Unofficial Apolyton Predicts

[Boris Godunov]

I hope it gets released. I'm pretty sure Mark Cuban would happily pay for it too. Five million is pocket change for that guy.

Cuban has already said he wouldn't, says he respects the right of the Apprentice producer to enforce his non-disclosure stipulations. Given Cuban's own involvement with Shark Tank, an understandable position.

[Lorizael]

Everything I've read or heard (blurbs from scuttling GOPsters, commentary from news outlets like 538, Facebook grumping) has emphasized the sexual-assault angle. I can't recall anybody objecting primarily to the F and P words themselves.

I guess I didn't phrase that well. I mean, they're criticizing him for saying that he thinks sexual assault is cool rather than going, "Guys, a presidential candidate admitted to sexually assaulting women."

[Elok]

Did anybody seriously believe he didn't or wouldn't sexually assault women? Being proud of it is just weird, in a David Floyd defrauding Walmart sort of way. Why the hell are you proud of that, you wacko? It's like if that Brock kid tweeted about how alcohol is AWESOME and how it totally lets you pork unconscious strangers behind dumpsters. There's utter bottom-feeding, and then there's being proud of your bottom-feeding.

At any rate, it seems a fine distinction.

[Giancarlo]

Holy ****... Trump is getting his ass kicked in this debate. It's all over.

I think he's on drugs.

[Aeson]

Uh, dude...that's all there is on the ballot.

Sure Hillary is a chameleon and Trump is a horny toad ... but I'm not talking metaphorically.

A common tiki may drop poop all over your house, but it's pretty easy to clean up. And they perform useful functions like eating mosquitos. They also won't send our military to invade Syria/Iraq/next.

[Giancarlo]

That's an insult to horny toads. I demand you apologize to horny toads.

[Giancarlo]

Unless you read Breitbart, that debate wasn't even close. Hillary won it clearly. Immediate polling postdebate shows that. He was a rambling mess and he was sniffling again the whole time. Was the mic screwed up again?

Edit: CNN/ORC Poll with actual sample (not Drudgereport)... 57%-34% Hillary Clinton won clearly. They polled debate watchers.

[SlowwHand]

I like Pence.

[Aeson]

Trump might lose Utah. Not that it will matter, but that would be a huge achievement for an R to lose there. (To a conservative I, but still...)

[Proteus_MST]

What's a Lepo? ... has become one of the most searched for terms since the debate

Also bigly and demogogic

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/10/a-lot-of-people-looked-up-the-word-lepo-during-the-debate.html

[kentonio]

i've heard worse to be honest. i'm not saying it's okay, but it is funny that it's this that finally derails his bid.

Americans and sex, remember. They can handle outright racism, cops killing minorities, wars that kill hundreds of thousands of brown people etc, but a nipple pops out at the Superbowl and the world is going to end. I'm kind of surprised it was this frat-boy bull**** that seems to have done the trick though, and not the long running rape allegations.

[Egbert]

No it's really not.

You're a great character. So if you had a lot of money, it gives you a right to grab whatever women you want and assault her?

Enjoyable huh? That's sex for you?

I never said sex wasn't enjoyable. I'm just not a pig like you.

This is an excellent insult.

[Egbert]

it's rather ironic that after a year or more of outrageous public statements in which he has insulted everyone imaginable, what has sunk trump is a 10-year-old private conversation that, although it doesn't exactly paint him in the best light, is no worse than one might hear in any changing room.

i wonder what effect this will have on the republican party. cutting trump loose is one thing, but what trump represents won't be so easily suppressed; and now his supporters are going to feel an incredible sense of betrayal.

What Trump said was disgusting, and has disgusted a LOT of people. (I was disgusted along with everyone else).

I too have heard comments, about the opposite sex, just as disgraceful emerge from the mouths of both men and women.

However, I wouldn't write him off yet. He may yet win.

Yikes!

[C0ckney]

i thought trump's debate performance was good. i would say that won it, if only narrowly. he managed to get his core messages across. it probably won't be enough to change the course of the election, but it keeps him in the game.

[Giancarlo]

He couldn't answer questions and rambled off without completing thoughts. That is getting a core message across? And he was walking back and forth while Hillary was talking. And what was with the sniffling?

It was a poor performance, though not as poor as it could have been for about the first 20 minutes. After about 20 minutes is when he started to fall apart. Insulting Hillary, making empty threats and arguing with the moderators. He certainly didn't win it by any stretch of the imagination and the polls indicate that already. Hillary outdid him and did not lower herself to his level.

This is pretty much the general consensus:

https://m.mic.com/articles/156330/hillary-clinton-won-the-second-debate-mostly-because-donald-trump-totally-imploded#.NPCn3lErc

The other problem is people are still talking about the tape. So it really wasn't good enough.