Image via ShutterstockYou can watch this deba(te|cle) over the web here, but you’ll need to have a cable TV account. Here’s our first thread to live-blog the mess, as a pack of Republicans tries to pretend they have the best plan for America’s economy, even though some of them (I’m looking at you, Bobby Jindal) have ruined their own states with right wing economic policies.
The ceremonial Arrival of the Giant Puppets. pic.twitter.com/MHnKuvH17D
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
debate narrators forlornly pining for substance
Pouring one. Be back in time for the “Nos Morituri”.
To all the people watching this dreck: thank you, for taking one for the team!
Watching these CNBC dimwits chatter away, I can almost feel the brain cells dying.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
Just posted this in the previous thread right as this came up…
Well, unless they carry a Formula One race because NBCSports has another event on at the same time, which does happen, there sure is nothing about CNBC that would make me watch this crap. God the talking heads on currently are just terrible. I guess anyone can work in TV.
GOP Candidate: Dear Coloradans and other Americans, here is a list of the things we’ll take away from you and not let you do anymore
Populace: What do we get in return?
GOP Candidate: Freedom!
I’m watching my nephew’s soccer practice. The boys are 6… They seem to understand soccer better than the republican candidates understand policy.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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Giant puppets, are there any problems that they can’t solve?
re: #6 Charles Johnson
That seems a shame, when there are so many more enjoyable ways to kill brain cells
Arrgh got the spinning wheel of death trying to login to xfinity and I can’t be arsed to go downstairs and turn on the actual TV.
re: #9 KGxvi
I’m watching my nephew’s soccer practice. The boys are 6… They seem to understand soccer better than the republican candidates understand policy.
World Series Game 2 here. Fuck the Republicans - or rather, they can go right off and fuck themselves. I don’t give two shits about which one they pick, I’m voting against him.
Yup, there’s old dumbfuck Kudlow. This is really going to suck.
re: #13 thedopefishlives
I mainly just want to be home in time to watch the Lakers in about two hours. The rest is gravy
I’ll opt for the WS as well. Fox Sports incompetence is usually funnier than Fox News-wannabe incompetence.
re: #16 KGxvi
I mainly just want to be home in time to watch the Lakers in about two hours. The rest is gravy
Is that some new form of community service?
Starting to think the CNBC anchors are fully baked on that sweet sweet Colorado herb.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
Huck is the only one not wearing a flag pin, he hates America.
I’m not watching and I’m walking away. Much better things to do. Watch rain fall in darkness…..Guess wind speed while inside house…..Wonder where mind went….BBL.
re: #17 Brian J.
I kind of want to watch the WS just to see if Buck drops the joke from the Dan Lebatard Show this morning.
As for the Lakers, I’m honestly fascinated by what they’ll be this season. This is the first year I’ve watched and have no idea what to expect
Anyone have a seedier feed? I no pay for cabul.
re: #25 b.d.
Has anyone ever been high and watched CNBC before?
Some people take financial advice from these clowns.
re: #25 b.d.
Has anyone ever been high and watched CNBC before?
Lots of people in Boulder are right now, I presume. (I lived there for 10 years).
re: #29 Skip Intro
Not for very long, as I understand it
re: #31 b.d.
No way.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, I doubt they’ll be asked to address the fact that in the seventh year of the supposedly devastating Obama administration, the Dow is up by nearly 1,500 points… in October.
Let’s stop being so nice about the opening debate. It’s not the kiddie table debate, it’s the short bus debate.
re: #38 Targetpractice
Too damn long.
Drinking games make it go faster. Or at least, you remember less of it in the morning.
re: #28 Amory Blaine
Anyone have a seedier feed? I no pay for cabul.
I cut the cord awhile back. Trust me, it’s better this way.
re: #35 Brian J.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, I doubt they’ll be asked to address the fact that in the seventh year of the supposedly devastating Obama administration, the Dow is up by nearly 1,500 points… in October.
Today Obama crossed the Gallup approval 50% line, pretty much the first time since 2012 election.
So who’s “winning” this thing? I already know who’s losing.
re: #41 thedopefishlives
Drinking games make it go faster. Or at least, you remember less of it in the morning.
Or, if you make it the right way, carry the chance of alcohol poisoning to make the hurting stop.
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re: #49 HappyWarrior
So who’s “winning” this thing? I already know who’s losing.
Anybody not watching it.
Well none of my streaming sites can open the CNBC stream so I guess it’s baseball tonight.
