Since I might be asked about that, I might as well share my opinion about the debate tonight. Frankly? I was absolutely horrified. I had expected Trump to completely slaughter Hillary, but what happened tonight was the exact opposite. My son put it best “it looked like a kindergartner trying to argue with a college professor“.
Hillary knew all the tricks, she was superbly prepared and she truly is a world-class liar. Oh, and she also looked healthy and in control (so much for the Hillary is sick and cannot control her temper theory; when she wants, she clearly can).
Trump looked completely outclassed, he spent most of the time on defensive (Hillary attacked him almost immediately). Worst of all, not only did he called her “Secretary Clinton” while she called him “Donald”, but he regularly uttered “here I partially/generally agree with Secretary Clinton” whereas she, of course, never agreed on anything. If the ability to lie, to frame a question and to use ugly ad hominems are the weapons of politics, then Hillary totally out-gunned Trump.
Trump was mostly passive and constantly on the defense. He also repeated himself so many times his one-liners soon turned boring and stale. In contrast, Hillary easily eluded each one of his attack and always had a comeback ready. Finally and predictably, the moderator was clearly hostile to Trump, as was the crowd which resulted in several “you are no Kennedy, Senator” moments.
The moment when Trump agreed to the obscene notion of people which have been put on the “do not fly” list also being denied their 2nd Amendment rights probably lost him all the libertarian votes. As for the progressive vote, he probably lost it when he brazenly admitted using US bankruptcy laws to protect his business interests. His constant attacks against Iran and his reference to Bibi Netanyahu certainly proves his clumsy (and futile!) attempts at appeasing the Israel Lobby. And when Hillary brilliantly hammered him with the accusation that racism made him question Obama’s birth certificate, Trump found nothing better to retort than to say that he was proud that a club he created in Palm Beach was commended for not discriminating against “against African-Americans, against Muslims, against anybody”. This was actually painful to watch.
Sheikh Imran Hosein likes to quote the following words from the Quran “But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners“. Well, I sure hope that God has a plan to save us from a Hillary Presidency because right now it sure looks to me like only Divine intervention can protect the world from this demonic harpy and her coterie of Neocons from occupying the White House next year.
Tonight, listening to this catastrophe I found myself thinking that if Trump could not stop Hillary, Putin would have to, and that this would be very, very dangerous for the entire planet.
God help us all!
The Saker
PS: my wife just made a good comment: “she comes off as very polished, he comes out as unsophisticated and natural“. True. Will that be enough? I don’t know.
I didn’t watch the (so-called) debate, but from what you say, it would appear as if Trump is trying to “throw” the election, perhaps in lieu of an October surprise (or assassination). They both have cosy-ed up to the Zionists, Hillary much more successfully, and the Ruling Elites clearly want Hillary in the Oval office. Is it possible that Trump has accomplished what he really wanted to accomplish?
I agree with these comments I saw elsewhere:
Of course there are those who think Trump will do better, after all, he did say he “admire Putin”, “like to get along with him”, “why are we wasting money on NATO, defence of Japan” etc etc and seemed to provide “hope” that he will be “more insolationist” instead of “expansionist” so that he can concentrate on “making America Great again”. IMO, that too is mistaken. Fact is the position of POTUS is only ONE person, he will have to appoint dozens or even 100s of people for various positions that actually carry out duties and policies, and how will he pick/select such people? no doubt from the current pool of “experts”. Practically all of such experts belong to the pool (or almost all anyway) of “exceptionalists”, hell bent on continuing America’s Hegemony, bossing over every other country on earth. It’s our way or the highway.
So NO, Trump would have made little difference. The Deep State/Warfare State will prevail. The only hope for the world would be for the stronger ones (e.g. Russia and China) to prepare themselves for WWIII in order not to submit to the Empire of Lies, Chaos, Misery and Refugees Manufacturing. That is the only solution to the world’s future. Hoping for “change you can believe in” has proven to be a mirage in any US election.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…..
Alan, I see it this way. Trump is in Hotel business all over the world. He need peace to make money. Imagining how much business he can get from Chinese if he went there charming China with development and trade than war and pivot. Hillary one the other hand, exchange power for money, the more chaos, the more wars in the world, the more power she has, and the more kick back she got.
If Trump win, DNC will mostly go belly up, which I love to see, and Hillary will go to prison, or beg for pardon before Obama is out of office. I think he does care, and will do some kind house cleaning.
If hillary win, (I hope The house and senate will impeach her on first day when she is in office) all hell break loose in all corner of the world because she will have most hawkish neo-com in power.
So no, I do not agree they are same. She has to be stopped.
I agree that Trump bombed, badly. I’m not sure about Putin having to stop Killary. They might find an accomodation. A modus vivendi. Just out of self-interest. But then again, these people are in thrall to demons and theirs is a war against mankind. It is a war of good versus evil, all the way from the garden of Eden. I don’t think God has a plan for intervening. It is very clear that He gave us free will. He has already given us the power to trample over evil, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The problem has been these Europeans who have forgotten that God is real thanks to the Illuminati brainwashing and takeover of their society. I hope world war three really does come. It’s the only way we who are trapped inside demonic Illuminati Amerika can be free.
If you really want to know what these devil worshippers are up to in Washington DC
http://www.USAdevils.com
In Victor Pelevin’s novel ‘Empire V’, the vampire elite, who the protagonist/initiate is learning about, laugh at him when he asks them about the drinking of blood.
What he goes on to discover is that in the highest strata of their society, they imbibe ‘bablos’ – the distilled metaphysical essence of the fear and pain of their victims.
I have checked your link. Sadly it promotes information coming from Gordon Duff. That guy is disinfo. He has said many times that he likes George Soros. As you probably know, Soros and his color revolutions are no longer welcome by Vladimir Putin. I trust the president’s judgment on this one.
Here is an example of classic disinformation from Duff.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/16/soros-email-hack-reveals-plans-to-fight-racist-israeli-policies/
In the following video he explains why he lies on his site. Around 5 min 30 sec.
https://www.corbettreport.com/how-to-spot-disinfo/
I hope you find this comment helpful.
