How about using "Talking Sticks" for the next debate

[Paula Sims]

OK, a bit "childish" but most psychologists do use it.

One can ONLY speak if they have a talking stick. The moderator is the umpire (ie tennis) and each group would have line judges that take their cue from the umpire or have their own time. They take and give disposable talking sticks.

Yes, on the first one I would have loved to see Biden use it in "other ways" but hey, it's a start. .

[Hugin]

1. Shades of the conch shell from "Lord of the Flies".

I'd prefer the Malignant Mussolini were honorable.

That's not the case.

[marybourg]

2. It only works if there's only 1 talking stick,

passed back in forth. Otherwise they’ll both be brandishing talking sticks and talking over each other. So it can’t work now. There’s nothing childish about it. It shows an understanding of human nature more sophisticated than what we arranged for in the last Presidential Debate.

[pat_k]

3. My notion

Every second one person talks over the opponents time, and every second a person goes over their own time, gets allocated to the opponents closing. The one with the most time allocated gets to close goes last.

Of course, to stay within the overall time scheduled for the debate, the questioning must end early to accommodate the allocated closing time.

There must be consequences.

[Wounded Bear]

4. That still requires everybody to follow the rules...

The answer to an asshole who won't follow the rules is not more rules, it is enforcing the rules in place.

The 'talking stick' would only work if they were close enough for Biden to whack Trump over the head with it when he is being an asshole, and that would be covid unsafe.

[Grammy23]

5. How about wiring tRump's chair

so he gets an electric shock every time he interrupts or goes over his time limit. The shock gets stronger the longer he persists in talking over Biden or refuses to relinquish the microphone. In the end, his ass would be a charred cinder.

[Wicked Blue]

6. We did that when I led a Brownie troop

but I'm not sure I would trust OrangeLunatic with a stick

[unitedwethrive]

7. Who in their right mind would give Trump a weapon?

You know it would only be a matter of time before he threw it or tried to strike Joe or the moderator. The orange mushroom duck tax cheat has no self control.

[sl8]

8. I'd prefer Silent Shillelaghs ™ .

Quiet Cudgels would work, too.

[Blue Owl]

9. Talking stick for Fuckstick von Clownstick

I'm envisioning a big red toy plastic bat, the kind toddlers use...