Merged 2024 Election Thread

[Segnosaur]

During his Presidency, Trump's IQ was comprehensively assessed over an extended period of time by Rex Tillerson.

Yeah but can you really trust Tillerson? After all, who hired him for Secretary of State. The guy who hired him was probably incompetent.

 

[Samson]

You appear to be coming completely disconnected from reality.

Abortion ranks 6th or 7th in America and about 356th in places like NZ, Aus, UK.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1398115/most-important-voter-issues-party-us/

Abortion is a swing subject for American women, as it should be.
The Republicans are morons on the issue.
I stand by my post, but thank you for your compliment.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Abortion is a swing subject for American women, as it should be.
The Republicans are morons on the issue.
I stand by my post, but thank you for your compliment.

It is also a swing subject for Republican Politicians: they are against it for everyone but their mistresses.

 

[Mike!]

I'm unaware of IQ scores being a campaigning issue or requirement. What's Trump's score?

Infinity squared plus one.

 

[The Atheist]

What's that I said about young voters being attracted to Harris?

The shift toward affirmative support for Harris among her backers comes from groups that typically break for Democrats but had been seen as trouble spots for the Biden campaign. Among Harris supporters younger than 45, 43% say their vote is more in support of her than against Trump, up from 28% of Biden voters in that age group who felt the same way about the president in June.

That's a huge turn round, and after all of two days in: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/politics/cnn-poll-kamala-harris-donald-trump/index.html

That support will continue to grow and any Democrat not fully getting on Kamala's bus should hang their heads in shame.

She's got this!

Trump is yesterday's news.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Since the last election, 16 million people have come off voting age, and 12 million old people have died.
This in itself favors Democrats significantly more than Republicans.

 

[Stacyhs]

Claiming Harris has a "low IQ" is a GOP parroted talking point.

Trump around the same time, meanwhile, took to Truth Social to call Harris “Dumb as a Rock.”

Rep. Ronny Jackson Calls Kamala Harris ‘The Lowest IQ VP We’ve Ever Had’

Kamala Harris is a 'low-IQ wine mom'

(T.Carlson)

'Unburdened by a High IQ'

(Megyn Kelly)

"They have concluded that Vice President Harris is not capable — that when her IQ gets to 75, she should sell,"

(LA Sen. J. Kennedy)

Vivek Ramaswamy also claimed Harris had a “low IQ.”

 

[Craig4]

Complaining about Harris's IQ or being a DEI hire is pretty rich when the Vance boy was a Yale sympathy ****.

 

[stanfr]

Since the last election, 16 million people have come off voting age, and 12 million old people have died.
This in itself favors Democrats significantly more than Republicans.

Very true. And more than a few anti-vaxxers (who loved the GOP message of shunning masks and vaccines) also kicked the bucket.

 

[stanfr]

Claiming Harris has a "low IQ" is a GOP parroted talking point.



(T.Carlson)
(Megyn Kelly)
(LA Sen. J. Kennedy)

In lieu of a debate, they should just sit Harris and Trump down at a table and have them take an IQ test. I know where my money would be...

 

[The Don]

Lowest ever VP IQ ?

Does no-one remember Dan Quayle ?

 

[The Don]

Dupe

 

[shemp]

Since the last election, 16 million people have come off voting age*, and 12 million old people have died.**This in itself favors Democrats significantly more than Republicans.

* The important thing is if they vote. Young people are less likely to vote than older people. The Dems need to work on changing that.

** I'm sure the GQP will use their voter fraud magic to get them to vote.

 

[Aridas]

Lowest ever VP IQ ?

Does no-one remember Dan Quayle ?

Can't say that I see any good reason to put her below Pence, really.

She's certainly well above Trump.

 

[Stacyhs]

In lieu of a debate, they should just sit Harris and Trump down at a table and have them take an IQ test. I know where my money would be...

Harris's sister, Maya, has never claimed she paid someone else to fraudulently take her SAT test, either. Nor has Maya ever said K was out only for herself, devoid of principles, that she's cruel, and that you can't trust her. All are accusations made by Trump's sister, Mary Anne, in a secretly recorded video.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Lowest ever VP IQ ?

Does no-one remember Dan Quayle ?

Yes we all remember when misspelling a root vegetable was enough to end your political career.

 

[kookbreaker]

Lowest ever VP IQ ?

Does no-one remember Dan Quayle ?

Only because we had to depend on him to save Democracy.

 

[zooterkin]

I was fascinated by how a woman who sounded so stupid could become a presidential candidate

I can't wait to find out what you think when you hear what Trump sounds like...

 

[angrysoba]

This new woman has a low range IQ, possibly 120.She was the only black woman in range for Biden.
This is dangerous to me, marvelous for you.
Of course you won't read my post on Ayaan Hirsi Ali who is a black woman of infinite merit. She just said this a few minutes ago from my inbox

"Yet there has been a palpable thaw in what can and can’t be said. Perhaps it was the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump which exposed the dangerous game of comparing someone to Hitler for years on end and then pretending to be surprised when someone tries to rid the world of evil. Trump’s brush with death posed the following question in stark terms: if Trump is Hitler, as progressives and Democrats have been saying for nearly a decade, and killing Hitler is just and necessary, then why did Biden and others not welcome the attempt to murder him? President Biden’s stated instead: “I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well… There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.” So the Hitler comparison was—of course—a sham.

Perhaps the thaw is a consequence of Musk’s takeover of X, which saw an opening up of taboo subjects following years of censorship by progressive moderators."

Wow! IQ of 120 is an order of magnitude greater than the gibbering lunatics on the RNC stage.

Also, while I have appreciated plenty of things that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has said over the years, she's not infallible and quite often writes risible nonsense.

This sudden pearl-clutching over the rhetoric of people calling Trump Hitler would have more purchase if it wasn't for the fact that the Trump's own VP pick called Trump Hitler.

As for me, I've never done so, and have always thought that Trump is far too undisciplined to be a true fascist. He absolutely has authoritarian instincts and couldn't give a damn about democratic norms.

The comparisons to Mussolini are slightly more accurate, partly because Mussolini was a ridiculous figure whose politics was somewhat all over the map, because the titles Il Douche and Cheeto Benito sound good, and because for all the wailing of the Republicans who offer absurb apologetics for January 6th, many of them could be equally applied to the March on Rome - i.e Il Douche wasn't with them, they carried flags, they were largely unarmed, etc...

Fortunately, and perhaps unbelievably, Mike Pence didn't lose his nerve in the same way that the king of Italy did.

 

[Tero]

I'm unaware of IQ scores being a campaigning issue or requirement. What's Trump's score?

He is not too intelligent. He is a salesman, so appearances and such are something he is always aware of. But as he only had to sell himself to the MAGA crowds, it's not really a great achievement. He is basically an actor.

He might have about 100, in the Bush, Bush and Reagan range.