I wish the term “debate” would be dropped from these things. The ostensible purpose of debate is to come to grips with facts and how to deal with the issue created. Debate forms the basis for adversarial representations in court for the trying of evidence. Debate is crucial in setting the direction for government policy. Debate can save companies that have lost their way. Publishers can provide forums for debate by experts on very specific topics.
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I’m all in favor of town hall style meetings for the Democratic candidate instead of ‘debates’ (which events aren’t even close to the basic definition of the term).
Let the Dem candidate - or even, initially, all the candidates - face American people - not ‘moderators’ who don’t know their a$$es from beans - to discuss real kitchen table issues and not grievances for an entire evening. Who needs to hear the GQP side of the story when it’s all we’ve been hearing (by that time) for three years?
The question of course is always: would the media cover these events or will they be shunted to MSNBC to wallow in total obscurity?
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Rona Ronna sounds pretty much like a WATB posing as a snowflake who wants to be taken seriously.
Uh, Rona, what other options for a debate between the candidates are out there? Gonna debate himself or what?
Fucking idiots.
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What’s the problem? I thought vampires couldn’t see their own reflection?
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On the one hand, debates are largely pointless… On the other hand, trump’s meltdown in the first debate was epic.
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You got your Participation Award when you were given the Champion of Freedom trophy. NO MORE PARTICIPATION AWARDS FOR YOU!!!
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He’s never going to grift for a library, when he can grift for himself.
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The most self actualized answer I can imagine is that the know that he’s so far gone that he won’t be able to walk unassisted to the podium, and that there is no way he could function during a debate of any length. By attacking the credibility of the debates, they can set the expectation that debates are, by their very existence, unfair to conservatives.
BTW, @zandru, absolutely agree on the League of Women Voters. Yes, and yes, and yes.
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Early indications of sundowning are nothing to brag about, McCarthy!
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There should be awards for people who don’t participate in things, no fair to limit participation trophies to participants, that’s discrimination.
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I won’t believe this until I get independent confirmation from a porn star.
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I opened TPM and thought that a glitch in the Universe had brought us back in time to September, 2020…
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HRC was living proof that debates don’t matter: she beat Trump’s ass.
He ran away after each debate and did not give his usual ‘sunny’ recital of HOW HE WON.
She beat him yet he won.
I would say Biden ‘also’ won their two debates. He, decrepit Old Joe, dealt with the ‘reflection’ issue because he F-ING PRACTICED under the debate conditions.
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and instead “look for other options for its candidates.”
More like FOX, or more like RT?
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And this woman thinks she wants to be our next governor. Yikes!
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Rona Romney reaches around and into her ass and pulls out some paper.
“It’s right here. In brown writing.”
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OAN. Fux is so passe.
What do you mean? They’ve got both kinds of human, country AND western!
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Sometimes it’s good to be a fly on the wall.
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LO Fucking L!
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