Well, he did.
I have a longer point about the resemblance of this election to a Hollywood movie script. Because I’m lazy right now, I’ll just give you my tweet on the matter and let you fill in the rest for now.
We're at the "major setback" part of our "Trump runs for President" script. 75% of the way there! https://t.co/GfUoeboDP6
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Patterico (bcf524) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:43 pmShe seems healthy.
gp (0c542c) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:47 pmPatterico, because of all the lower case yapping and movie reference noise in the other thread , I would be very interested in your thoughts. You don’t carry pom-poms, and you aren’t on anti psychotic medication.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:49 pmyou could tell several times she knew this wasn’t going the way she and cnn planned
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:49 pmI have a longer point about the resemblance of this election to a Hollywood movie script.
Entertainment? You’re learning. Well done.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:50 pmOh, dear God.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:51 pmTrump made some #NeverTrumpers squirm, and it felt so right.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:51 pmnobody who watched could mistake martha and anderson for anything but heated propaganda sluts in heat what were hot to fire things up in favor of the pig
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:53 pm@8– Radditz was the most obvious on defense issue– that’s her news beat but as a moderator, she really shouldn’t have gone there. Cooper just pawed the shiny object, as you’d expect.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:56 pmsimon jester, i think mr happyfeet is channeling his inner e.e. cummings.
anyhow, this is a blog, it’s not the oxford debating society.
And DCSCA’s movie quotes are often very apropos. He even quoted a lesser-known Bogart film the other day. Sisket & Ebert give him two thumbs up! So does Michael Medved! (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/9/2016 @ 7:59 pmI bet Anderson Cooper can still fit into his Vanderbilts! I bet he even has the sparkly things near the stitchings!
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:02 pmit’s really hard to even remember the whole bit about the tax return thing that martha (was it martha or silver martha?) direly foreshadowed at the beginning
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:05 pmHe knows more about ISIS than Major Setback.
Pinandpuller (f54db4) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:18 pmOne important question Donald needs to consider is what to do to the traitors in power, including in the GOP and others putatively on the “right.”
But also on the left too, of course.
Denver Guy (6640c3) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:18 pmIt all depends on your point of view. Trump’s major setback was on Friday when the donations from alt.trailerpark eased off. Now he’ll start raking them in again and be able to pay for his airplane maintenance and collect the rent on his otherwise “white elephant” campaign headquarters. How it will climax is with his paid hangers-on checking their bank balances.
nk (dbc370) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:19 pmhillary probably would be president by now if she would have divorced bill and stood by his rape victims.
mg (31009b) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:23 pmProbably not, mg. No one will admit it at this point, but at least a substantial minority of HRC voters are engaging in Bubba nostalgia, and the ones who aren’t are probably firm in their conviction that Trump is worse than Bubba (and may take joy at the prospect of HRC ordering the SS to make sure that he’s never alone with a woman who isn’t related to him until HRC leaves the White House).
M. Scott Eiland (046eb0) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:32 pmYes, she should have divorced Bill plus gotten a non-muslim as a partner.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:33 pmBilly Zane: Hey Derek, back on top man.
Derek Zoolander: Thanks, Billy. You rock.
Billy Zane: No, you rock. When you gonna drop Magnum on us, buddy?
Derek Zoolander: Not yet. You gotta tame the beast before you let it out of its cage.
Pinandpuller (f54db4) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:36 pm@10- She got flamed. The whole “Hill”-ary…
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning… you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory.” – Lt., Col. Kilgore [Robert Duvall] ‘Apocalypse Now,’ 1979
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:44 pmIf you score it by blows landed, Trump started with a terrible deficit, but was ahead at the end.
If you scored it by opportunities missed, Trump missed so many it’s depressing.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:47 pmWhy he never asks, Why do you think congress has a different plan than you, as he points at the crowd.
mg (31009b) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:50 pmI’m wondering- did Trump really win the debate? Or did he just perform so much better tonight than he did during the first debate that it just feels like he won.
Timbly (011fb1) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:52 pm@11.I bet Anderson Cooper can still fit into his Vanderbilts! I bet he even has the sparkly things near the stitchings!
Studio 54 awaits.
