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Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:23 PM Sep 2016

Dr. Jack's Prediction for the Debate

I know many of you have been waiting with baited breath for what I think the debate will look like but wonder no more, the time has come!

I believe that Trump will come out trying to act as calm and "normal" as possible. He will try to do the ol' Romney Pivot and present himself as a completely different person to what we have seen for most of the campaign. However, after roughly 30 minutes, he will get increasingly rattled and frustrated by the barrage of difficult questions and attacks by Clinton, and as he feels more and more inadequate, he will start to lash out and begin to sound like the maniac that we all know. The media will claim "trump won the first half and clinton won the second half, so overall the first debate was a tie" but opinion polls will show a 66% Clinton win vs. 33% Trump win.

And there you go. Based only on my gut, which as never steered me wrong (except the hearing I got in high school and the chin beard I sported early in college), that is what will happen.

Alright, church dismissed. Go forward and may Zuporr be with you!

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Dr. Jack's Prediction for the Debate (Original Post) Doctor Jack Sep 2016 OP
"And no one watches the second half.... underpants Sep 2016 #1
Here is how the questions will go still_one Sep 2016 #2
Lol~ sheshe2 Sep 2016 #6
and the next day, they'll criticize her for being boring and not smiling enough... spooky3 Sep 2016 #10
Why we dems are wetting bed MyNameIsKhan Sep 2016 #3
Reagan had a terrible debate against Mondale oberliner Sep 2016 #4
Agree. It will be his inability to focus for 90 minutes that does him in. enough Sep 2016 #5
Thank you Dr. Jack. sheshe2 Sep 2016 #7
It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack NBachers Sep 2016 #8
Andy Borowitz's: More Americans Expected to Self-Medicate Than for Any Other Debate Coyotl Sep 2016 #9
LOL! Love him. spooky3 Sep 2016 #11
Don is playing a con game, a credibility game bucolic_frolic Sep 2016 #12
All Trump needs to do is not shit himself on stage Still In Wisconsin Sep 2016 #13
Having to answer questions with some real substance WILL make him shit himself. RBInMaine Sep 2016 #15
yeah... if the moderator does his job and ASKS those questions. Still In Wisconsin Sep 2016 #17
"baited breath"? central scrutinizer Sep 2016 #14
You'll get over it Doctor Jack Sep 2016 #16

underpants

(182,848 posts)
1. "And no one watches the second half....
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:29 PM
Sep 2016

So Trump won"

I am very interested if a question about the south China sea comes up. It gets almost no attention here. Will Trump have a clue? I know Hillary will.

still_one

(92,281 posts)
2. Here is how the questions will go
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:39 PM
Sep 2016

Moderator to Trump:
What... is your name?
Trump to Moderator:
The Donald.

Moderator to Hillary:
What... is the capital of Assyria?
Hillary to Moderator:
There were actually four capitals, all at different times.The first capital was the city of Assur, the capital moved to the new site of Nimrud,He built his new capital at Dur Sarukin. Sennacherib moved it to Nineveh.

Moderator to Trump:
What... is your favorite color?
Trump to moderator: Blue, no wait, Yell...........
.
.
ow

Moderator to Hillary:
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Hillary to moderator: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Moderator: Huh> I... I don't know that


Interview from talking heads after the debate to Hillary:

Talking head to Hillary:
How do you know so much about swallows?
Hillary to Talking head:
Well, you have to know these things when you're the President, you know.

(Apologies to Monty Python)

MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
3. Why we dems are wetting bed
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:44 PM
Sep 2016

Hillary will do well, trump will do whatever is needed to excite the base even if it needs to call Hillary crooked ... Which I believe will not be in first one... Overall debate will not matter

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
4. Reagan had a terrible debate against Mondale
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:53 PM
Sep 2016

But he had one good quip and that was all anyone remembered.

enough

(13,260 posts)
5. Agree. It will be his inability to focus for 90 minutes that does him in.
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:58 PM
Sep 2016

As we know, Hillary can do 8 hours nonstop with no problem.

bucolic_frolic

(43,236 posts)
12. Don is playing a con game, a credibility game
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 10:12 PM
Sep 2016

There was a time in a campaign in 1984 when Reagan was said to
have no substance, but it was as his ads said "morning in America"

Don can't make us feel good, so he has to make us feel agitated,
with himself as the all-knowing savior. He knows it's a credibility game,
and he wants it graded on a curve to favor him because he can't win
an honest contest

Advice to all .... take to Twitter and Snapchat during the debate
and LET IT RIP

Social Media does matter in a very big way, what you say may go
viral

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