I’m opening this thread a bit early today because holy crap is there a lot to talk about.
In the meantime, I’m going to prepare for the debate by taking a nap.
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I don’t eat cereal but once in a while I buy Reese’s Puffs and have it for dessert. That shit is better than cookies!
@ handsome jack
The President in the book is indeed a woman but it’s implied that’s no big deal because she’s not the first.
Trump TV… ???
He reminds me of High Chancellor Sutler in “V for Vendetta”. all swagger and bluster until he’s no longer in command, then all whine and cry. We do have a great worry over what his supporters do now, especially if he has his own network to egg them on. They’re a generation away from being organized enough to foment rebellion, but individually and in small groups they will cause a lot of heartache.
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Carl Sagan had such high hopes for us.
Still off-topic: Okay, so I tallied up the total on my makeup haul, and it was originally like 25 bucks retail.
Still, only spending about seven fifty on it after employee discount and taxes is pretty good.
I mean, I got a Maleficent contour compact and lip pencils, an Evil Queen blush compact and an eyebrow kit, and an Ursula brush set and an eye shadow pallet.
And the boxes are cool as fuck, so I’m saving them for future recycling.
They also had an Ariel compact for 75 cents, but I didn’t bother because VILLAINS.
I think it’s rather telling I went from idolizing Ariel and Aurora when I was a child (I wore out four VHS tapes of the movie) to siding with Ursula and Maleficent when I was an adult.
I’m sad that no one in this thread latched onto Trump accusing Clinton of planning to make the Second Amendment a “very, very small replica” of itself. An amendment for ants, really! We have Derek Zoolander running for president, people, except without the heart.
Oh wait, Trump endorsed Zoolander back in 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOs_A-nzesA
@Troubelle
Store brand frosted flakes. The fuckin GOAT ?
Trump managed to keep it together for the most part during the first half hour. Lost it for most of the second half hour. Spent the rest of it on the border of losing it again. Definitely an improvement in performance over the first two debates. He might even retain a percentage point or two that he would otherwise have lost, for all the good it does him.
And he still got trounced for the most part.
Hillary had to face a moderator who was mildly hostile towards her and worded the questions in a somewhat ugly way. And a Trump who was determined to tear her down the way he got torn down in the previous debates. She weathered the gauntlet well, I think.
So, I’ll be seeing the election coverage, and then no more TV for two years. Probably.
@ handsome jack
Ellie was named after Eleanor Roosevelt.
@Axecalibur
Whatever floats your boat.
I love Ursula. Especially after I found out she was based on Divine.
It’s very rare in my work circles (I’m a contractor, so I see a lot of work places around Montreal) to talk politics — it’s basically considered unprofessional. But Trump transcends that.
Exhibit A: I improved a system to animate a talking head. QA says “now he talks like Trump, heh heh”. Frown. Rounded lips. Touché!
Exhibit B: a group of medium wigs were chatting, wondering how the heck could such an obvious fraud get so far. How could anyone take him seriously?
Exhibit C: it’s time to try to balance the difficulty of a game I’I helping with. The game designer makes the game harder. The players get slaughtered. One of them jokes “the game was rigged!” Game designer replies about how he’s “got huge monsters. The best monsters. *sniff*”
We’re laughing because we don’t want to cry.
Trump was the most coherent of his three performances but was still incapable of discussing policy in any depth and interupted/insulted constantly.
Also the accepting the election results question was a lobbed softball he decided to take directly in the dick.
ETA: the CNN and YouGov quick polls (actual scientific polls) have Clinton winning the debate by a 10-12% margin, so much for Trump closing any of the ~7% he’s behind tonight.
@weirdwoodtreehugger
Eh her being based on Divine was something I try to forget about Ursala. I’m not a big fan of Divine, granted because I didn’t care for the “Trash Trilogy” I respect the actor and their struggles, but their body of work leaves much to be desired for me.
As for OT My SO decided to put the debate on while we cleaned up after dinner and GOOD MARKIPLIER IN IRELAND WITH JACKSEPTICEYE Trump was insufferable!
I only caught the bits about Immigration, Hillary wanting an open border for electricity and PUTIN! that was enough for me. I literally had to leave the room and listen to NinjaSexParty to make myself happy again
@Scildfreja
Here’s how I read it:
And that the violence at his rallies were plaid pants by Obama and Hillary!
@GrumpyOldSocialJusticeMangina
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Story of his life.
I can’t hold back anymore.
I’m just gonna say it.
I need a chief of staff like Huma Abedin to follow me around and tell me who to say hi to and remind me of people’s names and stuff. Also, to pack a sandwich for me and tell me if my hair is okay in back. Whether I have lipstick on my teeth. Hand me change for the bus if I forget it.
And if this CoS could just look over my shoulder while I’m working and catch the typos that I didn’t catch, that would be super swell.
Also needed: several large, strong, highly trained, extremely personable, funny bodyguards who, in addition to keeping me safe in a dangerous world, will catch my typos.
Shorter debate (Clinton on left):
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Well I thought that was a complete route for Trump. He did nothing to change his downward momentum, and Clinton landed several hard punches on him, something she failed to do last debate. She called him a puppet and he almost burst a blood vessel. She called him out for evading taxes and he called her a “nasty woman”. She called him out for using cheap Chinese steel and undocumented workers, and his only response is “well why didn’t you stop me?” which I think even the dumbest voters can see is just childish.
Meanwhile Trump failed to hammer her as hard as he did in the previous debate. She left him some big openings in on the issue of Bill’s accusers, and on the whole “open borders thing”. But imo he failed to capitalize on those effectively and just went into stump speech mode.
Instead it was Clinton going more on the offensive, which I was pleased by. I disagree w/ the people saying this was Trump’s strongest performance. I think the 2nd debate was – he had her in a defensive crouch most of the debate, and she mostly let him go on and on w/ his insults and lies. Not so this time around. She went for the throat this time. This was Hillary self-assured that she has the presidency in the bag, and really gunning for those Congressional majorities.
I was happy about this debate. I’m predicting a Hillary landslide, w/ a good chance of flipping the whole Congress tbh.
Btw, the media takeaway of this debate is that Trump says he “won’t accept the results of this election”, and we should all be shaking in our boots about what he’ll do. For the record: I’m not the slightest bit afraid of his army of beer-bellied senior citizen white guys. They aren’t going to do shit but sulk, and they know it.
I was so fucking pissed about what he said about refugees. If middle easterners are coming to the u.s, chances are they are escaping war, not to come here and inflame conflict! A lot of Muslims in America and Europe fear terrorist attacks because no matter where they happen, they’re followed by islamaphobic hate crimes.
Re: Puppet
@authorialAlchemy : also, they fear terrorist attacks because they are more at risk of dying in it. And the refugees one (not the one installed here for longer) know very well what an attack can do.
@tricyclist
Brilliant and hilarious!
> wwth
Well, it happens far after the 25 years old wall, so…
> Troubelle
I suspect that the Trump fans expect him to go all MetalWolfChaos, whether he wins the elections or not, and even if his program is closer to the one of the villain of the game.
@occasional reader
As Presidents go, I would definitely have to put Trump more in line with Metal Gear than Metal Wolf. He’d make a great Solidus. The best Solidus. His tentacles would be yuuuge, and he’d have 20 of them, and he’d make Mexico pay to make them.