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Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Harris is a fine candidate. She's not JFk and she's not Obama but she's fine.

    Trump could be running against FDR and he'd be close to 50/50. It is nothing more than a massive cult at this point and all logic and reason seems out the window.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    The trouble is that to "command the airwaves" she needs to wade through a tidal wave of Horseshit to be heard.

    It's the Bannon theory of "flood the zone with sh!t" - Trump and Vance just endlessly push utter tripe and it's more "interesting" to the media and the viewers to consume the latest Trump Outrage vs. a dry Policy update from Team Harris.

    Trump manages to avoid being chased on his actual policies (which are either non existent or Awful) because everyone wants to talk about his latest "Pet eating Terrorists" commentary.

    Harris doesn't say anything utterly moronic and everyone says "well , she was a bit vague on her policies around Corporate tax" so something equally asinine.

    It's a completely un-equal playing field.

    And like I said - People that vote for Trump are, at a minimum ok with having a guy that talks about non existent Pet Eating Terrorists as their President so they can GTFO complaining that Harris hasn't sold them on Policy yet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,028 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    She also said trump was a good family man…

    The same guy who had unprotected sex with a porn star while she was at home with a baby.

    Gotcha 👍

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    The original poster's claimed Trump voters are  racist ,homophobes & Xenophobes ,

    So if we go buy 2020 where he got 47 % of the popular vote (74 MIllion) ,that is around half of the voters ,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,703 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    That's a very narrow measure.

    BTW, plenty of those people who eventually get to the likes of America and other places come around to understanding that there are other measurements by which to gauge "success", once the myth becomes dreadful reality. For instance, I've known plenty of foreigners coming to Ireland with their heads filled up with all sorts of hope only to find that the cost of living here is so prohibitive that they go back home in short order, the latest being a New Zealand chap who admitted to me that he's made a "big mistake" coming here once he realised that, in lieu of a crash, he'd never be able to buy a house. He's now looking at other places in Europe to go to.



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Which Family ?

    The one with the dead wife buried in an unmarked grave on a golf course?

    The one with the daughter he hardly ever sees?

    Or the one that he banged a pornstar while his wife was nursing their newborn?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    About 1/3 of eligible voters voted for Trump. That's not equivalent to half of America. In fact, it amounts to 22% of their overall population. You claimed of the US population voted for Trump, they did not.

    In fact, the GOP want to make it harder for eligible voters to vote and that's because they know it will make it less likely for people like Trump to actually win an election.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Do you accept that Trump is a Racist , a Homophobe and a Xenophobe?

    If the answer to that is yes , then by extension anyone that votes for him either agrees with those views or doesn't care enough about those views to NOT vote for him.

    For me , someone being any of those things is completely disqualifying.

    I wouldn't vote for them , no matter how big a tax cut they promised me because I'd like to think I have a moral compass.

    So , if we accept that Trump is indeed a Racist , a Homophobe and a Xenophobe - What issues are SO important that people can ignore those issues and still vote for him??

    What could Harris possibly do that would be worse than having a Racist, Homophobic Xenophobe in the White House??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,015 ✭✭✭✭briany


    He doesn't care how elections work. His guff is aimed squarely at the red hats of MAGAland who live in a carefully curated unreality bubble where unaccountable Twitter trolls are held in higher regard as journalists simply because the trolls say the stuff the MAGAs want to hear. Virtually all fact checking is rejected as fake news / propaganda.

    And the bonus for Trump is that by scattergunning a constant stream of baseless lies, he gets kept in the news by media outlets falling over themselves to debunk him.

    Flood the zone, still working like a charm eight years later.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭randd1


    Harris needs a catchy line to whoop up the crowds. Something that appeals to their patriotism, their future and can be spun easily. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…

    "And with that, well will have a strong America Today, America Tomorrow, America Forever!!!"

    All she has to do is finish every speech with that, and people will lap it up. Let it become her signature, that's whta she's offering the American people. Get the staffers to start shouting the shorthand At At Af to the chant of U S A. Hell mix it up, At At Af, U S A, At At Af, U S A.

