The audience burst out laughing.
"I'm a gentleman" REALLY?
Not twenty minutes earlier in the debate he started the evening uncharacteristically demure as he fessed up and apologized for his actions caught on video and made public just days ago. As everyone has by now heard, in the clip he talks about women in such unbelievably crude and vulgar terms. Tonight he reiterated his excuse of his behavior as just "locker room talk." Like all guys in locker rooms talk like that.
Well personally not being 1.) a sports player partaking of any locker room facilities and 2.) a man having any interest in talking with other men about female sexuality or physical attributes, I just don't get it. I mean do straight guys really banter with each other, as they themselves are around each other likely half naked, peeling off layers of clothes, smelling each others sweaty, manly aromas, reminiscing about pussy and hot chicks and sexually exploiting them? Are some of them getting boners while doing this? Man, I should have participated in sports back in my school days. This sounds like the start of a very hot gay porn flick.
But Donald is a gentleman. He only denigrates and debases women verbally when he's in a locker room or about ready to appear on Access Hollywood. With a microphone attached. Having many years of television appearances and knowing his mic was being sound checked.
But is all of America seeing now, finally, Donald Trump in his true colors and shunning him en masse? Was this just the final straw?
Apparently not. At the end of the debate I watched the two candidates meet and greet members of the attending audience and women, normal-looking, logical-looking, sane-looking women were actually coming up to him and getting selfies taken with him!...with his arm around them! And they're beaming a big smile, as happy as can be! WTF!!
This is how Hitler came to power. A blindly loyal fan base lulled by charismatic yet factless bullshit and promises of a brighter tomorrow by pointing a finger at "those to blame." 'Cause there's always "those to blame." And to them, no wrong could be done by their hero.
We know he can't win. If he did, then it's pretty much over. But what happens to these fanatic supporters of his? The so-called "basket of deplorables" when Hillary becomes president?
Fuck Russia. Fuck ISIS. They're the one's we'll need to worry about.