Originally Posted by
Grapemask
If this debate has done anything, it has brought back my strong desire to throttle Donald Trump supporters. It's brought back that rage that I can't even find words to express regarding Donald Trump being taken seriously as a candidate. The overwhelming feeling of incredulity towards his legions of die-hard supporters.
Listen, I don't care if you're strongly conservative or just anti-liberal. I don't care if you hate Hillary Clinton. There's a point where you absolutely cannot, with any degree of seriousness or sanity, say Trump is the "lesser of two evils" or the more qualified candidate of the two. You simply can't. And this debate shows that.
It's not just about how he chose to behave in the debate, which included his bizarre method of insisting he was the only candidate with the temperament to be President while being the only candidate displaying the temperament of a toddler. It's not just about the fact that he lied in literally every instance that it was either his turn to speak or he made it his turn to speak, or that those lies weren't of the "I hope someone doesn't fact check that on the internet" variety of lie but were instead the "every single person of every political leaning that is listening to me right now knows that what I am saying is not the truth" variety of lie. It's not just about the fact that he went on a rampage across the media blaming every person and inanimate object in sight - except himself - for how poorly he did. It's not just about that he even then went on to lie about what he said at the debate. It's not even about how he made up an entire series of events where he was the unchallenged winner of the debate who flawlessly crushed Clinton under his boot.
It's about ALL of these things and more.
But the rage comes when I see Trump supporters see this stuff and just shut their eyes to it. The rage comes from seeing people who should know better support this guy. Is there something in the water? Cosmic rays from outer space? If you see the stuff Trump is doing and has done and can still say Clinton, as terrible as she certainly may be, is not the better, more qualified candidate out of the two, at this point it just says more about you than the candidates. We've passed the point where you can jokingly respond with "That just says how bad Clinton is." No, friend, that says how brokenly stupid the American people are. Donald Trump's an idiot, but his supporters were the ones who were stupid enough to put him there.
/triggered by the way Trump's supporters have responded following his debate performance.