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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2016 / More Debate Debacle Open Thread

More Debate Debacle Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  September 26, 20169:34 pm| 547 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Hillary Clinton 2016

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"Not!"
It's like arguing with a teenager who stinks of Red Bull and vodka.#debatenight

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 27, 2016

Trump’s stressing the BE AFRAID BE AFRAID (Stolen jobs! ISIS! Financial Bubble! Negro Thinks-He’s-President Playing Golf! We’re being ripped off by every country!) meme — it’s his go-to move but I don’t think it’s gonna impress anyone but his base.

Right now he’s explaining — again! — that he can’t release his tax returns because he’s being audited “very unfairly”.

tonight, we are pretty much sending Hillary Clinton to drill into a giant asteroid & nuke it from the inside before it can destroy the earth

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 26, 2016

Trump DC Hotel #debatenight Special: 6-pack of Bud for $100. Perfect metaphor for 2016 https://t.co/yKHx3rQPkZ

— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) September 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton does not need to do this to win, but I really hope she kicks Trumps' ass tonight. It would be very enjoyable (and deserved)

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 26, 2016

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547Comments

  1. 1.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    She claimed he paid no taxes and he said ‘that’s smart’. Wrong answer… Working class people pay taxes and they are offended when rich people don’t.

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    Can’t.Keep.Up.

  3. 3.

    Wapiti

    September 26, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    She handled the taxes well.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    @? Martin: It’s ‘smart’ from Trump’s perspective which prioritizes Trump’s income above all else.

  5. 5.

    hilts

    September 26, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    Great takedown by Hillary on Drumpf’s refusal to release his tax returns

  6. 6.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    It’s rambling time.

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    I like the way she keeps saying “you” directly to the voters. Donald is talking to Lester.

  8. 8.

    Turgidson

    September 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @? Martin:

    She should use that to turn the Crooked bullshit around on him where it belongs. Stealing from the government, stealing from honest tax payers, whatever works.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    Braggadocios!

  10. 10.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    Word salad.

  11. 11.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    Illegal server? You mean like the waitstaff at mar a lago?

  12. 12.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    She handled the email great. It was a mistake. The end.

  13. 13.

    Jeffro

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    He just brought up his ability as a businessman … no offense to Hillary but it’s like baring your neck to a vampire

  14. 14.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Trump: we need infrastructure.

    Who blocked infrastructure?

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Oh man. Trump: “Our government doesn’t have any money”
    Clinton: “Well, maybe it would if you paid any taxes. Oh, and you stiff contractors too”

  16. 16.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    “Maybe it’s because you haven’t paid any taxes.” HAH!!!!! Oh god, she’s bringing up the people he stiffed. KEGEL!

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    “Braggadocious.”

    Oy.

  18. 18.

    wenchacha

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Maybe not coke, but adderall I think.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Holy cow!

  20. 20.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    Maybe he didn’t do a good job.

    HOLY FUCKING FUCKBALLS!!

  21. 21.

    hilts

    September 26, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    Hillary is doing a great job so far against the orange buffoon.

  22. 22.

    Mike J

    September 26, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    If you’re explaining you’re losing. Donald is losing.

  23. 23.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    I’m a straight woman and right now I would bang Hillary until we both passed out.

  24. 24.

    wenchacha

    September 26, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    What a tool he is.

  25. 25.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    He’s sniffing again.

  26. 26.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @debit: It’s possible I’ve had a few glasses of wine.

  27. 27.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    He’s prepping to release the ZERO taxes tax returns.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    I take advantage of the laws of the nation.

    HOLY FUCK!

  29. 29.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Oh, for fucks sake. Another commercial for the bloody hotel?

  30. 30.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    The tens of thousands of people who love me unbelievably.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    How is Donald going to have new answers for the next two debates?

  32. 32.

    Elmo

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    The cretins at FreeRepublic are already checking out. Joy!

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Trump must have sat in the make-up chair for an hour. Got more pancake than IHOP.

  34. 34.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Another plug for his new hotel.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Who could watch this buffoon and think he’s a reasonable human being?

  36. 36.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Even Donald’s joke about getting to Pennsylvania Ave, didn’t work.

  37. 37.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    He’s running for a G6 contract manager job now? I’m really enjoying this.

  38. 38.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    He’s just giving her more ammo every time he opens his mouth. She knows it too.

  39. 39.

    lamh36

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    Well damn HRC…bodied Trump with this one…

    @ReignOfApril
    WWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    “Maybe the real reason we don’t have good infrastructure is because you don’t pay any federal taxes.” #debatenight
    8:40 PM – 26 Sep 2016

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    I loved how he said not paying taxes was smart and then she added that meant no money for troops no money for vets. That was a sick burn as my kids say.

  41. 41.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    I don’t have it in me to watch this guy. My husband just texted me saying Trump is huffing and doesn’t look good, and he (my husband) is laughing. Is it really going that well for Hillary?

  42. 42.

    debbie

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @Mike J:

    The Guardian is posting RWNJ tweets. They think Trump is killing it.

  43. 43.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @debit: Cracked me up with that one. Well said.

  44. 44.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    On a serious note, right now what I’m taking from this is that Trump can’t control himself and he has no plan, just complaints and doom saying. No answers or solutions. Not very motivating.

  45. 45.

    Mike E

    September 26, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    Anyone do a bunk check on NR? srv?

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    I love how Hillz is just letting Donald ramble on and sound like a moron.

  47. 47.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    He is drinking a lot of water. He’s going to be fidgeting by the end because there are no potty breaks.

  48. 48.

    Mike J

    September 26, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    Frank Luntz ‏@FrankLuntz 7 minutes ago
    Even Trump-leaners agree with Hillary. They want to see his taxes. #DebateNight

  49. 49.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    So Donald has noticed our airports aren’t that great.

    It’s called infrastructure. GOP won’t let us spend to upgrade our infrastructure. Thanks for bringing that up, Donald.

    Now Hillary circles back to the business expertise, and “stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald” — a litany of peeps not paid. Architects to contractors.

  50. 50.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    There’s no way anyone can spin this as going well for Trump. He’s going to take a mauling in the polls after this.

  51. 51.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    The race question/issue. This should bury Trump in a way nothing else might tonight.

  52. 52.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    I know I am a partisan, but has he made any sense other than defending how great he is?

    And now race. I am so afriad of this part because of why it will reveal about Trump and 43% of my fellow citizens.

  53. 53.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    @debit: You are wrong, “Biggest Tax Cut since Reagan”! That’ll fix everything.

  54. 54.

    Brother Dingaling

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    I’m biased, so I can’t be sure, but is Hillary Clinton eating his lunch? Cuz it looks like she’s eating his lunch.

  55. 55.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    law & order – drink

  56. 56.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    @NotMax: If it’s good pancake, it doesn’t look like pancake. I do believe his makeup artist is making fun of him, and DTs is too stupid to get the joke.

  57. 57.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    “Various parts of our country. Wherever. I can keep naming them all day long” == he can’t name any places so afflicted.

  58. 58.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Taken their labor. Taken the goods they produced. And then not paying them.

    HRC’s dad. Six business bankruptcies. A lot of great businessppl have never taken bankruptcy once.

    Sometimes not a great transfer of skills from business to govt.

    Donald: It’s all soundbites. Unbelievable company. He’s built.

  59. 59.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    @debbie:

    The Guardian is posting RWNJ tweets. They think Trump is killing it.

    Of course — this kind of poseur dominance bullshit is what won him the primary. His base loves it. Normal people? Probably not so much.

  60. 60.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Living in hell. You walk down the street you get shot.

  61. 61.

    Mike J

    September 26, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Unpaid architect.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    The frowny face doesn’t convey seriousness or gravitas, DT. More like you ate a wear-dated taco bowl for dinner.

    As to the occasional show of fish-face pouty lips, the less said the better.

  63. 63.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    So Trump’s solution to the racial divide is law & order and endorsements of police organizations?

