7 points

Dumb framing. They aren’t panicking, they’re framing the results so they can fit them to their narrative no matter what happens. Biden wins = he was on drugs, no way senile and incapable Biden could win otherwise. Biden loses = full proof he’s senile and incapable.

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What’s the over under for tRump backing out?

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I’ll give you 20 to 1

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I’m sure both sides are “panicking”

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The great thing about a debate is that you don’t even have to watch the damned things to know who won.

Your team did! Because your team is the best and always was!

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Alternatively people like me need to suffer through them because the media spin is ridiculous on them. Not that it matters anyways, it’s not like they’re going to feel beholden to what they said.

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I’m sure it’s gonna be mostly trash talking back and fourth.

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2 points

Setting up my Trump/Biden bingo card with “Hunter Biden’s Cock” as the free space.

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texas rep. Ronny Jackson is among those who have demanded that Biden take part in a drug test before and after Thursday’s debate. Jackson, who served as Trump’s White House physician and medical adviser… [said] “If President Biden needs to take performance enhancing drugs in order to participate in this week’s debate, then it is imperative that he and his physician disclose that to the American people,” Jackson said.

In that case, anything that you wanted to disclose to the American people there, Ronny? It’s always just breathless, impotent projection…

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projection…

Hmm, so Trump needs before and after debate drugs? Of course amphetamines would be the classical far right choice, but then there’s the whole opioid crisis thing going on… choices, choices…

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I’m okay with both participants performing a drugs test.

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[trump sniff]

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Probably the only time I agree on a both sides argument. Hell, while we’re at it, lets drug test the house and senate too.

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2 points

The cartel will start lobbying, because of loosing their biggest outlet.

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Does anybody else find it a little sad that Ronny Jackson simps for Trump when Trump can’t even remember his name when talking about him? Or did he just change his name to Ronny Johnson so that the god-king doesn’t have to be wrong?

I mean, I would find it sad if I weren’t completely out of sympathy for these Trump sycophants who let Trump talk shit about them publicly so that they can cling to power a little longer. Especially the shitheels who criticized Trump and now find themselves kissing the ring and bending the knee to get that VP nom.

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Find it all sad, would be more sympathetic though if they weren’t literally fascist psychopaths that want to burn down the world so that nobody can directly focus on the fact that they are bald, broke, gay and their father never told them, “I love you”.

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Ive heard IRL people say its rigged because apparently mics will be turned off if it isn’t their turn? Idk if thats true but I’m fully behind the idea personally lol.

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That is true and a common rule to prevent someone from just talking over everyone else. It doesn’t mean they’ll just get cut, at least not at this level. They’ll finish their piece and then the mic is turned off while the other person is responding.

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There are time limits in place too.

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Yup, but they don’t cut their mike right at the time limit. That would be hilarious, but moderators chosen for presidential debates like their job and personal brand that keeps them employed.

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Screw that, turn off the oxygen if it isn’t their turn.

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Just turn off the oxygen and get better candidates.

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The interruptions, while “entertaining”, should not exist in a debate so consequential. I feel like high school debate clubs have more decorum than any presidential debate in the last 16 years. Mic cuts are absolutely needed.

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Idk. I was in a highschool debate club a bit over a decade ago, and I was very good at the public forum event. Like, regularly in the top 32 for both the NFL and CFL national tournaments good. There were other people at the top of that ladder with me that made very effective use of the “pound the table” strategy, and how well it worked often boiled down to judge variance. People act that way in debates because it absolutely works on some viewers

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I was just making a joke to highlight the bullshit presidential debates have become, but I get what you mean. Shouting IS effective.

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They seriously think debates are won by volume or persistence.

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