As far as reasons not to vote for him go, there are plenty more important ones. But it seems to be a thing.

It was heavily talked about for as long as the news cycle could bear it, after Kinzinger made a particularly memorable description: like a combination “of armpits, ketchup and butt.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-gop-lawmaker-doubles-down-115915282.html

Kathy Griffin said she has experience from The Apprentice and he smells “really bad”: https://www.newsweek.com/cnn-adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-odor-x-twitter-1853353

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner says he smells like “cooking oil.” https://www.newsweek.com/alex-wagner-donald-trump-smells-cooking-oil-late-show-1939625

Yeah, I was amazed by Atlas Shrugged too…when I was 14.

Isn’t the under 18 procedure pretty much reserved for those who are a high risk of suicide unless they can transition?

In court there’s such a thing as a directed verdict, and also ruling on an issue as a matter of law. Basically where there’s no reasonable jury that could decide otherwise, the judge directs the decision.

That’s kind of how I feel - not removing the democratic process obviously, but this is a situation you can be for Trump or reasonable, not both.

Ah, yes. “It was sarcasm.” Trump pulled that last night too.

If you didn’t like it then I meant something different and you just didn’t get it. Women love that response.

This isn’t quite “white whale” territory, but I’ve always wanted to play this game.

I miss the creative, quirky Dreamcast era and this seemed like one of the best, unfortunately region-locked, examples.

Kamala eventually got around to referencing his “love letters” to Kim Jong Un, but I was hoping so hard she would note that Mr. “I’m so powerful, they’re all afraid of me” saluted the guy.

“I’m not a puppet, you’re the puppet.”

I also feel like the moderators were relatively good at calling out egregious lies and not giving Trump the final word. Usually.

But yeah, Trump apparently controlled the mics, not the moderators.

Yeah, I watched Trump train the moderators live. They gave in once and then he would keep doing it more and more until they gave in every time.

Then Harris tried to get an extra response like Trump did near the end and they just ignored her.

They’re an English professor, in that they profess to speak English. I think their name was also very English, maybe Prof. John Barron?

I’m still just like, we all are looking at the same guy, right?

The obvious conman? The guy who said the 2020 election was stolen before voting even ended, and had been giving signals he wouldn’t accept the results unless he won months before? The guy who we heard tell Raffensberger to find the votes to steal the election for himself? The guy whose comms director sounds like a North Korean news anchor?

I feel like you just need a 7-year-old’s credibility detector to see the man is lying and not credible. It’s that hard? I can’t keep up with how quickly I need to lower my expectations.

This is what we should’ve spent every waking moment doing since 2016. Why do we distract so easily…

I agree about the conservativism, but I’m saying none of these groups are getting what they want. The religious people are advancing a man morally contrary to their stated beliefs. The police are advancing a man legally contrary to their beliefs.

They’re getting something else, it’s fulfilling a psychological need more powerful to them than their foundational beliefs. I’m sure tribalism is part, but this seems more insidious.

It’s another example, along with many other groups, of some base authoritarian or in/out-group mindset superseding all other principles and imperatives.

For evangelicals, the desire for this authoritarian leader supersedes any imperative to act in a moral or biblically-sanctioned way. For conservatives, the desire supersedes their ideological imperatives of supporting law enforcement and being tough on crime. And for this police organization, that desire supersedes both their professional identities and their loyalty to their own officers, who were directly attacked by Trump’s people.

It’s morbidly fascinating. Yes, they have “right-wing” in common, but there is a unique betrayal of core principles happening for each of them. There has to be some common psychological need that Trump supplies to all of these different groups.

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Every time there is funding on the table, the Republicans take the country hostage and create a crisis unless they get something completely unrelated, unjustified and partisan. I’m getting pretty tired of this skipping record.

The main goal of misinformation not to convince people of its truth, although that helps when it happens. It’s to create enough noise to drown out signal and make people disengage. That cognitive dissonance is exhausting, and the exhaustion in turn makes other misinformation and law/norm-breaking easier to proliferate.

The classic Republican platform: “Government doesn’t work. Elect us and we’ll prove it.”

I like the term I first read today, “sanewashing.”

Journalistic neutrality standards are good things when reporting on ambiguity, but you can’t give equal deference to both delusional and sane individuals.