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In their present format, the debates are useless. They serve no purpose. Any future Republican candidate will try mightily to Trumpify the proceedings to appeal to the always easily amused “base.” Who needs that?

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They need the Apollo Theater's famous "Sandman" Sims.

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The SORE losers.

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Of course the debates were rigged. Any good debate SHOULD naturally favor the smarter, more knowledgeable, more coherent competitor. Like the old joke says, TFG showed up to a gun fight with a pair of clown shoes and a fake pistol with a flag that says "BANG".

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No question that TV was much kinder to JFK than to RMN.

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“I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That’s not what debating’s all about ... ""Debating is all about physically intimidating your opponent. It's about breathing my shitty COVID breath all over him and trying to stare him down with my piggy little eyes. It's about showing the audience that I'm physically bigger than he is, and sure he might be stronger and 'exercise' and shit, but he could never knock over a tower of shit like me."

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Oh, gawd--you had to remind me.

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Ronna was around in the 1850's, Lincoln would have never debated Frederick Douglass.

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I'm mainly doing sandwich loaves at the moment but I'm thinking of starting a longer bake like foccacia or ciabatta on Thursday or Friday so it's ready by the weekend.

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Republicans can not be trusted to not knowingly expose their debate partner to Covid.

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That started with Limpblob, IIRC.

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"The new wave of MAGA Republicans, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz, are incapable of intelligent discourse, let alone reasoned debate."

This is what happens when a political party becomes a cult of personality.

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And you just know he smells of flop sweat and "hamberder" grease.

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It's the Rovian playbook : sling mud mixed with feces see what sticks.

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Well, Matt Lauer was missing from the debates in 2020 so trump didn't get that well deserved back rub after his performance.Also, apparently, trump (sniff) wasn't able to (sniff) inhale his (sniff) usual (sniff) nasal powder (sniff) like 2016 either. (sniff sniff).

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I almost caused myself physical harm when I read about that laughing. How many levels of ignorance does that kind of mistake require? All of them, Katie.

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