MAGA Scrambles to Excuse Trump Chickening Out of Second Debate
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Donald Trump is refusing to debate Kamala Harris again.

Donald Trump flubbed the last debate. His allies know it, his fundraisers know it—but that doesn’t mean they’re willing to admit it.

On Thursday, the Republican presidential nominee announced that he had decided not to debate Vice President Kamala Harris for a second time, writing in a lengthy rant on Truth Social that “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” (Apparently he’s counting his debate against Joe Biden.)

But less than 24 hours after the major reversal, Trump’s team was already working to explain away why the country would be getting less of their candidate.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Trump totally would’ve won that debate if the moderator didn’t fact check immigrants eating Ohio cats.

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        If he’d just fact check the statistics by, idk, maybe talking to medical personnel, he’d know the late term “abortion” statistics are stillbirth removal. The procedure used to do a stillbirth removal: abortion. That’s where the confusion comes in. Removal of the fetus for any reason is an abortion. Statistics don’t document the details on the procedure.

        So he’s already talking crazy. And then he’s saying they’re executing infants after birth. What is that? How do you even get to that place that those words are allowed to earnestly spill from your mouth?

        • exanime@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          You may be right about Trump’s confusion, but the removal of a stillbirth is not called abortion

            • exanime@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Scalpels are used in Apendectomies and plastic surgery… It does not mean all Apendectomies are plastic surgeries because the both use scalpels in the same way digging your backyard to bury a body is very illegal yet digging to put a plant in the grown is not

              The article you post highlights a problem created by poorly written, knee jerk reaction republican law

              Both abortions and stillbirth removal may use similar techniques but, at least in the medical world, they are not both refered to as abortions even if both include induced labour (for example)

              • zephorah@lemm.ee
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                2 months ago

                I’m in the medical industry.

                I’m trying to use non-industry language with a not terrible article to help you understand. But you seem to want to be pedantic regarding some kind of investment in Trump’s words on late term and possibly even post birth “abortion” being a thing when it certainly is not.

                I’ve attempted to educate. You’ve attempted to subvert that and go full bore pedantic. And now I need to go to work.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          2 months ago

          I’m just trying to imagine a person who goes through 8 months of pregnancy and then decides they don’t want it. If I’m really reaching for something, I have heard from a few women who love the hormone cocktail they get from pregnancy, but I doubt even they would go that far.

          The people who have third trimester abortions aren’t doing it for fun, or even because they have a real choice.

          • zephorah@lemm.ee
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            2 months ago

            Second Trimester. Those are the happy hormones. Mileage can vary, always, like with those individuals who have morning sickness right up until they give birth, as one example. But high odds for second trimester happy hormones.