How do you debate a sociopath, that is the question.

[Peregrine Took]

No place he won't go to score a point. She is super sharp but can she thwart this sly boots lunatic narcissist?

[guillaumeb]

1. And he lies habitually.

Difficult to debate when one person cannot stop lying.

[trueblue2007]

2. the moderators will HAVE TO STEP IN and tell him to SHUT UP. if he doesn't, CUT HIS MICROPHONE.

if he keeps talking, escort him out of the debate.

off the stage and out the door.

[guillaumeb]

3. He would spin that as him being the victim of a liberal media conspiracy.

[meow2u3]

4. You have to assume a sociopath is lying

Then you have to call him out with a blanket statement warning your viewers that what he is about to spew is a crock.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. How you short-circuit someone like Trump... Get him on something and hit him 3 times with it.

.


My doctor neighbor show me a really cool trick...


Their minds can only be asked or confronted with something 3 times before the blow a fuse.


1) If you catch them on something, directly confront them.

2) When they try to change the topic... redirect back to the same question/topic.

3) They will try to redirect again, hold their toes to the fire and don't let it happen.



After this third time, they will completely lose their shit.

It's so fun to watch. It's the only way to get back at these types.



The problem is, the MSM and most people, are easily distracted and follow the change of topic.
Most people will allow the topic to change, which gives the person an escape from answering the first question.


That must not happen! It's very hard to stay focused, but when you do, their heads will start smoking.


.

[JCanete]

6. It's going to be a slaughter. He and the 33 percent of the population

that is still going to vote for him may never be aware of it, but he's going to look bad. For the undecideds? He's going to look like a capricious fool, proving even to them that he doesn't actually have a clue what he's doing or saying. Clinton will point out that he doesn't have specifics on anything, and if the opening arises, he'll be laid bare on a part of the world or a policy that he can't even bullshit effectively about, because he doesn't actually know or care to know, shit about it.

He's not a politician. He just competed on a reality show with other circus clowns, a small subset of America voted, and he won a bid for the Presidency. But he can't hang. The only thing I'm surprised about is that he started tanking just days after the primaries. I thought it would take until the "real" 1 on 1 interviews with the questions set to a 4 gotcha level, and then the debates.

[NCTraveler]

7. After she shakes hands with him she just needs to comment on how small they are.

Not to the audience or anyone. Just to him. He won't recover.

[hamsterjill]

8. I am humbled by your brilliance!

Because that is genius, and would most definitely work.

[MrScorpio]

9. "Gee, I thought that your hands would be bigger, Donald."

There you go.

[tandem5]

10. You pretend like he's not there. You only answer the questions posed to you, but not the rebuttals.

You look through him, past him, over him.

As an example...

[Hortensis]

11. Best guess is he'll mostly recite canned responses,

generic Trump stump stuff that he can already rattle off pretty automatically. After all, he doesn't have to "win" any of the debates, just deliver lines on each subject strongly with great conviction to please his authoritarian followers and avoid destroying everything by being himself.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. You identify and correct the lies--to the audience.

Don't address yourself to the liar. That would turn into an argument, which is what the orange slug thrives on.