CBS News Republican Debate, Thread 1

The clown car arrives in South Carolina, disgorges clowns
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CBS News isn’t making an embeddable live feed available (boo!) so you’ll have to watch it on your old-fashioned idiot box. But here’s our live-blogging thread to marvel at the antics of the remaining clowns as they pander to South Carolina.

Warning: this may be very nearly unwatchable because they’re all going to be heaping praise on Antonin Scalia. It will be interesting to see if they have the sheer crassness to start talking about blocking any nominations to the Supreme Court by Obama… oh, what am I saying? Of course they’re going to do that!

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398 comments
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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 5:57:16pm

MP3 Audio

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Nyet  Feb 13, 2016 • 5:57:58pm

The longer the nomination process, the longer the SCOTUS balance is on the liberal side.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:01:00pm

These talking heads… discussing Trump criticizing Scalia on the race language Scalia used in that recent decision… and the talking heads trying to define “true conservative” by Scalia’s racism….

Well, yes. That is the problem we have in this country ; “true conservative” is code word for old-fashioned bigot.

But these talking heads just missed the irony lying in front of them…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:01:09pm

re: #2 Nyet

The longer the nomination process, the longer the SCOTUS balance is on the liberal side.

I also think it helps the Dems at the polls too. I think if the GOP really wants to play this stupid game, the Dems should and I think will loudly call out this obstruction for the shit it is.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:01:44pm

In a minor break from the political discourse

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:01:58pm

The Republicans have mastered walking!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:02:53pm

re: #6 Brian J.

The Republicans have mastered walking!

We’re fucked if they develop opposable thumbs.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:03:05pm

This is a Cruz-and-Bush crowd, judging by the applause levels.

I hadn’t realized that half the surviving field is made up of Florida Men.

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sagehen  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:03:05pm

I see they very cleverly started this one with everybody already at their podiums. Lesson learned.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:03:08pm

OT— supposed to be -13 tomorrow morning (without wind chill factored in) when I have to take the kid to the indoor gym where his soccer team is training. Please cancel!

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:03:41pm
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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:04:20pm

just letting them walk out there without their names being called… to avoid the fiasco of last time.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:05:01pm

crowd sounds stacked by RNC donors…

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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:05:03pm

Since I rely on all of you to watch this for me, let me know if Carson forgets to come on stage again, ok?

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:05:44pm

Schlichter dump, attracting flies.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:05:54pm

re: #10 Barefoot Grin

OT— supposed to be -13 tomorrow morning (without wind chill factored in) when I have to take the kid to the indoor gym where his soccer team is training. Please cancel!

Canceling an event for a mere -13 degrees? Come on, man.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:05:56pm
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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:06:09pm

re: #14 Skip Intro

As I noted.. they didn’t call them by name this time so that problem was avoided.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:06:10pm

re: #14 Skip Intro

Since I rely on all of you to watch this for me, let me know if Carson forgets to come on stage again, ok?

No such good luck, I’m afraid, but he got almost no applause (and stands at 2% in the ARG poll just out). He’s headed for a nice long nap very soon.

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Great White Snark  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:06:45pm

I would love to troll these guys with a “Breaking News’ update that Obama was putting Hilary Rodham Clinton up for Supreme Court Judge. What would they say?

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:07:03pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:07:11pm

Sure enough - Trump starts out by immediately talking about obstructing the President.

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b.d.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:07:16pm

Trump giving away the game

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:07:27pm

Trump actually learned a couple of names inserted into his word salad. Applause for “Delay, delay, delay!”

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:07:49pm

Here is the live stream

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:07:57pm

I’m watching it live on the main cbsnews.com website.

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Nyet  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:08:04pm

So it *was* Sanders on that photo after all:

phaidon.com

photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu

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b.d.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:08:16pm

If I were president Scalia would be alive today

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:08:17pm

re: #20 Great White Snark

I would love to troll these guys with a “Breaking News’ update that Obama was putting Hilary Rodham Clinton up for Supreme Court Judge. What would they say?

You can certainly run for President from the court, Charles Evans Hughes did so in 1916 and lost by 2,000 votes in California.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:08:39pm

re: #16 thedopefishlives

We are in the freezer section too. Wind Chill Factors in the negative numbers. brrr.

forecast.weather.gov

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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:08:40pm

re: #24 Brian J.

