So you figure, after about 15 more rallies where he plays the song anyway, the judge might have a hearing about whether or not to ask Trump to knock it off.
Trump doesn't ask for permission. He does what he wants and dares you to do something about it, knowing that 99.99999% of people either can't or won't.
Go back and look at his history, even before he got into politics.
He has always had exactly one tactic. Use his near-infinite resources to delay things indefinitely until the other side either gives into his demands or simply runs out of resources to keep fighting. Of everything he has ever been involved in, I don't think he's ever actually won a single thing on the merits. And when that doesn't work?
He caves. He always caves. His opponents walk away with everything they want while he gets nothing, and then still goes out to the press and tells everybody what a shrewd negotiator he is. The same thing happens every time he sits on the other side of a negotiating table and couldn't either bully or delay his way out of it. His entire negotiating skillset is to hide behind an army of lawyers until the other side runs out of money. He banks on the fact that very, very few people (or even businesses for that matter) have the resources needed to outlast him and force him to the negotiating table in the first place, because he has no clue what to do when he gets there.
The man is pathetically stupid to a point I did not think was achievable by human beings. Give me an hour, a deck of cards, and a poker table with him and I'd be able to own everything that man has, and I'd be able to do it with nothing more than a jack of diamonds and a Forest card from Magic: The Gathering. He was just born on top of a pile of money that most human beings couldn't burn through even if they tried, and Trump took that as a personal challenge.
So right in line with literally every decision Trump has ever made.
Not even hyperbole. I challenge anyone to tell me one time in his political career where he didn't select the absolutely worst option available.
I mean, the obvious question:
"Mr. Trump, why are you afraid to be on camera with your VP pick, like you were when you did your first interview with Mike Pence?"
Hold on, let me put my shocked and surprised face on......
You mean to tell me their statements about not offering RFK a position in the administration in exchange for him dropping out was......a lie? Trump lied to everybody? Again? Dammit, I refuse to believe that! Next thing you'll be trying to tell me is that he dines with white supremacists and flies around on jets formerly owned by sex traffickers. You make the man sound like he's so stupid he'd find a way to bankrupt a casino.
Because Trump is not going to cooperate with any moderator unwilling to all but give him a blowie on the air. Or because the media networks don't want the moderators to do their job because unhinged Trump = ratings. Or because the moderators themselves may be worried about death threats if the MAGA base believes they've offended their god-king. Or all of the above.
Either way, there's no chance in hell that Trump participates in a debate with objective moderators willing to do their job.
Yeah, but unfortunately we're not going to find that in this election cycle. And given Trump's new-found hatred for ABC, I'd be willing to bet that those moderators aren't going to find much success either.
This is what moderators at every debate Trump has attended has threatened to do. The number of moderators who have been successful in doing so has been exactly zero. Most haven't even bothered to try. Few are willing to actually follow through with threats of moderation, and none have actually been successful.
Megan Kelly, who herself was a Fox News host, tried and the most people remember about her is when Trump basically shut her down, later saying she had "blood coming from her wherever."
The NABJ hosts were completely steamrolled by Trump, again including another Fox News host who Trump kept attacking even when she was trying to defend him.
Jake Tapper and Dana Bash did exactly nothing as Trump ran away with the recent Trump/Biden debate that led to the end of Biden's run.
Kaitlan Collins let the CNN Town Hall turn into a de facto Trump rally.
I actually vehemently disagree, here. Remember in 2020 when Biden said, “Will you shut up, man?” It utterly destroyed Trump in one sentence, because it simultaneously revealed him to be a petulant idiot and forced him to actually shut up or prove Biden right about him. Biden won that debate in that moment, without question.
I agree here, but on the flip side, Biden lost the most recent debate about two minutes into it with the "........we, uh,.....we finally beat medicare!" line. And that was before all the other times Biden stood there looking like a limp, senile old man. Harris making a similar gaffe could be fatal, and if she's unprepared to handle Trump when he's unhinged and uncontrollable, he could cause her to stumble into a gaffe of her own.
I think Harris sees opportunity in letting Trump be as thoroughly Trump-ish as he wants to be, but with a prosecutor on stage his only audience, rather than a crowd of sycophants.
Of course. This is exactly what they're seeing. I'm just not as convinced that she could handle it when he does. And make no mistake: I hope I'm wrong. I'm just concerned over what happens if I'm not.
Trump’s schtick only works when left unchallenged.
And giving him an open mic is a great way to do that. He cannot be controlled by moderators and there is no other way to get him to shut the fuck up if he decides that just shouting Harris into submission is going to be his strategy. The only thing Trump has done so far to Harris's rise is to launch personal and racist attacks. Do you for one second think Trump is going to give either Harris or the moderators he's also already attacking the respect to stick to the norms of a presidential debate? I wouldn't be putting my money on that. I fully expect Trump to try taking over the entire thing and all but telling the moderators to go fuck themselves if they even attempt to keep him on track (Spoiler alert: They wont, because unhinged Trump = ratings).
Look at how he treated the women at the NABJ interview. And one of those 3 is a Fox News Trump syncophant. And she still got shit on by Trump. You think he's going to give Harris any more respect?
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