Something is wrong with this split-screen picture. On one side, former president Donald Trump rants about mass deportations and claims to have stopped “wars with France,” after being described by his longest-serving White House chief of staff as a literal fascist. On the other side, commentators debate whether Vice President Kamala Harris performed well enough at a CNN town hall to “close the deal.”

Let’s review: First, Harris was criticized for not doing enough interviews — so she did multiple interviews, including with nontraditional media. She was criticized for not doing hostile interviews — so she went toe to toe with Bret Baier of Fox News. She was criticized as being comfortable only at scripted rallies — so she did unscripted events, such as the town hall on Wednesday. Along the way, she wiped the floor with Trump during their one televised debate.

Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.

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    8 days ago

    I know it makes you feel better to imagine I’m a Trump supporter, so go right ahead. Biden can say the word “ceasefire” all he wants, but it does not mean a fucking thing if he remains absolutely unwavering in his material support for the ongoing genocide. What possible reason does Netanyahu have for stopping the slaughter? Biden pretends to disapprove slightly? What Trump does or doesn’t talk to Netanyahu about is irrelevant.

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      It’s not irrelevant. He’s a hair’s breadth from becoming commander in chief and then it won’t be 10% or 20% of Palestinians killed, it’ll be all of them. Trump really is that lunatic and that genicodal. Next he’ll deport or put into camps all the Muslims in America. He’ll not murder them in the street, he has his friend Netanyahu to do that, the people who he promised to shoot are the leftists.

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        Netanyahu is not feeling restrained in the least by Biden. He is murdering Palestinians at the rate he is willing and able to murder them. Trump won’t wring his hands over it the dems occasionally pretend to do, but unlimited military and political support is already unlimited.

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          8 days ago

          Netanyahu is not feeling restrained in the least by Biden.

          No. If he was, he wouldn’t be doing the genocide thing.

          He’s feeling encouraged by geriatric genocidal Trump.

          Presumably by your logic, individual gun shop owners are responsible for the all the deaths of children in school shootings in the USA, so you want to select as many Democrats as possible to stop the Republicans from blocking gun controls.