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The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point | One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.

www.washingtonpost.com /opinions/2024/10/24/harris-trump-cnn-town-hall/

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."

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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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  • Ended wars with France? Like when we deserted Afghanistan and left them in the mess we created?

    • It's not as if it was a beacon of prosperity and joy before the US came in. I'm not sure it arguably got better/worse during the time... It was different for the US occupation, and now it's back where it started. Lives lost, people traumatized, money thrown away, but at least some corpos got rich and PMC's had their babtism of fire... Onto the next one.

      • Maybe a propaganda pic, but I’ve seen many other such examples

        • Yes, but from '95 to '01 the Taliban also had a burqa mandate. It stems from the period the types like bin laden roamed Afghanistan free and used it as their training base. It attracted all the joyous spokes people for radical islam from around the world.

          During this period they also blew up those ancient statues because depictions of humans are haram.

    • Just one more year of occupation bro. I promise bro just one more year and it'll fix everything bro. Bro. Just one more year. Please just one more. One more year and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro cmon just give me one more year I promise bro. Bro please I just need one more year.

      Liberals oppose war challenge level: impossible.

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