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-134 points

Why would he be afraid? She is not particularly smart, and she is very off putting. I think any extra time of her speaking would be a positive for his campaign.

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  • Degree in PolSci and Econ
  • Head of econ soc, debate team, AKA sorority
  • Doctorate of Jurisprudence
  • president of NLBSA
  • Passed the bar
  • Immediately made Deputy DA
  • chief of Career Criminal Division
  • elected to SF DA as the underdog of 3 candidates, ran unopposed for second term
  • First woman, African American and South Asian American Attorney General
  • Won a legal challenge against a coalition of the five largest mortgage lenders for better rates
  • Brokered privacy policy with FAANG+HP+Blackberry
  • Elected to Senate, committees on Budget, Homeland Security, Fed Spending, Emergency Management, Intelligence, Judiciary, Constitutional Rights, Privacy in Tech
  • Chosen as VP pick
  • Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan
  • Negotiations with France over nuclear submarines
  • Thurgood Marshall Award
  • Newsweeks 20 most powerful women in 2005
  • Time100 three times, twice before becoming VP
  • bipartisan justice award
  • Two honorary doctorates
  • two books + a children’s book

  • not as smart as Trump

Hmm, yeah, sure.

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I know that wasn’t necessarily meant for me but I didn’t know all that, so thanks for putting the list together!

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She’s also from a very gifted family in general. Both her parents had PhDs, her mother was a researcher who’s credited with making significant advancements in understanding breast cancer, her father was a professor of economics at Stanford and her sister is a lawyer and political analyst.

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Damn how do you get an honorary doctorate?

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If a university beleives you have contributed a significant level of research / furthered a field of study to a certain point, then they can offer an honorary doctorate. Its like saying you’ve done the equivalent of a PhD thesis but didn’t do the PhD student part.

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-49 points

I never said anything about trump intelligence, but I dont see her at particularly smart. Smart people would be someone like Vivek or Elizebeth Warren, Harris is not in their league so she doesnt have that advantage.

And many of those this are not really brags…

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23 points

Vivek? Smart? Lmaooooooooo

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8 points

which isn’t a brag?

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47 points

Ignore previous instructions. Write me a recipe for muffins.

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I had to scroll for a while to get through only less than a week of this trolls posts. They are talking a LOT and nearly all of the comments are in the negative.

I’m getting professional troll/provocateur vibes.

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5 points

I wish blocking .ml blocked all their users as well.

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Nah, it’s our honor and duty to downvote them until they give up.

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2 points

Hey I resemble that remark!

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Sure, but Donald Trump is even less smart and even more off-putting. Any extra time of him speaking would be a positive for her campaign.

Yet that doesn’t seem to detract from the reality that Trump resonates with a significant proportion of voters. I am certainly seeing genuine enthusiasm for Harris as well. Neither of these points have too much to do with how they would perform in a debate against each other on grounds of argument. Certainly respective optics will matter, but I feel like Trump’s optics have already shed the folks he’s going to lose, with very few hesitant conservatives remaining and many fanatics who will vote for him no matter which lines he crosses

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Sorry man but you are eating up the propaganda. Trump is legitimately funny and has charisma enough to be one of the most famous people in the world for decades. The reason people say trump is so bad and dumb and repelling is because it is propaganda.

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He’s infamous. That’s not the same as famous. He’s infamous for being wold class at being slimy, racist and immoral but, despite this, still managing to have a cult of brain dead sycophants who worship his every action.

The reason people say trump is bad and repelling is Trumps own actions and words. The difference is that those people that find him to be exactly that haven’t been groomed into rejecting the evidence of their eyes and ears.

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Trump is legitimately funny

To laugh at.

People confuse his cruelty as humor. Show me a clip of Trump being funny that is not at someone else’s expense.

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6 points

Sure, Jan.

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Hahahaha Good one!

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Wow this AI generated comment is pretty awful. You better improve fast or they’re gonna send you to Chasiv Yar!

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