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Scott Adams: Debate Reactions
Dilbert ^ | 10 10 16

Posted on 10/10/2016 2:31:34 AM PDT by Helicondelta

I just watched the debate on replay. Trump won bigly. This one wasn’t close. And keep in mind that I called Clinton the winner of the first debate, and I now endorse Gary Johnson, primarily to avoid being called an alleged enabler of alleged sex abusers and their alleged enablers. That basket of deplorables includes both Bill and Hillary Clinton (the alleged doer and the alleged cleaner-upper) plus Trump and his alleged misdeeds.

Some quick reactions…

1. When the Access Hollywood tape came up, Trump dismissed it as locker room banter that he regrets. You expected that part. The persuasion move was that he quickly contrasted that “small” issue with images of ISIS beheadings, and cage-drownings. It was a high ground maneuver, a powerful visual anchor (like the Rosie O’Donnell move from his first primary debate), and a contrast play. In this framing, Trump cares about saving your life while Clinton cares about your choice of words. I realize the issue is Trump’s alleged deeds, not his words. But in terms of debate persuasion, Trump nailed it hard.

2. Clinton’s body language was defensive. Trump is physically larger and prowled the stage. He won the optics. It only got worse when a fly landed on Clinton’s face

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KEYWORDS: 2016debates; accesshollywood; dilbert; fly; muscadomestica; scottadams
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1 posted on 10/10/2016 2:31:34 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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I agree with the moderator who said there might be good reasons for announcing attacks – such as giving time for civilians to leave – but it wasn’t quite a counter-argument.

Low point of the debate when the blonde hag moderator flat out argued with Trump for the better part of a minute. No bias there.

2 posted on 10/10/2016 2:38:25 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Helicondelta
and I now endorse Gary Johnson, primarily to avoid being called an alleged enabler of alleged sex abusers and their alleged enablers

This makes sense. Like it or not, the media is libtard. This guy has no other choice, other than painting a target on his back.
3 posted on 10/10/2016 2:39:23 AM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
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To: Helicondelta

Scott Adams used that word “bigly.”

He thinks Trump won and Hillary looked rattled all night.

Trump won the election - and oh - they love him in Switzerland.

Adams says Trump wants America to be more like Switzerland.

Good observation.


4 posted on 10/10/2016 2:39:24 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Helicondelta

“It only got worse when a fly landed on Clinton’s face”

Well flies are drawn to shite.


5 posted on 10/10/2016 2:39:56 AM PDT by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: ThinkingBuddha

Tongue in cheek. Adams will vote for Trump.


6 posted on 10/10/2016 2:40:09 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Helicondelta
The housefly (also house fly, house-fly or common housefly), Musca domestica, is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha. It is believed to have evolved in the Cenozoic era, possibly in the Middle East, and has spread all over the world

It figures...

7 posted on 10/10/2016 2:46:35 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Helicondelta
The housefly (also house fly, house-fly or common housefly), Musca domestica, is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha. It is believed to have evolved in the Cenozoic era, possibly in the Middle East, and has spread all over the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefly

It figures...

8 posted on 10/10/2016 2:48:09 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Helicondelta

Hillary looked like a short fat waddling PENGUIN!


9 posted on 10/10/2016 2:49:22 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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It figures a fly would find Clinton. She’s a walking corpse.


10 posted on 10/10/2016 2:51:39 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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He also told me that it is illegal to build a mosque in Switzerland because they don’t want to change their national character, which is 95% Christian he estimated. He said (and I did not fact-check) that the Swiss allow no immigration at all unless the person has special skills or marries a citizen.

And the gun ownership in Switzerland is 100% for adult males. That’s their militia. Yet crime is low.

Here are the two most-telling statements in Adams' piece that are not about the debate, directly, anyway. Summing up the first, there is a price to be paid for diversity of a population and the "enriched" culture that is so widely praised as a be-all, end-all. Homogenous cultures are more settled because there is a common set of social mores that breaks down as a culture becomes more diverse.

The second statement supports the first in two ways. First, it's not the hardware that's the problem. Second, a homogenous population provides broad support at the individual level on bedrock issues, like national security. The Swiss managed to avoid all the Euro-foolishness that marked the 20th Century because they did not sway from a Swiss-centric approach to engaging other countries.

11 posted on 10/10/2016 2:52:50 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Honestly, this.

Just this.

” It only got worse when a fly landed on Clinton’s face”

ROFLMAO


12 posted on 10/10/2016 2:53:53 AM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I mentioned that earlier.

Who in Hell dresses her?

They must have been really ticked at her, tonight.


13 posted on 10/10/2016 2:55:25 AM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: jmacusa

How do we know it did not emerge from her?

I’m surprised the libs are not accusing Trump of siccing it on her, himself.


14 posted on 10/10/2016 2:56:51 AM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Hugin

At points it was clear to everyone Trump was debating the Moderators and he called them on it in real time. THAT is how it is done. He prodded them repeatedly. He SHAMED them. And THAT is going to leave a mark.

Actually I am surprised they tried to be as fair as they did but it seemed to me about a third in the mods smelled the blood in the water and turned on Clinton just a bit. At one point she was on her heels, pausing, almost to the point of drawing a blank.


15 posted on 10/10/2016 2:58:10 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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You mean in a $15,000 bathrobe?

Yeah, who dresses that way? She looked weird.


16 posted on 10/10/2016 3:00:32 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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She paid more than that.

https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/4904249


17 posted on 10/10/2016 3:02:30 AM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To Glory
18 posted on 10/10/2016 3:04:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: goldstategop
If I wasn't working on a migraine, I'd be 'shopping this into the debate photos.


19 posted on 10/10/2016 3:05:36 AM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: goldstategop

Hahahajajsjhaha!


20 posted on 10/10/2016 3:06:19 AM PDT by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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