Posted on 08/06/2020 8:26:06 AM PDT by sickoflibs
Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he won’t travel to Wisconsin to accept the Democratic Party nomination. Yes, the man who wants to be president is using coronavirus as an excuse to not travel at all now. I bring that up to make a prediction.
Bonchie(bonchieredstate(twitter response to Pager below) He's not gonna debate, guys.
Tyler Pager(tylerpager twitters) SCOOP: Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic nomination. His plans to travel to the convention have been scrapped because of coronavirus concerns. 11:54 AM · Aug 5, 2020
As we’ve seen over the last week or so, the media have been field testing all kinds of excuses to keep Joe Biden from having to face Donald Trump on a debate stage (see Flop Sweat Builds As Efforts to Stop Joe Biden From Debating Donald Trump Heat Up). The reason is obvious. Biden is incapable of operating in anything more than a short, heavily scripted setting, typically from his basement. When he does go in public, he has extensive notes, a time limit, and will only call on reporters he’s been given a list of.
For a recent example of his mental collapse, see Joe Biden Spins Another Epic Word Salad, Shows His Fealty to China In the Process.
Now, we’ve got another test run happening. The Washington Post’s “fact-checker” has decided that debates don’t need to happen before voting starts because of polls or something.
Glenn Kessler(GlennKesslerWP twitter response to Trump tweet below) More debates would be great for fact checkers. But since the electorate is now so polarized, how likely is it that many people will change their votes because of a presidential debate? Polls show most voters have made up their minds.
Donald J. Trump (realDonaldTrump twitter) How can voters be sending in Ballots starting, in some cases, one month before the First Presidential Debate. Move the First Debate up. A debate, to me, is a Public Service. Joe Biden and I owe it to the American People! 8:42 AM · Aug 6, 2020
Kessler himself doesn’t expressly call for all debates to be called off, but it’s his insinuation that the debates are meaningless that matters here.
Not only will Biden likely claim it’s too dangerous to debate in person, his surrogates and their media allies will say the debates just aren’t that important. After all, we are so polarized that no one will change their mind anyway, right? Of course, by Kessler’s logic, why vote at all? The polls say Biden is going to win, so let’s avoid the hassle and pronounce him president already.
Whether you think any of those assumptions are true depends on how much you trust the polls. I tend to think averages and big picture trends matter, as does the Trump campaign given they fired Brad Parscale for his weak performance as campaign manager. What I don’t buy is that things can’t change, up to and including in the final week of the cycle. Kessler seems to be suggesting that whatever snapshot in time we have today is set in stone. It’s not and that’s not how polling is supposed to work or be interpreted.
But again, this is more about providing another excuse for the Biden campaign to dip out on debates than anything else. To be fair, there are multiple possibilities here. Joe Biden may still “debate,” but I suspect he’ll try to make it a live stream instead of in person. That would completely defeat the point, as a live stream from his basement would allow him to use notes and be fed answers with impunity. It would also allow for far more games from the moderators, as it’s easier to talk over someone on a split-screen than in person with a crowd behind you.
Regardless, you would expect a supposed journalist like Kessler to be rooting for more debates and transparency. Instead, he’s basically shrugging and suggesting that’s not even necessary. Our media are in a sad state.
Bye done was injured last night as he fought off 4 Nazis with his bare dukes, trying to remove a BLM flag he had proudly displayed on his front lawn and will be unable to attend the debate...
You can’t talk to or even see our candidate, but trust me, he’s really great and so much better than the bad orange man. Really he is.
Bunions?
You mean ‘Hiding Biden’ ?
If his campaign refuses to agree to a debate, when asked about it cool Joe will respond:
“Why should I debate? Come on man...I am already VP ”
If Biden took POTUS office in 2017 the COVID crisis would have over in January.
He cured Ebola under Obama, this would be easy for him.
Bill Kristol (Lincoln project) trusts Joe.
Yesterday he said he was “forward looking” to debating Trump. My guess is that Trump will have to descend into the basement to have a face to face debate. Basementman will most likely insist on a virtual debate which will make it much easier to have someone feeding him the answers via a teleprompter.
His wife will tell you!!!
I still predict they’ll say he has gotten Covid
I like Trump’s move here, preempts the Democrats by urging earlier and more debates. Biden’s camp wants delay until too late to hold ANY debate. Trump has the high ground and the bully pulpit. Underground Joe is being bombed from on high!
More Winning!
Why not the truth???.....because he has dementia....c’mon man...are you a druggie?...Lolol
That's a rare exception where it's OK
It was for a civil rights icon and Obama spoke at it
Some things we can't give up
Ah, yes ... Teh Won and The First Black President jointly raised hands and conferred immunity to COVID-19 upon the funerally attendees. It’s all SO clear now!
After I saw that picture I did my own search and it looks like they were wearing masks inside, and outside in most cases at Lewis's funeral.
I found articles that say the picture posted here at #11 was taken in 2015, at Jesse Jackson's mother's funeral.
" The photo, however, was actually taken in September 2015 at the homegoing service for Jackson’s mother, Helen Burns Jackson. It appears in a gallery of dozens of photos taken by Heidi Heilbrunn on the Greenville News website.)"
Biden might not even be alive when Nov. 3 arrives.
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