Trump actually learned a couple of names inserted into his word salad. Applause for “Delay, delay, delay!”

If he clicks his heels, Tom will appear on stage next to him.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:08:58pm

re: #16 thedopefishlives

Canceling an event for a mere -13 degrees? Come on, man.

Damn you! So what do I do? Slather my face in ox fat? And where am I supposed to find ox fat at this time of night? CVS?

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sagehen  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:01pm

Pick someone who has unanimous approval!?!?

Fat chance.

(but as I said on a previous thread… I like the idea of Posner.)

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:09pm
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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:15pm

Shorter Kasich: the President should be more like a Reblican and not do his job.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:21pm

Kasich suggests a kinder, gentler delay.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:23pm

Kasich thinks the president should step aside for the next president to make the big decisions.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:25pm

re: #29 Brian J.

You can certainly run for President from the court, Charles Evans Hughes did so in 1916 and lost by 2,000 votes in California.

I think he could have been a decent president from the little I know about Hughes. Not quite as progressive as TR but not as conservative as Harding and Coolidge.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:35pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Sure enough - Trump starts out by immediately talking about obstructing the President.

I’m getting really goddamn sick of the back-and-forth obstructionism. Since when did politics become so antagonistic? I suppose it’s probably always been that way, it’s just more noticeable with the easier flow of information.

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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:35pm

re: #18 freetoken

As I noted.. they didn’t call them by name this time so that problem was avoided.

And I was so looking forward to seeing that again. Damn.

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:09:44pm

Fuck you, John Kasich.

That is all.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:10:08pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

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Of course, you’re afraid that we’re finally going to get a Supreme Court that isn’t right wing in its majority. Tough shit Johnny.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:10:14pm

re: #38 HappyWarrior

I think he could have been a decent president from the little I know about Hughes. Not quite as progressive as TR but not as conservative as Harding and Coolidge.

I think you’re right, although WWI would have constrained his options considerably.

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Whack-A-Mole  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:10:15pm

Yeah, Obama needs to put the country first and not make a pick. The congress gets a pass on being selfish, partisan hacks…

And Kasich is a reasonable Republican. Sure…..

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:10:34pm

Carson sounds like a kid that doesn’t know the answer, and is just making it up as he goes.

RBS

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Great White Snark  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:10:49pm

re: #29 Brian J.

You can certainly run for President from the court, Charles Evans Hughes did so in 1916 and lost by 2,000 votes in California.

That’s interesting, I had no idea.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:10:59pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:11:07pm

re: #32 Barefoot Grin

Damn you! So what do I do? Slather my face in ox fat? And where am I supposed to find ox fat at this time of night? CVS?

Around these parts, we just use scarves.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:11:08pm

re: #45 Reality Based Steve

Carson sounds like a kid that doesn’t know the answer, and is just making it up as he goes.

RBS

Why has no one close to him told him he isn’t ready for primetime?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:11:11pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:11:13pm

re: #43 Brian J.

I think you’re right, although WWI would have constrained his options considerably.

Yeah true point. It’s pretty interesting but when Wilson got elected, he said he wanted his term to be defined by domestic policies. Ended up being defined more than any other president to that point by foreign affairs.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:11:49pm

Rubio has forgotten about the existence of Anthony Kennedy. Not a surprise.

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b.d.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:00pm

Cruzbot goes into rehearsed diatribe and ignores the question

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:29pm

Rubio advocating originalist interpretation of the constitution.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:29pm
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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:32pm

Um …. Ben… many leaders in Continental America lived to ripe old ages…

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:33pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:44pm

re: #46 Great White Snark

That’s interesting, I had no idea.

It’s even more interesting since he later went back to the court but he wasn’t CJ, Taft was.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:12:53pm

re: #54 Major Tom

Rubio advocating originalist interpretation of the constitution.

OBAMA IS ONLY 3/5 OF A PRESIDENT!!!!!!

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:13:09pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

Where do you find these?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:13:24pm

RAM DOWN OUR THROAT!!!!!!

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:13:28pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

Yeah true point. It’s pretty interesting but when Wilson got elected, he said he wanted his term to be defined by domestic policies. Ended up being defined more than any other president to that point by foreign affairs.

