This reminds me of The Princess Bride. That moment when Inigo finally runs into the six-fingered Count Rugen in the castle hall, and finally says "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," proving his drivenness. And then he gets into position, and levels his sword at his foe, proving his competency. And then Rugen gets into position. And levels his sword at his foe. And...turns on his heel and sprints in the opposite direction.
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Fear rules the conservative mind.
"The mean black lady is going to expose how dumb I sound."
Conservatives only debate students who don't know any better or barely coherent geriatrics, and it's never in good faith
I love how weak and pathetic he looks now. More in line with who he actually is.
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Trump any time he's asked to debate Kamala
This is some real shit. This is what I want to see. A black woman is going to grab him by the pussy, get into that diminished mind of his, drive him further into dementia. Imagine the indignity he must feel. Some top-notch mindfuck shit.
Bussy
Donald has a gussy.
No. Definitely a pussy.
Trump's personality in emojis:
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Would be elder abuse as she guts him.
I’ll allow it.
Trumps afraid of a GIRL!
If he won't debate her, then I think after every one of his rallies she should start dropping tiktoks, youtube shorts, or whatever, where she replays something he said, and then debunks it with hard facts.
Alec Baldwin. It’d induce aneurysms across the right. Probably thin out their voter ranks.
Have Baldwin do a skit about shooting him
“It wasn’t supposed to be loaded!!”
She’s should get a Trump impersonator to say these things live on stage and then debunk them.
That would be funny, but I dont think it'd land well at all. She'd be mocked like when Clint Eastwood debated the chair.
Honestly, I love this, but I think the impersonator aspect cheapens it. Take clips of things he’s said and play them on a screen behind a podium across the stage from her. Have a moderator prompt the clips, have her rebuke/fact check them. Done.
He doesn’t want to debate? Fine, we’ll have the debate without him. He’s already said what the people need to know. We just need to cut through the mountains of indecipherable bullshit he’s said while meandering around the point. Do him a favor and edit that down to his actual stance, as succinctly and clearly as possible. Don’t turn it into a joke making fun of how terrible he is at speaking, show people what he really wants to do.
Holy shit, that would be legitimately great television.
Imagine Kamala debating Alec Baldwin as Trump. I know he's persona non grata right now, but Trump's meltdown would be bigger than Vesuvius
Someone should check if rosie o'donnell would like to play the role. Trump loves her. /S
Tbh right now they have a way better Trump impersonator on SNL than Alec Baldwin anyway. She should legit go on SNL and do a fake debate with him. But I don’t think NBC would actually allow it.
It would be better if they got a terrible one. Like Keenan in a blonde wig.
I can definitely see the appeal of going that direction too. But for me personally, the current guy James Austin Johnson nails the “Trump is a rambling stream-of-consciousness insane liar who doesn’t even use English correctly” angle so perfectly that he’s the one I’d opt for.
I feel like they should be doing that regardless.
The targeted audience will never see it. Spam him on TS with "It's been X days since DJT realized he was too scared to debate the Vice President."
Who could have forseen this? Utterly shocking!
Fucking coward.
Claims it was because Obama hadn't endorsed her and she might be replaced.
I love the timing on all of this.
Brave brave brave Dementia Don bravely ran away
somebody.... Deep fake this to have Trump replace Sir Robin
His three election foes as the three-headed knight. Harris could be the head that wants to kill him. Hillary's the one that wants tea. Biden is the one with the hiccups.
Bone spurs. That’s why.
Foreseeable, and unfortunately the best move Trump could have made. Kamala would have just vaporized him
Maybe not. She can heckle and deride him not stop about this for months, and the only thing he can do to stop it is to debate her.
Health-conscious too since it's better than smoking. She's only getting better and better
What a wimp.