I watched the debate.
I don't understand all of this silliness about The Donald being in it the first 15 minutes or so. I'm sorry...
Where was I? Right, yeah, so apparently, the political "analysts" were giving it the good ole college try that the Donald held his own (snicker) at least in the beginning, but, yeah, I just didn't see it, I'm not very sorry to say. The first question our intrepid moderator, He-Who-Was-Not-Matt-Lauer, asked of our presidential nominees was how they would create new jobs.
Hilary, erm--oh, right, it's HilLary (with two "l's") Clinton. I must have been looking at Hofstra University's debate ticket when I typed that up..
Anyhoo, HilLary went right into a slightly wonky, but well-modulated clear outline on how she planned to do it. Taxes on the 1%, infrastructure, invested in clean energy, etc. So then Not-Lauer moved over to the Donald who proceeded to repeat over and over for about a minute and a half of his two minutes that China and other countries took all of our jobs, and big businesses in the US were closing down and all of the jobs were going to China and other countries. MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF JOBS. And, he, the Donald, was going to create TEN MILLION jobs. Because China and other countries were taking all of the jobs that the US was losing because big businesses were closing down and sending US jobs to China and other countries. Oh, and then in the last 30 seconds or so, he essentially said his plan was "Trumped-Up Trickle-Down" economics (TM HilLary Clinton).
This. Was. The. Very. First. Question.
DUDES AND DUDETTES!
The Donald sucked from the word "GO!" and it was alllllllll downhill from there. And despite the MSM desperately trying to make this a dogfight, some kind of race "blah, blah, OK, fine HilLary won, but she didn't connect emotionally," or "yeah, she may have completely wiped the floor with him and he's a total racist, loser-head, but... did she fix that trustworthy-issue that we in the media have completely manufactured?"
Bottom-line, well ...