If Germany hadn’t been so unutterably stupid as to send the Zimmermann telegram, maybe he’d have had his chance. But when Germany promised to grab chunks of the American southwest for Mexico, there really was no option but war.

Thanks to the moderator for reminding us that Bernie just doesn’t have this Constitution stuff figured.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:13:36pm

Ram down our throat a liberal justice!!!

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:13:39pm

Ted, by the original interpretation of the Constitution by the men who wrote it, you are not an American citizen.

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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:13:54pm

He doesn’t have a right to nominate justices. He has a responsibility to!

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:14:17pm

re: #64 Reality Based Steve

Ted, by the original interpretation of the Constitution by the men who wrote it, you are not an American citizen.

EDIT>>> SORRY, that was Rubio yapping.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:14:22pm

re: #65 JasonA

He doesn’t have a right to nominate justices. He has a responsibility to!

That’s okay; according to them, he’s broken all the rules anyway, so what’s one more?

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:14:24pm

re: #41 BeachDem

Fuck you, John Kasich.

That is all.

I’d like to revise my comment.

Fuck all of you GOP assholes.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:14:38pm

The CBS Twitter Feed had Marin Shkreli on its feed.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:15:05pm

Audience booing facts.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:15:30pm

Anthony Kennedy assumed office on February 18, 1988, and the moderator should have learned this given how obvious it was that this would be discussed.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:15:38pm

re: #70 Major Tom

Audience booing facts.

Sums up the right wing in a nutshell. Facts are kryptonite.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:15:45pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:16:16pm

I have more grandkids than Scalia.

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bratwurst  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:16:23pm

So this “80 year precedent” business comes down to Kennedy being nominated in 1987, before being confirmed in the election year of 1988?

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:16:32pm

Soooo…. who loaded the audience with Bush and Rubio supporters?

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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:16:48pm
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Stanley Sea  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:16:49pm

re: #65 JasonA

He doesn’t have a right to nominate justices. He has a responsibility to!

I’m verklempt.

The POTUS isn’t allowed to be POTUS.

That’s their gist, correct?

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:16:58pm

Praise Jeebus! I am not watching the GOP debate tonight and I am just now catching up with the thread.

How many of these goobers have decided that SCOTUS needs to have a vacancy for the next year or so?

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:04pm

From what I saw on Right Wing Watch, Ted was basically a “Fact Free Zone” for the previous debate, and I’m glad he’s not changing his game plan.

RBS

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:13pm

re: #78 Stanley Sea

I’m verklempt.

The POTUS isn’t allowed to be POTUS.

That’s their gist, correct?

Pretty much. They’ve been saying that for 7 years, though.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:17pm

re: #79 Lidane

Praise Jeebus! I am not watching the GOP debate tonight and I am just now catching up with the thread.

How many of these goobers have decided that SCOTUS needs to have a vacancy for the next year or so?

All of them

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:22pm

Who, you ask, Ted? NONE OF YOU.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:27pm
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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:30pm

The moderator is asking what Trump would ask his national security advisor. This should be amusing.

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lawhawk  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:39pm

re: #74 The Vicious Babushka

Showoff!

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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:17:40pm

Ted Cruz just testified. He just spoke for Loki, by Loki and with Loki.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:18:10pm

re: #87 nines09

Ted Cruz just testified. He just spoke for Loki, by Loki and with Loki.

Loki? But he’s a puny god!

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ausador  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:18:33pm
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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:18:55pm

re: #88 Brian J.

Loki? But he’s a puny god!

Cruz knows not.

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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:19:09pm

re: #85 Brian J.

The moderator is asking what Trump would ask his national security advisor. This should be amusing.

“Important things?”

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:19:12pm

Well if Trump ever debates Bernie, they won’t talk about Iraq. They were both against it. Stalemate there.

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bratwurst  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:19:16pm

Wow, took less than 20 minutes to get to “attack the oil!” time tonight.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:19:32pm

ATTACK THE OIL!!!!! KEEP THE OIL!!!!

RBS

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:19:38pm
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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:20:15pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:20:15pm

re: #93 bratwurst

Wow, took less than 20 minutes to get to “attack the oil!” time tonight.

