Last night I watched, and slept poorly afterwards. Fortunately, I had the foresight to place George on the other side of the room. That let me avoid using him as a receptacle during hours of Rump Dump Rectumite retching. Seriously, the temperature reached 92° here yesterday with super-high humidity. I slept poorly, because it was way too sticky for comfort. Today’s Short Takes also involve the debate. It is thoroughly dominating the news.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Fantasy Football Report:
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Scores:
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Standings:
Congrats to Rob, who sits alone atop the league.
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: As the nation awaits the first faceoff between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday night, more Americans are expected to self-medicate than for any other Presidential debate in history.
With over a hundred million people projected to watch the debate, roughly sixty million of them will be barely sentient after ingesting what they deem to be the necessary dose of intoxicants.
Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, estimated on Monday that the level of self-medication for the Trump-Clinton debate could be seven hundred per cent greater than for the first Obama-Romney debate, in 2012.
“The stakes seem higher this time,” Logsdon said. “There’s a sense that, depending on the outcome of tonight’s debate, all human life on the planet could be in peril.”
Dang, Andy!! The one who should have self-medicated, but didn’t, is Rump Dump Trump!
From TPM: It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to interrupt Hillary Clinton during Monday night’s debate, with the first interruption happening less than 15 minutes in. And once it started, he just couldn’t stop.
Barf Bag Alert!
51 Times!!
From Public Policy Polling: PPP’s post debate survey, sponsored by VoteVets Action Fund, finds that voters nationally think Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the debate, 51/40.
Perhaps most important for Clinton is that among young voters, who she has under performed with, 63% think she won the debate to only 24% for Trump. 47% of voters in that age group said the debate tonight made them more likely to vote for her, to only 10% who say it made them less likely to vote for her. For Trump with that group on the other hand, only 23% said the debate made them more likely to vote for him to 39% who said it made them less likely to.
Clinton also won the debate by particularly wide margins with women (54/36) and voters who are either African American or Latino (77/13). Among white voters the debate was basically a draw with Trump coming out ahead 47/45.
Speaking as a Caucasian, I’m thoroughly ashamed that so many white voters preferred Rump Dump Trump.
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5:00 Well, that's natural energy – a plant that fans the house in the summer. But what about winter?
Well, you didn't have the best luck in the draft, so you were not expecting the best season ever.
New Yorker – Oh, don't be too sure Drumpf didn't self-medicate! Dr. Howard Dean (an MD, you'll remember) said his sniffles looked a lot like a cocaine habit!
TPM – plus 19 from Lester for a grand total of 70. He got interrupted some himself, but not nearly that much.
PPP – Frank Luntz, who leans right, put together a like minded focus group, who ended up declaring the winner to be Hillary, 16-6. Which just neans he put together the best brains on the right. The article is on Daily Kos but may take a while to load – Kos himself wrote it and there are many, many comments – over 400. But I am happy with PPP's numbers – except, as you say, from whites.
Cartoon – if he's that good at baiting, maybe he should be fishing instead of running for President.
DK: Oh, how funny! I sure that some were too. lol.
TPM: He always does that, for controlling the talks. How rude!
PPP: Encouraging numbers. Should be more from the whites, sad to say.
Cartoon: With his 'small' hands, too. (couldn't resist, LOL). And..NO, he's not a good debater. At.All.
Sorry to read about your not sleeping well. That makes it difficult to get through a day w/o napping. Hope it improves for you, and that the weather gets cooler for you too. Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
TPM: His Royal Orange Emptiness is, himself, an interruption, and he has an interruption…to the cytoplasm of which he shoudnhave been made.
NY'er: My self-medication consisted in turnng the un-bate off after it became clear, to my glee, that Rump was beginning to loose his composure!
PPP: I'm a caucasian, an old white man, and I am not ashamed of the fools who look like me, who are gung-ho Rumpy fans. Stupid is as stupid does, and the presence of so many of the proudly un-educated, factually challenged, steadfastly, unabshedly ignorant in the population, is not my fault. There are people of this suit in all populations, white, black, brown, yellow, green, ORANGE!!
Cartoon: It was reported, last night, that Rump seriously believes that he is a master (de)bater; when his team tried to go over videos of the primary debates, and aid him in his presentation, he reportedly said, "Look at that I am so good at this!" He took no advise. Of course, we know who his special adviser is, "I talk to myself. I've said so many things!" GO FOR IT, BABY!
I tell ya, judging by the reactions of my husband, he should be drawn and quartered for the way he acted!!! And he doesn't want anything to do with either one of them! AND he said Hillary won the debate by about the first 15 minutes! We watched it all and watched it AGAIN today! It was the still the same result… HILLARY by a country mile!!!
I bet the liquor stores had a booming business yesterday! Thanks to Andy for his FANTASTIC work! He's right on the mark!
Thanks, TC!
Oh, don't feel bad about the game. I got my butt handed to me, ALSO! I gotta do something different next time!
I was really surprised when I saw I whooped your butt last week! I needed that little bit of joy this week. Sorry it had to be you Viv.
The New Yorker: This is funny, but "all human life could be in peril" could be true if Trump is elected. He totally did not understand the question about use of nuclear weapons.
TPM: That was the only thing I could fault Lester Holt on, but I doubt he could have stopped Trump from interrupting if he had tried.
Public Policy Polling: I, too, am ashamed that so many causcasians like this man. In the area where I live they like him because they hate Hillary, blaming her and Obama for the loss of coal jobs.
Cartoon: I don't doubt it.
I hope you get some rest tonight, and cooler weather soon. We are finally getting a cold front, lowering day and night temps. I am so glad.
Puzzle — 3:24 Awww, greenery to make the day more relaxing and pleasant,
The New Yorker — "The one who should have self-medicated, but didn’t, is Rump Dump Trump!" — Are you sure about that? Your cartoon suggests what his medication is, and we all know that he is so full of himself!
TPM — We have to be "kind" to Drumpf, afterall he has a disease . . . ore interuptus . . . a deadly disease, especially for him.
Public Policy \polling — "Speaking as a Caucasian, I’m thoroughly ashamed that so many white voters preferred Rump Dump Trump." — Very insecure people. Of those, I wonder how many would say they identify as Christians?
Cartoon — Well he does get his jollies from himself!
Sorry about that rough night, TomCat. Those are ridiculous temperatures for this time of year, aren't they. And this cocktail of temperature, humidity, medication and debate discomfort is not advisable as a nightcap, I'm afraid. I hope you'll do better tonight.
TNY: LOL Andy fails to mention that about half of those viewers must have been self-medicating for the good part of a year now to get themselves to Drumpf's speeches and rallies and come out impressed and a supporter nevertheless. These people weren't self-medicating, they were feeding their habit.
TPM: 51 times, and Clinton didn't flinch once, didn't allow herself to be bullied off her set course, but sometimes couldn't suppress the glee on her face when she got him where she wanted him: out of control.
PPP: Winning the debates is good, but what really counts now in polarized America is that those undecided voters are actually get themselves to the voting booths and tick Clinton's name and not Stein's or Johnson's. Voters everywhere mostly vote with their feet, and winning a debate seems to matter little to them, just as it all the lies Drumpf spouts do not seem to matter these days either.
Cartoon: That sounds about right as Drumpf seems to be all about pleasing himself only.
Thanks all! Hugs!!
To those who questioned my statement that Trump did not self-medicate, I stand corrected. I had not considered illegal drug use.