The president’s announcement came after months in which he and his campaign declined to say whether he would debate his predecessor.
  • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
    253·
    7 months ago

    I don’t think this is a good idea at all, but I’ll defer to the professional campaign strategists. Trump loves this field of battle where he can just flout the rules and strut around in comparison to his opponent.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

      It didn’t work out so bad for Biden last time.

      All that said, one way or another these debates are going to be an absolute shit show.

      • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 months ago

        Yeah that’s why I’m deferring to the pros. They have better numbers and political minds than I do. This is likely just dread settling in now that we’re getting back into the swing of things with Trump involved.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      I don’t think this is a good idea at all, but I’ll defer to the professional campaign strategists.

      This is always death. Following the GOP around, mimicking what they do and say is the inevitable result.

      Do not give him any credibility at all. None. Treat him like the scumbag traitor pariah he is.

    • Artyom
      21·
      7 months ago

      Not sure what election you followed last time, but Biden climbed in the polls after every debate until Trump weaseled out of doing another. When you let them debate against each other, Biden looks like a normal politician and Trump looks like an idiot.

      • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
        41·
        7 months ago

        Why the aggression? I’m not some idiot armchair politician and explicitly defer to the professionals in my comment. I’m worried because Trump has some weird plot armor in real life and frankly, any situation he’s involved in scares me. America is fickle, this is a new election with a new set of circumstances, and the “Biden is too old” narrative could impact either way depending on his performance.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        Polls are garbage. It’s all “we” have, so they still spend millions and chatter on about them, but they’re still hot garbage.

  • geekworking@lemmy.world
    221·
    7 months ago

    What’s the point. It won’t be an actual debate where two adults present meaningful perspectives and solutions to issues facing the country.

    Not only a waste of time, but remember Trump used the last debate to send out the call to arms directly to the Proud Boys, which led up to them actually being convicted of sedition. The J6 insurrection conspiracy started right there on national TV. Fuck all of the people who dismissed that as he was just messing around.

  • MisterD@lemmy.ca
    16·
    7 months ago

    Without a moderator that is willing to cut off the microphones when one of them speaks out of order, there is no point.

    Orange man wil just mumble the whole time, non stop

  • GBU_28English
    151·
    7 months ago

    Any debate would have to come with hyper strict mute buttons and timers.

    When it isn’t your turn: mute

    When you talk about the opponent directly: mute. Focus on the issue.

    When you go over allotted time: insta mute.

  • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
    102·
    7 months ago

    Biden would destroy tRump in a debate.

    Too bad tRump would never debate. He’ll just start talking over and slinging insults that gets his mouth breathing cult all fired up. It would be awesome though if they muted his mic whenever he went off topic or it wasn’t his turn to talk. However, that would just fuel his cult even more since the snowflake would cry they wouldn’t let him talk.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      Trump has been refusing to debate anyone this election cycle anyways so it’s a moot point. Biden is just expressing confidence that he could win a debate if Trump was willing to show up. Trump can pretend that his inability to win a debate is some sort of boycott to own the libs.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 months ago

    The only thing that came out of the last debates, the single positive thing Biden did during those debates, was to tell that clown to shut up.

    The only thing he should do, is show up, use his opening statement to list drumpfs crimes, tell him to shut the fuck up, and walk off stage giving the two finger salute. End with something like “I’m not sharing a stage with this pathetic goon.”

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      Why not? I think he’ll do well. Republicans were so shocked when Biden could stand there and give his SOTU speech, because they believed all the lies that he can’t string two sentences together.

      • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
        7·
        7 months ago

        I wonder if what they are seeing in the court room gives them hope he’ll go into his senior moments by September or whenever they decide to debate. Hell, trump might do a reboot on live TV like the turtle.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        I have no doubts about Biden. I don’t want trump to get anything. Not a camera, not a handshake, and most definitely not a premise that he’s anyone that should be listened to for any reason.

        If the GQP has to run him, let them do it far away from me and any desperate clutching they do to Biden, to try and prop up their idiotic illegitimate excuse for an administration as if it was anything but a sick joke - DON’T LET THEM.

        It’s a bad idea. It’s the kind of fail we were always warning Obama about, but he kept falling for the imaginary America where republiQans aren’t desperate racist traitors.