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Who will win the debate?
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The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

Reason posted:

yeah, probably. I'm not a big fan of Hillary Clinton or either the Democratic or Republican party in general. I can without any doubts say that Hillary destroyed Donald Trump, but I feel like almost anyone with any sort of public speaking debate background and a reasonable prep team could have blown Donald up at this point. The scary thing about Hillary(in this debate, to me) is how sure she sounds when she talks about military action in the Middle East. I really, really wish she was debating a real candidate because ugh I just want to hear some actual arguments.

I liked watching Bernie/Hillary debates because it felt like a real political argument was happening, but Hillary/Trump is just like a madman raving at a camera while a sane person explains why he's wrong.

I agree with you in that it would be nice to have an actual debate between two qualified candidates.

If you are genuinely wondering how Trump got to where he is, I still suggest going out and voting HRC to cancel out one of his voters. A third party vote may send the message that both parties are equally as bad; an HRC blowout sends the message that the Republican party needs to compete on substance.

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Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

Al! posted:

beer pouring through the estate over your grandmother's paisley shawl

New Kool Keith album sounding good.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

The Ninth Layer posted:

A third party vote may send the message that both parties are equally as bad

Nope

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot

oystertoadfish posted:

also the fact that i didnt see this in the thread means im either a dumbass who didnt notice it or its not real but

https://twitter.com/GroverNorquist/status/780601603338465280

lol

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Popular Thug Drink posted:

it's actually an advantage in some forms of business to be a double mouthed sociopath. trump got his first big deal by convincing lenders he had secured tax breaks, and then went and secured the tax breaks by pointing out all the lenders he had lined up. he lied until the deal worked, and it doesn't matter who said what behind closed doors

i used to work for a software company where the ceo would regularly promise potential customers that our software met their requirements, and then when the meeting was over we'd desperately scramble to hack in their requirements until we could get their money and tell them to gently caress off. like seriously just lying and half assing works pretty well in the short term, which is kind of all that matters

He was doing it wrong, but the right way to do it was that after you sell them the software, you then sell them long term support contracts, so you guys can actually implement fix the bugs in the promised features

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

last time around i perfectly timed the msnbc-fox switchover to get the megny kelly rovecucking of a generation but i can't imagine i can be blindly lucky twice in a row

i need a plan

Last time, I horribly hosed up my dinner, didn't order in food, and then drank 3/4 of a handle of vodka on an empty stomach.

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos

I loving died laughing when this happened during the debate

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
also, meh

Gizmoduck_5000
Oct 6, 2013

Your superior intellect is no match for our primitive weapons!

Cnut the Great posted:

If James Carville is so smart why is he married to a libertarian Trump supporter?

Because they break three beds a year having make up sex.

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.
I don't know how Grover Norquist got obsessed with vaping, but I'm glad it's made him look even more ridiculous

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

Trump Brags About Properties really needs to be on the bingo card for the next debate. How many times did he go on some diversion about specific properties he owned? Four?

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

Well my old lady is puking all over the bathroom since we played a drinking game and went through 2 bottles of gin so I guess that really does go to show that women have no place in politics.

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

jarofpiss posted:

Well my old lady is puking all over the bathroom since we played a drinking game and went through 2 bottles of gin so I guess that really does go to show that women have no place in politics.

Made America Great Again

Gizmoduck_5000
Oct 6, 2013

Your superior intellect is no match for our primitive weapons!

mdemone posted:

I know right? An "anti police judge", Jesus loving Christ

His actual words were "an against police judge".

zakkro
May 29, 2015


So any idea on what the ratings were like? I know they're practically guaranteed to finish the first season, but I don't know if I want a s2

Keg
Sep 22, 2014
A jpeg of words for you:



I didn't see the thing because it was at 3am, but was everything Trump said weird and disjointed like this? Because lol

Keg
Sep 22, 2014
C-SPAM: We came in with an internet, we came up with the internet

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Keg posted:

I didn't see the thing because it was at 3am, but was everything Trump said weird and disjointed like this? Because lol

A lot of it was hard to follow craziness.