  64. 64.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    Just keep going, asshole. You just can’t help yourself.

  65. 65.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    Stop and frisk. Seriously?

  66. 66.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    He sniffled and sucked down water. He bragged about not paying federal taxes: “That makes me smarter.” He bragged about bragging about profiting from the housing crisis: “That’s called business, by the way.” Donald Trump lost his cool and maybe the race, taking bait cooly served by Hillary Clinton.

    Unfortunately, that was Ron Fournier, so Trump probably just won.

  67. 67.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    Dick Nixon on line one for Trump. He wants his stump speech back.

  68. 68.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @Mary G: Well, he’s standing behind a podium so nobody really would know if he decided to piss his pants.

  69. 69.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    Law & arder 5 times! I shouldn’t have played this drinking game.

  70. 70.

    GregB

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    Taxpayers are idiots and The Blacks and Hispanish types need some law and order shoved down their throats.

  71. 71.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    I wonder what the Fuck the Police libertarians will do.

  72. 72.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Sniffing is the new sighing.

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Next segment: America’s direction. Race relations.

  74. 74.

    debbie

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @Mary G:

    “Little Marco, is that you?”

  75. 75.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    A very against police judge.

  76. 76.

    Skerry

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Telling that Donald goes straight from race to crime.

  77. 77.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @? Martin: Heh.

  78. 78.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Donald Trump, gun grabber.

  79. 79.

    wenchacha

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    “A very against police judge”

    Man, he has a golden tongue.

  80. 80.

    Central Planning

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    “Stop and Frisk was ruled unconstitutional”
    “No it wasn’t”

    Holy crap.

  81. 81.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Man, defending stop and frisk to Lester Holt….this should go well.

  82. 82.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Lester Holt is actually doing follow-up questions and so forth. Well done, so far.

  83. 83.

    Bobby Thomson

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Oh shit he’s trying to fact check Lester Holt.

  84. 84.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Oh, man, here comes the implosion.

  85. 85.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    Word salad. Stop and frisk. Please shut him up.

  86. 86.

    BlueDWarrior

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    And now Donny is arguing with the moderator about the exact nature of the ruling that froze Stop and Frisk in NYC.

    God man keep your head in the game, this dude seriously has the attention span of a flea drawing blood from a methhead.

  87. 87.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    I have investments…I have property there…I have real estate…

  88. 88.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    Chicago is important to Trump because he has a (very ugly) building there.

  89. 89.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    … On Chicago: See Slate’s article from Friday: slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_next_20/2016/09/is_chicago_s_ghastly_murder_rate_the_result…

    Wait, wut? Did DT’s just say “take guns away from people?” Paging NRA.

  90. 90.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    “Who was a very… against police .. judge”

    This is heading into Miss Teen USA South Carolina territory now, good god.

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    This was complete shit show word salad. He could not shut up.

  92. 92.

    HinTN

    September 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    Do you have property in Ferguson, Donald?

  93. 93.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Ooh Lester fact checked stop by and frisk! Wingnuts will be frothing at the mouth.

  94. 94.

    Tripod

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    WTF was he yabbering about? That orange moron doesn’t use the public airline terminals. Did he get delayed today on the biz jet tarmac or something??

  95. 95.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @? Martin: As long as you grab them from the “right people”, it’s OK with the NRA.

  96. 96.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Dammit, 9 lawrnarders and counting….

  97. 97.

    Turgidson

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @Mike J:

    Dear Mr. Luntz. Thanks for that tidbit. Now politely go boil yourself in sulfuric acid, asshole. Thx.

  98. 98.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Trump just audibly sighed. I believe that under the Al Gore clause, he automatically forfeits this debate.

  99. 99.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Hillary just let him talk. That was brilliant. She is being positive.

  100. 100.

    HinTN

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @Corner Stone: Nope :^)

  101. 101.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Trump is going to get absolutely smoked on this issue. His approval amongst minorities will go to shit after this.

  102. 102.

    Mike J

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Check Luntz’s twitter feed. He’s got dial data supered over debate video. Every Clinton attack lands hard, Trump floundering.

  103. 103.

    Mandalay

    September 26, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @aliasofwestgate:

    Just keep going, asshole. You just can’t help yourself.

    Exactly right.

    In 2012 it was “Please proceed, Governor”.

    But for this doofus: “Just keep going, asshole”.

  104. 104.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    I think Trump watched “Dredd” on the flight to the debate (the Karl Urban version).

  105. 105.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    I really want to see a gif of every face he’s pulled this debate, Bet it would be hysterical.

  106. 106.

    ChrisH

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    That Donald Trump sigh. If there is any justice in the world that will get excessive scruitiny by the press

  107. 107.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    Gangs were 90s issues. Not today’s problem with getting shot just for existing while black.

  108. 108.

    Tripod

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    @dmsilev:

    All Rahm has to do for re-election is have the boys blow torch the TRUMP sign off.

  109. 109.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    @Elizabelle

    Unbelievable company. He’s built.

    In the anti-business hellhole he describes America as being.

    Apparel made in Bangladesh and China, which HRC hasn’t hit him with yet when he talks about jobs being outsourced.

  110. 110.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    She is not hiding on race.

    It may cost her the election.

  111. 111.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    @Keith P.:

    Also, taking guns away from minorities. Because the problem in Dallas was that a black guy with a gun killed 5 cops, not that a crazy asshole was able to get a gun.

  112. 112.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    US Americans?

  113. 113.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    @wenchacha: It beats “cisgrace”, unless that’s some king of transgender out reach…

  114. 114.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    @PsiFighter37: They’re already shit.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    @debit: You’d never sleep again.

  116. 116.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    That sigh is going to hurt him. She’s declaring that black communities are not shitholes, and he sighs in disgust.

  117. 117.

    Mandalay

    September 26, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    His approval amongst minorities will go to shit after this.

    Best post of the evening!

  118. 118.

    Peale

    September 26, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @Skerry: well it’s all he has to offer. If he could move them out of the country too, he would. But locking up more of them is always a way to win them oveg

  119. 119.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    Clinton pushing gun control. Trump going to shoot himself in the dick with his NRA endorsement now.

  120. 120.

    Anoniminous

    September 26, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    I’m glad there are children watching this debate. That was as fine an example of frontier gibberish as ever I have heard.

  121. 121.

    Tripod

    September 26, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    Who gave him the coke? Where did he get the coke??!!

  122. 122.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    She is kicking ass. Being passionately against private prisons and for gun control.

  123. 123.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @Anoniminous: Authentic frontier gibberish.

  124. 124.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    Hillary just quotes stat that Black dope smokers jailed three times more than white potheads WITHOUT mentioning marijuana or the stupid drug war,

  125. 125.

    debbie

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    From the Guardian:

    Trump is ranting about the budget. We use the word ranting because his teeth are bared, he’s chopping the air with his hands and his voice is at high volume.

  126. 126.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    His approval amongst minorities will go to shit after this.

    There’s a level of shit lower than just shit? ‘Cause that’s pretty much where he was already.

  127. 127.

    donnah

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    Hillary has shone all across the board. Trump is talking like a nine year old, and that’s an insult to nine year olds. He’s embarrassing himself.

  128. 128.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    September 26, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    Banning Private Prisons, if I haven’t already I was voting for her, I would vote for her just for calling for that.

  129. 129.

    Bobby Thomson

    September 26, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    His approval amongst minorities will go to shit after this.

    Go to?

  130. 130.

    Phoenix Woman

    September 26, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Remember when Trey Gowdy was kind enough to do an eleven-hour ad for her on live TV?

    Now imagine Trey Gowdy was thirty years older, seventy-five pounds fatter, coked to the gills and sniffling, and with pancake makeup being washed away by rivers of sweat.

    That’s what we’re seeing tonight.

  131. 131.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    @Baud:

    She is not hiding on race.

    It may cost her the election.

    I hope not. Deploy the Obamas. Remind people they have better angels.

