• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    I’m calling it: The Onion will have a news title that says “Trump agrees to another debate to the condition that it is against Joe Biden”

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      The Onion is an absolute treasure, and I’m glad they got bought by a dude who just wants them to keep doing what they’re doing.

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      If the next onion title isn’t “Donald Trump considering murdering JD Vance to increase poll numbers.” then the onion has failed me.

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    After the debate ended Tuesday night, Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia posted to X, “You want to know who won? Find out who refuses to do a 2nd debate.”

    I know some folks are falling all over themselves to fawn over the various Republicans who have the, um, courage to come out against Trump now, but all I can see is a bunch of self-interested rats leaving the sinking ship.

    I figure the “I was never really a supporter” will start from both elected officials and your Republican neighbors and family members about 1 day after the election gets called for Kamala.

    And if Kamala somehow loses, it will be “I knew he could do it all along.”

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    Hahahahaha fucking coward, little Donny got his buns cooked by a woman. What a piece of shit loser that guy is.

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    When a prizefighter loses a fight so badly he doesn’t want to get back in the ring, they retire.

    Just sayin’.

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    He’s not even proposing to do it on Fox.

    His campaign knows that he’d also get completely served if he was on his propagandist’s network.

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    I gotta hand it to her. She started off like a boring milk toast politician with that first answer, then she gave a debate performance that debate teams will study for years.

    This debate will be THE textbook example of how to counter a machine gun barrage of lies and how to get your opponent talking about your issues.

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        This made me curious so I looked a bit into it. Seems that milquetoast as an insult originates from an old comic character of the same name, and it’s at least feasible (and perhaps likely) that said character was named after milk toast.

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      It really helped that the mics were muted. She would have done well if they weren’t I think, but he’d have been interrupting her nonstop.

      OR he is actually mentally declining and/or aging and he doesn’t have the stamina to over talk his opponents for two hours anymore.

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        I think there was just about the right mix of muting the mics and giving him enough rope to hang himself. Harris’ campaign supposedly did want the mics unmuted for exactly that reason, but having them muted did let her get her message across to the viewers without constantly being interrupted.

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    This is great. Harris has him by his tiny balls. Now she can run ads saying that he is afraid to debate her, and if he caves and debates again, she will probably stomp him again.

    I hate how much of a circus this is.

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    Idk…Maybe I’ve always roughly compared trump to Cartman from South Park; seems like some kinda weird comeback tactic.