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It's pretty obvious to me that Trump is looking for ways to get out of the upcoming debates.
His committed voters aren't going to change their minds, and he's got a good chance of losing votes if he goes on stage and makes a fool of himself.
I never thought he would debate. He refused to before because he knows it makes him look incompetent so why would he?
I could totally see him agreeing to a debate format same as last time, but apparently he agreed to a debate format where your mic is cut off after your time is up? I never thought he would agree to that and Im not surprised he's trying to get out of it.
I doubt he's able to acknowledge to himself that they make him look incompetent. Narcissists have trouble recognizing their own faults.
That's a solid point
Not even that it makes him incompetent. He's lazy.
If he could challenge Biden to golf matches, he'd do it every week. When the country most needed him during his presidency, that's all he did.
That's a bit redundant
I get annoyed when people blame 'the media' for Trump getting elected.
The media reported every stupid and/or horrible thing he said, and his voters chose to ignore it.
Well I sort of agree but at the same time for months they avoided "being mean" to him. He lies repeatedly and it took a long time for most outlets to call him out for it
The media has done "both sides" with everything he says out of this weird fear that the people that are now part of a cult and will easily question reality, might accuse them of being political. I think them (the media) always white washing Trump's actions and word salad has 100% enabled him to make it this far.
Edit - s/fair/fear
Doesn't help that Sinclair owns a ton of media so it's in their best interest to just waffle about and shit talk dems.
Sinclair is another group out to muddy the waters and report "both sides" nonsense instead of actual news. Just watch the 2 instances now where they had every channel in harmony read straight propaganda like it was news. Watching them back with all the feeds synced up is wild and disturbing. I know the first time they actually lost broadcasters because they didn't want to read propaganda like a robot to their audience.
Media also has a HUGE problem with weasel words. I hear it all the time. "Certain politicians are saying", "some people believe", "it is believed that he was radicalized online" (by fucking who? to believe what??)
Be fucking honest. Republicans are saying crazy shit. Right-wing domestic terrorists are radicalizing people. Media refuses to come out and say this shit and it makes stupid and/or uninformed people think it's both sides doing the heinous stuff.
also they are waaaayyy more critical than the first go round where they would not call out anything. I mean I sorta get it. His stuff was just so incredibly stupid and outside the bounds of what a presidential candidate would do that they just did not know how to react to it. Then also to he would do something rediculous each day so it was hard for them to have time and cover the previous stuff more in depth. Even online you would see people (like myself) ask what was the worst or stupidest things he had said to date or just a list of all of them and it was hard to find because there were so many existing and many being created in real time.
It's not exactly the same but that tactic reminds me of the Gish Gallop technique.
oh man this is so what they do. water resistant. no its not. water absorbent. super water absorbent.
I don't think it's a "to much material" issue. It's 100% not wanting to be seen as bias/political by people that argue and conduct everything they do in bad faith. It's about chasing profits from an audience they aren't going to get, because they are trying to sell facts to a cult that has been conditioned to discard them outright with no critical thinking involved, just blind deference to Dear Leader. And giving the press a pass is why we got Trump the first time, and certainly looks like will be a factor this time around as well.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, call it a duck instead of "it might be a duck" or "some people believe it may be a duck". The media is suppose to report what they see/hear, not play favorites or white wash things to placate a section of the country that has gone off the rails. Congress also needs to bring back some type of legislation prohibiting the types of Murdock "reporting" that serves only to muddy the water and/or throw shit at the wall for profit.