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Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#145301: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:20:32 PM

I don't think it ever got that bad in the previous debates.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#145302: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:20:36 PM

WALLACE: Mr.Trump, in the last debate, you said several things that were wrong.

edited 19th Oct '16 7:21:02 PM by kkhohoho

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#145304: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:20:53 PM

Wallace just fact checked Trump and Trump is now insisting that Wallace is wrong.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#145305: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:21:17 PM

"Aleppo is a disaster Aleppo is a disaster Aleppo is a disaster, it is so sad."

Fix the broken record and answer the question Trump.

Holy shit Trump, the shit Syria is at right now is because the US hasn't done much.

edited 19th Oct '16 7:22:34 PM by AngelusNox

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hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#145306: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:21:38 PM

"Caitch"

"Billyon"

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#145307: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:21:39 PM

He's blaming Allepo on Clinton now?.............dumbass.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#145308: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:21:41 PM

[up]x5 What does Gary Johnson have to do with anything?

edited 19th Oct '16 7:21:59 PM by kkhohoho

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#145309: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:21:43 PM

For the first time, CNN says that Clinton has spoken more than Trump (5 minutes). He talked more in the first two.

Clinton's trying to go for the throat.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#145310: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:22:19 PM

@Hardcoreofcakes: They're long dead military strategists who are possibly unsuited to the modern day military situation. More importantly, I think he ought to be bringing generals who are currently alive and actually having to deal with this shit, as I think their opinion is more immediately important. I'd probably disagree with a lot of generals, but seriously. Two dead guys are kind of irrelevant except in a "lessons learned from the past" sort of way. The currently alive generals actually know what's going on.

Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#145311: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:22:23 PM

Trump's answers sound like they are bot-generated - if three bots kept interrupting each other.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#145312: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:22:59 PM

Him talking of Muslims as "a Trojan Horse" makes me angry

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#145313: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:23:14 PM

Seriously he just keeps stringing buzzwords together in lieu of an actual argument.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#145314: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:23:25 PM

So Trump just made a pseudo-reasonable point regarding the likelihood of the rebels we're supporting being a Full-Circle Revolution if they got into power.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#145316: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:23:33 PM

The No Fly Zone over Syria question is a tricky one.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#145317: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:23:36 PM

He's tripled down on the racism tonight, between Trojan Horses and "hombres".

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#145318: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:24:23 PM

"What does Gary Johnson have to do with anything?"

An interviewer asked Johnson what he would do about Aleppo?

Johnson basically said "What's a leppo?"

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#145319: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:24:46 PM

The difference between the questions is striking. Trump gets asked about lying in the last debate, Clinton gets asked for technical details about her no-fly zone plan and how to work it.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#145320: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:25:07 PM

He's getting desperate now.

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hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#145321: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:25:18 PM

@Aceof Spades

Dead guys are irrelevant? Maybe depending on context? But in the context of Trump, they were kind of relevant.

Besides, your last point of "lessons of the past" was kind of what he was referencing them for.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#145322: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:25:32 PM

The prospect of a conflict with Russia legitimately scary.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#145323: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:26:10 PM

Oh, boy, The National Debt.

This will be fun.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#145324: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:26:15 PM

TRUMP: We should never have let ISIS happen in the first place!

How so? And also...

TRUMP: Our country is so stupid...

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#145325: Oct 19th 2016 at 7:27:13 PM

Wallace: "Mr. Trump, experts say that your plan will raise the national debt by 105%."

Trump: "THEY'RE WRONG!"

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