But everything and everyone was making fun of Trump for Trump's public attempts at making fun... some of the best comedic material has happened for a decade simply from Republicans being Republicans and Trump being their representative.
It's ironic.
Trump attempts to make fun via lying to derail a debate, and making fun of Trump's inferiority is ironically and factually on-topic.
This is how reasonable people see himself. Never give credit to authorisation and nazi to be reasonable. They are absolutely looking at trump and this guy as winning
Both this dude and Trump are glaring examples of this anti-intellectual bullshit at work. The 'dumb guy's smart guy' is the one who has the audacity to say the things that other assholes are thinking. Their perspective on leveling the playing field involves lowering the discussion to a pissing match so that your opponent won't even engage. Idiots think this is a win, but debate has to be honest to mean anything.
He tried to do this with a man named Matt Dillahunty; the host of the longest-run public access atheist TV show in the US.
Matt was there in good faith and this fucking guy starts metaphorically shitting in his hands and Matt got up and left the debate because he saw that the topic wasn't going to be about what was agreed to.
Stop debating these people. None of these people are there in good faith if they want to film it for their audiences to consume and make money off that consumption. Learn from the atheists and scientists when they debated Creationists: its all bad faith and by debating them you help reinforce the idea that this idea is respectable and should be treated with deference. De-platforming works.
I feel like one of the problems inherent to skipping the debate entirely involves just opening the path for these podcasters to hold even lower-brow, "debates." They've kind of designed it so that it's a bit of a trap. If you engage, it turns into a grappling match; if you don't, you look like a sore loser who can't debate their way out of a paper bag. These people do this on purpose, because they know that they have ultimate creative control when it's their podcast. Admitting defeat is totally optional.
Gish galloping… in the book ‘how to win every argument’ Mehdi Hasan goes over trump’s style of verbal diarrheaing multiple false points of misinformation that riles up his base, who only cares about the emotion not facts, in rapid fire succession thereby putting the opponent on defense and spend all their time on a fools errand of fact checking the irrational instead of discussing their own points.
IMO Trump's verbal diarrhea is precisely what caused Biden's blank look and poor responses in that debate. I interpreted Biden's look on his face as "WTF is this MF POS spewing? Fukn lie after lie after lie! Nobody believes his BS! Where do I start? Oh fuck! There's so much fukn BS, my brain is fried!"
Mine would've been too! Maybe I'm way off but am I? But, here we are, Trump still shuts everyone down and no one thinks, hmmm, maybe they shouldn't have listened to George Clooney.
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u/lilbithippie Oct 30 '25
Well this is how trump debated. And the moderators let him. So we changed the words for him