Cool, calm, collected - the Felon's con?

[BoRaGard]

The repubes and their black-ops ruski comrades know the whole wide world is expecting their Felon to freak out tonight, or at least to act out bigly.

But I'd bet a gunny sack of belly button lint that the Felon and Blowhard Bannon have been noodle-to-noodle, working up a stinking republi-scam for tonight: maybe pretend to be cool, calm, collected. You know, out of character, but inviting viewer's "conFIDENCE."

They are going to see how many more "suckers and losers" they can con.

[GenThePerservering]

1. Trump will never remember nt

[Beachnutt]

2. Joe should push his buttons

and set him off to show who he really is.
Bring up his sexual assault trial for one.

[gab13by13]

3. Exactly, smack him right in his big fat nose,

and laugh, and then do it again. Once TSF's fuse is lit it's over.

Let him try to be refined, he cannot.

[emulatorloo]

4. Trump can't pull that off though.

Besides, stinky Bannon is too busy trying to evade his prison sentence.

[Torchlight]

5. My money says trump's tantrums will be legion.

I'v never watched the man maintain emotional self-control if he thinks he can get away with it. I see zero indication it will happen tonight.

[birdographer]

6. I have wondered if he will start out

acting like an adult. I think he might be able to pull this off for a limited amount of time. But at most, IMO, about 30 minutes. His mic keeps getting muted while he is talking. He has no teleprompter, no cheering paid-for crowd. He is being asked REALLY HARD questions and his answers being challenged or called lies. Biden is baiting and triggering him, but Biden refuses to fall for any of his attacks, he gets ignored. During their breaks, he has time to throw his tantrum, but that just puts him in tantrum mode.

He could surprise us, if instead of Adderall he is on Valium or Xanax. I just don't see anything lasting him through the entire debate. He is mentally unstable.

[wnylib]

7. Trump is not capable of pulling off a calm demeanor

throughout an entire debate unless he is sedated. We saw at his trial what happens when he is under the influence of calming drugs.

When Trump tries to act presidential and deliver a calm statement, he speaks in a dull, flat monotone. That's either due to sticking to a teleprompter script or to being sedated for the purpose.

I'm betting that we will see the flat, monotone Trump, the snorting, angry Trump, or the rambling, incoherent Trump. Maybe all three at different stages in the debate.

[emulatorloo]

8. Good point about the trial. So drugged he constantly nodded off.