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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"Harris reminds some men of their first wife. Donald Trump reminds women of their first husband's divorce lawyer, and he needs to back off,"

Those are awfully specific. Sounds like nothing more than a couple anecdotes.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago (8 children)

If Harris is anything like my first wife, I’ll vote for her every time. After all, I’ve been happily married to her for 13 years tomorrow 🥰

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

I also choose this guy's wife

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Congrats! It will be 13 for me & my wife in just about 2 months.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Psh... Real men cheat on their wives with porn stars n get married like 5 times. You know, strong Christian values.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

13? That's excellent. Married for 9 here, after a brief 25-year courtship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Good to see it worked out, even after rushing into things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Happy Anni! And, same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well played, on both the retort and the marriage. May many more happy years comr to you. And everyone else, really, we could all do with some happy years.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If Harris is anything like my first wife,

If you've been happily married to her all this time, why are you referring to her as your first wife? And not just your wife?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Because humor requires the subversion of expectations, and it mirrored the original statement nicely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Because they are Numenorean and unfortunately will long outlive her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You never know bro.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Trump is most popular with divorced men. So.. probably heard it at least more than once in their focus groups.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I suspect he’s even more popular among sex offenders, but they don’t get polled specifically.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

"Would you have flown with Trump to Epstein island and gotten a totally-appropriate massage from a thirteen year old girl complete with happy ending? And would you vote for Trump today?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Ah yes. The "Ranting at FB Live in my truck wearing aviators" demographic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But nothing about Trump seems lawyerly.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He lies a lot, changes positions whenever convenient, and he's pretty much always involved in one legal battle or another. He's basically the lawyer from every lawyer joke minus the law degree.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

minus the law degree

Minus any resemblance of intelligence or logical planning beyond immediate self-gratification.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Him driving over a cliff would be a good start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Saul Goodman for president

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's kind of wildly specific. First wife? Some people only have the one, or even none.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

The guy is a Republican, though. They tend to want to trade in their wife for a newer model occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

He does focus groups. It's all about getting more detail, specifics, and answers to open ended questions to (in theory) get deeper insights from a smaller group of people instead of more generic metrics from a larger group. Qualitative data rather than quantitative data.

I wouldn't be surprised if he got those comparisons from participants. But (without actually watching the interview) I would have to assume that he's using those statements to represent mildly negative sentiments about Harris from Republican men, and contrasting it with much more severe negativity among Republican women when it comes to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I raised an eyebrow too, what a weird thing to say