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46594. judithathome - 10/17/2016 2:04:14 PM Well, another day closer to the election and since it's a new week, all the Hillary haters can thank their new god, Julian Assange, for releasing even more hacked stuff on Hillary. Obviously, he and Putin are working to get Trump elected.
And the hacked stuff seems to be getting worse and worse. Of course, ALL leaked stuff is absoluely true unless it is voice recordings of Trump acting like a pig and THEN, it will all be labelled false...or badly misunderstood...or "rigged".
I know it ain't over until the fat lady sings but but she is certainly warming up in the wings and looks strangely like Rudy Guiliani in drag. 46595. judithathome - 10/17/2016 2:10:17 PM John Oliver slayed the two "other candidates" on his show last night...he played a lot of tape on them both and I'll tell you what: people keep saying it's a choice between the lesser of two evils but as Oliver said last night...it's actually between the lesser of FOUR evils...
I know his show is comedy but when he played actual newsfilm of their apprearences...it was really THEM. We've all heard Johnson making snafus about Aleppo etc. but it is horrifying to hear some of his statements about policy...I don't know how New Mexico is still viable after he served 2 terms as Governor....and Jill Stein...Oliver played some of her singing with her New Agey rock band and the lyrics were absolutely dreadful...written by her.
But the MOST horrific thing was seeing some of her ideas for governance voiced out loud....most made no sense whatsoever...and after hearing Johnsons ridiculous "get rid of ALL taxes" goobledy-gook, the bar for making sense was pretty low.
Oliver's show... Last Week Tonight ...is re-run several times throughout the week so catch it if you can...
Meanwhile, here's a little taste... 46596. arkymalarky - 10/18/2016 12:07:29 AM Man Halperin is stupid.
That's going to be my Carthage must be destroyed mantra until the election. 46597. iiibbb - 10/18/2016 3:00:27 AM Also, how sad is it that comedy shows have the most in-depth policy snapshots of anything on TV? 46598. judithathome - 10/18/2016 9:21:00 PM Probably because most of the comdeians are Democrats. 46599. Ms. No - 10/20/2016 12:14:15 AM I'm not sure I can spend two more days of class time on these debates. I don't now what my students are really getting out of it even when I make them write down stuff to fact check later. Craziness. 46600. arkymalarky - 10/20/2016 12:40:02 AM I'm not touching it where I live. The kids can't handle it, and it's not worth it to me. 46601. arkymalarky - 10/20/2016 12:42:37 AM And the debates are so totally content free, even if they can have content on one side because Hillary can't get a word in edgewise to actually talk about what people want to talk about. 46602. judithathome - 10/20/2016 1:35:28 AM Well, you guys need to watch tonight because it will be historic...all day long, the cable shows have been "baiting" him with predictions of utter meltdown that will make him sink even lower in the polls...which they refer to as "tanking", "crashing", etc.
I think of it as "must see" TV...like the William F.Buckley/GoreVidal debates and the ones between Kennedy and Nixon...trust me, Trump is going to go into meltdown mode and you will want to see this! 46603. judithathome - 10/20/2016 2:43:19 AM Tomorrows headlines for Trump: "Absolute Fail". 46604. arkymalarky - 10/20/2016 5:47:13 AM Got a bad bronchial infection, can't sleep, but the cnn snap poll looks good. I'll just be glad when this election is over. I've had who I was for and who I was against, but never in my life if I had someone that I just knew would be a disaster for our whole institution if he became president. He may be a disaster for it anyway. Steve Schmidt tearing up last night on the 11th Hour was a very touching thing, and he was so right. 46605. judithathome - 10/20/2016 6:27:28 AM Steve Schmidt tearing up last night on the 11th Hour was a very touching thing, and he was so right
Omg...I saw that and had liked him before but now, I absolutely adore him. He was, prior to this, one of the best Republicans...and one I could STAND...they have lost a great man. 46606. judithathome - 10/20/2016 6:29:17 AM Trump lost this debate at hour 1, minute seven.
From there he went steadily downhill. And his absolute nadir was "Such a nasty woman." 46607. judithathome - 10/20/2016 5:07:01 PM Hillary not only won the debate but she completed her Pantsuit Flag...red the first debate, blue the second, and white last night. Nicely done!
Long may she wave... 46608. Ms. No - 10/20/2016 10:43:01 PM I'm surprised the Trump Campaign hasn't accused her of being French.
My seniors played "Debate Bingo" today. It was pretty cool. (The game, not the debate.)
I'm so ready for this whole thing to be done. I just want it over with so we can get on with the business of running the country.
46609. judithathome - 10/21/2016 5:56:08 PM Well, don't count on much "running" of it unless we get the majority in the either the Senate or the House...preferably both but I doubt it. 46610. Ms. No - 10/21/2016 8:42:42 PM I think the Senate is doable, but we'd have to pick up something like 30 or more seats in the House. Even if we'd just get rid of some of the Tea Party Representatives, things would be a lot less contentious.
Contrary to recent media evidence, there are still reasonable Republicans in the House. So, yeah, a lot of them have been too cowardly to stand up against the radical wing of their party, but I think without that influence, they could step back on the sanity train and work with not only their counterparts in the House, but also with a Democratic president. 46611. judithathome - 10/21/2016 9:28:24 PM I think that's about as possible as the earth crashing into the sun. Tomorrow. 46612. arkymalarky - 10/21/2016 10:27:48 PM The Republican party is unbelievably split, and their focus is going to be dealing with that whether they win or lose the Senate. The alt right wing is not going to give up the influence they feel they gained in this election. And when trump TV get started, it's really going to get interesting. Republicans are going to be in a real bind. And for years now there's no telling what their nomination process is going to look like.. 46613. arkymalarky - 10/21/2016 10:28:24 PM 4 years from now....
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