What Are the Chances of Trump and Harris?
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/10/20
According to some semi-reputable sources gathered in a listing here, Rick G. Rosner may have among America’s, North America’s, and the world’s highest measured IQs at or above 190 (S.D. 15)/196 (S.D. 16) based on several high range test performances created by Christopher Harding, Jason Betts, Paul Cooijmans, and Ronald Hoeflin. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writers Guild Awards and Emmy nominations, and was titled 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Directory with the main “Genius” listing here.
He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmys, The Grammys, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He worked as a bouncer, a nude art model, a roller-skating waiter, and a stripper. In a television commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the “World’s Smartest Man.” The commercial was taken off the air after Subway sandwiches issued a cease-and-desist. He was named “Best Bouncer” in the Denver Area, Colorado, by Westwood Magazine.
Rosner spent much of the late Disco Era as an undercover high school student. In addition, he spent 25 years as a bar bouncer and American fake ID-catcher, and 25+ years as a stripper, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. Errol Morris featured Rosner in the interview series entitled First Person, where some of this history was covered by Morris. He came in second, or lost, on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? over a flawed question and lost the lawsuit. He won one game and lost one game on Are You Smarter Than a Drunk Person? (He was drunk). Finally, he spent 37+ years working on a time-invariant variation of the Big Bang Theory.
Currently, Rosner sits tweeting in a bathrobe (winter) or a towel (summer). He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, dog, and goldfish. He and his wife have a daughter. You can send him money or questions at LanceVersusRick@Gmail.Com, or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn, or see him on YouTube.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you think of Kamala Harris as a person, politician, and thinker?
Rick Rosner: All right. She’s fine. She was a prosecutor or the Attorney General for 27 years, so we know she’s competent. The other side likes to say she got her job by dating Willie Brown, a California politician, 30 years ago. He had been separated from his wife for many years at that point—maybe divorced, I’m not sure—but it wasn’t like anything scandalous. The idea that she rose to power because she dated a powerful politician is just desperate horseshit.
The other side throws out much desperate horseshit. She did her job as Assistant DA, DA, and then-Attorney General for 27 years. You don’t stay in those roles for that long because you dated someone. Then, she was a senator for four years before becoming VP. Her short time in national politics is an advantage, as it was for Obama, who was also a senator for just four years before becoming president. It gives the opposition less history to attack.
Hillary Clinton was in the national spotlight for 30 years, which gave them a lot of ammunition to twist.
Harris is competent and running a good campaign. When she ran for president three almost four years ago, one of her weaknesses was giving meandering answers. I don’t think she’s doing that this time around. She’s out there doing rallies and campaigning hard. Meanwhile, Trump is barely campaigning—either because he’s incompetent or lazy, or maybe he’s overconfident and thinks he can pull the same trick as last time, claiming he won when he knew he didn’t. It seems like she’s putting in the work.
She’s a normal, sane politician, and we need a normal, sane government right now. My whole thesis about politics is that the world is being disrupted by accelerating tech, and tech will determine international leadership. Whoever leads in tech will essentially lead the world, as we have since World War II. But we’re going to have an increasingly hard time doing that if our government is run by crazy, incompetent, anti-education assholes, grifters, and lunatics. Harris represents normality, which is crucial.
Jacobsen: Makes sense.
Rosner: I like some of her proposals, but she doesn’t have any better answers on Israel and Gaza than anyone else, so she tends to stay out of that discussion. Overall, she’s good. She’s fine. I doubt she’s a genius, but she’s certainly competent.
Biden’s not a genius. I believe he’s highly competent after 50 years in national politics, but the presidency doesn’t require genius. As I’ve said before, the one sure genius we had was Teddy Roosevelt. He wrote 50 books and knew a lot. He did a lot—some terrible things, no doubt, but some good, like antitrust legislation.
Roosevelt did some good stuff. He pushed for changes in football rules because so many people were getting killed playing in the early 1900s. He helped introduce the forward pass, which changed the structure of the game. Before that, it was more like rugby but even more violent.
He was the “speak softly and carry a big stick” guy. Anyway, he was a genius. I mentioned this before, and someone pointed out that John Quincy Adams might have been a genius, too, but that’s going way back. Genius isn’t a requirement for the presidency.
Jacobsen: Agreed, genius isn’t necessary.
Rosner: Kamala Harris will do well. It depends on whether Democrats win the House and hold the Senate. The odds of getting that trifecta are low. It also depends on whether she wins and if the tide of Trumpism recedes. But that’s unlikely unless Republicans get thoroughly beaten.
Do you like her?
Jacobsen: She’s charismatic, which we haven’t had since Obama. Do you think the verbal skills required for a lawyer and law school training will help her in debates or sparring matches?
Rosner: Definitely. She was disciplined in her debate with Trump and made him look like an a-hole. But he has the advantage of his supporters not caring what he says or does. She came across as convincingly competent.
Her campaign theme seems to be “joy,” and she conveys that authentically. Remember, in 2016, Hillary Clinton got criticized for her laugh being “inauthentic,”—which was just another bullshit critique. But Harris smiles a lot, and people see that as genuine.
It’s similar to how Walz comes off as a jovial guy. People respond to that.
If you look at approval ratings, Trump is at minus ten net approval, Vance is at almost minus 11, Walz is at plus 3.7 or 8%, and Harris is even. That’s good for her, especially considering she shared Biden’s approval ratings. Biden entered office with around plus 17, but his approval dropped into the minus 10 to 15 range after pulling out of Afghanistan. Harris being back at even is a big deal.
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org
Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com
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