Brave Sir Donald ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Gingerly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave, Sir Donald!
Brave Sir Donald, indeed.
Should have replaced “danger reared its ugly head” with. “logic needed to be said”
Sir?
You…
You get the joke, right?
I’d say in this very specific context, it’s appropriate.
I think its Monty Python but not 100%
Yup. Monty Python and the Holy Grail to be precise.
Great, I had plans this evening…
It’s only a bloody model.
Alright, I’m just gonna say it… your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberry.
Remind me again, was Sir Donald the one that planned the wooden rabbit?
in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it was the “scientifically leaned” Sir Bedevere (Terry Jones)
Coulda fooled me, given the general quality of trumps planning and organization skills.
…which is how we know the world to be banana shaped.
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.
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…
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!?
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 “political” before “Supreme Court apointees” implies a lack of impartiality.
“Election cycle” and “term of office” aren’t synonymous.
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.
4 years is crazy long. That means they start campaigning as soon as they enter office.
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.
Term limits in general have lots of drawbacks that people seem to constantly ignore
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.
In a lot of other countries supreme court judges are selected by a non-political committee
My worldwide knowledge of this is limited. In Germany, each of the two ‘houses’ of parliament (Bundestag and Bundesrat) elect one half of the ‘Supreme Court’’s (Bundesverfassungsgericht) members (judges and other staff).
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.
Trump is a PUSSY
BOK BOK BOK 🐓🍗🐔
He’s such a giant pussy that he can’t debate Harris because he’ll be furiously grabbing himself for the foreseeable future.
What a terrible day to be literate
When he gets taken to the police car he’ll cry “when she’s president, she’ll let me do it”
Pussies are wonderful though. Trump is a humorless clown.
Clowns are wonderful though. He is a decroded piece of crap.
I didn’t really like Napoleon Dynamite all that much. But I like the quote.
It’s meow meow meow.
🐔 🐔 🐔 🐔 🐔 🐔
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
Coward, pedophile, felon, traitor.
Camera.
Man.
Action!
Hotel?
Foxtrot.
Well he’s not wrong, in the end. Televising the brutal beating of a handicapped old man would be pretty inappropriate.
Putin probably has some good videos of Trump getting beaten by a black woman.
He wouldn’t understand he’s being blackmailed.
Hold the debate anyway. Have Kamala appear next to an empty chair.
Moderator: giving Trump a couple more minutes to appear.
(~5 min later)
Moderator: Trump is a no show. Hmm… he originally eagerly agreed to this September debate with Biden. It’s unclear why the change of heart, but I have to say he forfeits by default.
Kamala (interrupts): Hold on, please call Trump’s probation officer to verify his attendance permission while we wait a few more min. He’s understandably a bit skiddish with prosecutors lately but I would like to yield some of my time & do him this courtesy since he donated to my campaign in 2011 & 2013.
(~5 min later)
Moderator: no go, but would you like to answer the questions next to an empty chair to have your answers heard anyway?
Kamala: yes, this way he can take all the time he needs to prepare a scripted response later given his cognitive challenges….
Funny comment, but why the tor link?
NY Times is a closed website. Paywalled or something? I could not reach it from Tor at least not with my browser. Could be a popup-blocker blocker, not sure. Anyway, the link I gave is a NY Times front-end that is openly accessible, though clearnet users might have to append a
.cab
or something. There are probably NY Times FEs on clearnet but I don’t know of any ATM.(edit) actually I think that’s NY Times official onion server. Anyway, for whatever reason it has better accessibility than the clearnet version.
Who here had him backing out of deba…oh, most everyone.
I never thought there was the slightest chance of him ever actually debating her, but I am astonished by how lazy and flimsy their pretext is for backing out.
The only people who didn’t take that bet were ones who didn’t see the point of putting money on 1:1.01 odds.
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.
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.
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”
You would think this. But it hasn’t been true for years. Intellectual dishonesty+laziness is the default now.
Nah. Trump did it, so it’s good. It’s not like they actually think.
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.
trump has never had luck going against a prosecutor
Chickenshit.
Seriously, just have Kamala call him a chickenshit little weasel in a press conference. Instant ego meltdown and I’LL SEE YOU AT THE DEBATE within the day, I guarantee it.
because he is too old to debate with Harris
Yes, it would be inappropriate for Harris to fight a battle of wits against an unarmed man.
I don’t know if you know this, but Trump’s uncle was a professor at MIT. Just a random piece of information that bares no change to your completely factual and valid statement.
Must be those good genes.
Or, as Trump himself put it:
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible
If your platform and policy are good, you can debate anyone at any time. If your platform is just “other guy bad” then you’re gonna have a hard time.