There’s a thread about the second debate already, started several days ago and already a couple pages thick with speculation. As I discussed there, I’d prefer a clean thread to carry on discussion once the actual debate starts. If mods think this is a bad idea, I won’t fuss if you lock this one; but for others, I’d kindly ask you to confine any criticism of this thread’s starting to a Pit thread you start just for me if you need to :).
It’d be awesome to keep this thread specifically for talking about the debate as it happens and immediately afterward.
Awesome, thanks! I’ve been watching it on Washington Post–does NBC coverage have commentary? Because I can’t freakin’ stand commentary. Washington Post does a pretty clean coverage.
Assuming Trump’s pre-debate press conference is fair game for this thread, he looked exhausted. There was nothing there that was “new” - unseemly, yes, but more reflective on him, not Hillary Clinton.
Regardless, look at body language and verbal tone. This is not a man able to kick ass for 90 minutes.
Listening to the ways the two candidates have prepared, I’m ready to watch a debate between JK Rowling’s Hermione Granger, and Tim Burton’s Oogie Boogie Man.
Camera pans across. Ivanka. “She looks like she’s watching a horror movie,” my wife says.
Camera pans across Melania. “Her too!”
Camera pans across Junior. He sneers, hair slicked back like a serial killer, and we burst out laughing. “He’s IN the movie!”
Gonna spend more time on Twitter than TV, myself. Recording everything, though. C-Span for the debate, also recording MSNBC for react, if any, to anything that interrupts the debate. Like a fist fight.