In the west, US perhaps more so, polished means all. Though perhaps polished is not the right word.
Hollywood has created an image of how a leader or potential leader should look, act, and sound.
Doesn’t seem to apply to Germany and France, among others.
I totally agree with the Saker’s wife. Trump seems natural. A Calaban to Lady McBeth of Arkansas – Hilary Clinton. (Sorry to mix up plays). But the ‘bardack’ (Russian for ‘Bedlam’, sorry Barack Obama) which is the USA today is a grotesque mix of tragedy, comedy, farce, vaudeville, melodrama and any other genre you care to throw in the pot.
But Trump also seems to be doing a ‘Bernie’ which makes me think he was controlled opposition all along.
The NWO/AngloZionist Empire have some big fish to fry. This may be their last hurrah in the PNAC-ordained quest for global hegemony. They do not want a wobbly in power who might get ideas… not with fourteen minutes to decide whether to launch or not. Clinton may have ideas, but they are all transparent demagoguery, false, and almost certainly not her own.
The ‘debate’ between The Creature From the Black (Arkansas) Lagoon and Frankenstein (the monster) marks another new low in the devolution of US democracy. A thing that never existed much anyway except in Hollywood and the minds of some civics professors.
But George Bush and Sarah Palin should be pleased. They look a little less revolting and absurd than they did yesterday.
It all makes me happy to be a Monarchist.
Good point, Franz. As Hans-Hermann Hoppe has often pointed out, at least a monarch has a vested interest in preserving the realm in good shape for his or her descendants to rule. And, as they are chosen by the accident of birth, there is a hugely better chance of getting a ruler with good character than in our laughably-named “democratic” system, which methodically filters out all but the very worst.
Silly me for thinking this contest had been decided long ago by folk who know what’s best for us, that this ‘debate’ was just a charade, a make believe for the masses….You mean the stars didn’t deserve prime time….what a waste, cinema’s not been the same since Fellini passed.
I watched the debate from A to Z. Hillary came out as being well rehearsed, and… fanatical.
Her fanaticism should scare away from her anyone who is not on a take, and it makes most of the country.
Trump sounded, well… like any other American businessmen. If you ever heard one speaking, you would agree with me. He said that he will fix things that the Dems broke, and he will fix them. America needs a representative, not a fanatical leader.
While it is true that Trump seems on the face of it like any other businessman, and I joked with my husband that he seemed during the debate like one of my father’s associates at his saddle club, holding forth in the club room with a drink at hand (although Donald’s was water), I cannot see how that would translate into running the country in a consistent fashion. For starters, I could see a lot of contradiction in his argument that we have to bring home the “runaway shops” that took off for the cheap labor pools of Mexico and China. Isn’t THAT just a way to make profits? What part of welfare for the American worker does he think is most important? Would him impose tariffs and cut into the profits of other businessmen? Does he not have businesses abroad himself?
Of course Hillary was not interested in these questions and did not press him on them. She doesn’t care if he cannot deliver the goods he seems to promise. She is for taking some of the profits, not for constructing the businesses that make them possible. But his reactions to the lack of manufacturing and other jobs seem to contradict his deeper motives, which he voiced, of keeping a super rich class unimpeded in their ambitions. He does not express his principles explicitly, and thus he fools those who would vote for him in order to restore a world they once knew of abundant manufacturing jobs. He seems to have missed that American labor (in the auto industry) is being replaced by robots.
The Republicans need to reinvent themselves. Trump is a bad answer to the questions I hope they have.
Agree Scott.
I did not see Hillary “win” the debate by any real messures.
Even the paied for msm cnn (clinton news network) had to make another fake poll (selected out alot of registered democrats, and alot smaller registered republic voters as part of their socalled serious poll). Retarded.
Even cnns own online poll had to be pulled because it got a very diffrent result then cnns narrative.
I searched alot and of over 50 american sites with polls, i could only find 5 or so that was in favour of Clinton (San Diego, Aol, Star something, …). Most of them even closed their polls quickly after the debate.
The other polls showed mostly 30-45% to Clinto, and 53-65% Trump.
(Also seemed to be a trend state vs state).
Offcourse online polls are not that reliable, but that goes both ways.
And we allready know that Clinton have manipulated online on many occasions (hundreds thousands of tweeterfollowers who dont exist, bots, etc).
So kinda weird that if the numbers are to off, that Clinton camp wouldnt been to “on it” to get things in their favour.
The socalled scientific polls (telephone etc) is not worth anything. They are heavily manipulated in favour of the msm desires.
Mostly to be able to have a plausable explenation for when they rig the Soros made voting machines to give the results Clinton establishment want.
I did not see Clinton win the debate.
But agree on Trump delivered a powerfull start, but then fizzled out to “Hillary”-like level.
Where he was to much on defensive.
Certain subjects like the host birthcertificate bs question… Trump should have delt with it swiftly.
(Said inline with that Hillary brought it up in her campaign against Obama, and that he got the result of Obama finally showing it). (But in better phrasing).
Instead he spent tooo much time explaining it, which will delide the BS question into taking time and look weak.
He should have answered it quickly, then gone on the offense with the other part (dont remember what other part was, but there are so much on Hillary that one can attack. Like the email scandal, clinton bodycounts, corrupt clinton foundation, and defusing quickly the bs about russian hack and get the focus on the severity of what is the content.
Ironicly there should be police there taking hillary in a orange prisonjacket. But usa has lost its marbles, when something like hillary can run for office. Just completly unbelievable!.
What proberly however disapointed most of Trump supporters, is that we _expected_ him to be _Alot_ more brutal and bury Clinton.
That he did not do!.
So trump did not loose the debate, but he seriously underdelivered compared to what we all expected.
(One has to analyze Trump delivered vs Trump capability, and also what Clinton delivered).
Trump did stumble to long on on also his tax report.
So he needs for next debate “train” on how to defuse Hillary etc.
Not about answering. Hillary and msm tactics are to cloudfog with bs/irrelevant so relevant doesnt get into the spotlight.
