Harris v. Trump Debate Thread | Trump DECLINES another debate (in ALL CAPS!)

EhringhausSouth said:
I don't like him and again, will not vote for him, but at this juncture, I would argue on paper, he's very qualified simply because he has actually already held the position. He has experience doing the job (albeit not very well)
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If you owned a small business with a position open and I called you up and said, hey man, I've got a guy who used to do that. He wasn't very good at it and in fact he was fired from that job... and oh BTW, after being fired he got his friends to march down to his former employer and violently attempt to stop it from happening... it was pretty bad, some people even died! And oh by the way, he's an adjudicated sexual deviant and a 34 time convicted felon currently awaiting sentencing. But he's got four years experience.

Would you hire him?
 
dukeman92 said:
If you owned a small business with a position open and I called you up and said, hey man, I've got a guy who used to do that. He wasn't very good at it and in fact he was fired from that job... and oh BTW, after being fired he got his friends to march down to his former employer and violently attempt to stop it from happening... it was pretty bad, some people even died! And oh by the way, he's an adjudicated sexual deviant and a 34 time convicted felon currently awaiting sentencing. But he's got four years experience.

Would you hire him?
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Are we talking about David Tepper? Because he’d absolutely hire that guy.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
"Kamala was prepared...maybe a little  too prepared."

It's essentially a tacit admission that she outperformed Orange Jesus.
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Since when is being prepared a bad thing? The right can try all they want to normalize Trump's performance last night but no rational person could categorize that as anything other than an ass beating. And the reason there are so many republicans and right wing sympathizers on social media this morning is that they witnessed what we all witnessed. An ass beating.
 
lawtig02 said:
Are we talking about David Tepper? Because he’d absolutely hire that guy.
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Speaking of David Tepper, last night’s debate gave me an idea of what it felt like to be a Saints fan this past Sunday afternoon. The big difference is that despite such an ass-whooping, the score is still tied.
 
At this point I have to just assume that anyone voting for Trump is only doing so out of malice, hatred for liberals, and small minded insecure pettiness. The guy literally stood up there on a debate stage for two hours last night and did not mention one single solo policy proposal, but instead talked about crazy shit like transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison, people eating cats and dogs, how much Vladimir Putin and Victor Orban like to give him handjobs, etc. it was all just completely that shit fucking, and even that is the understatement of the century. Nobody voting for Donald Trump in 2024 is voting for policy. Nobody. Not one single person. Because Donald Trump in 2024 does not have any policy ideas. He was given multiple opportunities last night to articulate policy positions on immigration, healthcare reform, foreign policy, etc. and every single solitary time, he completely ignored it. So nobody is voting for Donald Trump because of policy. They are voting for Donald Trump out of one (or both) of genuine spite or genuine stupidity.
 
dukeman92 said:
Funny, I didn't see him look at her one time... oh, except for when she walked right up to his fat ass and made him shake her hand.
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He's not wrong if you substitute the word "issues" for "questions." Trump is like the kid who wants to learn exactly what he needs to get a C in the class and can't imagine why anyone would want the knowledge in addition to the barely passing grade.
 
CFordUNC said:
They are voting for Donald Trump out of one (or both) of genuine spite or genuine stupidity.
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Oh, I don't know, there's also the fact that she's a WOMAN and BLACK (or whatever race she is this week). Those are two good reasons for them to support Mr. Trump, don'tcha think?
 
superrific said:
To build on this point, I think it's more likely that builders under-build, and they under-build especially for starter homes for some of the reasons you discuss, but other reasons also.

To take your numbers, the universe of potential buyers for the $160K house is likely greater than for the $225K. But the universe of actual buyers might be small, because a lot of people in the market for the $160K home are likely to have poor credit and thus could have trouble getting financing. I would think that sales of starter homes is more sensitive to economic conditions than middle homes, because the types of folks who are buying the middle homes have more stable employment. Doctors do fine in a recession. Manufacturing companies are likely to lay off line workers, and less willing to cut their R&D staff (though wages might fall a little bit). So building the $160K house is riskier than the $225K house. I don't know if the profit per house would change all that much (econ 10 says the profit should be the same), but the risk profile should.

That said, a lot of this discussion is really a set of empirical questions, and hand-waving, intuition and reasoning from first principles are not terribly good ways to answer empirical questions.
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New thread yo.
 
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