"Trumped up" or "Hilarious"? What did you think of the 2016 presidential debates?

Trump has a very hard time when people aren’t applauding for him. He looked really low energy. And it is pretty funny since he did the water thing he criticized Rubio for.

There was no substance from Trump. No policy, just talking points we have heard 100 times before. And him being a dick and interrupting.

Clinton’s performance what you would pretty much expect.

Trump seemed off with the format since it was talk for two minutes, then a two minute response, and then what should have been another rebuttable.

Hillary never coughed. Trump was the one that looked a bit sick. Less orange and his face sort of all looked all the same color instead of his normal Cheeto raccoon thing he does.

Hillary, while less than engaging most of the time, was detailed and direct in most of her answers. She showed a grasp of policy and how government and the world works, whether we like it or not.

Trump never answered a question directly and stuck to his talking points which, to me, make little sense and show a lack of depth on his part.

I think nothing much changed, and I doubt anyone changed their minds because of the debate.

The one stunning moment for me was when Trump said he has a much better temperament than Hillary. Now that’s impressive. If that doesn’t prove Trump will do his best to manipulate the masses I don’t know what does. I swear if I start seeing Republicans friends posting about Hillary’s temperament I think I will have to give the Trumpster some serious credit for his powers of manipulation.

You’re all domed

I think “why bother watching”?

She did well and excellent job but I predict the polls will still favor him. People are still too stuck on the Bengazi thing. Even though Trump spent a good amount protesting that our trade agreements suck because they don’t pay taxes, then he later goes on to brag about not paying taxes himself. And he touts his tinkle down economics again. How people don’t see this as him favoring himself and his rich buddies, is amazing.
I was surprised that she didn’t nail him on Dodd Frank and the fact that he wants to repeal it.
Trump looked nervous and unprepared. It’s why his campaign said that the media wouldn’t be fair to him. They knew he was going to bomb. And bomb he did. Even bought up that he said some things about Rosie O’donnel (not sure of the spelling) and that he meant it and he believed that everyone agreed with him. It was his attempt to show that he was being nice to Clinton even though he could be very nasty to women. How magnanimous. I’m sure his campaign cringed when he did that. But they know his followers have their blinders on tight.

I don’t think Hillary did well at all, she is a better speaker but did not appear confident and really did not say much of anything with real substance. I did not believe a word that came out of her mouth. Trump kinda walked all over her.

Trump did not do so well either, went off topic on several little rants and allowed himself to be put on the defensive a time or two. I did not believe a word that came out of his mouth.

I didn’t watch it because I knew it wouldn’t change anything for me and it would just aggravate me unneccesarily. I want this election to be over!

Fifteen minutes is all I could take. In those minutes, I noticed Trump repeated himself quite a bit. That is something the Republicans made fun of Rubio for doing. He did not stay on topic and interrupted Hilary several times. He looked petulant at times and bored or sleepy. Hillary stayed on topic, appeared interested in what Trump said and did not make faces at her opponent.
All pretty much what I expected.

A 90-minute waste of time.

Forgetting about the content of the debate, Trump was just plain rude.

I didn’t watch the debates either, but I just saw a news report about it. Trump seemed to be bluffing a lot and he tried to interrupt Hillary’s comments about him with very short and crude remarks. That sounded really unprofessional. Hillary on the other hand seemed so chilled and let Trump say everything before putting forward her point. You can clearly see the difference.

I think Trump won. Sure Hillary may have actually been right, but to the average working-class person his points were clear and simple: e.g. Law and Order, NAFTA lost jobs for average Americans, TPP, etc. Where hers were nuanced and more complicated. Also he didn’t look too nutty up there (there were a few moments), for the most part he kept his shit together.

At the end of the day, what is Clinton’s message? what does she stand for? Can anyone tell me? Her message can’t be: “He’s a monster and I’m not him.” That may be true, but it’s not going to get people to wake up at 5am to go to the polls for her like they did for Obama.

She hasn’t won me over. I’m still voting for Stein.

@gorillapaws It’s going to get some of us up at 5 a.m. because she’s not him. I am terrified of a Trump win.

@janbb You were going to get up at 5am regardless. I’m talking about many of the working class people who are completely disillusioned with either choice.

@gorillapaws Oh – I understand you now. I agree it’s a tough one to call.

I have to give Hillary a win on points but there was no knockout. Trump spent way too much time refuting points that just didn’t matter. He was defensive and ineffective. He made a few good points but overall disappointing. I doubt the polls will change much for either of them. The debate definitely did not live up to the Hype.

This Tweet by Michael Moore caught me by surprise…I think.

“Pro-Hillary gloaters doing end-zone dance again when still on 50-yd line,” Moore tweeted. “You must get it in your head Trump is gonna win and act accordingly!”

I did not watch it.

From what I gather, Trump needs to attend a high school level debate course, or the moderators need to have a button that will turn off his mic when it’s not his turn to speak.

And also that it appeared he was either sick or had a nose full of cocaine that wouldn’t budge.

And nothing outstanding was said from either side.

So, I’m kinda glad I just watched some British cooking shows instead.

I agree that the debate was rather a snooze. Trump, to his credit, found the discipline to not leave the tracks, and managed to restrain himself from “making shit up”. And the result is that I’ve never seen him so dull and boring. Clinton was as predictably bland as we’ve been conditioned to expect. Next time I’ll record the show and watch Simpson reruns with dinner.

@stanleybmanly Early on in the primaries Trump did warn us that later on there would be plenty of time to act Presidential and that it would boring…very boring.

After watching the debate last night and reading the news today the media bias against Trump is crystal clear.

It’s difficult to argue that there is no media bias against Trump, and the reason is simply that there is NOTHING positive in the plethora of facts surrounding him.

It never occurred to me to turn on the TV.

I enjoyed the debate, and it calmed my nerves about the nightmare that The Donald might win.

@ARE_you_kidding_me I would’ve been nervous if I was her. How do you battle Sybil? I don’t think she has a PHD in handling crazy. And being a New Yorker, you learn one thing. Don’t make eye contact or even engage Crazy and she had to stand there for over an hour and do just that. If Trump was a regular Joe on a subway train, people would avoid him like he has the plague. But you know. Rich crazy isn’t treated the same as middle class or poor crazy, because of the better lawyers and PR people.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Did he really win or “win” against the 16 other republicans?

Stupendous!