In the real world, the general consensus is that Hillary Clinton won last night’s debate against a rambling, perpetually dishonest Donald Trump. In a snap poll by CNN last night, 57 percent of debate watchers gave the win to Clinton.
The not-so-good folks over at The Daily Stormer disagree. “Glorious Leader Hits a Home Run” reads a headline on the site today.
In the post itself, Patrick Slattery — a regular contributor to DavidDuke.com and the proprietor of an anti-Semitic, rabidly pro-Russian website called Zio Watch — declares that Trump’s performance last night was
absolutely his best performance. Now that The Donald knows how to prepare, he should be able to close this deal with the American voters.
Slattery gives high marks to Trump for resolutely taking the low road. And for his impressive time-management skills.
Basically, Trump used his time extremely efficiently and drew so much blood that I wouldn’t have been surprised if she just keeled over on the stage. I am sure she is screaming at any hapless minion who gets in her way as I write this article.
He also gives Trump props for putting the evil Jew media in its place:
I just want to say thank you to Donald Trump for doing what no one else could do in terms of doing an end run around the Jewish gatekeepers of our elections and standing strong and not backing down or cucking out.
The Daily Stormer’s skinhead-in-chief Andrew Anglin, meanwhile, is heralding a completely worthless online poll in which 88% of poll-clickers declared Trump the winner. (The number 88, as you may know, is a weird neo-Nazi in joke, a reference to the phrase “Heil Hitler,” because “H” is the 8th letter in the alphabet.)
“The people believe Trump won the debate,” Anglin writes.
It’s really just an objective fact.
Not sure how even liberal kikes could claim otherwise.
As a result of the win he imagines Trump has scored, Anglin thinks the “Glorious Leader” can put the ugliness of this weekend behind him and go on to win the election itself.
It was looking bad after pussy-grabocaust. But at the very least, the debate returned us to pre-pussy grabbing levels.
And Trump has been winning solidly for a month.
His evidence? The one outlier poll that has consistently put Trump in the lead.
Meanwhile, a new poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal — conducted this weekend but before the debate itself — reports that Trump’s support has slipped to 35% in a four-way race, 11 points below Hillary’s 46%. FiveThirtyEight’s polls-only forecast currently gives Hillary an 82% 83.6% chance of winning the election.
I won’t be completely reassured unless and until that percentage hits 100. But at the rate we’re going, that could happen pretty soon.
Note: Updated the FiveThirtyEight number.
A gif of Trump leaning in to kiss his daughter Tiffany after the debate, showing her startled revulsion as she zoomed back out of the way and rubbed his arm as if to soothe him, has been popping up on my newsfeed. I don’t know how to embed gifs but you should see it, creepy.
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I feel bad for the other daughter (Ivanka?) he’s repeatedly discussed her looks and figure in gross ways with other men.
That’s the one, Ooglyboggles.
@msexceptiontotherule as a daughter who was often on the receiving end of the same kind of inappropriate chitchat from her father and his cronies, I can tell you it is so gross and uncomfortable.
I worry about this, too, and I’m sure we’ll be seeing many Trumpalikes in the near future. One thing to remember, though, is that Trump has a pretty unique blend of qualities: conspicuously lavish lifestyle, boorish and macho demeanor, decades of experience as a public figure/celebrity, zero experience as public official, and seemingly genuine adherence to far-right conspiracist silliness. All of these things factor into his appeal; a more-experienced politician wouldn’t be able to claim that they’re an outsider to the political establishment; a random rich guy wouldn’t be able to draw off of years of public celebrity (remember when Trump was in Home Alone 2?); a more-grounded political thinker wouldn’t appeal to the can’t-melt-steel-beams types; etc. I think the big danger now isn’t a Trump-like demagogue on the national stage so much as a wave of far-right leaders consolidating power at the state level (not right now, but soon).
@ Terrabeau
That is the biggest threat – the Trump supporters that weren’t fazed, and in some cases, were even encouraged, by their candidate’s asshole behavior and outright bigotry towards others – will find themselves an electable candidate to worship next.
