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Repaying a loan by check is definitely suspicious...in Paranoid Land.

It's so weird. We had all these right wingers here condemning Biden on the grounds that he was going to pardon his son. As for your comments about Biden, thanks for the mindreading. It's a common recourse for those who have no facts to back them up. There's plenty of evidence to show that Biden loved his son. Lots of testimony. And, as Devon Archer testified before the Republicans in the House, Joe Biden called his son every day. And making a generalization like like "Democrats are horrible people" based on the acts of 1 personk, is saying that tens of millions of Americans are horrible people. That's the kind of thing that only a horrible person would says.

His excuse was the hanging chads in Florida, But apart from that, in 2016 Pennsylvania and Florida were very close. Had the gone the other way, Clinton would have won the election. So not much reason to respect his method.

I'm not going to debate with you the history that led up to the emancipation. The fact is that slavery was ended. And you condemned the war on the grounds that it cost 600K lives.

Hello citizen of Opposite World. Where honor consists of showing favoritism to your nearest and dearest. I guess to you Banana Republics are the embodiment of civic virtues.

Are you claiming that his nephew said nothing of the sort? That yahoo misreported the story? Got any evidence to back that up? Or is this just another Pavlovian response to information that displeases you?

Even worse, it put an end to slavery...oh wait a minute... Of course, back then, they didn't exactly count as Americans...

Well, he did predict Trump would win. That said, I don't assign much importance to his opinion or method. The funny thing is, though, Fox News was trumpeting news that Lichtman was about to issue his conclusion. But as soon as he did, the topic vanished from the Fox website. I wonder why that was?

False: This is from an article written in 2008 after the conventions and before the election: "For this election, Lichtman says the Republicans have lost Key 1 (the 2006 mid-term election was a huge setback), Key 3 (the incumbent-party candidate is not the current president), Key 6 (long-term economic growth), Key 7 (there were no significant policy changes during this term), Key 10 (the Iraq war is widely regarded as a failure that has cost the United States much support from its allies), Key 11 (there were no major military or foreign-policy successes) and Key 12 (the incumbentparty candidate is not very charismatic or a national hero.) They seem likely to lose Key 5, as well, as many people believe the country is sliding into a recession, and Barack Obama’s charm and appeal could still turn Key 13, although that’s not easy, as only the two Roosevelts, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Reagan have turned it in the past century." https://pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/orms.2008.05.12/full/

It has set a new record trading low today of 16.78.

Share of U.S. adults who say they are more enthusiastic about voting than in previous presidential elections Americans, driven by a Democratic surge, are the most enthusiastic about the presidential election in 24 years of Gallup polling... Democrats' enthusiasm score is one point shy of the party's high — 79% in February 2008, during the Clinton-Obama primary. The group's score, which includes Democratic-leaning participants, was 55% in March. The score for Republicans and GOP-leaning participants is at 64%, up from 59% in the spring. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/31/voting-enthusiasm-presidential-election

Cherry picking much?

Not great? How about not good? Trump showed mercy? What debate did you watch? .

He was obviously in command? Of what? Not of himself.

Well, the media genius certainly wasn't impressive in his debate with Biden. And as for Trump turning around the crass comments he made, I imagine most fanboys of Trump like to believe that. After all, they loved his comments. Why wouldn't everyone else? Clearly, you haven't considered the possibility that the electorate is getting tired of Trump's shtick. Again, if he's such a media genius, why have his approval ratings been consistently underwater?

Why would Trump perform better? What's the basis for your prediction?

Because Putin was building up Russia's cash reserves to weather any problems he might have with the west. Also, as you may recall, it was pretty much the universal expectation at the time that Russia would overwhelm Ukraine in short order. So America's stance was considered to be irrelevant. In addition, as you may recall, before the Republicans capitulated and became at best ambivalent about Putin, they had strongly opposed Trump when he illegally delayed arms shipments to Ukraine. So it was not at all clear to Russia that Trump's bromance with Putin would be sufficient to stop aid. And just because Putin launched the invasion after Biden became President doesn't mean he waited for Biden to become President. Are you familiar with the logicians formulation "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" Which means: After this therefore because of this.

Objectively because Trump won the electoral college vote therefore he won the debate? How does your objective analysis take into account the possibility that he might have won bigger had he not debated?

So that's why Putin launched the war with a big push against the Western part of Ukraine? Because he never intended to conquer all of it? Which is why he demands that the "Nazi government" in Ukraine be replaced by a friendlier one? That's why he insists that the Ukrainians are not a people ethnically distinct from the Russians?

Well, if you're going to judge the results of the debates as a voter popularity contest, then who got more votes? Trump or Clinton?

You make an excellent point. Is the US obligated by treaty to recognize this corporate dodge? I know that in the EU Ireland has landed in hot water for this practice and has had to institute reforms. How much success they'll enjoy is another matter entirely. Ireland's tax reforms and the fight against aggressive tax schemes https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2022/733532/EPRS_ATA(2022)733532_EN.pdf

Or Satan.

Cherry picking much? He may have charisma. One thing about it is that it works more effectively in a negative than positive way. And you still haven't provided any evidence that Trump performed well in previous debates. In the past debate, he and Biden both performed dismally, But Biden did worse.

Your original claim was at the views of the attackers was only shared by a tiny minority of Turks. I'm sure that most Turks don't support violence against members of Americans military, but as the evidence I linked to o shows, the views of the attackers re-america are shared by a big majority of Turks.

You can thank the extreme right wingSsupreme Court and its Citizens United decision for allowing unlimited funds to pollute elections. When the supreme Court issued that decision, Republicans were overwhelmingly ecstatic about it.