“Because Gloria Vanderbilt’s bottoms are the tops!!” – Bobby Short, TV commercial, 1980
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:57 pmWell Mr Carpetbagger, we got something in this territory called a Missurah Boatride – Clint Eastwood The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pinandpuller (f54db4) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:57 pmIf Hillary is right, and Donald Trump has no business being President, why does she do so poorly against him?
Mind you, I still want someone to go back in a time machine and kill his grandfather.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/9/2016 @ 8:57 pmCNN/ORC Poll: Clinton 57% Trump 34%.
CNN admits poll sample skews a little more to Ds.
Jaysus, is that network in the tank for her.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:01 pmPence tweet: Congrats to my running mate @realDonaldTrump on a big debate win! Proud to stand with you as we #MAGA.
Dana (d17a61) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:13 pmGuess he’s sticking with him.
Dana (d17a61) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:14 pmDance with the one that brung you.
nk (dbc370) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:16 pm…*what* brung you?
nk (dbc370) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:17 pm@29. Guess he’s sticking with him.
Have a Coke(c) And A Smile!” Coca-Cola ad slogan, 1979
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:18 pmNobody wins a [debate] -Patrick Swayze Road House
Pinandpuller (f54db4) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:18 pmBill Clinton should get the Bill Cosby treatment by the media and the law. He won’t though, because he is a white man protected by Hillary Clinton and the white power establishment.
Lyle Smith (8ad426) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:19 pmdifficulties mastered are opportunities won
mg (31009b) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:25 pmchurchill
If this really is a movie script then I just hope there isn’t a sex scene with any of the leads. I mean I really, really, really, really hope there isn’t a sex scene. Really.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:43 pmThe Democratic and Republican Parties owe America an apology for these two candidates.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:44 pmI hope it ends like a Tarantino movie.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:44 pmPurges.
Denver Guy (6640c3) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:45 pmDance with the one that brung you.
Too woozy from the chloroform to dance.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:46 pm#27: That’s OK. In something of a surprise, the Drudge poll is 90-10 for Trump. No one expected Hillary to get double digits.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/9/2016 @ 9:49 pmIn movie terms he or she will soon have an epiphany and realize he has been going the wrong way all along! But who is the protagonist??
Patricia (5fc097) — 10/9/2016 @ 10:33 pmHillary: “It’s so good that … Donald Trump is not in charge of our laws in our country.”
Trump: “Because you’d be in jail.”
I am still laughing.
AZ Bob (d6a3a9) — 10/9/2016 @ 10:36 pmScoring it like a 3-round boxing match, IMHO Clinton won the first round, roughly the first third of the debate, but Trump avoided being knocked out. He won the next two, and won overall on points. Tonight overall Hillary was her normal debating self, a B-minus, as compared to her performance in the first debate, when I thought she earned a solid A.
CNN exactly met expectations, which is to say, they were both biased and ham-handedly, obviously so. That was a spectacular gift to Trump, which Hillary then wrapped in an extra ribbon by so often and obviously droning on past her time limits (reemphasizing her boringness and the CNN moderators’ refusal to hold her to time limits). If Trump can avoid screwing this up — e.g., with a 3 a.m. Tweet about Martha Raddatz, whether justified or not — he can benefit from this a little. I’m betting he’ll screw it up, because he’s Trump and he can’t not.
However, he did genuinely surprise me one time, and I think it’s the single best thing I’ve ever seen him do at a debate, and certainly the best moment he’s had in either of the first two presidential debates: His final answer. There was the one bizarre parenthetical false step at the beginning of hiw answer — to the effect that he wasn’t sure whether Hillary’s compliment of his children and how that reflected well on him, was really a intended as a compliment. But he actually came up with a coherent, responsive, and — altogether astonishingly! — decent answer, both in the sense of it reflecting some rare measure of non-repulsive humanity on his part, and decent in the sense of being politically shrewd.
I am relieved by his performance tonight in one respect only: If he’d had another poor performance, we’d have another week of fruitless and stupid rumor-mongering about the RNC replacing him. Duh: Do you think it was a coincidence that tape didn’t come out until after people had already started voting? That was never going to happen, and now people will shut up about it. As much as I despise Trump and regret that he is the GOP nominee, a coup would have done the party — including the GOP’s chances of retaining majorities in both chambers of Congress — much more damage than either a straight-up win or a loss in November.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/9/2016 @ 11:21 pmJVW
mg (31009b) — 10/10/2016 @ 2:58 amCooper won’t be doing any posy in the sex shoot.
