Also you’re not invited to my birthday party

I read this in the voice of Seth Myers doing Trump.

Or Stephen Colbert doing Trump.

The words are too coherent to hear them as Trump.

If he doesn't show up, Biden should call Trump direct on his cell phone with a spoofed number from one of Trump's associates, and then ask him live on air why he's not at the debate, and offer to have the debate right then and there with Trump on speaker.

If you're gonna be in charge of the USA's intelligence apparatus, and your opponent is okay with weaponizing the power of that exact same apparatus against you when they feel like it, I think you should be allowed to flex with it just a little bit from time to time.

That’s kind of the best idea out of a horrible situation I’ve heard yet

everyone would see that Biden did it first.

Where have you been the past 10 years? Half the country just sees what Fox "News" tells them.

Nah he'd get drugs for that. Someone pointed out the Adderall shortage lines up with Trump's sudden constant non ability to stay awake. He might have to resort to cocaine though, so we may get some random rants about wanting to have sex with his daughter again

Of course he won't lose votes over this. The guy is a deplorable menace and anyone who still supports him is a lost cause as a human being.

I remember the past debates where trump made a fool of himself like he usually does and the next day, conservative opinion stations declared that trump won the debate for absolutely no reason instead of telling the truth.

The conservative propaganda machine has done immense damage to this country and they're still attacking it on a daily basis without anyone stopping them. Nothing will get better until the misinformation machine is stopped and Americans start getting factual news again.

Nah, that doesn't give Trump any advantage. He can just go on Fox any time he wants and have a "pretend debate" with no one. There are still rules to the reality Trump supporters have in their heads.

Basically, Trump supporters want to see him as better than someone else. So that other person has to play along. If you notice, the Republicans who support Trump have to pretend that he's better than them when they give speeches. It's just a modern monarchy (a conservative form of government).

Biden doesn't play along, so he actually doesn't look weak. Trump was begging for a debate and was ignored (looks weak). Biden said "let's debate" and Trump accepted. No one ever accepted Trump's debate on Fox, so rejecting it actually makes Biden look more powerful.

NYT is carrying enough water for Trump they may as well be an aqua duct. Mean the polls may be accurate but it's hard to believe much of what they put out between Biden and Trump. I'm sure I could read the methods but I rarely get to read NYT due to paywall.

The article makes a pretty convincing argument that the right wing spin sphere is already out in full force trying to downplay the debates.

Absolutely. Did you see the last Biden Trump debate?

Have you watched any of the presidential debates in the last decade or two? How is this even a question at this point?

I won't watch any more debates until they do this.

That was one of the conditions of these debates.

Good god. Both of them? What a glorious thought... but what a shitshow that would follow.

It's not the maga group Biden needs to convince. Doubling down when they're already all in doesn't mean much.

He's trying to win an election so it's the various "I don't want to vote for Biden so I'll vote for trump or not vote" in swing states people he needs to be moving. To those people, Trump trying to go on an unhinged Twitter tirade at a debate could be persuasive. At least that's what a lot of Dems, and according to this GOP, think is going to happen.

See you on the surface of the Sun 😎