This problem will vanish in a couple of months, fortunately. Maybe sooner of some of these clowns tell the truth about what they'd do in the White House commit a gaffe…
Not gonna lie, I'm not even watching the early debate, waiting for the main event. I'm going to be playing Picross in between reading comments and will be more active for the 8:30 event.
This is funny–I just got an e-mail from someone I know is a Republican (perfectly nice person otherwise.) If he isn't watching, I have to wonder if anyone other than we are…
Ricky "Don't google me!" Santorum is looking pastier than usual. Smokey suggested maybe he's using that treatment Thomas Barrow on, as my mom calls it, "Downtown Abbey," used and injecting himself with saline to inject the ghey away.
"And now, having drawn the longest straw, Senator Graham will perform a Bach minuet on the pianoforte, in this, the first round of the talent portion of our program."
A March Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 34 percent of Republicans ranked Obama as an imminent threat, ahead of Putin (25 percent) and Assad (23 percent).
OFFS, here we go with the "we need to maintain standards so no girls allowed in the military" line. If these assholes truly do not know that the military has made it clear that only women who DO meet the standards will be placed in combat situations they do NOT deserve to run for dog catcher, much less President…
To follow up on the question Harry answered before: Based on the formula we use in our Senate forecasts, Cruz’s strongly conservative views would cost the Republicans a net of about 5 percentage points relative to a more moderate, Mitt Romney-esque Republican. That’s a pretty big deal, but not so much that Cruz couldn’t overcome it if national conditions were really poor for Democrats.
The studies that Rick Santorum cited to defend reversing the policy that integrates women into elite combat units included one that found that 85 percent of those surveyed in U.S. Special Operations Command opposed letting women into their jobs — for reasons including, but not limited to, “I think PMS is terrible, possibly the worst. I cannot stand my wife for about a week out of the month for every month. I like that I can come to work and not have to deal with that.”
I had to go to the Social Security office this afternoon. There was an older couple, probably early 70s. While the husband ran out to their Hummer, the wife chatted with the security guard, asking for gun advice, because she "needed" to get a concealed carry gun to protect herself from the terrorists. (She whispered that like the way old people whisper cancer.) She noted that she wanted one with a safety so she wouldn't accidentally shoot herself, but that "more good people have guns. People with the concealed, they're all good guys." (Yes, actual quote.) Then her husband came back in and they, no lie, chatted about Fox News because of course they did.
Sometimes I have too much empathy and think to myself, "Wow, these poor people. It must be terrible to live with so much fear and hate." But then I think, "Oh, fuck these idiots." Fear is a choice and some people seek out voices to confirm their fears and that's all they listen to. They're irrational and delusional and seek out other irrational, delusional voices that convince them that they're right.
But, hey, at least she didn't say anything about "the blacks," although she has probably whispered those words once or twice in her life. Enjoy your Hummer, fuckwits. Thanks for destroying the earth, assholes.
I'm sure she actually wanted to say "the blacks" or "those people" except the security guard and all but one of the staff at that office are black and/or Latino — but, come on, who is the elderly white woman really afraid is going to assault her here in the Poconos, a terrorist or any random non-white person? I look forward to the news report.
btw, the Fox News story she and her husband talked about at length was how the jury was deadlocked in that case where "the police accidentally killed that guy in Baltimore".
These people are genuinely uninformed fools, but I'm weeping tears of frustration thinking about the wildly uninformed foolish letters their sociopathic followers must be sending them.
Six minutes now. Goosebumps, the hair is beginning to rise up on my neck and I'm getting this awful shaking sick feeling like I'm about to see some kind of horrible violent live capture cilp that will give me nightmares for weeks and I'm waiting for the announcer's voiceover: "A warning to our audience – the next segment contains some extremely disturbing footage and you may want to have children or the easily nauseated leave the room".
Everyone of these d-bags is just "blah blah blah OBUMMER and HILLZ bad!" Come on, that's no fun! Attack each other, fuckwits! We tuned in for that shit.
You know, I can guarantee that when DAESH is a short footnoted paragraph in Volume IV of some hoary old 22nd Century scholar's Comprehensive History of the Early 21st Century, Anthropogenic CO2 driven Climate Change will still be front page news. In fact, I can forsee a time when it will be the only news.
