You Will Anyway: Friday's Whack-A-Doodle

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Friday's Whack-A-Doodle

For months, the teleprompters Donald Trump uses at campaign rallies have been a symbol of efforts to keep him “on message”.

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The scene here in Charlotte took a turn toward the literal on Friday night.

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When Trump’s speech began here in Charlotte, he was focused heavily on the leaked WikiLeaks emails that have embarrassed Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The emphasis on Clinton seemed like a deliberate departure from an earlier event in Greensboro, N.C., where he spent a large amount of time denying allegations of sexual assault and drew damaging headlines when he mocked the physical appearances of two women who had accused him.

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Then, somewhere along the way, the prompters appear to have cut out.

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Frustrated, Trump physically dismantled one of the teleprompters. Then he knocked the other one down.

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The ensuing speech was difficult to follow.

WaPo

No doubt!

To top it all off, the speakers on one side of the room then went out.

“I’ll tell you, whoever runs this place is not doing very well,” Trump quipped. “Great job, fellas. So now we don’t have to pay for this and now we don’t have to pay for that.”

He added: “Who the hell runs this place?”

It's all rigged against him.

His campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, joked on Twitter after the speech in Greensboro, N.C., that she was one of the supporters in the back of the event who kept shouting, “Stay on the issues!”

I expect to see her labeled "ex-campaign manager" in the next article.

At one point, within a single five-minute frame he discussed:

Iran’s nuclear capabilities
Gen. George Patton
Political correctness
The fight in Mosul, Iraq
Why politicians shouldn’t reveal military plans
Patton, again
Endorsements he’s received from admirals and generals
His grasp of policy issues
The second presidential debate
Clinton’s use of the debate stage, and the accusations that he invaded her space
The debate moderators
His accusation that Clinton invaded his space
Mosul, again
The Iran nuclear deal
Global warming
Nuclear proliferation
Russia
Clinton’s judgment
Bernie Sanders’s primary election attacks against Clinton
WikiLeaks
The “rigged” election system

To be fair, it doesn't really matter what he talks about at these rallies. As long as he riles them up and gets their arteries pumping.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

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