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When he loses again in November I'm going to be hard as a rock
This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race.
Yeah... no he didn't. They just knew they couldn't get enough Democrats energized to vote. And that was totally due to Biden and nothing to do with what Trump did.
I truly believe for anyone watching the debate that golf conversation was the end of both of their political careers.
This so much this ...trump is a felon and a threat to America but sure Joe say you'll golf with him ...ffs
The golf debate was the wtf are we even doing moment for me. It turned out to be a very powerful moment that allowed a new democratic candidate to rise above two old men blathering about their golf game.
Kamala is gonna tee up and out-drive them both anyway.
I admit I didn't watch it and I only scanned the coverage because I really didn't think it was going to change people's minds enough for Biden to drop out, although I clearly was wrong.
So what was the golf conversation?
they were arguing over Joe's performances
That's almost as stupid as Trump and the others on stage arguing about penis size during one of the primary debates in 2016.
Oh yeah well im bigly better at gulf than you
What? What? Fat chance, jack
etc.
Sounds very stupid. I don't regret not watching.
Honestly watch it. The whole debate is rough and then we hit this and I could feel the souls of Americans just huff. The whole debate Trump is saying nothing nonsense with no point. Biden is half awake and limping through it. Then this insane conversation takes place
https://youtu.be/5VyAfQBV2_c?feature=shared
At any moment any one of them could've bodied the other in this conversation and probably won the presidency if you had anyone more reasonable, intelligent, lucid there that would've been such a moment. Instead I'm sweating from cringe. With the state of everything, why the fuck are you arguing about golf?
Wow, I hadn't watched any of it either but damn. Trump just being Trump by bragging about shit that only sounds impressive or meaningful to dumb people and then Biden, looking good until he opened his mouth, showed that maybe he should even resign right now because he's not all there and barely has any energy.
At some point, if we live long enough, there's a sudden and drastic decline where we go from just an older version of ourselves to elderly. Looks like Biden hit that point sometime during his current term.
I wonder if he's the first president to do so. Reagan had Alzheimer's, which can be worse mentally, but I don't know if he had the physical decline also.
That said, elderly Biden would still have been a better option than Trump. Not great (I don't think the Democrats will ever offer an option that threatens the status quo), but better than Trump.
That might be what really happened, but what does Trump think happened?
Obviously Trump thinks it's all about Trump. But Matthew Bartlett isn't Donald Trump.
Have you ever seen both of them together at the same time? 🤔
No, but his name isn't John Barron, so it can't be Trump.
(How fucking weird is it that he named his son after the fake name he used to give to the press to promote himself?)
Ugh. I'd forgotten all about his alter egos. My brain just cannot remember all the stupid shit he's done.
Trump has always rambled incoherently. That isn't new. His base loves him because he represents selfishness and racism. That is who they are. They don't seem to care that he is a coward and a nutjob. Rich people love him because he will do just about anything for anyone who will publicly shine his shoes.
He's a nitwit and he always has been.
“This is a guy who cut through the Republican primary like a knife through butter. This is a guy who pummeled a semi-conscious president in a debate and literally out of a race.
Please. R wants him as their dictator, that's why he swept the primary, and Biden pummeled himself out of the race, Trump just had to make it through a couple hours without becoming completely unhinged, and he lied on average once per speaking minute during that time.
Surely it was way more than one lie per minute
Actually you are right, I misremembered! :)
By the most up-to-date count, Trump lied 50 times during the debate. That's 16 more lies than his felony convictions. That's 48 more lies than his impeachments, and popular vote losses. If the 90 minute debate was actually divided equally into 45 minutes of speaking time for each candidate, Trump lied more than once per minute.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-complete-list-of-all-of-trumps-debate-lies/ar-BB1p3xZb
“Among battleground voters, we win if we have the discipline to contrast on policy and we lose if voters decide on likability. Really, really simple,” he added.
what "policy"? take from the poor and give to the rich? whatever GOP. keep thinking you're getting non-1% votes because of anything OTHER than hating people who are different
No.. their policy is blame immigrants and convince their constituents that the whip that hits them and the boot that stomps them hurts immigrants and people of colour more than them. Meanwhile they pass bills that deregulate the capitalist class and punishes the workers.
Edit: I am actually just elaborating your description which is more succinct
Edit: I am actually just elaborating your description which is more succinct
Not to worry. I heard from El Duderino that not everyone is into the whole brevity thing 😉
I hear or read the things he’s said, and it absolutely blows my mind that anyone can’t understand how absolutely stupid/demented he is.
The guy is a moron.
I can handle about 10 seconds of him speaking and I start to feel my brains leaking out of my ears.
How the fuck anyone can listen to him is beyond me.
I think at the convention they tried covering their ears so they couldn't hear him.
You remember that episode of the Boondocks where Huey watches junk TV and becomes so exhausted and apathetic that he can no longer think for himself by the end of the episode? That's why I refuse to even attempt to listen to Trump. Honestly I think that's how people get suckered in by Trump; he wears down the mind so much that it becomes too much trouble to think.
His supporters view him as smart. Because compared to them, he is. That should terrify everyone
'A stupid person's idea of a smart person'
A dumbass' smartass, if you will.
Weird.
Lol. Eat shit and die, traitor filth. Harris 2024.
That old loser should withdraw from the race.
Vance/Couch 2024: Because dolphins are fuckable too!
Don't forget the latex glove!
Vance did once and he and Couch had twins:
Where are his legs?
Stably diffused, just like that extra finger.
Got lost in the pattern buffer.
hahaha!!!
You left out the lying coward, rapist, racist, bigot, convicted felon, pedophile, old, illiterate, senile parts - but I sense you're not a fan?
also missing weird
Hey, now that you mention it, he is kind of a weird one!