2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA new low, even for Donald Trump - by the Washington Post Editorial Board
By Editorial Board October 9 at 11:47 PM
HAS THERE been a more disturbing low in presidential politics?
If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, Republican nominee Donald Trump threatened in the course of the second presidential debate Sunday night.
Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton responded.
Because youd be in jail, Mr. Trump shot back.
Mark the moment. A major-party presidential nominee is officially promising to lock up his political opponent, despite the fact that an impartial federal investigation concluded that no fair prosecutor would have charged Ms. Clinton in the matter of her e-mails. If anyone needed any more proof that Mr. Trump does not understand the meaning of rule of law as opposed to arbitrary rule of autocrat that he would use the levers of the federal government in a vindictive, self-serving and corrupt manner Mr. Trump provided it.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-trump-doubles-down-during-the-second-debate/2016/10/09/dc91f470-8e92-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html?utm_term=.5a1d6854570c&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Now they wake up?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)supported it at dozens of rallies now. Pence leaped into that dark, dangerous deep hole with him this morning also.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)lastlib
(23,234 posts)Try 80 years. Their rage goes back at LEAST to the New Deal.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Chemisse
(30,811 posts)Such as with his comments (and actions) toward journalists. It's about time the press has taken note of it.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Lots of them have "Hillary for Prison" bumper stickers. At least Goebbels was smart enough to realize his propaganda strategy was based on repeating lies to useful idiots. Trump is the useful idiot.
erronis
(15,258 posts)Not saying that he isn't the iDJiT but somehow he's been set up there as the new sieg heil. Cocaine does interesting things to the fuhrers.
Mystifying that someone who was born with gold spoons and a sense of superiority over every common person can become a beacon for the detritus.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)He simply borrows his rhetoric from his sloganeering constituency and parrots it back to them. The actual inspiration comes from somewhere else. He's just a medium by which it travels.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)It let the trolls off the leash.
gademocrat7
(10,658 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)Paladin
(28,261 posts)mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)and Donald mumbled this kind of shit about them, they imploded. Hillary ignored the asshole. Like most bullies, he imploded. Republicans are big, stupid wimps, afraid of their base, afraid of their donors, just afraid.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Yallow
(1,926 posts)Charity Fraud
Bribing Bondi
Illegal Campaign Contributions - Multiple
Defrauding Contractors
Defrauding Trump U Attendees
And the list goes on......
Maybe the justice system will actually work "this" time.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)to point the finger and say, "yeah but she's worse!"
marybourg
(12,631 posts)Wednesdays
(17,374 posts)You know, like after January 20th or so?
(Not saying he deserves one, though.)
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)I don't associate with many Repubs, but I have a RW niece who reposts stuff on her Facebook page. One was titled, "Pick your Poison" and had a list of the many supposed "crimes" of Hillary Clinton, and then under Trump's name, just "Said mean things".
This is the mindset they're operating with.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Issa, Gowdy, Chafetz and any Supreme Court picks and you get your own Star Chamber.
Now who is ISIS or the Taliban?
ffr
(22,670 posts)Well, that and thin skinned.
A few days ago I encountered a baby copperhead snake, and mistook it for Trump. I posted this:
Because there was a definite resemblance: it's kinda orange, venomous, thin-skinned, and scaly--Just like little Donny. But then I realized it didn't have the hair.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512472276
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)The selection in 2000.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)Many school children had been directed to watch the debate as a school assignment. The questions about Trump and Hillary's personal life should not have been brought up and the moderators should have directed Trump and Hillary not to go there. Plus Trump took himself down to the level of a ten year old with his same old name calling and lies. If children see this, do they think this is acceptable behavior for adults? No wonder passengers are getting in fist fights on airplanes.
Cancel the third debate. Donald Trump is not capable of participating in a debate. And if the third debate is held, there should be warnings about the content not being suitable for children.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)they'll probably say mean things to each other and their parents, like Don Caligula dRump "still" vomits at 70...
The thing is, once they pass teenage revolt, they grow up, but he didn't and never will.
strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)I streamed the debate from NBC's youtube live. (At least I think NBC, might've been another of the Big 3.) About a minute before the debate started, the host warned that some content might not be suitable for small children. That was the first time I remember such a warning ever being given for a presidential debate.
Of course the King of the Deplorables provided more than ample evidence to prove that warning correct.
elmac
(4,642 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)the Presidency were an autocratic dictatorship.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)about how President Obama was a dictator!!!! for presidential acts well within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law yet, they can't seem to cheer loud and loud enough for Trump as he promises to ignore both.
rivegauche
(601 posts)I'm feel like what Bill Maher has been saying. Every day it's like, IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)race started. It's just too surreal.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)a hateful, mean-spirited, vindictive man. I can no longer watch and listen to him, or any of his surrogates.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Eric Holder ✔ @EricHolder
So @realDonaldTrump will ORDER his AG to take certain actions-When Nixon tried that his AG courageously resigned. Trump is dangerous/unfit
9:41 PM - 9 Oct 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/09/politics/eric-holder-nixon-trump-presidential-debate/
cynzke
(1,254 posts)The work is too hard and he would be living constantly under a microscope. His future in the private sector operating his own political show/net work would be far more lucrative. He would be free to operate his business without interference/scrutiny. He could use his network to gain revenge against his political enemies, disrupt Hillary's WH and rake in cash/curry favors from special interest groups seeking exposure. Trump can take the lemons from his failed scampaign and use them to make delicious lemonade!
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,012 posts)I have been posting this for some time.
Emilybemily
(204 posts)Typical repuke - violent, vengeful, and unAmerican. They don't understand how this country works and they have literal blood lust for revenge.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)I don't think he has any idea how much work the presidency involves. He just wants applause, hot women to adore him and money, lots and lots of money.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Words that describe the Republican nominee.
Persondem
(1,936 posts)Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)They signed up for the mental midget!!! Like they didn't know he was disgusting and had a Napoleon Complex because of his little teenie tiny hands.
He also has a piggish face, and that bugs me... those eyes. BLECH!
Like this tweet said -- LUI SHTINI: "Trump has pig eyes. Im sorry pig."
I can't look at him up close. It's gross...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)FraDon
(518 posts). . . the corporate workplace. In his greed-is-good world this is not merely legal, it's laudable.
Hardball, baby. He's our own Berlusconi.