Trump: My team will play football only if it’s a home game and I get to pick the referees. Also, your team doesn’t get to to play, only my team does. And if you don’t agree then I’m not showing up and your team is to blame.
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I read this in the voice of Seth Myers doing Trump.
Or Stephen Colbert doing Trump.
The words are too coherent to hear them as Trump.
Biden should just invite RFK to take Trump's place if he doesn't show up. RFK would then draw from Trump voters, splitting the anti-Biden vote.
If he doesn't show up, Biden should call Trump direct on his cell phone with a spoofed number from one of Trump's associates, and then ask him live on air why he's not at the debate, and offer to have the debate right then and there with Trump on speaker.
If you're gonna be in charge of the USA's intelligence apparatus, and your opponent is okay with weaponizing the power of that exact same apparatus against you when they feel like it, I think you should be allowed to flex with it just a little bit from time to time.
Trump would have Steve chowder moment and hang up immediately.
You mean Trump would have a Trump moment and hang up
https://www.newsweek.com/every-interview-donald-trump-walked-out-full-list-piers-morgan-1699661
I want Kendrick Lamar writing the script for that phone call though. He could probably refuse some of the same stuff he wrote about Drake to make it easier.
That’s kind of the best idea out of a horrible situation I’ve heard yet
Idea 💡: Biden tells people he will show up for a speech, with or without Trump present.
Say that Trump will refuse to show up, bc he's too weak and pathetic. Use those exact words.
Trump doesn't show = profit.
Or if Trump does show, doing his usual falling asleep during talky talk, then profit even moar!
Most likely Trump will try to do the identical thing in reverse, but everyone would see that Biden did it first.
everyone would see that Biden did it first.
Where have you been the past 10 years? Half the country just sees what Fox "News" tells them.
Everyone who matters(TM)
The Magats are a lost cause, but the like 2-3 centrists in the Midwest who control our entire nation at this point due to the Electoral College system (and Dems refusal to do anything once elected) might be persuaded this way?
Also, now I just want to see it done regardless of utility. 😎
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that and farcebook. It sure explains for the current polls.
Nah he'd get drugs for that. Someone pointed out the Adderall shortage lines up with Trump's sudden constant non ability to stay awake. He might have to resort to cocaine though, so we may get some random rants about wanting to have sex with his daughter again
I encourage everyone to take a look at Fox News's front page when political stories like this hit.
The debate's basically not there, other than the occasional opinion piece about how CNN is too biased to have a fair moderator. Yesterday there was an article where some Trump stooge was saying the debate conditions were designed to make it impossible for Trunk to win.
People who already support Trump get their media from places that will make his skipping this debate into a masterful gambit and a great victory. He won't lose votes over this.
Of course he won't lose votes over this. The guy is a deplorable menace and anyone who still supports him is a lost cause as a human being.
I remember the past debates where trump made a fool of himself like he usually does and the next day, conservative opinion stations declared that trump won the debate for absolutely no reason instead of telling the truth.
The conservative propaganda machine has done immense damage to this country and they're still attacking it on a daily basis without anyone stopping them. Nothing will get better until the misinformation machine is stopped and Americans start getting factual news again.
The gambit left him little choice but to immediately accept when the Biden campaign offered debate dates in June and September
I think this is vastly understating how prominently placed is total transparent bullshit, in the Trump mental model, and how willing his followers are to it
He can simply pretend that October 2nd is the real debate, and Biden is the one trying to back out because he’s too old and scared to debate Trump. If his followers also watched news with some connection to reality, and cross checked Trump’s pretenses against it, then they’d see the lie, but they don’t and they won’t.
Nah, that doesn't give Trump any advantage. He can just go on Fox any time he wants and have a "pretend debate" with no one. There are still rules to the reality Trump supporters have in their heads.
Basically, Trump supporters want to see him as better than someone else. So that other person has to play along. If you notice, the Republicans who support Trump have to pretend that he's better than them when they give speeches. It's just a modern monarchy (a conservative form of government).
Biden doesn't play along, so he actually doesn't look weak. Trump was begging for a debate and was ignored (looks weak). Biden said "let's debate" and Trump accepted. No one ever accepted Trump's debate on Fox, so rejecting it actually makes Biden look more powerful.
Pretty sure what the guy above is saying is that no one (on the right) cares about what was accepted. He's saying Trump can just say it was Oct 2 and everyone will eat it up. And if Biden doesn't show up, Trump will say "Biden weak" and everyone will eat it up. No one (on the right) will care that Trump just made up a new date and terms.
There are still rules to the reality Trump supporters have in their heads.
Mmmmmmmm . . . are there?
Yesssssss. It's about looking powerful. These are people who drive big trucks and don't use them. A powerful image is important to them.
They value hierarchy and rules that don't apply to them. Without anyone who plays along, they don't feel good. They need someone to be upset at their giant Trump flag or there's no point to it.
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I mean are they though?
Recent NYT poll had Trump leading in the several battleground states and let's fucking face it, the American voting populace is dumb AF.
A bad performance from Trump I don't think will do much of anything because Americans are just too stupid to remember or care.
NYT is carrying enough water for Trump they may as well be an aqua duct. Mean the polls may be accurate but it's hard to believe much of what they put out between Biden and Trump. I'm sure I could read the methods but I rarely get to read NYT due to paywall.
The article makes a pretty convincing argument that the right wing spin sphere is already out in full force trying to downplay the debates.
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Does anyone think auto cut off of the mic is warranted? "You have 60 seconds and then the mic cuts off".
Absolutely. Did you see the last Biden Trump debate?
“Aw just shut up, man”
That was one of the conditions of these debates.
If one of these debates actually happens, I may try turning it into a drinking game, taking a shot every time one of them gets cut off.
Alcohol poisoning sounds like a more fun way to die than whatever is in store for me from another Trump presidency.
Have you watched any of the presidential debates in the last decade or two? How is this even a question at this point?
I won't watch any more debates until they do this.
I am really hoping a solid heat wave this summer takes down the presidential ticket.
Good god. Both of them? What a glorious thought... but what a shitshow that would follow.
Aren't they wearing diapers in solidarity with Ronald McDonald?
As much as I want to watch him fail in a debate, I feel like the MAGA group will double down, and just love him even more.
It's not the maga group Biden needs to convince. Doubling down when they're already all in doesn't mean much.
He's trying to win an election so it's the various "I don't want to vote for Biden so I'll vote for trump or not vote" in swing states people he needs to be moving. To those people, Trump trying to go on an unhinged Twitter tirade at a debate could be persuasive. At least that's what a lot of Dems, and according to this GOP, think is going to happen.
Doesnt really matter how bad he gets, his magats are still gonna worship him
Don’t forget ‘anyplace’ too!
See you on the surface of the Sun 😎
I wonder if there's beer on the Sun...
Totally, I have a mid August trip planned, but something came up. I'll sell you my ticket for half the price, £5000, it's all inclusive though, so you don't have to pay for anything once you're there.
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