All This Is That

Monday, October 10, 2016

Trump’s claim that debate moderators gave him less time to speak are bogus.

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Trump v Clinton II: A strange and ultimately depressing debate

by Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Donald's at times bizarre sniffing? Is this a tic? Is "I'm not as bad as ISIS" a good defense for Access Hollywood?

Note: Donald—quit running against Bill. Further, now that you tossed your running mate under the bus, do you have plans to drag him back out, or just let him hang onto the bumper for a few miles?

Hillary invoking Lanky Link's 13th amendment fight seemed muy estrano. I didn't get what she was driving at, except maybe buying time (e.g., running out the clock?). My propositional logic skills are rusty; maybe I'll diagram this up. I suspect Hillary was a bit rattled by the bizarre press conference Trump held just prior to the debate.

On the whole, this debate made me sad on a number of levels. Sad for us

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drawing: faces 1655 — Undecideds

by Jack Brummet

Sunday, October 09, 2016

Donald J. Trump's reverse bandwagon juggernaut

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

As a politics geek, it's fascinating watching this shipwreck, especially the accelerating Reverse Bandwagon Juggernaut of friends and foes jumping off as the boat takes on water and lists even further. It's actually hard now to feature just how the debate tomorrow will look.

Mr. Donald J. Trump has nothing to lose. It's coming down to a Captain Queeg moment tomorrow night. Maybe DJT will come out all contrite, and every answer will be like a cocktail of Socrates, Jesus, and Bobby Kennedy; but you know he's going to come in hot. And I think probably half of HRC's debate prep must be based on the five or six targeted crooked Hillary accusations.

It is good fortune for Hillary that the WikiLeaks release of her speeches for corporations occurred just when this whole firestorm went down. They are virtually unnoticed.

So tomorrow we'll see contrition, defiance, or savage counterattacks and scorched earth craziness. Or, something like, I apologized yesterday, now let's move on to Crooked Hillary and these WikiLeaks. Will they pillory him? Will the moderators and/or the audience pile on? For all we know, more Trump tapes will appear tomorrow (his Apprentice 1st and 2nd season producer says there are tapes that make the Access Hollywood tapes look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm).

I'm not sure an amazing performance tomorrow can make a difference now. Stay tuned, eh?

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Three stages of Hillary Clinton processing the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape

[Illustration by Jack Brummet]

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Saturday, October 08, 2016

Donald Trump's last 24 hours

Certainly has been an interesting 24 hours!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2016 on Twitter

drawing: faces 1640-1653 — white rocks

By Jack Brummet

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The Gutter King, Donald J. Trump

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

After Donald Trump's hedging [1] apology last night (ending "I pledge to be a better man tomorrow"), he inserted a passage like a song's bridge, where he seemed to evoke RFK spending time with the poor folks, and being transformed. Then he crawled back in the gutter on Bill Clinton, and ended his 90 seconds on a [shockingly] defiant note.

[1] a) that's not me; b) this is a distraction; it's ten years old; d) what about Bill Clinton?

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