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Who do you hope wins the US Election?

Trump
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39%
Biden
9
39%
Don't Care
5
22%
 
Total votes: 23

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Mel Brooks endorsing Biden. The first time he’s ever made a political ad:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/21/us/m ... index.html
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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I’ve heard the stutter explanation make the rounds before. I don’t doubt it’s real, but (as Biden would say) c’mon man ... we weren’t born yesterday.
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David wrote:I’ve heard the stutter explanation make the rounds before. I don’t doubt it’s real, but (as Biden would say) c’mon man ... we weren’t born yesterday.
Did you really post that? Goodness me. I think you know less about stuttering than you know about dementia.

The only psychiatry in the two presidential candidates does not belong to the Democratic side.

Tip: check the actual definition of projection in Psychiatry and you couldn’t ask for a better exemplar that Trump.
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WPT, David is not amenable to evidence on this matter. We have seen that demonstrated over and over again - in this very thread. He is utterly determined to find ways to knock and belittle and smear Trump's opponent, and does not respond to facts (other than with some spectacular whataboutery). I don't know why, he just is.

Come to think of it, maybe it's not Trump's opponent he hates so illogically and passionately, maybe it's Sanders' opponent.

Just get over it David, and stop making stuff up.
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Let's try a different view for a sense of perspective:
Nick Cohen wrote: If Trump were a beggar screaming at passersby on a Washington sidewalk, rather than a billionaire in the White House, we would have no difficulty in saying he was mentally ill

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^ I wasn’t maligning your motives but your sources and your conclusion. If ur premise is incorrect then so too will be your conclusion.
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You? Impartial on Biden? Err .... who is the one on this forum who regularly parrots the Trump Fan Club talking points re this topic? You are way over-invested in this horse.

The fact that you consistently see or imagine relatively minor issues in one candidate's makeup and bring them up over and over again, and somehow equate them to the known, unchallenged ones of a whole different order of magnitude in the other candidate has reminded me many times over the last few months of Matthew 7:5.
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I just bet $20 on Trump to win. However it plays out I'm sure there'll be sooking and recriminations. Trump is a polarising figure who has at least as many people who love him as he does loathe him.

I just read an article from a bloke who just did a drive down route 66, all 4000km of it and Biden might as well not be running, it's all about Trump.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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