Scrap the debates
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@George-K said in Scrap the debates:
Quote from the article. She is an OUTSTANDING mind reader!! I am working towards that ability:
Moreover, we didn’t need the debates to tell us that Trump had chosen to be the P.T. Barnum of American politics. For him, it was (and still is) all about the show, about distracting the public from reality. It was obvious that Mr. Trump had no real affinity for the working-class people whose votes he was chasing. Nothing in his life suggested that his heart was with struggling workers and farmers. It wasn’t impossible to know that he wasn’t the skilled businessman he professed to be. His bankruptcies and shady business practices and discrimination against Black tenants were no secret.
The debates took us nowhere nearer the realities about arguably the most disastrous president in our history.I mean, really? This, the NY Times.
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@jon-nyc said in Scrap the debates:
It wouldn't surprise me to see something like that in their news section soon enough, but to be fair this is an opinion piece.
And it’s not by the editorial board either.
I wonder if they fact-checked it, LOL.
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It's never been a big issue with me, but I wouldn't miss them. They're so orchestrated and managed to the nth degree, everybody is so unperturbed. It's all theatrics . . . you don't really learn much that is useful.
But there's the ratings, you dig. How much advertising do they attract?
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This, by the way, isn’t written out of any concern that Donald Trump will prevail over Joe Biden in the debates
I wonder if this is intentionally dishonest of the writer, or if she really has deluded herself into believing it. I also wonder if there's any real difference, human psychology being what it is.
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If you asked the average American what was the biggest event in our elections don’t you think the number 1 answer would be the debates?
Could you imagine a Democrat president on the ropes and the NYT carrying this op-Ed?
If so isn’t the perspective of the author of this piece fear of the outcome?
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@jon-nyc said in Scrap the debates:
I would be totally against no debates.
This would be the moral equivalent of not releasing tax returns as far as respecting the norms of the process.
Historically speaking that's a pretty recent "norm" particularly in the context of candidates' debates. A quick look shows that releasing taxes began with (cough) Nixon who, in 1974, released records from 1969 through 1972. Ford didn't release his. And since 1977 every president's taxes are audited by IRS.
And, of course, don't forget that the Speaker of the House has refused as well, because "she's not running for President."
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There's a long of history of master debaters being elected to high office.
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Biden's campaign manager's advice to Joe about debating Trump...
Link to video