{"id":56535,"date":"2024-02-05T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56535"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:16:36","slug":"how-can-they-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56535","title":{"rendered":"How can they debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>If the sky falls in and President Joe Biden is going to face the guy he defeated in the 2020 election once again this fall, then I am compelled to ask this question out loud.<\/p>\n<p><em>How in the world will President Biden be able to stand on a debate stage with an individual who has done all he can to destroy the government he once swore to protect and defend?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How will he greet him when a moderator introduces them to the nation awaiting this joint appearance? Does he shake The Former Guy&#8217;s hand? Does he just ignore him? For that matter, how does TFG respond if the president extends his hand?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I expect the president to act like the gentleman he is and expect his opponent to, oh, hell &#8230; I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s going to do when the moment arrives.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely to be a desultory affair &#8230; to say the very least.<\/p>\n<p>About the only memorable line from the series of joint appearances in 2020 came from Biden when he told his foe to <em>&#8220;just shut up, man.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the many potential disasters awaiting those of us who are at least moderately interested in what remains of our American political process.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the sky falls in and President Joe Biden is going to face the guy he defeated in the 2020 election once again this fall, then I am compelled to ask this question out loud. How in the world will President Biden be able to stand on a debate stage with an individual who has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can they debate?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9597,13,14],"tags":[9543,2505,7419],"class_list":["post-56535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joe-biden","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56536,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56535\/revisions\/56536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}