouths.

LOL. Did he get the two weeks he needed for his amazing Health Care plan? How about the two weeks for his infrastructure plan? Who "fell" for it?

Disingenuous. Of course you haven't! You're able to participate in practically any discussion about politics in the USA, but nope, never seen one o' them Trump as the Messiah images or any of those guys who cover their monster trucks in Trump flags etc.

Oh but you do! That's why they trot out those paragons of mediocrity at any opportunity they can, and they keep having to find new introductory tunes to play since as soon as they play a banger, the artist who created it says "cease and desist" because they don't want to be associated with the GOP and their awful policies. Do you understand that the only reason people even know that Kid Rock and Scott Baio even exist is because the Right is desperately trying to find some celebrity - ANYONE - to speak on their behalf.