  132. 132.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    He’s going back to Stop and Frisk. Really?

  133. 133.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    Hillary could have said “Not law and order but justice for all”

  134. 134.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    Murders are up. Smirks.

    Christ, what an asshole.

  135. 135.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    He’s periodically remembering that he’s supposed to try to sound civil tonight. And it lasts about a minute and a half.

    And he looks ridiculous doing it, like a Rhinoceros trying to wear a tuxedo, eventually he rips it apart in a fit of rage.

  136. 136.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @donnah: His vocabulary is so limited. It’s noticeable.

  137. 137.

    Phoenix Woman

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @Tripod: Bannon, maybe?

  138. 138.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    Man, Trump can’t even stick to his own points. He’s wandering all over the place.

    And he LOVES to say “stop and frisk.”

  139. 139.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    Bill Maher ‏@billmaher 22m22 minutes ago

    Trump: “I get audited every year” Yes, because you’re a crook!!
    8,171 retweets 14,586 likes

  140. 140.

    Turgidson

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @? Martin:

    FUCK. Ron “CorruptDuopoly4Ever” Fournier is only correct slightly more often than Bloody Bill WRONG Kristol.

  141. 141.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    September 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    @Tripod: And why didn’t I get any?

  142. 142.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 26, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    Trump speaks like a 10 year old. This is the best that the party of Lincoln can do?

  143. 143.

    Miss Bianca

    September 26, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @debit: LOL!!

  144. 144.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @donnah: Agreed. No matter what doofus goatee guy and the skull lady say later.

  145. 145.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @Immanentize: Let’s not nit-pick.

  146. 146.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    He keeps saying “inner cities” as a word for blacks.

  147. 147.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    No, no, no, 2200 to 500 murders had much, much more to do with the end of lead in the gasoline and the right to abortion going into effect in 1973. A generation with fewer unwanted, unloved, neglected children who were not being poisoned every time they took a breath was surprisingly, a less violent, less criminal generation.

  148. 148.

    Tenar Darell

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    @debit:
    QFT FTW!

    I’m a straight woman and right now I would bang Hillary until we both passed out.

    OMG, dying laughing! Thank you.

  149. 149.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    @amk: Also “I’ll release them as soon as I’m not being audited. And I’m being audited constantly” I couldn’t help notice.

  150. 150.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    Birtherism!

  151. 151.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    Oh here we go.

  152. 152.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    BOOM! MIC DROP BITCHES!!

  153. 153.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    We had a lawyer shooting up Houston today. Ponder that.

    And brings up the no fly list buying guns. Yup.

    Good question from Lester about implicit bias. It’s a fair question.

    Hillary elides. All of us have implicit bias. But in policing, it can have fatal consequences.

  154. 154.

    Phoenix Woman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Mike J:

    Check Luntz’s twitter feed. He’s got dial data supered over debate video. Every Clinton attack lands hard, Trump floundering.

    Part of Luntz must be thinking “Thank GOD”.

  155. 155.

    Suzanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Braggadocious? Is that like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

  156. 156.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Trump can not even speak clearly about HRC being the root of Birtherism.

  157. 157.

    Smiling Mortician

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    The “I prepared” line. Did it work? It got applause, so that’s good I guess?

  158. 158.

    Mandalay

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Mike J: Much as I hate to give the asshole credit, Luntz really has captured the debate in a soundbite: “Trump is talking about problems… Hillary is talking about solutions.”

  159. 159.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    What? What? (You have to explain for those of us who aren’t watching)

  160. 160.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    stop and frisk.

    african american community has been let down by politicians.

    rinse, repeat.

    the fucker didn’t prepare, did he?

  161. 161.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Tripod

    LaGuardia, which he mentioned, is currently in the midst of major, major construction/reconstruction.

    Shame that the control tower now looks like a prison camp guard tower. Very ugly, could not possibly even have looked good on paper. Here’s the one it replaced a few years ago.

  162. 162.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Fucking Trump. Piece of shit racist.

  163. 163.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    “I’ve been all over the place, and that’s okay. You stayed home.”

    “Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. I’ve also been preparing to be President.”

  164. 164.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @Smiling Mortician: Yes, that was a winner.

  165. 165.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Fact checking?

  166. 166.

    lamh36

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Just clicked over for a minute to look at split screen and HRC looks calm cool, collected. DJT looks angry, and frustrated.

  167. 167.

    patroclus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Birtherism!

  168. 168.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Holy crap that was the cure for peak stabby. Wowza

  169. 169.

    Timurid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @Credenzal Jocularity:

    “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of livers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

  170. 170.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Okay, Lester can join us for a threesome.

  171. 171.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    I like that Trump distanced himself from other GOP about guns and the no fly list.

    Take that, Mitch and Munster Ryan.

    Brings up superpredators.

    Stop and frisk would have us drunk by now. Drinking word game.

  172. 172.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    I just. I don’t even. What. How. Why.

  173. 173.

    GregB

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Sudney Blumenthal is the new William Ayers.

  174. 174.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Trump is incoherent. What? WTF?

  175. 175.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Great line!

  176. 176.

    Suzanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    HOLY FUCK, talking about how he didn’t pay his architect because he “maybe didn’t do a good job” is crazy-making.

  177. 177.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    “I say nothing. ”
    So true

  178. 178.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    She is about to rattle him again. That smile was priceless.

  179. 179.

    Feathers

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    But the murder rate went down everywhere! Even in places without stop and frisk!

  180. 180.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    “Just listen to what you heard”

    Laughter from audience.

  181. 181.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    He is like a the comment section of a YouTube video come alive. What an idiot. My brain cells are dying watching him speak. I don’t know how you guys can stand it.

  182. 182.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    I think Trump just bowed out of the presidential race a minute ago.

  183. 183.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    “Just listen to what you heard.”

  184. 184.

    Soprano2

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    What the fuck is he talking about? Why is he talking about the birth certificate? Does he think that is a good issue for him?

  185. 185.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @amk: He really isn’t saying anything tonight that he already hasn’t said before.

  186. 186.

    Betty Cracker

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Trump, crashing and burning.

  187. 187.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Just listen to what you heard. FTMFW!

  188. 188.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    The best authentic frontier gibberish…

  189. 189.

    Jeffro

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Oh my god she’s unleashing the howitzers about “racist birther lie”

    If she broke a beer bottle on her podium and ran over and gutted him I have to admit he would be in better shape than what he’s about to get

  190. 190.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Don’t shake your fucking head you fucking piece of garbage fuck.

  191. 191.

    JGabriel

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    What’s with all the deep sniffs from Trump? Did he do a few lines of coke before going on stage tonight?

  192. 192.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Clinton: “Trump’s racism goes way way back”

  193. 193.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    This is a professional boxer vs. some chump from the local Tough Man competition.

  194. 194.

    HinTN

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Over the last little while…

    Boom

  195. 195.

    Skerry

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Sady Doyle ‏@sadydoyle 57m57 minutes ago

    I see Hillary has come dressed in the blood of men who have underestimated her.

  196. 196.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    He is done. Hillary is about to do the Mortal Kombat death move.

  197. 197.

    Anoniminous

    September 26, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    ZING!

  198. 198.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Yeah his faces are bizarre right now.

  199. 199.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    She using racist scumbag on him.

  200. 200.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @Corner Stone: With which comment? Or behavior? Some of us aren’t watching (fearing for our livers/cns function/etc).

  201. 201.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    Big Eyeroll

    Now Birther question. deflects to PUMA/Hills provenance, and now he’s a hero for pulling Superman’s cape.

    SNIFFFF. Too bad there are no commercials or he’d return with powder around his nose.

    OOH! Hillary goes after Donald’s racism. and it is stinging, although he will play victim now.

  202. 202.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @Jeffro:

    If she broke a beer bottle on her podium and ran over and gutted him I have to admit he would be in better shape than what he’s about to get

    If she does that, I will swear lifelong fealty to House Clinton.

