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I'll be honest that took me 4 attempts to make it all the way through.

The answer is no chance, in case you too forgot he actually starts asking a question.

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Apparently the latest Trump-baiting from the Democrats is to call the Republican Party the Trump-Vance Party as Trump dislikes it. I'm guessing that Trump doesn't like sharing top billing with Vance!

There's many questions Trump could ask that would do his electoral chances a favour. That demented rambling is not one of them.

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Perfectly lucid, my translation services are always available.

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I see the weird comment went straight over your head.

You do need to try and keep up, spending less time trying to be clever would probably help.

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For someone who claims not to care that much, you don’t half love simping for the Donald.

‘Lucid’ is never the word that first springs to mind when attempting to parse anything Trump says. And when you do get to the bottom of it you inevitably find its grievance layered on fantasy and garnished with impotence.

For all he was attacking Biden for being unfit to run for a second term, he genuinely had no contingency plan in place should he get what he said he wanted. Biden is no longer on the ticket yet Trump spends significant amounts of time attacking him or doing some weird cosmic manifesting thing where he dreams up scenarios for getting Biden back on the ticket.

Trump is a malignant narcissist in cognitive decline, consumed by rage, impotence and the fear that when he loses in November there will be nothing he can do to keep himself out of jail. And it is driving him absolutely nuts.

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To be generous, I think he either thought they’d stick with Biden or they’d tear themselves apart picking a new nominee. Harris didn’t poll well before the unifying effort which was expertly done.

I agree there was no contingency plan for a unifying candidate that got a decent bump.

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The new VP nominee talks very well. If there was a primary process he wouldn't have been a bad nominee for the top of the ticket himself.



You look at the energy the Democrats now have and wonder why it took them so long to make this change. It's night and day. Although it's still, probably, marginally in Trump's favour it's a much closer in the polling as well. What a turnaround. Their convention will be so much more energised.

He does a good job of making left-wing positions seem fair enough and normal. Just matter of factly saying women should be in charge of their bodies and others should 'mind their own business' for example.

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The current polling is interesting. It shows that Harris closed the gap that Trump had over Biden: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...2024/national/

Maybe the Democrats have a chance in November esp. as Trump is visibly rattled by this turnaround.

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Because it’s an unwritten rule that a sitting president gets to decide whether he’s going for a second term. If he wants to do it, the party doesn’t defenestrate him. However, in this case Biden’s originally-stated intention to be a ‘transitional’ figure was set aside. Most likely, I suspect, at the urging of those close to him who were exercising a very significant amount of influence over him given his evident cognitive decline, and enjoying their taste of executive power. They will have told themselves they could keep making the decisions and as long as they could prop him up in front of a camera from time to time they could make it through another term.

It took them so long to make the change because those who were trying to keep Biden in the race needed to see there was no way he could win before they were willing to accept that their project was only going to result in Trump in the White House. Once they accepted that, they had to talk Biden back down. By the time all this was done it was almost too late.

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Yeah that's weird...

I don't think donny thought Biden would step aside, he can't imagine or process someone putting anyone but themselves first no matter the consequences.

Not going to pretend I knew Tim's name let alone anything about him till he was nominated but based on what I've seen and heard I like him, he's like a cross between Bernie Sanders and John McCain

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????

Well it was posted tongue in cheek after, my other tongue in cheek translation on the other thread.


https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...&postcount=854

But you guys seem to be wound up as tight as coiled springs!

So I’ll give you all some space to calm down.

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Harris is now slight favourite on Skybet. 5/6, with Trump being 10/11.

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We now have a two-horse race!

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Those odds go to show why bookies always win ;)