Trump, positive for COVID-19, says won't participate in virtual debate

[Sujo]

Thank you trump. Keep up the good work for the dems.

[ballpoint]

"Trump, positive for COVID-19, says won't participate in virtual debate"

 

So, what's new?  He won't participate in an actual debate either.  Not by the rules, anyway.

[spidermike007]

24 minutes ago, Silurian said:

The betting odds are just brutal towards Donald. Biden is smart to dictate the rules of a debate to be virtual. Biden doesn't even need to bother with debating the highly contagious COVID-19 infected Donald.

 

Betting Odds - 2020 U.S. President

 

True that. Trump is cascading toward a major loss. It is Biden's election to lose. Dignity returns! Decency will prevail. Out with the fascists! Joe is a real patriot! 

[KarenBravo]

Trump shoots himself in the foot again. Biden will do the town-hall on his own and Trump's absence will be on people's mind for the duration.

He will look like a coward; afraid to face the opposition.

[dunroaming]

1 minute ago, ballpoint said:

"Trump, positive for COVID-19, says won't participate in virtual debate"

 

So, what's new?  He won't participate in an actual debate either.  Not by the rules, anyway.

It will be interesting to see if he tries to do another live rally.  He really doesn't give a damn if his supporters all attend and get Covid-19 as long as he get's his adoring fans sucking up to him on mass.

[ChouDoufu]

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Quite right, IMO, to decline to do a remote debate. Who would know if a certain debater was being "assisted" with a teleprompter?

 

what?  you think the debaters will be allowed to podcast from their respective basements or bunkers with no oversight?  just more trump tinfoil nuttery.

 

for biden at least, it would be town hall style, with a live audience, with monitors......with sociable distancing, and with masks required for observers and the public.

[ChouDoufu]

5 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

Bit of a difference now.

In 2016 he was an unknown quantity (except for New Yorkers).

Now he's a known quantity and two thirds of Americans don't like what they see.

big difference.

in 2016 he was running against known quality hillary.

 

this time around biden has the advantage of collecting all the "anyone but trump" voters.

[Sujo]

Anyone in their right mind that heard trumps fox interview of 50 mins of bizzare claims and continue to support him are real life One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest inmates.

[jcsmith]

5 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Anyone in their right mind that heard trumps fox interview of 50 mins of bizzare claims and continue to support him are real life One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest inmates.

He was so off the wall crazy in that interview I'm willing to actually give him some benefit of the doubt and say that his meds may be affecting him. It's tough to give him any benefit of the doubt because he's had this crazy interviews before, but the past few days have been an even lower bar than usual. 

[Eric Loh]

2 hours ago, Morch said:

 

How do you define 'developed'? Is China 'developed'?

China is still a developing country as defined by per capita GDP. 

[Eric Loh]

24 minutes ago, jcsmith said:

He was so off the wall crazy in that interview I'm willing to actually give him some benefit of the doubt and say that his meds may be affecting him. It's tough to give him any benefit of the doubt because he's had this crazy interviews before, but the past few days have been an even lower bar than usual. 

His crazy interview continue with Hannity. This a snippet and I would welcome anyone to try make sense of this insane drivel.

 

At another point, Trump claimed Biden wants to tear down buildings and replace them with new buildings that have “tiny little windows, ok, little windows, so you can’t see out, you can’t see the light.” 

[Morch]

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

China is still a developing country as defined by per capita GDP. 

 

When it suits, at least.

[ChouDoufu]

50 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

His crazy interview continue with Hannity. This a snippet and I would welcome anyone to try make sense of this insane drivel.

 

At another point, Trump claimed Biden wants to tear down buildings and replace them with new buildings that have “tiny little windows, ok, little windows, so you can’t see out, you can’t see the light.” 

biden wants to build casinos?

[earlinclaifornia]

15 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Fine. But we're both on record. But the definition of winning is actually winning. Not declaring victory on election night to suppress counting mail in votes, getting republican state legislatures to vote contrary to their people, etc. So staying in power and losing is not winning. I'm not predicting he will leave office. I'm predicting he is going to lose based on the votes, nationally and state, but may still in a fascist manner stay in power. 

Did you see/hear him say he won the second debate. Can't make up trump... Anyone wanting proof I have the link

[earlinclaifornia]

I saw the trump ad accusing Biden of cancelling the second debate. As well as many more cancellations.. Ad cam out quick.

