Donald Trump has agreed to a debate Joe Biden with every possible unfair advantage going to Biden. It will be on CNN with no live audience and the moderators will be his worst enemies and they will be able to cut off his microphone if they don’t like what he is saying. It’s as bad as it can get in terms of stacking the deck against Trump.
So, you have to ask yourself why Trump would agree to this. My guess is that he believes that Biden can’t get through the proceedings without an embarrassing health problem of one sort or another. Based on all of his latest attempts at outdoor personal appearances, it seems like Biden has become alarmingly incontinent. In addition, Biden’s memory is now completely unreliable. And so, he is dependent on teleprompters to get him through routine speeches and question and answer events. Between these two conditions it seems highly likely that in a stressful and unpredictable event like a debate with Donald Trump, really bad things could happen.
It seems to me there is a definite risk that Trump could end up “losing” these debates. If the people running the debate control the feed, they can obfuscate any number of embarrassing moments and could even hide certain unfair practices that they allow Biden to benefit from. For instance, by controlling what the camera is showing they can hide the fact that an outside source could provide Biden with a tele prompted or voice in ear answer to a statement by Trump. Now Trump and his people know this. So, they are taking a chance that Biden’s team which includes both his own handlers and the CNN technicians could manipulate the video enough to make it seem as if Joe Biden won the debate. And yet Trump’s willing to go down this road. I have to assume he thinks the potential upside of a Biden catastrophe is likely enough to risk the probable downside of a successful manipulation.
I’ve got mixed feelings about the whole thing. I would have demanded, if not an even playing field, then at least one of the moderators being from the Right. Tucker Carlson would have been the obvious choice. But I’ll be watching the debates hoping to see Joe Biden break into tongues or fall over his feet or run off the stage to have his diaper changed. I may be sorely disappointed. Maybe Joe makes it through unscathed or maybe the moderators manage to make Trump look bad by stacking the deck against him with Stormy Daniels and “convicted felon” non-questions. But if Donald Trump is willing to buck the odds to score a knockout blow against the already wobbly Dementia Joe, then I should invest the time to watch this crazy bit of stagecraft.
Who knows we all might be watching a bit of history where fate steps in and decides the outcome. I’ve got the two hours to spend. I might even make some popcorn to make it fun.
Last I heard, Trump was demanding a drug test for both and a check to insure no earpieces.
If I were Trump, I’d have one demand:
Each debate podium is at the top of a platform with 20 stairs leading up.
That’s right. I’d make Slow Joe face his old nemesis – the stairs!
Hey that would be great. I’m guessing the amount of Adderall they give Dopey Joe before public appearances must be close to a lethal dose. Watching him keel over would be the height of humor.
Thirteen steps would be more traditional.
At this point I’d say the correct fate for Biden is the dementia ward in a mediocre nursing home. No more, no less.
Just one more of the “Things I Can’t Kontrol” (TICK)
and that TICKs me off.
such as:
Fairness in politics (TICK)
Congressional Republican Leaders I can trust (TICK)
Biden telling the truth (TICK)
Biden not shitting his pants in front of world leaders (TICK)
A secure border (TICK)
Teachers that do not teach dogma (TICK)
FBI that is non-partisan (TICK)
IRS that is non-partisan (TICK)
a free and fair election (TICK)
DOJ that does it’s job (TICK)
with all this ticking, the “Biden’s Our Mental Buffoon” (BOMB) is sure to go off soon.