And while like Trump then have to defog the BS, it is concieved as weakness (not so strong), while Clinton/MSM gets chance to regroup for next ammo.
So very important that Trump learns how to defog the BS very quickly/efficiently.
Otherwise he will just get hogged down.
I hate he appease Zionist too. But in his RNC address, Israel was only one sentence after thought.
These is first 1 of three. Everyone had high hope for him. I can not see he ever was good at debate. He was hiding behind numerous candidates in primary, now there are only two, he has hard time fill the time slot.
He really do not need to talk too much, he only need to attack. He has not talk about any of those such as foundation and etc.
Saker, I think you are watching this from too distant a perspective. I recommend Scott Adams’ blog at http://blog.dilbert.com/ . He’s a completely immoral person, but he has a good grip on what Americans find convincing, and it’s different from Russians.
Saker,
You didn’t comment on the Moderator Holt manipulating the debate. So your analysis is flawed.
Americans are highly sensitized to MSM manipulations in these debates. This helps Trump.
We can’t account for Hillary’s health. It comes and goes.
Trump did fine. He’s rolling up state after state, and he’s about to put $140 million in TV ads into action.
His ground game is in place, beating her in key states, Ohio, in particular.
You also did not hear that he rejected First Use of Nukes. First ever candidate to do so ever.
He communicated to the working people, the Blacks and Latinos and he got his big message across that he will fix the economy and change their lives and end the corrupt government that is screwing them.
He also indicated we will have a new foreign policy that includes a very reduced NATO.
You missed a lot. Your wife caught the essence. Trump is of the People and the People are with him.
It is true that people are much more sensitive to the bias by moderators, than moderators seem think. For example, interrupting one of the candidates much more than the other is something too obvious to be missed. As soon as viewers pick up on these things, and they inevitably do, the effect is the exact opposite of what the moderator intends.
You didn’t comment on the Moderator Holt manipulating the debate.
I wrote “the moderator was clearly hostile to Trump”
You also did not hear that he rejected First Use of Nukes. First ever candidate to do so ever
I did. And there is no doubt in my mind that Trump is a much better person and would make a much better president than Hillary. But my post is not about the programs or ideas of Trump and Hillary, it is about their *performance* in the debate.
To make this clear: Hillary, whom I deliberately called a “demonic harpy” is the absolute worst thing which could happen to the USA and the world and I hope that Trump gets elected if only because with him there is a (very small) hope for significant change in the USA. But as a *debater* he got totally killed by Hillary. That’s all I am saying.
Hugs,
The Saker
He was double-teamed. Before Holt stepped in Trump was winning the debate (first 20-30 minutes).
However, it isn’t ever a debate. These are manipulations that candidates must go through. These are media events, contrived and managed by the Establishment.
He is not a lawyer. He’s not a politician. He speaks in a common vernacular not precisely like a lawyer.
Let’s see how he does in 2 and 3.
What he is doing is winning the campaign to win the election.
This debate, apparently, moved no one to Clinton. She is bleeding off Blacks and Latinos. His people don’t leave him.
The most amazing thing is her physical rebound. She survived 90 minutes. And this morning in her plane she looked even better, though she did cough briefly.
She was also allowed to have a cheat sheet, picked up by a man as they talked afterward with their families. It’s on video when they shake hands with Holt.
She had a earpiece in her ear. We know she gets prompts. It happened in the Commander in Chief forum.
His microphone was lowered after he approved its height, and they monkeyed with its output during the debate.
There are a lot of things he is up against. It’s not a debate. It’s an event.
He passed the test of looking and performing Presidential.
Independents tracked with Trump supporters. He lost none. And there is some indication that her exposure to some Dems and some millenials came across as negative. She cannot afford to lose any of those.
He is the first man to debate a woman for the Presidency. It’s a tough chore.
And there are 2 more to come. You can’t unload as she did trying for a knockout. She and Holt hit him with everything. It did not knock him out. She left everyone thinking what’s her program for the problems of the country, most of which she caused along with Obama and Bush while she was Senator from NY and SOS.
I think that what Trump should do is not accept her rules for the game but impose his own. He should openly say something like “you know what? I am not a lawyer, not a career politician, I will never be able to lie as well as you do – I am just a person who loves his country and who wants to give the American people a chance to put somebody in the White House who is not a polished professional politician – you are a much better debater than I, but what this country needs is not a debater, but a President who will be truthful. I represent the people which built the wealth of this country – you represent the people which destroyed it. I want the people to be able to chose between us two”.
He should turn his weakness into an asset and make her strength into a liability.
She managed to keep a condescending smile on her face for 90mins. How disgusting is that?! How rehearsed and insincere! Trump looked like a the manager of a pre-owned Ford cars store manager – terrible. He is trying to out-Clinton Clinton and that will never work. He needs to set his own rules. First – do not attack her on topics which her campaign knows for sure that they will come up as she got a ready reply for each one of them. Second – don’t spend all the time on the defensive. She is SO attackable that it blows my mind that he did not go after her except for a few mumbled sentences about the missing emails. This harpy has literally failed at every single thing she has ever tried, and he cannot mount a credible attack on her? How pathetic is that?
Any why does he not release his tax records? What does he have to lose?! If he even really trying to win this one? I wonder…
This is all very scary to me. When I think what is at stake here, the fought of Killary in the White House gives me stomach craps…
He better fire his entire debate-preparation team and get somebody in who knows what he is doing…
That advise to him (which I which somebody would “tell him about”) is excellent. It couldn’t be put better. And I think it would appeal to the American people. The millions that are “sick and tired of “slick” politicos lying to them. Politicians and lawyers are “literally” despised by most people in the US.And she is “both”.If you can’t use that against her you don’t need to be debating her at all.Its as simple as that.
“Americans are highly sensitized to MSM manipulations in these debates.”
But they are desensitized to all other MSM manipulation…er, am, um…hmm
He won’t release his tax returns because personally he does not pay any federal income tax and that looks real bad trying to be a politician. I cannot over emphasize how easy it is under current tax code
for a family controlled business enterprise to avoid taxes for the owners. My own father called it “breaking even bigger and bigger” with the bigger being pre-tax benefits flowing to the family.