I'm old, where's the SCUD Stud? I want the peas. (Actually I went to DC by myself to protest that war– still have a button that says "Are You Willing To Die For Exxon?").
Regarding this whole "Political Correctness" hatefulness, I remember being in college in about '94 or so and being in an English class and the political correctness issue came up and one non-trad student (bless his heart) spoke up and said, "Isn't there too much political correctness today?" This was roughly one week after I had seen, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, no less, an actor, in a Shakespeare play ("As You Like It"? "Twelfth Night?" I forget.) Anyhoo, the actor playing the fool went completely off-script and starting speaking in a horrible "Asian" accent that would have made Mickey Rooney blush, "Sorny! Mitsurbishi! Kirwasaki!"
My original thought about political correctness was that it just meant, "Hey, let's maybe not be racist and homophobic and such!" I can't believe that phrase has lived for 20-plus years and is still used by the same right-wing assholes as before.
I haven't listened to the whole thing, but it's interesting that Cruz keeps calling Rubio by his first name. I wonder what the strategy is on that – to sound condescending? dunno.
Since I didn't listen to the whole thing I don't have any context, but he must be making that choice for strategic reasons, but what's the strategy – to sound like he and Rubio are best buds? It's just weird and he's so smarmy.
|From the Twitter:|
Shauna Richardson @MsShaunaRae
So,basically, @HillaryClinton is winning a debate that she's not even in from home w/ a handful of tweets #GOPDebate
|From Digby on the Twitter:|
digby @digby56
So Rubio's exceedingly tedious new line is that there are a bunch of (white) people who don't feel like they belong in America anymore.
OK, so this is where the liveblog will be. For a moment, I thought the Santa Claus letter would be the location.
(Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is that you please don't let any of these clowns get to the White House!)
My fault on that too, completely forgot there was an early debate this time. They really need to get rid of these.
This problem will vanish in a couple of months, fortunately. Maybe sooner of some of these clowns
tell the truth about what they'd do in the White Housecommit a gaffe…Also, happy birthday to glasspusher! Here's to your birthday being way better than any debate could ever be!
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w00f! Happy birthday@@!1#!$#!!
Yay! Happy Birthday, glass!
| You say it's your Birthday? | Enjoy!
Happy birthday, glass! I hope you get everything you deserve!
Hoo!! |Happy Birthday, Glass!!|
Happy Birthday!
Happy Glass Day!
Five minutes away. The excitement is
non-existentbuilding!Yeah, we can hear from George Pataki again! WOOO!
Variation on an earlier theme.
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It's actually starting on time? That is newsworthy…
Oh god, here we go. I can't handle the derp!
Donald Trump says we can't afford to be nice.
Well, he sure doesn't have that problem…
Lots o' white folks in the audience. Is this a GOP debate or a production of "Cats?"
Ugh, Hugh Hewitt? Ugh.
Not gonna lie, I'm not even watching the early debate, waiting for the main event. I'm going to be playing Picross in between reading comments and will be more active for the 8:30 event.
How long are they just going to stand there looking stupid?
Without saying anything, I mean…
Frothy Mix thinks this is WWIII? FFS, play into the hands of your opponents much, Ricky?
What, this again?
<img src="http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/looks-like-its-fuck-this-shit-o-clock.jpg"/>
The audience looks bored as fuck. Maybe they just wanted to reserve a good seat for the main event…
Well, it didn't take Wolf Blitzer long to make this all about Trump.
Ricky is trying to say that The Donald was not talking about Muslims, but Obama, when he said "keep out the Muslims"?
/FFS
Santorum is worried about leakage.
Sorry.
This is funny–I just got an e-mail from someone I know is a Republican (perfectly nice person otherwise.) If he isn't watching, I have to wonder if anyone other than we are…
We're more masochistic than a Republican? We have issues.
Ricky "Don't google me!" Santorum is looking pastier than usual. Smokey suggested maybe he's using that treatment Thomas Barrow on, as my mom calls it, "Downtown Abbey," used and injecting himself with saline to inject the ghey away.
"Go after the radicals who kill us all." -Lindsey Graham.