In the real world 538 had Hillary at her highest rating ever in the “Polls plus” prediction and it seems some Republicans are pretty certain that the house is in play – despite the 60 seat cushion.
Slightly off topic but are any other Canadians worried that we’ll see the rise of a Trump like candidate during our next election?
I’m not worried about another Stephen Harper, Fabe.
Though I’m making it my life’s mission to contribute in any way I can to the destruction of the conservative party and all they stand for
@Fabe
I’m slightly concerned. Republican rhetoric and attitudes has a strange way of showing up in the Conservative Party like C-51 or that proposed Canadian values test for immigrants.
Also Happy Thanksgivings to all my fellow beavers and moose.
@Terrabeau + Mike
I don’t think we’ll get another Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if we did, but the history points somewhere else. The Republican Party (and probably the Dems too) are pretty fickle. Flavor of the cycle, ya know? When ‘heartland evangelical’ failed, they turned to ‘seasoned war hero’. He lost, so ‘cookie cutter businessman’. Now, with ‘fascist outsider’ likely to flounder, I think they go in another direction for 2020
The problem is ‘evangelical’, ‘soldier’, ‘capitalist’, and ‘fascist’ is the red team’s base. What’s the next archetype? Do they have one? The smart move is maybe Nikki Haley (try and mitigate Clinton’s female support), but how does a brown woman make it past the primary? Kasich could pull a Romney and win the 2nd time around. Ben Sasse, or does abandoning Trump kill his chances? This party is fucked. On a presidential level at least
I’m sticking with my original prediction that the Duck Dynasty guy will be the next GOP nominee.
@Petal
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Which?
@Axe
Yes, they’ll fuse into one duck^4.
@Oogly
Quick! Get Emilio Estevez on the line!
(It was either that or a Dragonball joke. I regret nothing!)
@Axe
They will fight to the death, and the lone survivor will be the nominee.
Maybe Canada can send you a few more eligible people to run for GOP nominee.
HAHAHAhahahaha… *ahem*…
Seriously though, we’re sorry about Ted Cruz.
Kanye West has promised to run for president in 2020.
He’s certainly a rich asshole, so… maybe?
At this point, we’re looking at Ted Nugent/Ebola 2020.
I was thinking of placing a stupid bet at my local bookies about trump, namely that if(when) Hilary wins, he’s going to claim he was cheated of the presidency and call for an armed uprising.
Joking aside, I have a dreadful feeling something bad will happen when he loses.
@Supermmerkat
I think something bad will happen if he wins.
@Axecalibur – Well, I think this view gives a lot of credit to the GOP for having somewhat engineered the Trump candidacy; I don’t think that’s what happened, though – it seemed to be more of a hostile takeover. Trump didn’t appeal to the party leadership or GOP stalwarts: he appealed to the conservative base; the GOP was powerless to fight back because the other candidates were offering little more than just politely-phrased versions of Trump-style policies. This election has showed us that there are many American voters who will gladly place fascistic white nationalists into positions of power; it might not matter what political party they’re ostensibly working with.
@Axe
Back around to evangelical, probably. Their stable of available candidates is basically limited to predatory capitalists and prosperity gospel theocrats, with the occasional open fascist to spice things up.
“Glorious Leader”? Where did Anglin learn to write like that? North Korea? Because this sounds like propaganda from the age of Kim Il Sung.
Anyhow, the consensus is in: Glorious Leader is a really creepy fucking stalker. Women who’ve actually BEEN stalked say so. So does a body-language expert.
And I have to say, if I had somebody looming up behind me like that, I’d be feeling mighty hunted, too. But not by a debate winner. By a loser who knows that physical intimidation is all he has left.
/delurks
@Fabe, Dan, Dreadnaught
Not right away. However, Harper’s brain trust seems to be fanning out into provincial politics, like Harper’s boy Jason Kinney is trying to do here in Alberta.
/relurks