Campaign 2016 Part XVII: If debates are great theater, I think this one closes early

[Handyman]

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Not surprising. Have to sneak in and out whenever I can. Stupid network administrator.

Yeah I hate that. You did post a different source though so no worries anyways

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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It appears to me the stupider Trump gets the better his numbers get. This election is going to be close.

 

[Kepler]

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Oh don't worry Kep and Rover, your girl's not going to say the wrong thing... https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/773805863400148992/photo/1

I'd assume that's a hearing aid, which isn't any better optically.

 

[walrus]

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It appears to me the stupider Trump gets the better his numbers get. This election is going to be close.

Once Wiki buries Hilary, Trump is going to win.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Yeah, that's awful. No getting around that.

You know what really, really ****es me off? That this is what kills his campaign for the press. They are destroying him over this.

Donald Trump? Crickets.

 

[burd]

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Once Wiki buries Hilary, Trump is going to win.

Wiki can only move those who are looking for scandal and not policy. And those folks are already Trump bunnies.

 

[Handyman]

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Once Wiki buries Hilary, Trump is going to win.

Wiki keeps telling us they have so much...yet they keep providing very little. Hell they havent even found Drumpf's taxes yet and they are supposedly looking for them too.

 

[Kepler]

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I've had no luck uploading this image (is there a size limit?), so I'll just link.

 

[The Sicatoka]

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No...I scanned the link before and saw it was from infowars so even if it was about The Shrill I wouldnt have believed it anyways. I know enough InfoWars fanatics to know they couldnt get laid correctly in a whorehouse and a pocket full of hundred dollar bills let alone report the news

I always knew you had reading comprehension problems. Seems it's worse. Look again. It's from InForum.com (the website of the Fargo Forum).

 

[alfablue]

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Once Wiki buries Hilary, Trump is going to win.

Is it even possible that Trump can figure a way out to be a President and earn votes instead of Hillary losing them?

This got old months ago.

At this point, Clinton could have e-mailed detailed classified document to herself, and she'd still be more qualified to be President. At least her policies don't have people reading over the Constitution to check legality. Nor is she flip-flopping her major points to attempt to get more voters.

All Trump has done so far is figure out how to get enough voters out vs a rather boring field of candidates that all canceled each other out. Beyond that, he's done little to get people to vote for him.

 

[Kepler]

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All Trump has done so far is figure out how to get enough voters out vs a rather boring field of candidates that all canceled each other out. Beyond that, he's done little to get people to vote for him.

Sometimes that's enough:

[HAMILTON]
Burr?
Since when are you a Democratic-Republican?

[BURR]
Since being one put me on the up and up again

[HAMILTON]
No one knows who you are or what you do

[BURR]
They don’t need to know me
They don’t like you

[HAMILTON]
Excuse me?

[BURR]
Oh, Wall Street thinks you’re great
You’ll always be adored by the things you create
But upstate—

[HAMILTON]
Wait

[BURR]
—people think you’re crooked

 

[The Sicatoka]

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Honestly, the Aleppo thing does not matter to me. It was a classic "gotcha" minute. It's in the same category, in my mind, as calling ISIS "ISIL" or "DAISH", as the "cool kids", the beltway crowd, have taken to calling ISIS now. It's not much different from the time that the word "gravitas" was the word you couldn't avoid in the media during a prior campaign.

The media has consistently referred to the Syrian refugee crisis (or the related European immigration crisis) when I've heard reports. I'm not that far afield from news media (save PBS where I'm sure Aleppo must be the cool kid word) yet, honestly, the first time I'd heard the word "Aleppo" was during the gotcha moment on Johnson. And I have no problem admitting that.

And I'm willing to bet that less than 5% of the US electorate could've handled the question any better. I'll put the over/under at 5.5% knowing what Aleppo is even after this. Heck, I'll take it one more step! I bet more people answer "brand of dog food" than give the correct answer!

Johnson's and his handler's mistake? Too honest. His response should have been, "What specifically do you want to discuss about Aleppo?" when he didn't have an answer. That's what you do in an interview when you are without an answer -- make the questioner give you more information.

 

[Handyman]

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I always knew you had reading comprehension problems. Seems it's worse. Look again. It's from InForum.com (the website of the Fargo Forum).

That doesnt help your argument

 

[dxmnkd316]

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It's in the same category, in my mind, as calling ISIS "ISIL" or "DAISH", as the "cool kids", the beltway crowd, have taken to calling ISIS now.