If they kill us, won't we be dead? How can we go after them then? Wait! Zombie Jeebus Army, to arms!
That's cute–the college student thinks this crowd has ideas about how to challenge ISIS ideologically. Gotta love optimistic kids…
Lindsey: I can't believe I'm on stage with this peacenik.
Frothy: Hasn't this dumbass heard of not playing into the enemy's hands?
Just looked in………CC
was it Lindsey who said ,"Dead men don't preach"….?
Huck: no drugs or school for you, kids–get off your asses and go to war!
Christ, that break ended before I could get my second wind. I'm not sure I'm going to last…
THE SURGE WORKED, DAMMIT! I MISS W!!! IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!!!!!
Christ, I think Lindsey Graham might actually need some meds…
"And now, having drawn the longest straw, Senator Graham will perform a Bach minuet on the pianoforte, in this, the first round of the talent portion of our program."
The Talent element in this is bad enough, but it's the Swimsuit competition that sent me over the edge.
Huckabee really should have gone with the one-piece.
I know, right? If Christie shows up in Spandex again I'm leaving town.
He thinks it's 'slimming'.
Again with the line about how Obama has undermined our friends and empowered our foes, Hewitt?
This fucker is based in SoCal. Too close for my taste…
Huck obsessed with pockets?
Hot Pockets!
from 538:
A March Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 34 percent of Republicans ranked Obama as an imminent threat, ahead of Putin (25 percent) and Assad (23 percent).
Lindsey: Princess Buttercup would not like this.
Sure–let's base American foreign policy on the preferences of a fictional character. Why the fuck not.
Well Reagan did it with John Wayne's Green Beret character and…oh, wait…
Lindsey: I was yelling and screaming! Vote for me!
OFFS, here we go with the "we need to maintain standards so no girls allowed in the military" line. If these assholes truly do not know that the military has made it clear that only women who DO meet the standards will be placed in combat situations they do NOT deserve to run for dog catcher, much less President…
Ok, so who's tougher: Rhonda Rousey or James O'Keefe?
Nate Silver 7:45 PM
To follow up on the question Harry answered before: Based on the formula we use in our Senate forecasts, Cruz’s strongly conservative views would cost the Republicans a net of about 5 percentage points relative to a more moderate, Mitt Romney-esque Republican. That’s a pretty big deal, but not so much that Cruz couldn’t overcome it if national conditions were really poor for Democrats.
I can only hope so. About the 5% part, that is.
"Mr Trump–you don't have to speak about everything, it's not required"
For once, I agree with Miss Lindsey…
Also from 538
Hayley Munguia 7:48 PM
The studies that Rick Santorum cited to defend reversing the policy that integrates women into elite combat units included one that found that 85 percent of those surveyed in U.S. Special Operations Command opposed letting women into their jobs — for reasons including, but not limited to, “I think PMS is terrible, possibly the worst. I cannot stand my wife for about a week out of the month for every month. I like that I can come to work and not have to deal with that.”
Wow.
Also from the same report: "Women! I mean, amirite, fellas?!"
Christ, there's more?!
Act now!
And I love that this crowd is so concerned about properly vetting refugees, while giving zero fucks about doing the same for gun owners FFS…
I had to go to the Social Security office this afternoon. There was an older couple, probably early 70s. While the husband ran out to their Hummer, the wife chatted with the security guard, asking for gun advice, because she "needed" to get a concealed carry gun to protect herself from the terrorists. (She whispered that like the way old people whisper cancer.) She noted that she wanted one with a safety so she wouldn't accidentally shoot herself, but that "more good people have guns. People with the concealed, they're all good guys." (Yes, actual quote.) Then her husband came back in and they, no lie, chatted about Fox News because of course they did.
Sometimes I have too much empathy and think to myself, "Wow, these poor people. It must be terrible to live with so much fear and hate." But then I think, "Oh, fuck these idiots." Fear is a choice and some people seek out voices to confirm their fears and that's all they listen to. They're irrational and delusional and seek out other irrational, delusional voices that convince them that they're right.
But, hey, at least she didn't say anything about "the blacks," although she has probably whispered those words once or twice in her life. Enjoy your Hummer, fuckwits. Thanks for destroying the earth, assholes.