Oh, I’ve got a weakness for you Huck. How about the fact that you have a gaping, festering wound instead of a heart or soul?
re: #50 Targetpractice
Or, if you make it the right way, carry the chance of alcohol poisoning to make the hurting stop.
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Yeah, unfortunately, that doesn’t really work so well. You still remember the hurting when you wake up from your alcohol coma.
re: #53 WhatEVs
In lieu of an opening statement.
Because in two hours it’ll be past Trumpy Dumpy’s bedtime.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
So who’s “winning” this thing? I already know who’s losing.
We’re losing. All of US.
Trump: “My greatest weakness is I trust people too much!” Perfect.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
candidates: fuck your stupid weakness question i have a prepared statement
Ben Carson: I don’t really want to be here, that’s my weakness.
re: #55 Single-handed sailor
Well none of my streaming sites can open the CNBC stream so I guess it’s baseball tonight.
“My biggest weakness is that I’m just too amazing and wonderful.”
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
“here’s my carefully practiced smile!”
re: #63 Charles Johnson
Trump: “My greatest weakness is I trust people too much!”
Not what the pre-nups say.
re: #52 Targetpractice
Anybody not watching it.
I win! I win! It’s great not having cable-I can’t be tempted into wasting my time watching. I can waste it reading posts here instead. Double win.
So like I said, none of them have any weaknesses.
cruz always thinks he’s gonna scare talk his way to the top
No Cruz I wouldn’t be able to drink with you before the night was over I would want to punch you.
re: #78 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
cruz always thinks he’s gonna scare talk his way to the top
Hey, it worked for their idol, Ronald Reagan.
Yeah, I’m just heartbroken that I have to work right now, so I can’t stream the debate.
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Hillary Clinton is Christie’s weakness (according to him).
re: #82 Amory Blaine
Hillary Clinton is Christie’s weakness (according to him).
My answer? Kryptonite. Kryptonite is my weakness.
Rand Paul just launches into his stump speech. Hey wait, what about your biggest weakness, Aqua Buddha?
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
The primary candidates are counting on the fact that primary voters don’t know which branch of government spending comes from.
Good question to Trump. Basically, “are you nuts?”.
Call congress tomorrow and say don’t pay our bills, yeah that’s smart Paul.
re: #82 Amory Blaine
Hillary Clinton is Christie’s weakness (according to him).
Hillary Clinton is their common weakness. Like cyanide or explosions would be.
Smart to begin the debate with a question almost everyone will ignore
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 29, 2015
100% True #GOPDebate Factoid: If a moderator says his name three times fast Ben Carson will turn into Candyman. pic.twitter.com/7Rq382sdcF
— g’damnedfrankenstein (@goddamnedfrank) October 29, 2015
mr trump: i know a cartoon duck named donald. is that you?
re: #92 Skip Intro
Trump got a mean question. Now he’s mad.
Is he going to call for that moderator to be fired?
Every time Trump starts with this “Mexico’s gonna pay for the big beautiful wall,” I just start snickering. What idiot believes this?
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
Get rid of Larry Kudlow! Hey, I agree with Trump.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
The idiots who think brown people are inferior.
Circa 2007, Larry Kudlow said the Bush economy was “the greatest story never told.” He’s part of #CNBCGOPDebate coverage
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 28, 2015
Beautiful 5-4-3 DP by the Royals in the second, but you didn’t get to see it so THBPBPBP.
I just cracked a can of Shipyard’s Pumpkinhead. So effing good.
Wait a minute Cruz was bragging about drinking? Doesn’t the fundie Bible frown on drinking? Then again it also frowns on bad Simpsons impressions too.
re: #100 Jenner7
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Cool will Rumplestilkin and the otehr beloved fairy tale characters also make cameos?
Promises and delusions. Suck it up conservatives, these are your clowns!
re: #103 HappyWarrior
Wait a minute Cruz was bragging about drinking? Doesn’t the fundie Bible frown on drinking? Then again it also frowns on bad Simpsons impressions too.
It’s a tough balancing act between acting natural enough to be likable and acting fundamental enough to be electable. You have to choose your sins wisely; drinking is a good one because although it’s technically frowned upon, almost everybody does it anyway.
So the boyfriend has spared us both from the idiocy. He’s watching Arrow while I sit here online with Spotify shuffling as I sit here.
True story — this is the song that just came up on my playlist:
Even the Spotify shuffle function knows that none of the tools on the GOP stage can hold a candle to POTUS.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
Every time Trump starts with this “Mexico’s gonna pay for the big beautiful wall,” I just start snickering. What idiot believes this?
watch any gop candidate rally
re: #106 thedopefishlives
It’s a tough balancing act between acting natural enough to be likable and acting fundamental enough to be electable. You have to choose your sins wisely; drinking is a good one because although it’s technically frowned upon, almost everybody does it anyway.
