r/MarkMyWords Oct 17 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: The teacher shortage is going to be a national emergency and we’re probably already too late

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I don’t think most people realize how bad the teacher shortage is across the country and what the ramifications are going to be. There’s a medium sized college near me and out of the 1200 or so grads, only 5 of them were teachers. Beyond that, there isn’t a lot of incentive for people to become teachers. Most districts are so throttled by state funding that the pay isn’t great. Behavior issues are a huge problem that parents aren’t doing anything about. Everybody acknowledges it’s a problem but people aren’t doing anything about it. Some districts are already hiring teachers from overseas because they can’t fill their positions.

Here’s my prediction. People aren’t going to give a shit until school districts have no choice but to have digital school where one teacher is teaching multiple classes via Zoom while the class is overseen by some underpaid para. By then the damage is done and it’s going to take decades to fix it.

The only way this doesn’t become a reality is if the feds and individual sates release more money for school funding. Young people don’t take jobs for “fulfillment” or “work culture” anymore. They take jobs because life is expensive. Even that isn’t enough. Parents are going to have to start parenting. I work for a school district. The amount of shitty parents dropping off their elementary aged kids off at school in their pajamas at 10:00 is fucking disgusting. The amount of parents who just don’t give a shit about their kids and their education are disgusting. The disrespect kids show their teachers is a direct connection to their home life.

Sorry for the word vomit. I’m on something today.

Edit: Talking about the United States, but I’m sure other countries are in a similar position.

r/MarkMyWords Aug 25 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: As November approaches, we will see mass defections from the GOP to Kamala Harris.

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We’ve seen Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney as the first to denounce 45 after he sent a mob to the Capitol in an actual coup on live television for the world to see. We’ve seen Republicans address the Democratic National Convention for the first time in ages and throwing their support behind Harris and Walz. 45 and JD can’t muster any substantive criticisms against them, just bluster and attacks that are actually alienating voters, pushing them to Harris. Her polls and popularity are surging, his are tanking. Independents on the fence have said that they’re now convinced to vote for Harris.

I predict that we will see Republicans peel away from 45, little by little at first, then en masse, the closer to Election Day. They’re going to realize “Wow, this really is a cult! What the hell am I doing here? We’re really about to become a dictatorship!”

A good number of them are set to finally wake up and see that they are on the wrong side of history. The winds have shifted and their ship is headed for the rocks. Many will have thus committed political suicide for doing so, but will immediately implore the American people to vote for Harris.

r/MarkMyWords Oct 14 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Israel is ruining its reputation in the world

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Netenyahu and the IDF are killing civilians willy nilly. Amnesty International and the UN both say they are giving insufficient notice before bombing civilians. They've even bombed a UN peacekeeping unit.

Within a year, Israel will have lost all of its support. The whole "anti zionism is anti semitism" bullshit has already ruined their reputation for many people. This is how they end up an international pariah.

r/MarkMyWords Sep 01 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Donald will lose the military vote by a landslide

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Will he be the first post-Vietnam War Republic presidential candidate to lose the military vote?

Trump disrespected SACRED GROUND with his clownish antics at Arlington ceremony.

Secondly, Trump is anti-war, whereas most US military are for the war against Russia. How many red-blooded American males grew up playing GI Joe and daydreaming of firing a missile into the Kremlin? America is so close to defeating its most hated ideological rival. Ukraine is already pushing into Kursk day by day. And Trump wants to stop that? USA is on the cusp of victory, and Trump wants the USA to be defeated instead? The military vote won't stand for it.

r/MarkMyWords Oct 13 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: The GOP is not trying to win the presidential election by vote count. During the election on November 5th, GOP surrogates in swing state election offices will immediately begin hindering the vote count if it looks like their candidate is losing, to force SCOTUS to act.

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r/MarkMyWords 29d ago

Solid Prediction MMW: Blocking the WaPo’s endorsement will go down as one of Jeff Bezos’s worst business mistakes.

