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People love it when you lose. Give us dirty laundry.
It's a low bar. If we're now judging candidates in comparison to Trump then we're in trouble.
Trump isn't the standard. He's an anomaly, and we should aim way higher.
Lol, name the last Republican President that wasn't a moron.
Roosevelt
https://ictnews.org/archive/theodore-roosevelt-the-only-good-indians-are-the-dead-indians
Morality wise, the last good Republican was Grant.
For intelligence it's Nixon imo. Tricky Dick didn't get where he was by being a moron, evil isn't stupid.
Eisenhower very definitely wasn't stupid either.
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I don't agree. A scale has to be useful for separating what you're measuring. Any scale that puts Kamala as "low" is like trying to measure the size of a banana and an orange in kilometers, they'll both measure "low". There is no decent measure by which Trump is anything but scum. Kamala (or just about anyone who isn't a Trump voter) ranks so far above Trump that they can't be anything under "excellent" on a scale designed to meaningfully compare these candidates.
Obviously the scale we should be using for our politicians SHOULD be better, and that's because we should have produced better candidates. With the candidates we have, we don't get to use a better scale because in doing so we'll be playing right into Republican narrative of "they're both the same" or Kamala is "low" quality so vote for Trump.
Well, Trump did make a ton of people madly follow him.
It may be leading the world to ruin, but it is still leading.
I'd put the impact rating as "high".
The direction being undesirable.
Which pundits actually said that? Most of what I've read, people were saying she did pretty well. But you sure got people here believing this meme.
Fox news. Daily beast. Daily Mail. etc. The usual suspects. But no matter what she said or did, they were going to bash her. If she were the 2nd coming they would say she was a "trans ultra-left authoritarian".
The winner of a political debate is whoever the audience likes more. It unfortunately has nothing to do with being a reasonable person.
It's fucking absurd and embarrassing that crowd participation is even permitted in televised presidential debates.
This is the folly of representative democracy. It inevitably becomes less about policy and instead a popularity contest between figureheads.
Representative democracy has run its course, and the problems it solved (the fact that it's not practical for everyone to attend places of government from far away) have all but been solved by technology. Bring on direct democracy.
Media is a circus. Dont clown around or stick head in the lions mouth and youre gonna get a low score
The media is owned by old white conservative men who would prefer fascism over more taxes.
The 'liberal media' is a lie
Had a coworker get very mad when I threw "liberal media" back in her face by noting FOX brags about being "the most watched network".
She responded that FOX is too liberal.
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of course they did, they don't understand shit and need to drum up literally anything to get clicks lmao
When the other candidate's performance is "rock bottom", "low" is a massive step up. Not doing the listed things shouldn't raise the evaluation to "high", because that's the bare minimum.
I was under the impression that we all know that nearly all media pundits are greedy and suffer from some form of dementia or other brain disease.
That's a lot of things she didn't do.
She also clarified her stance on Israel i.e. exactly the same as Biden, full support for genocide.
Yeah idk why you're getting downvoted, that was one of the most disappointing parts of it.
She could have tried to wriggle around it a bit more rhetorically but she just went "I'll bang my head against the wall with Israel just like we've been doing till now."
In general it was a pretty bad showing from Harris, and Walz did only a bit better.
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