I was being silly. But reallly the Calgary Kid is the last one of these guys I’d drink with. Huckabee may be fun since you could get him to admit that he really doesn’t believe in God.
Who knew Kasich would end up being the only Republican trying to push back against the nuttiness ruling this campaign?
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
kasich so fed up he’s acting suicidal
re: #110 HappyWarrior
I was being silly. But reallly the Calgary Kid is the last one of these guys I’d drink with. Huckabee may be fun since you could get him to admit that he really doesn’t believe in God.
I know you were being silly, but I wanted to give a serious answer because it does deserve some serious consideration. You are right - fundamentalist doctrine preaches heavily against the evils of alcohol. It’s right up there with - gasp - PREMARITAL SEX.
LOL As much as I agree with the things he has to say about his fellow candidates, it’s amusing to watch Kasich rail against impossible fantasies while he tilts at the Republican nomination windmill. The irony…
re: #106 thedopefishlives
It’s a tough balancing act between acting natural enough to be likable and acting fundamental enough to be electable. You have to choose your sins wisely; drinking is a good one because although it’s technically frowned upon, almost everybody does it anyway.
Claiming you can drink a lot has a pretty poor recent electoral record. Here’s UK Conservative leader William Hague, on his way to being crushed by Tony Blair in 2001, claiming he once drank 14 pints of beer a day.
Trump now going for Kasich’s throat.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
Donald Trump. Walking Democrat Super PAC.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 29, 2015
Kasich: “Don’t scare seniors and say you’re gonna get rid of medicare and medicaid… That’s not responsible!”
AND Trump knows Ben Carson’s financial impact from lehman bros tanking? Could they be colluding?
trump: i will fix things by attacking all critics immediately
re: #115 Decatur Deb
Does he have a can of fish oil?
I guess he’s the last guy left who remembers Bulworth. Did he buy an insurance policy lately?
Ooooh. Kasich Trump wars…just like I figured. Let’s see how Johnny handles it, and how dickish he does it.
re: #113 thedopefishlives
I know you were being silly, but I wanted to give a serious answer because it does deserve some serious consideration. You are right - fundamentalist doctrine preaches heavily against the evils of alcohol. It’s right up there with - gasp - PREMARITAL SEX.
Premarital sex was an innovation by Adam and Eve, right?
Give Trump and Kasich each a chainsaw and let them get after it.
Fast forwarding through Kasich gives some scary images.
#CNBCDebate Kasich: “These plans would put us trillions and trillions of dollars in debt” — sanity arrives on stage for a moment.
— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) October 29, 2015
re: #124 b.d.
Give Trump and Kasich each a chainsaw and let them get after it.
Lock them in a room with a single brick. Tell them the last one standing wins the nomination.
re: #117 Charles Johnson
He should, Kasich is no boy scout.
Kasich committing political seppuku on stage, eh?
Does anyone else wonder how Ben Carson managed to stay awake during an operation?
I’m not able to watch the debate since I’m stuck at work - I’m going to guess that MSNBC in their infinite wisdom does not have their best interviewer (Rachel Maddow - I base this on her work when she hosts Meet the Press) as a panel member or as Moderator.
Ben Shapiro and John Nolte now slobbering over Donald Trump. The meaner he gets the more they dig him.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
re: #103 HappyWarrior
Wait a minute Cruz was bragging about drinking? Doesn’t the fundie Bible frown on drinking? Then again it also frowns on bad Simpsons impressions too.
Scary Muslims don’t drink, so true conservatives must brag about alcohol consumption.
Carly: my tax plan will not kill one baby…not one…
i encourage them to continue savaging each other
Has Carlie evaporated? No one’s mentioned her yet.
Edit: I need to type faster…
re: #133 Bill and Opus for 2016!
I’m not able to watch the debate since I’m stuck at work - I’m going to guess that MSNBC in their infinite wisdom does not have their best interviewer (Rachel Maddow - I base this on her work when she hosts Meet the Press) as a panel member or as Moderator.
CNBC
Bottom line, though: Kasich is a hypocrite. He was a huge Tea Party booster and had no qualms about spouting extremism when it benefited him. He’s so far behind he’s made a political calculation to seem like a moderate, but it’s just another sham.
re: #139 stpaulbear
She said she would bring the tax code down to 3 pages for freedumb or some stupid thing.
re: #139 stpaulbear
Has Carlie evaporated? No one’s mentioned her yet.
