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Hold the debate anyway, and if he doesn’t show up, replace him with a cardboard cutout with a recording of his greatest hits:

Sharks vs. Batteries

My Uncle The Nuclear Scientist

Inject Bleach

Shine a UV Light Inside the Body

Hannibal Lector is Awesome

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Don’t forget about magnets!

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What do you mean? Everyone knows that magnets don’t work when they get wet

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Plus all the Sir stories you can eat. I wish someone would package them into a storybook for adults that is humorous bullshit tales from Trump

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Nuke the hurricanes

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Gettysburg.

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Don’t fight up hill, me boys!

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When the North famously fought the leprechauns.

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Can we work in the Sharpie sketch?

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9 points

The revolutionary war airports.

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Elton John’s organ.

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🎵 hold me close with tiny hands, sir!

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Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunny

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Lmao wtf is Sharks vs Batteries

I swear every day there’s some new nugget with this guy. The firehose is so big it’s impossible to keep up

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well, you see, electric powered boats are extremely dangerous, because if they capsize, you have to choose whether to stay near the boat and get electrocuted, or swim 10 feet away toward a hungry shark. there are no other options, you see.

lol i wish i was joking

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You could just shoot the shark with your gun, is he even an American?

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I think millions of people would watch this. The contrast of Harris vs T**** would be shocking. And a huge issue right now is communication of the issues.

Take a handful of actually important subjects: healthcare/abortion, immigration, climate, democracy/fascism, education, taxes, etc. Let Kamala clearly and concisely explain her/Democrats position. Then “let virtual Donny answer” (play each of his rambling greatest hits; it wouldn’t be far off his actual answer). Do this for each subject, like a good old fashioned debate. Make it clear this was not AI or manipulated, but actual quotes.

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And have the Mexicans pay for it

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look at this cool sun. look!

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The republicans will try to elect the cardboard cutout in 2028.

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If it has a mustache, but only under the nose.

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Might make a decent SNL sketch.

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Slow the testing down, please!

When you’re a celebrity, they just let you do it.

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The sound from the wind generators cause cancer.

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“Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President?” Trump wrote. “Just askin’?”

Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if you had actual talking points on politics, which is what you should do when you are running for president.

Your whole strategy is slander and lying. Now you are the presidential candidate equivalent of that one guy who cries about politics in memes on a political meme board! You are admitting of literally doing this!

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Fucking christ, this guy lecturing us on fraud. I swear, republicans are utterly without worth.

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To be fair, he’s like 34 times better at it than most people. Even the courts say so.

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I like criminals who don’t get caught.

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That is just the official count. I bet that actual number is much higher!

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If he is so good at it, why did he get caught?

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It’s one of the things he does that absolutely infuriates me. Everyone else is a crook, a fraud, anti-american, but ol dipshit Donnie is supposed to be the beacon of truth and compassion?

Give me a fucking break…

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Even worse is when the gaslighting bothsiderist “liberal media” often acts like his outbursts are worthy of consideration, and/or…but look at what this Democrat said that one time…

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Believe me, nobody knows more about fraud than Trump! Many people are saying it.

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“I object to the candidate we slandered every day and said was unfit from withdrawing from the race.”

“On what grounds?”

“It’s detrimental to my campaign.”

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Ah, the Liar Liar tactic.

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The Dems hadn’t actually nominated anyone for this election yet, that happens during the convention which is still a few weeks from now.

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and that is the problem, because he doesn’t know who to attack, so he does this.

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The big swings this guy takes are unbelievable. It’s like he says he should be allowed to have a third term because the first didn’t count because everyone didn’t love him enough.

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He actually tried this in 2020. Said that since the Dems and everyone “blocked” him so much, his first term shouldn’t count.

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Maybe donnie should just step down now that he’s so old and obviously cannot handle a debate.

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never loads?

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It’s a gif of Data from TNG saying “Do you consider your position so weak that it cannot withstand a debate?”

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If the moderators are just going to let him lie for 90 minutes without any pushback, I don’t see the point in another debate.

Fuck CNN.

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No, the point is to drive home just how stark the difference in age and cognition is.

All it took was one bad debate for Biden (though, admittedly, Democrats don’t worship their candidates as demigods).

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Let me guess, he wants the debate to not include difficult challenges like drinking water from a cup, ramps to walk on, or keeping your diaper clean.

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He’s not even up to the challenge of answering the questions asked in the debate. I don’t even know if he can hear the questions.

Lots of people are saying that his brain issues, combined with his injured ear, impact his ability to hear the questions. They ran up to me with tears in their eyes, saying “Decrepit Don has to step down for the good of the country”. I don’t know. It’s sad.

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They could write the questions on a cardboard and hold it in front of him. But that would require him to read

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