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No matter how bad they want to portray him (some of it true, some not), nothing will change the fact that our country was doing better for most of us after Obama, and before Biden/Harris. Let’s get back to that. MAGA

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It’s a bit bizarre that there have been so many films about Trump, all apparently designed to convince us that he is a major Threat to Democracy (trademark from the Democrats). I’d say there have been no films about Biden, but “Weekend at Bernie’s” is a pretty good account.

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Is watching this movie supposed to elevate my opinion of Trump? It's so low already, I suppose it might. However, as bad as Harris is, I will still vote for her. Bill Maher's takes on Trump are the delight of my Trump watching.

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

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I have no interest in what made him an alpha male. His successes dwarf all that came before him since Lincoln. Excellent on the economy, employment and foreign policy. I can live with his mean tweets (trash talking) and hiring mistakes in his cabinet. He's a businessman that ran our country in that manner.

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I guess there is a publicly available record of outcomes among the persons running for the 2024 presidency and vice presidency. That is, we need not rely on cinematic fiction for voting choices--we have the advantage of knowing our own experience during the time each were in office.

If one simply reviews of historical outcomes while in office, my opinion is that a person could reasonably cast their vote for the candidate(s) with the best record measured against such parameters as health, safety, wealth, and peace of mind--basically the social welfare. Arrow's theorem applies in the primary nomination process (majority voting), and therefore we cannot reasonably hope that the person(s) gaining the most votes in the primary will necessarily comport with the majority's desired candidate. Therefore it seems to me what is best, given the election process, is to vote for the person(s) most likely to promote the social welfare as each voting citizen understands it. It furthermore seems unreasonable to (blindly) vote based on an ideology untethered to outcomes. Voting (should) come down to a binary choice based on one's social welfare utility.

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Lionized or demonized> eulogized.

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Trump had a brief cameo in "Home Alone 2" and Canada's government had that scene edited out. Too violent or some such nonsense. CBC said it was "edited for time" but that is likely not true given the Canadian government's hatred of free speech.

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Where have I seen this before? "it’s about what happens when you suppress your humanity in the pursuit of power." I remember! It's the transformation of Michael Corleone in "The Godfather." Nothing new under the sun, I guess.

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There are plenty of people in American who neither love nor hate Trump, but that doesn't mean we want to waste 2 hours of our lives watching a movie about him...

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I really would like to see this actor portray Trump because Roger Stone says it is uncanny. But I cannot support a film so dishonest that it includes this fake rape scene. It appears to be the answer to liberals who believe Trump the personification of evil.; how did he get that way? Just another TDS product

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Interesting to come out 3 weeks before an election by someone who abhors Trump. Nothing to see here!!

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Goldbert — Don’t you know a coincidence when you see one?

It’s like when, out of 4700 wet markets in China, COVID-19 coincidentally appeared at the one next door to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

It’s like when four different law cases, involving events from various years, were all coincidentally brought against Trump the same year, coincidentally the year he was running for President.

It’s like when Putin coincidentally didn’t feel like invading anybody during Trump’s Presidency, but coincidentally did invade during everybody else’s Presidency.

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The article says rape allegations were “made, and later recanted, by Ivana during the divorce.” It should read “made by Ivana during the divorce and later recanted.” (They were recanted after the divorce. The original sentence could be interpreted to mean they were recanted during the divorce.)

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Also, Alec Baldwin is the worst possible comparison. Mr. Baldwin shoots people dead. Mr. Trump gets shot and lives.

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Yet, somehow, Mr. Trump is the only one to face a jury.

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“Finally, a Good Trump Movie”?????

Hello!? He was the only good part in Home Alone 2.

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"...it’s about what happens when you suppress your humanity in the pursuit of power."

Now make this about Barack Obama, the Clinton family, the Bush family etc. etc. etc. We know this lesson in America.

Time for a new one. Time for the lesson of what happens when common people get fed up and start suppressing the pursuit of power through the power of their humanity.

And abortion. Because we all know that the only way to demonstrate our humanity is to abort things. So, of course, abortion. That's all that really matters in the end.

The Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project... DELENDA EST!

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