I mentioned a while back that the GOP machine would not let Carly get the nomination. I stand by my statement.
Those poor people can’t afford cable, so they are not watching this debate.
“Middle-class families, if that’s what you call them, are what make this country great.” https://t.co/mOZnFC7btZ pic.twitter.com/As1cTK3UqA
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 29, 2015
Love it! The moderators debate, too. Freedom is a lovely thing. #GOPDebate
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 29, 2015
re: #144 Amory Blaine
She said she would bring the tax code down to 3 pages for freedumb or some stupid thing.
Someone who thinks every financial transaction conducted by 320 million people and millions of corporations, nonprofit enterprises, and other legal entities can be described and properly taxed in three pages is… not much of a businesswoman or politician. Is Carly Fiorina, then.
re: #143 Charles Johnson
Bottom line, though: Kasich is a hypocrite. He was a huge Tea Party booster and had no qualms about spouting extremism when it benefited him. He’s so far behind he’s made a political calculation to seem like a moderate, but it’s just another sham.
Yep. That’s precisely how I feel too Charles.
re: #149 Decatur Deb
Maddow moderates a Dem “forum” on 14 November.
Yeah I thought about that after, I have no cable so I plead dumb. But could you imagine if she did. Now that would tune me in!
re: #133 Bill and Opus for 2016!
I’m not able to watch the debate since I’m stuck at work - I’m going to guess that MSNBC in their infinite wisdom does not have their best interviewer (Rachel Maddow - I base this on her work when she hosts Meet the Press) as a panel member or as Moderator.
It’s all CNBC’s gig. It’s supposed to be about money. So, no Maddow.
And I bet the GOP would never allow Maddow near a debate. For reasons.
So have Christie and Paul gotten into a fistfight yet?
Jeb! doesn’t have the brains to attack anyone in real time.
re: #151 Brian J.
Someone who thinks every financial transaction conducted by 320 million people and millions of corporations, nonprofit enterprises, and other legal entities can be described and properly taxed in three pages is… not much of a businesswoman or politician. Is Carly Fiorina, then.
It could be done, it just would probably be very regressive and very unfair to the vast majority of the residents of the country.
re: #153 Blizard
Yeah I thought about that after, I have no cable so I plead dumb. But could you imagine if she did. Now that would tune me in!
Moderate the R’s, I mean. I need another beer, right? I’m not even watching this thing. Geeeez….
gop might end up suicidally running rubio
re: #158 Amory Blaine
And Rubio is prepackaged fast talking memorized attack lines.
re: #157 Lidane
So have Christie and Paul gotten into a fistfight yet?
“Genital herpes!”
“Stop saying that!”
Oh my god Jeb bush talking to Rubio like my dad lectures me about not putting gas in the car #GOPDebate
— DigitalBridget (@BridgetMarie) October 29, 2015
One question I have for the Republicans when they talk about simplifying the tax code to extreme levels: what are you going to do about all the people who are put out of work? That has to make up about half of what accounting firms do, right?
Man, fuck those French who get to enjoy their lives! #GOPDebate
— Iras of Laura Mars (@ira) October 29, 2015
re: #160 Feline Fearless Leader
It could be done, it just would probably be very regressive and very unfair to the vast majority of the residents of the country.
Feature not a bug but you knew this.
Marco DISMANTLES Jeb DISMANTLES!!!!!!!!!!!
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) October 29, 2015
DISMANTLES, I SAY! DISMANTLES!!!!!! https://t.co/poKBsjEeDh
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
re: #167 Lidane
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Are they seriously whining about the French? Man what a bunch of lamesses.
re: #170 thedopefishlives
He’s getting that tingling in his leg.///
They’ve got cortisone injections to deal with that, right?
Go Jebrick! Go! #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/ONpat8M7iU
— g’damnedfrankenstein (@goddamnedfrank) October 29, 2015
re: #159 Brian J.
I just tried watching on my phone. The foxsportsgo app does not want me to watch for some reason
“Do you hate your job?” Marco Rubio: MANY MANY WORDS THAT ARE NOT “NO.” #GOPDebate
— Jeff Chu (@jeffchu) October 29, 2015
“…and the left just wants more of the same…”
hmm, let’s see… um, i know: fuck you
re: #162 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
gop might end up suicidally running rubio
Betting lines actually have Rubio as the nominee:
Scary, that.
I was recruited by the HP to defend the frontier against Zur and the Kodan Armada.
re: #174 goddamnedfrank
Ron Burgendy: Jeb what is that?
Jeb: it’s a gun from the future, Ron
Ron: where’d you get that?