He doesn’t release his tax records because they will appear to show losses and little or no taxable income.
Michael Hudson explained this years ago in one of his videos. The way a real estate developer like Trump gets awarded a contract and makes money is not what you might expect. The contract is awarded to the bidder who promises to pay the investment banks underwriting the project the highest rate of interest. He runs the property at breakeven cost and takes an accelerated depreciation of the assets that will appear to generate losses. Eventually the entire cost of the development is amortized in depreciation in six years and the building is sold for a capital gain which is taxable at only 15% or at some nominal value once the cost basis has been reduced to zero. As he is constantly taking on new construction projects, he constantly depreciates the vale of new assets on the accelerated depreciation schedule the irs uses ( 15% of the value every year for six years with the remainder depreciated to 0 in the seventh year.) On his tax returns he appears to have 0 income but is actually asset rich.
Anyway, the point is most people wouldn’t understand his return. And Trump huge ego — the man loves to boast about his wealth, his judgment, and his smarts — can’t handle the mockery of return that may show little or no taxable earned income.
“This is all very scary to me.”
And me.
Perhaps an overall reason and the (together with the “magical” rise in Chinese GDP over the last decades) is much better explained by this analysis
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-297-china-and-the-new-world-order/
rather than Uncle Bob’s recent comment that it is “To build up their economy I suspect.”
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Thank you for your insights.
Come to think of it, Trump started with pleasantries and said he wanted Hillary to be happy. But he landed the 3 critical hits on her early on which in a way negated much of what Hillary skillfully and coached to do later:
1) her 30+ yrs in office and only now she wants to “do stuff”
2) she as a “typical politician. All talk. No action. Sounds good. Feels good. Nothings gonna be done.”
3) he will release his tax returns early if Hillary releases the 33000 emails which she deleted. :)
Seems to be that Trump really controlled himself against a female opponent. Like the Chinese proverb 好男不和女斗 (A gentleman does not fight with a woman). Personally I was like everyone here, expecting Hillary to be mown down, but was taken back by his apparent lack of aggressiveness and had to be on the defense while trying to put across his plans and ideas to the viewers.
The debate polls suggests that this was a winning strategy. Kudos to Trump. He did the unexpected and came out as the event winner. I don’t think he won the debate and probably didn’t want to. Hillary was over-polished and her laughing and shaking away of her crimes and lousy track record made her looked super-cool, but she defeated both Trump and herself. Scott Adam’s article explains it better (see webmaster’s post below).
Trump’s latest rally in the 10,000s shows that his supporters doesn’t give a poop what Hillary says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRAm6vPYuMM
But his remarks about Cuba and Venezuela rang an alarm in me…
from her rapid blinking of her eyes, her school girlish smile made me think she knew the questions well in advance, before her turn for the interviewer to ask her the question she appeared shifty like what about he forgot to give me this question in advance.
I commend The Saker’s courage and the courage of all those who watched. I couldn’t, my stomach has limits. The very face of that simulacre of a woman is enough to trigger nausea. And the disgust arises also from the revival of the images with which she is commonly united.
As for the f..d masses, they were easily duped in voting Reagan in office, long ago – which was the beginning of all that followed. Voting this woman “whose sole name blisters my tongue” is a piece of cake.
But, as useless as it is to say it, Zion had decided long ago on the matter. This indeed is the Judaic Century.
Furthermore, I do not believe that Usrael is finished. On the contrary, it’s alive and more kicking than ever, ready to f…k the world.
I am reminded of a line from a T.S. Eliot’s poem,
“We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! / Our dried voices, when / We whisper together / Are quiet and meaningless / As wind in dry grass / Or rats’ feet over broken glass / In our dry cellar / Shape without form, shade without colour, / Paralysed force, gesture without motion…”
And I conclude with the words of Timon of Athens, “I have forgot all men; then, if thou grant’st thou’rt a man (or a woman in this case), I have forgot thee.
Americans don’t vote for college professors. And they love one-liners. Who had the better one-liners?
Saker sounds like a man who just lost a big bet on the first debate and now is bitching about all the things his team did wrong. (“What was with that ugly blue tie?”)
And then the remark by his son comparing Hillary to a “college professor.” Yes, Hillary is the Monica Lewinsky Professor of Deceit and Perjury at Mortification U.
I didn’t think Trump won the debate, but I thought it was a lot closer than Saker did. With less than 2 months to go until the unintended consequences of being an American citizen are visited upon us, the election is in the hands of the undecided voters. I’ll let your mind toy with the idea of whom they may be and what they are thinking about.
As for me, I’ll be having nightmares about Hellhag, one of Lucifer’s harpies. Who always appears wearing a blinding red pant suit to announce the imminent arrival of Satan.
It was a catastrophe, one of the worst/most pathetic “debates” in world history. However, your wife is right, and while the MSM will make a lot of ruckus about this, Hillary is so despised in this country, I don’t think her robotic (chemically assisted?) performance tonight will sway many “fly-over” Americans. She just breathes contempt for the American people. I agree that it is truly sad that this is the best performance the US can give at this stage of the game. Any European or Russian would throw in the towel and think we’re completely nuts, which isn’t far wrong. However, this election is unlike anything I’ve ever seen, and the MSM (moderators, channels, pundits) are simply not trusted by most people outside of DC, NYC, Hollywood. Things will get weirder next month for sure. Tonight, Trump was not on his game, talked too much about himself like an Apprentice episode, ignored multiple issues and openings to really demolish her. OTOH, Trump has to play it safe to avoid offending all the b.s. the MSM would throw at him if he brought up the real issues. The US is a soon-to-be failed imperial state with a powerful but inept and inbred media. Compare this debate to Putin’s four hour q/a’s… Trump is severely out-gunned with an MSM establishment bought/paid for by the Clinton propaganda machine built among various elites since the 1980’s, but if you view this election as a US version of the “Brexit” protest vote, these debates may not matter so much. We shall see. (I still have hope. All US Presidential debates have been un-watchable charades for many decades now.)
the media crowed about Romney’s wonderful debate performances against Obama. Didn’t do him much good.
