• BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’m a Free Thinking Republican and I think this is a GREAT and STRONG move by a FEARLESS LEADER who is trying to take down the DEEP STATE! Kamala is the DEEP STATE so Debating her would be STUPID even though it would be a PERFECT opportunity for Trump to Attack the Deep State like the Strong Man he is!

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    2 months ago

    To everyone saying he is ‘scared’ that’s not really the point, he has no reason to debate her. She is unknown compared to him, starving her of attention is a good strategy as he is still currently leading in polls.

    Trump wants to nothing to change in the race, debates - as we just saw with Biden - are an opportunity for things to change.

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      2 months ago

      I so badly want to see her wipe the floor with him, but now sadly the popcorn I bought in anticipation will have to settle for a movie.

    • Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world
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      Lots of talented people would look forward to debating with a worthy opponent. It’s a challenge. An opportunity to rise up, prove yourself.

      Trump isn’t one of those people lol

  • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca
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    Is anyone on the fence going to be swayed by a debate anyway? I think the people who are really not sure about which way to vote at this point likely can’t be reasoned out of wasting their vote on some third party.

    To anyone reading this that is considering voting 3rd party, my advice is to vote dem and then put as much political pressure on the democrats as possible the other 364 days of the year. The alternative, while maybe morally pure, is a lot less workable and doesn’t benefit others.

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      2 months ago

      Everybody also said this about the Biden/Trump debate, and that’s ultimately what made Biden bow out. Personally, I’m a bit apprehensive about how Harris would do against Trump: she didn’t fare very well in the democratic primaries, and she hasn’t had a lot of practice since.

      I’m not on the fence, but some who are might want to see how Harris holds up to a strong authority figure (Trump isn’t the only asshole on the global political stage, remember)

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      2 months ago

      We’re gonna have some 3rd party candidate votes, we always do, and most of those people are already dug in for their candidate; likely nothing to be done about that. I know I was in my Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders days. I voted for Nader once or twice and couldn’t have my mind changed.

      At this point, many of the fence sitters will likely not vote at all, debate or not. It’s very easy for people to be meh about the whole thing. It doesn’t directly impact them in the short term directly, at least in their minds. And I get it. Life can be hard, and many people have more pressing concerns than who the president is at the moment.

      Nearly everyone else who will vote is already solidly Trump or Harris, and maybe a few Kennedy folks.

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      He would be eviscerated. Knock out all that good will he got from being a false martyr. Still want to see that ‘bullet’ wound…

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      Yeah, same with the “Democrat party” dog whistle, and randomly throwing around the word “Marxist”. His whole campaign is just memes and buzzwords.

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        The dumbest take my racists family friends use is the tired DemocRAT. Oh so clever.

        I’m just glad we never have to hear Let’s Go Brandon ever again.

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    2 months ago

    Yes, it would be inappropriate for Harris to fight a battle of wits against an unarmed man.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know if you know this, but Trump’s uncle was a professor at MIT. Just a random piece of information that bares no change to your completely factual and valid statement.

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        Or, as Trump himself put it:

        Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible

  • PorradaVFR@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”

    ……but, talk to Kamala Harris about policies and record?

    *flee

    Coward. Total and utter chickenshit.