219 thoughts on “Teh Drama Llama attacks the GOP debate!

  1. Snow, how do we pin? I'm trying to pin this to make it our debate live blog.

    ETA: I think I did it, I clicked on, "Make this post sticky." But it's blue rather than red, and there's no pin. Can anyone advise?

    1. Oh, if you want this to be the sticky that's fine! I just thought it was a funny story. You definitely did it though, it's pinned when I look.

      1. Aren't pins usually red, though, with a pin? Or am I imagining that or remembering it from somewhere else? If anyone can fix it please do. But please also let me know how.

        1. Ever since the update we weren't supposed to do they've come up as blue. It says it's sticky in the admin site though so it's working.

  2. CNBC doing the stupid thing and making this open to Cable subscribers only, the same thing Fox News did. Means some people won't be able to watch an important point of our political process for the sake of greed. I'll be able to watch but sorry to those who can't.

      1. Here is a transcript of the debate:

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        (Yeah they're not missing much right now, you're right)

    1. Masochists? The criminally insane?

      Edit: People who are being held against their will by one or both of the aforementioned groups?

  3. OK, CNBC, I realize that you want to take advantage of your increased viewership to up your ratings but you're just embarrassing yourself now.

  4. No, Jindal, you stupid fucking moron, we will not be the next Greece. Among many other reasons why not, we aren't bound by a shared currency that we can't unilaterally devalue…

    …oh, why bother using facts and logic with this crowd?

  5. Break already? Either the questioners have already had enough or CNBC is milking this for all the ad revenue they can get…

  6. LOL PATAKI

    "WE KNOW HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAILS WERE HACKED AND THE IRANIANS HAVE THEM"

    HE'S JUST MAKING SHIT UP NOW

  7. They're laughing at Ms Lindsay war talk. Not nice, mods!

    Of course he looks so cute next to Pataki you just want to pet him.

  8. Here's a question I'd like to see mods ask, being as how this is the CNBC "Your Money, Your Vote" debate: Who is the largest donor to your campaign?

  9. Ricky, the death of American manufacturing got started in the late 70's and accelerated under Saint Ronnie: fuck you for blaming Obama for something that has been going on for decades FFS…

  10. The governor of 9.11 thinks Wall Street is thriving because of…what, governor, besides the fact that it got a bailout while Main Street didn't?

  11. Jesus, Lindsey, if you're this upset about the crop of GOP candidates, how the fuck will you be composed enough to deal with Vladimir Putin and the like?

  12. Ricky, you dumbass, immigrants didn't kill the steel and auto industries, and keeping them out won't open up high-tech jobs that Americans can't get because they don't have the education. You know, the education you like to snark on…

    …sorry, I forgot where I was for a moment. Ignore attempt to use facts…

  13. Jindal: this president won't let the energy industry do whatever it wishes and that's why we don't have jobs.

    What the fuck did that have to do with maternity leave again?

    1. Everything about Big Dirty Energy is good. Everything that isn't BDE is bad. Everything that opposes BDE is, uh…What was the question? Miss Lindsey distracted me talking about his dying family.

  14. I was going to complain about missing my yoga class for this, but I'm impressed by just how flexible the truth has become in this debate. Much more bendy than I'll ever hope to be, that's for sure…

  15. Bobby Jindal is the biggest asshole on that stage right now and it's not even close. Rick Santorum looks less awful next to him.

  16. Ricky, don't you fucking dare claim to be part of Steeler Nation when you milked PA taxpayers for educating your kids in Virginia FFS…

  17. "The only reason I have an iPhone is because I gave my number to Donald Trump." gg

    Also why would we make the day after the Super Bowl a holiday when we could make Election Day a holiday?

    ps the Steelers and Saints aren't going to be in the Super Bowl, but nice try guys. LOL at Pataki, Jets fan though.

    Fuck Lindsey Graham for his Obama answer.

        1. I bought BCP on your recommendation. It's terrific! Had "Trout Mask Replica" on vinyl many, many years and music formats ago.

          1. Glad to hear it! It's so nice to get positive feedback on my musical recommendations – the low point was that phone message with all the retching noises.

        1. Don't worry, there are at least 53 Republican debates left! (Also, watching baseball between my power and satellite dish going out from the rain.)

          1. Good, I've bookmarked that, for debate reasons. Before cable, I had a Sat internet uplink here that would go down in moderate rainstorms, so I Feel Your Pain.

  18. So the Kids' Table "debate" didn't even last two hours even with commercials? What the WTF?

    Might have to switch over and see what Tweetie is doing for the five or six politics geeks who aren't watching the GOPer cage match.