Scott Adams who has predicted Trump’s rise almost to the letter argued Trump did what he needed to do – show he was not completely scary. He also came off as more authentic while Clinton was robotic (she doesn’t even know how to smile naturally).
Dear Saker.
My question is: Do the debates change much?
Was hillary her usual self ?
What was expected from Trump?
I suspect no one would expect him to beat a thirty years experienced politician in a debate
The question to ask is what message did trump get across
No one really listens to the intricacies of policy – what were the broad messages???
There are two more debates
There is a chance to change approach and refine areas of weakness.
That’s if he wants to win – I am not sure he wants to win this election. There are just too many opportunities that he misses to go for her – she has so many areas of weakness.
Do the debates change much?
I don’t know. I have read that they don’t have much of a influence. I sure hope so. It would be wrong to judge a future President by a debate anyway. Look at Hillary – she did an absolutely magnificent job against Trump yesterday. And yet she never succeeded at anything in her entire life. As for Trump, he might be a horrible debater, but he will has some good instincts (such as avoiding wars and negotiating with adversaries) which could be most useful for the United States.
Finally, I hope that Hillary’s “perfection” yesterday will be perceived by the American people as the mind blowing hypocrisy which, of course, it is.
Like Saker I was disappointed (to put it mildly) with Trump’s debating skills. Hillary has been a lawyer for 30 years. And a politician of one sort or the other for much of that time. She knows how to say “all the right things”,without meaning a one of them.Agreeing to having a pro-Clinton moderator,was horrible enough. But missing a 1,001 chances to attack her record,her neo-con beliefs,her foreign donations to her “charity”.The fact that of the millions that go to that “charity”,only 6% is spent on charity.The fact that while she pillared him as a “rich man”. She herself has a fortune of $120,000.000.When she “piously” talked about Wall Street being unregulated and a danger.That Trump didn’t bring up that it was her husband that removed those regulations. And those Wall Street billionaires are her biggest donors.And have paid her “millions” in “speaking fees”. That he didn’t ask “what do those Wall Street oligarchs expect for that money” from her.So many opportunities to expose her missed.
I agree with your post: that’s why I don’t think he is in this to win.
I also don’t know why people support him – is this about more hope and change??? The political establishment is the same no matter who wins. We see that when you look at Clinton, bush2 and obama presidencies. All the same. Nothing for the people all for the 1% corporations
My hope is that europeans governments will see this clown show and make moves to develop a more european focussed policy in europeans interest. The Atlanticist must be sidelined
People support him because they believe (probably rightly) he is the best chance to stop the destruction of whatever is left of the US that they and their parents wanted it to be.I know that is a complicated answer. But the situation is complicated.I believe everyone has their own personal reasons to support any candidate.So only a “general “answer can be given.My personal reasons are that I believe if Clinton takes office we are headed to war,possibly/probably nuclear.But almost certain war,either way.I also believe that the “liberal agenda” is not what liberalism meant in my youth.In those days it meant “more freedom”,and support for the common people,and human rights.The real human rights,not sexual politics,and wedge issues,as it has been made into today.So-called liberalism has been perverted into a monster,used for “regime change” and control of populations,and nations, for the benefit of the elite classes. I don’t know if Trump will be better for the US or not. But I do know what Clinton promises for our future. So I’m willing to “roll the dice” on Trump to avoid “crapping out” with Clinton. But that’s just me. I’m sure everyone else has their own particular reasons to support Trump.
Thank heaven I don’t have a TV and so have the perfect excuse not to watch this show.
Trump would have needed a “debate book” and considerable preparation an d study to pull off a “win” against an experienced lawyer. And I suspect that Trump is not the type to sit down and go over things studiously. It is very difficult to remember a lot of points.
If I were hired to prep Trump my strategy would for him to focus on just four points/rejoinders/attacks and for him to role-play and rehearse four basic formulae until he has them down pat (also, just call her Hillary). For example:
1. Foreign policy: “Libya and about four other nations have been wrecked because of your policies and have caused a massive refugee crisis in Europe.” Your reckless policies are leading to World War III.
2. Wall Street: No one did more than you and your husband’s administration to deregulate Wall Street and you have profited handsomely from it. From being “broke” in 2000 you now are worth ca. $180 million.
3. Working class> NAFTA and the 2008 financial collapse are two big factors in the dismal status of workers in the USA. Policies introduced by you and your husband are responsible for both of those events. You are the darling of Wall STreet. You will not regulate Wall STreet.
4. Lying. You have narrowly escaped indictment and many Americans think that the evidence is overwhelming that you ignored and deviously did an end-run around basic security in order to keep your communications secret, that you lied about it, and that you should be indicted for both security breaches and for lying to Congress.
That would be enough for one debate, if he could manage to get those in. For the last debate it would be a new set of four, or some repetition but maybe two new attack points. One of which would have to be:
5. Racism in the USA: You accuse me of racism. That is ridiculous in the light of the disastrous policies of you and your husband’s administration that have led to the wreckage of the lives and life chances of hundreds of thousands of black Americans, as detailed by The Nation in “Black LIves Shattered.” It is a mystery to me why any African American would vote for you.
This strategy of a limited number of points to remember and use is based on playing the Memory game, where you turn over matching cards. I have seen that if I memorize four positions (at a time), and that is the most positions I can memorize at a time, I can usually win the game.
I would also advise Trump to use the phrase “you and your husband’s adminsitration” as often as possible. Hillary was the co-president, she cites being the first lady as part of her relevant eperience, so hit her with it as often as possible. Under her earlier administration, (1) NAFTA was passed, (2) Glass-Steagall was dismantled under the aegis of Larry Summers, and (3) “Welfare reform” was disastrous for black families. Again, those three points shouldn’t be too hard to remember if Trump is drilled on them.
The problem is that, as with any weapon, many people will carry a weapon but be afraid to actually use it. Trump has to be pumped up to ATTACK this woman. I think that goes contrary to his instincts. Especially face-to-face and with a hostile audience. But he has to learn to do it, while keeping his delivery fairly neutral. Just state the facts, sir . . .