  203. 203.

    Anoniminous

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @JGabriel:

    It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  204. 204.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    long on racist behavior.

    Tell it, hiilz.

  205. 205.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Why aren’t they playing Rains of Castamere?

  206. 206.

    Gelfling 545

    September 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    @aliasofwestgate: My daughter says she’s not watching, just listening from the kitchen to the tv in another room. She says that even at a distance she’s just cringing at Trump’s display of ignorance.

  207. 207.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    I don’t see how even hacks like Mara Liasson drag Trump’s carcass into the debate winner circle tonight.

    I don’t see how Donald does any better in the second debate, if he shows. He’s a one trick pony.

    Who is always being audited. Imagine that.

  208. 208.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Man, the sniffles getting worse.

  209. 209.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    We settled with no admission of guilt. Which was very easy to do.

    This fucking guy.

  210. 210.

    different-church-lady

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    So much of what he’s been saying is absurd. He is winging this; she is prepared. I thought he might be able to overcome that substantive disadvantage. I don’t think he has. Surely people will see that.

    [FACEPALM] Oh Sully… Sully, Sully, Sully…

  211. 211.

    Timurid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    If the Village is still in the tank for him after tonight they won’t be closet Fascists anymore.

  212. 212.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Donald, if you’re explaining you’re losing. You are losing.

  213. 213.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    He is flailing. And sniffing.

  214. 214.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    ‘I saw the debate tapes. You were so mean to Obama!” What a joke of an attack. Obama is campaigning for her…enthusiastically!

  215. 215.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Wow. Settling a lawsuit with no admission of guilt now means that you were totally innocent and just feel like paying a settlement for no reason.

  216. 216.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Sniffy

  217. 217.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    The birth certificate was a great public service?!?!

    Settled a lawsuit with no admission of guilt… Doesn’t sound good to the plebs.

    Oh, goody. State-sponsored hacking.

  218. 218.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Palm Beach?

    This guy can not stop with the commercials for his shit. This is insane!!!!!!

  219. 219.

    different-church-lady

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @shomi: The floor’s the limit!

  220. 220.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Russia!

    Putin!

  221. 221.

    Bobby Thomson

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Solis-Doyle never said that.

  222. 222.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    I’m not sure the ‘no admission of guilt’ plays the way he thinks. Most people interpret it as something that is negotiated in exchange for paying a larger fine.

  223. 223.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I just. I don’t even. What. How. Why.

    You took the exact words right out of my head.

  224. 224.

    Juju

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Hillary should pull a tissue out of her grandma sleeve and hand it to Trump the next time he snort inhales.

  225. 225.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    I have been given great credit for things I do! (Even if I did it with other people’s money)

  226. 226.

    Mandalay

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @shomi:

    Ahhh why?

    Whooooosh!

  227. 227.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Re Trump snorting

    My mom just said she thinks he is “on the cocaine”.

  228. 228.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Russia!! Dare I hope? YES!!! Yes I do! Donald’s Putin love comes home to roost.

  229. 229.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @Corner Stone: At least he hasn’t (yet) dragged out a couple of Trump Steaks from behind the podium.

  230. 230.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    hey bj’ers, can we stop preemptive bedwetting at least now? hillbeast is doing great.

  231. 231.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    THE CYBER IS SO BIG! IT’S HUGE!

    Prepare for epic word salad, folks.

  232. 232.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    OMG. She’s bringing up the DNC hack. By Russia.

    ETA: FINISH HIM!

  233. 233.

    KS in MA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @Corner Stone: Why, other buffoons, of course.

  234. 234.

    Central Planning

    September 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Luntz:

    So far, 17 people in my group say Hillary is winning; 3 say Trump. Tax question weakened him, birther question destroyed him. #DebateNight

  235. 235.

    Gelfling 545

    September 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @jonas: Compost?

  236. 236.

    piratedan

    September 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @Mandalay: nah, goes to Debit a couple of threads back about wanting to bang Hills

  237. 237.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Solidified water endorses Trump?

  238. 238.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    “That’s why I was so surprised when Donald invited Russia to hack Americans.” I bet he didn’t even feel the knife slip in until she twisted it.

  239. 239.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Not substantive, but focus for a moment on how much shoulder padding his black suit coat has.

  240. 240.

    Central Planning

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Is it bad I read that in the Mortal Kombat video game voice?

  241. 241.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    Hillary is about to do the Mortal Kombat death move.

    FINISH HIM!!!!

  242. 242.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @Corner Stone: There’s still a half hour left, I’m sure the steaks will next.

  243. 243.

    different-church-lady

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @Corner Stone: I still live in terror of waking up on Nov. 9 and hearing reporters say, “A man who ran an incoherent campaign won in an age of incoherence.”

  244. 244.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Hillary is going to be more comfortable in the next debate. She’s knows how this is going to go now.

  245. 245.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Leave Putin alone!!!!!

  246. 246.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Wow, hackers are everywhere. I have no idea what to do about that but they’re out there.

  247. 247.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    WTF? Trump claimed that he was endorsed by ICE. That would be, uh, illegal.

  248. 248.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    donnie dick now pathetically now looking for bsbots votes.

  249. 249.

    trollhattan

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Bernie was hacked by DWS?

  250. 250.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Man, fuck those 400lb hackerz!

  251. 251.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    The investigation said it was a likely Russia, and he invited them to do more. *rolls eyes*

  252. 252.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    I.Can’t.
    I just can’t even.
    What in the ever fucks of all that fucks is he doing now?
    His 10 year old?

  253. 253.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    The security aspect of cyber?

  254. 254.

    Jeffro

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    @? Martin: well you called that one !

  255. 255.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Computer aspect of cyber? WTF?

  256. 256.

    Mart

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    My wife in the bedroom moaning and crying, “oh my god”. She never does that for me.

  257. 257.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, WTF DONALD??

  258. 258.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    September 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Cyber…we have to do cyber better. Yeah…he totally sounds like he knows what he’s talking about.

  259. 259.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    Someone once described Trump’s speaking style as ‘word salad shooter’.

    No, no reason at all to bring that up just now.

  260. 260.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    Did he really just say it might not be Russia, it could be a 400 lb guy sitting on his couch?

  261. 261.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    His 10 year old?

    He would totally bang him.

  262. 262.

    Felonius Monk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @NotMax:

    focus for a moment on how much shoulder padding his black suit coat has.

    Makes up for the lack of material between his ears and the absence of a soul.

  263. 263.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    Kevin M. Kruse ‏@KevinMKruse 8m8 minutes ago

    Again, Trump was sued for racial discrimination by the Nixon administration.

    BY THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION.
    878 retweets 799 likes

  264. 264.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    “We don’t know Russia did any hacking. Maybe it was someone sitting on his bed who weighs 400 pounds.”

    What a maroon.

  265. 265.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    Trump sounded like a complete moron on that. Saying “the cyber” over and over makes him sound like a fool.

  266. 266.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @Mart: Try talking to her about the cyber.

  267. 267.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    I can’t believe they canceled CSI:Cyber.

  268. 268.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    Ten-year-old Barron Trump for NSA chief!

  269. 269.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Right? He’s a doofus.

  270. 270.

    Suzanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    I seriously expect him to pass out here on the stage. He’s breathless and is gulping for air.

  271. 271.

    Feathers

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    I forgot what I was going to post because the orange one said something even more stupid and crazy.

  272. 272.

    Cacti

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    What are the odds Trump backs out of the remaining debates after tonight’s performance?

  273. 273.

    chopper

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @? Martin:

    at this rate there won’t be another one. trump will take his ball and go home.

  274. 274.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    He is done. Hillary is about to do the Mortal Kombat death move.

    I’m thinking more the five-finger strike from “Kill Bill” where you look all right, walk five steps off to stage left and then your heart explodes.

  275. 275.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    HRC keeps using words structured into actual sentences. Does she not know what kind of contest she is in at the moment? An old fashioned gibberish battle.

