2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo What RW "Proof of cheating" Will Be Offered As An Excuse To Blow Off More Debates?
I have a feeling that once Team Orangutan has settled down and has gotten their "he won the debate" spin out of their systems that they will take a step back and decide that doing more debates would only compound last night's disaster.
These people are as close to the Cheeto as anyone, and they know that there is no way he can be adequately prepared to enter a Townhall-style debate against Hillary. Set aside the fact that the learning curve is extremely steep - the Cheeto doesn't want to learn. Why clutter one's mind with facts when you can toss out lies instead?
The RW nutosphere is already awash with claims that Hillary wore an earpiece, that she was given all the questions in advance, and that her team was feeding her answers during the debate. Trump has already put out the claim that his microphone was defective. Before last night's disaster, I thought it would be suicide for Trump to back out of any debates. But after said disaster, I can't see any way that his team of handlers/advisors imagines any upside to him to do another debate.
And that means adopting one of the "many people are saying" fantasies of the RW nutosphere as proof, PROOF that Hillary/Holt/everybody else treated Trump unfairly, and that will be the excuse to cancel the remaining two debates. It's only a matter of which fantasy they decide on.
underpants
(182,839 posts)They were going to say that regardless.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Wow. what's the definition of a sore loser ????
Oh yeah, it says right here... Donald.
Vogon_Glory
(9,122 posts)Osakagreg
(111 posts)My greatest frustration is the amount of absolutely false stories reported by conspiracy sites and journalists who are more interested in their opinions than the facts (Hannity as just one example.) And then of course the countless lies that Trump himself likes to spew all day and night.
his is the reason that Trump supporters do not care what he says or does. They won't be swayed, because they are convinced Hillary is a criminal, or that our government is paying ransom to the Iranians.
And then of course, there is their argument that the most credible fact checking sites are completely biased. No... they are not biased. The problem for Republicans is that facts disagree with the conspiracies and opinions that they are feeding off of.
What proof of cheating will be offered? Who knows? Maybe Hillary's double did the debate while the real Hillary was lying in the hospital receiving medical care for her Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.