107 points

No one should be surprised in the slightest. I hope Biden holds the debate anyway, and addresses an empty podium if Trump’s too cowardly (or too incarcerated) to show up.

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Joe Biden should crack a cold one with the moderator and answer some questions 😊

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By “cold one,” you mean ice cream cone, right?

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10 points

Yeah baby!

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2 points

He should run out on stage and rip off his suit, revealing his party boy thong while dancing.

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8 points

Chris Pontius 2028

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3 points

Let me show you my Patrick Swayze impression 🕺🏼

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Eh maybe not run

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26 points

He should empty podium him but play back clips of what trump has said in the past. Trump’s worst enemy is himself.

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7 points

Oh, that’s fantastic. He should absolutely do that.

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7 points

That didn’t work too well for Clint Eastwood.

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I feel at this point like Trump could easily skip the debate, and then somehow spin it as 4-D chess with his moronic, rascist, hateful base who have already bought into his garbage cult

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He doesn’t even have to try, they will find excuses for him. At this point I have no idea what it would take to bring back some of them to something resembling sanity

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13 points

Those fucktards are a total loss. We need to accept that.

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Do you recall when he told everyone to drink bleach and the cult of dimwits had several days of unscripted brainletry?

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hmmm no, I don’t follow that closely… wait, what ? bleach ?

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The media and its followers fall for this every time!

  • Step 1: accept to debate = promotional articles.
  • Step 2: walk it back, pretend you will back out = 2x promotional articles.
  • Step 3: allow them to simmer and plead for you to re-commit = 3x promotional articles.
  • Step 4: receive praise for re-committing = 4x promotional articles.

Meanwhile, in Biden land:

  • Step 1: accept to debate = get 1/4 the promotional articles orange traitor got, and none of the anticipation.

It’s too easy for him. He gets 4x the press without even trying.

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This is what pisses me off about Democrats. They keep decorum and fight with one arm tied behind their back, while the other guy slings shit and doesn’t follow a single rule and gets away with it. For once they need to fight fire with fire. Get dirty with Trump, really dig up his skeletons and shove him in his face while calling him funny names and telling him he has a tiny dick

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They keep decorum and fight with one arm tied behind their back

They’re more than happy to fight dirty. But they only know how to punch left.

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i say you do all this humdrum, show up to the debate, and say nothing the entire time. The true decorum holding experience!

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Drama is the rule in media. Always has been always will be. If it enrages, tittilates, dehumanizes it gets front and center full exposure. They know this and also know that it is wearying on the public psyche, so they throw a feel-good segment out there once in a while to keep the inflammation to a manageable level

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Biden should wait until Monday, then back out saying he sees no need to debate a (potential) convicted felon. Let the media go nuts.

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Biden has to keep quiet about Trump’s ongoing trials otherwise Diaperboy can scream mistrial, that Biden is biasing everything against him.

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Biden could make this work by calling Trump out every time he tries to get away from it.

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6 points

That’s expected, that’s not news.

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I still remember watching their debate, live, and Biden running circles around that fucking idiot because all he could do was jibber jabber nonsense, and continually kept talking over Biden during Biden’s turn. I then had people try to tell me that Biden was too old to debate, that Trump ran circles around Biden, and that Trump had taken the win for the debate.

It was at this time, where I fully became radicalized. I realized that the reality that I watched in real time, was not the same reality that these people were in.

Anyway, I’m assuming Biden will still run circles around Trump, whether he be there or not. Maybe this time, Biden will actually get to use his time to talk without the orange fucking idiot opening his.

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I then had people try to tell me that Biden was too old to debate, that Trump ran circles around Biden, and that Trump had taken the win for the debate.

That’s every debate. You show up to cheer for your team and then you compete to see who can say “You fucking idiot, my guy won!” the loudest.

Why did anyone think MAGA would come out of that fight saying anything less?

Maybe this time, Biden will actually get to use his time to talk without the orange fucking idiot opening his.

Only if he gives Trump a stiff punch to the throat.

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Trump will chicken out if there is a rule that he can’t run his fucking mouth over Biden. A stream of liquid shit from that anus-mouth of his is all he has.

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