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It’s Debate Night here in the USA. The debate proper starts at 9 PM Eastern, but you can start talking, yelling, whatever right now and for as long as you want. Should this be a no-trolls thread? Yeah, let’s make it a no-trolls thread. And no Trump supporters, obviously.
I will be live-screaming the debate here in my apartment. If you’re outside my window, enjoy!
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Bloviating is thirsty work, Kat.
Things I noticed… he compained about hurtful ads, but the ads I’ve seen have been playing things he said and making you imagine children watching him… or asking others to say stuff he said out loud.
Also… was he bragging about exploiting laws to stiff workers??
Over on Jezebel’s Slot someone posted a screencap from 4chan in the coments. They’re already calling Trump a cuck and pining for Ron Paul. WOW was that a fast fall from grace.
David, that might be a fun thing to cover: the alt right’s reaction to him not being able to crush Hillary (sure some will say he did anyway but others aren’t)
He bragged that he doesn’t pay his taxes.
In a presidential debate.
Then the man calling women pigs and Mexicas rapists said his feelings were hurt by a commercial that literally just plays his actual voice saying things he actually said
It hurt his feelings.
That happened.
2016 is a fever dream come to life.
Re: Trump drug use talk
Is that OK? I’m thinking that’s not OK. Am I being oversensitive about this? I mean, I get it. Rich, white, financier type, and there’s a lot of powder in those circles. And he’s a shit, so fuck him. I dunno, it seems wrong anyway. Makes me squirm
@Axecalibur
Yeah, it’s not cool.
EDIT: I mean, I definitely think it’s funny that Howard Dean would say something like that. But funny does not equal right.
Axecalibur: I want a drug test. Have him pee into a cup.
I think it’s fair that both candidates pee into a cup. That should clear it up once and for all.
I’m not sure my brain can handle 3 more “debates” like these.
I think it’s more like when people make a “go home, you’re drunk” joke. It’s not as much speculating on whether or not he’s drug user as much as it’s highlighting that is behavior was uncontrolled.
Sooo… damn. I’m not sure what to say, really. [Edit: I meant I had no idea what I was going to say as I started to write this.] It turned into a bunch of personal attacks. I was kind of hoping that Hillary would stay above that and find a way to turn things back on him less directly. But at least her composure only slightly cracked a few times, while his broke several times. Often badly.
It was funny how he kept interrupting with “wrong!” though. Funny in the “OMG, what a dumbass clown” way.
Trump had a point about trade deals often damaging every country involved. Though I’m not sure if his way of making that point was factually correct (I’d have to do research first). And almost sort of had a point about personal attacks – while hypocritically engaging in them. I think he’s mad because some of the Clinton campaign’s ads hit him where it hurts (personally, not necessarily electorally). Everything else he said was just wrongheaded and inaccurate as hell.
Well, except maybe one thing that I’m not sure about. Wasn’t paying much attention during the 2008 primaries, was Clinton being racist towards Obama back then? But even if that was a point, there’s no evidence of her being openly racist now, while Trump currently has a racism problem. So he’s not in a good place to be pointing fingers, even if it were true.
Holt was not prepared for Trump’s ego. He really should have been, it’s not like that’s an unknown quantity. (Subtle pun intended.)
One of the CBS commenters said that the general debate is better at showing how the candidate would actually govern than the primary debates do. That is not always true.
I’ll be frank – I still don’t like some of Hillary’s economic and military policies. But since the alternative appears to be 10 times worse and held together by fairy dust, well…
The final question, about whether they would accept losing gracefully… Hillary didn’t answer it directly, but it sounded like a reluctant “yes”. Donald didn’t answer the question at all, but the tone of his response seemed like a “hell no!”
We’ll see what happens, but there’s indications that some of Trump’s troll supporters are turning on him.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/780585273453346816
LO fucking L
@Snowberry
Same sentiments here, maybe we’ll find Trump Revolution in the papers and then finally we can say “well, I guess we’ve seen everything.”
Honestly at this point a call for revolution doesn’t seem too far fetched with Trump at this point.
