Debate eve chatter

[bex]

I'm nervous for tomorrow night. I think it's going to be brutal.

Someone reassure me, please.

[funfetti]

Brutal to watch? Or do you actually think he'll flip voters to his side?

I'm over here loving the fact that Ecuador has had enough of Assange

[josieposy]

I think Trump will either start tweeting from the podium or moon the stage.

[ska]

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

[ESF]

Oct 18, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5 ska said:

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

I read somewhere he's bringing the mother of one of the Benghazi people, the woman who spoke at the convention.

[sparrowsong]

Oct 18, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5 ska said:

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

I just saw that too. There was someone else he was supposed to be bringing too but I forget now who. I just keep thinking of the snl "I'm made of steel" line.

[tessalb]

I think we'll see the Trump we've expected to see in the presidential debates. The one from the primaries. I think he's going to go full Breitbart and appeal to his base. That's been his course this week, and I don't see him trying to come off as presidential after tweeting about the GOP leadership and touting conspiracy theories at his rallies.

I think tomorrow will be Ttump coming across as completely unhinged to level-headed Americans and a hero to his base. Clinton will look like the Madame President she's about to become.

I just keep repeating the line from SNL: "I think I'm going to be president *giggle*"

[sparrowsong]

Oct 18, 2016 18:21:51 GMT -5 ESF said:

Oct 18, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5 ska said:

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

I read somewhere he's bringing the mother of one of the Benghazi people, the woman who spoke at the convention.

Yes, that was it!

[eclaires]

Trump is so crazy. He basically spends all of his time doubling down to his basket of deplorables and people who are so irrational in their hatred of Clinton they think he will be better (note: this does not include people who won't vote for her and are voting 3rd party; I'm talking about the people who think he is a better choice somehow). Luckily for the rest of us, that number appears to be in the high 30s-low 40s of the electorate. I wish it was less, because fuck these idiots, but it doesn't matter because it's enough to cause him to lose, and lose BIGLY.

[jillboston]

Oct 18, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5 ska said:

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

which one? He has several half siblings. I don't have a clue why he thinks this would impact HRC on iota.

[eclaires]

I really intensely dislike the Benghazi lady. I actually read several articles and looked into a lot of her claims, and basically no one backs them up. Not even her son's wife. I didn't really care about it on my own, but them some dumbass on a friend's wall was like, "SHE IS FAR WORSE SHE LIED TO THE FACE OF A MOTHER WHO LOST HER SON!"

And I was like, so nuclear winter is preferable for you? I'd rather someone lie to my face all day long than suffer through WWIII: Nuclear Superpower Edition.

[tessalb]

Oct 18, 2016 18:26:06 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Oct 18, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5 ska said:

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

which one? He has several half siblings. I don't have a clue why he thinks this would impact HRC on iota.

Dog whistle to birthers?

[sparrowsong]

Oct 18, 2016 18:26:06 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Oct 18, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5 ska said:

Trump is bringing Obama's half-brother?

which one? He has several half siblings. I don't have a clue why he thinks this would impact HRC on iota.

The one who lives in Africa and likes trump.

latest.com/2016/10/donald-bringing-obamas-trump-supporting-half-brother-to-debate-in-completely-bizarre-move/

[bex]

Ooh meg Whitman will be there!

[jillboston]

Oct 18, 2016 18:27:54 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Oct 18, 2016 18:26:06 GMT -5 jillboston said:

which one? He has several half siblings. I don't have a clue why he thinks this would impact HRC on iota.

The one who lives in Africa and likes trump.

latest.com/2016/10/donald-bringing-obamas-trump-supporting-half-brother-to-debate-in-completely-bizarre-move/

I'd bet all my money that Trump's sister who is a judge is supporting HRC if she hasn't died of shame.

[bex]

But seriously Hardball is all about how Trump is going to attack. He's going all in. She's going to be on defense.

I know she's made of steel. But I don't want her to get rattled. I want her to have a good response to this quid pro quo story.

[Jalapeñomel]

I wonder if he'll show up.

