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20 Oct 2016, 11:54 am

Fact checking:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-p ... te-n669866


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20 Oct 2016, 12:00 pm

538 just compiled a comparison with previous presidential debates:

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Source: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/cli ... ast-night/

Clinton's lead in the 3rd debate isn't as dominating as the performance by Obama in 2008. However, Clinton went into the debate with a much larger lead, so any outcome except a total meltdown on her behalf is essentially a loss for Trump...



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20 Oct 2016, 12:08 pm

The Night They Laughed At Trump

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The laughter was loud enough that moderator Chris Wallace had to chide the audience into silence.

But the damage had been done.

For the first time since President Obama flame-roasted him at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, a large room full of people was laughing at Donald Trump.

They were laughing because it has become so obvious over the course of his despicable campaign that Trump has absolutely no respect for women, in particular those women whom he can’t harass, grope or otherwise control.

There was even a strange kind of pity in the laughter, as if the assembled simply couldn’t believe that a person could be so deeply in denial about his essential nature.

At his rallies, surrounded by his raging enablers, Trump glories in his shock jock cockiness. But under the bright lights of a presidential debate stage, confronted by a poised and intelligent woman not the least bit afraid of him, Trump’s self-belief curdled into self-parody.

Trump wasn’t telling a joke. He had become the joke.

I've mentioned this quote before, but I couldn't help but be reminded of novelist Margaret Atwood's words, "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."


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20 Oct 2016, 12:17 pm

if you believed biased polls and the media

I don't see anyway anybody could argue that Hillary bettered herself considering she could not answer the questions relating to corruption and didn't even deny being behind the violence at Trump events.

All anybody is talking about after this debate is Trump not committing to accept the results of an election that hasn't happened yet, they've put the focus on voter fraud and corruption. Wikileaks will be releasing emails until the election, Project Veritas has more videos, there are more Bill Clinton accusers coming out of the woodwork, and congress is starting to rev up the engines to investigate these things. I'm expect a November surprise the week or so before the election and I think her lead will be chipped away with the coming revelations.

Trump got the media talking about what he wants them to talk about, his 'You'd be in jail' quip from the 2nd debate was similar in getting attention and creating a different narrative.

Also the people 'laughing' were media members, not a good look if you're trying to be objective which they don't even pretend to be. These are propaganda outlets no now, journalism in the mainstream media is dead. The MSM is using techniques psychological warfare and social conditioning, they're favorite tactic is demoralization and this is rule 1 in Saul Alinsky's book Rules For Radicals(Hillary's mentor) "power is not only what you have, it's what your enemy thinks you have" but Trump is wise to these methods as well which is why he's been so successful despite basically running against the entire media and political establishment. "The Art Of The Deal" is a somewhat similar guide and I'm sure Trump has probably read Alinsky as I don't think he's where he's at on accident which pretty much the entire political establishment against him.



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20 Oct 2016, 12:38 pm

I assure you, people laughed all over the world.


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