@WWTH
MEME MAGIIIIIIIIIIIIIC, where is your god now /pol/? Where? Where is your train? “Your time is now?”
You’re time is nao
ur tiem is nao
It’s so damn hilarous, I’d almost unblock my racist friend just to rub it in his face.
Snowberry:re:clinton vs obama,
on cnn, they played the clip with wolf blitzer trump mentioned, and the person he was talking about said a staffer in iowa forwarded an email about obama being muslim, and they fired the person and apologized to obama’s campaign.
So a far cry from her saying she sent someone overseas as trump said.
@Lea
Who is he, Bobby Newport? (I’m sorry, that’s unfair to fictional characters to compare them to Drumpf.)
Holt did a terrible job moderating. He had absolutely no control over the debate.
My favorite part was when Trump said he had a great temperament and the audience broke out in disbelieving laughter.
I can’t believe that five pages in and not a single drive by troll desperately trying to defend Trump’s pathetic excuse of a speech.
Oh Jebus. I went to /pol/ and browsed some. They’re basically giving up on Trump. Seems like the majority of /pol/ trolls are tired of the whole thing now, and bored with The Donald. He fucked up bad tonight, as expected.
Ooglyboggles,
It’s a no troll thread. I’m sure there’s one or two who tried to post and weren’t allowed through moderation. I’m sure there’ll be some reaction posts tomorrow and we’ll get a light troll snack there.
The trolls are sad tonight though. From the little bit of the comment sections at Jezebel that I checked, they seemed lackluster. One just went on a tangent on how the employees at Jezebel didn’t deserve to join a union because they had biased coverage. Yeah, I don’t know either.
@IP
Oh it’s a riot to see them go round and round in pathetic circles, I don’t care if it makes me sound like a bad person, I love vindication, especially when it’s with fools like them.
Okay, I promised to post pics, and now I shall. I am in a really, really good mood tonight, and I just could dance and sing, but that would be disruptive to my roommates, so I’ll just dance and sing later.
@WWTH
I sure hope so, I am so looking forward to the minute where Trump goes completely desperate and then just explodes into red hot fury when he feels like there is no chance of ever becoming president. Hey it’s not like I’m crushing anyone beneath my heels, just me enjoying the schadenfreude.
http://i.imgur.com/DQUERbo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gKsCYlh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/foaCQdg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Hc2BCOx.gif
http://67.media.tumblr.com/73610ef3fd4adfdccd9a5a872f5c1d68/tumblr_o87jshBH3A1tdi5cko1_500.gif
http://i.imgur.com/3zQJ3yC.mp4
“Woo!”
@PoM
Probably nobody here is more pro-union than I am, but both of these organizations need to be abolished immediately. If cops want a union, they can start behaving well enough that the SEIU will let them in with the rest of the unionized government workers.
Best Hillary quote ever?!
Best quote ever?!
1am and I’m still not over Trump asking why China can’t do us a solid and go to war with North Korea.
PS: @Scildfreja holy shit, you had a bad day.
I had a sorta bad day, yes. Thank you <3 Tomorrow will be better. (because i have sleepy-time drugs!)
Trump is a train wreck, but i dunno how this will affect his numbers. I'm really looking forward to seeing the polls. If this doesn't hurt him, we in trouble folks.
I’m not sure if I can handle listening to Trump for an extended period of time. I’ve been able to avoid hearing him for most of this election cycle.
Anyway, I read the preliminary transcript at NPR’s site. Not perfectly transcribed, but good enough. I’ll post it here for those who want to read it: http://www.npr.org/2016/09/26/495115346/fact-check-first-presidential-debate
@banned
Yeah, that took me aback too. China needs to invade North Korea! declares a US presidential candidate.
Thank you Donald. Good idea.
I thought Hillary brought her A game. She can’t be someone she’s not, but her knowledge is thorough, and her cool can’t be beat. She looked great.
I am deeply curious about what the whole story is about the beauty pageant contestant Hillary brought up. He almost broke there. Something about her bringing that up spooked him.
I hoped he’d melt down completely, so that was disappointing. He didn’t do that badly, once again given who we’re talking about.