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>but if you can't do thousand vs million and not realise 300 million dying was unlikely should you be president?

My brother in Christ do you think people voted for Trump because he was the more intelligent choice? He says dumber things than that all the time, and puts them into policy.

Heck, let's make it bipartisan - Obama once said he campaigned in "all 57 states." Minor gaffes like this don't actually matter, they happen all the time. What matters is platform and policy, and the only people I've seen who had an opinion on Kamala Harris' platform were Democrats. The Republicans she wanted to court were never going to vote for her on principle, and the fence-sitters were too disillusioned and cynical to bother showing up.

I don't like Trump but he comes across as fairly high IQ if a bit corrupt and demented. I say this as a random Brit who sees odd bits on the internet.

I followed democratic strategist James Carville a bit and he said when Biden proved gaga that they should have a townhall for prospective candidates and choose the best and it was unamerican to just anoint some insider. If they had actually done that I think they would have found someone competent and won, but no and we have the current nightmare.

I think there needs to be a return to selecting people who are honest competent and represent the majority.

Considering Trump fairly high IQ and Harris dim and incompetent because the latter made a single verbal gaffe and despite the former's constant sundowning and thoroughly well documented ignorance is... certainly a position.

It wasn't just the repeated gaffe, it was a general impression.

> but he comes across as fairly high IQ

Indeed. One of the few people to know there’s a “b” in “dumb.”

Trump has great speech writers. Here are a couple of highlights being read as audition monologues

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UC_NaXd1PS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZmaxjTD4I

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