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Official First Debate Thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rimrocker, Sep 25, 2016.

  1. RocketsLegend

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    Trump does need to brush up his policy on cyber security. I had no idea where he was going with it especially when he started to talk about his 10 year old son using the computer.
     
  2. Space Ghost

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    If you managed to make it to the general election, then yes.

    r****d: delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.
     
  3. ipaman

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    of course not, they are egotistical maniacs. the media and us would have the responsibility of reminding them everyday.
     
  4. rpr52121

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    So it would basically be like 1996 and no one would care with less than 50% of the population voting.

    In case you wanted to know, less than 60% of the voting age population has voted in EVERY Presidential election since 1968. Also the majority of the voting age population has not voted for the Presidential winner since likely ever. There is no such thing as a mandate, especially now given how stagnant the House is due to gerrymandering and how the Senate apparently requires 60 votes to get anything done.
     
  5. rpr52121

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    I think it would be funny for him to pull a W and just try to list off names of foreign nationals to sound smart next time.
     
  6. Cohete Rojo

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    I think the only issue Trump won was the economy. It may be the only one he needs to win.
     
  7. Rox225

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    Hey, he did mention the threat from the mysterious 400 pound hacker in the basement.
     
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    Exactly- there's no way he's going to be audited every year unless they think something's up. Every indicator is that he's cheap. And yes, probably doesn't make what he says.
     
  9. rhino17

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    Trump looked like a total buffoon tonight. Hillary just sat back and let him look like an idiot all by himself
     
  10. Ubiquitin

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    Isn't it clear? His son Eliot runs fsociety and this is phase 3.
     
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  11. RocketsLegend

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    exactly and that is why I think Trump's poll numbers will boost.
     
  12. peleincubus

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    [​IMG]
     
  13. London'sBurning

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    Doubt it honestly. 8 years ago when we were in a deep recession maybe but it's not exactly the biggest talking point courtesy of Trump's foreign policy against Muslims and Mexicans.
     
  14. SwoLy-D

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    I think you mean to say ILLEGAL ALIENS and SYRIAN PEEPS... or maybe just REFUGEES in general... -_- ;)
     
  15. Cohete Rojo

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    That could be a big problem for Clinton: making the issues about Trump rather than America. Fortunately she addressed the issues that Americans care about most: finding the Russian hackers who called Rosie O'Donell a fat pig while breaking into the DNC's servers - the same ones that Trump is hiding on his tax returns.

    I think she made too many of the issues anti-Trump issues rather than issues about the economy, education, etc. This is exactly what Trump did through out the primary debates: make other people talk about him while he talked about the issues.
     
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    I love how only conservatives put this stupid idea forward...yes let's all not vote (snicker)

    The best part of the debate was when Trump was trying to discourage blacks from showing up to the polls by saying dems haven't done anything for them. Orwellian.
     
  17. London'sBurning

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    She talked about policy. Trump tried to take credit for the UN making terror an issue where she correctly pointed out that the UN united with the United States after 9/11 showing they've been focusing on terrorism for over a decade and a half. All he really did was try to blast her. He's the one that brought up his temperament and how she's unfit. All she did was have a **** eating grin at the stuff coming out of his mouth. She made him backtrack and contradict his statements to our U.N allies while she spoke directly to them saying the U.S. will honor treaty agreements. She was stuck doing damage control for his ineptitude at foreign affairs.
     
  18. rimrocker

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    Wow. Quite the box Trump has built for himself. He can't win a debate being himself and he can't win pretending not to be himself.

    Say what you want about Hillary, but she exhibited a disciplined mind tonight.
     
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    Hillary won. Trump's lack of preparation showed.
     
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    Correction, the economy is the only issue he sounded semi-coherent on. But to act as if he won that is crazy. Hilary hit him hard on his lacking the ability to understand the middle class and are only interested in the wealthy. The idea that he shafted the small guy consistently in business isn't helping his cause, I don't believe, and the fact that he thinks 1 million dollars is a small loan, all play into this idea.

    Honestly, I have no idea why Donald wants to run for president. His motivations seems to be that he wants to change the laws to benefit his businesses, and other businesses like his. It doesn't make any sense to me.
     

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