The article is short, so worth the read, but here’s the TL;DR:
- Commercial Breaks
- No Opening Statements
- Muted microphones, no notes
- No Live Audience
Removed by mod
You know how you have to prepare your house when someone is bringing their kids over (especially if you don’t have kids of your own) ? That what this is. Things have got so bad that they have to bring in a bunch of new rules just so one adult can finish speaking without a other “adult” talking over them the whole time. Holy shit, this is what it has come to.
Commercial Breaks
What the fuck?
Broadcasters are using public spectrum. They don’t need to make money off of this.
Broadcasters are using public spectrum. They don’t need to make money off of this.
They sure don’t, but it definitely represents the current state of the union where everything and everyone has to be monetized 🤷♂️
too true
It’s on CNN, cable is not the public spectrum.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States
Are cable lines entirely running through private land? Is CNN carried on a satellite television provider?
Public spectrum is over the air broadcast frequencies. Cable is, by definiton, not on that.
Yes cable television doesn’t use broadband spectrum, but it still relies on other public resources.
And satellite broadcasts do use spectrum allotted by the government, and CNN is carried on satellite.
Additionally, why are we allowing CNN to incorporate if it does not benefit society? The government shouldn’t be letting companies incorporate that only serve entirely their own interests.
The government has defined “public spectrum” and that’s not their definition.
The public benefit aspect of incorporation also hasn’t been a thing in, what? Decades? Shit, now I need to google that…
Okay, I’m convinced.
They must run commercials.Edit: You’ve proven me wrong.They didn’t say that and you know they didn’t say it even imply it. You’re just being shitty.
They have been making money for the last decade off of Trumps presidential shenanigans, they aren’t going to stop milking that cow now. They can still get another decade out if him, even if he died today.
Commercial breaks are also breaks in the debate where the candidate can stop and think/get fed his next talking point/line
From the article:
However, campaign staff will be prohibited from interacting with their respective candidates during these intermissions, denying them the opportunity for strategic consultations or to touch up the candidates’ appearance.
But are they allowed to roll out some recliners for a quick grandpa nap?
They are both obviously old, so a couple sitting down breaks in the debate seems legitimately reasonable.
I’m in my 40s, and while I could stand and talk for 90 minutes, it would be pretty uncomfortable and my back would be aching a bit by the end. I don’t think I could do it at 80.
lol that would be hilarious actually, I can picture it in my head. As the commercial break ends the camera fades to black then the stage slowly fades in. Both candidates are passed out in their chairs drooling all over. An infomercial for dentures blares from an unseen TV. As the TV is turned off both of them jolt awake and hobble slowly back to their podiums.
Teams need to come out like pit crews. They wheel the recliners in super fast, make sure they’re both dressed in their Grandpa Joe PJs (Willy Wonka, no relation).
Like the fight between Herbert and that old Nazi collaborator guy
And that’s what I get for not reading the article all the way
Quick someone pay for a Trump Slander ad in one of the time slots.
Wonder how much those 2 ad slots are going for lol
More expensive than a Super Bowl commercial?
Good question. Now I wonder who’s advertising in those slots (not that I’ll watch the ads lol).
You over estimate the US public. Viewer numbers will probably by abysmal, and the vast majority of voters will only be seeing bias confirming short clips.
Hey! They didn’t say anything about sabers!
Excellent. Excellent.
Question 1 what do you think of this cloud?
I’m sure trump will be strong on opinion and bluster, yet nonexistent on facts or strategies.
He’ll probably call foul on the rules that remove his strongest advantage - a whipped-up mob.
I put “collapses in a demonic fit and begins chewing on biden’s pant legs” on my bingo card.
Just in case.
That’s how you win presidential debates
So they are allowed an earpiece?
- there will be 2 commercial breaks.
A) Is this is so the old folks can have a potty break? B) How capitalist have we become that we commercialize the presidential debate openly? I wonder if these will be SuperBowl-level ads.
I expect the main event to be painful for all involved ( the audience, the studio, 45/46 egos ). They better put some effort into the comercials…
2 minute answers is garbage
No items. Final destination.
Fox only.
CNN surely 🤓
Two old senile fucks arguing. This gon be good
If only Clinton could have had muted mics against Captain Gibberish.
At least the 2020 debate got us “Will you shut up, man?” .
Well at least 2016 got us “Pokemon Go… to the polls!” Eeesh
I am (unronically) convinced that this sentence did more to secure Biden’s presidency than the entire rest of the debate.
That’s why I think trump will go down in the polls as we get closer to the election. The American public genuinely did want trump to shut up when Biden said that. I hope Biden tells him to shut up again at this debate with the muted mics. It would make him go nuts.
Literally just say “I whooped your ass and I’ll do it again.” Trump would lose his mind. He never encounters people who say that to him. Everyone around him is a sycophant.
Yes! Say it Dark Brandon!
- Locked cage
- Two men enter, one man leaves
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! RAGE IN A CAGE! BE THERE!
“WE’LL SELL YOU THE ENTIRE SEAT BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE!”
Let’s go full Thunderdome and institute bust a deal, face the wheel too.
Then the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell-in-the-Cell and he plumetted 15 ft. through the announcers table!
Never have we needed Celebrity Death Match more than we do right now.