Trump won the debate and easily. She got the public beating she and her husband have been asking for for over 25 years. She is unrelentingly awful across the board, even as a debater.
He still hasn’t earned my vote; I remain doutbful he ever will.
Evan3457 (79ccc1) — 10/10/2016 @ 3:30 amThis was another great line by Trump – I am disappointed in congress being unable to uphold some semblance of CONSTITUTIONAL OVERSIGHT against a weaponized executive branch. amen.
mg (31009b) — 10/10/2016 @ 3:56 amMartha Raddatz is the same one who was tickling Biden with her foot during his debate with Ryan four years ago?
nk (dbc370) — 10/10/2016 @ 4:02 ambilly bush lol
he’s lovin life this morning
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/10/2016 @ 4:16 ambury the boosh family at Wounded Knee!!!
mg (31009b) — 10/10/2016 @ 4:20 amI peeked in at Drudge. Trump lost according to his readership. Only 58.6% say he won versus 41.4% saying Hillary did. For a site that’s 100% alt.in-the-tank-for-trump, that’s a loss.
nk (dbc370) — 10/10/2016 @ 5:10 amWikileaks sez Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson were the candidates Hillary wanted most to run against; hoping that one of the three would be nominated, or if not, move the other R candidates so far right as to be unelectable in the general.
Gabriel Hanna (4b5ebc) — 10/10/2016 @ 6:24 amlol careful what you wish for piggy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/10/2016 @ 6:27 amI just read it at Red State. Wikileaks is a Putin tool. Dezinformatsiya. (And Cruz was Wikileaks’ tool during the Snowden affair but why beat a dead horse.)
nk (dbc370) — 10/10/2016 @ 6:32 amThe “Trump effect” supposedly causing increased bullying Clinton mentioned is something the NEA has made up out of thin air.
Gerald A (a48c32) — 10/10/2016 @ 8:25 amHere’s a good read for all these Polly Purebreds and their feigned outrage… http://www.city-journal.org/html/trumped-outrage-14777.html
Colonel Haiku (d3e242) — 10/10/2016 @ 8:34 amDoes anyone here doubt he speaks for Trump?
DRJ (15874d) — 10/10/2016 @ 9:16 amTrump loves Putin, the Chinese, and other authoritarians.
DRJ (15874d) — 10/10/2016 @ 9:17 am“Does anyone here doubt he speaks for Trump?”
Probably no more than hf. The parodies are different, the intent the same. I know the level of avoidance due to boredom is the same for me.
Rick Ballard (b9de6e) — 10/10/2016 @ 9:22 amTrump’s favorite daughter, her husband, and their two children are Jewish. If anybody is going to be purged, the Denver Guys and the Dystopia Maxes will be included.
Small consolation, but it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. 😉
nk (dbc370) — 10/10/2016 @ 9:25 amwhat a load. In the same video after the locker room talk, Trump’s actions illustrate the man.
papertiger (82d7e8) — 10/10/2016 @ 10:07 amHe pauses before exiting the bus to get a handle on the over stimulated Billy Bush. Took an extended pause feigning difficulty with the door in order to redirect Bush’s mindset to something approaching acceptable for mixed company before greeting Arianne Zucker with an almost apologetic deference, making sure to mention Melania by name, showing respect for his wife and marriage, as Billy forced an awkward hug upon them both. Was Billy Bush under the influence? I’ve seen drunks with more public composure. Someone needs to get a muzzle for that guy, and NBC is running out of Betas to host their news segment / toadie up to Clintons.
Trump may have turned a 10 point loss into a 5-6 point loss. One debate to go. I maintain he’ll outperform his polls by several percent, so if they show him trailing by 10 he’ll lose by half that. But if they show him behind by five, he’ll be in striking distance.
Gerald A (a48c32) — 10/10/2016 @ 10:22 amchin up Mr. A
the tide is high but Trump’s holdin’ on
he’s gonna be our number one!
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/10/2016 @ 10:27 am“But we’re the Los Angeles Times, and our “in the tank for any democrat” editor Cathleen Decker” insists that Mrs. Clinton won. Your opinions don’t matter: only our do.!”
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (5e0a82) — 10/10/2016 @ 3:11 pm