No, it's not. It absolutely is not. One is an ever-changing terminology; the other is ground zero for the worst humanitarian and refugee crisis since WWII, a massive hot zone for tensions between the US, the EU, NATO, and Russia, and near the the epicenter of the conflict between terrorists and the West (or however you want to define this conflict).

THat's not a small difference. That's the difference between an apple and a quasar.

Edits: I have no idea how to define this conflict anymore.

 

[alfablue]

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Honestly, the Aleppo thing does not matter to me. It was a classic "gotcha" minute. It's in the same category, in my mind, as calling ISIS "ISIL" or "DAISH", as the "cool kids", the beltway crowd, have taken to calling ISIS now. It's not much different from the time that the word "gravitas" was the word you couldn't avoid in the media during a prior campaign.

The media has consistently referred to the Syrian refugee crisis (or the related European immigration crisis) when I've heard reports. I'm not that far afield from news media (save PBS where I'm sure Aleppo must be the cool kid word) yet, honestly, the first time I'd heard the word "Aleppo" was during the gotcha moment on Johnson. And I have no problem admitting that.

And I'm willing to bet that less than 5% of the US electorate could've handled the question any better. I'll put the over/under at 5.5% knowing what Aleppo is even after this. Heck, I'll take it one more step! I bet more people answer "brand of dog food" than give the correct answer!

Johnson's and his handler's mistake? Too honest. His response should have been, "What specifically do you want to discuss about Aleppo?" when he didn't have an answer. That's what you do in an interview when you are without an answer -- make the questioner give you more information.

You need to listen to more NPR. Alleppo has been in the news for many years. Just as the whole crappy conflict in Syria has.

Given how serious people are taking ISIS, or whatever you want to call them, knowing what is going on, and how to deal with it without slaughtering a lot of people who are just trying to survive- this is a big deal. If anyone think's that Trump can deal with this in a month- they are not seeing what all sides are doing to each other over there. Nor the odd relationships between groups, and who thinks who else are terrorists vs. rebels.

 

[MaizeRage]

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And I'm willing to bet that less than 5% of the US electorate could've handled the question any better.

Making that 95+% just as woefully unfit to be President as Johnson is.

 

[geezer]

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I'll put the over/under at 5.5% knowing what Aleppo is even after this. Heck, I'll take it one more step! I bet more people answer "brand of dog food" than give the correct answer!

dang.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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And I'm willing to bet that less than 5% of the US electorate could've handled the question any better. I'll put the over/under at 5.5% knowing what Aleppo is even after this. Heck, I'll take it one more step! I bet more people answer "brand of dog food" than give the correct answer!

"Uhhh...I think I caught an Aleppo at the park on Pokémon Go the other day..."

 

[The Sicatoka]

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So what I'm now reading here is "Aleppo" really is the cool kids, beltway, word for Syrian refugee crisis caused by IS, ISIS, ISIL, DAISH, whaeverthehelltheyarethisweek. And it was confirmed that Aleppo is an NPR (aka PBS on FM) thing. Not surprised. Not impressed. I guess I should have more gravitas and use the cool kids' term of the week.

Now, I'd rather say Syrian refugee crisis than Aleppo. Why? It humanizes the problem; refugees are people. I'd rather say ISIS than Aleppo. Why? Name the problem and say it. Abstracting it all to Aleppo is just abstracting the issues so you don't have to really admit and face them.

 

[Kepler]

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Given how serious people are taking ISIS, or whatever you want to call them, knowing what is going on, and how to deal with it without slaughtering a lot of people who are just trying to survive- this is a big deal. If anyone think's that Trump can deal with this in a month- they are not seeing what all sides are doing to each other over there. Nor the odd relationships between groups, and who thinks who else are terrorists vs. rebels.

Trump had probably not heard of Syria until this year.

His obvious ignorance is astounding -- the difference between him and Palin is he can turn interviewers inside out, while she merely sputters. But if you just print out Trump's statements they sound like an ADHD kid. His thoughts and words jangle between "I AM GREAT" and "Everything other than me is terrible, just terrible. Sad."

I just can't understand how anybody is for this guy. I get that they hate Hillary -- believe me, I understand that mindset. But for someone to actually have positive feelings towards Trump is inexplicable. My god, how can anyone be taken in by the guy. He's a fraud. He doesn't even really bother to deny it.