Last night the entire nation turned on their TV’s to watch the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Or, to more accurately describe it, viewers watched an hour and a half of Donald Trump spouting incoherent half-sentences, flailing his arms, and interrupting Hillary Clinton nearly every time she tried to speak.
To be frank, no one was expecting Trump to do well.
He doesn’t exactly have an track record for being the most comprehensible speaker to ever run for public office. (Cicero, he is not.)
But the blatant amount of unprofessionalism displayed by Trump, toward both Clinton and debate moderator Lester Holt, was shocking even for him.
Throughout the entire debate, Trump constantly disrespected his opponent and the moderator by talking over and interrupting them countless times.
Well not exactly countless, because we were keeping track.
28 times he interrupted, to be exact. (Some outlets, put the number as high as 51 times.)
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28 separate times during Hillary’s allotted speaking time Trump felt the overwhelming need to blurt out whatever immature and asinine comment he thought of rather than respectfully allowing his opponent finish her 2 minutes or give her rebuttal before speaking.
Not every one of these 28 times was an intrusive or rude full comment.
Actually, he mostly interrupted with audible sighs into the microphone while she was speaking, or just plainly yelling “wrong” at her midsentence.
And these 28 times don’t even include the numerous times he spoke over or made rude comments to the moderator.
“You asked me a question, did you not?” was a phrase said by Trump more than once when Holt attempted to stop Trump’s incoherent rambling and move on to the next segment of the debate, even when Holt hadn’t even really asked him anything at all.
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Ronda Rousey Just Endorsed Bernie Sanders For President
Ronda Rousey might have just outed herself as a socialist, and what are you going to do about it punk?
In an interview with Maxim Magazine, Rousey said that she was pulling for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to be the next president.
“I’m voting for Bernie Sanders, because he doesn’t take any corporate money,” Rousey said to Maxim. “I don’t think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.”
But just because Rousey, the current UFC world bantamweight champion supports Sanders, don’t expect her to be there for Hillary if she wins the primary.
Rousey said that she is not a fan of Clinton and that she would only support Sanders or a third party candidate.
“I voted for Roseanne last time,” Rousey told Maxim. “Mostly I went in to vote for all the state and local things. I was so unimpressed with the whole presidential campaign that I picked whatever third party I saw, and I saw Roseanne and thought, ‘That’s awesome.’ But I’m really pulling for Sanders this time. I hope it works out.”
Sanders also picked up the endorsement of well known civil rights activist and author Cornell West, who is planning to stump for the candidate in Iowa this weekend.
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Ole Miss Student Group Wants Multicultural Courses To Be Graduation Requirement
A group of students at the University of Mississippi want their university to implement a new policy that would require students to take multicultural courses in order to graduate.
The group, Students Against Social Injustice says that the new policy would put the university in line with the stated aims of its recently released “diversity plan“.
The group has launched an online petition that it hopes to send to Ole Miss Interim Provost Noel Wilkin.
From the text of the petition:
“We propose that UM Liberal Arts students be required to take 6-9 hours of multicultural courses, as well as an additional 12 hours of diversity-related extracurricular/volunteer hours. We believe that a multicultural course requirement will further institutionalize inclusion at the University of Mississippi, and advance UM’s mission of “enabl[ing] students to…understand a variety of world cultures as well as the richness and complexity of American society.” What’s more, such a requirement will push students to center the intellectual and historical contributions of marginalized communities (black, Latino/Chicano, indigenous, Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled, women, etc.) in their educational narrative.”
Students Against Social Injustice member Makala McNeil told the Daily Mississippian that the additional course requirements would play “an in instrumental part” in bringing about further inclusion to campus.
“We’d be doing students a disservice if after four years they leave the institution without exposure to the wide array of multicultural courses the institution offers,” McNeil told the paper.
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Millennial Intelligencer: Burkina Faso’s Coup Is A Powder Keg Ready To Blow
By Curt Evans
A month to go before national elections and Burkina Faso is enduring yet another military overthrow.
Just last week, General Gilbert Diendere and a group of presidential guards took over the government by deposing interim President Michal Kafando and Prime Minister Isaac Zida.
Diendere and the presidential guards were fiercely loyal to former President Blaise Compaore, the man who Kafando and Zida took down last year in a coup of their own.
General Diendere, the leader of the current coup had been given a take-it-or-leave-it deal by the Army Chiefs of the West African nation, to step down from his position by 10:00 GMT- 6 AM EST or he would be attacked. As the deadline came and went, there was no violence in the country, although the BBC reports that Army troops are massing in the capital of Ouagadougou to take back control.
Diendere has said that he was ready to hand over his power to transitional non military personnel powers.
“We do not want to fight but ultimately we will defend ourselves,” Diendere said according to Agence France-Presse.
Diendere and allies in the presidential guards assaulted a cabinet meeting and keeping the president and ministers that were present.
Diendere has a strong force behind him that consists of about 1,300 fighters ready to attack if he is harmed.The strong force is known as the presidential guard (RSP)- called that because they are devoted to former President Compaore (he also formed the group for his own protection.)
Compaore created the feared paramilitary unit to guarantee his own assurance in the wake of the 1987 assassination of his predecessor, the so called ” Che Guevara of Africa”, Thomas Sankara.
The troops were to surrender by 10 GMT or be attacked by the Army, but that deadline is now expired.
According to Al Jazeera reporter Nicolas Haque:
“Minutes before the deadline expired, General Diendere called a press conference and released a statement saying he wants to stand by the framework agreement that was negotiated with ECOWAS.”According to military leaders in the country, if the coup leaders were to surrender and disarm, they would be granted safety and not be attacked-hopefully avoided more bloodshed in a conflict that has already taken the lives of at least 10 protestors.
But even if that happens, there is still a big question hovering over the country: Can Burkina Faso really become a stable democracy?
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