Jeb: {hysterical laughter}
re: #143 Charles Johnson
Bottom line, though: Kasich is a hypocrite. He was a huge Tea Party booster and had no qualms about spouting extremism when it benefited him. He’s so far behind he’s made a political calculation to seem like a moderate, but it’s just another sham.
Moderate being relative. He is more moderate than a lot of them. But that is in relation to how far right the other have driven. Overall, you are correct.
Carly thinks: “In the Middle Ages I could have had you drawn and quartered, bitch.” pic.twitter.com/cAPKJrgQxw
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
Rubio just destroying Jeb on the stage: the moment when you realize your son can beat you at hoops in the driveway. #GOPDebate
— Nick Morrow (@NRMorrow) October 29, 2015
re: #171 HappyWarrior
Are they seriously whining about the French? Man what a bunch of lamesses.
Apparently Jeb! had a “zinger” about Rubio’s work ethic. He compared it to a French work week.
carly explaining away her failures yet again?
Tom Perkins is the guy who complained that TEH RICHS IS JUST LIKE TEH HOLOCAUST VICTIMS!!!!!!
re: #180 Major Tom
I was recruited by the HP to defend the frontier against Zur and the Kodan Armada.
Yea, but “The Last Sane GOP Moderate” doesn’t really work as a movie title.
Carly: Yeah, I was fired and the dude who fired me said he made a mistake.
Moderator: Yeah, that dude thinks rich people should get more votes.
Whoopsy.
Carly is just such a fucking tool, trying to spin her MASSIVE FAIL as GREAT SUCCESS!
re: #184 Charles Johnson
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I’m sorry but that hairstyle to me looks like her face just hatched out of a giant nut.
Oh…so now Cruz wants to be the nice guy. Fucking fake.
I’m forsaking the Moron Circus for reading the Catiline Orations* with a mug of hot buttered rum while I wait for the baseball game to break out in between the commercials.
Now Cicero? There was a conservative who knew how to talk. :P
“But if his companions follow him,—if the infamous herd of desperate men depart from the city, O happy shall we be, fortunate will be the republic, illustrious will be the renown of my consulship. For theirs is no ordinary insolence,—no common and endurable audacity. They think of nothing but slaughter, conflagration, and rapine. They have dissipated their patrimonies, they have squandered their fortunes. Money has long failed them, and now credit begins to fail; but the same desires remain which they had in their time of abundance. “
Undead Cicero / Sanders 2016!
* purely coincidental to the debate, I’ve been hooked on a Roman history podcast lately and this is light side reading.
ooh poor babies hate tough questions
re: #193 Feline Fearless Leader
I’m sorry but that hairstyle to me looks like her face just hatched out of a giant nut.
She has Calista Gingrich’s stylist.
re: #179 Lidane
Betting lines actually have Rubio as the nominee:
Scary, that.
I note that Democrats are a 2/3 favorite at PaddyPower.
Considering that the GOP base wants to see the government shut down, Fiorina’s ability to run an org into the ground might be a plus.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) October 29, 2015
re: #199 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
ooh poor babies hate tough questions
They didn’t sign up for this job to have to think.
TED: HURR HURR THEIR ALL COMMUNISTS!!!!!!
Cru goes on full attack on the “Librul Media” always a winner for the GOP crowd.
re: #198 Pawn of the Oppressor
I’m forsaking the Moron Circus for reading the Catiline Oratories with a mug of hot buttered rum while I wait for the baseball game to break out in between the commercials.
Now Cicero? There was a conservative who knew how to talk. :P
Made a clean sweep of Varus.
What a clown show, but keep telling me Ted that this GOP line up is smarter and more experienced then the Democratic field. What an asshole.
wonderful hair pulling fight between the candidates and the moderators
carry on
In a manly conservative way, of course. pic.twitter.com/b5bKmcbX8L
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
re: #203 thedopefishlives
They didn’t sign up for this job to have to think.
Nothing new for Republicans, that.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
In a manly conservative way, of course.
I don’t know, Charles, with these conservative types, there’s a disturbingly high rate of gay sex scandals.
Ted: So you don’t want an answer..? nO? No? SO you Don’t want an answer?
Moderator: No. Shut up Ted.
Paul: “Raising the debt limit should be used as leverage”
If you’re just checking in, Cruz destroyed the bias of CNBC — the network where Rick Santelli launched the Tea Party #CNBCGOPDebate
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 29, 2015
re: #214 Amory Blaine
Paul: “Raising the debt limit should be used as leverage”
Only when Democrats are in office. he left that part out.
