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      From his description he wants it to take place in the MAGA THUNDERDOME.

      Still think Pete Buttigieg would slay regardless.

      I have to admit I don’t know how Kamal would do, but that’s just my ignorance of her real time media savvy

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    Between this and her openly calling him a criminal in her public statement, I can tell dis gon be gud. Oh, I’m cackling.

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      “It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space,’" she wrote on social media platform X. “I’ll be there on Sept. 10, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there.”

      She’s definitely signaling that she’s going to give him a spanking at the debate. I really hope it happens, and he gets into his defensive mode where he really scrambles.

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        We have already seen what he will do. He will call her rude and nasty and then try to argue she isn’t black. He’s a brocken record at this point.

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    He wants Fox? Fine.

    Do a two moderator combo. One from Fox, and the other is Jon Stewart or Rachel Maddow.

    And if you want to get really messy, make the audience a 50/50 recruitment spit too. And assign seating at random.

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    Trump wants a forum where he is free to spout lies without fact checkers and his supporters can scream over any objections

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      I mean, it’s not like they’ve really used fact-checkers in any of the debates before, maybe after the debate is over, but they rarely fact-check them on the spot. I wish they’d have a running tally in front of the candidates that was updated throughout the debate with a general “truthiness” indicator. Just a dial gauge that gave an indication of how many statements the person had made vs how many were lies. It could be a way to attach a quantifiable “score” to a person’s debate performance outside of just quips and one-liners.

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    I hope they are doing a ton of debate prep with her. He’ll be hopped on drugs to keep him going. He may be a liar but he is also a bully and very bombastic. He doesn’t have to beat her on the issues he just has to overwhelm her.

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    Seems reasonable. There is already an agreed upon time and place, anything other than that is back tracking by Trump. Even if they try to spin it to say he “agreed” to do it on Fox, to try and put the ball in Harris’ court. The reality is he already agreed to the ABC debate and any change is him backing out of that and pivoting.

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      I may have missed something, and I don’t think it should really matter, but did he agree to debate Biden, Harris, or just generally “his opponent”? He still needs to do it, but I wonder if there was a specific agreement.

      Edit: punctuation

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    Him: Come, fight me in my lair where they feed me endless energy and fight in my behalf!

    Her: How about fuck you.

    Him: Waaaah!

    Her: points and laughs

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      This. We couldn’t get a neutral debate on CNN. They didn’t enforce any time limits on Trump, let him ramble on as long as he liked and never shut him up when he went over it. And this happened on that so-called “liberal news media” that conservatives keep yammering on about.

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    David Plouffe, an adviser to former President Barack Obama who recently joined the Harris campaign, posted on social media: "Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.

    Exactly. Can you imagine trying to conduct a debate with him at one of his rallies?

    Moderator: Would you choose the shark or electrocution?

    Trump: I’ll take electrocution every time

    Harris: I am the shark

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      The only thing they messed up is calling it a “happy place” instead of a “safe space.” Excellent to see this.

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      If gaming has taught me anything over the years, it’s that you should never fight a boss in its own lair. Kite that thing out where it no longer has home field advantage.

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    I’ve been trying to think of a good response if he starts following Harris around like he did Hillary. Something along the lines of stopping, looking him in the eye and…

    “What are you doing?” “I’m just walking.” “Well walk over there. You following me around like this is creepy.” Looks to moderator, “Can we do something about this? This is weird, right?”

    On paper, pretty mild. But in the middle of a Presidential debate, I think it would be great.

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      Better to just say, “You’re so weird” and then ignore him and continue with her debate points, not ask moderator for help. If he keeps doing it work it into a response like “I will work to earn the respect of people, not try to intimidate them like this weirdo here.”