  276. 276.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @? Martin: she seems to have this down pretty good. She mostly ignores him unless she can piss him off.

  277. 277.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    “That’s right, bitches. I helped take out Bin Laden.”

  278. 278.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Pro tip: never let a guy who dictates his tweets talk about computer security.

  279. 279.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @? Martin: There goes the 400 pound hackerz vote.

  280. 280.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @Felonius Monk: The suit is sentient?

  281. 281.

    Pinacacci

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    I think he has never, ever had to play to an audience that wasn’t looking to be conned and he’s certainly never had to square off with someone of Hillary’s caliber. Which is why this very public evisceration actually has me feeling slightly sorry for him. But not really.

  282. 282.

    Amir Khalid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    I must say, I wasn’t expecting Trump to do quite this badly in the debate. This is a rout.

  283. 283.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    Saying “the cyber” over and over makes him sound like a fool.

    He saw it on The Googles, which he accessed through a series of tubes.

  284. 284.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    He’s one question away from starting to babble “like such as, the Iraq…”

  285. 285.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @MomSense: Yup. A twofer. Does he even look at his ‘base’?

  286. 286.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    We should have stayed in Iraq.

  287. 287.

    glory b

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @NotMax: Shoulder and chest padding make the gut look smaller (Yes, I sew).).

  288. 288.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    He’s claiming that Obama and Clinton invented the vaccuum

  289. 289.

    GregB

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    Trump implicates Chris Christie in cyber-hacking.

    Sorry.

  290. 290.

    Skerry

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    Trump tweets are being deleted in real-time. I posted one tonight about climate change being a hoax and it is gone now.

  291. 291.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    Taking the oil? Really?

  292. 292.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    Just donated to Hillz. Felt good.

  293. 293.

    Mart

    September 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @dmsilev: I ain’t getting anywhere near her tonight. Spitting sparks.

  294. 294.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    September 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    So the question I’m afraid to have answered: what percentage of my fellow citizens is going to watch this and still say that they could see this guy in the White House?

  295. 295.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    This is a rout.

    I first read that as “This is a riot.”

    Actually, it’s both.

  296. 296.

    trollhattan

    September 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    Just ran out of ale. I hate you, beer gods!

  297. 297.

    Miss Bianca

    September 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @Skerry: Ooh…I LIKE that. Is it wrong?

  298. 298.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @Mart:

    My wife in the bedroom moaning and crying, “oh my god”. She never does that for me.

    I don’t know your wife but I am in love with her right now.

  299. 299.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    I love how she just talks right over Trump every time he tries to interrupt her.

  300. 300.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    “But let’s talk about the question you asked, Lester…”

  301. 301.

    trollhattan

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Milkshakes were taken.

  302. 302.

    gene108

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Trump is really pandering to his base. They will love his performance.

  303. 303.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Ceci n’est pas mon nym: 47.3%

  304. 304.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Ceci n’est pas mon nym: Too many of them.

  305. 305.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Cacti: Unlikely. He probably thinks he’s killing it.

  306. 306.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Her demeanor is so fucking ‘presidential’. What would the emmessem mofos will do now?

  307. 307.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Ceci n’est pas mon nym:

    So the question I’m afraid to have answered: what percentage of my fellow citizens is going to watch this and still say that they could see this guy in the White House?

    43% or so.

  308. 308.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @chopper: He has no balls left, unfortunately. Hillary just made mincemeat of them.

  309. 309.

    Schlemazel

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @different-church-lady:
    did I mention before, fuck sully? Might I add, with a rusty chainsaw?

  310. 310.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    I would have loved to have seen Ted Cruz tangle with Clinton. It would at least be on even ground. It’s like I’m watching half of a debate and half of a book report done with index cards.

  311. 311.

    donnah

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    Ask yourself this: Which candidate sounds like a President.

    Jeez, he is a blowhard, egotist, self-aggrandizing idiot.

  312. 312.

    Mandalay

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    Thank goodness Clinton put Trump in his place, and clearly explained exactly why the US left Iraq – one of the most under-reported and mis-reported issues of the campaign.

  313. 313.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    God. She calmly and clearly stated that the Dubya administration signed the SOFA with the timetable for leaving Iraq.

  314. 314.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @Baud: We should have taken all their oil and shipped back to the US.

  315. 315.

    japa21

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    And somewhere Jeb and Rubio and Kasich and Cruz are sitting in corners and asking how they lost to this idiot.

  316. 316.

    Keith G

    September 26, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @Cacti: Zero

  317. 317.

    amygdala

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    Oh, man: Bernie slaps DJT around on Twitter.

  318. 318.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    That should be Good, not God in #313.

  319. 319.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Given how Trump thinks of everything in terms of dominance relations, it’s exactly the right way to deal with him.

  320. 320.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    She is flamazing and Holt is doing a great job of asking substantive questions and then just sitting back and letting Donald hang himself.

  321. 321.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Easy, ya just take it. Common sense.

  322. 322.

    Suzanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Ceci n’est pas mon nym: That’s the five-point-palm-exploding-heart-technique.

    I seriously think he’s going to pass out. I wouldn’t mind.

    Maybe he’ll break his nose on the way down.

  323. 323.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    He’s about to say NATO should be ditched. Moron.

  324. 324.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    my god, I said very strongly, I was very strong on this….. I was strong

    He’s taking credit for getting Europeans to acknowledge terror. He’s like… I don’t even know what he’s like

    ETA: Good god, this appeal to Hannity…. what the hell is this?

  325. 325.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    He’s running for President but hadn’t given much thought to our oldest military alliance NATO. Wow.

  326. 326.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    He’s one question away from starting to babble “like such as, the Iraq…”

    Donald Trump for Miss South Carolina!

  327. 327.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @gene108: So?

  328. 328.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    He was very strong and he said it numerous times that he was very strong. You guys, he was so strong!

  329. 329.

    Anoniminous

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    This is a disaster for the GOP’s Senate and House races.

  330. 330.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    Man, she doesn’t even have to Tweet in order to bait him. She worked “NATO” into a response and he just HAD to address it. HAD TO.

  331. 331.

    patrick II

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Keith P.:
    The I.c.e. union e endorsed trump.

  332. 332.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    He’s one question away from starting to babble “like such as, the Iraq…”

    He is waaaayyyy fucking past that here and now.

  333. 333.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Ceci n’est pas mon nym:

    what percentage of my fellow citizens is going to watch this and still say that they could see this guy in the White House?

    About 40-45% The only thing Trump could do to lose them would be to become a card-carrying member of NAMBLA, shack up with a Syrian refugee boy, and vow to repeal the 2nd Amendment. Maybe.

  334. 334.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    Imagining him in the Oval Office is really really frightening.

  335. 335.

    Cckids

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @amk: I’ve always heard (from accountants), that if you passed an audit, you couldn’t be audited again for 3 years. True?? If so, proves that Trump is cheating all the time if he’s really been continually audited for 15 years.

  336. 336.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Skerry: Are you effin’ kidding me?

    Yelling at computer: Geneva convention. War crime. No, we couldn’t take the oil, you limp ball of Cheeto dust. And you didn’t answer the damn question.

  337. 337.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    BTW, there’s 5 cubic MILES of oil in Iraq. If the world only used Iraqi oil, and stopped using all other sources, it’d take 5 years to consume it all.

  338. 338.

    Yet another jeff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    Trump got NATO to be against terrorism! Thank you Mr Trump!

  339. 339.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    Little short arms. He has arms like a crawfish.

  340. 340.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    In any other context on the planet what he’s doing would be described as “a rambling incoherent rant”

    He sounds completely insane.

  341. 341.

    quakerinabasement

    September 26, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    I was very strong on this. I said strongly.

  342. 342.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    Now he’s arguing with Lester Holt, smart.

  343. 343.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    She’s just smiling while he self destructs on this Iraq War bullshit.
    Sean Hannity!

