Not as romantic as date night but there you go.
Hillary Clinton (D) and Donald Trump (R) face off for the first time.
What do each of the candidates need to do tonight?
Trump needs to seem neither scary nor crazy.
Hillary needs to not fall down.
The bar is pretty low.
First question has to do with the economy.
Hillary wants the federal government to make the economy more fair.
NO! NONONO!! The last thing I want is the feds forcing their version of ‘fairness’ on all of us.
She’s worried about the wage gap. Yes, some people make more money than others. Believe it or not, that’s fair. A world in which the guy who dropped out of school and spends his career playing guitar in dive bars may live a wonderful and fun life but there’s a really good chance he’s not going to make as much money as the guy who gets a degree, spends another four years in med school, does a three-year residency and a two-year fellowship before becoming your surgeon. That’s fair.
Now Hillary is bragging about the economy when Bill was president. Yeah, that’s when the seeds of the housing bubble were sown. Politicians who aren’t nearly as smart as bankers rewrote our mortgage laws, all in the name of making home ownership more fair. That’s what happens when the government thinks it can and should manipulate the economy in the name of fairness; worldwide economic collapse. And that was just mortgages. Imagine the carnage if it were everything.
Hillary’s plan to keep businesses in the US is not to make the US more attractive to business but to threaten them with force if they try to leave. That sounds like both a lot more work and a lot less likely to work. Now she’s threatening to give businesses to the workers. “If you helped build that business, you deserve a part of it!”
Um…that’s what a paycheck is for, Hill. If you ever held a real job*, you’d know that.
She’s describing Socialism. Remember Socialism? Look at Venezuela. Everything was great there until folks had to eat the zoo animals.
Oh, now Hillary is disavowing NAFTA, which Trump says was the worst trade deal for American businesses in history. You had no hand in it, Hillary? Tell us about the initiatives you did have a hand in while you were First Lady. Come on, tell us. Here’s a hint; Hillarycare, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, gutting the military and calling it cutting the size of government…Want to talk about any of that? How about Bimbo eruptions? You got really good at dealing with those.
Somehow I feel like when Trump talks about the problems businesses face with federal regulation and taxation, he knows what he’s talking about.
I’d like him to release his tax forms, not because I care what’s in them but just to see how yuuuge they must be.
She just suggested that maybe Trump’s not as charitable as he claims he is. She could be right: I’ll be he never took a charitable deduction for donating his used underwear to Goodwill, like the Clinton’s did in Arkansas.
I’d like to see the Clinton Foundation tax forms. If they claim tax exempt status, I’d like to know exactly how they can do that.
Yes, Hillary, you probably should be blamed for everything. Keep smiling. Go full joker face; it suits you.
Man, Trump’s hair is horrendous. I can’t even tell where it’s growing from. It just looks like someone dumped a lint trap on his head.
When Hillary looks straight into the camera, she looks reptilian. Her head kinda weaves like a cobra. Actually, she looks high as a kite.
Trump says he’ll release his tax returns when she releases the 30,000 emails. Snap!
Cheers from the crowd.
Hillary reiterates that she “made a mistake”, using a private email. Sure. Conducting the business of the State department using what is basically smoke signals is a mistake anyone could make. For four straight years. If only Benedict Arnold had tried that excuse on George Washington; he’d probably be on the hundred dollar bill, today.
Ooh, she brought up both sides keeping a bargain that’s been made.
That’s rich, coming from the First Lady who reneged on the bargain the government made with the military that those who served 20 years would get health care for life. As my brilliant and talented older brother pointed out, it wasn’t legislated. (Remind me never to seal a deal with him by handshake.) It was still the understanding between the government and career military personnel and SHE’S the one who made the call and broke the bargain.
Now Trump is explaining that in the private sector, when you have a contract for services at X amount and cost overruns go to X +Y, you can’t just print $20,000,000,000,000.00 to cover the cost.
Trump says the way to deal with civil unrest and violence in our cities is ‘law and order’. Hillary seems to think that’s racist.
I've been told that since I'm white, I can't imagine what its like to live in a place rife with violence. Actually, I can imagine it and black Americans aren't the only people who've had to deal with such things.
Hmmm. Which is more racist: supporting a stronger police presence in violent neighborhoods or supposing that blacks don't expect, desire or deserve anything else? I know which attitude strikes me as more racist. Which path do you think leads to happier, more secure citizens?
Now Lester and Trump are arguing whether ‘stop and frisk’ was ruled unconstitutional. Trump says it didn’t get that far but it would have passed constitutional muster.
Hillary says it was in fact ruled unconstitutional because it was ineffective.
I don’t think that’s what ‘unconstitutional’ means.
She claims ‘systemic racism’ in our criminal justice system. The problem with a statement like that is that no one knows what anyone else means by ‘systemic racism’. ‘Racism’ is like ‘fairness’. I would have to know exactly what someone meant by the word before I could even try to argue or agree with them. Experience has taught me that when a politician says things like that, all it means is they’re pandering to the perpetual victim community.
She seems to be doing fine while she’s talking, although when she smiles, all I see is Deloris Umbridge.
It’s while Trump is speaking that she undergoes a scary transformation. Her head kind of weaves back and forth like a cobra and her eyes blink suuuperrrr slllowwwwwllly like it takes all her will power to get those lids up again. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear she was drunk or high.
I swear Trump is actually saying "Blahblah blah..."
Oh, I’m so bored.
I can’t do this anymore.
Life is too short.
I’m out.
*a job from which you can be fired if your performance is terrible and your employer can’t print money to cover losses.