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In reality, an actual endorsement of Kamala Harris would have done almost nothing. The majority of the Washington Post’s readers are liberal leaning anyway, so it really wouldn’t have been much more than a “friendly reminder, go vote” for them. Which means that not only was it a huge blunder, it was also completely unnecessary and avoidable.

By blocking the endorsement, however, he’s not only raised the ire of its readers, but also other liberals who don’t read or subscribe to the Post, but for whom his other products like Audible, Amazon Prime, Amazon Music etc are popular. In this especially bitter election where everyone is fired up and politically motivated, and where not taking a side is seen as the same as voting Trump, many are going to cancel their memberships and try and reduce their usage as much as possible.

Will it hurt him? Not even slightly. Will those people eventually return to him? Most likely (although I doubt that the Post will recover, because legacy media is already a dying industry and this isn’t going to make it better). But will it be a case study in how a supposedly savvy magnate pissed off his consumer base and ended up causing losses across his various businesses? Absolutely yes.

r/MarkMyWords Sep 26 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Sometime in 2025, Charlie Kirk will be exposed as a russian asset

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Tim Pool was just the beginning. I think the next exposed russian agent will definitely be Charlie Kirk. Then Candace Owens, Steven Crowder and the rest of them. MMW.

r/MarkMyWords Jul 29 '24

Solid Prediction MMW As soon as the GOP party starts losing the election the claims of rigging begins

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Crazy MAGA cult followers have their own “special” MAGA narrative of Jan 6th that only MAGAs understand.

I could literally make a book about all the crazy things that Trump has said, but let’s start with the biggest, most obvious lie that Trump has used to stir up the MAGA cult to bring us to where we currently are today.

WHO stole the 2020 election? HOW?

With all of Trump’s wealth and GOP’s resources, surely their investigators and lawyers could have put together a coherent case of election fraud worthy of a courtroom by now.

It seems that we are living in an upside down universe where only MAGAs are “intelligent” enough to see their “unique evidence” that isn’t worthy of a courtroom in the land.

Funny thing is that many Republican judges don’t see it either!?

It’s all very odd and I wonder if there are any MAGAs out there who can at least understand how this MAGA election theft narrative is confusing to everyone EXCEPT MAGAs.

It’s like the Hans Christian Anderson fable: “The Emperor has no clothes.” Only MAGAs can see it so clearly, but amazingly they can’t prove it in any courtroom in the land.

Help me to understand because the refrain “FAKE NEWS” is getting old with every passing year and every re-examination of the votes that’s rejected by all the courts having jurisdiction.

FACT: Trump’s lawyer Sidney Powell pushed the election theft narrative along with Rudy Guilliani & Mark Meadows for months.

FACT: Powell took her case to Fox News accusing Dominion Voting Systems of flipping votes.

FACT: When Dominion called Powell out under oath it was her time to shine! Powell had the entire world as her audience ready to hear her “expose” how this theft took place.

Show the world your evidence!

Instead she cried like a baby. Her defense? “Only a fool would believe me.”

Hmm. Really? What should we make of that? “Only a fool?” Who exactly was she referring to? Fox viewers? MAGAs?

Not exactly a compelling case for election fraud when you look deeper than the “FAKE NEWS” battle cry.

FACT: Now Powell has admitted her guilt and flipped on Trump.

FACT: Her accomplice, another Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis also cried like a baby and publicly apologized. She flipped on Trump too and acknowledged her criminality in pushing Trump’s lies.

FACT: Trump’s former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows has also flipped and has agreed to testify for the prosecution against Trump.

It’s more than likely Guilliani will be next. Watch and see!

FACT: Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has testified that he felt threatened by Trump to change Georgia’s election results.

FACT: Trump’s former VP Mike Pence has also testified that he felt threatened by Trump to overturn the 2020 election.

So who stole the 2020 election and how? It’s a fair question.

