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Tim Ryan, former Ohio Democratic representative, says Trump is avoiding debate because ‘he is scared’

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[–] BlucifersVeinyAnus 243 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Too late for an old man, I guess

[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago

It's getting well past prison time if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Fuck that, past my bedtime too.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 10 points 2 months ago

No country for old men

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Too late because Joe Biden isn't the opponent anymore

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I know he has tiny hands, but I'm pretty sure he has a full number of fingers on both of them lol

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I really want somebody to do some audio overs of things Trump is saying lately with a baby wailing and crying.

Waaah. Waaah. It's too laaaate. Waaah.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I'm unfortunately terrible @ audio-over work. I know from successive failures and attempts using various tools over the years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's actually a Tiktok trend where girls say Trump is very teen girl coded - it's on this sound and a few others, literally hundreds of videos: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFMamHFo/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFMaQ5Kt/

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Trump is America’s biggest drama queen.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

"Hold my anti-woke beer"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In Radiohead speak… you are the chosen one.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago

“Any time; any where…

…but not too late I’m an old man”

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He’ll accept. We all saw this during the most recent debate. Just keep saying he’s scared to get under his skin and he’ll foam at the mouth and lash out.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doubtful. He's a lil bitch and she made him look dumb as fuck. Actually he made himself look dumb as fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He bravely ran away, away!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He can't what with the bone spurs and all

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the sore loser agree to three debates initially?

What happened?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

He's surrounded by toadies who told him he'd win the first one, and he lost.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

If it’s too late, I guess he can stop campaigning then.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

What a weak bitch.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

A-coodle-doodle-doo!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If he capitulates against a smart American woman, how will he fare against putin, xi and Kim?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

You mean his heros?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He kisses their ass, remember?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

He won't even try. He'll get his instructions straight from Moscow.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To go against the grain here, to me this is his final signal that voters have made their mind up and that he will take his chances on this toss-up of an election. He will pull all his dirty tricks and contest the results, perhaps violently, if he loses. I don't think he'll agree to a 2nd debate but Democrats should cajole him all they can to try to force another.

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

I appreciate that he said that it's too late to have a second debate now because voters have already started voting. Especially since he had debates after voters started voting Sep 26th, Oct 9th, amd Oct 19th 2016 as well as Oct 22nd 2020, four years to the day before this debate. It really shows he's running in fear currently and doesn't want to risk having his ass handed to him a second time by a woman who's not intimidated by him.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Yes, it is time for grandpa Donald to go to bed

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I mean, Donald Trump's a chicken and everything but he's right. All that a second debate would do is have Harris wipe the floor with him. And that would be fun to watch but I wouldn't be watching the debate to see which nuanced point each candidate is bringing to the table and to make up my mind on whose foreign policy positions are better so I can finally decide who to vote for.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  1. What the fuck?

  2. Most voters who fall into the undecided category 90 days before the election will not make a final choice until within 72 hours of casting their vote.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Honestly, it’s the first rational decision he made in a long while.

That said, if he can’t keep it cool in a debate… do we really want him in charge of the nukes? Or doing diplomacy…

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 4 points 2 months ago

Well if its just a matter of looking cooler then the other candidate yeah but i think even voters who've decided on their candidate would like another debate, a new chance to speak on different topics than the first. I for one would like a debate centered on domestic policy

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

Well if he can restrain himself from reacting and from conspiracy theories, all these undecided might actually think he won.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Trump mentions it's too late because people are starting to vote already. I think it's a bs excuse

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

He’s a coward. Did anyone expect he actually would show?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It sure is too late: too late at night. He'll be nodding off at that hour if he doesn't snort lines of Adderall. He is old and suffering from dementia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Pustulent nutsack is super scared of losing again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Too late to drink enough to get the courage to participate and get sober in time for the election...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I think October 23rd would be an ideal date to organize anyone with a non-disclosure agreement with Trump to break that agreement en masse and share all the details of what he doesn’t want the public to know.

It’s be great fodder for the news cycle leading up to Election Day and I doubt Trump has the resources to legally pursue so many people for NDA breaches at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Why is Tim Ryan our go-to for an opinion on this? What a pull.

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