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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2016 / Pre-Debate Open Thread

Pre-Debate Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  September 26, 20168:38 pm| 34 Comments

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

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Soooooo Hillary has to be warm yet tough. Presidential yet down to Earth. Donald Trump has to not fling poo. Seems fair.

— Brian Lynch (@BrianLynch) September 26, 2016

Also, Hillary better not correct Trump's lies too much or she'll look bossy. https://t.co/M2yzRXaYqJ

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 26, 2016

NBC wants your eyeballs — they’ve got a raft of sites linked here, including their YouTube channel, which is the one I’ll have open.

The Guardian‘s invaluable liveblog here.

NBC’s virtual-reality thingamabog is here.

PBS Newshour livstream will be here.

MOOK: No contempt — that killed Gore. And if you sense a spot to lighten the mood–
HILLARY: Tell me to smile and it'll be your dick, Robby

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) September 26, 2016

this is real pic.twitter.com/2RVT6MoNMo

— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) September 26, 2016

To be fair, they had to keep it short because that's all the cheat notes that would fit on Trump's miniature hand. https://t.co/K9WJR9Gmw9

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 26, 2016

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34Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    September 26, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    MSNBC’s “Keys to the Game.”

  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    Simon Maloy ‏@ SimonMaloy 4m4 minutes ago
    “she needs to attack, but not in an emotional way,” says Heilleman (sp)

    Yes. Hillary Clinton must control her famously emotional nature. One might even say she’s given to hysterics.

  3. 3.

    Botsplainer

    September 26, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    Hey, whoever isn’t blocked from Chuck Todd or Halperin – hammer their Twitter timelines with Farenthold links.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    September 26, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    Easy-peasy TD by the Saints!

  5. 5.

    Trentrunner

    September 26, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    I have this weird quirk where I get nervous before HRC debates/testimony.

    And then I watch her for 5-10 minutes, and she’s so fucking articulate and prepared and intelligent that I relax and wonder what I was so worried about.

    Hoping this night goes as usual for me…

    Prediction: Trump’s split-screen reactions to HRC will be a big deal tomorrow.

  6. 6.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    Is there an actual rule against wearing wires and suspicious boxes on your back like Bush did?
    http://www.salon.com/2004/10/30/bulge_5/

  7. 7.

    Mustang Bobby

    September 26, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    if you’d rather do something else, “The Revenant” is showing on HBO2 at 9:00 p.m. ET. That’s the one where Leonardo DiCaprio almost gets eaten by a bear.

  8. 8.

    Mike J

    September 26, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Greg Sargent Verified account @ThePlumLineGS
    Anyone who judges Trump against “low expectations” is making an active *choice* that helps him politically:

  9. 9.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    It seems like yesterday I watched the first Obama-mittens debate. That did not go well. Tonight will. Hillary is going to crush drumph. She’s been waiting for this. For years. @Baud: Thanks from a long time lurker and once in a blue moon poster.

  10. 10.

    PsiFighter37

    September 26, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    @Mustang Bobby: Boring as hell. Fell asleep the first time I tried to get through it.

    Got “Lose Yourself”…breaking out PBO’s hype tunes.

  11. 11.

    hovercraft

    September 26, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    On the Guardian liveblog they have a picture of Rudy Guliani literally kissing Miriam Adelson’s ring.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 26, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    @hovercraft: like Willie Sutton, he knows where the money is

  13. 13.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    @hovercraft: He makes gallantry look slimy.

  14. 14.

    Anoniminous

    September 26, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    Potential audience of 100 million but we’ll see how many actually tune in.

  15. 15.

    dr. luba

    September 26, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    Hot bubble bath and a good book (Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories). And sleep. That’s it for me. I can catch the highlights tomorrow……..

  16. 16.

    Aleta

    September 26, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    Remember everyone, no bathroom breaks.

  17. 17.

    AkaDad

    September 26, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    I need to watch the debate to help me decide.

    On one hand, Trump is a race baiting, wife raping, immigrant hating, Putin fellating, fat shaming, business failing, demogoguing, draft dodging, flip flopping, handicap mocking, violence inciting, ally fighting, climate change denying, pathologically lying, insult sending, diplomacy ending, small business screwing, KKK wooing, Muslim banning, university scamming, NATO leaving, daughter skeeving, fascistic, sexist, egomaniacal, grade A douchebag.

    On the other hand, Clinton used TWO EMAIL SERVERS! TWO!!

    This is such a tough call.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 26, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    @Aleta: You’re not the boss of me!

  19. 19.

    gogol's wife

    September 26, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    @AkaDad:

    lolololol

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    September 26, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    @Aleta:

    Remember everyone, no bathroom breaks.

    Like “disgusting” Hillary?

  21. 21.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    @AkaDad: Preach!

  22. 22.

    Iowa Old Lady

    September 26, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    @Botsplainer: You remind me of Murphy Brown on the old TV show. She was a reporter who’d been banned from the WH because she let her disdain of GHWBush get the better of her. Then she was sorry. :-) For being banned, not for what she did or said.

  23. 23.

    Lee

    September 26, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Bloomberg TV is going to be fact checking in real time.

  24. 24.

    NorthLeft12

    September 26, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    I have a lot of confidence in Hillary. She is smart, tough, funny, decisive, and driven. She’ll make an excellent President. I hope she gets the chance to communicate her ideas to the American public. Whether they hear her or not is not in her control.
    Good luck!

  25. 25.

    japa21

    September 26, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    Judging Trump the winner based upon low expectations is like saying Little Sisters of the Poor actually beat Alabama because they only lost by 700 instead of 800.

  26. 26.

    Origuy

    September 26, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    I’m on a flight from Chicago to San Jose so I’ll miss the whole thing. I sprung for the $8 wifi so the I could follow the BJ commentary. Don’t let me down.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    Trump is already doing that weird breathing/sniffing thing.

  28. 28.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    Holy superlatives! Fuck you, drumph,

  29. 29.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    Get him, Hillary!

  30. 30.

    Joyce Harmon

    September 26, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    Why does he keep sniffing?

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    September 26, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @Joyce Harmon:

    Why does he keep sniffing?

    Might be obesity-related.

    Oh, I forgot, his “doctor” says he’s merely overweight, because Trump “weighs” 230 lb.

    If Trump weighs 230, then I’m as thin as Abebe Bikila.

  32. 32.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    September 26, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    Tremendous numbers of new jobs!

  33. 33.

    Mike E

    September 26, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    @Aleta: that was no box…it was his Rapture Hook

  34. 34.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    September 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @Botsplainer: On it.

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