I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?

Who’s surprised he’s trying to chicken out?

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Great. Give Harris the time slot for a big town hall speech and Q&A. Every 15 minutes, read a reminder to everyone watching that Trump declined to debate.

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Keep the two podiums and put a wax figure of Trump in a chicken suit behind the other one. Put the camera on it with dead air for a few seconds every time it’s his turn to speak.

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Use cheap, low density wax and it’ll slowly melt under the studio lights over to course of the program, which would be hilarious.

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Just like Rudy!

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The chicken suit is too on the nose. And a cardboard cutout is probably way cheaper than a wax statue.

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There’s no such thing as “too” on the nose when it comes to needling Trump and his gaggle of dipshits.

I agree with the cardboard cutout part, though: half-assed shoddiness represents him more authentically and he deserves no better.

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Ice sculpture so as the night progresses the sculpture gets sadder looking.

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I am betting that she will be there whether he is or not. No reason to miss an opportunity like that.

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Just do the debate, give his time to a ticker that just says “trump was too scared to be here, I concede the rest of my time.” For every question.

Seems fair.

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Christopher Hitchens once debated himself on religion when his debate opponent didn’t show up. It was pretty brilliant.

I’m trying to find the YouTube video, but I can’t find it.

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Have a ticker constantly running at the bottom that #1 he backed out, #2 she only agreed to consider to debate on Fox “News” after the ABC debate which he already agreed to.

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IIRC she didn’t agree to fox news. They said something like any other debates would only be considered after the scheduled one.

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Updated to reflect that…tnx

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