Something tells me we should not be giving the guy who said he’d be a dictator “for a day” time on the air.
it will accomplish nothing.
conservatives dont care about facts, or policy or governing. its me me me me and nothing else.
a debate will be ignored by both sides as superfluous.
Policy and governance largely don’t matter since it is “I dunno, I’ll try to avoid overly fucking over The American People while getting some stuff better?” versus “I am going to turn this into gilead (just much stupider since a literary, or even tv, reference is too much for that moron”
But I do think it would “help” to have at least one “debate”. I know a couple people who were really worried about Biden and were buying into the “he has dementia and is weak” propaganda. When he thought trump was attacking Beau and went off on him… that convinced them.
interesting perspective, thank you!
While I basically agree on the outcome, I worry that it will lead to more absence of presidential debates which feels problematic in terms of keeping people in echo chambers . I mean I don’t seriously think anyones mind will change but generally hearing it out anyway is…maybe productive? Idk
Trump will just talk over Biden and scream about shit that doesnt make sense or some hate speech.
Giving him a microphone on national television is a terrible idea. He will absolutely use that time to spew hatred, lies and the most absurd conspiracy theories.
His moron supporters will eat it all up, not unlike how puppies eat their own shit.
Every major news network wants this debate to happen. Think about the outrage money, it angrily prints itself!
He should refuse on the grounds that Trump is an illegitimate candidate who attempted an insurrection on Jan. 6th. He should say that he is willing to debate serious candidates, but that Trump should be disqualified from running per the 14th Amendment.
“Debate”. If it happens I’ll only be watching it for memes lmao
“Will you shut up man?” Should be great
There’s genuinely no point. All it will do is give Trump free airtime.
I’m not even from the US and I know Trump is incapable to stay remotely on topic. By the fourth sentence he will be trailing off about Tim Apple or that space wall he will build against aliens and Hunters laptop and Hillaries emails and how everyone is witchhunting him. There simply won’t be an actual debate either way.
I don’t even think he uses sentences. It’s just words
What kind of debate? Trump shouldn’t even be allowed on the ballots, much less to breathe air outside of prison walls.
My question is… would Trump even choose to participate in the debates if he (inevitably) wins the Republican nomination? He’s refused to even engage with the primary debates in his own party and is still leagues ahead of any other candidate in the polls.
If he doesn’t, I hope Biden takes part anyway and that Trump gets empty chaired. They could either invite some third party (Libertarian, Communist, etc) or independent candidates to give Biden someone to debate with, or give Biden a fully uncontested soapbox to ramble with the debate moderator. The latter would be hilarious to watch and would truly show what a farce this election is becoming.
Have a camera cut to an empty podium occasionally and I’d get a good chuckle.
I feel like we should leave debates for coherent candidates
No, we shouldn’t.
If they’re incoherent, we need it front and center for everyone to see.
You’d think that would help, and yet after the last decade… here we are.
Fucking roast his orange, son-of-a-chimp ass.
They’re idiots, then. Debates don’t matter, but NOT going to a debate if your opponent does/will matters.
As far as Biden taking on Trump, that matchup will be fine, just about the same as last time with less COVID.
NOT going to a debate if your opponent does/will matters.
You know Trump isn’t going to go. And if Biden stutters just once, his entire implied persona as being not senile will tank.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt—someone somewhen in the past
Old man fight!
Holy shit yes he should. Let people see how unhinged Trump is compared to someone like Biden
We did. We saw it all. We saw it live on TV over and over again.
His fanbase does not care.
The wrestle with a dirty pig quote comes to mind.
The wrestle with a dirty pig quote comes to mind.
…That and the “play chess with a pigeon” quote.
Yes and who won that election? Right now Trump is in the lead because not everyone is as politically engaged as we are. Reminding those folks of how bad Trump is should be a priority
hahahahahahahahaha, yeah sure the question is if Biden shall show up.
