OH BOY! Let's see who will make it to the final 3! I ran these through a randomizer for true chaos. I did that with round 1, but last round I intentionally paired a few takes together so no one person's take had an advantage at qualifying twice. Now that the commentary is out of the way...

GO!

Wikey's Trump Take

+

"If Donald Trump radicalized half the American population over the last four years, then the media certainly radicalized the other half. There are still people who believe that Russian collusion actually happened. Despite the investigation producing fuck all. Where was Twitter then? They certainly weren't slapping disclaimers on people's tweets saying 'This claim about Russian collusion is contested' This is not about protecting people from misinformation, this is about controlling the narrative. The election is not over. Not until the electors vote next month. Donald Trump is within his rights to fight his legal battles. The media does not decide when it's over. Whether his legal team can prove there was enough fraud to overturn the results is yet to be seen. His lawyers have been making some significant claims, but I've yet to see any proof. Anybody who spent the last four years droning on and on about Russiagate has no business insisting that Trump should concede now. You guys should welcome an investigation, in the interests of uniting the country, even if you think the fraud claims are BS. Russian collusion was investigated based on even less. To proceed with half of your population thinking the election was illegitimate would be bad for everyone. The claims are significant, way worse than anything alleged in 2016, and the circumstantial evidence at least appears to be stronger. If proven, things are going to get crazy in the next few months. There's the possibility that this is just a performance by Trump and the Republicans to create as much chaos as possible going into the Biden administration, which would be a scummy move. It's also possible that Trump is simply being a sore loser. But I'm not so sure. Time will tell. The idea that Big Tech censorship is for people's own good is naive...these people have way too much power, to the point that they have effectively scrubbed people off the internet over in the UK. Let's pretend that they are only censoring people for spreading misinformation, racism etc. Even then, what do you achieve by booting them off every major platform and encouraging them to flock to somewhere else, like Parler? All you've done is create an echo chamber where they can continue on as before, only this time their chances of ever being challenged are greatly diminished. You radicalize people more when you censor them. Also...censorship doesn't work. Parler should demonstrate that to everybody. No matter how hard you try, you will not stop people from talking about what they want to talk about. It's easy to support big tech censorship when they are on your side. Don't be foolish enough to think they always will be. There have already been instances of leftists getting censored too. Remember when all the major platforms banned Alex Jones? That was an unprecedented move at the time, and many warned that they would keep testing the waters to see what else they could get away with. Well here we are now and they are putting disclaimers on the Presidents tweets. I wonder what they'll be doing next."

Igor’s 1,000 Rats Take	+
Igor @ 12/3/2018 20:22 Vance @ 12/3/2018 19:03 Igor - how many rats do you think you could beat up at one time? Probably thousands if I had a stick or some weapon I'd crush 'em

OH and I'll probably do the same this round as I did last round, which was give a longer time window 'cause weekdays.

Igor

What a twist! Wikey's Trump Take has been eliminated!