Official VP Debate 10-01-24, Tampon Tim Walz and JD Vance...

[BCR]

I don't this is fair, bcr. I'm never going to say Trump won in 2020 because obviously its 2024 and he's not in office. However, I don't think its necessarily mentally deficient to start questioning a lot of what we've all been told pretty much forever

this is exactly what mental deficiency looks like tho.

Like because someone told me is the reason I believe it. How about the gazillion court cases in every jurisdiction and billions paid out for lying about it and laughable depositions where they all admit they knew they were lying about it.


If country wants to be friends with adults who believe in Santa Claus and that the earth is flat, he’s free to. I’d rather just eliminate that person from my life as quickly as possible and that question might be among the best to instantly take measure of another person in the US atm

[country978]

this is exactly what mental deficiency looks like tho.

Like because someone told me is the reason I believe it. How about the gazillion court cases in every jurisdiction and billions paid out for lying about it and laughable depositions where they all admit they knew they were lying about it.


If country wants to be friends with adults who believe in Santa Clause and that the earth is flat, he’s free to. I’d rather just eliminate that person from my life as quickly as possible and that question might be among the best to instantly take measure of another person in the US atm

Just to be clear, I'm not on the side of those who are stuck in 2020. My point is simply that we've been lied to far too many times on very important issues and so its hard to not look back on a lot of things and wonder what is true and what is not. If someone believes in santa or flat earth that's definitely a head scratcher but a person who thinks Trump was cheated in '20 in itself isn't a reason for me to dismiss them.

[sonatine]

this is exactly what mental deficiency looks like tho.

Like because someone told me is the reason I believe it. How about the gazillion court cases in every jurisdiction and billions paid out for lying about it and laughable depositions where they all admit they knew they were lying about it.


If country wants to be friends with adults who believe in Santa Claus and that the earth is flat, he’s free to. I’d rather just eliminate that person from my life as quickly as possible and that question might be among the best to instantly take measure of another person in the US atm

one of the reasons I'm so bullish on AI/ML is because much sooner than anyone wants to admit, intellectual social scores are coming.

[limitles]

limitles calling ME the simpleton. Now that's comedy.

Put your TDS aside for a second.

Why should we have early voting? What's the point of an election day if people can vote much earlier?

If you think 6 weeks of early voting is okay, why not 10 weeks? Why not 20 weeks? Why not a year?

In fact, why not vote for the 2028 candidate right now?

Explain to me at what point early voting becomes too early, and why. No early voting supporter can ever give me this answer.

Early voting allows more citizens to vote. The more voters the better. Your country allows Presidential candidates to begin campaigning the day after an election has been completed. This means four years of advertising. Presidential candidates promote themselves constantly through every medium for 48 months. People know full well who they will vote for because of this "permanent campaign".

The biggest joke is 4 years of campaigning. The money coming from supporters over this long a time frame is probably very hard to keep track of. You should not have 48 months to raise money to flood media with your message. What counts is your track record and
no one is going to erase poor governing in the months leading to the next election.

No wonder there is confusion when voting. Your "states laws" mean the rules are different state to state
Time frames are established for early voting as they are for every possible form of voting. I never mentioned how much time should be allowed in any instance.

By the way, your "united states" all do it a bit differently whether voting in person or not.

As for your unanswered question of what is too early, call your state representatives and they will tell you. It may be different from 20 other states but that's not your concern.
Early voting is under the same restrictions as day of voting depending on your state.
You need the same personal information and the registrars will even have more time to deal with a suspicious ballot.

One question for you, when rules are applied, in this case for submitting votes, do you think regulators got sloppy in that one particular area.

You're full of shit

[cleatus]

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/w...ed-2024-10-02/ Longer explanations with additional numbers and sentences at Reuters.

STATEMENTS BY WALZ

CLAIM
Walz said that the U.S. is producing more natural gas and more oil than ever before.
WHAT WE KNOW
This is mostly true.

CLAIM
“Donald Trump hasn’t paid any federal tax in 10 of the last 15 years, and the last year as president.”
WHAT WE KNOW
This is mostly true based on the information available.

CLAIM
Minnesota’s child tax credit “reduces childhood poverty by a third.”
WHAT WE KNOW
This is unknown.

CLAIM
Minnesota is ranked first in healthcare.
WHAT WE KNOW
This depends on who you ask. It is true based on data published in July 2024 by the financial information site WalletHub. Minnesota also topped the chart in a Forbes analysis, but other rankings with different methodologies rate the states differently.

CLAIM
“Minneapolis is the one city where we've seen the lowest inflation rates,” the Minnesota governor said.
WHAT WE KNOW
This is mostly true during certain periods in the past 1.5 years.

