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Thomas L. Friedman: Biden should not debate Trump unless ...
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 07/09/2020 | Thomas L. Friedman

Posted on 07/09/2020 9:39:37 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump. He should do it only under two conditions. Otherwise, he’s giving Trump unfair advantages.

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To: DoodleDawg
If Biden refuses to debate, Trump will set up 2-3 "debates" with Kanye West -- even if they have to do it on stage at a Trump rally.

West will formally endorse President Trump at the end of the last one.

You heard it here first. :-)

21 posted on 07/09/2020 10:20:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Not surprising that the left will run cover for Biden’s inability to debate.

I predicted this months ago right here on FR. Biden will not refuse to debate, but will demand rules that Trump cannot accept....thereby making Trump the bad guy and refusing to debate.


22 posted on 07/09/2020 10:33:47 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: ClearCase_guy
All this twaddling about tax returns overlooks a huge difference: Biden has been feeding at the government trough virtually all of his adult life; Trump has actually had to earn his fortune in the private sector, which includes payoffs to petty little bureaucrats like Biden just to be allowed to work.
23 posted on 07/09/2020 10:37:06 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Joe is going to lose badly

the deep state criminal cabal can’t allow that to happen, thus, unless the establishment and the democrats can’t guarantee a Biden victory via vote fraud and election rigging, there won’t be a presidential election in November 2020.

24 posted on 07/09/2020 10:38:03 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Debates are about two people and what they bring to the stage. That is it, it is a verbal dual.

Biden will be ripped apart from the beginning and never recover.

Biden is very senile and well into dementia as well. Even 50%+ of the democrats and independent votes have this belief.

All your BS conditions are is trying to prop him up and give him something to hide behind.

Maybe your truth seekers should post about Bidens comment of 150,000,000 being the victim of gun violence.

You do realize that is half of our nation and it was a bold bald faced lie.


25 posted on 07/09/2020 10:38:16 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Steve_Seattle

“”Otherwise, he’s giving Trump unfair advantages.”

They think they can dictate what trump has to do just because they want to. They are Narcissists, arrogant self centered assholes, pretending they have power, which they do not.

Peons have not a single right to demand anything.


26 posted on 07/09/2020 10:43:07 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Steve_Seattle
"What is "unfair" about a straight-up debate?"

Forgot the sarcasm tag?

27 posted on 07/09/2020 10:44:31 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Whew...saved him the embarrassment!


28 posted on 07/09/2020 10:47:27 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: Steve_Seattle
"What upside-down blather. What is "unfair" about a straight-up debate? "

Apparently Joe having to show up in person is "unfair" to Joe.

29 posted on 07/09/2020 10:54:28 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

If anything, slow joe’s criminal extended family and his “doctor” wife are being unfair to him (even though he is a corrupt criminal himself). The whole worthless family should be RICO’d.


30 posted on 07/09/2020 11:51:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Tom Friedman is singularly unimpressive.

Thinking is not his strong suit.


31 posted on 07/09/2020 12:01:26 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“unfair advantage”? Really? After all these years of the “debates” moderated by the far-left media? Wasn’t that an unfair advantage for the Leftist? We say yes, of course the media will say no...


32 posted on 07/09/2020 12:31:32 PM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Let Trump look American voters in the eye and say: “There will be no debate

Talk about being ridiculous, he's more demented than Biden writing this crap.

33 posted on 07/09/2020 1:38:07 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Here is why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gogO2nFQw_w


34 posted on 07/09/2020 1:50:02 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I could not watch the whole thing. That is literally torture.


35 posted on 07/09/2020 1:56:17 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Signalman

“Alternative proposal: Trump will not debate Biden until all of the records pertaining to Biden and his son’s dealings with the Chinese, and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, are realeased.”

And he undergoes cognitive tests, and a special council is launched regarding his sexual perversion, and most importantly, due to his business ties with his kids, the FBI should do a midnight raid on his kids with OAN filming.


36 posted on 07/09/2020 2:05:16 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Lincoln Douglass style debate. The format was that one candidate spoke for 60 minutes, then the other candidate spoke for 90 minutes, and then the first candidate was allowed a 30-minute rejoinder.


37 posted on 07/09/2020 2:13:17 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

If Biden refuses to debate, The Trump campaign should engineer a debate with a suitably adorned debate studio stage with Trump behind a podium and a television monitor placed behind the other podium. Trump gets asked a question by the moderator(s). After Trump responds, then the moderator directs the same question to the television monitor. The monitor then displays one or more of the millions of idiotic gaffes that this dummy has made in the last few years alone.

Or, consistent with Biden being the Marxist’s Marionette that he surely will be should he unthinkably be elected, perhaps an animatronic dummy could be substituted for the television monitor.

No matter the method chosen, the results are sure to be more honest that with the flesh and blood Biden.


38 posted on 07/09/2020 3:12:08 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“Thomas L. Friedman: Biden should not debate Trump unless ...”

He can fog a mirror?


39 posted on 07/09/2020 3:31:42 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, everything has gone to hell, what did I tell ya?)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Thomas Friedman is a writer for the New York Times. That gives you something to evaluate his advice to Biden. What he is really saying is do not debate Trump if you can avoid it. The democrats do not want to lose and will pull any trick they can to hide the truth about Biden.


40 posted on 07/09/2020 3:45:19 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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