Ted Cruz knows you can always get an ovation from a right wing audience by bashing the media, even right wing CNBC.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
re: #201 Brian J.
The Democratic nominee at -150 seems too high, needs at least another zero
so far what i’ve learned from this debate is that everybody else is an asshole and fuck you, too
re: #220 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
so far what i’ve learned from this debate is that everybody else is an asshole and fuck you, too
Perfect description.
We know what Huck wants to do, instead of taking money out of people’s paychecks, he wants to take it out of stuff they buy.
How anyone with a working brain, beating heart, and conscience supports this party.
re: #216 Tigger2
Only when Democrats are in office. he left that out.
I don’t know. Rand seems like the type who just might try to fuck over his own party if they aren’t hardcore enough for him.
This #GOPDebate. pic.twitter.com/W04QRjCrXF
— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) October 29, 2015
re: #222 The Vicious Babushka
We know what Huck wants to do, instead of taking money out of people’s paychecks, he wants to take it out of stuff they buy.
Yep. A true bullying asshole that fcker.
Everybody on this stage thinks everybody else on this stage is an asshole. Except they all have exactly the same ideology.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
I’m working while watching, but I am truly getting nauseated watching and listening to these buffoons, particularly whiner in chief, Ted Cruz and the demon sheep, Carly.
Ugh.
re: #228 Charles Johnson
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Doesn’t mean any of them are wrong. (Not about their ideology, the other part.)
Wow, the Colorado thin air is already impacting the #CNBCGOPDebate
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) October 29, 2015
social security is sacred and we have to tell the american people the truth that it must be destroyed
re: #220 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
so far what i’ve learned from this debate is that everybody else is an asshole and fuck you, too
Policies - only democrats have policies
Shorter GOP debate: Government is evil. Vote for me.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
HUCKABEE WANTS TO INCREASE THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING BY 30%
That’s what “Fairtax” is.
Baby Ben makes a prediction.
Winners thus far: Cruz, Rubio, Trump. Those are your three frontrunners, ladies and gentlemen. Carson will fade.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2015
re: #233 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
social security is sacred and we have to tell the american people the truth that it must be destroyed
Conservative: Social Security is, indeed, sacrosanct. However people who rely upon it are parasites who contribute nothing to society, and should be classified as having “given up on looking for work.”
Why is CNBC telling me what’s on next? Don’t they know I’m one “previous channel” away from ANYTHING ELSE? Adorable.
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) October 29, 2015
re: #143 Charles Johnson
Lets look at some wiki.
Really a mixed bag.
2014 re-election campaign[edit]
Main article: Ohio gubernatorial election, 2014
In November 2014, Kasich won re-election, defeating Democrat Ed FitzGerald, the county executive of Cuyahoga County, 64% to 33%. He won 86 of 88 counties.
Kasich, who was elected with Tea Party support in 2010, faced some backlash from some tea party activists. His decision to accept the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid caused some Tea Party activists to refuse to support his campaign.In 1997, Kasich rose to national prominence after becoming “the chief architect of a deal that balanced the federal budget for the first time since 1969”—the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.[45]
In 1998, Kasich voted to impeach President Clinton on all four charges made against him.[46] In 1999, while the Senate prepared to vote on the charges, Kasich said: “I believe these are impeachable and removable offenses.”[47]In April 2015, Kasich signed a bill aimed at protecting Lake Erie’s water quality.[84][85] The bill places restrictions on the spread of manure and other fertilizers that contribute to toxic algal blooms and requires large public water treatment plants to monitor phosphorus levels.[84] The bill had been unanimously approved by both chambers of the Ohio Legislature the previous month.[84]
But YIKES!
Abortion[edit]
In June 2013, Kasich signed into law a state budget which included anti-abortion measures such as mandating any woman seeking an abortion to have a trans-abdominal ultrasound, and barring abortion providers from entering into emergency transfer agreements with public hospitals.[73] The bill stripped some $1.4 million in federal dollars from Planned Parenthood by placing the organization last on the priority list for family-planning funds.[73][74] The bill also provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers, which do not provide abortion referrals.[74] Under the budget, rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion.[74] Since 2011, Governor Kasich has signed 16 anti-abortion measures into law.[75]
re: #222 The Vicious Babushka
There was a time when I thought a national sales tax would be the way to go. But when you start considering what you’d have to exclude - real estate, food, probably clothing, possibly used items; and what you’d have to include - services; and the added cost to businesses to deal with it - it just doesn’t make sense.
