Election 2020 Bidening the Trump? Trumping the Biden? The presidential debate thread.

[Arch Dornan]

Ruh roh it's rigged.

 

[Bacle]

This ought to add an interesting twist to the debates:

 

[Arch Dornan]

This ought to add an interesting twist to the debates:

Leak it I want to see why she deleted them.

 

[Duke Nukem]

This ought to add an interesting twist to the debates:

I hope no "suicides" happen because of this.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Well, the October 15th debate has been officially cancelled. One of the more interesting things the linked story relates is former Senator Bob Dole's suspecting that all of the Republicans on the Commission for Presidential Debates are Never-Trumpers. I mean, obviously; but for him to say so...

Hugh Hewitt wrote a column on it and why the Commission on Presidential Debates should go bye bye.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/08/debate-commission-grabbed-too-much-power-its-time-is-up/

Yet the original design of the party-controlled general-election debate has slowly morphed from Republican Party-Democratic Party negotiation into something wholly different: a free-standing group of self-anointed, self-important Beltway Brahmins. Slowly but surely, the organization added staff, raised funds, expanded its “mission” and deepened its own sense of entitlement.

What had been a legitimate arrangement whereby the two parties would, every four years, meet and confer, negotiate and deliberate, and decide on the number and design of debates became something wholly else: a bastion of Beltway privilege, with a little New York representation and media preening tossed in. The table servants became table setters. This week they made their big move. Without consulting President Trump or former vice president Joe Biden, the commission simply declared it was changing the rules for this year’s second general-election presidential debate: The “Townhall Debate” would be “virtual.”

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But know that the commission is done. Finished. It went too far. It grabbed for too much. It exposed itself as not only far from it’s original, modest, representational purpose, as well as far from anything resembling nonpartisan, but also far from the people who run this country: its citizens, organized on the largest scale, into two parties that will now take back their authority — and quickly.

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This election, like no other, has become one of “The Countryside v. The Capital.” Good. Thanks to the collective ego and ambition of the commission for clarifying this, again.

 

[Cherico]

Hugh Hewitt wrote a column on it and why the Commission on Presidential Debates should go bye bye.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/08/debate-commission-grabbed-too-much-power-its-time-is-up/

So in other words this is a case where we should insert the 'you had one job meme'.

 

[Sailor.X]

Just going to post this here.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Trump vs Biden support.

 

[Duke Nukem]

This guy is speaking straight facts about Trump and Biden.

 

[PsihoKekec]

 

[Bacle]

This stinks to high heaven:

 

[Duke Nukem]

This stinks to high heaven:

How convenient.....

 

[GoldRanger]

This stinks to high heaven:

They should extend the date, no excuses.

 

[The Truth]

There is no difference between these senile pawns. They and their parties serve the same cause. They just use different words.

 

[Tzeentchean Perspective]

There is no difference between these senile pawns. They and their parties serve the same cause. They just use different words.

Go back to your containment thread.

This stinks to high heaven:

I wonder what other state-level systems in this nation rely on lone cables.

 

[Arch Dornan]

There is no difference between these senile pawns. They and their parties serve the same cause. They just use different words.

One I'm sure offers more gibs but the other allows less taxes on the American salary.

 

[Rocinante]

I wonder what other state-level systems in this nation rely on lone cables.

Having worked IT for city/state governments (albeit in a different state,) I'd bet my entire salary on a "most of them."

 

[GoldRanger]

There is no difference between these senile pawns. They and their parties serve the same cause. They just use different words.

Who forgot to close the pen door on the conspiracy thread again? Come on, guys.

 

[PsihoKekec]

If there was construction work along the route where the cable goes, then the chances it was an accident are near 100%. For example, within the last month, the building, where the office of my company is, had water cut three times due to construction site next door. And the bloody idiots knew exactly where the pipe was after the first time!

 

[DarthOne]

If there was construction work along the route where the cable goes, then the chances it was an accident are near 100%. For example, within the last month, the building, where the office of my company is, had water cut three times due to construction site next door. And the bloody idiots knew exactly where the pipe was after the first time!

...makes me wonder if the construction was always this incompetent in the old days or if this is something new.