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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPrediction: there will only be one debate.
The first debate will go on as planned.
Donnie Dumbfuck will be so ill-prepared, addled, confused, drugged up, snorting, sniffling, whining, confused, incoherent, lying, making fantastical claims and sputtering nonsense that he will be panned and laughed at by everyone, even Fox Noise.
He will whine afterward that the moderator was unfair, that Biden was on "performance enhancing drugs," was given the questions before hand, and on and on.
He will say the debate system is "rigged" and refuse to debate again.
He is a chicken shit and coward and will show his true colors after facing Biden.
You heard it here first.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)malaise
(269,208 posts)I posted the same last night
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)And that goes for Pence also, who will slink out of his debate. Trump is a coward.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Harris would mop the floors with Pence's Q-Tip head and walk all over him.
Tbear
(488 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Zoonart
(11,881 posts)I think he will pitch a bitch and pull out at the last minute. I don't know how his handlers can possibly prop him up for the debate format.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)or fake a heart attack.
he knows he will lose. he doesnt want the headlines to be- cheato loses debate.
3Hotdogs
(12,437 posts)His whole sense of self is that its impossible for him to lose anything.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)most healthy person who ever lived?
How anyone can fail to see he's a belligerently ignorant delusional crook is beyond me.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)My husband has purchased my debate six pack. Every four years, I drink one beer for each of four debates, and two for election night. (I am a notorious lightweight)
I didnt get to have my last two in 2016.
I want those last two in 2020!
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Hillary won in 2016. Cheating to achieve ANY win, doesn't count.
That means you still have those two to imbibe, PLUS the two for Biden.
After your four beers, you can blame anything you do on those beers. (It is in the fine print of the National Beer Drinkers Of America's best rules and practices.)
So make the most of it!!!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I have not had any alcoholic beverages since 2016.
You tell me to drink four, and I will be calling you for a ride to the hospital. I will drink my two, and let hubs take care of any of my left over obligations. Safer that-a-way.
ooky
(8,930 posts)As you said, he's a coward.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Will they wait for him? Will they give Biden the first hour of air time without Trump?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)He's already saying CW is controlled by leftists.
Timewas
(2,196 posts)Drop out for:reason: then hold a rally the night of the pence Harris debate
Miguelito Loveless
(4,475 posts)In WRITING, 20 minutes before the debate. All he has to do is read them.
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)RazzleCat
(732 posts)that he won his debates against Clinton. He will debate, lose and call it a win, as will his supporters.
BannonsLiver
(16,493 posts)Myself and others have said that long before this post.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,881 posts)He could take off his clothes (eww!) and do the Macarena. He could take a dump on the floor, quote from Mein Kampf, drop the F-bomb a dozen times, and threaten to rape the moderator's wife and eat his children. No matter what he says or does, the cult will say he won; and since he listens only to the cult he will believe he won.
Walleye
(31,068 posts)He doesnt have to worry about sexist attacks, like Hillary,for being too assertive.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)He's not going to bail on the debates. He loves free airtime and rarely concedes he did poorly at anything so he'll be convinced he won the first debate no matter what.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)But Clinton was a woman and Biden is not.
He is more terrified of standing up to another man. He thought he could bully Clinton.
Plus even as unhinged as he was in 2016 he was more lucid than he is now, as unbelievable as that may seem.
keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)brooklynite
(94,762 posts)...yes, Trump will campaign, but he won't give up the audience.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)to a physical or mental challenge. Take him out back of the studio and tune him up. Call out the coward. Ask Trump to name the three beaches of government- I bet he doesn't know. Ask Trump simple civics questions-he can't answer them.
gordianot
(15,246 posts)I am sure that possibility has been rehearsed by the Biden team.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)What do you think he should do? Punch him in the face? Say something gross under his breath?
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)There will be 1/2 of a debate. The Orange POS will say it's rigged, Biden had the questions beforehand, like the election it's rigged, like the votes are rigged....and it's a waste of time...then walk off in dramatic fashion. One debate or half a debate there will be not "next" debate.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,906 posts)if he walks off in the middle, when asked a question he doesn't want to answer.
And afterwards, he will both complain that he was treated unfairly and claim that he won. Actually, he will spend most of his debate time saying how unfairly he has been treated, and talking about how he's done more for Black people than Abraham Lincoln. Whether he does the other two, that's hard to say. If he completely convinces himself that he won the first one, he'll do the next one.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)to answer the prepared questions.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Trump will declare himself the winner.
liberalla
(9,266 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)Not one little bit.
Hes basically a coward.
mucifer
(23,575 posts)press will call it a draw. It will probably sway no one.
Warpy
(111,367 posts)his handlers know he's a disaster, he might be too busy to show up.
If the first one happens, I'd say you're exactly right. It will be the only one, even if he doesn't stomp all over his tongue.
I guarantee Biden will laugh at him, just like he laughed at Paul Ryan's lamebrained attempt to Gish Gallop.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)But if he does, Joe will push all his buttons and donnieboy will have a meltdown onstage. Ooh please let it be so!
Gilbert Moore
(218 posts)Biden will have to be withheld from kicking his ass for a stupid remark about our troops. Biden might look at the polls and say, not worth it.
sprinkleeninow
(20,267 posts)The Mouth
(3,164 posts)I wish it could be a Constitutional amendment.
I loath even the idea of someone asking for my vote who's too chickenshit to debate.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)was given a list of questions before the debate.
Efilroft Sul
(3,583 posts)If Trump works the ref and Wallace ends up asking Biden tougher questions, and if the pundits agree Trump won the debate because he answered softball questions that made him "look Presidential," then Trump will say Biden isn't worth his time for additional debates.
bucolic_frolic
(43,350 posts)Trump has nothing to lose in these debates. He is behind, not afraid of looking ridiculous (because he has no self-awareness), and needs to bludgeon to make up lost ground. It will drive his base wild, but non-MAGAt's will be turned off.
Here's hoping Trump's anger gets the better of him. Wild accusations and stalkings welcome. What will Trump do with no base to reinforce his bizarre ideas?