Supplementing the income tax with a value added tax might make sense, but even that seems less useful than just fixing our current tax code
re: #238 Charles Johnson
. @benshapiro still looking for your nuts that Zoey Tur cut off, gelding boy?
— Annemarie Dickey (@Scottishlizard1) October 29, 2015
Ya’ll following on LGF, not one mention of SR. TRUMP????
re: #238 Charles Johnson
Baby Ben makes a prediction.
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re: #241 Great White Snark
Lets look at some wiki.
Really a mixed bag.
But YIKES!
Notable about that 2014 election: Kasich only increased his vote total by 55,000 from his 2010 nailbiter. Sadly, the Democrats’ Ed FitzGerald was a crapass candidate.
Kasich’s vote would have lost the Presidential election in Ohio in every year since 1972.
re: #242 KGxvi
There was a time when I thought a national sales tax would be the way to go. But when you start considering what you’d have to exclude - real estate, food, probably clothing, possibly used items; and what you’d have to include - services; and the added cost to businesses to deal with it - it just doesn’t make sense.
Supplementing the income tax with a value added tax might make sense, but even that seems less useful than just fixing our current tax code
I went over and read the plan on fairtax.org
It is so utterly fucked up I can even.
@JoshuaHol you’d think CNBC the supposed money people would mention that. Ha! Who am I kidding.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 29, 2015
This is why I don’t allow conservatives in my house. Makes we want to fucking puke.
somebody save jeb from the black hole
re: #250 Amory Blaine
This is why I don’t allow conservatives in my house. Makes we want to fucking puke.
A strict politics ga rule is apt. Hence why I haev an unofficial rule against politics on my facebook page.
Carson is going to completely ignore the question.
re: #244 Stanley Sea Toujours
They took a break from him, but he just responded to his bankruptcy problem.
Carson is pulling numbers out of his ass.
re: #255 Jenner7
They took a break from him, but he just responded to his bankruptcy problem.
I’ll read tomorrow.
Donald Trump on his debt-solving skills. #GOPdebate Follow our liveblog: https://t.co/V5YbgkauoO pic.twitter.com/Eqx9fcHPyE
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 29, 2015
Does Cramer have only one decibel level (max at all times)? #CNBCGOPDebate
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 29, 2015
re: #250 Amory Blaine
This is why I don’t allow conservatives in my house. Makes we want to fucking puke.
I have several in my family, most of them brainwashed from living in TX (no offense to those who live there that aren’t), but one of them is a big-whig in the Navy, really high up. It’s….hard…
What massive tax increase is Jeb! babbling about?
re: #260 WhatEVs
Does Cramer have only one decibel level (max at all times)?
Sham-Wow Guy, but you don’t get a real rag.
Who got this massive giant tax increase?
One of these people is actually going to be the nominee. I can’t see any of them winning though. They’re all terrible in one way or ten.
re: #262 The Vicious Babushka
What massive tax increase is Jeb! babbling about?
Obama finally letting the Bush tax cut on the ultra wealthy expire
Carly completely ignores the question and spews a talking point.
re: #264 Feline Fearless Leader
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Mets take a 1-0 lead just after a very close play at first kept the inning going.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
That ship sailed. Complete ban in effect. Makes me a dick? Don’t care. They’re dangerous, hypocritical assholes. The last people I want around me if the shit hits the fan.
carly creating brand new bullshit never even seen before - socialism creates monopoly capitalism!
Excuse me while I say what I really think: all of these people SUCK MIGHTILY. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
— Charred Monster (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2015
You know why Government doesn’t work it’s because Republicans break it so they can then run on Government doesn’t work.
For people who claim to hate big government, Republicans love using it to try and make health care decisions for women. #GOPdebate
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 29, 2015
Carly tried to combine 4 corporations and she’s babbling about “Big Capitalism”?
*vomits*
re: #273 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
carly creating brand new bullshit never even seen before - socialism creates monopoly capitalism!
OW.
Rabio is crying about how poor he is.
Republicans can’t seem to shake the same tired, failed ideas that preceded an economic collapse. #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/rQp7uZcs8p
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) October 29, 2015
re: #277 Lidane
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re: #277 Lidane
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Honestly, she should pay Texas a visit to bring more attention to the Abbott administration’s Gestapo raid against Planned Parenthood. Anybody got the latest about that?
Marco Rubio: Eliminating capital gains tax helps bartenders get more tips #tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/1UYvLDSFSC pic.twitter.com/TlslG13kZv
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 28, 2015
re: #278 The Vicious Babushka
Carly tried to combine 4 corporations and she’s babbling about “Big Capitalism”?
