Trump got so scared of Megyn Kelly that he wimped out of the debate? Seriously?
Gosh, he’s so ready to be Commander in Chief.
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Trump got so scared of Megyn Kelly that he wimped out of the debate? Seriously?
Gosh, he’s so ready to be Commander in Chief.
Clarissa's Blog 
Here’s hoping people get a clue from this and see how unqualified he is to be the POTUS. Tactical error!!!
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It’s like whatever he does, they just love him more. Crazy!
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The scary woman scares him with her scary questions. And yet, his followers think he can stand up to Putin, not to mention ISIS.
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I also would decline. I don’t trust people who had parents who would name their girl babies, ‘Megyn’. What if she was to become and OB/GYN? The alliteration would be paralyzing.
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Yes, building one’s political career around “Mommy, why does this girl have a weird name” is very mature and totally presidential. Just like wetting one’s pants whenever one is frustrated.
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I did not imply her name was weird, just potentially unfortunate. Thank the divine beings of your choice that Nominal Determinism was not functioning for her.
As for seat-wetting, I reserve that happenstance for carnal thoughts of the sexiest man alive (or dead), Paul Newman.
PS
I was trying to be funny with my OB/GYN quip.
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Her name is, indeed weird, but if that’s so scary to a presidential candidate, how is he planning to interact with foreign dignitaries all of whom have names that sound unusual to an English-speaker?
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Clarissa, girlfriend, I was joking. Obviously the way the young woman spells her name has nowt to do with Mr. Trumps actions. I suspect his actions are orchestrated to maximize publicity and optimize the number of converts to his cause. He probably doesn’t care much for how the Liberals will respond to his refusal to be interviewed – they’re all part of that Mormon candidates “48 percent”. Innit?
I apologize, my sense of humour is rather UK-centric. The Tutor is a Canuck but steeped in all things Engerlander. It was from himself that I learned to speak The Queen’s English and at the same time, absorbed his Baby Boomer worldview and cultural knowledge.
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Unfortunately, I have no sense of humor. 🙂
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I don’t believe that.
Give me a chance, I’ll find your funny bone. Though with you bein’ an American and all, it’s gonna be tough.
Nyuck nyuck
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The problem is that his supporters won’t see it like that. They’ll see it as Trump showing bravery by standing up to the powerful establishment TV channel.
I doubt this will hurt him in the polls.
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He’s been saying that he can negotiate with anybody and make deals. And we are seeing clearly that he can’t even negotiate with an ultra-conservative TV network. Some negotiator he is.
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To be an effective negotiator youhave to be willing to pull all the stops. He is showing that he says what he means. Any negotiator realizes that he won’t always INITIALLY get what he wants. Playing devils advocate. I think this is a mis-step, but it also shows in theory that he isn’t a right wing stooge because he is sticking it to the “republican” news channel. I think he will use this during the general election to help him. Risky move, and honestly not sure if as strategic as I am making it here, but he is certainly not afraid of megan kelly, just thinks this will make him look more powerful. And there isa chance it will. Really depends if he is able to get a competing event going by tomorrow.
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“I think this is a mis-step, but it also shows in theory that he isn’t a right wing stooge because he is sticking it to the “republican” news channel.”
That’s true, he’s not a real Republican. He’s a typical rich New York Liberal but he knows that if he fakes being a Republican he will be able to dupe some very gullible voters. In reality, his only conservatism lies in him wanting to pay as little taxes as possible on his vast fortune.
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This makes no sense if he’s seriously running for President; but all the sense if he needs to revive his reality tv brand and therefore the promotional value of slapping his name on products. It makes no sense if the Republican debates were serious; and all the sense if the debates existed to create reaction shot gifs.
People may like it because they vicariously love the idea of telling someone to shove it for hurting their egos, instead of thinking that behaving like an aggrieved SUV crumple zone from a tap to their bumper is a character flaw.
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Makes a lot of sense. He thinks this enhances his chance to win. And it very may well do that. It shows he will “take on the establishment. of BOTH SIDES”. Now may not work, but it does have some logic
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Yes, the immature voters don’t care about sides. That’s too complex for them. They just want to thwart the imaginary parental authority.
This is not about politics at all. This is about the traumas of the first separation crisis of 8-9 year-olds.
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He gets to avoid Kelly, and gets to deny Cruz his only chance to get close to him before the Iowa voting, which happens in a few days. Cruz desperately needs something to happen to reverse his slide, and a debate would’ve been the ideal occasion to lob a few zingers. I’m sure he was preparing hard for this debate. He had to.
Now, he’ll just look small if he bashes an absent Trump in the debates.
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If he’s so afraid of somebody like Kelly, imagine what Hillary will do to him. I can’t wait for those debates. Maybe he’ll be too scared to show up at all.
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I’m not sure about this. Fox, whatever esle it is, seems to be aligned with the republican establishment and voters, most voters, want no part of that.
He’s playing it as “they (media) need me more than I need them, they can go stuff it” and it’s hard to say he’s wrong.
It has nothing to do with negotiating when you don’t want to, it’s about not negotiating when the other side has nothing you want.
I like a lot of this analysis (before this kerfuffle).
http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2016/01/hyper-competitiveness-keeps-elites-from.html
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The capacity to work and thrive within existing structures is a sign of maturity and psychological health. Appeals to being singled out and “treated unfairly” are a sign of extreme immaturity. If he can’t even deal with this minimal pressure, a slightly more stressful situation will make him completely dysfunctional.
What is curious is how well people are responding to the enactment of “weak and wounded masculinity.” Everybody (but Fiorina, obviously) on the Republican stage has been enacting non-traditional masculinities during this cycle.
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The capacity to work and thrive within existing structures is a sign of maturity and psychological health. Appeals to being singled out and “treated unfairly” are a sign of extreme immaturity. If he can’t even deal with this minimal pressure, a slightly more stressful situation will make him completely dysfunctional.
I disagree. He’s fine. It would be dysfunctional in everyone from upper middle class to downwards. He’s literally never been in a situation where he’d have to suck it up and go on with his day because some other entity had more power. Dude grew up in a household as the favored son where his dad had Mitt Romney’s current net worth. Think about that. He literally has very few peers and he doesn’t see the other candidates or the network as peers. He’s never had a boss in his life he wasn’t related to, not even that apocryphal fast food job people love to say they had in high school. He’s never had to operate by the rules set forth for plebes and unless he hits some kind of weird black swan event he will be in that class for the rest of his life as well as his grandchildren.
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Of course, Trump is fine. It isn’t him I’m worried about. Trump is simply acting. The people who are finding the spectacle of anti-establishment rebellion appealing are the inadequate and the immature. Trump gives them what they want but the tragedy is that so many people want this.
This entire electoral cycle is about people with the maturity level of 8 – year-olds freaking out because of how confusing the world of adults is.
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Unrelated:
https://twitter.com/elisefoley/status/692384811449737216
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This silly melodrama was a power play between Trump and Roger Ailes, Fox’s CEO who runs the network with an iron fist. Trump wanted to force Ailes to boot Kelly from the debate because she angered Trump with an aggressive “unfair” question during the first Fox debate, but Ailes stood by Kelly.
Skipping the debate won’t hurt Trump with his frenzied, nutty followers, and I personally think that the debate will be better without him, because with Trump temporarily out off the stage, the so-called “establishment” candidates will get more time to try to make their case — hopefully, one of them and not Trump or Cruz will ultimately get the nomination.
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If Trump sees Kelly as scarily aggressive, it will be fun to observe him with foreign leaders. I wonder if he’ll manage to abstain from crying.
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