Christ. These people are fucking clueless.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:20:20pm

re: #94 Reality Based Steve

ATTACK THE OIL!!!!! KEEP THE OIL!!!!

RBS

Again, I see a slight order-of-operations problem here.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:20:27pm

re: #75 bratwurst

So this “80 year precedent” business comes down to Kennedy being nominated in 1987, before being confirmed in the election year of 1988?

The other thing it comes down to? Luck. Simple luck.

Justices who retire choose the timing, so they’ve generally avoided the last year of a Presidency. Apart from Rehnquist, the last Justice to die in office did so over 60 years ago.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:21:01pm

re: #98 Brian J.

Again, I see a slight order-of-operations problem here.

Pillage, THEN Burn…. Pillage THEN Burn.

RBS

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:21:13pm
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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:21:34pm

Rubio carefully groomed by PNAC… so he wanted this defense question.

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Great White Snark  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:06pm

Can’t wait to see what Pepper has to say…

Cinnamon Manx cat caught sight of the GOP debate
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:12pm

Pathetic that Rubio has a practiced “…and I’m the father of children” interjection in one of his memorized speeches.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:23pm

Carson happy to get questions!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:31pm

We’ve had presidents appoint justices after they have LOST elections. John Adams appointed John Marshall after Jefferson beat him.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:34pm

Carson thanks the moderator for including him in this debate. Again, this is almost certainly his farewell, so they might as well be polite.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:39pm

Carson alludes to being left out. Drink.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:44pm
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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:22:50pm

Ben thanks debate invite, says it keeps his book tour going.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:23:12pm

Daddybot.

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:23:26pm

Turned it off. Can’t take it. I’ll follow along here, so thanks in advance for your suffering.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:23:32pm

Jeb;( threatened to punch Russia in the nose. Yep, that sounds dumb enough to be from him (or Trumpy Dumpy).

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:24:09pm

We must be daddy to the world!

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Viscous Obama  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:24:28pm

I don’t know why the moderator didn’t nail Cruz to the wall over the Senate taking action on a nomination.

Oh yeah, fuck this crowd, too.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:24:38pm

re: #113 Brian J.

Jeb;( threatened to punch Russia in the nose. Yep, that sounds dumb enough to be from him (or Trumpy Dumpy).

Jeb? might want to ask Sarah Palin how well that worked out.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:24:39pm

re: #111 jaunte

Rubio = PNAC

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:24:56pm

Bush says that attacking ISIS means attacking Assad. ISIS exists in large part to fight Assad. Dumbass.

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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:25:04pm

re: #113 Brian J.

Jeb;( threatened to punch Russia in the nose. Yep, that sounds dumb enough to be from him (or Trumpy Dumpy).

This guy?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:25:25pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:25:49pm

Bush would have a strategy!

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:26:11pm

RADICAL ISLAM!

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:26:29pm

I didn’t know (although I probably should have) that Jeb# continues the Bush family tradition of pronouncing a certain word NUCULAR.

Yep, this crowd is stacked for Jeb.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:26:41pm
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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:26:48pm

re: #115 Viscous Obama

I don’t know why the moderator didn’t nail Cruz to the wall over the Senate taking action on a nomination.

Oh yeah, fuck this crowd, too.

Welcome to South by dog Carolina—too small for a republic, too big for an insane asylum.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:18pm

Winner gets to fire the first coastal defense artillery piece at Ft. Sumter.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:19pm

Jeb way more intelligent than Trumpass.

Truth

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lawhawk  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:22pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

We’ve had presidents appoint justices after they have LOST elections. John Adams appointed John Marshall after Jefferson beat him.

There you go with your historical analogies. And John Marshall no less. That’s bound to get the likes of Cruz pissed.

But then again, that anyone is standing in his way of being president gets him pissed. Even more so is sharing the stage or power with anyone else.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:28pm

Our Team!

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Viscous Obama  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:32pm
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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:34pm

Trump is going to hulk out if he gets booed again

RBS

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:27:50pm

Dear Jeb! - life is not a football game.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:18pm

Jeb! With a sudden spine!

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:18pm

Cat fight!

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:29pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:32pm

re: #127 Stanley Sea

Jeb way more intelligent than Trumpass.

