Trump Tries To Appear Aggressive On Debates, Too

Mere hours after President Joe Biden announced his demands, designed to switch up the dated, late-in-the-fall debate schedule run by the presidential commission on debates, Donald Trump leapt to it and agreed to Biden’s proposal — to set debates before early voting starts, in June and September.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1489513

I think the Fox Debate is a non-starter. Biden proposed two and two it is. The real issue is will Trump agree to fair rules that require the candidates to actually debate. Trump should be denied any opportunity to strut around the stage with his chest puffed out like Mussolini. He should agree to his mic being turned off while Biden is talking.

There is always time to reconsider later in the summer.

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“President Biden made his terms clear for two one-on-one debates, and Donald Trump accepted those terms,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in an afternoon statement. “No more games. No more chaos, no more debate about debates.”

Lovely, Trump knee jerked and fumbled in public view. And Biden is keeping the upper hand, playing straight and keeping him to the program.

Yep, they have been thinking DJT through on a deep level. I expect Trump to start blathering in ways we may not have seen. He is off center and I am not sure he will recover from here out. He got owned and he is not used to that.

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The great draft dodger’s bone spurs will keep him from the debates.

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Problem for Trump is, Joe beat him to it.

Now Trump looks weak. Which he is. And stupid. And venal. And unfaithful. And did I mention stupid?

And he’s a failure. He won in 2016, but he needed a foreign country’s help to do it.

Since then (like R-Nikki Haley says), he’s done nothing but lose. Lost congress in 2018. Lost the white house. Even lost the coup. Then he hampered the R-congress comeback in 2022. He lost to E. Jean Carroll. Twice. Lost the TrumpOrg case. Owes over $600,000,000, with another $100,000,000 bill coming from the IRS.

And now he owns an entire political party. Owns the RNC. R-Congressers are coming to his criminal trial, and fawning over him.

And he will still run that completely and utterly into the ground.

Like a goddamned drunk Kamikazi.

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Fixed it for you.

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What We Are Reading

Study casts doubt on ‘wokeness’ of US university courses — Financial Times

There’s also this - what happens when someone is elected to eliminate that from the schools and they look for it.

“Over the years our American Education System has been hijacked by Leftists looking to indoctrinate our kids into the ‘progressive’ way of thinking, and yes, they’ve tried to do this in Granbury ISD,” she wrote in a September 2021 Facebook post, two months before the election. “I cannot sit by and watch their twisted worldview infiltrate Granbury ISD.”

But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.

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No to mention his brain spurs.

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“…but he needed The New York Times, James Comey, hush money payments and a foreign country’s help…”

Fixed the fix for you.

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Heh…

Crooked Joe Biden

Everybody drink!

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17% of Voters Blame Biden for the End of Roe — NYT

This seems easy to fix with a well crafted ad–Show clip of Trump from 2016 saying “I will appoint justices who will overturn Roe v Wade,” then pictures of those 3 justices, then Trump bragging about overturning Roe V Wade, then Joe Biden, straight to camera, saying “give me a Democratic House and Senate and I will sign a law that reinstates Roe and returns reproductive freedom to American women”

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I predict two very different debates: first one in June is before July 1, 2024, second one afterwards (July 1 is when State of Florida releases the records and transcripts of the Jeffery Epstein trial).

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Where do they find the low information voters? Ending Row is Trump’s singular accomplishment of which he is most proud.

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Ron DeSantis will do all humanly possible to make sure that doesn’t happen.

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Fixed the fix of the fix for you.

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How about they take a 9th grade Civics test, too - on camera, no notes, time limit, results immediately released, no commentary from the participants.

Oh, and Bic pens only … no Sharpies.

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Run the ad on non news shows: The Bachelor, Daytime talk shows, Dancin’ 'With the Stars–that type of thing?

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Liked for “goddamned drunk Kamikaze”.

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The only thing I wish Biden had added to his challenge would have been that he would meet anywhere to debate, even Rikers Island!

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