I'm sure she actually wanted to say "the blacks" or "those people" except the security guard and all but one of the staff at that office are black and/or Latino — but, come on, who is the elderly white woman really afraid is going to assault her here in the Poconos, a terrorist or any random non-white person? I look forward to the news report.
btw, the Fox News story she and her husband talked about at length was how the jury was deadlocked in that case where "the police accidentally killed that guy in Baltimore".
Fuck you, Huckabee: I'd be glad to have refugees from terror settle in my neighborhood.
Don't you fucking DARE lecture me about being a Christian, either, you fucking hater…
Huckabee: I'm a Christian, but don't you put those poors in MY backyard!
These people are genuinely uninformed fools, but I'm weeping tears of frustration thinking about the wildly uninformed foolish letters their sociopathic followers must be sending them.
There's so much hate and fear and no time to fully elaborate!
Oh no. They're back.
Lindsey: we're going to go to war–vote for me and we'll all be totally safe!
Pataki: 9.11!!!
I am the rightest, whitest, ham biscuitiest, war-mongering confirmed bachelor the world has ever seeeen!
Frothy: I voted for sanctions ten years ago so I'll keep us safe.
Huck: we have to take them totally out, so vote for me!
Jesus, Millenials sometimes annoy the shit out of me but I wouldn't want to invoke conscription on them. Fuck!
Nine… More… Candidates. *THUMP*
Yay! It's over! That's all there is, right? Right?!
Aw, fuck.
Rumor on the tweet thing is that Trump is/was late and CNN is freaking out.
Oh please let it be true. I doubt that he won't be there but the comedy potential is endless.
Sorry–they just showed him arriving.
LOL apparently Trump left the hotel just 6 minutes ago, according to a post from Donald Trump.
Such a prima donna. Can you imagine if a black or female candidate pulled that shit?
Since this circus is being held at the Venetian hotel, wouldn't it be awesome if everyone had to float around on gondolas the whole time?
I take it we're staying here for the main event?
Six minutes now. Goosebumps, the hair is beginning to rise up on my neck and I'm getting this awful shaking sick feeling like I'm about to see some kind of horrible violent live capture cilp that will give me nightmares for weeks and I'm waiting for the announcer's voiceover: "A warning to our audience – the next segment contains some extremely disturbing footage and you may want to have children or the easily nauseated leave the room".
#gopdebate moments away
*Oukes*
Oh Christ, here we go.
S. E. Cupp = MUTE
I've often wondered, what does the S.E. stand for? Sickening Enema? Salty Eczema? Satan's Excrement? Tell me, Sippy Cupp! I must know!
Simply Evil.
Silly Eedjit
Oh look, it's Rinse Penis.
Talking about a "Competent National Party"
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH **THUMP** hehe
"Oh shit, it's Cresosote!"
"There's clearly a lot of excitement in this room."
You misspelled "excrement".
OK, now it is really starting.
Christ, the CNN hyped-up opening is hokey as fuck…
So few people believe in Jeb Bush these days that he's practically turning transparent.
(No one clap!)
LOL, The Onion stole your joke: http://www.theonion.com/article/terrified-jeb-bus…
HAH synchronicity
Wait, CNN! I have to pee!
#beer
Panties onstage for Cruz!
OOOH, that glare that iCarly gave Marco Rubio when he patted her on the back is priceless…
Wow, they're all wearing the same suit and tie (well, except for Rand and LieCarly).
Smokey, on seeing LieCarly come on to the stage: "Eat more Milkbones!"
<img src="http://media.timeout.com/blogimages/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/deep-impact-gif.gif"/>
…and thank you, Carrie Underwood!
Waylon Jennings sighting!
"As moderator, I'll discuss–I'll guide the discussion"
Nice to know that Wolf Blitzer will be as overbearing tonight as he is on Sundays…
Lovely rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. And now, here's "Working Class Hero!"
Yes, shut down that internet thing! Oh, wait.
You can't close a series of tubes! They're always tubular!
Aqua Buddha: keep American boots out of the middle east.
WOAH PAULTARDS
John Kasich: my daughter doesn't like politics.
