Comment by ben_w
1 day ago
> I welcome a qualified female US president as long as she has the public's best interested at heart.
If the elections were about being qualified, Trump would have needed to spend 4 years being a senator plus 4 as state Attorney General to reach parity with Haris (in addition to the 4 as VP which he can pair with being president), or 8 as senator plus 4 as secretary of state to reach parity with Clinton.
What he had in 2016 was a string of bankruptcies and a TV show and no political qualifications; what he had in 2024 was as much political experience as Haris had gained since he lost, plus 34 felony convictions for… lying about a sex scandal in his business records, plus two impeachments for something rather more serious than lying under oath about a sex scandal, and that's not even counting the unlawful document retention charges that had to be dropped because sitting presidents can't be charged (or is it tried?) unless impeached (again).
The qualifications he met were the legal minimum: old enough, born in US.
I’ve never voted for a president, I’ve only voted in the primaries for Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders. And so far Trump is cleaning house. Watching him trounce the governor of Maine was funny af.
"Funny" isn't a qualification relevant to the office of President.
The oval office isn't a comedy stage.
I don’t think the president was joking and the governor wasn’t laughing.