Truth

I had to read that three times. I can’t believe that statement could ever be made seriously.

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:35pm
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Decider  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:52pm

Trump is actually the voice of reason here.

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Nyet  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:28:57pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Somebody should ask him whether Obama knows what he’s doing…

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:05pm

Crap. It’s too cold to go to the liquor store now. Maybe I should, gasp, go to bed and read a book instead of taking part in our national pastime of stupidity.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:17pm
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Decider  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:31pm

Am I the only one who thinks Cruz is the Antichrist?

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:48pm
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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:49pm

It’s a ROYAL RUMBLE!!!! Jeb! hits Trump with a folding chair. Trump pulls a foreign object out of his trunks and throws it in Jeb!s eyes.

RBS

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:50pm

Ted, after you tear the deal up, then what?

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:29:58pm

re: #138 Decider

Trump is actually the voice of reason here.

It’s a strategy. It’ll pass when convenient.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:01pm

re: #141 goddamnedfrank

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and the phantom menace?

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Nyet  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:02pm

re: #142 Decider

Am I the only one who thinks Cruz is the Antichrist?

An Antichrist.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:02pm

Take out ISIS!

Ok. Who are they? Where are they?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:07pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

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Really short Rubio: My whole career’s just based on whatever Obama does and I do the opposite because that makes Daddy Norman happy.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:12pm

re: #138 Decider

Trump is actually the voice of reason here.

(He’s actually the least insane/obnoxious of them.)

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gocart mozart  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:17pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:23pm

I want to see Trump jump all over Jeb Bush and hols him down and shave his head like he did to Vince McMahon. And then rip his shirt off and stand on the podium screaming I AM NUMBER ONE!!! I AM NUMBER ONE!!!!

The crows goes wild.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:41pm

re: #130 Viscous Obama

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Exactly. It is a living document. If it wasn’t. Amendments wouldn’t happen. God Rubio is a clueless dolt.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:43pm
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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:44pm

re: #142 Decider

Am I the only one who thinks Cruz is the Antichrist?

Nah, just a wannabe. He’s semi-evil. He’s quasi-evil. He’s the margarine of evil. He’s the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough.

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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:48pm
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ausador  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:55pm
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:30:55pm
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No Depression  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:05pm

How Facebook is feeling about the GOP Debate:

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:19pm

Damn, you sure miss a lot when you have to drive six hours to Atlanta…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:20pm

Arm the Kurds!

Yeah. Turkey would love that.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:23pm

re: #136 thedopefishlives

The back & forth they just had. That’s how I saw it.

cray?

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:26pm

Boyfriend has the teevee on in the other room. I can hear Ted Cruz bleating about arming the Kurds.

Haven’t we learned by now that arming opposition groups doesn’t work out well for us?

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:31pm

Again, Ted, what exactly would justify 1100 bombing missions in Raqqa each day?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:41pm
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:49pm

re: #162 GlutenFreeJesus

NATO, how it work?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:31:49pm

re: #152 gocart mozart

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No, Kurt what is petty is saying without even knowing who the man will pick to replace him that you’ll block and vote against that person. That’s petty. If Obama shows up to Scalia’s funeral without a tie, you might have an argument but there’s no obligation for him to wear a tie to announce his death.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:32:29pm

re: #158 ausador

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There is no one in this country that would ever get unanimous support. There are people sitting in Congress right now who would oppose literally anyone Obama brought before them, simply because Obama is the President.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:32:43pm

Trump pounding on Bush

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:32:50pm

re: #158 ausador

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So much easier said than done and that asshole knwos it.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:08pm

Self-funding bankrupt.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:08pm

re: #169 thedopefishlives

There is no one in this country that would ever get unanimous support. There are people sitting in Congress right now who would oppose literally anyone Obama brought before them, simply because Obama is the President.

Exactly but Obama’s lacking leadershpi!

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:09pm

At least he said “Fat”

RBS

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:27pm

Fucking Trump trying to make me like him.

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Weaselone  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:43pm

Apparently we’re going to bomb sand just for the heck of it.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:51pm

Trump wants to impeach George W. Bush. I’m okay with that.

Jeb wants people to stop blaming his brother for being utterly incompetent. There I’m not okay.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:33:51pm

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

He wanted us to take the oil.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:34:22pm

re: #176 Weaselone

Apparently we’re going to bomb sand just for the heck of it.

