Is Donald Trump really trying to get out of debating Kamala Harris again? Or is it the opposite?

On Thursday, it seemed like the dust had finally settled. “The debate about debates is over,” said Michael Tyler, the Harris campaign communications director, in a statement. “Donald Trump’s campaign accepted our proposal for three debates—two presidential and a vice presidential debate.”

“Assuming Donald Trump actually shows up on September 10 to debate Vice President Harris, then Governor Walz will see JD Vance on October 1 and the American people will have another opportunity to see the vice president and Donald Trump on the debate stage in October,” the Harris campaign continued.

But now, Trump’s team claims that the Democrat lied when she said the two sides reached a debate agreement. At the moment, there is only one confirmed debate between the presidential nominees, to be held September 10 by ABC News.

Nevertheless, the Trump campaign’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller Friday that Trump will be doing three debates and Vance will be doing two.

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    Genius here can’t tell the difference between documents created by historians and documents created to be fictional stories.

    There’s documents saying Santa claus existed

    Saint Nicholas did in fact exist. He had no magic powers, was just a generally nice guy, and folklore was created around him after he died.

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      Not the point and you know it. Saint Nicholas wasn’t flying around in a magic sleigh. And that’s before questioning the “saint” part. Do you really think some dude that turned water to wine would be mad about jagerbombs?

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        And that’s before questioning the “saint” part.

        Well, he was a nice guy at least. He snuck into people’s houses and left bags of gold so they wouldn’t have to sell their daughters into slavery.

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        Saint Nicholas wasn’t flying around in a magic sleigh.

        Agreed. And nobody here is arguing that Jesus was turning water into wine. If you read my post it specifically said: a Jew, with followers, executed on orders of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius

        When you’re so anti-religion you loop around to sticking firmly to your personal beliefs and ignoring any evidence that disagrees with them…

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          Because outside of those religious texts, there’s 0 evidence to him existing at all. None.

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            Again, if you actually read my post, it specifically mentioned that religious texts are biased and therefore not credible, and the link mentions other historical documents that mention him existing.

            But you saw a post disagreeing with your religious beliefs so you plugged your ears and tuned it out rather than risk hearing something that might challenge your (for some reason) deeply held beliefs.

            We can agree Saint Nicholas was just some guy and a mythology was built up around him. We have a direct example of that happening. I don’t know why the idea that a similar thing could happen to some other guy is so dangerous to your world view.

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              Saint Nicholas was a real, documented person, and by all accounts a good one at that. But there isn’t a single bit of credible, contemporary evidence that Jesus existed at all. There are inscriptions mentioning Jesus and where he came from but they were hundreds of years after the time when he would have existed.

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                Saint Nicholas was a real, documented person

                According to you there’s no “proof” of that, it’s just things people wrote down, and that’s not proof.

                There are inscriptions mentioning Jesus and where he came from but they were hundreds of years after the time when he would have existed.

                At least your admitting you bother to look at any evidence that disagrees with your religious beliefs. From my link earlier:

                In chronicling the burning of Rome in A.D. 64, Tacitus mentions that Emperor Nero falsely blamed “the persons commonly called Christians, who were hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius.”

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                It’s weird how it’s always the religious fundamentalists that feel the need to tell you they are blocking you instead of just leaving the conversation.

                “I’m an open minded intellectual, so I’m not listening to you anymore.” Okay then.

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                    There’s more evidence that Jesus existed than there is that I am a religious fundamentalist.

                    so I block them on Lemmy. Bye.

                    How did I know this was a lie?

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            I don’t have a pro-Christian or pro-Abrahamic bias.

            True, you have an anti-Christian, anti-Abrahamic balance. Why else would you be so offended by the idea that a Jew, with followers, executed on orders of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, existed?

            I don’t think any such figure existed, and was a wholesale invention.

            I don’t think you exist and are a wholesale invention. There’s no proof to the contrary.

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                How many gods and religions do you not believe in?

                If anyone told me “Zeus was actually based on some guy from early Greece that we have historical evidence for” my reaction to that would be more along the line of “Oh, that’s interesting” instead of “Your evidence better be pretty overwhelming!” Knowing Saint Nicholas was a real person doesn’t mean I’m mailing Christmas lists to the north pole. The origins of things are interesting, and I’m not going to argue with experts in the field (historians), that’s how you get Flat Earthers.

                Seek psychiatric help, you’re being rude to people that don’t exist.

                Ya right, like I’m going to take advice from a figment of my imagination. That’s something a crazy person would do!

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                    I’m autistic and logical.

                    How logical is it to tell someone you’re blocking them and then continue to reply to them? You don’t sound very logical to me.

                    I don’t identify as a human.

                    JFC, you’re an idiot. There were other responses to make but I’m talking to someone who can’t even be convinced that they are human, “historians know more than you” is so far down the list of priorities of things you need to come to grips with. Find yourself a therapist you can talk to.