Translation: he’s scared he’ll one-up his declining showmanship. Or more likely his advisors are and fed him some ego-shielding bullshit that let’s him get out of it and tell his cult that it’s her fault.
Paywall
His supporters will require Olympic level mental gymnastics to dispel the unease they’re gonna get if they even hear about this. Backing down from a debate looks cowardly no matter what his lame excuse and they’ll feel the truth of that.
No they won’t lmao
Yea the vast majority of his supporters are not the brightest individuals, they don’t need mental gymnastics because they are so stupid
Yeah they don’t think the felonies are legit because “witch hunt”
They’re going to do everything they can to paint Kamala as an illegitimate candidate, and spin his refusal to debate her as simply refusing to legitimize her.
Trump’s base doesn’t know shit about fuck, so if their god emperor says she’s illegitimate they won’t even think about it further.
Well, those people weren’t going to change their mind anyway. The debate wasn’t for them.
They’re far past even bothering with mental gymnastics. Their brains have gotten so accustomed to constant cognitive dissonance that they’ve basically turned that feature off.
Whatever talking point is chosen for them will be the reality. Really takes the pressure off them I guess.
I can’t even imagine what that must be like… It’s like there’s no concrete, consistent reality to them. Wild.
Nah. Trump did it, so it’s good. It’s not like they actually think.
You would think this. But it hasn’t been true for years. Intellectual dishonesty+laziness is the default now.
If it was any other, normal country, the debate schedule would not be based on whether someone wants to show up or not.
If a canditate doesn’t show up, the other candidate gets to talk about their campaign.
In a normal country an insurrectionist and rapist would not be a candidate, let alone in the top two. We are already well beyond rational thinking about any of this.
The US is bizarro world in so many aspects. Political Supreme Court appointees that are appointed for life (!), two party system, the electoral college, the absurdly long election cycles…
Political Supreme Court appointees that are appointed for life (!),
Judges are appointed for life, so they can be impartial and don’t need to worry about who won’t hire them after their term ends if they made unfavorable decisions.
the absurdly long election cycles…
4 years is absurdly long to you? Getting things done in politics takes time. How long should the cycle be in your opinion?
The US supreme court judges are appointed by politicians: They are political appointees. In a lot of other countries supreme court judges are selected by a non-political committee, like every other non-political appointee.
Judges are appointed for life, so they can be impartial and don’t need to worry about who won’t hire them after their term ends if they made unfavorable decisions.
Brother I’m not talking about letting the new president fire them at will, I’m talking about term limits and retirement ages.
4 years is absurdly long to you?
This one is maybe on me since my word choice was possibly ambiguous, but I was referring to the campaign cycle - not the length of the term.
Ok, then we agree on all points except term limits for judges. Forced retirement is fine by me, but yanking them out of office before they retire has the drawback I mentioned before.
4 years is crazy long. That means they start campaigning as soon as they enter office.
The “political” before “Supreme Court apointees” implies a lack of impartiality.
“Election cycle” and “term of office” aren’t synonymous.
The fact that the first lady does speeches and the presidents family is in the spotlight at all. (Rather dynastic for a democracy)
The fact that our election is held on one day and that day happens to be a Tuesday. 😡
Come on now we can’t have the poors voting now can we??
How are we supposed to keep our stranglehold on
wealththe country if we allowed the poors to have their say!?
Didn’t he just say the other day that he wanted to debate her multiple times? Don’t tell us that was a weak ass lie Donnie! (We already know it was).
Bock Bock
and here I was sure Team Grab-Them-By-The-Pussy doesn’t care about what’s inappropriate.
a felon running away from a prosecutor
Why did trump cross the road?
To get away from the prosecutor.
that works really well because he just proved he is a chicken
This is the same reason he didn’t show up to the republican debates: he knows he can’t keep up with anyone.
Coward? Or not enough fake news collected … yet?
because he is too old to debate with Harris
“FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”
……but, talk to Kamala Harris about policies and record?
*flee
Coward. Total and utter chickenshit.
FLIGHT! FLIGHT! FLIGHT!
Man I wish the media reported him yelling flight flight flight instead :')
🐔
If I ran a media outlet, the only image I would ever use of Trump is him making fun of the disabled guy. Make his camp defend that.
All joking aside, you have to assume they’re going to challenge her candidacy and eventual legitimacy in court. Debating her is not only politically ill advised, but also a tacit agreement that she’s a legitimate candidate.
She’s been vice president for the past 4 years, so she already meets the legal requirements for office, and Republicans haven’t ever challenged it.
The DNC is next month, and the party has every right to make her the nominee if Biden isn’t running for reelection.
I don’t see any actual legal battle here. There’s absolutely zero legal precedent for blocking a party nomination before the convention or any of the relevant state deadlines pass.
They’re just running their mouths about this switch-up being improper because they’re panicking. They spent the last 4 years priming their base to care about one thing and one thing only: getting rid of the “Biden Crime Family”. Now that it’s down to the wire, Biden isn’t their opponent anymore.
They’re in the bargaining stage of grief, since Trump’s chances of winning have pretty much been killed, especially after introducing professional wet blanket J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate.
When has Precedent mattered to Robert’s Extreme Court?
Exactly. Just because they don’t have a legitimate argument doesn’t mean they don’t have an argument.