Sounds like the Republicans. They just like to go to war. Even if it’s against the desert itself.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:34:33pm

re: #176 Weaselone

Apparently we’re going to bomb sand just for the heck of it.

The sand drew first.

RBS

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:34:52pm

This is a hoot!

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:34:59pm

re: #178 jaunte

He wanted us to take the oil.

I just tuned in as he was saying “it was based on lies…”

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:14pm

Holy Shit.

That Moment when Barbara Bush is insulted by Trump in a GOP debate.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:15pm

OH!!!!! This is turning very ugly.

RBS

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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:15pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:27pm

re: #177 Brian J.

Trump wants to impeach George W. Bush. I’m okay with that.

Jeb wants people to stop blaming his brother for being utterly incompetent. There I’m not okay.

I get that Jeb does that out of loyalty to his brother but I’m so fucking sick of it.

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:32pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:48pm

re: #185 Kragar

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Republicans aren’t fond of facts period, that’s why they’re Republicans.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:35:50pm

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

Fucking Trump trying to make me like him.

I’m completely opposite.

Dem forever. I will take Jeb! over that FREAK called Trump any day

It will feel legit. Not a fucking freakshow.

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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:10pm

re: #27 Nyet

So it *was* Sanders on that photo after all:

phaidon.com

photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu

Are people trying to say it wasn’t?

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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:11pm

re: #170 Big Beautiful Door

Trump pounding on Bush

AND HE HITS HIM WITH A CHAIR!!!

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:14pm
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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:25pm

re: #187 Lidane

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Oops. Just enjoying the chaos. Trump is again aiming for Sanders voters. I guess he hasn’t seen the ARG poll yet.

Trump accidentally tells the truth and gets booed for it.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:37pm

HE DIDN’T KEEP US SAFE!!

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:44pm

Republican debate audience wanting to go full WWE, Kasich and Carson there to slow things down.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:46pm

re: #191 nines09

AND HE HITS HIM WITH A CHAIR!!!

No head shots!

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:36:56pm

re: #191 nines09

AND HE HITS HIM WITH A CHAIR!!!

TRUMP takes Bush down with a Back Lift Suplex

RBS

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:02pm

re: #194 Big Beautiful Door

HE DIDN’T KEEP US SAFE!!

Waiting for the Benghazi followup…

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:05pm

Iraq was in violation of UN resolutions!

The UN is also Evil!

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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:06pm

I hope you folks realize how much better it is reading about this than watching it.

Carry on.

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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:07pm

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

Fucking Trump trying to make me like him.

It’s possible he’s the least worst of the bunch.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:42pm

Al Gore, proof that the Judicial branch is important.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:46pm

re: #200 Skip Intro

I hope you folks realize how much better it is reading about this than watching it.

Carry on.

Especially since I’m trying to lay off the alcohol tonight, having had a fall-off-the-wagon night last night.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:48pm

This is the stupidest bunch of theater outside of Trump’s own rallies. It serves him right.

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b.d.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:53pm

I’m glad that Scalia isn’t alive to see what has happened to the GOP

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weave  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:37:56pm

LOL I’m starting to like Trump!

Well, as a spoiler!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:08pm

Massive booing for Trump. He’s clearly getting rattled by it.

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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:09pm

What the fuck am I watching?

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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:11pm

HE’S DOWN HE’S DOWN HE’S…OUT, OUT HE GOT OUT..”

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:17pm

Trump keeps referring to GWB’s administration as a “reign”

The POTUS is not a King, but Trump thinks he will be a King.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:38pm

That goodness Al Gore wasn’t President to not commit war crimes for nothing!

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:49pm

re: #208 JasonA

Deeemockrassee!

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:51pm

it’s like the Von Erichs vs The Fabulous Freebirds.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:53pm

I imagine NRO will prounce Trump a liberal because he criticized Bush.

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Nyet  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:55pm

re: #190 funky chicken

Are people trying to say it wasn’t?

That second link was saying something else just a while ago. Google the rest ;)

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:38:56pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:00pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:01pm

re: #207 Charles Johnson

Massive booing for Trump. He’s clearly getting rattled by it.

