Liveblogging the US Presidential Debate

[blamebrampton]

Because I am not completely immune to self-harm, I thought this would be a good idea. I'm going to lay my cards on the table at the start: I'm With Her. Trump is so divorced from reality that he is a danger to the international economy and I will have to send cards of sympathy to every American diplomat. As for the other candidates, the Libertarian

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[ecosopher]

I knew I'd be out during the debate. Thank goodness, really.

I've thought this for a while, of course, but it's more evident than ever, having seen parts of the debate and read transcripts of it... how can this be happening? How can what these two people are doing actually be called 'a debate?' Because they are not even in the same league. They're just not! How is he even up there? How, how?

I'm so sad that there is even a possibility of him winning. And the thing is, I think, those people who are voting for him? Yeah, like he is going to be able to do ANY of the shit he is saying he will do. So they're voting for a complete tool, who will get nothing done. It's just... so shit.

Pass the gin.

[enchanted_jae]

I'm going to hibernate until the election is over.

God help us all.

[shyfoxling]

Hillary got in a few zingers. I'm just waiting to see the reaction gifs made from her shoulder-shaking, sarcastic "O-kay!" she said at one point.

There were some places where she said some vague and kind of meaningless stuff, but no way did she bumble her way through the whole thing like Mister Drumpf. I didn't watch it live, but read NPR's transcript, and wow is he hard to follow. Completely regardless of whether I would agree with anything he said, it's verd hard to figure out what he is saying in a lot of cases because of the way he backtracks and repeats himself ten times in a paragraph. Hillary at least talks in relatively straight lines.

eta: Mentions Donald talking about shooting Iranian sailors taunting Americans, and how that could start a war.

Donald: that wouldn't start a war.

This bit, I couldn't even. Trump was like "well, they were taunting us" and I was like, "Did he literally just say 'well they started it!!'?" I don't care who started it, Donnie, we do not hit. Now go to your room and think about what you've done.

[fantasyfiend09]

Thank you. This was less painful than live watching would have been (past my bedtime). I am so scared. I want to smack half my nation upside the head.

[rickey_a]

very astute summary :) and funny...
but not

He's so ridiculous that it's frightening how many people will vote for him. I'm in shock (but not) at the other half of the American public that thinks he should be president. So you can feel sorry for half of us. I suppose it'lll all come down to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida yet again.

You might appreciate this: We watched the debates with the kids (13&15) on Monday. And my usually self absorbed unobservent 13 year old commented on Trump - "He talks like a 3rd grader" and my husband and I nodded in unison, that's exactly it. His language, tone, manner of speech, even content sounds like a 9 year old and the sad part is that a good segment of our population can't handle anything more mature or intelligent than that so thet relate to him. I actually so saw comments from a middle class blue collar worker type say that he's voiting for Trump cause Hillary said nothing that made him think she'd be good for the middle class. asdfghjkl;' ????????