    Could easily take on MAGA in the baseball cap department as well, easy to put AtAtAf. on a cap. Or go full whack and just put AAA, start saying a triple AAA president for a triple AAA country. And **** sells well when it's catchy.

    There's her slogan if she wants it. I'll let her have it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Maybe you should read it again, Quin_Dub doesn't say all Trump supporters, just says "a very large swath of the American populace"

    If you chose to read that as "all Trump supporters" that's a you-problem.

    And lest it need to be pointed out, that's not "half of America" that's not even a quarter of America, even if you assume the user WAS talking about ALL Trump voters. How do you get 50% of 330 million in 2020 from 74 million?

    EVEN THEN, if you said, yeah will how about the voting age population only, or eligible voters in 2020? Again, you don't even get a third of the way there. There were nearly 258 million Americans of voting age and nearly 238 million eligible to vote. At most, 31% of voters decided that Trump's bankruptcy of character and other defects were not a dealbreaker for them, which reflects poorly on their character.

    It is a great disservice to critical thinking to simplify that half the country supports Trump, especially given the fact he's never won a popular vote.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Hes nut case i'lll give you that but its hard to say if he's all of the above

    Didn't he marry two different women not born in the US so can't be that fear full of foreign people

    I'm not saying he isn't the above but what moments cement that he is 100% for you ,

    Do you forget current President Joseph Biden warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.

    In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”

    In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

    Way back in 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”

    So is everyone who voted for Joe racist ?

    So are we going from 50% of the popular votes in 2020 Election being racist to 100%

    Or do racist comments only matter for Republicans



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    And , as I have repeatedly said , the issue is not whether they are racist or not , it is their willingness to ignore the repugnant behaviour of a clear and obvious racist and vote for them.

    As I have already asked - What exactly is Trump going to for them or even what do they think that Harris might do TO them such that they are willing to ignore the fact that Trump is a disgusting Racist , Homophobic piece of sh!t?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,385 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    No, we're not doing any of those things, because it is total nonsense.

    Didn't take long for the mask to slip there did it.

    Your previous nonsense about xenophobia having being utterly discredited, the gish gallop begins and you have now moved onto both sides whataboutery, and desperaate weak whataboutery at that.

    In one case, you are having to dig up debatable comments from 1977! In each of those cases, they have been superseded by Biden's actions and words. Including serving as VP to an African-American and choosing a women of mixed race as his VP.

    You're comparing that with Trump inciting racial hated with scaremongering about pets being eaten, about immigrants "poisoning the blood of the nation". With wanting to deport legal immigrants - what colour do you think those targets will be? So those are the moment that "cement it".

    When Trump posts racist memes, do any of those faces have similar colour to the women he married? Well?

    Utterly false equivalences.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    You're so close…

    The answers are right there. Byrd was a former KKK, he completely disavowed them. How is Biden eulogizing him for that a sign of racism?

    The article you link to from 2007 shows Biden immediately apologizing for and recanting his remarks. Something Trump doesn't do at all when confronted about his racism. He still insists to this day that he did nothing wrong in a federal case involving refusal to lease to Black tenants.

    When confronted about an endorsement from David Duke, Trump said 'I don't know anything about David Duke.' - yet he was awfully familiar with him in the past. It took days for Trump to half-heartedly disavow the KKK after this incident.

    Your 2006 article makes it clear Biden was apologetic, meant it as a compliment, and cites the executive director for the bipartisan U.S.-India Political Action stating she did not consider the remark derogatory or racially charged.

    Biden has repeatedly apologized for his racial jungle speech.

    I cannot say the same for Trump: when has he ever apologized for making racist or racially charged statements? He's not much for apologizing, that's a clear difference in the character of the two men. Even now he is vilifying a community of legal immigrants because they are easy to pick on in his eyes, and we have seen no word of an apology for perpetuating the hoaxes about them, or even a disavowal of the bomb threats being made toward their communities.

