Debate Open Thread – UPDATED!
I am staying at home tonight to watch the debate with Bubba. I might have trouble not cussing and I don’t have any friends who would not tell Momma.
I have invitations to debate parties for the other debates but this one – alone with Bubba.
UPDATE: Sorry, I accidentally erased the update. So, I’m starting over.
Just published: $2.3 million in Trump tax evasion. Thank you, Washington Post.
Oh, and there’s more ….
The Trump campaign filed a report with the FEC describing this dude as “retired.” Retired, my sweet patootie. Russian oil executives don’t retire. Making a false statement to the FEC is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
Toby Ziegler was just on msnbc. I’m taking that as a good sign. By the way, am I the only one here who’s wondering why in the hell did Hillary’s campaign agree to a debate moderated by Chris Wallace? Does anyone think Donnie’s folks would’ve agreed to having Rachel Maddow preside?
1I am behind on my chores. I will probably get the volume up so I can hear whatever in any part of the house. Last time there was a Presidential campaign debate series I was busy ironing my husband’s shirts. Hey,that’s life!
2The debate drinking game:
http://www.clotureclub.com/2016-presidential-debate-drinking-game/
3Trump’s preliminary shot: “The moderator’s a Democrat, so it’s rigged.” He was informed that the man’s a registered Republican, and then allowed that maybe he’d be fair, then.
I’ve been watching his climb in the polls with increasing horror. My brain just can’t even accept that this… *this* has a shot at actually being elected President of the United States. Reagan was bad, Dubya was worse… how low can this country sink?
4https://goo.gl/FksKAE
That’s a Debate Bingo card from the Politicalprof blog. Enjoy.
5Thanks Chloe. That might cause me to make mistakes on my Debate Bingo card though, but I’ll just do a Scumpf – I’ll lie about it. No apologies!
6I’m going to my first ever debate party, which is for campaign volunteers. Looking forward to actually getting to express myself in public, amongst my peeps. Though I’ll probably have to watch my language – I usually express my passions through profanity.
7No one can talk about Don The Con, with out profanity.
8It can’t be done.
I’m heading to a party, thanks for the link on the bingo card!
9The way the networks are hyping up this debate is ridiculous.
10Trump will lie and say outrageous offensive things. Hillary will be thoughtful and outline her agenda. The Drumpf-ites will not be swayed, nor will those supporting Hillary. It will not be a real debate, because the Donald doesn’t know enough to debate.
Tomorrow, Drumpf will be called the winner because he didn’t swear allegiance to Russia on camera. TV appearances are no longer informative. They’re a chance for Drumpf to swagger and “act presidential”. It’s not an even playing field.
I’m so depressed that the polls are even close.
I would not tell Momma.
11I’ll watch as much of the debate as I can before I want to throw things at the TV screen. I’m guessing about ten minutes.
12I will be in a Spanish class from 6 to 8, but even if I wasn’t, I would probably just follow the live commentaries and, maybe after it’s all over, go back and watch part or all of it.
13“According to POLITICO’s five-day analysis, Trump averaged about one falsehood every three minutes and 15 seconds over nearly five hours of remarks.”
The debate will be no different. Scumpf will lie every 3.25 seconds his mouth is open.
14I am seeing more Trump signs, making me nervous.
15UPDATE: Ruh-roh!
16Why do I get the feeling that those two revelations in the update will be met with the sound of crickets chirping? Past experience, maybe.
17debate parties…
With Trump on the screen, debate party hosts had better lay in double the usual volume of liquor per person. That calculation holds for Republicans (I’m assuming 93% drive big pickups and listen to Toby Keith now) as well as Democrats.
18My unofficial sports book is now open. With less than two hours until debate time, any takers on Donnie weaseling out?
The action on Hilz by a TKO or a complete blitz is offering 1:23 odds and 1:20 odds. Feel free to contribute. All proceeds will go to electing a Democratic Senate. Any excess will be targeted at a Democratic House in 2018.
😉 and a 10% vigorish to cover to remove Loathsome Ted in 2018.
19Trump debating is like a pigeon playing chess: he’ll knock over the pieces, crap all over the board, and then strut about as if he’d won.
20Rhea, Donnie doesn’t play chess nor does he offer it to his birds. In Drumpf casinos chickens play tic-tax-toe. The odds are almost as abysmal as the chances of Donnie paying his income tax.
21FYI: Bloomberg TV network is going to have live fact-checking during the debate. “On the off-chance Holt doesn’t hold the candidates accountable when they flash a fictitious delusion, the video below will alert any viewers.”
22I’m halfway through a large glass of Paul Newman’s Cabernet Sauvignon, about the only way to survive watching ninety minutes of the master bullchit artiste Papa Don DuTrumplier.
I also put my short-barreled pump 12gauge Mossberg streetsweeper, loaded with alternating 3″mag 00-buckshot and slugs, way back in a walk-in closet; I’d rather keep my TV in working condition.
23Sandridge, I think you are as well prepared as it is possible to be. Best of luck to you.