  344. 344.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Arguing with the moderator: Always a good strategy.

    And yes, Sean Hannity is certainly a reliable source.

  345. 345.

    Amir Khalid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @gene108:
    Come morning, there will be headlines and think-pieces denouncing Lester Holt's obvious pro-Democratic bias.

  346. 346.

    p.a.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Mary G: A minor point, but Holt’s do-nothing-ism may be a benefit: tRump camp will have difficulty if they claim moderator bias. They still will, but it will be preaching to the choir.

  347. 347.

    Barbara

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @NotMax: There goes his appeal to overweight Americans. Lookism might as well be his middle name.

  348. 348.

    quakerinabasement

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Good god, the man is a loon.

  349. 349.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    dick is losing it on his iraq war support. shooting empties all over the place.

  350. 350.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    This is a riot! Trump is arguing with Holt as to whether or not he was against the war in Iraq. Complains that no one calls Hannity to verify Trump was against it all along.

  351. 351.

    different-church-lady

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @patrick II: IT’S LEMONADE! READ THE SIGN!

  352. 352.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    You guys, Sean Hannity will back him up! Why won’t anyone ask Sean?

  353. 353.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Should we call Sean Hannity?

  354. 354.

    DCrefugee

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Please proceed, Mr. Trump…

  355. 355.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Wow, he’s digging this hole deep. He can’t back down under any circumstance. It’s obvious how debate #2 will go – she’s going to dig at him on every issue like this.

  356. 356.

    quakerinabasement

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    So very presidential.

    “But nobody calls Sean Hannity!”

  357. 357.

    Central Planning

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @dmsilev: Well, it is Lester Holt.

  358. 358.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Trump: “I was against the war in Iraq.”

    Holt: “The record shows otherwise.”

  359. 359.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Is Hillary scratching her nose a signal? As in, can you believe this shit?

  360. 360.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    This man is completely out of his fucking mind. This is nuts.

  361. 361.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Exactly who was going to drive oil tankers out of Iraq and how many does he think would make it to the border?

  362. 362.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Stepping on his dick repeatedly now…incredible

  363. 363.

    Mandalay

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Trump is now swirling around the bowl and teetering on meltdown after Holt all but calls him a liar. One more flush and Trump will be gone.

  364. 364.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Sean Hannity. Really? That is the voice of God. Winning!!

  365. 365.

    debbie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    For the luvvagod, call Sean Hannity!

  366. 366.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    He’s babbling like an idiot about Sean Hannity and bragging about his temperament

  367. 367.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Much better temperament than she does.

    HA! You are certainly proving this right now, fool!

  368. 368.

    BlueDWarrior

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    If the debater is spending as much time arguing with the moderator as with the other debater, I would think the first one was losing.

  369. 369.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Okay he’s now “zinging” himself. This is amazing.

  370. 370.

    jayboat

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Woo! OK!

  371. 371.

    SFAW

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    @donnah:

    Ask yourself this: Which candidate sounds like a President.

    Why, the one who keeps talking about how big his dick is (figuratively), of course! Because all other governments will look on his mighty works johnson, and despair!

  372. 372.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Trump volunteers that he has the better temperament, and the audience laughs! Clinton joke-sighs, and the audience laughs again. Priceless.

  373. 373.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    I was for it before I was against it.

    Who ya gonna call “Warbusters!” li’l Seany Hannity!

  374. 374.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    @Cckids: year on year profit frauds and cheating will get you that.

  375. 375.

    DCrefugee

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    There won’t be a second debate…

  376. 376.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    I don’t think the audience is buying the temperament argument…

  377. 377.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Bone he’s saying he has the best temperament. Pure projection.

  378. 378.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Woo! Okay! ::big ass grin::

  379. 379.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    “I have a much better temperament than she has.”

    Audience: (Laughter.)

  380. 380.

    mike in dc

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    I can’t believe I was worried about this shit. She’s crushing him. I don’t think Trump won a single minute of this “debate” tonight.

  381. 381.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Holy cow!!

  382. 382.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Slug that water donny, you miserable fuck.

  383. 383.

    Mike J

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    David Gregory Verified account @davidgregory
    One hour in… DT exceeding expectations. He’s prepared, disciplined and serious. She is well prepared commanding as expected.

  384. 384.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    This is so sick fucking burn terrority. She just dropped NATO after 9/11 all over the stage on his ass like willie pete.

  385. 385.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    That was …special. Clinton’s team should just take that clip and run it as an ad with ‘I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this message” at the end. Nothing else.

  386. 386.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    He doesn’t pay his contractors. He doesn’t pay his taxes, probably.

    But the whole rest of the world is welshers.

    O-kay.

    Projection.

  387. 387.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @DCrefugee:

    I’m inclined to agree.

  388. 388.

    Keith G

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    A crazy mutha fucka….and a lot of folks have not seen this level of nuts before.

    Points!!!!!!

  389. 389.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Only according to people that know shit from Shinola.

  390. 390.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @Mike J: What a fucking moron. He should be getting ripped on Twitter for that.

  391. 391.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @Mike J:

    Yep, I knew it.

  392. 392.

    gratuitous

    September 26, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @debit: Almost wanted Clinton to sotto voce “smelling” every time Trump said “strong” or “strongly.”

  393. 393.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Mike J: Is that for real? That’s not a joke or sarcasm?

  394. 394.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I think calling Sean Hannity is a great idea. 212-301-3000

  395. 395.

    khead

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    SOMEONE CALL SEAN HANNITY!

  396. 396.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Mike J: David Gregory Verified account @ davidgregory
    One hour in… DT exceeding expectations. He’s prepared, disciplined and serious.

    I didn’t know he’d followed Ed Schultz to RT Putin TV

  397. 397.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    LOLGOP ‏@LOLGOP 6m6 minutes ago

    Guy who is proud of not paying taxes is mad NATO members aren’t paying their fair share.
    502 retweets 379 likes

  398. 398.

    wenchacha

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    Did his doc give him an injection of “vitamins” before this?

  399. 399.

    Miss Bianca

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    What’s going on?? Since my little laptop blew chunks, I’ve been unable to stream. What just happened??

  400. 400.

    Pogonip

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @debit: Please, not in front of Walter.

  401. 401.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    If this was a college football game Hillary-Trump would be Alabama-Kent State. Or maybe Clemson-South Carolina State.

  402. 402.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    Temperament: Drink!
    (Miss Bianca still sits out this round to avoid alcohol poisoning)

  403. 403.

    SFAW

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    IT’S LEMONADE! READ THE SIGN!

    HEY! No product placement in this blog, OK?

  404. 404.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @Mike J:

    SRSLY??? OMG I can’t even.

  405. 405.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Why doesn’t anyone ask him why, if the Iraq War was a mistake (obviously it was because Mr. Genius™ himself was against it from the very beginning — ask Sean Hannity), why do we somehow now have the right to “take their oil?” So invading Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein = mistake, but invading Iraq to seize their oil = brilliant idea?

    Um…ok.

  406. 406.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @Pogonip:

    Haha, I was trying to think of some reply that would work in Walter. Good one.

  407. 407.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    I really wanted Hillary to look at the camera and make the universal “jerk-off” motion while he was talking.

  408. 408.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Temperament: Drink!
    (Miss Bianca still sits out this round to avoid alcohol poisoning)

  409. 409.

    Ivan X

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Did he just say “your President”?

  410. 410.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    nukular is the single greatest thing – there you go again, dick.

  411. 411.

    Felonius Monk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    I’m waiting for Hilz to say, “Donald, have you had enough for tonight?”

  412. 412.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    It’s because of the height difference. The screen behind each of them shows the beginning of the Declaration of Independence. The word “Men” is directly above Trumps’ head, the work “Right” above (and slightly to the side) Hillary’s.

  413. 413.

    gene108

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    Nuclear weapons greatest threat now. Currency devaluation greatest threat one hour ago.

