I would bet $20 that this falls apart, because of the stipulations from either camp. Specifically, the mic cutting off and no audience as requirements from Biden's camp would set Trump up to fail, especially as his rambles would be cut off at a given time. I'm still shocked Biden's camp didn't require this for the 2020 debates. I'd be genuinely curious who they get to moderate, but the only way I'm tuning in is if the moderator is one of the winners of RuPaul's drag race. Trump would probably balk at the debate being aired on CNN or MSNBC, and no way Biden agrees to do it on Fox or whatever online platform Trump is shilling. The last time, Trump's poll numbers dropped precipitously after the debate, and I can't imagine his recent uhh....verbal tics are going to televise well to a broader audience with no one cheering in the studio. I'd say Trump has more to lose than Biden here, and the timing of it all gives Biden plenty of time to recover.
https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...ting-rules-for-white-house-officials-00158687 This is going to get raw, too. We're already getting Hatch Act notices at work, and given that a core tenet of Trump's platform is fucking treason, it's pretty testy. I agree with closing this loop, but enhancing enforcement of Hatch Act is going to hit some folks hard.
Spoiler: Not great At this point I can't tell if the Trump campaign is deliberately dogwhistling to racists, or if they're so steeped in radical right-wing bubbles that they don't even realize the memes they're jacking for campaign material are made by actual nazis and may contain little easter eggs like the one above.
Not defending Trump or his campaign, but it was just some random guy who made that, and apparently Trump shared it on his Myspace page or whatever. For all we know, the creator is actually an anti-Trumper who was hoping that this exact scenario would play out.
But that's kind of my point. When the Trump campaign goes to make campaign videos, they frequently grab memes that are being shared in the pro-Trump community and stick them in the video. And it seems like they don't appreciate that they're so far down the rabbit hole, that the "normies" they're grabbing memes from are actual avowed nazis. They've been bathing in this stew for so long they don't realize how aberrant it is.
No, I'm pretty sure that they know exactly what they're doing. How does the saying go? "Trump didn't make America racist, he just made the racists feel comfortable speaking their minds."
Something did it and it sucks to watch. I saw a video of cruise ship pool. It was mostly black people... just vacationing. The comments were disgusting. "Hell on earth." "Section 8 cruise." "That’s why I don't go on cheap cruises, it's a higher class crowd. "USS black and mild" "I bet it stinks there"
Unfortunately, I assume sentencing comes next? And, then unfortunately, I assume he'll be able to appeal like everyone else that gets convicted of something? I think the question is, what will it take to make him go away and not be on the ballot this Fall?
Sentencing happens on July 11. It's insane that nothing prevents a convicted felon from running for president in the USA.
It makes sense, because otherwise you're giving either the current federal government, or even a single state, the power to eliminate a choice for President, which they would almost certainly abuse if it existed. The solution is supposed to be that the voters don't vote for a fucking criminal, but we see, yet again, that the Founders overestimated us.
And, overestimated the Candidates. The convicted felon is leading polls against the incumbent President. How do we make them both go away, and put two other candidates on the ballot this Fall?