Everything posted by Vee
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The Politics Thread
The sniffing is already a meme. Everyone was saying coke, but I have no idea. I think it was a tic - he can't handle rules. He can't handle having to focus for 90 minutes, let alone 10. He can't handle being talked back to or denied. He can't handle women.
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The Politics Thread
Chris Matthews: "She cleaned his clock tonight. It was a bit embarrassing. It was A Few Good Men, she was Tom Cruise, he was Jack Nicholson. It was not close. It was over tonight." Please, please watch the full debate. The split-screen is amazing. MSNBC is analyzing his insane expressions!
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The Politics Thread
He never had his cool tonight. He was way off-balance from the very beginning. This went very, very well. The alt right may try to spam the online polls, but there is no denying she crushed him.
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The Politics Thread
From infamous GOP poll guru Frank Luntz: The audience explodes into another round of applause for Hillary as she calls him on the stamina crap. A handful of Trumpers applaud on his weak rejoinder to try to save it. Now he's babbling about Rosie!
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The Politics Thread
This makes Palin's debate night look good. Hillary brings back "a man who can be provoked by a tweet" - if you haven't seen this debate, watch the split screen. He is raging and seething, struggling the whole time, visibly. Especially then. "That line is getting old," Trump says. Hillary: "It's a good one, though." The audience laughs and claps.
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The Politics Thread
This is going to lose him people. He's had 9-10 glasses of water, she's had none. And the audience loves her and is laughing at him. He is furious.
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The Politics Thread
I thought he would be able to clear the very low bar the media was giving him by just staying quiet. I was wrong. He was unsettled and scared from the first moment she smiled at him. This is a flaming disaster. It's over. She's owning him. And the body language in the split screen is fascinating. There are a million soundbites from him - "that's called business" on cheering the economic downturn, "that's being smart" on not paying people. Groaning as she talks about the black community. Telling Holt "I say nothing" to black Americans.
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The Politics Thread
"I did prepare for this debate. You know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be President." The audience applauded her again. Trump recoils.
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The Politics Thread
She is destroying him. This is more than I could have hoped for. He has not been in control a single moment. He is angry, sniffing, babbling and furious that he cannot bully her. She stays cool, smiling and enjoying it. He just admitted to using "certain laws" to avoid paying people - and taxes. The audience applauded when she called him on his taxes.
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The Politics Thread
No, watch this. He is melting down. She is perfectly poised.
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The Politics Thread
He is incredibly angry that he can't bully her. And she is working him.
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The Politics Thread
She's ready. "How are you, Donald?" This is going very well. Unspinnably well.
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The Politics Thread
It got Al Capone too.
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The Politics Thread
I'm not going to say Nate has gone over to the other side, but I do think he has an ego about his model which has its flaws. And no, I'm not buying its wild swings anymore. I believe it dropped 8 points for HIllary this morning at random, then swung back 2 more. All based on bizarre modeling. I think people like Sam Wang are being a lot more clear-headed about the ebb and flow, the wild swings.
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The Politics Thread
Trump desperately needs women voters. Trying to shame Hillary with Gennifer Flowers is not going to help him there. It's a boorish move everyone is decrying.
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The Politics Thread
Trump invited Gennifer Flowers to the debate. I am still not convinced he'll turn up.
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The Politics Thread
The threat of electing Donald Trump is the closest America has come to an extinction level threat in my personal history. He makes George W. Bush look like Eisenhower. Were he elected I would give very, very serious thought to clearing out of the country.
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ALL: Soap Stars - Where are they now?
Its all weird though, you like weird movies. Fight me! Goodbye
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The Politics Thread
Speaking of Carter Page:
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Doctor Who
The Doctor will appear in the premiere of the new spin-off, Class. The show airs in the UK next month and will air alongside Series 10 in the US next year.
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ALL: Soap Stars - Where are they now?
Because you haven't watched GH much in the last five years. And no, it's not.
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The Politics Thread
Hillary is up by a 4-8 spread in a ton of polls today, both states and national. I can't pull 'em all but it's great news.
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HBO: Game of Thrones
Likely legit SPOILERS from Watchers on the Wall.