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In the UK a few years back, Boris Johnson refused to show up to a debate on climate change, so Channel 4 replaced him with a slowly melting block of ice.

It annoyed him so much he tried to privatise the entire TV station lol.

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Can we ask the UK to replace trump with a slowly melting block of ice?

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Unfortunately replacing Trump with an inanimate object would only help him, as he does most damage to himself when he speaks.

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13 points

It hurt itself in its confusion.

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7 points

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2 points

More of a freeze, really.

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More of a thaw, really.

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7 points

But if they put a head of lettuce on the block of ice… 🤔

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75 points

I’m calling it: The Onion will have a news title that says “Trump agrees to another debate to the condition that it is against Joe Biden”

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Nice try, person that works at The Onion.

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The Onion is an absolute treasure, and I’m glad they got bought by a dude who just wants them to keep doing what they’re doing.

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If the next onion title isn’t “Donald Trump considering murdering JD Vance to increase poll numbers.” then the onion has failed me.

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71 points

Got his ass handed to him. Now he is bravely running away!

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I’d call Trump “Courage the Cowardly Dog” but that doesn’t fit at all. Courage actually cared for his people and Trump has never cared about anyone but himself.

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Courage actually had courage. Doing what you need to do to save/help the people you love, even tho you are so fucking terrified your skeleton screams separately from your flesh.

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That name was tongue in cheek, because Courage did the bravest things in each episode while shaking like a leaf the whole time.

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Which really teaches us that courage is not the absence of fear, it’s doing the right thing irrespective of fear.

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the determination in spite of it.

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Brave, Bold Sir Donald

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5 points

It’s a tactical retreat!

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I guess he finally got tired of all the “winning”

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After the debate ended Tuesday night, Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia posted to X, “You want to know who won? Find out who refuses to do a 2nd debate.”

I know some folks are falling all over themselves to fawn over the various Republicans who have the, um, courage to come out against Trump now, but all I can see is a bunch of self-interested rats leaving the sinking ship.

I figure the “I was never really a supporter” will start from both elected officials and your Republican neighbors and family members about 1 day after the election gets called for Kamala.

And if Kamala somehow loses, it will be “I knew he could do it all along.”

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