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originally posted by: Gazrok
Who's going to tell her what to do and say during a crisis???
You won't like the answer to that one.....but basically, it's the same someones who always tell her what to do and say.
It's the same folks who sponsor the BLM riots to get people to clamor for a Federalized police force.
It's the same folks who train and activate lone gunmen to do mass shootings to get the people to clamor for more and more gun restrictions that would have never prevented the action anyhow. (Oh, sure, it's tin foil hat stuff, but just Google around on that other guy, in CA, that got caught the same day as the Orlando shooter...go ahead...I dare ya, like what he told the arresting officer, or about the lawyer/blogger who nearly got killed and left for dead after her interview of him)...
It's the same folks who force a party to sabotage their own candidate because he isn't in their pockets.
It's the same folks who determine what message mainstream media force-feeds to the public.
It's the same folks who will, no matter how the votes go, use the media, Diebold, the votes of illegals and the dead, and paid electors to ensure their chosen candidate ends up the victor in November.
The ONLY way to thwart it, is a Trump landslide...something that can't be statistically fixed. But, in a close contest, it's just too, too easy. And, it isn't likely to happen. But not going to keep me from trying. Willingly drink the Kool-Aid if you like, but some of us just aren't going to swallow it.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: Darkmadness
Talk about an off-topic thread, this one went off the tracks vay fast!
On topic, I mention in another thread that obviously she has some sort of material that she was reading from as she went through her points. Was that allowed? Did Trump have the same choice? Did he have notes? I didn't notice him looking down as was obvious with her.
originally posted by: Brainiac
a reply to: Darkmadness
Yeah, that weekend at Bernie bit is funny, and true. She's old and it shows. She's always needed guidance even before she was old. Look at her past life, I mean who would be stupid enough to stay with a man that repeatedly had affairs
originally posted by: kamebard
I'm really not buying this whole line that Trump is SOOO smart and SOOO rich. If so, why didn't he do something of the same FFS a billion dollars can line a lot of pockets and would be more than enough to cover something like that up on his end.
Either Trump isn't as smart/rich as he says he is, or he doesn't even care enough to attempt to win. Pick your poison.
originally posted by: Realtruth
originally posted by: kamebard
I'm really not buying this whole line that Trump is SOOO smart and SOOO rich. If so, why didn't he do something of the same FFS a billion dollars can line a lot of pockets and would be more than enough to cover something like that up on his end.
Either Trump isn't as smart/rich as he says he is, or he doesn't even care enough to attempt to win. Pick your poison.
He's extremely savy, and 100% business, he couldn't give a crap about being president. I have an entire thread on this about Trump being the Clinton's friends.
People that are rooting for Donald Trump got the ole Bait and Switch, but the switch was Hillary being president.
Why would a billionaire what to be president, he profit more and be able to do more when Hillary is in office, without the BS presidential duties.
originally posted by: Greggers
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: CigaretteByrnes
Oh, there are times that they do. But, yes, the vast majority of the time they have folks to consult, at the very least.
But at a debate that they've been prepping for for months? ...and you need Cliff notes? Sad. Pitiful, even. Says little positive for their abilities to think on their feet, or even remember the party platform...and what little it says is:
We're screwed. We're so, so, soooooo screwed.
If I can stay on point, sort of...why can't they?
I have no problem with notes. I don't have a problem with calculators on math tests either. What I do have a problem with is Hillary and Trump.
They're both probably suffering from age-related mental decline. Notes are the least of our worries.
originally posted by: Brainiac
a reply to: Darkmadness
Yeah, that weekend at Bernie bit is funny, and true. She's old and it shows. She's always needed guidance even before she was old. Look at her past life, I mean who would be stupid enough to stay with a man that repeatedly had affairs
She didn't appear to read from her little teleprompter just a couple of times...When she was speaking she spent more time looking down at it than she did at the camera...
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: Darkmadness
Interesting.
I said in another thread my husband thought she had an ipad or something in front of her....so this is interesting to me. I do see a strip of light fade out, and it does appear to be a screen positioned at the level where I saw her appear to read from a few times during the debate.
She did also take notes with a pen, but that light is odd. Doesn't seem bright enough for 'cosmetic lighting.'
And then there were those several stories the morning of the debate that featured photos of the podium. All very interesting...to me anyway.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
I believe the tablets are for keeping notes during the debate so you can remember to reference what your opponent said...Did you catch the other video where seconds after the debate Hillary's handler swooped in and picked up her notes, walked to the right side of the stage, walked back to meet Holt as he ascended the stage and tried to hand the notes to Holt??? What a fiasco...Or the other video that shows Hillary using her finger to scroll down thru the little screen on the teleprompter??? They won't show these things on CNN or the rest of them but the vids are on youtube...
originally posted by: seagull
Teleprompter? Or a tablet with notes? Kinda hard to tell.
...and it looks to me as if Trump went old school with the ever popular clipboard.
Neither should have anything to reference. If you can't state your case by now, without referencing notes, maybe you should rethink this whole "I wanna be in the White House" thingee...?
Gods. We're so screwed. So very, very screwed.
Based on 40 years of debate rules, no prepared notes are allowed. In 2012, the rules were written to specifically exclude tablets, etc.
For some very odd reason..the debate rules are kept private. They were 'leaked' in 2012.
I stick to my guns that there is no lighting in that podium box, any lighting that there is comes from the temporary studio lights from above and across