Katherine
yup-still waiting for more wikileaks Clinton emails as promised…………
While I sympathise with your feelings, I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would have expected a different outcome. When two people submit themselves to the machinations of the American “democratic election” circus, which is rigged to the Nth degree in favour of the Deep State and its candidates, why on earth would the relatively honest, straightforward candidate have the slightest chance against the slick, tricky, eloquent, fluent liar?
It’s not as if the candidates had any chance to submit their opponent’s claims to any kind of fact-checking – which would no doubt have bitten Clinton severely in the ass. (Ewwwww, ghastly image). These debates are the classic American public spectacle, like the old snake-oil salesmen’s routines or the performances of Phineas T Barnum. (Remember him? The quintessential American businessman and demagogue. “Never give a sucker an even break” – that was one of his – and also “There’s one born every minute”).
Opportunity knocked four times, why didn’t Trump answer?
Trump should not have let Clinton get away with saying the 2008-9 crash was due to “reaganomics” or that “trumped up trickle down” will lead to another crash. Even if there are similarities between some of what Trump and Reagan said, the crash of 2008 was not caused by economic policies that ended in 1984.
Instead Trump should have (correctly) placed the blame on the policies of deregulation and bail outs that Clinton so adroitly championed these many years. Why didn’t Trump mention reinstating Glass-Steagall,or all the money she and her husband (a.k.a. Billy the bag man) made from their speeches to gold sacks and the other wall street big wigs? Knock number one.
On foreign policy Trump should have spoken of Syria and clearly taken the side of the secular, civilized, Christian protecting government of Assad. He should have contrasted the S.A.A. with the sick head chopping al qaeda freaks and said he takes the side of civilization.
He should have mentioned how much money ‘the Hill” and billy bag man made off Saudi and the gulf states, states that support the overthrow of the legitimate Syrian government, and don’t forget the 500k in diamonds she got in the late king’s will. Knock number two.
“The Hill” made much of her terrorist fighting experience, after all she was in on the Bin laden hit, and building this wonderful anti terror coalition. Trump offered some push back here, but never asked where all those shiny new pick up trucks with machine guns mounted on the back were coming from. Did scotty beam them down, or maybe they flew in on a magic carpet. She would have had to say she has no idea, looking the fool, or admit they are coming from our allies in the anti-terror coalition. Don’t forget to again mention the Saudi money. Knock number three.
(parenthetically i suspect some of you are thinking — hay wait a second moth ain’t we supporting them — yep, but for the purpose of the debate/election better to portray the hill as stupid or evil and not try to cast aspersions any wider then needed for now. Imo Clinton will try not to mention Syria in any detail because she has no plan except Assad must go. This would lead to a blood bath. Thus don’t wait for her to say she is going to bomb Syria in any of the remaining debates.)
On the question of first strike, with nuclear weapons, Trump says he will change that policy. Clinton ducked the question. He should have forced an answer. She would have hemmed and hawed and answered she is o.k. with a first strike, or been forced to agree with Trump.
If she is o.k. with a first strike who would it be on? Russia? Well then its the end of the world. A weak country that has no nuclear retaliatory capacity? People won’t think Trump is the crazy one anymore. Knock number four.
Let’s all hope Trump ups his game for the next debates and answers the door next time opportunity knocks.
“Please, everybody, enjoy the debates. Remember, this is the last picnic on our roller coaster ride down.”
“Where exactly are we going, mister smart-ass?”
“Good question. Do you see these huge boulders further down the trail? They mark the fringes of a lovely place called Black Hole. If the Talmudic maps I was handed are worth anything, we should be there before night falls.”
There is another way of viewing this. Clinton is more experienced and as a consequence comes across as clinical, cold, superior, etc. Trump has limited experience but may have come across as fallible which makes him much less cold than Clinton and someone that perhaps might have some empathy towards many of those watching.
When Trump openly said we should have stolen Iraqi oil…in other words openly commit a war crime without even bothering with the obfuscation to hide it…he lost me totally.
It is nice that he seems to respect Russia and (presumably) wants to avoid nuclear war. It is truly a pitty that our standards are so low that all we want is someone who won’t destroy the planet. And a pitty that only this clown meets that standard…maybe.
When I thought, long ago, that the Iraq War was about oil seizure in a time of peak oil (and you will recall that one of the only buildings in Baghdad that was guarded during the invasion was the Oil Ministry), then I thought about the Gilbert and Sullivan lyric from the height of British imperialism:
“For I am a Pirate King! And it is, it is a glorious thing, to be a Pirate King!”
Perhaps Trump is trying out for the role.
The pirates are already in charge …. we just do not know who is performing as the current ‘Blackbeard’. It appears to me that the latest plan is to seize and plunder Russia. The pirates are gathering their forces and forming strategic alliances. What happen with the 144 tons of Libya’s gold … it appears to have been looted …. not a mention of it anywhere.
The pirates succeeded with that a long time ago – just as they did with China
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-297-china-and-the-new-world-order/
An American friend of mine once told me the presidential race is all about the the question: “Can I go and have a beer with this person?”
Yes, I agree that Hillary came of strong, polished and sophisticated..but is that what was required?
I think Trump got his message across about jobs and security in the inner cities in a simple and clear way. He urgently needs to connect with African-American and Hispanic voters.
By the way, I thought the fact that he called her “Secretary Clinton ” was a smart. He showed respect for her (he has often been accused of being disrespectful of women) and also reminded everyone that “secretary” Clinton is part of the establishment..
The question keeps popping into my mind this morning, “How would Satan do in a debate?”
Trump has clearly walked back on some of his more populist rhetoric. Congress always uses the carrot when dealing with multinational corporations, never the stick. On the outsourcing questions he was given a good opportunity to show that he can use the “stick”, namely the 45% tariff on Chinese imports he has talked about quite a bit. Instead his response degenerated into the usual Republican and neoliberal talking points of cutting corporate taxes and deregulation.