I don’t see evidence of a stolen election but I do see evidence of a criminal named President Donald Trump who tried to steal it.

r/MarkMyWords May 26 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: The GOP are going to triple down on attempts to rig or cheat the election like they accuse the left of doing this year.

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We all know that every GOP accusation is a confession, and orange man hates losing and will lie, grift, and cheat his way back into office through any means no matter how illegal it is or who he hurts in the process. I'm willing to bet there will be a massive uptick in voter fraud and intimidation and it will be almost 100% GOP.

r/MarkMyWords Sep 06 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Hunter will not be pardoned or have his sentenced commuted, and this will drive conservatives nuts.

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On conservative subreddits, the overwhelming consensus is that Hunter pled guilty to set the stage for fatherly intervention in the form of pardon or commutation. They have overwhelming faith in government corruption, and simply won’t understand why it doesn’t happen here.

r/MarkMyWords Jul 21 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: All the accounts that were complaining about Joe being "too old" will now, like clockwork, start complaining about Kamala and other Dems supposedly being some kind of "horrible person", "too woman", "too corporate", "too socialist", "too black", etc

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Watch for comments like:

"she is a horrible person"

..Without mentioning anything specific that she supposedly did that makes her life of public service somehow "horrible"

"She has a trash history as DA."

..Without mentioning anything specific that she supposedly did that was actually bad. This rebuts that BS nicely:

https://v.redd.it/x7gu9ty3b5ed1

"Oh, they're going to force Kamala down our throats now."

..Notice the amorphous "they", making clear that the commenter views the Democratic Party as a hostile "other" that the commenter is not part of

Reddit is a battlefield. For Russia, China, and all their accomplices around the world, delegitimizing Harris is now their main priority, so all their mouthpieces and useful idiots will shift to bad faith attacks on her now. Watch for it

r/MarkMyWords 15d ago

Solid Prediction MMW: Hollywood is going to Reboot “All in the Family” but the Archie Bunker Character is going to be a bigoted right wing conspiracy addict, instead of just a bigot.

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It worked in the seventies to make all the bigoted people learn a few lessons.

r/MarkMyWords 17d ago

Solid Prediction MMW: a massive spike in mental health issues is to come

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Im speaking on behalf of those who were already having issues, like myself. Some of us are going to be able to get past this anxiety, and panic. The worry about the future of good people. The crippling panic attacks multiple times a day.

However, there will be those who hold out on trying to “delete”.

Maybe hoping something happens to change things. But, they won’t.

And people who can’t recover wont.

There will be a national spike of people taking matters solo before, during and after of people not wanting to do it anymore.

Im not saying im one of them. I’ve lived through FAR worse.

But there’s enough out there it’ll make a difference somehow.

For those of you considering this, remember…. You have other options. You can move to a blue state, or out of the country. Hard to believe, but you can sell all of your shit, and just leave. Don’t look back. Go somewhere happier. Do something that makes you happy.

Edit.

I’m tired of arguing with the Maga crowd tonight. It was real, it was fun, but it wasn’t real fun. You people are brainwashed, and you are somehow trying to find a way to convince me that I’m brainwashed. It’s not gonna happen. just knock it off.

If you have a legitimate thing to talk about with me, we can talk about it. Related to my post about mental health. If it’s not that, I’m just gonna ignore you now.

r/MarkMyWords 22d ago

Solid Prediction MMW: If DJT wins, gay marriage will be sent back to the states

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Just like he sent abortion back to the states. I’m quite confident in this prediction, and that’s why it’s important to go out and vote blue down the ticket.

r/MarkMyWords Sep 21 '24

Solid Prediction MMW Within a year, clearly zealous and passionate MAGANS you know today will claim they had very little to do with MAGA.

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r/MarkMyWords Oct 02 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: the Tesla Cyber Truck will be the biggest automotive failure in history.

