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mac56

(17,822 posts) Thu Mar 26, 2026, 11:51 AM Mar 26

My best friend used to say

that we pick our Miss Americas by how smart they are, and our Presidents by how good they look on TV.

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My best friend used to say (Original Post) mac56 Mar 26 OP

If that were true, piddyprints Mar 26 #1

TSF looks good? Sneederbunk Mar 26 #2

I think that applied to the Kennedy-Nixon debate and times. usonian Mar 26 #3

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)

1. If that were true,

Reply to mac56 (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2026, 12:00 PM

Mar 26

We'd have had President Hillary Clinton and President Kamala Harris. What we got looks like Jabba the Hutt on television.

Sneederbunk

(17,506 posts)

2. TSF looks good?

Reply to mac56 (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2026, 12:04 PM

Mar 26

usonian

(25,441 posts)

3. I think that applied to the Kennedy-Nixon debate and times.

Reply to mac56 (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2026, 12:34 PM

Mar 26

The GOP's "Southern Strategy" kicked in, and a damn lot of presidential posing was racism in disguise.

That is how Trump "survives" all logical attacks. He's pure race hate and misogyny.

Make that go away? Fat chance.

And beauty contests became recruiting centers for the Trump-Epstein sex slave operation.

Greed, aversion and stupidity rule.

People choose poorly.

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