• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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      I almost wish Biden had held off stepping down until the start of the debate, it would be luscious to watch him fall apart over that, live on TV.

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        To take this further, imagine Harris walking out, tag teaming Joe to take his place, and then watching a wet stain dribble down the slacks of Mr. “I’ve known about the VP for years but I still purposely mispronounce her first name as if my own name was duhNALD Troomp.” Tantruming cowards gonna cowardly tantrum.

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          And waving that shaved neck pussy around so graphically.

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    “Felon Republican nominee refused any debate not held on one very specific network, known to fund republicans”

    hmmmmmm

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      “Weird, old Republican requires safe space for presidential debate”

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      And if she says no to his particular conditions, he’ll try and use it to claim she’s the coward. Which is the whole point of this, he doesn’t want to debate anywhere, so he’s hoping she says no.

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        Similar to a lawyer telling a client to just repeat, “no comment,” the Harris team just needs to keep saying “He agreed to this debate and Kamala will be there. The Fox debate was only brought up after he reneged on his previous commitment. We will not be at Fox as it was never in the schedule. We can discuss a Fox entertainment debate after this previously scheduled debate takes place. Next question.”

        Say nothing else and just repeat that ad nauseam.

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      I think she is 1000x more intelligent and eloquent than he is, but a Fox News debate would be a massacre because she would be debating the entire channel, not Trump. They wouldn’t let it be a discussion. There are so many rhetorical cheats, fallacies, and subterfuges they could use and I guarantee you they would war game the show so hard there’s no chance she’d be able to say anything coherent without the moderator basically shouting her down or cutting her mic.

      It would be like challenging Wayne Gretzky to a hockey match but when he arrives, the “hockey” match is actually a garbage eating contest and his opponent is a goat.

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      I’m on the fence on this. I hate Fox news, but Harris seems to me to be able to think quick on her feet, and can make her arguments succinctly so that even if Trump rambles on, and the Fox team cuts her mic, unless they just shut her mic off from beginning to end (which wouldn’t look good, even for them), she’d still make Trump look like the fool.

      That said, I can’t think of a single person who wouldn’t be feeling the immense pressure in that situation, and it’d be very easy to lose your cool with that much shit piled against you. So I doubt she’ll take the bait and Trump will play it off as her being cowardly, but it’s a nothing burger, he’s just trying to distract from the fact they’ve got no game plan.

      The Trump team is reeling on the back foot right now and are still looking for their footing. They’re about to find it, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to recoup from this. They really had no recourse for going up against anyone except Biden, which just goes to show how little foresight and how much arrogance their political strategists had.

      I’ve got my criticisms of Harris, but she is a far better pick than Biden was, and I say if you smell blood in the water, that’s when you fucking go in for the kill. And in this case, since it’s Trump, I’d say it’s fine to kick the man while he’s down. He lost all right to civility after pulling that shit on January 6th.

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        Would be hilarious to get a Dem in who knows ASL and just keeps going after their mic is cut off. 🤣

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      She’s going to approach it like a trial before a jury (and it really kinda is), hammer home the fact that he is a douche, and cause him to incriminate himself.

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      I’ve heard that’s the plan. They’re dedicating an hour to the presidential candidates. If only one shows up then that candidate gets the whole hour

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    She should not take this bait. Giving Trump the incredibly biased home field advantage this would lead to is not going to be worth it. Pro Trump crowd plus biased moderators will make her look terrible, no matter how good a debater she is. I’m not even sure the ABC moderators will be good enough, but they’ll be a long shot better than Fox and he already agreed to it. Hold him to it.

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      She should take the bait.

      Go on Fox, every question, either hit back at trump’s felonies and that case (he is under a gag order that he absolutely will violate), or she should target Trump’s involvement in calling the 2020 election rigged. Fox is under an settlement agreement from Dominion not to slander the company, or promote guests that slander the company, without pushing back. She could kill 2 birds with one stone here.

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        She could murder him theoretically, and it wouldn’t matter to his fans. It would only incit them more.

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          Yeah, but his ass would get slapped with jail time (Merchan has said as much for continuing gag violations), or fox would basically have to liquidate to pay back Dominion, removing a key propaganda platform for conservatives. Both of these things inhibit Trump’s ability to run for the presidency.

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    “Snowflake demands safe space for interview for biggest job in the country”

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    Fox News = Trump’s special blankie.

    I don’t care whether she debates Trump or not. I just don’t want to see her give in to him.

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    Fox should be stripped of the trademark “News” and should be forced to be called Fox Entertainment. It wouldn’t change anything but I’d feel better

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    She should agree and then ignore every question just to attack the network and their relationship with Trump.

    Just read transcripts from depositions where they call Fox entertainment and their viewers idiots.

    Read their stolen election collusion discovery and who was part of the Jan 6th insurrection.

    Read that “perfect phonecall” over and over and over and ask what Trump meant by “finding” those extra votes

    Edit: Whoopsie-doodle, I forgot my “/s”

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    24 hour marathon call-in debate on cspan, let’s go