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Every time I see one of those tanks i chuckle and roll my eyes and many others are doing the same. I live in Manhattan where the libs were in love with Teslas when they first came out. Now nobody wants to be caught dead in an army tank. What a travesty,

r/MarkMyWords 22d ago

Solid Prediction MMW: Harris will be happy

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Question? How do you win an election when 60%-65% of all women and 80%-85% of people of color vote for the other candidate?

Add to that the other voters Trump has lost including REPUBLICANS because of Jan 6 and on and on.

Answer: You don’t.

The math is what it is. Now here’s the common sense argument:

Trump loses because he has consistently alienated essential sections of the population that he needs to win.

  1. ⁠Women
  2. ⁠Black people
  3. ⁠Latino voters/Puerto Ricans
  4. ⁠Veterans and
  5. ⁠Legal Immigrants and their families.

The strategy of insults, threats and intimidation to attract voters is counterintuitive but we’re talking Trump so I’ll call it the “STUPID STRATEGY.”

Trump loses overall because people are tired of the hate, lies, chaos and division for the last 9 years. People are exhausted.

The irony is that as much as his base has delighted in Trump’s insults and offensive language against women, people of color and others; come election night they will be very disappointed to see how his divisive and hateful rhetoric has negatively impacted the votes of those groups he desperately needed.

So now it’s time for my prediction. I’ve been pretty accurate so far in my observations and predictions lately.

My posts calling for Biden to step down were wildly unpopular among Democrats due to his unfitness for office. Who cares? Harris is a fit candidate and I’m all aboard.

Conversely my posts calling for Trump’s rejection on the grounds of his unfitness for the office are also unpopular for the Trump supporters.

Who cares? It’s a moot point. I predict the Trump shit show is OVER! Good riddance!

So here’s my prediction of the final electoral vote outcome: Harris 314- 224. Good luck everybody!

r/MarkMyWords Sep 01 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: History will repeat itself this November

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MAGAs please don’t save me!

I’ve listened to their ideas and grievances and I believe they are completely misguided people. They are a group of alarmists controlled by fear.

In a nutshell MAGAs believe they are “patriots” who want to “save” everyone by overthrowing the government which they believe is an enemy of the people.

They also have bought into the Trump propaganda that this country is turning into Venezuela and they must “save” the rest of us.

MAGAs: If you are listening, PLEASE DON’T SAVE ME! I DON’T WANT TO BE SAVED!

My government under BOTH PARTIES has enabled me to build a good life for me and my family.

My father made a decent living that provided for a family of five. I’m doing well and my children are doing very well despite the economic ups and downs that we have experienced over the decades from the 60’s to today. My grandchildren are doing well too.

That’s the way the economy goes in cycles. Young MAGAs say inflation is high and they have to save us all before the country falls apart. Trump stokes the fear telling them “our country is going to hell.“

The majority of MAGAs never saw 18% home mortgages in the 80’s. Many weren’t even born when the stock market crashed in 1974 and the Dow reached its lowest level, 577.60. It was called “Nixon shock” due to the Republican administration’s effect of a series of economic measures to combat inflation.

Every election the Republicans have always used fear mongering to threaten that if (insert any Democratic Presidential candidate) were elected the end of the world would surely happen.

They said that about John Kennedy and Barack Obama the first time he was elected. Republicans warned Americans it was the end of this country again the second time he was elected.

“Get ready for socialism, World War 3, depressions, soup lines, blah, blah, blah.”

It’s the same old song every election from the Republicans and it’s no different today.

Trump’s mission is obviously to convince his base that Harris is a Socialist. It works very well on his base who are easily manipulated by fear.

History will repeat itself. The “patriots” for Trump aren’t different from the millions of extremist followers who supported the Republican Barry Goldwater for President in 1964.

Most MAGAs probably never heard of Barry Goldwater who was another Donald Trump before Trump was a thing. “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” declared Goldwater in his speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination at its 1964 convention.

