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[–] RunningInRVA 194 points 5 months ago (3 children)

During an interview that aired Thursday on Real America's Voice, Trump sought to lower expectations for his debate performance. He argued that Biden should take a drug test before the event.

"They're going to feed him a lot of stuff, and we should do a drug test," he demanded. "I'd love to do a drug test beforehand."

Somebody needs to drug test Trump. Projection at it’s finest.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It won't matter.

"Brandon obviously used soros's deep state to fake his results. And it doesn't matter if someone is on drugs because that is our God given right and everyone should have enough ketamine and coke in their body to kill a dozen horses"

The Left constantly makes that mistake. chuds have no shame.

[–] 0110010001100010 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm perfectly happy with both of them taking one (assuming it's administered by a neutral third-party). No reason to give the orange turd more ammunition to lash out if the tests are one-sided.

[–] Snowclone 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

A sitting resident can't have their blood accessed by a third party. It is forbidden. They only the secret services personal blood handler may do so. Behind triple creme bunker walls.

[–] JWBananas 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is the kind of thing you want to Google to verify, but not enough to end up on a list.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can assure you that everyone who has posted “on a list” publicly is on a list.

I like to make it trickier, and post cryptographic hash’s for my FBI guys to decipher:

03a3b754bc35a4a945f313e8a559d4af1a2f5e7e0f7b586c72f1a49e7e1e2372

[–] Furbag 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Please stop, we're having a hard enough time keeping up with your porn browsing habits. The cipher guys are all threatening to quit if they have to do any more of these.

Sincerely, your three letter agency minder.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I googled it and could find no relevant results. Seems made up

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[–] joekar1990 26 points 5 months ago

He's mad he has to get tested for his sentencing trial and won't do it unless Joe does it too!

[–] Zehzin 88 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My controller was disconnected folks

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] CatZoomies 8 points 5 months ago

Hyuge lag. Best you’ve ever seen, and no one knows more about it than me.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

If I played my hardest, I would have broken the controller.

[–] Viking_Hippie 73 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Classic unnecessary hedge of a narcissist.

No matter how badly he's trounced, his cult following will scream to the heavens that he won handily.

In spite of knowing this and in spite of the fact that losing a debate on purpose makes ABSOLUTELY no sense no matter how you look at it, he just can't handle anyone, even his most ardent critics, knowing that he's not infallible 🤦

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[–] Furbag 69 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"I was only pretending to be retarded!"

It doesn't really work for internet contrarians when they get put on blast for having shit opinions on political forums, but why the fuck is it actually working in real life?

Trump is so embarrassing that I don't see how anybody can actually genuinely like the guy. Is his only redeeming quality at this point just the fact that he enrages everyone left of center? Because aside from that and grifting money from people, he doesn't seem to stand for much else.

[–] Dkarma 6 points 5 months ago

You know when you work with someone and they get attractive over time? That's basically the right and trump.

They also see themselves in him.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] btaf45 41 points 5 months ago

That is such a great line because it is exactly what everybody wants to personally say to Convicted Felon and Sex Offender Treason Trump

[–] Vector 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

GIF from Kung Pow: "I am bleeding, making me the victor."

“I am bleeding, making me the victor.”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"I'm sure on some planet your debate techniques are quite logical, but your problem is this is Earth."

[–] Hobbes_Dent 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“What’s the vector, Victor?”

[–] Snowclone 8 points 5 months ago

Roger Rodger this is Ovér, Over.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

So glad it wasn't just me that immediately thought of him.

[–] corus_kt 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Such a technique! Only a true master of the Face-to-Foot style could pull this off on an international broadcast.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I_was_only_pretending.jpg

Seriously though, what a terrible argument.

[–] kylie_kraft 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's because it's not an argument. He's presupposing the frame that his rabid supporters are going to use, which is he only lost because he was goofing on the sham debate on purpose. He knows that his base is ride or die, and whatever he does on the debate stage isn't going to change that. He's explicitly giving them the line to use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

And it’s the line they’ll push to right wing media to convince the casuals that Trump is still ok to vote for. They’re doing the same thing with his convictions. And even Hunters conviction is being twisted to fit their corrupt DOJ bullshit.

[–] Nightwingdragon 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Trump said he did not want Biden removed from the Democratic ticket even though he polls better than other contenders.

"Well, you know, interestingly, they've done polling, and I do better against almost everybody," he opined. "And so they don't — they don't want to take him off. It depends."

"Maybe I'm better off losing the debate," Trump added. "I'll make sure he stays. I'll lose the debate on purpose. Maybe I'll do something like that."

How the hell does this make any sense? Barring Biden dropping dead or something, there is zero chance he is going to be removed as the nominee. Trump's performance, or even Biden's himself, at any debate isn't going to change that. The fact that this is a Trump/Biden race has been pretty much etched in stone for months.

But this is Trump and this is how he operates. It's how he handles his own weaknesses: Rather than admit he has faults, he just preemptively says "If I fail at , its because the whole system is rigged!". Why? That way, when he inevitably fails at the thing (which almost always happens), he's got a built in excuse that his base will eat right up.

[–] HessiaNerd 7 points 5 months ago

Remember when pundits used to talk about Donnie was 'playing 3d chess'. They were trying to project he was this super smart negotiator, etc.

Funny how we don't hear those claims anymore, dontcha think?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

lol "on purpose."

Wimp Lo energy.

"Ha ha! I am bleeding. Making me the victor!"

[–] Brunbrun6766 35 points 5 months ago

He's probably going to back out

[–] cosmicrookie 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If he makes it through, no matter what, how bad, no matter how bad he is, they'll say he was great

If you hadn't read the post, you'd think this was about Trump and not Trump on Biden. Projection you say?

[–] erp 24 points 5 months ago

"Yeah, well I'm going to start losing even harder!"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can anyone show me the most recent political debate that had a winner or a loser? Because that's obviously not how any of this works.

[–] SkyezOpen 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Obviously my side won.

Also boebert got wrecked in her latest primary. It was awful I love it.

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[–] JeeBaiChow 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They better have that mute button ready, and be willing to use it. Better yet, have the 'applause' light come on every time the orange convict gets cut off.

[–] newthrowaway20 5 points 5 months ago

No audience. Applause button shouldn't be necessary

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Sure you will, big guy

[–] Treczoks 14 points 5 months ago

Of course he is saying that he will be losing the debate on purpose. He knows that he will lose any real debate, so by pre-announcing this, people might actually believe he did this on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

“I meant to do that.”

[–] Fedizen 11 points 5 months ago

lol he's even backpedaling what would for anyone else be s layup

[–] str82L 9 points 5 months ago

Guess he's the latest to be sick of so much winning.

[–] ohlaph 7 points 5 months ago

Teump predicting the L. Epic. What a tool.

[–] Exeous 6 points 5 months ago

I let you win, I no lose

[–] _number8_ 4 points 5 months ago

i mean, him trying to lose means, i assume, he'll be even more rambunctious and off the cuff, meaning in public opinion it'll be a resounding win

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