After growing up in a GOP household, what else would one expect?
*mild applause* Not nearly enough blood for this crowd.
Christie: parents worry about their kids on school buses so vote for me.
Christie = Current Events Ambulance Chaser
iCarly: I have been called the b-word so I am tough enough to be President.
You know Who Else was called the b-word and wants to be president?
I'd like to take my country forward, Carly, if you don't mind.
Hey, Carly– were you ever called "Born Rich?"
Jeb!: something something power something something power!
Oh, here's a Bush pointing at a politician who's under investigation. How rich!
College Boy: I don't want America to be like any other nation!
Rubio should be the next emcee at the Junior Miss America competition. He'd rock it.
Is this guy Joe McCarthy or what?
Cruz Control: I'll kill terrorists before they are terrorists!
Doctor: Please join me in a moment of silence
so I can think of something to sayfor the San Bernardino victims.Carson, now. I'm sorry, but I've seen that very face on a whole lot of stoned people.
The Donald: incompetent! Drink!
Hi, I'm Ted Cruz. You may have seen me in some pre-code films such as Bowery Twinks and Donnybrooks and I Need More Powder, See!
He is quite the Matinee Idol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaEqRPIH4Q
I seriously laughed through Carson's moment of silence for the San Bernadino victims. I'm still laughing. (At him, not them, obviously.)
I was afraid Carson would fall asleep.
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Mr Trump: you want to do a lot of ridiculous things to isolate the US–how will that help?
The Donald: I will be great!
I will build the Great Wall of Mexico!
I think that the audience wants a Chaos President.
College Boy: people like The Donald and it's all Obama's fault
Cruz: I'm Donald Trump lite.
Worst use of an Ivy League education since George W. Bush.
Cruz: "Something something Muslims in India…"
Um, actually, senator… oh, never mind.
Wolf is asking Bridgegate Man about school kids not going to class? Does he even see the irony?
No.
Christie: We have people watching FOX News across this country who are scared to death!
Kasich: climate change specialists should talk about destroying ISIS.
Kasich: "Fuck talking about the climate! Let's kill some Ay-rabs!:
I found a better sound than CNN's stupid bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRiHuYpKuAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETYWwXzSP2w
Yay!
Let's Make America Belch Again!
Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbMgA6R5T0
College Boy versus Candian Anchor Baby? I hope they both lose.
Everyone of these d-bags is just "blah blah blah OBUMMER and HILLZ bad!" Come on, that's no fun! Attack each other, fuckwits! We tuned in for that shit.
DId somebody give all the Paultards dope?
They better have paid for it.
They used Dogecoin.
Christie: unlike these losers, I've had to make decisions.
Alrighty Christie, talk Jersey to them!
Christie: I had to MAKE these executive decisions on which Democratic mayor to royally screw over.
Doctor: first of all, let me complain a little bit.
Oh yeah–that'll convince the voters how tough Ben Carson is…
What does Carson have against the Wintel platform?
Ben only wants to get between them if they're cojoined. And Christian.
Wolf: Mr Trump, you recently suggested closing the internet. WTF?
The Donald: I want to figure out how to beat ISIS on the internet.
Uhhh, Carly – FYI the guys that build the Obamacare site were private contractors.
Donald: Elect me and I'll hire smart people to do all the stuff.
Kasich: keep the data coming! More is better!!! Information overload won't hurt out intelligence analysts one bit!!!!!
Snert!
Holy crap, I just found this post. I've had such a shitty day. My work day isn't even over. Where can I tune in to this thing?
ETA: never mind, just found it. Sorry, brain fried.
Also, is that a game-show bell they're using? geez.
Kasich wants to have a position and penetrate people.
It's always the quiet ones.
Cruz: Our troops knocked up the Iraqi army
For fuck's sake, Cruz, I really don't think "political correctness" (whatever the fuck that means in the first place) is the reason ISIS is a threat…
Right, Ted because you've been there, right? You understand how to carpet bomb? You understand it all. Fuck You and all of your cum"patriots".
Gawd, is Jeb! going to lose another fight?
