CNN Will Buck Tradition and Put Commercial Breaks in Biden-Trump Presidential Debate

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CNN Will Buck Tradition and Put Commercial Breaks in Biden-Trump Presidential Debate - Lemmy.World

can’t have us missing out on the collective wisdom of Exxon, Raytheon, Elbit, or AIPAC …
Im actually kinda low-key disappointed that Robert Evans has been joke-threatening us with Raytheon ads forever and not a single one yet on Behind the Bastards. I guess they’re a little bit out of our aggregate net worth
Just start dressing the candidates in sponsored uniforms already. I fucken hate this timeline.
I mean, it would make it easier to understand who we’re voting for.
Undelivered Jet Engine Designs is the better professional speaker, but I can’t help feeling like Consequence Free Oil Spills has the stronger voice on key issues.
And in that timeline we’re paying trump to wear fox ears and a tail.
I've said for years that politicians should have to wear their biggest sponsors on their jackets like athletes often have to.
Best we can do is an orange jumpsuit.
You say that’s the best we can do.
No. It isn’t.
That’s the bare minimum and I don’t think we will get even that much.
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I almost downvoted this post because I hate this so much
Probably just toilet breaks for the two elderly gentleman debating about how much a penny used to buy at the general store.
One gentleman, one convicted felon.
One is more Pampered than the other.
Yeah, I’ll watch the highlights later, I love political satire!
I guess this show won’t be going ahead now XD
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Brawndo, it’s what plants crave!
I’m not watching this debate.
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It's happened before in a Presidential Debate...
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Neither of these cats should be participating in any live debates for self-preservation reasons.
I like how everyone is pretending donald is going to debate
I mean, if he uses his Rikers visitation allowances wisely it shouldn't be a problem
In know the partisan debates aren’t but the general ones are handled by a nonprofit right?
Historically, but not this time.
Why
Because everything has to get worse everyday.

They stopped being hosted by the league of women voters in 1988 because both political parties wanted to be able to frame the debates as they wished and as such started sponsoring their own debates and tried to impose several restrictions on how LWV debates would be ran. As a result LWV backed out of presidential debates but they still sponsor other debates.

1988 to 2020 presidential debates were run by the “commission on presidential debates” basically a nonprofit co-founded and run by both the DNC and RNC. This year both campaigns opted out of the CPD debates and are only doing 2 at all, one sponsored by CNN and the other by ABC. Last year debates were a shitshow so it’s not exactly surprising.

Trump doesn’t like the commission that normally hosted the debates because of the typical “concerns” over bias (read: they don’t let Trump say whatever the fuck he wants and run roughshod over the entire thing). Biden doesn’t like the commission because they did a shit job at moderating trump last cycle and didn’t follow their own rules (especially regarding COVID, since they let Trump lie about getting tested and go on the debate while he was infection with the virus).
What a joke. I'm not watching your fucking ads no matter how likely you think you are to get away with it. I'll just watch it after the fact on some other source.
Is there still gonna be a debate? Didn’t Trumpo just get convicted on 34 felony charges? Surely that disqualifies him from running. (Not a USian so I dunno)
He can still run. Charging someone for a crime so they can’t run for office is a tool that could be used by bad actors, so the US allows convics to run.
Huh, didn’t know that. Even if he ended up going to jail (hahaha), he’d still be eligible?
People have run while in jail before.
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People watch it for entertainment value anyway. Maybe this time they’ll both spew pre-written ai garbage.
They should use them whenever Trump does his yelly old man routine.
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How much ad time will be purchased by PACs?
We all know the answer.
Still retarded I see.