I wondered if he was drunk. He would turn gray and look like he was going to puke, then get all red and spout nonsense.
I think we can remove “chaotic” and hold at “Evil”.
I’ll spend some time today looking up his statements inciting violence, both at the polls and after the election. Between the Russia/hacking and rigged election and this is our last chance to save the country stuff, I’m wondering if he’s crossed the line into treason and sedition anywhere. If Trump encourages his followers to violently contest the results of the election, or say things that a reasonable person would conclude were meant to do so, has
he met the legal standard for those crimes? What about the Russia issue? He told them to hack Hillary. They’ve been demonstrated (to the satisfaction of the Intelligence community) to have hacked Hillary and many others for the purposes of interfering in the election. To what extent is Trump criminally culpable? Once I pull some things together, I’ll start a separate thread. I think it’s an interesting topic in its own right.
Funny you mention that, as there is an SVU episode coming out after the election that addresses a lot of the Trump stuff. The focus may be the sexual harassment, but this other stuff might come up, too.
This is what occurred to me partway through the debate. Yes, there are people who are paid to have to listen to him. But does he also have friends who sit there listening to him bloviate as if it’s insightful commentary?
He’s unlikely to cross the line in a way blatant enough to justify charges, though I look forward to him going to jail for something related to Trump University.
Didn’t offer learning, “scaffold” or not. He offered to teach them a lesson about business, and he did teach them a lesson, he gave them the business. Good and hard!
It’s 'cause they decided to have just one debate thread this time 'round. This is the 24-Hour-Prior thread - they shoulda spun off a 30-Minutes-Prior thread, and maybe a preemptive 5-Day-Prior Thread, and some kind of Extended-Release-Formula Post-Debate Analysis thread.
No, it means that somebody grabbed him by the lapels and screamed into his face “You can’t say that and get away with it! ALWAYS leave an escape clause!”.
Chris Wallthews tossed every right-wing wedge softball question available, any other republican even slightly on their game would have knocked them out of the park. Instead, Donald fumbled them and Hillary tore into them like a kitten with an orange ball of yarn.
This is the first time in memory since the Bill era that I’ve seen Hillary in true attack dog mode without sounding canned and scripted. It’s like she’s been hanging out with Obama in his ‘gives no shits anymore’ end days. I hope this Hillary is the real Hillary, though I admit it’s a thin hope.
What did Ted Danson whisper to Hillary? It’s a Lost in Translation suspense moment that the world will be talking about for decades! (well, maybe not decades)
It will be interesting to see how he deals with this defeat, psychologically.
Ostensibly people in his own campaign have been telling him for months he’s screwing himself over, and they now appear to be abandoning him like rats off the proverbial ship. It’s like he honestly doesn’t seem to believe he’s losing.
They would do as their boss orders, which is Joseph Clancy, an Obama appointee in 2013. He reports to the Secretary of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson (not a misspelling)), a Cabinet position that is appointed by the President.
As a general rule, the Secret Service leaves when the candidate concedes - their leaving is many times a harsh reminder of just how quickly things change. However, there is nothing that states if Trump & the GOP contests the election, he isn’t due a detail until such time as he officially loses it, December 19th, 2016.
