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

There's a reason regimes like the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban targeted teachers. The decades long undermining of public education is just a more polite version

How long before he’s trying to remove the two term limit? Republicans are in victory mode right now but medium term it’s hard to see where they go after him. It’s a cult of personality the party has fallen in behind but there’s only one of the lunatic.

Would love if he did, was successful, and Obama ran again.

His brain is definitely faltering, and herein lies the main worry is that the really evil weasels around him will just use him for their own means. He doesn’t have enough backbone to stop them either, just use his fragile little ego and you’re good.

Yeah, it's all relative. When your competitor for a role is 78, anything under 70 is young. In fact, personally, I think Harris is close to the perfect age for the role.

I always thought Obama was much too young for the role. His ability was lost to the Democratic party by him having ran, won and served two terms by the time he was 55. Since then, he's been a nice speaker, but his influence has largely been to antagonize conservatives at the memory of him having been President. Which doesn't tend to serve his party well.

To see a politician as capable of him effectively sit on the sidelines for what could have been 10 additional years of effectiveness, still annoys me.

He was a good speaker but didn't deliver on his objectives.

I can't recall, but wasn't he blocked by the Republicans controlling the other 2 branches of government? Making it very difficult to get changes made.

Anyway, looks like the USA is about to get what they voted for. I wonder how long their jubilant mood will last.

The context of how 60 is young with respect to opponents in a race or current holders of the office has been fairly clearly laid out.

I am in my mid 40's if it was a Boards demographic consideration, surely I wouldn't be referring to Harris as old.

Or, how would you categorize Harris' age with respect to Trump's.

Yeah, I think that's fair to say.

I think he himself would have benefitted from longer in the Senate before going for the top job and I also think the Democratic party would have done with his ability to communicate during that period.

A bit like how they benefit from Buttigieg at the moment.

In terms of projecting energy and vitality, real or illusionary, I don’t see a huge gulf between them.

Don't agree with this at all.

I've never seen Trump project energy or vitality. But rather bluster and bravado.

Think about the image of him walking down a slope or drinking water, that was during his first term! He's never bounded on to a stage or motivated people with actual fist pumping energy (outside of that single image from the assassination attempt which was notable for resilience rather than energy).

Trump takes Arizona, completing a clean sweep of all the key swing states.

It's interesting talking to friends in Ireland who were completely shocked by the Trump win. It seems many here were influenced by the intense media propaganda campaign here that promoted the Harris campaign and talked up her chances of winning.

Depends who you talk to. Anyone who was following it closely knew it was close and Trump was the favourite.

Most people in Ireland had little or no interest tbh.

You are focusing too much in Trump rather than looking at who he was up against. Harris was a vacuous candidate who reeked of fakeness.

Every Democrat who claimed that Joe Biden did not have cognitive decline until one day they decided that he had were write offs. Bidens decline was so obvious that anyone who denied it were automatically exposed as lying frauds.