# OFFICIAL Third Debate 10/19/16 Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 19, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995 "2016-10-19T01:00:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/661 "2016-10-20T02:53:57Z")
Not that I really care about what Hillary wore to the debates, but I noticed that she wore red to the first, blue to the second, and white to the third. Nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAlecCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SmartAlecCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAlecCat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/662 "2016-10-20T02:54:28Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Trump was well advised to (lyingly) downplay the “rigged” crap. (Lyingly, because he obviously HAS whipped up these “rigged” claims in tweets and rally speeches). He is convinced he could win the election if it wasn’t stolen from him by all the riggers. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/663 "2016-10-20T02:55:13Z")
No mention of Obama’s half-brother? I want a refund! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/664 "2016-10-20T02:55:32Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > How in the fuck do you have an element of surprise with armored divisions and several thousand of soldiers raising a cloud of dust visible for a hundred miles? Maybe cut down some tree branches and pretend to be a creeping forest? Drop a few thousand dummy parachute men in with notes of what we are going to do to them along with 10,000 cell phones that can only call one number saying, “Lets talk about this before you blow that damn and flood Iraq” Fake an end run like Desert Storm and attack them up the middle … tell them free ten hostages and one solider come out with them unarmed. Cut off their supplies … lots of ways come to mind and I’m just getting started. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/665 "2016-10-20T02:56:06Z")
I’m thankful the third debate wasn’t as sleazy as the 2nd. They kept Bill’s sexual escapades out of this one. There was a question about the women that are currently accusing Trump. But it didn’t go in the gutter. Both candidates dodged important questions. Trump wouldn’t fully commit (either way) to securing Iraq after Mosul is freed. Hillary was against it. That scares me. I hope she’ll at least maintain the few troops we have there now. She wasn’t clear. She should have been clear that Iraq can’t be abandoned totally. Hillary dodged the open borders question. That is very concerning. Look at what open borders are doing to the EU. They are being flooded. Open borders was a key factor in Brexit. Trump still won’t commit to accepting the election results. That’s a concern. But he doesn’t get to decide who wins. A winner will be declared regardless of his whining. Glad the debates are done. Let’s vote and get this shit show finished. I predict a landslide victory for Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/666 "2016-10-20T02:56:25Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Are we finally going to learn what he’s going to replace Obamacare _with_? Folger’s Crystals. Let’s see if anyone notices… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/667 "2016-10-20T02:59:24Z")
> [@SmartAlecCat](#): > > He is convinced he could win the election if it wasn’t stolen from him by all the riggers. Rigger, please! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/668 "2016-10-20T02:59:38Z")
Conway says Trump was just joking about the election being rigged. Time to quit, Kelly. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/669 "2016-10-20T03:01:21Z")
> [@chaika](#): > > I think many of his supporters are cringing at his performance tonight. You have not met his supporters. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/670 "2016-10-20T03:02:13Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Conway says Trump was just joking about the election being rigged. > > Time to quit, Kelly. Apparently at one time she had some kind of respect as an intelligent political worker. But now she has so much Trump Orange on her, she should slink away in shame. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/671 "2016-10-20T03:02:42Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Cubs 6 Dodgers 2, top of the 6th, 2 on, 1 out. Somebody earlier asked nicely that we not have spoilers from the baseball game in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/672 "2016-10-20T03:02:45Z")
Jeffrey Lord on CNN just said it was okay when Trump mocked a disabled reporter, because in the same speech he also mocked a general and Ted Cruz. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/673 "2016-10-20T03:02:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > It’s come to this: The next president of the United States is debating the comment section of your local newspaper. Best comment I’ve read in this whole thread. Thanks, guys, for watching that shitfest; I tuned in just long enough to hear Trump refuse to accept the election results, hear Hillary ringingly endorse democracy, and bailed out on the “I shoulda won that Emmy.” GAH. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/674 "2016-10-20T03:03:17Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I hate you right now. Go look at this [picture of bacon](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/500440/Blog_Content/bacon.jpg) > 😛 It s now Cubs 10, Dodgers 2. Take That! And no more pig porn. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/675 "2016-10-20T03:03:31Z")
When Chris Wallace said “that concludes the final debate” he immediately surged in the polls and is now leading both Clinton and Trump. 258 electoral votes are rated “safe Wallace” by 538 and he’s barely ahead in a number of swing states. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/676 "2016-10-20T03:03:51Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Cubs 6 Dodgers 2, top of the 6th, 2 on, 1 out. As one of many who has been trying to pay attention to both at the same time it does raise an important political question: Who was watching the debate tonight versus who did they lose to the game? How did they each play specific to the crowd that turned in? I gotta think ratings are quite low for this one. And perhaps it is a bit sexist of me but I suspect slightly more men chose the game relative to women. Clinton gave that female demographic what they wanted to hear by and large and Trump very much did not. Of course the only demographic that heard what they liked from Trump would be those already strongly in his camp. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/677 "2016-10-20T03:03:53Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Rigger, please! 😛 Ha! ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/678 "2016-10-20T03:04:39Z")
Trumpty Dumpty was a sweaty, incoherent mess. He lost this one. The puppet exchange was classic Donald fumbling and is worth re-watching. Trump:“No puppet! No puppet. You’re the puppet! No, you’re the puppet.” Gulps water. Adjusts microphone. Makes a weird can-you-believe-this face. All of this happens in 30 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/679 "2016-10-20T03:05:53Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > The headline everywhere is a variation of this: > > Trump Won’t Say if He Will Accept Election Results > ‘I’LL KEEP YOU IN SUSPENSE’ > > Trumpty Dumpty is a sore loser. NYT headline [“Trump Won’t Say if He Will Accept Election Results”](http://www.nytimes.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/680 "2016-10-20T03:07:50Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “No one respects women more than me. Believe me…She’s a nasty woman.” I wish she had said, “That’s Ms. Clinton, if you’re nasty” and then dropped the mic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995.md?page=35)