Game Thread The Debate! Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris!

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  1. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    America: Is there a less relevant Republican than Vivek Ramaswamy?
     
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    PCmor7 Generational Poster

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    Who?
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Precisely. I'd be more interested in Christian Wood's opinion on the debate.
     
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  4. MickZagger

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    Nothing screams moderate like hanging with Laura Loomer
     
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    Why couldn't she just say that ... why does she go into 'word salad' mode and not give an honest answer.
     
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    You want people to use actual context in this forum ... are you sure you know who you're talking to?
     
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    It's not about what I think ... it's about how she can speak to people and give straight answers. She doesn't do that, she goes into 'word salad' mode and just starts rambling.
     
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    That's cool ... I'm glad she did better later on but I work 70 hours a week and wasting two hours of it on that nonsense wasn't going to happen. In news we work on the lede and hooking people right away, she lost me and he was never going to interest me.
     
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    You’re right. Trump is much more concise. I especially thought his plan to make child care affordable was very thorough and pertinent.

    Almost make me second guess why I’m voting for Harris.
     
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    While I laugh at the whole TDS thing the right (and some posters here) like to throw around, but some of you can't have any conversation about her without defaulting to him. I could care less about him, he's a former president that is hopefully sliding out of this race. Stick to what she does or doesn't do for just one post without defaulting to him.
     
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    He's the alternative, so you should care. She's light years better.
     
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    It’s a two horse race.

    Why minimize one candidate about something that the other candidate is even worse at.

    Trump flip flops on stance’s daily. His answers to questions are incoherent. He talks crazy at rallies and people leave. But she gets called out for ‘word salad’. It’s comical.
     
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    I really don't think they are all that different in the end, honest to God they're both centre-right candidates. She spent a lot of the debate pitching herself as a 2000s Republican (as she did in her DNC speech) with the endorsement of Dick Cheney. And sort of scoffed at the idea of peace in Ukraine and elsewhere, which is pretty typical Project For A New American Century neo-con behavior. Again, I personally think she won the debate because her opponent was riffing on air frying Geese in Canton. Her policy is thin and she defaults to platitudes to fill in the gaps, Trump goes the rambling route. If you're really emotionally invested in stopping imaginary fascist dictatorships from forming, or watching a Tajikstani conscript shoot himself in a ditch in Ukraine after a drone strike, Kamala Harris is definitely worth getting excited about. But neither candidate is for me.
     
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    Trump is center right? - In what world?
     
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    I bet you've taken a statistics class in college. What she said was higher, not higher rate. Context can be subjective. I've earned a higher rate on my dogecoin but a higher return on my bitcoin. I can make factual arguments for either coin and that wouldn't make either argument wrong.
     
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    In ours? He is a typical GOP candidate with this populist coat of paint that never delivers on anything. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump want to expand ICE, are pro cop, pro Israel, and have no actual interest in price controls etc. They aren't all that different from each other, and would be in the same party in Europe. America leans right by default in comparison to most of the world.
     
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    “KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”

    ~Trump posted on Truth Social.

    :biglaugh:
     
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    bulls_with_booz We're Selfish

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    What happened to Fight Fight Fight?
     
  19. Kano John

    Kano John Start 'em young!

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    There are so many things that they differ on that you don't mention. Trump is anti abortion, Harris is for women's right to choose. Trump promotes pro business economics and tax cuts that benefit the wealthy - Harris promotes policies that benefit the middle class & blue collar workers. Trump doesn't believe in global warming and Harris is strongly for low pollutant alternative energy. Trump wants to eradicate the affordable care act and Harris wants to build on it. These are just a few of the differences that matter to me and why I would never vote for Trump.
     
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    What typical GOP candidate tries to stop the certification of the election and promises to try to suspend the Constitution for a day?
     
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