It’s taken longer than expected, but the religious right is starting to align itself with Cruz and Rubio, as we predicted last year.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:15pm

re: #211 Big Beautiful Door

That goodness Al Gore wasn’t President to not commit war crimes for nothing!

or to mismanage the economy, what a bastard Al Gore was.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:17pm
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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:32pm

re: #213 Reality Based Steve

it’s like the Von Erichs vs The Fabulous Freebirds.

RBS

I honestly laughed out loud at that. Well done.

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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:43pm
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:39:56pm

“Turned tail and ran!”

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:01pm

re: #218 thedopefishlives

It’s taken longer than expected, but the religious right is starting to align itself with Cruz and Rubio, as we predicted last year.

And it’s probably too late. Cruz may get as far as Santorum/ Huckabee, but that’s his ceiling.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:09pm

re: #217 Lidane

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Ya know I get Jeb’s fraternal instinct to stand up for his brother but for the love of God, do not tell me your brother “kept us safe” when he has that on his record and furthermore do not throw shade at other people.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:16pm

South Carolina appears to really like war.

Explains 1861.

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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:26pm

HE’S CUT HE’S CUT HE’S BLEEDING HE’S CUT

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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:32pm
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:54pm
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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:40:58pm

Carson only got 2.3% of the vote in NH. Why is he even here?

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:41:11pm

This Trivago candidate is clearly the most statesmanlike we’ve seen tonight.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:41:14pm

OMFG!!!! I wonder if they are going to have the event staff shoot tranquilizer darts at Trump during the break.

RBS

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:41:17pm

Ben… the British Empire was one of those “dictators”, including GOP’s fav - Winston Churchill.

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lawhawk  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:41:40pm
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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:41:50pm

re: #224 Brian J.

And it’s probably too late. Cruz may get as far as Santorum/ Huckabee, but that’s his ceiling.

Cruz is the only one who scares me. He’s smart and evil, and is the only one who is both IMO.

I can’t explain how Ben Carson got through med school.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:02pm

I’m still not totally convinced this whole Trump thing isn’t a performance art.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:09pm

re: #219 HappyWarrior

or to mismanage the economy, what a bastard Al Gore was.

I’ll be honest: I have no idea if Gore would’ve been a good President. I know that Bush is rapidly shaping up to be one of the worst Presidents in American history, though.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:09pm

re: #208 JasonA

What the fuck am I watching?

Scalia’s funeral games. (Never bet against the noxii.)

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:22pm

Bunch of coyotes are outside whooping it up.

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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:26pm

re: #234 lawhawk

Bravo.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:27pm

re: #235 funky chicken

Cruz is the only one who scares me. He’s smart and evil, and is the only one who is both IMO.

I can’t explain how Ben Carson got through med school.

Smart yes but limited appeal.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:39pm
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Skip Intro  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:42pm

re: #235 funky chicken

Cruz is the only one who scares me. He’s smart and evil, and is the only one who is both IMO.

I can’t explain how Ben Carson got through med school.

I know. It’s like Orly Taitz passing the Bar. Unpossible!

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:49pm

re: #233 freetoken

Ben… the British Empire was one of those “dictators”, including GOP’s fav - Winston Churchill.

Gotta love the way he brought the British Army home victorious in WWII, and had Attlee completely kick his ass in the ensuing election.

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Viscous Obama  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:42:50pm

Imagine if Robert Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, Earl Warren and Harold Stassen had a crowd like this.

Devo was right

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:03pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

I’ll be honest: I have no idea if Gore would’ve been a good President. I know that Bush is rapidly shaping up to be one of the worst Presidents in American history, though.

True point. But I know Gore wouldn’t have been as stupid to do a massive tax cut and then done two wars. I think Gore would have been decent though.

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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:29pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:31pm

re: #242 Charles Johnson

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THUNDERDOME. Someone needs to make this happen.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:34pm

I wonder if Kasich knows that Powell came out later speaking of regret for campaigning to get into war in Iraq?

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:36pm

CHYNA!

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:44pm

CHYNA! And Vietnam to boot.

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bratwurst  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:51pm

Welp…Trump just wrapped up the nomination:

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:51pm

Chyna, yawn, sip.