For a half sarcastic and more than half truthful review of the “first” debate see:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/27/idiot-winds-at-hofstra/
Regards, Spiral
I have been following Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert cartoon) blog. He is pro-trump and he believes that Trump is winning by losing. He also is obviously quite humorous. Here is a link to his evaluation http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151007796236/i-score-the-first-debate.
Thank you for sharing Scott Adams’ Blog. :)
To say its interesting is an understatement!
Here is what everyone seems to overlook. It does not matter what the presidential candidates say for public consumption. Obama lied none stop and the public sucked it down. Or did everyone forget. Trump or Hillary will never formulate, propagate or implement foreign policy. Hillary, her self, has stated that the CFR is responsible for US foreign policy. The Council of Foreign Relations and the Tri-Lateral Commission in concert with the CIA are responsible for all US Foreign Policy. Trump and Hillary are playing “Good Cop vs Bad Cop” for the zombified public. This year as always “300 million Americans get to buy the Brooklyn Bridge again.” What is astounding is that professional journalists and political pundits with real reputations have no clue about the CFR or TLC. To assert that Hillary could draw the USA into a thermonuclear war with Russia is beyond stupidity. Hillary or Trump can only draw you into an outhouse to smell the $hit they are spreading. As for the so-called pros in the business of polit/analysis who write articles for a living, one can only surmise that they are on the take; the goal and objective being to keep you in the outhouse inhaling.
This debate is completely irrelevant. Expect a Clinton bump in the polls, then as the campaign wears on Trump will narrow the gap once again. This has happened before.
As several polls and analysis of the electoral college votes indicate, Trump still has a real possibility of winning this election.
People need to realize that NO ONE CARES if Trump can’t finish a sentence. His supporters DO NOT CARE. And the “NeverHillary” people don’t care either.
A lot of people may recently despise Trump – including myself – but a lot of people have been hating Hillary Clinton for thirty years. Whether they can make up for all the crazed middle-aged and younger women to want a female President despite leading us to World War III remains to be seen.
I had serious let down, post debate. Here’s what I was looking forward to. I wanted to see free-style mud wrestling, down and dirty, no holds barred thrashing that brought out all the stored up, pent up ‘wrage’ America feels about how we ‘bin done’ since the Clinton presidency when we got:
1) Glass-Steagal repealed kicking off the meltdown of banking we see today
2) NAFTA, and that hugh ‘sucking sound’ of corporations exiting w/ all our jobs
3) Monika Lewinsky and all the other sordid escapades of a man who can’t keep his cigar in the humidor.
Since then, the revolutions around the drain have increased in frequency as the circle gets tighter and tighter toward the point of no return only held back by QE to the ‘n’th that can ONLY end with disbanding the FRB forever, and wars, and then the tour de force, mother of all false flag/ inside jobs, 9/11 that compromised everything we thought USA stood for and threw the fatal victims and first responders under the bus with our rights to boot. And alas and anon, MOAR wars, the ‘7 countries, 5years’ agenda with absolutely disastrous results. And Clinton wants to stand there, read bumper stickers and parrot sound bites to us, and call it ‘debate’. She was hopeless. But for his part, the donald seemed rocked back on his heels, unprepared, and some-what speechless in the face of his attempted murder by a thousand cuts that began right out of the gate. I couldn’t sleep I was so ticked, I stayed up arguing till 3, with a wife who told me, “she’s a hack, you don’t have to keep arguing; the people are going to see it.” I hope she’s right. And we don’t have to bring up birth certificates. We still don’t have one. OK? Bigger fish to fry.
That’s pretty much my view, but I wanted others. The Scot Adams piece, mentioned here previously, “I score the debate” was a good one to read. It sort of tamped down the fires of outrage in me, and here’s another one I liked, it was as entertaining as it was insightful, in my opinion, and so I offer it here, so that you might also enjoy it:
Rogue Money Report – Post Debate #1 with “V” & CJ (09/26/2016)
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCwedoDJSSs
And, here’s a link to the full debate video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQFGTDFvMSc
Last night, Hillary looked and sounded like a redneck preacher flogging a false faith.
Take her favorite jive about the God given rights of children, for instance. Today’s kids
are less smart, less healthy, less family oriented, less religious, less patriotic, with fewer
freedoms, and almost weaponized in support of political correctness.
Last night was nothing less than a B-J by one of the most corrupt women in America.
Saker
Nothing personal, but I would have preferred a listing of each of the candidates views expressed on the topics brought up. Don’t care about emotional impressions about how they did or what they could have said. Analysis of the views they expressed I also welcome.
As for the impact of these debates, I think that is grossly exaggerated by many, especially in the media. I’ll explain why.
I don’t remember if bush jr did any debates, but I can’t imagine that guy successfully debating himself, let alone a human opponent of 90 or higher IQ. Yet he got enough votes to make it plausible he won. Twice. His opponents were more popular and seen as better qualified than clinton, as well.
So even people widely seen as average don’t really have that as a mark against them, and those seen as sophisticated don’t gain a popularity advantage from it much, either.
Also, most people have already made up their minds before watching one of these superficial debates. If their choice does poorly, they may get upset with them about that, but they don’t switch to the other person, unless their guy expresses a view abhorrent to them that they did not know their chosen one held.
yeah but the voting machines were rigged for Bush and now they’ll be rigged for Hillary…I’ve heard that he’ll need to win by a landslide to defeat the rigging of the black boxes
Didn’t watch the debates at all! We went to movies and watched the one about Snowden. much better than watching clowns battling each other.
I expected this outcome. Trump did almost no preparations. He had no experience with such long debates or one-on-one debates and didn’t train on them during his preparations. He fumbled on such predictable attacks as his tax forms and accusations of racism and misogyny – where a bit of preparations would have helped.
Trump is used to get out of tricky situations with bluff or counterattack. But if you keep doing that during such a long one-on-one debate it becomes very visible and you cast yourself as a one-trick ignorant.
The big question is whether Trump has learned from it. We will see in the next debates.
Cheer up, Saker!