*vomits*
No kidding.
re: #275 Tigger2
You know why Government doesn’t work it’s because Republicans break it so they can then run on Government doesn’t work.
Yep.
i imagine rubio saying “democrats can go to H-E-double-hockey-sticks”
lol, what next a Dick Morris prediction that Jeb will win?
.@JebBush is the only one with the experience to clean up Barack Obama’s mess. #GOPDebate
— Eric Cantor (@EricCantor) October 29, 2015
re: #274 Charles Johnson
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I’m running behind, what was Obama’s big tax increase? Did I miss something?
re: #284 The Vicious Babushka
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HEes such a fuckwad but hey young people Marco likes rap music and he speaks Spanish so he’s the hip conservative who’ll fuck you over so his wealthy buddies can get tax cuts.
A look at national unemployment over the past decade, via @latimesgraphics #GOPdebate pic.twitter.com/VwEhElfTPc
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 29, 2015
I used to enjoy spirited debates with conservatives. Except over the decades I can’t help but notice the same shit comes out of their mouths. Completely pointless.
Just a thought, but maybe women in Cruz’s family all single moms bc all men are assholes like him #GOPDebate
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) October 29, 2015
“Senator, I’m going to list some negative information about you and then ask you to respond in a broad and nonspecific way. Your response?”
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) October 29, 2015
Ted Cruz says he opposes equal pay for equal work for women because he thinks it’s a Big Government plot #GOPDebate
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 29, 2015
What really sucks is watching some 20 something you watched grow up turn into a hateful rightwing clown before your eyes.
Here comes #lieCarly with another dramatic lie. #CNBCGOPDebate
— Denali Parton (@eclecticbrotha) October 29, 2015
Fiorina: Clinton and Obama’s policies are bad for women, unlike me, mee!
re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
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Ouch but there may be a grain of truth ot that. I didn’t know his mother left his father. I guess she’s the smart one in that family.
How many women did Carly send into poverty when she outsourced them and/or their husbands?
re: #294 Amory Blaine
I’ve found, sadly from dealing with my immediate family, that you just can’t debate with the so-called conservatives. You can’t debate them because they’re not working from facts or reason, they’re working from dogma and unsupported faith. It’s a lost cause before you start.
re: #293 The Vicious Babushka
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LIES!!! EVERYBODY IS UNEMPLOYED!!! 94 MILLION OLD PEOPLE, STUDENTS, DISABLED AND STAY AT HOME MOTHERS ARE ALL LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!
So far in the bottom of the fourth, the Mets have just remembered that they are still the Mets.
re: #289 b.d.
lol, what next a Dick Morris prediction that Jeb will win?
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@EricCantor @JebBush What mess ?, And the Bush name doesn’t go well with a good economy, or Foreign Policy.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) October 29, 2015
re: #264 Feline Fearless Leader
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Are you implying that they sleep with the fishes?
re: #297 The Vicious Babushka
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Yet he never met a bill that told women what they can do with their own bodies that he hasn’t liked.
Ben Carson denies having anything to do with scam product he made pitches for.
Getting so booed now.
re: #310 The Vicious Babushka
And likes and uses the product.
re: #300 retired cynic
Fiorina: Clinton and Obama’s policies are bad for women, unlike me, mee!
Sadly an acquaintance of mine is falling for Carly’s bullshit, if her Twitter feed is anything to go by.
re: #310 The Vicious Babushka
Yep-he got so owned.
re: #298 Amory Blaine
What really sucks is watching some 20 something you watched grow up turn into a hateful rightwing clown before your eyes.
Niece or nephew of yours? That does suck man though.
Ben Carson blames liberal media “propaganda” for point out the fact he was involved with supplement co. Mannatech https://t.co/Xrn1IxGWke
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 29, 2015
re: #315 The Vicious Babushka
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How dare tehy point what I actually did! Really guys, it’s not leadership to bitch about the media actaully calling you out, in fact they should call yout much more than they do.
re: #307 Tigger2
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Pretty sure Jeb could take us back to the brink of financial ruin again, so Cantor has a point, but I think he’s underestimating the ability of the rest of that crowd to fuck things up royally, too.
re: #314 HappyWarrior
Both. My nieces may be more charitable at this point but they’ve all swallowed the dogma.
re: #308 sizzzzlerz
Are you implying that they sleep with the fishes?
Their policy ideas appear to be an identical set that smell of dead fish.
I just can’t anymore with this #GOPDebate shit show. Punching out. pic.twitter.com/nQsAPURWf3
— g’damnedfrankenstein (@goddamnedfrank) October 29, 2015
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