[jillboston]

Oct 18, 2016 18:33:48 GMT -5 bex said:

But seriously Hardball is all about how Trump is going to attack. He's going all in. She's going to be on defense.

I know she's made of steel. But I don't want her to get rattled. I want her to have a good response to this quid pro quo story.

I don't think she'll be rattled because he'll be acting like a loon. All he has left is straight up insults about looks, age etc. and he will just look like an asshole. 

[bex]

Oct 18, 2016 18:38:11 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Oct 18, 2016 18:33:48 GMT -5 bex said:

But seriously Hardball is all about how Trump is going to attack. He's going all in. She's going to be on defense.

I know she's made of steel. But I don't want her to get rattled. I want her to have a good response to this quid pro quo story.

I don't think she'll be rattled because he'll be acting like a loon. All he has left is straight up insults about looks, age etc. and he will just look like an asshole. 

This is why I need this board to talk me down LOL. You are right. He will look like an ass, he will appeal to his base. And that's it. No matter how good he looks to his base, that's not the point.

[jeaniebueller]

Oct 18, 2016 18:33:48 GMT -5 bex said:

But seriously Hardball is all about how Trump is going to attack. He's going all in. She's going to be on defense.

I know she's made of steel. But I don't want her to get rattled. I want her to have a good response to this quid pro quo story.

She's been preparing for 3 days. She'll be okay.

[ESF]

Oct 18, 2016 18:27:54 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Oct 18, 2016 18:26:06 GMT -5 jillboston said:

which one? He has several half siblings. I don't have a clue why he thinks this would impact HRC on iota.

The one who lives in Africa and likes trump.

latest.com/2016/10/donald-bringing-obamas-trump-supporting-half-brother-to-debate-in-completely-bizarre-move/

Let me just say this.

Trump has failed at many, many things. But that old asshole sure can hustle when it comes to dredging up the political equivalent of D-list celebrities to make special guest appearances in the reality show that this race has become in his mind.

[ESF]

Oct 18, 2016 18:38:05 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I wonder if he'll show up.

The ratings are gonna by YUGE. Of course he will show up.

[JLV]

I'm nervous because he's going to be completely insane and I'm not sure what he's going to throw at her.

[eclaires]

Please, Trump can't even stay focused on anything but himself and his loony tune rantings long enough to get out the phrase quid pro quo. He'll threaten to jail Hillary and make some other insane bullshit statements his idiot deplorables love.

It will, yet again, highlight how ridiculously unfit he is for the job he is applying for.

[turnipthebeet]

Oct 18, 2016 18:49:47 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Please, Trump can't even stay focused on anything but himself and his loony tune rantings long enough to get out the phrase quid pro quo. He'll threaten to jail Hillary and make some other insane bullshit statements his idiot deplorables love.

It will, yet again, highlight how ridiculously unfit he is for the job he is applying for.

And his Deplorables will eat it up. They'll both walk away feeling like they won, and trump will claim media bias when the polls tell him otherwise. Sound familiar?

Also my phone capitalizes Deplorables. Giving them way too much credit.

[One Girl In All The World]

She's going to be ready. It will be fine.

ETA: She will probably be giddy that this is the last time she will ever have to debate him.

ETA2: "Debate." Because really, who considers being stalked on stage and threatened with being jailed for unspecified crimes a real debate?

[cookies]

She will be fine. She's proven twice over that she can handle his crazy. I have no reason to believe tomorrow will be different.

[ESF]

Not that I agree with the reality-show-ification of the debates, but if I did, I'd tell Hills to bring Alex Baldwin-as-Trump as her special guest.

[pugz]

I'm nervous. Have already started binge eating candy corn

[smock]

Oct 18, 2016 19:03:48 GMT -5 ESF said:

Not that I agree with the reality-show-ification of the debates, but if I did, I'd tell Hills to bring Alex Baldwin-as-Trump as her special guest.

I would pay a million dollars to sneak Baldwin-Trump a microphone so he could say "WRONG" after every Trump answer.