  414. 414.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Donald Trump just told us that he was totally against the Iraq war back in 2002, and you can call Sean Hannity and he’ll totally back that up.

    Yes, seriously.

  415. 415.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear code.

    Preach it, Hills.

  416. 416.

    Immanentize

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    Are we gonna get a little climate change discussion? The military considers it a huge aspect of the international security threat.

  417. 417.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I think she effectively did.

  418. 418.

    Keith P.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    “The Nuclear” hehe

  419. 419.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @Immanentize:

    Only three minutes left. Likely not.

  420. 420.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @Mike J: “Great News for McCain”-ism perfected into an art.

  421. 421.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Trump said a bunch of bullshit. Hilz grinned, gave a little happy shiver, said “Woo! Okay!, and then crushed him.

  422. 422.

    Mike E

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @shomi: unbunch yer panties ffs

  423. 423.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    “Your President” remark should disqualify Trump from the Presidency and polite company.

  424. 424.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Trump clearly doesn’t understand the question. Anyone who has taught or has been a student will recognize a bullshitter who didn’t do his homework.

  425. 425.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    China should go in to North Korea.

    WOW

  426. 426.

    Jeffro

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    BUT…BUT…SEAN HANNITY SAID!

    Also not that anybody cares but he just called for China to invade North Korea

  427. 427.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Bill Maher ‏@ billmaher 2m2 minutes ago
    If that meltdown ending with “I have the greatest temperment” hasn’t convinced the idiot undecideds to vote Clinton, nothing can.

    I wonder if any snarky lefty will work a cocaine joke onto our cable network chinstrokeathons

  428. 428.

    patroclus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @Baud: Because it’s the “Reynes” of Castamere.

  429. 429.

    Keith G

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Go to the Guardian. they have a good blow by blow description that auto updates

  430. 430.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    “China should go into North Korea.”

    Oy vey.

  431. 431.

    Timurid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @amk:

    They either ditch him or break out the white hoods, because they won’t be fooling anyone after that…

  432. 432.

    ? Martin

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Interesting presentation from Holt – challenges Trump to know what the policy is. Hillary’s answer should be nothing more than asking Trump to state the current policy.

  433. 433.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    WHY DIDN’T YOU MAKE IRAN DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA???!!!

  434. 434.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    China should solve North Korea’s nukes for us?

  435. 435.

    p.a.

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Hillary isn’t sighing, is she? Don’t give the MSM an opening! Thank FSM she’s not wearing brown.

    tRump didn’t (literally) soil himself. MSM: tRump holds his own in first contest.

  436. 436.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Secretary Curry??

  437. 437.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @Ivan X: Yes, yes he did.

  438. 438.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Words matter.

  439. 439.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Flag pin count: Donald 1 , Clinton 0. ‘Nuff said.

  440. 440.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    @patroclus: Good reason.

  441. 441.

    Origuy

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    New thread, please? I’m on slow airplane wifi.

  442. 442.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    he is spouting the same ct’s he was spewing on his ‘campaign’ trails.

  443. 443.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Clinton: “Our word is good. Trump’s, maybe not so much”

  444. 444.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Hillary has not made an error tonight. She’s been excellent.

    Only the RWNJ’s are gonna be in the bubble for Donald after this.

  445. 445.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    It’s not over yet? I’ve got to get off this computer.

  446. 446.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    He is dead in the water. Even Fox can’t spin this.

  447. 447.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @Ivan X:

    The people I’m watching with picked up on that immediately.

  448. 448.

    eric

    September 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @jonas: sweep the leg!

  449. 449.

    Credenzal Jocularity

    September 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @Baud: It makes a certain kind of dream/Southpark logic.

  450. 450.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    See David Gregory above.

  451. 451.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    I think she could emphasize even more that Trump’s word is no good.

  452. 452.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @Immanentize:

    She brought it up early on.

  453. 453.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: He’s got the India portfolio. Schrodinger’s Cat will be along shortly to bring you up to speed.

  454. 454.

    Elizabelle

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Your president.

    really?

    Everything comes down to money and payments with him. Not.Up.To the job.

  455. 455.

    randy khan

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks to all of you who are watching and commentatoring. I was at an event where they started to live stream it and I. Just. Couldn’t. It’s too hard watching him make stuff up as he goes along (and even when has facts, like the Mexican VAT, they’re not really at all relevant).

  456. 456.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @misterpuff:

    Your President” remark should disqualify Trump from the Presidency and polite company.

    Even from Trump, I couldn’t believe that.

  457. 457.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    #imwithher

  458. 458.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Franklin Foer ‏@ FranklinFoer 29m29 minutes ago
    Lester Holt gently making sure that he doesn’t go down in history as Matt Lauer.

    I haven’t watched much– Trump makes me sick– but he really seems to have regressed back to January or February Trump

  459. 459.

    Miss Bianca

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Dude, if I haven’t passed out by now, it’s because my liver is made of cast iron!

    But have passed on to making kettle corn now. This is all too good for just regular popcorn! Yum!

  460. 460.

    nominus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    This Bene Gesserit witch has reduced Baron Harkonnen to a pile of incoherent gibberish.

  461. 461.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Talking about meeting with Netanyahu about how Iran will get nukes in “X” years.

    Which Netanyahu has been braying about* since the Pleistocene.

    *Despite numerous debunkings and refutations by Israeli intelligence, military and diplomatic sources.

  462. 462.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Guys, I think it’s obvious. Don King is managing Trump’s campaign and he just got him to take a dive for the big payoff.

  463. 463.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Even Fox can’t credibly spin this.

  464. 464.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Clinton’s campaign team:

    Follow

    The Briefing
    ‏@TheBriefing2016
    Donald Trump says he has better temperament than Hillary Clinton.

    Fact check: He is Donald Trump.

    #debate

  465. 465.

    Mary G

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    If she doesn’t get a big bump in the polls from this, I will be shocked.

  466. 466.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    ISIS is like taco trucks, they’re on every corner.

    Donald Trump

  467. 467.

    scav

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Mexico’s going to build the wall for us, China’s going to take care of North Korea, We’re going to pull other people’s oil out the Middle East to pay for stuff and we’re going to abandon NATO for not paying their fair share. There speaks the businessman.

  468. 468.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    STAMINA!!

  469. 469.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    “I want to help all of our allies, but….”

    Lost me at “but.”

  470. 470.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Say stamina again, I dare you.

  471. 471.

    Juju

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    I LOVE HILLARY!!!!!!

  472. 472.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    @dmsilev: Hahahaha.

  473. 473.

    amk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    wow, the punk is doubling down on ‘her look’.

  474. 474.

    slappy kincaid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    i think he’s just allergic to the constitution

  475. 475.

    debbie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Context?

  476. 476.

    debit

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    Stamina!! Haha haha haha!!!

  477. 477.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Origuy: Its up.

  478. 478.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    So, stamina = peni$. Got it.

  479. 479.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    STAMINA!

  480. 480.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    SICK FUCKING BURN!!

  481. 481.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Uh oh. I see a meme building here: @davidgregory on the Sistine Chapel: “quite frankly a bit underwhelming and amateurish”; @davidgregory on the Gettysburg Address: “short, uninspired; what’s a “fourscore?”

  482. 482.

    wenchacha

    September 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    Ha. Has he gotten any positive crowd response?

  483. 483.

    aliasofwestgate

    September 26, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @nominus: this!

  484. 484.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    STAMinah! STAMinah! Drumpf’s version of Viggah!

  485. 485.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    It’s bad. Bad experience. Bad. Bad experience. Bad.

    Fucking child.

  486. 486.

    Miss Bianca

    September 26, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @dmsilev: BWAAA-HA-HAAAA!!

  487. 487.

    amygdala

    September 26, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    Oh, man, my CSPAN feed just froze and it’s hilarious. Donald looks like he’s about to have an MI and Hillary has a beatific smile.

  488. 488.

    Mnemosyne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @debbie:

    Trump referred to Obama as “your president.”