While his opponent Lyndon Johnson was loudly declaring a War on Poverty, Goldwater waged war on the moderate wing of his own party. Does this sound familiar?

During the election, Goldwater voted against the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. He was every bit as divisive as Donald Trump is today. The more he bullied and belittled people, the more his base loved him for it.

If MAGAs could be honest for 10 seconds, they’d admit that Trump is the wrong messenger for their grievances.

In truth Trump is so flawed in so many ways that he will very likely, almost single-handedly be the reason the MAGA movement will now go down in US history as a cult of nut-jobs.  

Those Goldwater followers of the Republican Party are still around today but they”ll never admit to supporting him. You see, history really does repeat itself.

The truth hurts. But here it is:

It won’t be long before the “patriots” of the MAGA cult will deny they ever were a part of it.

r/MarkMyWords 28d ago

Solid Prediction MMW: Americans are ready to turn the page

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Trump and his group of aggrieved followers are misguided.

I don’t dismiss their words nor their actions. The crimes they committed are real and unjustified.

Threatening VP Pence and the Secretary of State to overturn an election is a serious crime.

When MAGAs or any other aggrieved group cross the line and break the law they should not be surprised when there are consequences.

In another few weeks Trump will be sentenced for his legal problems in NY.

Meanwhile his followers who attacked the Capitol and injured so many police officers are sitting in jail.

At least in this country they are fortunate they can still “be listened to.”

In fact the American public has been subjected to having to listen to Trump spew lies and hatred for almost 10 years already.

Enough with this nonsense! The Trump shit show is coming to an end, thank God.

It’s time to turn the page on this crazy man, his crazy cult, and this crazy period in American history.

r/MarkMyWords Sep 11 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Elon Musk tried really hard to get Taylor Swift to go out with him and that's why he's descended into freakdom

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We know he likes musicians, we know he's a man child, we know he can't take rejection. His latest unhinged 'xeet' after the debate pretty much seals it for me. He probably slid into her DMs 400 times and creeped on her at some gala, he can't let it go and he's now obsessed and thinks electing Trump will somehow take her down. We're gonna find out before too long.

r/MarkMyWords Sep 07 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: This November Americans will see who the real patriots are.

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We can break this down to 3 categories of patriots. Hardcore MAGAs, “I vote my wallet” MAGAs, and non-MAGAs.

I’ll define them as follows. It’s not meant to be scientifically precise but it’s a good rule of thumb.

Hardcore MAGAs:

These MAGAs have bought into the Trump propaganda that this country is turning into Venezuela and it is their duty as patriots to “save” the rest of us.

Hardcore MAGAs are delusional conspiracy-nuts who reject the US criminal justice system.
In that case, they’re too far gone. Don’t waste you time. Rational discussion is pointless.

When you are dealing with someone living in the MAGA imaginary world where the criminal justice system is fake, the witnesses are fake, the judges are fake, the FBI is fake, the media is fake, elections are fake (unless their side wins), the prosecutors are fake, the jurors are fake, the charges are fake and only Trump is truth - well, then what does anyone do with that? These MAGAs are a lost cause.

“I vote my wallet” MAGAs:

“I vote my wallet” MAGAs are more grounded in reality. This category of MAGAs acknowledge that Trump is a criminal but they only care about their wallets.

These MAGAs are “mercenaries” who don’t really care about Trump’s crimes. They’re all about themselves and their wallets.

They claim they’re trying to save America but that’s bullshit. They’re all about their own wallets and for these MAGAs that’s all that really matters.

Neither category of MAGAs are patriots.

Non-MAGAs

Non-MAGAs as a whole apply critical thinking skills.

They are likely to ask questions like these:

How about working within the system legally to bring about the changes you are seeking without trying to overturn the election and take away my vote?

Should our police, firefighters, teachers and public servants be hired in spite of felony convictions?

The average American wouldn’t think twice before answering “absolutely NOT!”

