Right as the guys were going on air this morning, Biden posted a bizarre video on twitter challenging Trump to a debate... Trump has responded that he's game. This will be a show of shows.
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The fact that there are going to be debates. It
looks like between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I hate that.
I'm agreeing with everything that's coming out of the Biden
campaign on this, but they bypass the Debate Commission. They
want to line up two debates that he and Trump
just come up with the terms on and said the
problem with the Debate Commission is they've been structuring these
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like an entertainment spectacle. We've been complaining about that our
entire talk radio career, and also said that the commission
doesn't even enforce their own rules. That's the other thing
we've been complaining about forever. They open the debate and
say you're not allowed to talk unless spoken to, and
don't go over the time, and then they let people
do whatever they want and everybody gets rewarded for breaking
the rules until it's just utter, exhausting chaos.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I remember a couple of those debates that were just unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Right, And so Trump has responded that yes, he will debate,
and there are going to be two, first one June
twenty seventh on CNN, so it's six weeks away, six
weeks from tomorrow, actually. But Trump has said that he
wants more than two debates, and he said for excitement purposes,
I want a very large venue.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He's right about that, and.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
He's a TV host who has gotten great ratings throughout
his life. But excitement is not We should not be
the goal of figuring out what candidate we want to
be president.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I think if Trump pushes hard for one of the
debates has an audience, one does not. If he offers
that compromise, it's going to be impossible for the Biden
team to turn that down. I mean, it's just not
a big enough issue to justify not debating him.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Mind, I'm not sure the audience has always been the
problem anyway. I'm fine with no audience, but the problem
has been what the Biden campaign mentioned, they never enforced
the rules.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
If you're Chris Christie or a vaig.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Ramaswami, or you name lots of candidates over the years,
the person who butts in and talks over the other
person and gets in the one liner always is rewarded
in the polls or by the crowd for their behavior.
If you enforce the rules, like turn off their mics,
I don't think the crowd would be a problem. So
I can't believe I didn't come up with this myself.
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I'm off my game. I've got some sort of bug.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But my old buddy Steve texted that the Democrats are
sending Joe out in June so that if he crashes
and burns, they still have time to come up with
to solidify Plan B in time for the convention in August. Wow,
it's a pass fail test. Oh, I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They're doing a pass fail in June to give him
enough time to replace him. That makes more sense than
anything else we've speculated. Let's go ahead and take the
look at the alternative. Wait until after the convention, because
I was saying earlier this is ridiculous. You don't have
a presidential debate before the convention. But the alternative is,
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wait until after the convention when it's irrevocable that Joe
Biden is going to be your candidate, and then watch
him crash and burn and display him he is an
utterly senile old husk of the man. They're already scheduled
the Presidential Commission debate and they're in September, so yeah,
September October, so yeah, he crashes and burns then and
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drops twenty points in the poll polls that he's already
losing in. Yeah, it's too late, that is exactly it.
So they're spinning it as well. We want to get
ahead of early voting, but early voting doesn't start till October,
so that doesn't make any sense now, Batch and there.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Is I think there's one proposed vice presidential debate between
mister or ms X on the Republican side and the
moron Kamala Harris. But the other aspect of the if
he crashes and burns in the first debate thing is
the talk will turn aggressively toward can we deal with
a president Kamala Harris? And that conversation will go the
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way it has to go, and that'll be horrifying for
the Democrats. I tell you what, I think there may
be some truth to that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I didn't think Biden could bait last time four years ago,
and I was I was wrong. They pumped him full
of the whatever they give him rhinoceros steroids, and he
and he was fine, He was passable, He was good enough,
but his he his his brain was way better back
then than it is now.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I would agree, Will Trump be disciplined and will he
be prepared.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
If I'm Joe Biden, I turned to him at one
point and say who won the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I bait him.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I let Trump go off on his tangent of talking
about the stolen election. I might do it multiple times
in a ninety minute debate.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I think bring up January sixth somehow or other suck
him in discussion of that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, if I'm Trump, I'm wearing a shock callar that
my handler's put on me in anytime I'm talking about
anything that's not the economy or the border or crime,
I get shocked.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Ah ah, with increasing voltage.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He should do the classic you know, answer the question
you wish they'd ask, no matter what they asked Donald Trump,
he should talk about the border of the economy, no
matter what they ask him.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, crime and the woke stuff in schools. Of course,
Trump is not really up on that stuff much. He's
better than he used to be. He's just he doesn't
have enough different songs that he sings for my taste.
But it'll be a spectacle one way or the other.
I will be on the edge of my couch right.
(05:34):
In fact, I might have to have a viewing party Yes,
that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna invite a bunch
of my politically active and aware buds and it'll be
like a focus group.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We did that in twenty sixteen. Hillary Trump, We're at
a bar in San Diego, if I remember correctly, that
was fun.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh my gosh, yeah wow. Okay, yeah, I'm down for
that June twenty seventh, Thursday Night, Little Friday. If they
can settle their minor differences, and surely they can. Both
both guys want the debate. That's what's interesting. Well, for
different reasons. Trump wants a debate because he's pretty good
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at it. He's really good at it actually, and uh,
and he thinks Biden's mind is shot. Biden wants it
because I'm gonna lose if I don't do something different. Right, Yeah, exciting. Now,
May God strike me dead from the sins against the audience.
I'm gonna bring up the vice residential debate again. God, Doug,
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I know, I know, help me.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Won't you start your own podcast Veepsteaks.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Nobody would listen, that's right. But it's important to me
that Kamala Bee completely humiliated in that debate. Okay, that's
that's my top priority. Ah, Doug Bergham is a good, decent,
intelligent and earnest man. I'm not sure he's the hatchet
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man we need for the gig. He's good.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I thought he was the most impressive guy in the
debates to me, So I think Doug Bergham will be awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So you think he could put the beatdown on Kamla?
Is he mean enough? That's my question.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
He's not mean at all, but he is incredibly knowledgeable
and is good at presenting it as a lot of
successful businessmen are. Politicians aren't always, but a lot of
businessmen are. He's a billionaire. He sums things up very nicely.
I think he'd be great. He's definitely not mean, though,
if you want me, But I see we need just
a little mean.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We need a guy who can say, after Kamala unleashes
one of her word salads, a little bit of I
have no idea what you just said. That didn't make
any sense. Did anybody understand what the hecks he was
trying to say?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We get an English teacher to diagram that sentence. I'd
like to see where the nouns, verbs, jerns are in
that sense, because hard to follow. That would be all
Can I use Google translates to figure out what the
hell's he's trying to say?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We should send those lines to whoever the candidate is.
Here's what I do in the negotiation for the vice
presidential debate. Okay, I'll give you no audience if you
give us no cackling, no cackling aloud.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh please, she couldn't do what a jackass? Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Ah, the future of the world depends on this decision,
you realize in large measure, Yes, yes, God helps the world.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Freaking' ah yeah, I know, I know.
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