  19. Wikipedia on Kasich @ Lehmann:

    Business career
    Kasich joined Lehman Brothers' investment banking division as a managing director. He remained at Lehman Brothers until it declared bankruptcy in 2008. Lehman Brothers paid Kasich a $182,692 salary and $432,200 bonus in 2008. Kasich stated that the bonus was for work performed in 2007.

  20. Conservatives are literally claiming that CNBC is biased heavily toward liberals. They actually believe this shit.

    1. He's right, though. And his summary of the questions was hilariously accurate.

      Too bad he's such an unlikeable douchebag squirting out terrible ideas.

  21. Some of these candidates are desperate. Just claiming everyone in the media is in bed with the Democrats to try to get the craziest portion of the vote. And they wonder why Trump/Carson are leading in their primary…

  22. Um, did Marco Rubio just call out his parents for not saving enough for him to go to college without getting a loan?

    Yeah, that might work with millennials, but the boomer and GenX parents who have to choose between funding college and retirement won't appreciate that one…

  23. You know why so many women lost their jobs under Obama, iCarly? One reason is the cutbacks in federal/state/local government JOBS, asshole…

  24. RP : Fiorina's stat is wrong. 90% of the job gains under Obama in the first year of the recovery went to men, not job losses for women.

    1. Thanks–I thought that seemed off, but couldn't remember why. IIRC, in 2008 – 2009 they were saying more men than women lost jobs, so that kind of makes sense that more men would get jobs as the economy stopped imploding. Plus a lot of the stimulus jobs were in construction, so that helped too.

  25. ‏@JohnFugelsang 1 minute ago

    Ms Fiorina if it could be done tastefully would you consider releasing Rapunzel from the tower?

  26. "The Democrats have the ultimate superpac: it's called the mainstream media!"

    Marco, for fuck's sake, the fact that your party's witch hunt could not take down Hillary is not the fault of the media–even conservative commentators admitted that they had nothing. STFU, you whiner…

  27. BENGHAZI!!1!!11

    Oh, and the Main Stream Media is, in fact a Democrat Party Super Pac.. Good to know! I'm sure that the Clintons are happy to hear that the New York Times is really on their side now.

  28. Huck wants more time because everyone else went over? Wasn't he the one whose opening line was that his weakness is following the rules?

  29. Kasich wants to talk about income inequality? There go his chances at getting sweet campaign contributions from the Kochs et al…

    …oh wait, he is babbling about tax cuts. Never mind, he'll be fine..

  30. ‏@PFTCommenter 3 minutes ago

    "Yes I would feel extremeley more comfortable if Jose Canseco brought a firearm to work"

    1. Damn, I was going to try to make a better version of that comment.

      For reference, Christie basically said cops are unable to do wrong.

  31. So wait, did Rand Paul just claim we need to have more kids so we have more workers? Might be a bit hard to do that with my girlfriend…

  32. Carson (calmly): "What we'll do, I'd give the old folks the option of contracting with the private sector to be killed and turned into these little green squares…this country can feed the world."

    Harwood: *stares*

  33. How cute, Marco thinks the Republicans have 10 good candidates running for President and the Dems can't come up with one.

    Well, I guess if by "good" you mean "fucking hilarious and frightening at the same time" then the college boy is on to something…

  34. ‏Patton Oswalt got tired of this and started describing GOP candidates as D&D characters.

    Ted Cruz = dwarf cleric with 3 Charisma.
    John Kasich = level 4 fighter with standard plate armor and a standard long sword, 10 strength
    Chris Christie = shambling mound
    Carly Fiorinia = level 5 Drow elf with a + 1 Ring of Vampiric rrgeneration
    Rand Paul = halfling thief
    Jeb Bush = NPC with 8s in all attributes and leather armor
    Ben Carson = necromancer, 19 intelligence, 4 wisdom
    Marco Rubio = paladin, 18 charisma, all other stats 9, cursed broadsword
    Mike Huckabee = gelatinous cube
    Trump = level 21 demi-liche, Lamarkin's Rod of Disease, Cloak of Revulsion

  35. … The questions were the opposite of substantive, Trump. And the debates were different because they were hosted by different networks. Seriously, what is logic anymore?

    1. I am disappointed that they didn't get to talk about the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our Precious Bodily Fluids, but you can't expect everything.

  36. Are you all OK? I didn't watch a second of it but read all y'all's comments. You are all either amazingly insane or insanely amazing. Both.

      1. I'm reading the front page's stuff now (not the comments since there are over two-freaking-thousand of them so far) and it sounds like it was just painful. Like, hook-me-up-to-an-IV-of-something-NOW painful. Wow.

        Meanwhile, it was a great World Series game because the Mets lost. Again.

        1. CNBC handled it as badly as any moderators I've ever seen, and the GOP spent half the debate attacking the "liberal media." That debate is probably going to have the GOP screaming publicly about some bs media bias thing for the rest of the election.

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