CLAIM
Walz said Trump created the largest trade deficit in American history with China.
WHAT WE KNOW
This is true. The U.S. trade deficit in goods with China reached a record high during Trump’s second year in the White House. The trade gap rose by 11.6% to $419.2 billion in 2018, from the previous record of $375.5 billion in 2017, a Commerce Department report showed in 2019.

STATEMENTS BY VANCE

CLAIM
Vance said Iran “received over $100 billion in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration.”
WHAT WE KNOW
This is mixed.

CLAIM
Vance said the U.S. is “the cleanest economy in the entire world.”
WHAT WE KNOW
This is false. According to the EU’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research 2024 report the U.S. was second only to China as the highest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions globally last year. The U.S. accounted for 11.25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while China represented 30.1%.

CLAIM
When discussing ways to address carbon emissions, Vance said Kamala Harris' policies have led to "more energy production in China, more manufacturing overseas"
WHAT WE KNOW
Vance could be referring to the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that provides incentives to boost domestic energy production and manufacturing investment, including support for clean energy jobs and the sale of new and used electric vehicles. The impact of the IRA on the U.S. manufacturing sector is still too early to tell, but some research has found it has benefited domestic clean energy manufacturing.
The IRA provides billions of dollars in tax credits to help consumers buy EVs and firms to produce renewable energy as part of the Biden administration's plan to decarbonize the U.S. power sector.
China, which dominates the global battery supply chain, is among the four countries excluded from the subsidy available to firms looking to invest in the U.S. EV supply chain.
China has since requested the World Trade Organization set up a panel to help settle the dispute over what it describes as "discriminatory subsidies."
Another area of the global supply chain that China dominates is solar panel production. Some Chinese-backed companies with factories in the U.S. are claiming those subsidies for clean energy manufacturing under the IRA, and a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill in July that would block them from claiming subsidies for their American factories.

CLAIM
Vance said Donald Trump's economic policies delivered the highest take-home pay in a generation.
WHAT WE KNOW
This is true. U.S. median household income reached a record high of $68,703 during the Trump administration in 2019, a 6.8% increase from 2018 – the highest the country had seen since the U.S. Census Bureau started tracking the data in 1967.

CLAIM
“The gross majority, close to 90% in some of the statistics I’ve seen, of the gun violence in this country is committed with illegally obtained firearms.”
WHAT WE KNOW
This is misleading. Most public mass shootings – a shooting that kills four or more people – between 1966 and 2019 were carried out by legally obtained handguns, according to research funded by the National Institute of Justice. The data showed “77% of those who engaged in mass shootings purchased at least some of their guns legally,” an article on the 2021 study said, while 13% of the mass shootings involved illegally purchased firearms. The report also noted that over 80% of individuals involved in K-12 school shootings had stolen guns from family members.
Between 2017 and 2021, over 1.4 million crime guns were traced to a known purchaser with a Federal Firearms License, of which 99% were acquired from a dealer, pawnbroker or manufacturer, according to a 2023 report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
These crime guns, however, “may change hands a number of times after that first retail sale, and some of those transactions may be a theft or violate one or more regulations on firearm commerce,” the report adds.

(This article was updated on Oct. 2 to correct the year Trump was elected in paragraph 8)
(Reporting and writing by Esther Chan, Rosemary An, Alejandra Ceballos, Niamh Cavanagh, Jonathan Mathew, Neha Mustafi, Léon Ramírez and Hardik Vyas; Editing by Stephanie Burnett, Christina Anagnostopoulos, Sofía Paredes, Christine Soares, Hardik Vyas and Howard Goller)

[Texter]

Looks like we will be one Harris aneurysm from having a half retard Elmer Fudd as president.

More I see of the debate the more I think this Walz dude is seriously too dumb to be president.

[cleatus]

Collins R-GA posts obv shop of vance. Nice response.

[Daly]

In hindsight i think this debate will end up with more significance than first expected. There has been discussion on who the next person up will be post trump. Ive always assumed it would be DeSantis.

I think it may be Vance no matter what.

[BCR]

In hindsight i think this debate will end up with more significance than first expected. There has been discussion on who the next person up will be post trump. Ive always assumed it would be DeSantis.

I think it may be Vance no matter what.

This is an overreaction the other way now. HeÂ’s never been for a single day anywhere near as popular in his own state as Desantis and Ohio is 3x as red as Florida at this point.

He does well with educated suburban guys. I knew heÂ’d do well in an academic debate against Walz, but heÂ’s a guy the more you see the less you like. He comes off as the last guy youÂ’d like to have a beer with to the rural voter that defines the GOP.

So unless you envision some world where the old chamber of commerce GOP is a big enough tent to win, he will struggle.

[Daly]

In hindsight i think this debate will end up with more significance than first expected. There has been discussion on who the next person up will be post trump. Ive always assumed it would be DeSantis.

I think it may be Vance no matter what.

