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When Harris actually completed to be presidential candidate she came in fifth. She was on stage a couple of times saying 200 million Americans died of covid - y
by tim333 1y ago
When Harris actually completed to be presidential candidate she came in fifth. She was on stage a couple of times saying 200 million Americans died of covid - you have to be fairly thick to not realize that isn't so - she'd misread 200,000. They had to keep her away from interviews to stop similar stupid leaking out.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoMisreading a number seems incredibly insignificant to the number of outright idiotic things Mr Trump says on a daily basis. Why the disparity in expectation/response?
- tbrownaw 1y ago> Misreading a number Simple misreading is not the issue. The misread number was almost two thirds of the entire population. That's the sort of thing I'd expect someone to catch as they're saying it because of how absurd it is.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoSo misreading it and not immediately catching it is the issue? It seems incredibly human. And you really feel this is worse than the dumb things Mr Trump is on record as saying?
- ethbr1 1y agoOne shouldn't measure excellence solely by ones distance relative to catastrophe. Being better than shit doesn't mean good.
- thrance 1y agoTrump believes people are born with a set number of heartbeats [1], hence why he doesn't exercise. To save them for later. Is that something you'd expect POTUS to catch because of "how absurd it is" or not? [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exe...
- Anamon 1y agoMeanwhile, the Trump administration claimed to have saved 258 American lives with their drug busts. In contrast to Harris, who I'm sure realised her mistake and would've corrected it if asked about it, the Trump admin actually believes their number and doubled down on it. Harris misspoke. Trump believes the majority of the American population would have died in 2025 had he not been in office.
- const_cast 1y agoI don't recall this ever happening and, if it did, it was not a big enough deal for anyone to care about it. Certainly not a single person I know who didn't vote for Harris said this was the reasoning. The reality is she was much more intelligent, better spoken, and higher qualified than Trump. That's not the reason she lost, and anyone proclaiming otherwise is stupid. Yes, stupid.
- bmn__ 1y ago> [Harris] was […] better spoken […] than Trump Pardon me, are we opining about same Harris that was widely ridiculed for her word salads?
- esafak 1y agoYes? Consider the following, typical Trump speech: > But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that—because, look, child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t—you know, there’s something … You have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. I can't identify the train of thought here.
- thrance 1y agoAs if Trump's word salads weren't 100 times worse?? I have no idea how someone can be this blind to the shit they say. Yes, Harris is better spoken than Trump, this is an absolute fact.
- const_cast 1y agoThe "word salads" were completely made up. It was always a hallucination. The reasoning is that she's a black woman, so obviously she's stupid, and then we work backwards to word salad. That's how that happened. In reality, she's very well spoken. 99.99% of all the stuff Kamala says is very easy to understand. We can cherry-pick clips that represent 0.00001% of her speaking career all day. The fact is she's an educated woman who knows how to publicly speak, and she knows it well. Any other narrative is an alternative reality, sorry.
- computerthings 1y ago[dead]