  489. 489.

    scav

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Oh shit, the Guard — well, AP originally, so even better — is now fact checking his claims about when his famed ontimeandunderbudget hotel was supposed to open!

  490. 490.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Elizabelle: Hugh Hewitt will be along shortly to explain to everyone why tonight was a great night for Donald Trump, America, bald eagles, and apple pies.

  491. 491.

    Anoniminous

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @nominus:

    Win!

  492. 492.

    MomSense

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Wow!

  493. 493.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    God, he makes an onion look thick-skinned.

  494. 494.

    wenchacha

    September 26, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    “But I’m better than that.” Donald trump

  495. 495.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    I was going to say something rough to HRC and her family…
    What a fucking child.

  496. 496.

    Cacti

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Luntz focus group of 20 undecided voters on who won debate:

    Clinton – 17

    Trump – 3

  497. 497.

    debbie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Thanks.

  498. 498.

    NoraLenderbee

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    pigs! rosie o’donnell!

  499. 499.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Stop spending millions showing people my words.

  500. 500.

    Felonius Monk

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Don King is managing Trump’s campaign

    At this point, Don King would be a more viable candidate than TrumpenFarter.

  501. 501.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    She’s being mean to me. Make her stop it!

    Donald Trump

  502. 502.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    He is bitching about her ads. Sad!

  503. 503.

    quakerinabasement

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    “It’s not nice!”

    There’s no crying in debates, Donald.

  504. 504.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Zinged him where it hurts. To her, “Where did you find that?”

    Now on to “hundreds of millions of ads [attacking me].” Uh-huh.

  505. 505.

    Miss Bianca

    September 26, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: OK, what debit said. Fangirl threesome.

  506. 506.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    This is fucking hilarious.

  507. 507.

    CZanne

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    So… Have we given him enough rope yet?

    Love the cheers when she talked about her stamina.

    We’re supposed to be done by now.

    Dude, your skin is so thin I can read print through it. What’s that about temperament again?

  508. 508.

    Mike E

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    Fresh thread

  509. 509.

    Elie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’m there wicha… I am having my x glass of wine but enjoying the mop the floor of old Donald. He’s trash. Too bad she had to get her hands dirty with it. Someone has to take the trash out.

  510. 510.

    dmsilev

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    “Will you accept the outcome of the election?”

    “WARGLEBARGLEARGLE”

  511. 511.

    misterpuff

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    I would nuke Hillary but it wouldn’t be nice! (But you know I want to!)

  512. 512.

    Stooleo

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    I need a cigarette.

  513. 513.

    Corner Stone

    September 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    What the fuck is this deportation nonsense about?

  514. 514.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    Best can say is that he kept his temper, but it was touch and go for a bit.

  515. 515.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 26, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Heh now, curry is an abominable British invention. No self respecting Indian uses the spice mix called “curry”.

  516. 516.

    Timurid

    September 26, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    My one tiny droplet in tonight’s Twitter tsunami…

  517. 517.

    mdblanche

    September 26, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @nominus: Bi-lal kaifa.

  518. 518.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    Polls: Drink!

  519. 519.

    jonas

    September 26, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: If there’s one kind of sandwich Hugh Hewitt has spent his career learning to pretend he’s savoring deeply on tv or radio, it’s a Dagwood-sized shit sandwich.

  520. 520.

    Renie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    Finally thought: Trump tried to made it all about himself and made our country sound like a huge disaster.

    No one can think he won this.

  521. 521.

    different-church-lady

    September 26, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @Cacti: Right. That’s who they think won the debate.

    The next question is: who will they vote for?

  522. 522.

    Elie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    She pulled down his britches and spanked him and then sent him to his room without diner. I think she was effective in avoiding being condescending. She clearly was the dominant person in this debate. She won it with style and grace….

  523. 523.

    Bill Arnold

    September 26, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    Well that was seriously fun to watch. On C-Span, no commentary so far except here.
    Trump was pretty poor. I’m dreading reading the punditiferous commentary, fact checks and etc.

  524. 524.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    Back was to TV. Did they shake hands afterwards?

  525. 525.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Never mind…

  526. 526.

    mike in dc

    September 26, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    They are being a little too charitable to Trump so far on MSNBC.

  527. 527.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    September 26, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    So I see Melania wasn’t exiled back to Slovenia after the convention. Apparently just locked in a tower at Trump Castle.

  528. 528.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @NotMax: yes.

  529. 529.

    SFAW

    September 26, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear code.

    No worries — his fingers aren’t long enough to reach it.

  530. 530.

    No One You Know

    September 26, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    Tomorrow’s headline: TRUMP FLEES STAGE AFTER DEBATE.

  531. 531.

    seaboogie

    September 26, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    Hillary, Bill and Chelsea shaking hands with the crowd while Trump family gathers on stage, looks lost and wanders off….yes.

  532. 532.

    different-church-lady

    September 26, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    Wait… did somebody say Red Bull and vokda?

  533. 533.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    Steve Schmidt (R): Trump moved into incoherence and babble for the last half.

    This from the guy who gave us Palin.

  534. 534.

    Feathers

    September 26, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Gyyaaahhh!!!!

    David Brooks on PBS just said Donald Trump did better in the first half hour because something or other, and at least he’s a change agent. The younger woman said Hillary didn’t present a positive vision for America, do neither of them got the job done that they needed to do.

    Luckily I haven’t yet replaced the bottle of bleach I used up last month.

  535. 535.

    No One You Know

    September 26, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    He’s spending more time talking to the media than people. Spin faster!

  536. 536.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 26, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    @Feathers:
    On behalf of all Jewish Americans ever and everywhere, we would kindly request that David Brooks please stop acting out his mid-life, existential crisis in public. It is embarrassing to all of us and makes us look bad in front of all the other Americans.
    Thanks,
    The Members of Your Tribe
    (get it together or we’re voting you out…)

  537. 537.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 26, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    @Feathers: Which giggle sister was that? Amy Walters?

  538. 538.

    AnotherBruce

    September 26, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    Fuck Chuck Todd, I just watched Donald Trump coming out of the spin room, whining about every fucking thing because he has the desperate stench of a loser. And Chuck fucking toddler says the American people are the losers of the night because both sides. Why does this transparent, translucent piece of shit control a major part of the media market? Fuck him, Donald Trump, fascist asshole that he is Is a hundred times more honest than Chuck Todd.

  539. 539.

    Suzanne

    September 26, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    Spawn the Younger, who is five years old: “I don’t think he’s saying the words right.”

    Truth, my child.

  540. 540.

    opiejeanne

    September 26, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @Keith P.: ICE didn’t endorse him, their union members did.

  541. 541.

    The Golux

    September 26, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    @Mike J:

    Unpaid architect.

    That was brutal.

    My dad was an architect. My wife and I live in the house he designed for himself and my mother, and it’s the most tangible connection I have to him.

    Fuck Trump.

  542. 542.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 26, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @Suzanne: She is 5? Wow! I remember your posts from the time you when you were pregnant. Time flies!

  543. 543.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (formerly fidelioscabinet)

    September 26, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Is this the point where someone’s great-grandma starts muttering about eyn shande fur dem goyim?

  544. 544.

    joel hanes

    September 26, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    @patroclus:

    > Rains of Castamere

    Because it’s the “Reynes” of Castamere.

    It’s both, depending on context, as songs and neutrinos often are.

  545. 545.

    joel hanes

    September 26, 2016 at 11:51 pm

    @jonas:

    “short, uninspired; what’s a “fourscore?”

    I am told that contemporary reviews of the Gettysburg Address were essentially that.

    Have you seen the powerpoint ?

  546. 546.

    opiejeanne

    September 26, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: the stupid DVR ended the CSPAN recording just before the end of the debate, right at 8:30. I don’t know if we missed anything. I think our other timer quit in order to record the baseball game.

  547. 547.

    opiejeanne

    September 26, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That was my favorite moment, but there were a couple of other good ones.

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