If the viewers at home don't know the right answers do you really think it would make a difference if the candidates do? I can already hear the slappies saying, "Who cares if he doesn't know the capital of Canada? We voted for him to take care of 'Murica!"

lol wut. It's news.

Meh giving their obvious penchant for lying I think it's safe to take anything coming from the administration or from sources within the administration with a grain of salt.

Obviously if you're into tea leaf reading and other forms of Trump soul searching, you can probably find some bits of wisdom about a form of empirical truth in what are likely calculated and strategic leaks. If today's story is Sessions offered to resign, that *might* say something about how Daddy feels about Sessions today, or it might be Daddy feeling frustrated about the Comey testimony and the special prosecutor and Daddy's lingering anger over Sessions having recused himself. So Daddy tells Hope Hicks or Kushner or whoever to go leak to whoever that Sessions is a bad boy and is grounded for now.

But they should be treated like press releases rather than insider baseball or whatever. That's almost surely their purpose.

Lol at Spicer saying Trumps tweets are official white house statements.

No way that can come back to bite them

People speculating about an impending shake up is different from saying Sessions threatened to resign.

So keep the questions America-centic. Who is third in line of succession? What theater was Lincoln in when he was shot? What state is Mount Rushmore in? Explain the difference between the article of confederation and the constitution.

When Rachel Maddow was on the Ezra Klein podcast, she suggested replacing one of the debates with a multiple choice exam where each candidate received the same questions. Her example question was, "how many aircraft carriers does Russia have?" Like DVaut said, I wouldn't want to base my entire decision on trivia, but you could see how that process would expose some frauds.

(Candidates would never agree to this, obv)

Dude, nobody but nerds know the answer to these. (except maybe Mt. Rushmore)

ffs, most americans probably can't tell you who Mike Pence is or care.

What's the difference? They'll just change the rule back when needed.

That's how this administration works. No bounds when it comes to doing what's best for Trump. People recuse themselves when needed and unrecuse when needed to do that. They have one story in the morning, another in the afternoon, and a 3rd at night. Then Trump tweets another change the next morning.

They present policies as being good for the people (lie) and publicly show some barely noticeable, neutral action as the main reason for the policy. Meanwhile, the real main reason takes place in private and consists of what's good for Trump and those around him.

When Trump makes a mistake, he blames others 100% of the time. In the rare event something good happens, Trump takes credit 100% of the time.

It's impossible to know what anything we're being told means. Trump has a strategy of unpredictability, but he even manages to **** that up. He blindsides allies, and warns our enemies.

Put the answers on screen then. I would hope a presidential candidate would know the Senate Pres is third in line.

I know next to nothing about the infrastructure of the internet, but why the hell cant we just cut off Russia's access to it? Just isolate the whole ****ing country. Make them send telegrams and ****.

Frank Underwood: [to Dean Masters] Would you like me to resign, Mr. Masters? Just say the word, and it's done.

CNN just teased heated exchanges between Trump and his buddy Jefferson Beauregard after the commercial...

EDIT: Nothingburger. They just said the DOJ was complaining that Trump kept interfering too much and wouldn't let them do their job.

You guys still seem to WAY underestimate how stupid and uninformed Trump is. I'd go with:

- What are the three branches of the federal government?

- How many members of Congress are there?

- What does GDP stand for and how is it calculated?

and for the "zero chance he gets it" option:

- What is the job title of the individual who represents the federal government before the Supreme Court?

What are we supposed to believe Trump is upset with Sessions about? Hasn't he been dutifully working to oppress minorities? Was that not actually what he was supposed to do?

If you are running for POTUS, you SHOULD know a lot of these questions.

Like, look at Trump and ISIS. He said he could defeat them in 30 days. I have no doubt he actually believed it. I don't he can really distinguish between different countries in the ME. He probably thinks Iran is like Montana and Kuwait is like Rhode Island. Except with Muslim people instead of Americans.

So when he said he could defeat ISIS in 30 days, he's thinking "Why can't we just fly in, bomb these guys, and fly out? How hard can it be? Let's get this done!" He doesn't understand that there's 20 different countries that have their own identity, cultures, and laws. He just thinks "Us, good! Them bad! Go get them!"

That type of stuff can be brought to forefront of a debate. But it would never happen.

Western Europe, and Germany specifically, count on Russian nat gas to get through their winters. Russia also has nukes. It's not an easy situation.

The corporate media's revenue is maximized by a close campaign
They gave Trump the kid gloves treatment because of the invisible hand not because Hillary can't answer 6th grade questions

I'm not sure how their nukes would get their access to the internet back?

Most obviously that means every tweet he's ever deleted is definitely breaking the law

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.e180925d8ccf

Story just broke, "nations top intelligence official told associates in march that president trump ask him if he could intervene with then fbi director james b comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser michael flynn in its russia probe, according to officials"

Russian hackers don't need to be in Russia.

We could really set Trump off by hacking Twitter or taking it down for a few hours right at 10am Thursday.

It seems like their actions would be easier to curtail if they were outside Russia, though.