https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-debate-kamala-harris_n_669d92d0e4b02fec30d28146
“Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud," the former president wrote on Truth Social.
Hold the debate anyway, and if he doesn't show up, replace him with a cardboard cutout with a recording of his greatest hits:
Sharks vs. Batteries
My Uncle The Nuclear Scientist
Inject Bleach
Shine a UV Light Inside the Body
Hannibal Lector is Awesome
Plus all the Sir stories you can eat. I wish someone would package them into a storybook for adults that is humorous bullshit tales from Trump
Lmao wtf is Sharks vs Batteries
I swear every day there's some new nugget with this guy. The firehose is so big it's impossible to keep up
well, you see, electric powered boats are extremely dangerous, because if they capsize, you have to choose whether to stay near the boat and get electrocuted, or swim 10 feet away toward a hungry shark. there are no other options, you see.
lol i wish i was joking
I think millions of people would watch this. The contrast of Harris vs T**** would be shocking. And a huge issue right now is communication of the issues.
Take a handful of actually important subjects: healthcare/abortion, immigration, climate, democracy/fascism, education, taxes, etc. Let Kamala clearly and concisely explain her/Democrats position. Then "let virtual Donny answer" (play each of his rambling greatest hits; it wouldn't be far off his actual answer). Do this for each subject, like a good old fashioned debate. Make it clear this was not AI or manipulated, but actual quotes.
Slow the testing down, please!
When you're a celebrity, they just let you do it.
“Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President?” Trump wrote. “Just askin’?”
Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if you had actual talking points on politics, which is what you should do when you are running for president.
Your whole strategy is slander and lying. Now you are the presidential candidate equivalent of that one guy who cries about politics in memes on a political meme board! You are admitting of literally doing this!
Fucking christ, this guy lecturing us on fraud. I swear, republicans are utterly without worth.
Jussssst in case, that was a play on Trump's "I like soldiers who didn't get caught." Attempting to shit on McCain and of course in the process shit all over all POWs...
But what do they care? Sean Hamface tells them to vote R because communism and they do...
It's one of the things he does that absolutely infuriates me. Everyone else is a crook, a fraud, anti-american, but ol dipshit Donnie is supposed to be the beacon of truth and compassion?
Give me a fucking break...
Even worse is when the gaslighting bothsiderist "liberal media" often acts like his outbursts are worthy of consideration, and/or....but look at what this Democrat said that one time...
“I object to the candidate we slandered every day and said was unfit from withdrawing from the race.”
“On what grounds?”
“It’s detrimental to my campaign.”
The Dems hadn't actually nominated anyone for this election yet, that happens during the convention which is still a few weeks from now.
The big swings this guy takes are unbelievable. It's like he says he should be allowed to have a third term because the first didn't count because everyone didn't love him enough.
He actually tried this in 2020. Said that since the Dems and everyone "blocked" him so much, his first term shouldn't count.
Maybe donnie should just step down now that he's so old and obviously cannot handle a debate.
It's a gif of Data from TNG saying "Do you consider your position so weak that it cannot withstand a debate?"
If the moderators are just going to let him lie for 90 minutes without any pushback, I don't see the point in another debate.
Fuck CNN.
No, the point is to drive home just how stark the difference in age and cognition is.
All it took was one bad debate for Biden (though, admittedly,, Democrats don't worship their candidates as demigods).
Let me guess, he wants the debate to not include difficult challenges like drinking water from a cup, ramps to walk on, or keeping your diaper clean.
He's not even up to the challenge of answering the questions asked in the debate. I don't even know if he can hear the questions.
Lots of people are saying that his brain issues, combined with his injured ear, impact his ability to hear the questions. They ran up to me with tears in their eyes, saying "Decrepit Don has to step down for the good of the country". I don't know. It's sad.
They could write the questions on a cardboard and hold it in front of him. But that would require him to read...
So, we are forced to spend time and money on fighting Crooked Joe Biden, he polls badly after having a terrible debate, and quits the race. Now we have to start all over again. Shouldn't the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President? Just askin?
Fucking lmao
Biden never even said he was incapable of running for or being president. He just said "it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down". That's it.
They're just straight up lying about Biden's statement but what's new in that regard...?
So, what he's saying is all of his spending so far has been personal attacks, and nothing of substance about policy? Because if you had been spending your money telling us all what you're planning on doing if you win, it wouldn't matter who you're running against. Oh, right, because your entire plan for presidency is project 2025 and anyone with 2 functioning brain cells thinks that plan is absolute fucking insanity, so you need to distract with personal attacks and red herrings.
I've been thinking a good line for her to whip out some time would be "From my line of work I'm accustomed to guilty felons being afraid of me, and former president Trump is clearly no exception to that."
I think she should question his manhood. Literally. Think all those voters who love him for his supposed machismo will feel the same after his female opponent publicly questions his manhood?
its big of him to say he can't handle it. Its like his own little stepdown now that bidens been big enough to.
Lol. He would never follow someone else, certainly not a Democrat (he spent more time registered as a Democrat)!
and even if he did, they are following him, they just did it by being in front but thats because they are sneaky or actually my 5d chess is such that im in back but im really in the lead.
Maybe if Trump talked about anything of substance he wouldn't be in the position of having wasted a shit load of money. Slandering Biden while also saying he was unfit to run was a risk. The real fraud is Trump taking money from gullable supporters then turning around to use it to sprew lies at the same gullable people.
Why bother? Just don't do a debate.
The fact that he's bitching about it rather than gloating means Biden made the right choice, though.
They should start the next debate with a point for point reality check on things the candidate said in the first debate. Or better, intersperse them whenever they switch the discussion topics.
Whiny, dementia addled old man refuses to debate out of fear of being absolutely annihilated by somebody who isnt being artificially kept alive by a cocktail of drugs.
just like Democrats
if we had real debates third parties would be allowed
remember 2012 when both parties had a candidate chained to chair for eight hours?
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala
It really blows my mind when anyone starts spewing about the Green Party in the states these days. There’s a TON of documented proof of (unfortunate) ties that she and the party have to a hostile nation-state, and for the life of me I cannot fucking understand why they thought that was a good play.
I'm hopeful fewer people are willing to cast protest votes facing the prospect of another Trump presidency.
The authoritarian radicals on .ml pretending to be leftists? Those same people were pushing Stein for a few months now. You can ask them how things are going with Uyghur people to make them expose their true feelings.
I got banned from lemmy.ml for just posting the truth about Chinese cheaters in college. They are just as bad as the far right.
If they'll drop everything to carrying water for a state capitalist nation that produces hundreds of billionaires, I have to conclude that they love the authoritarianism more than actual leftist economies.