I unfortunately read this question immediately after the post above it put “centipedes” into my head. And now all three words sound to me like creepy crawly arthropods swarming in my skull.
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The second debate:
Moderator: Candidates, if you could this time, please refrain from talking over me or each other.
Trump: I never talked over you, not once. Not—
Moderator: Mr. Trump, I’d like to start the de—
Trump: —once. I just want the people to know th—
Moderator: You’re interrupting me right—
Trump: No, I’m not. That’s not correct. You—
Moderator: Mr. Trump, I—
Trump: —aren’t letting me finish, let me finish.
Moderator: [cold stare]
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Anderson Cooper is going to let Trump get away with exactly zero shit.
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I want.
No.
I need this to be true.
All the false equivocation, all the pandering, all the bullshit we’ve seen thus far. Somebody, anybody needs to clearly and properly call him on his bullshit to his face.
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I sure hope you’re ri— [sees @nothingfuture’s post]
What he said.
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Gish Gallop == Verbal DDoS attack
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He called Trump a five year old in a Town Hall.
Trump already is against Coop:
One of the things I have always loved about Cooper is that he literally doesn’t give a fuck who you are. He has money, you can’t fire him, you can’t buy him out, he wants the truth and he is willing to call people out on their shit. And then laugh and roll his eyes when you keep it up while cutting off your mic.
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I think that’s because for the debate a professional TV makeup artist covered his spray tanned skin with normal human flesh tone - a bit like applying makeup on a zombie to make it look more lifelike…
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<pedant>
DoS attack, unless you have more than one person drownig you out at the same time.
</pedant>
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I don’t know what “maybe it’s hardly doable!” means, but it’s my new favorite phrase.
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Yeah. Mic drop moment, there. Twas beautiful to witness.
Agreed. She played him like an incompetent, greedy, racist fiddle, and it was wonderful to watch. The temperament question, though, was my favorite. trump yelling at Holt, yelling at HRC–“I’ve got the best temperament, I DO…”. It was like watching a fourth grader throw a tantrum. That, in my favorite moments, was followed by trump claiming to have done “a service” to Obama for getting access to his birth records. What a ghastly human being.
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I think that it was Melania’s response to “Do you take this man to be your awfully wedded husband?”
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The depressing thing to me is that face seems to say, “I can’t believe I even have to run against this guy.”
The fact that it’s not just her but that a large number of people find him genuinely appealing as a candidate no matter what he does is really getting me down.
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Some of the stuff she did like that really was nice. I think she was attempting to rise above his bloviating and act like the adult in the room. Some people were upset that she didn’t attack him on some of the stuff he said, but I think that was totally intentional. A couple of times she got pulled in, but for most of it, I think she meant to let him speak for himself and dig himself a hole that he won’t be able to get out of with anyone other than his base.
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It’s really awesome when I can use it in relation to home state hero, Jimmy Carter! His dad was a goober farmer! He held a goobernatorial position! It’s goobers all the way down!
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So, can I ask a question for those of you who (a) watched the debate and (b) have felt that you disliked HRC but were going to vote for her only because of the alternative: do you feel any better about her after the debate?
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A smidgen. Clinton seemed focused on favorably contrasting herself and Trump. The only time I found myself emphatically nodding was when she talked about shutting down private prisons on the state level, not just federal.
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No. I am slightly buoyed she didn’t let trump carry the evening; for that, good job HRC.
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My memories of the Carter administration are fuzzy which made this a fun and illuminating read.
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Was five million dollars mentioned?
I will be very disappointed if it wasn’t.
