That's what I have been talking about!

I think I have a cold, by that I mean I totally have a cold, I worked a long shift today and don't have a lot of energy but I do want to mention one thing.

Hillary Clinton gave what may be the best speech of her career to date, speaking at a community college in Reno, NV on the topic of Donald Trump and the "alt-right". It was a by any standard brutal takedown the likes of which I haven't seen out of a major candidate, unless you count Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinners, which I do.

Hillary isn't a great public speaker, she is a policy nerd who has trouble making the wide appeals to emotion that a great speaker can do seem convincing, and she just plain doesn't have a voice that inspires. But damn she can rip someone apart and make you believe it. I have said for a while now that Clinton should stop trying to be perceived as nice because it wasn't fooling anyone, now I am sure she is very nice one on one and with her family and so on, but as a politician and public figure she never struck me as such and I never wanted her to be, she is at her absolute best when she can argue something relentlessly and logically and her command of the facts she is choosing to use on the topic(true or not) is exemplary.

Which made the speech today great, see she barely tried to make those appeals, hell she barely even had to put her own opinions on things, it was basically a laundry list of things that Donald Trump and his supporters have said, on the record and in public, during their history, from Trump's history with being sued for housing discrimination to Brietbart.com's appallingly terrible headlines, she used her opponents words against him in a way that is very hard to fight back against, and delivered it at a great time too as Trump is attempting, with maybe a little success, to portray himself as nicer and appealing to the minority community. This speech neatly guts that pivot and puts the whole system into response mode.

Currently the response from the campaign, and the candidate himself, is "nuh-huh!" it... isn't going over too well at the moment.

My favorite reaction was from some random dude on Twitter today though that said "Hillary Clinton shot a campaign in Reno just to watch it die"

This won't be the death knell of the campaign, but it's a strong blow and I kinda think tonight's speech might end up being a little bit historic.