    And again, since you're so interested in quoting people, where did Quin_Dub state "everyone" or "100%" of people who voted for Trump are racist?

    And there you go again with the funny math. Trump only got the vote of 31% of eligible voters at most in 2020, and 46.8% of the vote. I would also posit that if Trump voters don't want to be associated with all the Nazis, white supremacists, homophobia and xenophobia that is still going on unfettered, not something in the 70s or decades ago, I recommend they disassociate themselves from MAGA, turn the page and vote for Kamala Harris, a candidate with no history of racist, xenophobic or homophobic remarks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    So its ok for Biden (multiply times) once he apologises ,

    Byrd was a recruiter & a leader of a chapter, far from a good man ,

    See the come back of but Trumps MORE racist doesn't wash , the point is form the very being remains there all the same as each other,

    Joe Biden's Timeline of Racial Comments and Actions

    • From 1971 to 1974, Biden's legal residence had a deed barring ownership by African Americans.
    • In 1974, Biden made an analogy of himself as a 29 year old in the Senate to being a "token black."
    • In 1975, Biden asked if "the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?"
    • In 1977, Biden said that busing would cause his children to grow up in "a racial jungle."
    • In 1977, Biden voted against Black Justice Department nominees specifically over his opposition to busing.
    • In 1977, Biden said he asked to join the Senate Judiciary Committee specifically to lead the charge against busing.
    • In 1979, Biden voted to allow racially segregated private schools to keep their tax exempt status.
    • In 1981, Biden said George Wallace was "right about some things."
    • In 1984, Biden used the word "boy" to refer to Jesse Jackson.
    • In 1985, Biden made a favorable comparison between segregationist Senator John Stennis and Confederate General Stonewall Jackson.
    • In 1987, Biden "sought to appeal to white voters" by touting an award he received from George Wallace in 1973 where he praised Biden as "one of the outstanding young politicians in America."
    • During his 1988 campaign, Biden falsely claimed he was part of the civil rights movement, saying he "marched" in his "youth."
    • In 2006, Biden said, "you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."
    • In his 2007 book, Promises To Keep, Biden admitted that, as a young person, he had "no real relationships with Black people."
    • In 2007, Biden called then-Sen. Barack Obama "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
    • In 2010, Biden delivered a 22-minute eulogy, the longest speech, at Senator Robert Byrd's (D-WV) memorial service, calling the former KKK member a "friend," "mentor," and "guide."
    • In 2016, Biden praised segregationist Senator John Stennis as a "friend" and an "honorable" man.
    • In 2019, Biden recalled the era when "he was able to get along with segregationist senators."
    • In 2019, Biden boasted that segregationist Senator James Eastland called him son, not boy.
    • In 2019, Biden said the Obama administration went "into the hood" of Detroit to recruit minorities.
    • In 2019, Biden claimed a major problem Black communities face is illiteracy, saying Black "parents can't read or write themselves," leaving Black attendees "shocked and frustrated."
    • In 2019, Biden said that "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."
    • In 2020, Biden suggested some people were able to quarantine during Covid because "some black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf."

    Its fine he apologised ,

    Remember i don't support Trump ( far form it) all im saying is its funny how no one holds equal standards for there own side ,



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    More gish gallop, same tired argument, same fallible basis.

    "Clearly, I am not Joe Biden, and I am certainly not Donald Trump. And what I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country. One who believes in what is possible, one who brings a sense of optimism about what we can do instead of always disparaging the American people. I believe in what we can do to strengthen our small businesses, which is why I have a plan. Let's talk about our plans. And, and let's compare the plans. I have a plan to give startup businesses $50,000 tax deduction, to pursue their ambitions, their innovation, their ideas, their hard work. I have a plan. $6,000 for young families for the first year of your child's life. To help you in that most critical stage of your child's development. I have a plan that is about allowing people to be able to pursue what has been fleeting in terms of the American dream by offering help with down payment of $25,000, down payment assistance for first-time home buyers. That's the kind of conversation I believe, David, that people really want tonight as opposed to a conversation that is constantly about belittling and name-calling. Let's turn the page and move forward." - Kamala Harris



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,385 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    We do hold them to equal standards.