[Redline]

It's unfair because it's too fair

[Redline]

What is even more funny, is Biden had already scheduled another event before he got the answer from Trump.  He booked a roundtable discussion with ABC because he knew Trump would not agree to a fair debate structure

[ukrules]

12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There are hundreds of thousands of Americans locked up in private, for profit prisons, due to pot possessions.

Didn't she make a career out of sending people to prison for exactly this kind of thing?

[heybruce]

5 hours ago, ukrules said:

Didn't she make a career out of sending people to prison for exactly this kind of thing?

She prosecuted people when she was a prosecutor.  That was her job.

[ukrules]

1 hour ago, heybruce said:

She prosecuted people when she was a prosecutor.  That was her job.

That's a 'yes' - everything she stood for just went out the window.

[heybruce]

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

That's a 'yes' - everything she stood for just went out the window.

And if she had failed to do her job Trump's base would be condemning her with even greater enthusiasm.

 

When you are in the military you don't pick and choose what orders you will follow.  When you are a prosecutor you don't pick and choose what crimes you will prosecute.

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by heybruce

[stevenl]

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

That's a 'yes' - everything she stood for just went out the window.

So you're complaining about her enforcing the law?

[ballpoint]

34 minutes ago, stevenl said:

So you're complaining about her enforcing the law?

Makes a change from them complaining about her race and sex.

[thaibeachlovers]

19 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

In a rare truthful statement from Trump, he said that without the Electoral College, Republicans could never win a presidential election.

The founding fathers realised centuries ago that sometime in the future the more populous states might be able to elect a president despite that person not popular in a majority of less populated states. They were very wise and included a method to stop that happening. Now their foresight has borne fruit. Well done to the founding fathers making the popular vote irrelevant in presidential elections.

[polpott]

1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The founding fathers realised centuries ago that sometime in the future the more populous states might be able to elect a president despite that person not popular in a majority of less populated states. They were very wise and included a method to stop that happening. Now their foresight has borne fruit. Well done to the founding fathers making the popular vote irrelevant in presidential elections.

Did they realise, centuries ago, that the less populous states would be Republican and the more populous states Democrat, therefore biasing all elections in favour of the Republican party?

 

Doesn't sound very democratic to me. Its a national election and should reflect the will of the nation.

[heybruce]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The founding fathers realised centuries ago that sometime in the future the more populous states might be able to elect a president despite that person not popular in a majority of less populated states. They were very wise and included a method to stop that happening. Now their foresight has borne fruit. Well done to the founding fathers making the popular vote irrelevant in presidential elections.

Your grasp of history is weak.  The Founding Fathers realized that the Articles of Confederation effectively destroyed any hope of the 13 states ever being united into a nation capable of making treaties with other countries, enforcing contracts across state lines, and other basic functions of a national government.  They got together to write a constitution that allowed for a more centralized government, but of necessity made some concessions to states that feared majority rule.

 

The actual intent behind electors was to have informed people meet, discuss, and come to a consensus on a President from all the candidates.  It was a means to prevent an uninformed majority from making a foolish choice for President.  It was an epic fail.

 

The Founding Fathers assumed many factions and political parties, and warned against allowing a two party system to dominate politics in the US.  Unfortunately they failed to come up with a system of government that precluded that from happening.

[xylophone]

7 hours ago, honcho said:

lick chinas back side

I think that's what trump and ivanka had to do to get their campaign gear made in China along with ivanka's "luxury" goods. LOL

[stevenl]

3 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Makes a change from them complaining about her race and sex.

It's the same, just hidden.

[Eric Loh]

Trump backed off the Town Hall virtual debate but on the same day he will hold a Town Hall virtual rally. Nuff say he chickened out and his aides fear another melt down madness display. He rather settled for a one way propaganda super spreader rally. Tragic and sad. 

[spidermike007]

13 hours ago, ukrules said:

Didn't she make a career out of sending people to prison for exactly this kind of thing?

Yes, and I did not approve of that. However, the world changes, the American people have let their feelings be known about that nonsense, and maybe she is realizing that. Politics is expedience, if nothing else. Change is good. The Trump administration is still vigorously pursuing federal ganga convictions. So, I would call it progress. No more dinosaur policies.