This is an overreaction the other way now. HeÂ’s never been for a single day anywhere near as popular in his own state as Desantis and Ohio is 3x as red as Florida at this point.

He does well with educated suburban guys. I knew heÂ’d do well in an academic debate against Walz, but heÂ’s a guy the more you see the less you like. He comes off as the last guy youÂ’d like to have a beer with to the rural voter that defines the GOP.

So unless you envision some world where the old chamber of commerce GOP is a big enough tent to win, he will struggle.

This is probably more true than Id like to admit.

Im in the Jeb Bartlet school of presidents. I would prefer a articulate well educated person at the top of the ticket. I dont think that equals unelectable.

[desertrunner]

[Texter]

The fact that Harris picked this dopey dimwit vs Mark Kelly should be grounds for impeachment on day 1 for being unfit for office.

[go_buccos]

The fact that Harris picked this dopey dimwit vs Mark Kelly should be grounds for impeachment on day 1 for being unfit for office.

Spot on. Harris is -700 right now if she had picked Kelly. I probably would not have pulled the trigger, but I would at least have considered it

[Dan Druff]

The fact that Harris picked this dopey dimwit vs Mark Kelly should be grounds for impeachment on day 1 for being unfit for office.

Spot on. Harris is -700 right now if she had picked Kelly. I probably would not have pulled the trigger, but I would at least have considered it

Shapiro would have been even better. Would have pretty much locked up Pennsylvania for Harris, and then it would pretty much be game over for Trump.

Kelly was a close second.

Not sure what was so appealing about Walz. I think her people got sucked into the whole, "Oh look, a masculine military veteran who can appeal to male voters!", and nobody vetted him properly. The fact that he had a lot of already-researched lies on his record should have been an immediate disqualifier, as well as his questionable time of departure from the National Guard. Furthermore, the masculine energy they were going for never materialized. His demeanor ranges between dopey sitcom dad and creepy closeted gay schoolteacher. No dude is gonna watch Tim Walz and think old school masculinity.

[RichardBrodiesCombover.]

Wait, so lying is bad now?

[RichardBrodiesCombover.]

I have to agree with Todd tho. The amount of masculinity this man oozes makes me jealous

[Dan Druff]

JD Vance wasn't chosen as a masculinity pick. He was chosen as a well-spoken intellectual type, and that's how he came off at the debate.

I didn't like the pick, but there's no question that he did very well at the debate, and that he's a smart guy. In fact, he's clearly the smartest among Trump, Harris, and Walz (though admittedly that's not an incredibly high bar). Walz is easily the dumbest.

They chose Walz for stupid reasons. It was an attempt to get back the rural white male vote -- or at least some of it. That demographic does not relate to him. He comes off as a spastic, semi-effeminate weirdo.

But I do understand why they didn't choose Josh Shapiro. Too many left wingers hate the joooooooos now, so Kamala and friends were afraid a lot of them would stay home on election day if they picked him. Yes, I know it sucks for libs to come to terms that they now have more anti-Semites in their party than the GOP.

[Daly]

I didn't like the pick, but there's no question that he did very well at the debate, and that he's a smart guy. In fact, he's clearly the smartest among Trump, Harris, and Walz (though admittedly that's not an incredibly high bar). Walz is easily the dumbest.

Whoa whoa whoa there my friend. Walz is in no way shape or form “easily the dumbest” of the 4. Thats not a claim one can simply throw out there with a list that has Harris on it. Not on my watch

[BCR]

I didn't like the pick, but there's no question that he did very well at the debate, and that he's a smart guy. In fact, he's clearly the smartest among Trump, Harris, and Walz (though admittedly that's not an incredibly high bar). Walz is easily the dumbest.

Whoa whoa whoa there my friend. Walz is in no way shape or form “easily the dumbest” of the 4. Thats not a claim one can simply throw out there with a list that has Harris on it. Not on my watch

Halfway through the debate the most common comment was both these guys are more qualified to be president. As I said before debate, JD was doing mock trials a decade ago at Yale. He's just exceptionally good at it and Walz was nervous.

I mean exactly no one is taking Donald Trump or Kamala heads up in Jeopardy or an IQ test against Walz. Kamala is an unknown, but it's very clear Trump is highly intuitive, but is definitely a guy who couldn't pass some standardized 8th grade exit exam.

[Texter]

Like because someone told me is the reason I believe it. How about the gazillion court cases in every jurisdiction and billions paid out for lying about it and laughable depositions where they all admit they knew they were lying about it.


If country wants to be friends with adults who believe in Santa Claus and that the earth is flat, he’s free to. I’d rather just eliminate that person from my life as quickly as possible and that question might be among the best to instantly take measure of another person in the US atm

one of the reasons I'm so bullish on AI/ML is because much sooner than anyone wants to admit, intellectual social scores are coming.

You won’t be allowed to leave your trailer.