You know, I can guarantee that when DAESH is a short footnoted paragraph in Volume IV of some hoary old 22nd Century scholar's Comprehensive History of the Early 21st Century, Anthropogenic CO2 driven Climate Change will still be front page news. In fact, I can forsee a time when it will be the only news.
Final:
Monmouth
83
Georgetown
68
iCarly: talking tough =/= being strong.
Yeah, I didn't think the audience would understand that distinction…
Uh, Carly… Petraeus retired early mainly because
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iCarly just endorsed Hillary?
CloCap : Dr. Carson, what is your strange?
Carson: we've got a phobia about boots.
Okay, that answered the question
There were boots here, over there, and here and then we were all dancing on the ceiling.
Canadian Anchor Baby: Hillary and Obama and RINOs all killed American security!
Boots on the ground, boots on the ground
Lookin' like a fool wit yo' boots on the ground
College Boy: Khadaffi killed Americans so fuck the Canadian Anchor Baby.
Cruz: Netanyahu likes me, so suck it, Rubio!
I know the purple unicorn exists. So does flying kitty.
Hey, is that a protester yelling at Trump? GO PROTESTER!
No, Barack didn't topple Mubarek, or Ghadaffi.
Ohhhhhhhhh Trump said Obama words!!!!!!!!!!!
JEB: "If it goes in, it must come out"
– Teslacles Deviant of Fudd's First Law
JEB!!! My brother, Barack, fucked up. Royally.
I'm old, where's the SCUD Stud? I want the peas. (Actually I went to DC by myself to protest that war– still have a button that says "Are You Willing To Die For Exxon?").
Stone Phillips libel!
Ah good. CNN's finally lost control of the debate. You know it had to happen.
And these people want to run the country.
Christie: Iran, ISIS, what's the difference?
Nucular. HE SAID NUCULAR
Cruz: WAS IT OVER WHEN ASSAD BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?
He's on a roll.
Oh yeah, Kasich is there too.
iCarly: there is a time and a place to talk to people I don't like.
Regarding this whole "Political Correctness" hatefulness, I remember being in college in about '94 or so and being in an English class and the political correctness issue came up and one non-trad student (bless his heart) spoke up and said, "Isn't there too much political correctness today?" This was roughly one week after I had seen, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, no less, an actor, in a Shakespeare play ("As You Like It"? "Twelfth Night?" I forget.) Anyhoo, the actor playing the fool went completely off-script and starting speaking in a horrible "Asian" accent that would have made Mickey Rooney blush, "Sorny! Mitsurbishi! Kirwasaki!"
My original thought about political correctness was that it just meant, "Hey, let's maybe not be racist and homophobic and such!" I can't believe that phrase has lived for 20-plus years and is still used by the same right-wing assholes as before.
What is this sudden obsession with Putin's nose?
Christie: we don't use fancy words in New Jersey.
Like "ethics". Don't even know what that means.
i Carly is getting her Hitler on.
Not sure what she said , but the visual was very disturbing.
How long until we just declare Hillary Clinton as the GOP debate winner?
OOOH…Aqua Buddha went there with Bridgegate!
"Feckless weakling"? I know a president who that really applies to and it ain't this one.
OOH, a Bridge Reference. Snap.
Bada bing! Oh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkE_Gv6ALM
Jeb!: I know what I don't know.
Wow, that's impressive…
I know what Jeb! doesn't know: he gonna lose.
"I don't get my information from the shows." Oh Jeb!, you can't do jokes. Just don't try.
No Chris C. didn't you hear, they're not running for their lives, they're terrists!!!!
Trump: CNN, you are sad.
I can agree with that much…
Hey, Jeb. You why else the United States Armed Forces is in such a state of readiness? 15 years of your brother's war of choice. Deal with it.
I was wondering if there was going to be a Jeb! – The Donald throwdown. Get the popcorn!
It's like watching two used car salesmen punching each other out in the parking lot.
I think a nice brown shirt would look real snappy on Trump.
SPITTLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Did Kasich just mention the economy? I'll bet Wolf Blitzer is PISSED…
Y'all can't solve a light bulb, bitches.
J'Booty!
Carson: I'm a doer, not a talker.
Hey, how come you aren't asking me any questions?
Deport Rubio and his neighbors!
