USA 2024 presidential election

The Snopes fact check on this even clarifies:

 For the record, virtually every source that covered the Unite the Right debacle concluded that it was conceived of, led by and attended by white supremacists, and that therefore Trump's characterization was wrong. 

The only person making stuff up is Trump, by pretending that there were fine people on both sides there that day.

There were not.

One side was a racist mob, pure and simple.

Therefore, de facto, Trump was openly praising white supremacists by implying some of them were fine people.

It is Trump giving cover to a racist mob.

You have been duped by Trump's lies and racist dog whistling.

Trump is a racist, who has, during the current campaign come out with stuff about immigrants poisoning the blood of the nation, eating pets, and similar race baiting memes.

So why would someone go to these lengths today to defend him on the semantics of what exactly he may or may not have intended to mean in 2017?

It doesn't make any sense does it?

It was like the posters trying to excuse stuff from Trump like grab them by the pussy… that it didn't mean Trump is a sexual predator, he was just joking … and then we had Trump established as a rapist by a court of law.

Why do people go to these lengths to make excuses for Trump?

He is not just joking. He is revealing himself and people don't seem to be able to handle the truth and so resort to excuse making.

That never do the same for any other politicians at home or abroad.

The man is a buffoon. Why are you going to bat for him in post after post?

He tried to steal the last election… so yes, when he dog whistles about being a dictator alarm bells go off.

You could add your own detailed criticisms of … well these are the things I see he has done that are not benign, this is why he is not a fit and proper person to be President.

But you never do, do you?

Instead it is post after post defending the semantics of this point or that point defending Trump.

When have you ever posted an unprompted criticism of Trump, or defence of a Democrat or public figure against one of his baseless scurrilous attacks?
So you are not doing so from some commitment, equally applied to both sides, to a high standard of proof for claims.

For someone who claims not to have skin in the game, your posts create the entirely contrary impression.

I wouldn't be trusting that.

I think Irish people just have more of a sense of humour when it comes to Trump. Something missed by the very Trump serious posters here for the past 10 years.

But no time for humour when democracy is at stake, apparently.

I suspect many of the serious posters here find nothing funny.

The initial polls post debate have Harris leading at between 3 and 5%. If she can maintain at least something in that range that will be enough for her to win by a big enough margin to make the anti democratic electoral college irrelevant.