    You're ignoring Biden's recent actions and policies on race, his work with Obama and Harris - in favour of comments from 1971.

    Anybody reading that list in good faith can see they simply bear no comparison to the inflammatory racist vomit and race baiting Trump has come out with.

    Try it sometime.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    There no argument
    The thread does not hold both sides to the same standard,



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    You're not demonstrating you understand an evenly applied standard. So clearly yes you have no valid arguments.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    When your comparing racist action & comments & saying one is less the the other you've have already lost



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    You hold no valid arguments ,We support someone less racist than you do is not an argument , (ps i don't support either)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,385 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    No when you are having to dig up debateable comments, some of them from the 1970s - and made false equivalences between them with inflammatory race baiting from Trump's recent campaigns - then in your words "you've already lost".

    You are just giving a free pass to racists to spew inflammatory racist drivel.

    And not giving Biden credit for moving with the times and demonstrating by his actions, policies and words that he is not a racist.

    Oh we can't criticise racist vomit from Trump today because something something Biden said something racially insensitive in the 1970s!

    Absolutely morally bankrupt nonsense.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    So what is the expiry date for racist comments ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,385 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Expiry dates? Come back to us when you can tell the difference between racially insensitive comments from half a century ago and inflammatory hate driven racism.

    "Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our nation" is Nazi esque language from Trump, offensive even back then.

    Come back to us when you can tell the difference between a man like Biden, whose actions and policies when he stood in 2020 show him working to help resolve racial issues in the US…

    and someone like Trump who spews racist vomit and engages in race baiting and pushes racist policies right here right now.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,948 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Thanks but id personally prefer someone who does neither

    Strange how you keep leaving out the first word from that Trump quote ,why is that ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    In relation to Robert Byrd, he was viewed as a reformed figure and got praised by civil groups when he died as well. It's a pretty silly thing to attack him on and pretty disingenuous. But sure you know better than the NAACP.

    https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/164967-naacp-mourns-byrds-death/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭randd1


    How can you hold both sides to a standard, when one of those sides is in favour of a total degenerate, a chronic liar, a narcissist, and someone who simply makes crazy things up like Trump?

    That's like asking people to hold a lad never in trouble before caught doing 85 in and 80 zone to the same scrutiny of character as Larry Murphy.

    The problem for setting a bar for judging anyone against Trump is that Trump, and many of his supporters, are so low to point of being below pond scum in character that it's impossible to make any possible comparison, and only fans of Trump or someone with half a brain would even attempt to do so.

    And for that reason, both candidates are not held to the same standard, and it works in their favour in certain ways.

    Harris dodges a question, she's not communicating effectively. Trump rambles about astronauts using laser swords to fight in the Civil War against the Spanish to free Tibet from the army of the dead invading the country because of Biden, he's getting his message across.

    Harris says something iffy about race/culture, she's not in tune with people. Trump calls all immigrants poison, smelly rapist that are eating people because they've eaten all the animals, he's getting his message across.

    Yes, they're being held to different standards all right. Harris to decency, Trump to a level below pond-scum.

    The problem you're facing is people willing to call Trump and his supporters lower than pond-scum for acting like it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,385 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Well newsflash, it is 2024 and it is Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump.
    So you have your "someone who does neither" - Kamala Harris.

    And even if it was Biden v Trump, the choice would be between someone espousing Democratic policies, working to address racial issues in US society, tackling the legacy of historic racism towards minorities… and an inflammatory race baiter Donald Trump.

    I'd personally prefer voters who can tell the difference between the two and instead of digging up irrelevent comments from the 1970s ask themselves who would be better for racial issues and minorities if elected. There can be no question - that would be Biden \ Harris or a similar Democrat.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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