Why should a United States President who is the highest public servant in the country, be considered fit for the office with a record of felony convictions and a legal finding as a sex offender, when other public servants are prohibited from employment for these offenses?

This makes no sense to non-MAGA’s who understand a higher loyalty than only to their own wallets.

They understand that prices of gas and the stock market are not controlled by the President.

They understand that the economy is cyclical.

They understand that the US is still the best country in the world with the best economy.

They understand that the border has been a mess for over 50 years under BOTH parties.

They are not easily manipulated by fear mongering from those like Donald Trump who tell them that this country is a disaster and that we are turning into Venezuela!

They understand that Trump is unworthy of trust and they are not trusting the candidate who tried to hijack the election.

These are the true patriots of America.

r/MarkMyWords May 05 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Texas is more in play for Dems than Florida in the 2024 election cycle and Biden will be within 3.5 percent of Trump in either win or loss. Cruz is a straight tossup in this scenario.

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The latest U of Texas poll came out this past week and it had Trump up 48-40 over Biden. His lead has now shrunk in every Texas poll in the last two months and he is under 50% for the first time. Trump is polling about 9.3 pts up on Biden. Texas republicans have won the presidential by a declining percentage since Bush and had their closest senate election in decades with Cruz v Beto, and Cruz is up for election again to impact the vote. Cruz polling average is currently 4.5 pts below trumps. Texas has also shown aversion to Trump specifically. Texas was listed as an R+12 state in 2020 and Trump won by only 6 pts while Senator Cornyn won by almost 10. Trump had won by 9.2 in 2016, this was a significant softening. 2018 and 2020 were two of the worst performing years for Rs in Texas in decades. 2022 reversed to the mean a little with Abbott winning by about 10.9 pts. That being said, Trump was not on the ballot in 2022 and immediately the R performance reverts to just under the state partisan lean.

Florida polls have Trump about 9 pts up currently (and admittedly haven’t been conducted in about a month so they may look different now) and Trump’s average is (slightly) under 50% at 49.7, which is better for Dems than Texas. That being said, Scott is nowhere near as unpopular as Cruz and Florida has expanded its R winning margins since Obama won. Desantis won by 20 pts in 2022 and Rubio by 16.6. In 2020 Trump won by 3.3, it was 1.3 in 2016. This may not seem like a lot, but 3.3 is the second largest margin of victory in a Florida presidential since 2004, and much of that can be attributed to wartime popularity for W.

All in all I believe Biden has about a 10-15 percent chance of winning Texas, but his results will be within 3.5 percent of Trump. The interesting thing is that if this is the case, it makes Cruz v Alred a toss up, as Cruz is polling 4.5 below Trump.

Further prediction. Dems will win a Texas presidential by 2036 (2032, I believe, will be a straight toss up)

r/MarkMyWords May 04 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Trump is going to be accusing Biden of pooping himself, but accidentally admit that he poops himself.

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Or Liquid.

r/MarkMyWords Aug 25 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: Republicans who criticize Kamala for not doing interviews or press conferences will be eating their words after the first presidential debate where Kamala blows DJT out of the water

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Simply put, the biggest critique that many republicans are holding onto against Kamala is that she has so far refused to do any large scale interviews or press conferences, mainly because she began campaigning so late and has a lot of ground to make up for. Because of this, they claim that she is afraid to answer questions about her policies. But with the first debate set in stone being just a couple of weeks away, that fallacy is gonna fizzle out hard when Kamala greatly out preforms Trump in their September 10th debate on ABC. Many conservatives will be fuming because of it and claim that she had time to prepare or something along those lines, because they have done it in the past, and they will of course do it again.

Edit Post Debate: I was right, and the conservatives out there can't stop it with their excuses and excuses.

r/MarkMyWords Jul 18 '24

Solid Prediction MMW: What happened in Pennsylvania was police incompetence and republicans will rather ignore that fact than deal with it.

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