Debate Parties
Hey guys, what ya doing tonight?
We are having my family over for wine and popcorn. We will also provide Nerf balls to throw at the teevee.
I, of course, will sit merrily watching the little kid’s debate at 4:00, Texas time. I hope they put Lindsey Graham and Rick Perry next to each other. It’d be great if they start slapping each other. In my mind, the early debate is the best one because the only thing to watch in the big debate is Donald Trump. In the early debate, all the contestants are crazy. And there’s nothing more fun than crazy desperate people trying to make a name for themselves.
Y’all, Bubba calls the 4:00 debate The Happy Hour Debate.
Then there’s the big debate. The contestants in that one are fun, too. The ones who ain’t crazy and/or stoopid are downright mean.
Okay, I gotta go start popping the corn.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-official-gop-debate-drinking-game-rules-20150805
above link is Matt Taibbi’s drinking game for tonight’s debate.
1Watching and snacking at my county Dem Women’s HQ. Does champagne go with popcorn?
2Since these guys are such big advocates of the right to bear arms, I think it would be fun to give them something for the debate.
I’m not saying guns, that would be silly.
Maybe just bats. Or police batons.
After all, with weapons like that, if you haven’t done anyting wrong, then you’ve got nothing to worry about, right? An armed society is a polite society.
3Katy: how about those ubersize water guns? Or paintball! Yes! Winner has the most color splotches! This could be fun.
4Predictions tonight:
Trump: Winner! (Just ask him)
5Bush: I’m just happy to be here (not!)
Walker: America will see how smart he is (not very)
Huckabee: Holy finger wagging, Batman!
Cruz: Crazy
Paul: Sleepy
Christie:Whiny
Carson: Doc
Rubio: Needs a booster chair.
Kasich: I’m just happy to be here (true!)
I want to keep dinner down and will watch Anderson Cooper.
6I gave up booze and cable TV a long time ago and I doubt that my blood pressure could endure more than a half hour or so of that intense crazy. Besides, I prefer to watch the comedians covering it rather than the real news reporters.
7I have another commitment (not the psychiatric kind), but will be watching off & on as I can. My only regret is The Daily Show won’t be on to review both debacles next week.
Damn you, Jon Stewart! 😉
8I think they should have included all 17 candidates and then played it like musical chairs. Every fifteen minutes or so they would all start wandering to the tune of “For What It’s Worth” while crew came in and removed one podium. Then the music stops and they all bash each other to get one of the remaining podiums. The Republican base is only interested in the bashing anyway.
Carol, my drinking game is going to be to take a shot every time a candidate says something rational or suggests something that would serve the public good. I expect to go to bed stone cold sober. Taibbi’s game would undoubtedly be fatal.
9I think they should arm the audience with nerfballs or paintballs. Then the audience can show their reactions to the statements. We could even put up see through shields for each podium and then as the paint clings to it the person would be less and less visible.
There are some real viable options to make the event audience interactive…perhaps set up stun charges on each candidate and buttons for voting in audience and after each response the audience can vote truth or lie based on what they perceive and if enough “lie” votes hit the candidate gets shocked.
10I don’t have cable TV. I’m going to be reading the live blog at Wonkette.
11I vote for the old-fashioned weapons that court jesters used to use: inflated pig bladders! Painted gaily, with ribbons and bells. That would really make it fun when the debaters have a difference of opinion!
12Perhaps some fish slapping will occur. Just leave out the fish.
13I’m having some friends over to laugh at the clowns. I made a BINGO game with GOP talking points.
14I’ll be watching guys erecting wind turbines in NW by gawd ioway like I have been doing for the past two plus years. Turbines should get a good boost of hot air tonight. These dang thangs pop up in the middle of some of the most fertile farm ground the world has ever seen. Hunnerts of ’em.
15I refuse to watch Faux News for any reason…
I’ll wait for Jon Stewart to cover it on his last show…
16That Trumpirhana is going into the pool and y’all will notice that the ‘soft bits’ of the GOPosaurs already in the water are just below the surface (Trumpirhana will probably have a hard time finding those teeny tiny ‘nads of most of them anyway).
It should be interesting to see things degenerate into a ‘nad ripping event (or we can hope).
Is this going to be on the local OTA Fux Nooz channels, or just the payfor cable/sat venues?
epo, Those wind farms have been popping up all around here for a long time, TX has the largest installed wind base and is unlikely to fall behind (solar coming on too):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas
Like this one near me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papalote_Creek_Wind_Farm
Kind of hypnotic to watch them while driving by.
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Lorraine in Spring says:
Damn you, Jon Stewart!
When I noticed the scheduling of the Republican Debate I imagined someone at Fox News looking at the calender and asking, “when is Stewart’s last day?”
18“Public health officials are urging Americans to exercise caution if they choose to participate in “drinking games” during the first Republican primary debate…”
“Murthy suggested that people play a safer variation of the traditional debate drinking game by only consuming alcohol when one of the candidates says something reasonable.” <– Bwa ha ha! Wash, rinse & repeat. BWA HA HA!
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/health-officials-warn-that-you-could-die-playing-gop-debate-drinking-games-its-a-formula-for-disaster/
19Here are some useful charts to throw at the TV when anybody starts snarking about how terrible things are under President Obama, how the economy has gone to hell and the Mexicans are invading and we aren’t spending nearly enough on the military and climate change is a hoax and a fake:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/06/five-useful-charts-to-have-on-hand-for-the-first-2016-gop-presidential-debate/
20@platypus- those turbines may stand there blowin in the wind, but the ground under them is still eminently farmable. Many farmers including lots in the acronym state IOWA{Idiots Out Wandering Around) depend on the checks from renting that ground.The whole of the plains states should be covered with them.
21No reason Stewart can’t do occasional specials,is there? It is in his blood.
22While this is Jon Stewart’s last night, the show was taped prior to the debates 🙁
23Saw on my computer today that the 5 PM kiddie play time was being called the “prelude event.” (Guffaw!!!) Well, that told me to forget about watching and instead do all the ironing inasmuch as I don’t have any formal wear to my name for some damn prelude.
24Serious question-is that a horn o’ plenty on Trump’s noggin or is it plenty o’ horn?
25l’angelomisterioso, too much cement under the turbines to farm and the access roads are off limits. It took a number of years of having giant towers record wind speeds and directions befor the decision was made to place turbines around here. They won’t work just anywhere. iowa farmland has some of the highest appraised values ever even though crop prices have dropped precipitously. I’m expecting another farm crisis like we had in iowa back in the 80’s.
26Throwing Piranha Don into the water will liven things up. I’m with Ralph. I don’t want to watch. Anyone in the Austin area who wants to go BOOO together can meet up at Scholz Garten for the evening.
27I just now ran across this. Sorry. Think you missed the party at Scholz Garten but you can go check it out….