The Election is Rigged (I'm Going To Lose)

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I imagine many of Trump's aides must dread his debating Clinton. As it is, they have full time jobs going on the news shows to 'clarify and explain' what their candidate "really" meant every time something stupid, insulting, obnoxious, shocking, or ignorant oozes out of his mouth or his fucking Twitter account. And that is virtually every news cycle these days.

But Trump sharing a stage with a candidate too intelligent to take the bait, who actually understands policy and process, and who has been facing down the likes of him now for decades? He is completely ill-equipped to debate Clinton, unless by 'debate' we mean nothing more than a name-calling and shit-slinging fest. Somewhere in the dim recesses of his reptilian brain, he must understand that he is utterly overmatched, at least so long as the moderator doesn't let him turn it into a free-for-all, and that Clinton will eat him alive.

I can't wait to see the next Republican post-mortem analysis after they lose a third consecutive general election. Spoiler alert: "We need to stop pandering to bigots, morons, and crazy people -- i.e., our base."

I sometimes wonder just how far Trump would have gotten if all the other GOP hopefuls hadn't been willing to sink to his level during their debates and appearances. If we didn't have them making dick jokes and giving each other pithy nicknames. If, to a man, they'd all kept the level of discourse high- a feat, I'm aware, for some of these theocrat thugs- and stuck to the issues, so that you had just one squawking orange ballbag up on stage instead of, like, fifteen.

Trump got away with running his campaign like he has because all those other idiots gave him cover: he may have been bad, but the problem was that he wasn't substantially different from the other bickering toddlers up for a vote in the primaries. Their willingness to employ the same childish "demonize the enemy," rhetoric against themselves that they do against the democrats played a big part in making a Trump presidency a palatable option, and now here we are.

And it's just him, and Hillary. He's the lone squawking, indolent voice on stage, his lack of ideas standing in stark contrast to an actual politician. Without the cover of the rest of the slavering ideologues... people won't have any choice but to see the real him in the light of the real world, and not the goddamn toddler carnival that the GOP has turned into this election cycle.

That was Trumps strategy, drag them down into the mud with him and stupidly they went along with it. We'll see with Hillary. I think she's probably smarter then that.

However with the debates the Republicans were saying the exact same thing. Wait until he debates, then he'll fall apart. Wait until the next debate. You have to remember that Trump has more television experience then everybody else put together. However unlike the Republicans, who were unused to being on TV largely, Hillary has the second most. She's been in countless debates, run high profile campaigns and I'm sure she knows to stay dignified and let other people around her be the mud slingers. Still, she's never been someone who looked great on TV, sort of in an stiff Al Gore type way.

Still, underestimating Trump in the debates would be stupid.