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Kamala Harris says she'd take a cognitive test; challenges Trump "to take the same one"
(www.cbsnews.com)
That's pretty smart. You know he would never do it.
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He's just going to say "I'm the smartest person ever to be president, the doctor I paid said so. I took the test already: person, woman, man, camera, TV!"
Technically 4 words, woman is a derivitive of man in their minds. Well 3 because person is gender neutral and can't have that either.
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And he keeps talking about the tests if he just took it. Which either means he can't really process the fact that it happened in the past anymore, or they really do have to test him often. Neither is a good look for anyone's grandpa, much less a grandpa who wants to run the free world.
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It'd be smarter if they got him to actually do it, so I don't see your point... The man genuinely has dementia.
I guess that depends on whether you think he's narcissistic enough to believe his own lies?
It's wild that such intense questions like "Can you identify a giraffe?", "Can you draw a clock?", "Can you count backwards by 7s?", and "Who is the current president?" was apparently such a grueling ordeal for Donald that he's still bragging about it years later.
"Who is the current president?"
Yeah that one might be an issue for him..
New debate idea: instead of political questions, have the whole thing hosted by a panel of psychologists who give a thorough assessment to both candidates live on stage.
At the end, they collectively review all findings and conclude the event by making any diagnosis the data merits.
And their political affiliations would be somehow above questioning?
Have you met our Supreme Court?
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It must be wild being in her position, being so overwhelmingly more capable than her opponent, and having to find out how to get stubborn people to acknowledge that and care about it.
She should disguise this test, and throw in basic questions about US history and politics. Trump will fail so hard it won't even be funny.
This is the guy who talked about the continental army in the 1700's invading airports. He's real fucking stupid.
No need to do that
The guy is struggling enough as it is
But you throw in questions about dictators and he'll know the answers better than he knows what state he's living in. It's possible the only book he's ever read is Mein kempf
I've been dreaming of a Trump IQ test forever. I'm almost certain he would be below average. Someone should trick him to do one by saying it's the crypto bro club test that Harris failed or something.
What color crayon do you reckon he would use to fill in the form?
The perfect crayon. It was the bigliest. It was so pretty, just like my daughter...
In fairness, "most" people his age would be below "average".
Edit: oh, apparently it doesn't work like that. 100 is supposed to be average regardless of age?
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the same one she takes? so not the one that asked him to name a handful of things that conveniently happened to be around him when he talked about it to the press?
I've been wondering why she doesn't invite both of them to take one.
These fucks blurt out all their motivations and weaknesses, you only need to aggressivey seize on them and hold their feet to the fire till they cry uncle
Challenge Trump to a foot race for President since his supporters going around burning ballot boxes.
She shouldn't even say this. Cognitive tests are for those showing signs of dementia. That trump took one at all is all that we need to know.
People do "cognitive tests" for all kinds of reasons. The kind for dementia is only one of a large variety of tests that fit in this very broad category.
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Like with a TV Debate with Harris, he won't agree to this, as he knows that he has no chance to win.
Harris is lucky to have Trump running
without Trump the Democrat's whole campaign platform would crumble
I mean, with Trump running the race is still basically a dead heat, so I'm not sure how lucky they really are.
We're not unlucky because trump is running necessarily. We're unlucky because half the fucking country doesn't see what an insane and horrific choice he is.
I'm really scared for future elections when the GOP has a candidate that is actually charismatic or articulate....
They're kinda proving that those are unnecessary, though. They're in uncanny valley and espousing literal Nazi ideology and still getting elected. At that point, why even buy lipstick for the pig in the first place? Their dog whistles have been packed up in boxes in the attic for years. Echo chambers that blame scapegoats, vilify opponents, and deify their candidates are all that is really necessary. They can literally get away with saying "well, Hitler had some good ideas too, though..." and the base will lap it up and show up to cast their ballots.
Charisma and articulation are off-putting to their uncharismatic and inarticulate voters anyway. That might actually do more harm than good. Because "talking good is gay" or something. It's dumb but it's how they feel, and their feelings don't give a fuck about facts.
I think they do see it. They just think that's a good thing.
Enough people think competence is 'controlling' and education is 'pretentious' that they want pathetic, stupid, harmful bullshit.
The purpose of the system is what it does, and the purpose of an ideology that discriminates is the people it chooses to harm, and the ways it finds to harm them.
She's running against arguably the worst candidate in American history and it's still a dead heat, what does that tell you?
Harris must be a nasty woman like Hillary Clinton. It can't be because the other side has been propagandized until it went nuts.
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He might be the best candidate for hateful idiots though. The guy’s a chud whisperer. I’m not sure if any smarter more articulate Republican could hold together the same radical coalition.
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The alternative, if the republicans had a candidate that wasn't a weird 80 year old billionaire, the democrats wouldn't have a shot in hell, facilitating a genocide while endorsing 90% of republican policies from 2016 and promising what amounts to fuckall help to most people.
Kinda like how Trump's whole campaign fell apart when Biden dropped out? Weird.
And people would vote for Jill Stein instead?
Pass me those drugs you're doing LMAO
Yeah. I mean, after all.. who would want to vote for someone to run a country who has spent their life practicing law /s
people who have been ate up by the justice system might have some hesitations
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Oh yea! Because campaign platforms totally aren't built around their opponent and don't ever change and for sure aren't strategic or anything!
Nothin but a lil troll account.
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I want to see how they would perform on the SAT
SAT is too much, most Americans remember that as too hard. I would be impressed if Trump just got a passing score on the Smarter Balanced Assessment
i remember when we elected presidents who had phds in constitutional law
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