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
Might make a decent SNL sketch.
Don’t forget about magnets!
What do you mean? Everyone knows that magnets don’t work when they get wet
Plus all the Sir stories
Elton John’s organ.
Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunny
Can we work in the Sharpie sketch?
Nuke the hurricanes
look at this cool sun. look!
The revolutionary war airports.
Gettysburg.
Don’t fight up hill, me boys!
When the North famously fought the leprechauns.
And have the Mexicans pay for it
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
The republicans will try to elect the cardboard cutout in 2028.
If it has a mustache, but only under the nose.
Slow the testing down, please!
When you’re a celebrity, they just let you do it.
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.
The sound from the wind generators cause cancer.
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…?
Lies beget lies.
If you unravel even one, they all start falling apart.
What a bunch of whining losers.
Maybe donnie should just step down now that he’s so old and obviously cannot handle a debate.
never loads?
It’s a gif of Data from TNG saying “Do you consider your position so weak that it cannot withstand a debate?”
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 whole 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.
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.
Cheeky Donald! Republicans committing fraud is not a basis for a refund.
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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.
Dementia Don, the racist rapist with 34 felonies—
“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!
The Dems hadn’t actually nominated anyone for this election yet, that happens during the convention which is still a few weeks from now.
and that is the problem, because he doesn’t know who to attack, so he does this.
Fucking christ, this guy lecturing us on fraud. I swear, republicans are utterly without worth.
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…
To be fair, he’s like 34 times better at it than most people. Even the courts say so.
I like criminals who don’t get caught.
well i don’t like them, but they are definitely better criminals than those who did.
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…
That is just the official count. I bet that actual number is much higher!
If he is so good at it, why did he get caught?
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.
“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.”
Ah, the Liar Liar tactic.
I look forward to Kamala calling Trump a chicken for not debating.
Just reenact the Chris Rock bit from head if State of whatever that mess was
Is he afraid of a girl?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
Yawn
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.
Cool story blyat.
Is this the new ‘Sleepy Joe/Genocide Joe’? Pushing for Jill Stein
…worked for them in 2016?
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.