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

Keg posted:

I didn't see the thing because it was at 3am, but was everything Trump said weird and disjointed like this? Because lol
TRUMP: You know, Hillary is hitting me with tremendous commercials. Some of it's said in entertainment. Some of it's said -- somebody who's been very vicious to me, Rosie O'Donnell, I said very tough things to her, and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her.

Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

Keg posted:

A jpeg of words for you:



I didn't see the thing because it was at 3am, but was everything Trump said weird and disjointed like this? Because lol

yeah he'd go off-topic and ramble constantly

the funny thing is in hillary's rebuttal she didn't even get to the sanders part of that word salad, he'd throw 3 or 4 different angles at once during his turn and then she'd get to focus on the easiest answer

Senator Sprinkles
Aug 16, 2008

"That's business" and "that makes me smart" could have ended up so much bloodier. I wish she had bitten down and thrashed on those two stupid quips.

"Get a load of Welfare Queen over here!" :jerkbag:

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

TRUMP: Well, I have to say that, you know, for what Secretary Clinton was saying about nuclear with Russia, she's very cavalier in the way she talks about various countries. But Russia has been expanding their -- they have a much newer capability than we do. We have not been updating from the new standpoint.

I looked the other night. I was seeing B-52s, they're old enough that your father, your grandfather could be flying them. We are not -- we are not keeping up with other countries. I would like everybody to end it, just get rid of it. But I would certainly not do first strike.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared. I can't take anything off the table. Because you look at some of these countries, you look at North Korea, we're doing nothing there. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

And by the way, another one powerful is the worst deal I think I've ever seen negotiated that you started is the Iran deal. Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.

And when they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea. And they should have done something with respect to Yemen and all these other places.

And when asked to Secretary Kerry, why didn't you do that? Why didn't you add other things into the deal? One of the great giveaways of all time, of all time, including $400 million in cash. Nobody's ever seen that before. That turned out to be wrong. It was actually $1.7 billion in cash, obviously, I guess for the hostages. It certainly looks that way.

So you say to yourself, why didn't they make the right deal? This is one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history. The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems. All they have to do is sit back 10 years, and they don't have to do much.

HOLT: Your two minutes is expired.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Keg posted:

A jpeg of words for you:



I didn't see the thing because it was at 3am, but was everything Trump said weird and disjointed like this? Because lol

seriously, what the gently caress is your point, Trump~

oneforthevine
Sep 25, 2015


Keg posted:

I didn't see the thing because it was at 3am, but was everything Trump said weird and disjointed like this? Because lol

That was probably his most coherent answer up to that point, actually.

Instant Sunrise
Apr 12, 2007


The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

rudatron posted:

Can the second debate be any more of a shitshow, is the real question we have now

I predict: yes, yes it can

"Binders full of women" was from the second debate, so yes.

oneforthevine
Sep 25, 2015


You know what really gets me about this debate? Even with all of Donald's crazy, incoherent answers - he was just loving boring. Hillary was much more interesting to watch.

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

TRUMP: Lester, one thing I'd like to say.

HOLT: Very quickly. Twenty seconds.

TRUMP: I will go very quickly. But I will tell you that Hillary will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat ISIS, which she could have defeated by never having it, you know, get going in the first place. Right now, it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

HOLT: Mr. Trump...

TRUMP: And it's a big problem. And as far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world...

HOLT: We have just...

TRUMP: ... where they're not paying us what we need.

HOLT: We have just a few final questions...

TRUMP: And she doesn't say that, because she's got no business ability. We need heart. We need a lot of things. But you have to have some basic ability. And sadly, she doesn't have that. All of the things that she's talking about could have been taken care of during the last 10 years, let's say, while she had great power. But they weren't taken care of. And if she ever wins this race, they won't be taken care of.

Peztopiary
Mar 16, 2009

by exmarx
I don't believe Trump knows what 'America's long-standing policy on first use' is and I wish Hillary had called him on it.

His response was word salad.

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

Reason posted:

The scary thing about Hillary(in this debate, to me) is how sure she sounds when she talks about military action in the Middle East. I really, really wish she was debating a real candidate because ugh I just want to hear some actual arguments.