And Best of Luck to All Friends of TWMDBS!!!
24Debbo, I’ve heard a couple bags of Maui Wowee work very well too…
25(and all those other varieties, in Hawaii once got a t-shirt with that motif– all diff weed names; wore it while mowing the lawn but stopped, stuff not popular around my RWNJ ‘hood…)
Andy Borowitz
15 mins ·
Trump’s Repeated Sniffing Indicates He Has Only Days to Live
26Damn! I didn’t get “Trump University, Clinton Foundation” or “Affordable Care Act” on my Bingo card.
Scumpf went off the rails in the 2nd half of the debate. He babbled and blathered and became only semi-coherent. Hillary was magnificent. Spot on, calm, funny, even, energetic. Home run.
27Clinton never coughed!
First 26 minutes Trump interrupted Clinton 40 times and then I lost track.
28Scumpf also sucked down lots of (O Marco, where art thou?) water, made continuous faces, sniffed and couldn’t stand still. Plus, he doesn’t have the stamina for a mere 90 minutes debate. Hillary killed it with her response to the health/stamina issue.
Hillary had the “Presidential Look.” Scumpf had the “carnival side show” look.
29Nuff said!
30http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57e98ff9e4b024a52d29be77
Didn’t watch. Butched up and tuned in a 10:40. It was over and the candidates were working the crowd. Well, Hillz and Bill were. Drumpf skunked off with Ivanka and his brood in tow leaving H&B on camera! It was a hoot.
OMG! Christie is on MSNBC, fat, flushed, and blathering. Sound is off, thank God. Guess I’ll get the post mortem later. Rachel will have a ball with this one, I’m sure. G’nite all.
31Well, the only voters this will have any effect on are undecideds. So the question we have to hope they’re asking themselves is: If Donnie gets as rattled as he did the last half of the debate from talking to a 5 ft. tall American woman, how’s he gonna hold up for 4 years facing real problems and crises 24/7?
32Hillary didn’t need to do much to bait him. Trump was yelling and incoherent the last 50 minutes or so. And this is the man the GOP supports for Prez? Trump is a madman and should never be our CIC. Put a fork in that Repub turkey!
33Donnie actually said Hillary didn’t have the stamina for the job. Just saw Hillary speaking at a rally. Still going strong. Can only assume Donnie’s got some little illegal immigrant rubbing his feet.
34I’m not a big Hillary fan but will gladly vote for her. She ate Crooked Donald’s lunch tonight; and then she threw it up and make Donald eat it. While he was better the first 30 minutes, he was also making sniffing noises, interrupting Hillary and drinking water. She looked good and was strong throughout the debate.
35Chris Matthews just compared the debate to “A Few Good Men”, with Trump playing Jack Nicholson and Clinton as Tom Cruise. (Me: “You want me to build that wall, you need me to build that wall!”)
Hillary blew a golden opportunity. Regarding Obama’s birth certificate, she should have said: “I really stand in awe of Mr. Trump. Never have I heard someone brag that he got someone else to prove him a liar.”
36Had rehearsal tonight & am just now watching the debate. Trump is practically incoherent and tripping all over himself. Soon as I could after getting home, watched some of the live after-the-debate coverage. I think he has hurt himself.
37When he gazes off to his right, what the heck is he looking at?
38A decisive win for Secretary Clinton — Trump blathered all the same crap he always says and became incoherent after the first 20 minutes. Tough to make 20 minutes of BS last for an hour and a half. Hillary killed him!
39I LOVED IT … Hillary was spot on the entire time!
40Trump lied in the first 20 minutes … someone reported he lied immediately!!
P.P. — Oh, do you really think Donnie’s Melania would lower herself to rub his little tootsies? Oh, that’s right … she’s not an illegal anymore! 🙂
He was rude, incoherent, making faces, kept snuffling his nose, drinking water, interrupting and, LYING his ugly orange face off!! LOL
Re: the Trump signs. His campaign is giving them away and they are out in the open doing it. All of the local Hillary offices do not have a single yard sign and have no idea when they may get them. I went to three of those offices and finally got one for $5 at the local market square in an old part of town. The Dems staffing this table had no idea why all the local offices would be so bereft. Perhaps this debate will suddenly flood all the offices across the country with give away yard signs and just forget about the campaign website and their $15 to $20 each deal on yard signs. Dammit, they had better hurry!
41If Trump took coke he clearly didn’t take enough.
42A friend sent this funny to me:
Donald Trump goes on a fact-finding visit to Israel. While he is on a tour of Jerusalem he suffers a heart attack and dies.
The undertaker tells the American diplomats accompanying him, ‘You can have him shipped home for $50,000, or you can bury him here, in the Holy Land for just $100.’
The American diplomats go into a corner to discuss for a few minutes. They return with their answer to the undertaker and tell him they want Donald Trump shipped home.
The undertaker is puzzled and asks, ‘Why would you spend $50,000 to ship him home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $100?
The American diplomats reply, ‘Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. We just can’t take the risk.’
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