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My diagnosis is that is observably very bad at running for president and has been since 1988.
This is just as a simple practical matter by the way, policy positions aside. There are some absolutely horrible presidents who were pretty good at the act of running for president, which is how they became president.

I think he’s noticeably very bad at it, is my point.
Most people who have *lost* presidential races are noticeably better at the act of running for president then Joe Biden, imo.

This includes Michael Dukakis, who lost badly to George HW Bush, but who did first beat ... Joe Biden.

If electability is your concern, well.
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anybody who is in denial about this fact isn’t going to be convinced by today’s performances—but the President of the United States is very obviously one of the most foul human beings our country has ever produced on every possible level, just an absolute self-made swine
Sure you can support Donald Trump but as a natural and appropriate consequence you’re going to be understood as somebody who supports that kind of thing.
If you invited somebody like Donald Trump to your Wednesday bar trivia night you’d have to explain yourself to all your friends the next day and promise to never do it again. I don’t know what you expect your friends to say if you vote for him to rule us with an oily fist.
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A.R. Moxon
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Would love to see a crayon drawing from this man of precisely what he thought the Superbowl Halftime Show featuring J-Lo and Shakira would look like.
Janet Jackson's superbowl was 16yrs ago; these dudes are still watching.

It's almost as if these gorgeous superstars are being put up there by the NFL specifically so their resentful white suburban polo shirt viewers can hate-spew all their angry represessed shame. Almost.
Go live in the country with no electricity and build barns if you don't want to live in society, dudes.

If that's your belief system, go live it.

If living that way results in your not being able to interact with every part of society, I guess that's why faith is a sacrifice.
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A.R. Moxon
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Anybody using a torn-up speech as a reason to support Trump is still supporting Trump, so you know that 1) they aren’t actually bothered by impolitic public shows of contempt, 2) they would have found some other reason to support him anyway.
My point is it doesn’t matter and neither does the non-handshake. Nobody’s opposing Trump for a handshake, they’re opposing him because he’s a profoundly ignorant venal corrupt and racist cruel bully pursuing authoritarian kleptocracy and a white ethnostate—for starters.
“I was thinking about supporting the Democrats but that lady tore the paper and I cannot abide rudeness so Trump’s my guy now” is a rationale that doesn’t even rise to the level of contempt.
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