Barack Obama retroactively earned his Nobel Peace Prize keeping America from declaring WWIII over Syria; a nation of no strategic significance considering Turkey's NATO membership, and possessed of no resources we didn't murder millions to secure for business interests during the Cold War, all so Jahbat al-Nusra and Ansar al-Sharia can genocide the Alawites in a Salafist purge which makes the depredations of ISIS look like a loving dress rehearsal all so that a handful of D&D posters and DC wonks can momentarily fill the emotional abyss in their personal lives.

Too bad about what'll happen in *checks watch* four months or so.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

The Ninth Layer posted:

TRUMP: Well, I have to say that, you know, for what Secretary Clinton was saying about nuclear with Russia, she's very cavalier in the way she talks about various countries. But Russia has been expanding their -- they have a much newer capability than we do. We have not been updating from the new standpoint.

I looked the other night. I was seeing B-52s, they're old enough that your father, your grandfather could be flying them. We are not -- we are not keeping up with other countries. I would like everybody to end it, just get rid of it. But I would certainly not do first strike.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared. I can't take anything off the table. Because you look at some of these countries, you look at North Korea, we're doing nothing there. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

And by the way, another one powerful is the worst deal I think I've ever seen negotiated that you started is the Iran deal. Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.

And when they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea. And they should have done something with respect to Yemen and all these other places.

And when asked to Secretary Kerry, why didn't you do that? Why didn't you add other things into the deal? One of the great giveaways of all time, of all time, including $400 million in cash. Nobody's ever seen that before. That turned out to be wrong. It was actually $1.7 billion in cash, obviously, I guess for the hostages. It certainly looks that way.

So you say to yourself, why didn't they make the right deal? This is one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history. The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems. All they have to do is sit back 10 years, and they don't have to do much.

DRIVE THRU WORKER: So, you don't want fries with that.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

Instant Sunrise posted:

"Binders full of women" was from the second debate, so yes.

Reminder that the second debate is a town hall.

Voters are going to get to ask them questions directly.

Yup.

Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

Peztopiary posted:

I don't believe Trump knows what 'America's long-standing policy on first use' is and I wish Hillary had called him on it.

His response was word salad.

When is his response ever not word salad? The Washington post long form interview from awhile back is the best for it because they keep pressing him until he relents and says he doesn't know details but has top experts, the best experts, looking into it.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

paranoid randroid posted:

lets all meditate on the sputtering rage of pathetic subnormalty getting slaughtered by a dead-rear end woman

Instant Sunrise
Apr 12, 2007


The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

Moon Atari posted:

When is his response ever not word salad? The Washington post long form interview from awhile back is the best for it because they keep pressing him until he relents and says he doesn't know details but has top experts, the best experts, looking into it.

that's how bay of pigs happened

just saying

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

HOLT: Mr. Trump, very quickly, same question. Will you accept the outcome as the will of the voters?

TRUMP: I want to make America great again. We are a nation that is seriously troubled. We're losing our jobs. People are pouring into our country.

The other day, we were deporting 800 people. And perhaps they passed the wrong button, they pressed the wrong button, or perhaps worse than that, it was corruption, but these people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know.

HOLT: Will you accept the outcome of the election?

TRUMP: Look, here's the story. I want to make America great again. I'm going to be able to do it. I don't believe Hillary will. The answer is, if she wins, I will absolutely support her.

Peztopiary
Mar 16, 2009

by exmarx
I can't wait to see what shook Trump does between now and the next debate.

Keg
Sep 22, 2014

Peztopiary posted:

I can't wait to see what shook Trump does between now and the next debate.

He'll probably say some things, go to rallies, maybe do some tweeting. That's my best guess.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
He is going to get invitations to literally every show to explain what exactly he meant by any of the near-Markov-chain quality words he chose to use tonight.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Who knew eating burgers and coming up with zingers was a bad way to prepare for a debate.

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Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
trump's ideas are perfectly sensible. here's a quick flowchart if you dummies are having trouble:

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