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Hemotep said:
It really infuriates me that in a supposedly democratic society that those running for the highest office can dictate how questions are asked of them and whether they even want to debate or not.
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Yeah, there should be a constitutional amendment that requires at least 3 debates but I doubt that will ever happen since we don’t actually amend the constitution anymore even though society has changed more in the past 30 years than in the previous 220 years.

My guess is neither wants to debate but neither wants to be seen as unwilling to debate so they will each make some specific “deal-breaker” type demands and when the other side refuses to comply they will attempt to blame their opponent as being unreasonable and thus save face.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
He’s not going to debate an empty chair. This isn’t the 2012 GOP National Convention. Though Biden is almost the same age that Clint Eastwood was at the time.
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That's not what I'm proposing. Forgive the cobwebs but iirc Trump did this sort of dance last election and it was floated that Biden would get to use the TV time to host a town hall, answer questions, and basically get free reign to bring his platform to undecided voters. Per wikipedia, Equal Time means the networks need to give candidates equivalent access, so I imagine that'd just open the door for a programming block of unfettered Don.
 
Bull Shannon said:
That's not what I'm proposing. Forgive the cobwebs but iirc Trump did this sort of dance last election and it was floated that Biden would get to use the TV time to host a town hall, answer questions, and basically get free reign to bring his platform to undecided voters. Per wikipedia, Equal Time means the networks need to give candidates equivalent access, so I imagine that'd just open the door for a programming block of unfettered Don.
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They’ve both done townhalls on cable. Both Trump and Biden have done them on CNN over the past 4 years. Trump has done several on Fox News as well, if I remember correctly.

Last election cycle both sides had initially agreed to three debates, but one was cancelled due to Covid and Trump flirted with the idea of backing out last minute of another but ultimately showed up. I think in that instance since the event was already scheduled, the idea was floated of Biden going alone if Trumped did back out but it never happened.

To your larger point, I believe equal time would apply if they decided to host a town hall for one of the candidates.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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I am not going to pretend that there isn’t a housing crisis (especially on the west coast) but I hate these types of videos. They are used as propaganda in the urban/rural culture war. Posts like this are used to paint cities like Oakland, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Portland, Seattle, etc. as lawless unlivable hellscapes. Cities of all shapes and sizes need to do a better job of making housing affordable for everyone but most a cities skid rows are hardly representative of the city as a whole. For example, here is a video of what your average Oakland Neighborhood actually looks like…
 
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