He's an immigrant DEPORT HIM!!!11!
Maybe if he loses he'll self-deport, Mittens-style.
Hey Carson, you know who else isn't loud or rude or boisterous and is called a feckless wimp by your colleagues?
Tough one. John Kerry?
SEECURE ARE BOARDERS FROM ALL THE CUBAN-CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS
Cruz: I'll build the wall and get Donald Trump to pay for it.
Um, does Canadian Anchor Baby not know about The Donald's 4 business bankruptcies?
CNN inspiring those two foreigners to get on each other.
I haven't listened to the whole thing, but it's interesting that Cruz keeps calling Rubio by his first name. I wonder what the strategy is on that – to sound condescending? dunno.
Cruz condescending? I never heard of such a thing.
Except every time he opens his ugly scar of a mouth.
Since I didn't listen to the whole thing I don't have any context, but he must be making that choice for strategic reasons, but what's the strategy – to sound like he and Rubio are best buds? It's just weird and he's so smarmy.
It.s a debating tactic used to put the other person psychologically ill at ease and on the defensive. Learned it in High School.
Ah. That makes sense. tx.
"Can I call you Joe?"
hey, you know Who Else built a huge awesomely complex wall to keep people from crossing a border?
Fence out the heroin?
Isn't that illegal?
Only if the heroin is stolen.
Did Ben Carson just mention that an important government function was understaffed due to funding issues?
And does he know whose party nomination he is trying to get?
Yeah, but I'm sure he didn't mean it.
Maybe, maybe not. He did say he'd quit the party if Trump did.
Head a great term for these self-aggrandizing presidential runs: vanity candidacies.
Answer the fucking question, Rand.
Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China?
Christie: we have to keep Americans safe so we can't trust any Syrian refugees, even widows and orphans. Besides, women can be terrorists too!
Christie: Fuck Christianity! It's Security that I care about!
"We are only just beginning…"
Oh, for fuck's sake.
smokey: "I've been human trafficked!"
me: "No! You're still here!"
smokey: (pause) "Yay!"
I'm not as funny as you think I am. I love you. Yay! Fuck the Universerver!
Wolf Blitzer: Let's stir up the fear factor even more now.
E-mailgate! Drink!
China fears publicity!!
What took so long?
How many BENGHAZIS! are we up to now? Anyone keeping score?
Mr Trump, you said that Cruz is a maniac. Have you looked in the mirror lately?
Feed keeps fucking up . Fuck it.
It's Obama, disrupting the feed with HAARP. For evil reasons.
We need to pour billions of dollars into weapons systems we will never use! For Freedom Reasons!
Cruz: I'm answering the question…eventually.
This crowd actually believes that The Donald won't come up with a reason to go back on this pledge not to run as an independent?
"They didn't treat me fairly! Fuck that–I'm back in the race!!!"
This crowd have to be the only ones who believe that.
Aqua Buddha: both parties piss money away. Vote for me,
Kasich: you need Ohio. I own Ohio. Vote for me.
I was about to type that Kasich just gave the strangest closing statement ever, but they're outdoing each other.
Christie: 9.11!!!
America: We're really Ohio.
|From the Twitter:|
Shauna Richardson @MsShaunaRae
So,basically, @HillaryClinton is winning a debate that she's not even in from home w/ a handful of tweets #GOPDebate
Boom.
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|Ladies is pimps, too!|
iCarly: I also do 9.11!
Jeb!: My record suggests…I have a plan!
Rubio: we can do great again! Ha ha ha, Trump, you're not the only one who can roll with that!
Cruz: I'm the new Reagan!
Cruz: I will defeat Soviet Communism!
Carson: Mom said I could do this.
Trump: America sucks. Vote for me.
Praise the Lord, it is FINALLY over…
|From Digby on the Twitter:|
digby @digby56
So Rubio's exceedingly tedious new line is that there are a bunch of (white) people who don't feel like they belong in America anymore.
It's over. Whew.
We lived!
Right?!
Mostly.
So – that's the Republican's Deep Bench? Jesus.
Not the first time, I'm sure.
I have supported the anti-proton freedom fighters!
Do your protons…decay?
Aww….you entertain me. Hope to return the favor.