As a time capsule, a record of my live reactions to the second presidential debate, starting from the beginning and progressing through to the end. I use facebook instead of twitter because I can't multitask well enough to corral what I write into 140 characters or less while still paying attention to what's being said.
In summary, Trump left it all on the field tonight. Could not have asked for anything more from him.
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Holy shit.
Trump is ANNIHILATING Hillary.
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Rape enabler. Check
Sold state secrets. Check
Started the Obama-not-born-in-the-US rumor in 2008, three years before Trump said anything about it. Check
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It was all over social media that Anderson Cooper's first question would be to about the 2005 video. The lying moderators said at the outset that only the two of them had seen the questions. Cooper's first question was in fact about the 2005 video.
Journalism in America is a JOKE.
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Anderson Cooper to the rescue. I think--okay, okay, I hope--Hillary is about to have a seizure.
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Not 1-on-3, Trump. You have the army of deplorables on your side. Shiv shiv shiv shiv shiv shiv shiv shiv. Hillary is bleeding on the floor.
Giving people insurance that's astronomically expensive and that doesn't cover anything is not progress. Premiums are up double-digits across the board.
Simply saying "you have insurance" that does nothing for those who have it is not progress.
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Hillary Clinton is now like Julius Caesar. If he didn't win the consulship, he would've been prosecuted and likely executed. If she doesn't win the presidency, she'll end up in the slammer.
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I almost forgot:
Rigging elections. Check
Sanders' supporters, you can vote for Jill Stein. You don't have to be this corrupt, horrible woman's house slaves. She cheated your guy out of the nomination.
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My big concern is about Islamophobia, too!
Not about skyscrapers being blown up, people being hacked to death on trains, people being shot to death on the road, people being blown up by bombs, people being beheaded in American streets, people being run down by maniacs in trucks--the murderers in all of these examples, by the way, are Muslims who killed Westerners.
That stuff doesn't matter. I'm worried about people who voluntarily come to the West to get away from the hellholes they come from having their feelings hurt.
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Hillary thinks it is the US' responsibility to take in hundreds of millions--even billions--of 'refugees' across the globe. Google "gumball video immigration", lady.
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Hillary wants to start WWIII with a nuclear-armed Russia over a civil war in Syria? She is the neocon candidate. She's never seen a military intervention or war she doesn't support.
Trump says mean things. Hillary is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and counting.
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Hillary Clinton is bought and sold by Goldman Sachs. She is their puppet.
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Hillary is talking about Abraham Lincoln. Someone give her an injection. She's losing it.
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Russia doesn't control WikiLeaks. Julian Assange does.
This lady is just lies, lies, lies.
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Russia doesn't want Hillary elected because he doesn't want to start WWIII and neither does Trump. Only Hillary does.
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Hillary isn't Soros' friend, she's one of his marionettes.
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Hillary is angry about Trump taking advantage of the tax code she's had years to change but never did because Goldman Sachs wouldn't let her, and neither would Warren Buffet or George Soros. She's an owned woman.
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Not just all of Hillary's donors take advantage of the tax deductions. Every American who uses TurboTax or H&R Block does, too.
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Did you hear that, folks? Your children are safe because of Hillary Clinton!
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Hillary has to sit down in between questions.
Fit for the presidency? One of these two is physically unfit for it.
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Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS?
Uh, Russia is the Assad regime's biggest protector and Assad is fighting ISIS.
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Hillary, by coming, seeing, and killing Qaddafi in Libya, is one of the primary reasons Europe is being inundated by so-called refugees.
Trump says mean things. Hillary destroys North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
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Trump is absolutely right: Assad's regime--the Alawites--line up on the Shia side of the major Islamic split. ISIS is composed of Sunnis from Iraq and Syria, mortal enemies of the Alawites.
How Hillary is able to get away with saying Russia isn't doing anything about ISIS is beyond me.
That's the biggest lie of the night, and she knows a lot of Americans don't know the nuances of what's going on in the Middle East.
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Good that she doesn't think it's prudent strategy to try to hold land in the Middle East now. Too bad she didn't think that when she voted for the Iraq war.
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Trump calls out the blatant bias in the moderators.
They've probably both been visited by the Clinton campaign. Arkancide is a thing. Anderson Cooper doesn't want to die.
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Hillary wants to be a unifier, she says. But she thinks one-fourth of the country are irredeemable "deplorables".
Convincing.
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One of Hillary's first professional actions was to register Hispanics in south Texas to vote.
Yeah, that's pretty much the Democrats' plan for electoral success--elect a new people.
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When Hillary apologizes, she expects us to disregard her comments.
When Trump apologizes, she just keeps saying "he doesn't apologize".
She is getting ANNIHILATED. This is fantastic.
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Hillary let Americans in Benghazi die.
Then she said it happened because of a video, a huge lie.
Trump says mean things. Hillary has the blood of hundreds of thousands of dead people on her hands.
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Hillary: "George W Bush basically endorsed me. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!"
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Of the many things Hillary wants in a Supreme Court justice, someone who pays attention to the Constitution doesn't come up.
Couldn't squeeze it in, I guess.
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Trump manages to mention that part of the Supreme Court's function--okay, it's EXCLUSIVE function--is to ensure constitutionality in the making and execution of laws.
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Hillary's made tens of millions of dollars as a "public servant". Why can't she partially self-fund? She didn't serve the public for her own personal enrichment, by chance, did she?