We couldn’t get livestream of the debate at our ranch (just error messages) and have no cable, so we had to listen on radio filled with static. Naturally, I couldn’t get the nuances you picked up. But I had a similar feeling, that Trump was too weak.
But hold on! Some 27 out of 30 polls had Trump winning the debate even so, according to infowars.com:
http://www.infowars.com/poll-who-won-the-first-presidential-debate/
So Trump didn’t NEED to look like he wiped her out. More subtly, I think Trump was playing her on, making her think she has it easy, making her over-confident—possibly as a setup for the future. However Trump does it, he wins. And I think he had this one under control.
I have somewhat of a different take. While I generally agree with both Saker and Pepe, that Trump performance (in content) was a bit of a disappointment. I must confess I did let out a long sigh a of relief when it was over.
Ahead of the debate my main concern wasn’t if Trump was gonna win it or not, my main worry was that he was gonna come out, guns blazing and completely make mince-meat of Hitlery to the point most people, particularly the press, would have deemed it to be over the top and cruel.
Top this with a perhaps completely overwhelmed and hyperventilating Clinton crying, or fainting in front of the cameras on live television, and voila! The already established meme that Trump is a nasty piece of work and a bully would have gone in hyper-drive and that’s all we all would be dissecting and talking about right now.
Let’s not forget: Clinton is a woman (she always plays the woman’s card, and she did it at this debate too), she’s tiny compared to a towering Trump, and now the public also perceives her as ‘frail’ because of her health issues.
All those points gather sympathy from the viewers no matter how much they might despise the woman or not. They can’t help it, it’s a natural human response to side with a seriously disadvantaged opponent. Pit a frail old man against a lion in a gladiator arena, and I can guarantee you, no matter how much the audience might be comprised of die-hard animal lovers, they won’t be rooting for the lion, let me tell you!
This is my theory of maybe why… Trump advisors told him to go easy[ish] on Killery, and to definitely mind his mouth.
If that was indeed the case, sadly and reluctantly, I have to agree with them. It would have been a major PR disaster for Trump if he went medieval on her ass, because no matter how right (or wrong) he was on the issues, the press would have ignored those and concentrated on his ‘rude’ delivery and/or harsh tone.
We’ve seen this before when they constantly misquote him, for example; leaving important key parts totally out of the conversation.
Like… Trump comment [paraphrasing] that he wished the Russians hacked Killery e-mails, because that’s the only way the American public would get to know what she’s up to (or words to that effect). The comment was obviously made tongue in cheek – and we all know a good tongue-in-cheek comment is only effective when it carries a degree of truth, same as sarcasm – never the less… the press run with the story that Trump was a Kremlin mind-controlled Manchurian candidate.
This last part ties-up with Pepe’s article about this debate, where he highlights Clinton saying: “words matter.” Well… to me it sounds more like a threat on their part.
Meaning… words matter and since the entire establishment is behind me, not you, we can take your words and make them mean whatever we want them to mean.
After all wasn’t this Pentagon guy recently saying… [in regards to the bombing of the UN aid convoy] “The Russians are responsible for this strike whether they conducted it or not.”
[First found that quote here, but I’m sure a lot of other sources picked up on this]
Top US General Warns Syrian “No-fly” Zone Means War With Russia
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45555.htm
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I mean…. do we understand the far reaching implications of such statement? It means; whatever the US says – goes. Period.
And whether the Russians (or whoever we point our exceptional little finger at) are really to blame for whatever we hold them responsible for …if what we’re saying is true or not, is immaterial.
We call the shots and that’s that.
Basically.
This is the phase where psychopaths, typically – after grooming and duping their victims with their fake charms – like to expose themselves for what they truly are.
What can I say… Putin better start to dump a bunch of his Political Scientist advisors in favor of hiring the best Psychologists and Psychiatrists he can get his hands on. And fast!
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But to close, the main point I’m trying to make is; these are the same “people” the Trump campaign is facing, and to be fair… I don’t blame them for their treading carefully at this point.
There’s a whole mine field the other side already laid down in front of them, one false step and they’re gone.
Can we all just drop the BS and finally admit that is the most dangerous game of chicken EVER played? Millions if not billions of lives hang on the balance. I’ve just had about enough of snarky remarks about the state of the decrepit western culture, the western economy that is forever about to collapse, but it never does… the elites running scared, the various officials being “incompetent” and clueless about what they’re doing, the panicky ‘empire’ not knowing what to do while Rome burns… (etc)
And I tip my hat to Lavelle last Cross Talk episode [for those who follow my comments, you will know I’m not uncritical of him when I disagree] but his last show was one of the most mature [and therefore: most realist] he did so far.
Let’s hope, in the mist of everything else that is going on simultaneously: like, earlier today’s RT breaking news about the US threatening to break-off diplomatic lines with Russia on Syria, or the Dutch-lead MH17 investigation releasing their so-called new findings, which so far… seem to be pointing their fingers at, who else? But Russia… Plus… reports about Gulf States arming the Syrian revels whether they’re moderates or not with manpads capable of taking down low flying aircrafts… I’m hoping, flag-ship programs like Cross Talk are finally getting serious and down to business.
-TL2Q
Don’t worry – the good lord works in mysterious ways , sending his moles into the most unexpected places:
http://i.giphy.com/gUZHp0Z4YEOkw.gif
Oops! Last comment was from me..
Trump cannot talk. His mind is disorganized.
We are doomed.
I guess I was less disappointed in Trump’s performance because I was not expecting his proposals to make sense. I was more interested in whether he would speak the “unspeakable” which he did. He challenged the integrity of our elections, pointed out Clinton is getting away with the email scandal, and asserted we have an incompetent government. If Sanders were the democratic candidate he would have been immune to these accusations and would have been a believable critic of Wall Street, but not Hillary Clinton.
I saw a headline somewhere that Clinton was able to obtain the debate questions ahead of time.
I found the source of the accusation that Clinton was given the debate questions:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157934436595725&id=153080620724&_rdr
Apparently, Hillary Clinton made up the claim that 17 intelligence agencies have verified Russia was behind the email hacking:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/10/20/president-strangelove/