He is not that brave.
It would be nice if the moderator asks Trump a question about battery powered boats and sharks. or maybe one about how much water is needed to wash dishes in a washing machine, or how much lather he likes on his hair. Just let him go on for two minutes on these topics.
I imagine CNN will make the debate freely available on their stream like they do with other major events so I might check in once in a while, but I can only take Trump in small doses without getting ill. And despite some fanciful speculation I don’t expect anything momentous to happen. It’s likely to be fairly boring, unless one considers Trump’s outrageous lying to be entertaining.
I think for the most part he won’t be specific enough to even call it a lie.
DJT’s voice drives me into a homicidal fury. I am considering watching the debate, but with the sound off and closed captioning on.
This also works for horror movies.
So is this thread going to be the follow-along thread?
Seems a good choice, if we’re doing a follow-along.
I thought it would be good for the follow-along thread, too.
I’ll probably record it and only go back to watch bits of it if I learn about something that needs watching. I can’t stand to see or hear trump.
I’ll follow along here to see how it’s going.
Energy drinks? As in — anything with caffeine? As in Donald’s favorite, Diet Coke?
I have no certainty what real campaign advisors tell their candidates, but pre-debate caffeine seems a generally good idea to me.
Johnson knows that as a Republican his job is to parrot Convict Donald’s talking points, but as Congress’ answer to Ned Flanders, he actually seems to take his religious beliefs at least kinda seriously and isn’t comfortable baselessly accusing Biden of being on magical anti-dementia drugs that would pretty much guarantee the Nobel Prize for whoever actually discovered them. So he’s playing along in the mildest way possible lest Baby Jesus get mad at him.
I plan to go over to my neighbor’s and watch about 10-15 minutes of it just to get an idea of what it looks like.
The last time I watched trump for more than a few seconds was when he debated Hillary. Seriously. I don’t watch TV news at all. I will be in a position to note how much he has deteriorated.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch live. I know it will be very cringy.
I’ll watch because I’m off work this week, and because, dammit, this is what my country is giving me.
And yes, I watch NASCAR for the crashes.
I hate TV in general so I don’t even have cable, but if I did I wouldn’t be able to stand sitting in front of a TV for 90 minutes of which roughly half was occupied by the mendacious whining of an orange felon. So I’ll catch bits of it on CNN’s stream and most of the rest from this thread and news reports. As I said earlier, I don’t expect anything momentous, but as Trump descends into dementia and paranoia he’s proven increasingly prone to making a total ass of himself, so there’s at least faint hope of some sort of spectacle, though I don’t think it’s likely.
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Oh noes, Biden might consume caffeine!!! 
If every accusation really is a confession, I wonder what the other guy will be consuming.
I haven’t decided if I’m watching or not. I’m sort of expecting to see a spectacle every time the con’s microphone is muted, but I also can’t stand to hear him speak. At the same time, if his speech has gotten as bad as I’ve been led to believe, I don’t see how captioning can keep up with him.
I’ll be watching. I want to see if the muting system works as planned: Biden speaks to the question, while Trump is seen playing his accordion, and moving his mouth, but cannot be heard. Besides that, I do want to hear what each has to say.
Here’s my prediction; after the debate, Trump will publicly whine that the system that assures that both candidates be heard and that it’s a two-sided debate led to a one-sided debate where he couldn’t be heard.
Would that it were so.
I’ll be fast asleep, since I’m in SE Asia this week. Just as well.