There wasn’t anything wrong with his microphone! I could hear everything he was say–
Ahhhh, got it.
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There is a long history of technological foot-dragging in congress. Thomas Edison has some similar ideas about efficiency in politics, and his ideas were eventually implimented after 100 years.
Reminds me of a Groucho joke:
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
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He says that he’s going to bring up Bill Clinton’s infidelities. No possible way that could backfire for a serial adulterer who is currently on his third wife.
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They really, really need to mute his microphone when it’s not his turn to speak in the next debate.
I’m sure the men denying that this happens will explain that, well, Donald Trump is an asshole who does this to everyone, which may be true, but he wasn’t this bad at the Republican debates.
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Then we would’ve missed some of his best lines, like when he insisted he was “smart” for not paying any federal taxes.
I don’t think any of his interruptions helped his case. That’s why Clinton kept smiling through most of them.
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She didn’t even address his ‘temperament’ tirade. She didn’t have to. Why hand someone a shovel when they’re already using one?
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That’s a good point. How about this solution: when it’s not their turn, their mic signal is routed through a pitch shifter that raises their voice by an octave and isolated into our rear surround speakers, so they sound like the squeaky, interrupting kids in the peanut gallery they’re acting like.
I say “they.” I of course mean “he.”
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He was worse with interrupting Clinton, but was still really horrible in the GOP debates in interrupting Jeb! and Cruz, and taking more time than allotted. His whole schtick is a reckless disregard for any rules or order, despite praising law and order.
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Interesting that in this supercut he is exactly as coherent as he was in the full debate.
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I think he said “WRONG” to something she had just said, talking over her of course. I only tuned in during halftime of the football game, but I did happen to catch that moment.
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So many of his interruptions were him just saying, “Wrong!” during Clinton’s own fact-checking, which for some people would have undermined her statements.
I wish, though, that she had a look of shocked incredulity when he said that, although I suppose even his supporters realize how absurd that statement was.
He is a man of many ironies.
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“Wrong.”
“I never said that.”
“Not true.”
Given that he speaks at a third-grade level, I suspect that his advisers coached him on using these phrases instead of ‘Nuh-uh’.
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Trump vows to ‘hit her harder’
Yeah, that’s his plan to appeal to women voters.
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The donkey punch of America.
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Fox is playing to that base, the ones (the many) who think a man can’t be a “real man” unless he’s willing to defy “the PC police” and go ahead and hit a woman “who deserves it.” Oh for the days when it was okay to put a woman in her place, etc, ad nauseam.
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I agree with everything you say with one exception: I do care if they act presidential, because it shows that they are taking the debate seriously, but more to the point, it shows that they are capable of acting presidential when they need to. I’ve never seen Trump acting anything but a petty, hypersensitive, bullying boob. If I thought he were capable of taking a meeting with Pranab Mukherjee without making fun of his accent or offering to nuke Pakistan in return for certain considerations, I wouldn’t be quite as horrified of the thought of his presidency.
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Grade level is based off of Flesch-Kincaid or some similar readability metric based on words per sentence and syllables per word. Short, choppy sentences with simple words score at a low grade level, but such sentences are also what sound bites are made out of. We mock his low-grade-level manner of speaking, but it is one of the secrets to his success.
This thread has a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 5.2, for those of you still laughing.
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And now that I’ve googled around a bit, it seems he (or his speech advisor) has recently raised the bar. His speeches the last couple months have been around a 6-7 grade level. That’s only slightly lower than Clinton, who scores 7-8.
Trivia time: of all the primary presidential candidates, who spoke at the highest grade level?
Dr. Ben Carson, 10th grade. Soak that one in.
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