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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:52pm

re: #234 lawhawk

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Not to mention all the soldiers sent in there with insufficient armor who are now being denied care by the underfunded VA.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:43:58pm

re: #244 Brian J.

Gotta love the way he brought the British Army home victorious in WWII, and had Attlee completely kick his ass in the ensuing election.

Brilliant war time leader but pretty shitty otherwise honest. Churchill like Thatcher is someone I think Americans love more than the British.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:44:05pm

Trump: I’m going to make water run uphill!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:44:20pm

re: #252 bratwurst

Welp…Trump just wrapped up the nomination:

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Are you ever right about anything, Bill? NO.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:44:34pm

CHYNA bought the Chicago Stock Exchange. CHYNA! CHYNA!

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:45:07pm

OK but, Can I ask you how you’re going to do that?

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nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:45:23pm

re: #230 JasonA

Carson only got 2.3% of the vote in NH. Why is he even here?

Book Tour

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thedopefishlives  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:45:24pm

re: #246 HappyWarrior

True point. But I know Gore wouldn’t have been as stupid to do a massive tax cut and then done two wars. I think Gore would have been decent though.

Perhaps. I also wonder how much of Bush’s apparent ineptness was due to hiring bad advisors/cronies. I just get my back up a little bit when people call him stupid; he may have made a lot of bad decisions and mistakes, but he was at least moderately intelligent, as well as personable and down-to-earth, which is what got him elected the first time.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:45:26pm

106 year olds!

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:45:28pm

re: #259 Major Tom

OK but, Can I ask you how you’re going to do that?

NO!

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:45:56pm

Trump-branded clothes, accessories and other products are made in CHYNNA

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:46:28pm

re: #235 funky chicken

I can’t explain how Ben Carson got through med school.

The same way that Orly Taitz got through law school.

The guy who graduates last in his class in medical school is still a doctor. :P

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:46:51pm

And when we increased the tax rates in 1993, we… had the greatest job growth ever.

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sagehen  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:47:04pm

re: #74 The Vicious Babushka

I have more grandkids than Scalia.

Each of which is smarter and better looking than any of his.

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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:47:07pm

re: #261 thedopefishlives

Perhaps. I also wonder how much of Bush’s apparent ineptness was due to hiring bad advisors/cronies. I just get my back up a little bit when people call him stupid; he may have made a lot of bad decisions and mistakes, but he was at least moderately intelligent, as well as personable and down-to-earth, which is what got him elected the first time.

Karl Rove in South Carolina, January-February of 2000 got him elected.

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:47:22pm
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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:47:22pm

re: #260 nines09

Book Tour

Sounds legit.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:47:23pm

I made a postcard! Elect me president!

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:48:09pm
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weave  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:48:09pm

No one making $36k or less pay income tax? Won’t that make them part of the lazy takers with no skin in the game?

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:48:13pm

Back when Washington didn’t prevent people from owning other people, the owners made a TON of money.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:48:14pm

Death tax Unfair to billionaire’s kids!

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:48:18pm

Garrett: let me put this on a tee for you, Sen. Cruz…..

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:48:34pm

re: #266 Brian J.

And when we increased the tax rates in 1993, we… had the greatest job growth ever.

We had high taxes in the 1950’s they love to romanticize too.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:01pm

Cruz pulling claims out of his ass re: tax and economic growth.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:02pm

Rubio, blink blink blink.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:22pm

The bell is getting a hell of a work out, and like facts, is generally being ignored.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:23pm

re: #261 thedopefishlives

Perhaps. I also wonder how much of Bush’s apparent ineptness was due to hiring bad advisors/cronies. I just get my back up a little bit when people call him stupid; he may have made a lot of bad decisions and mistakes, but he was at least moderately intelligent, as well as personable and down-to-earth, which is what got him elected the first time.

I think he did have bad advisers for sure.

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:55pm

re: #279 Barefoot Grin

Rubio, blink blink blink.

drink drink drink…

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:56pm

Excepting LGBT families

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:49:56pm

re: #280 Reality Based Steve

The bell is getting a hell of a work out, and like facts, is generally being ignored.

RBS

Again, it should have been much louder and accompanied with trap doors and sharks with fricking laser beams.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:09pm

paraphrased Moderator: Isn’t you’re tax plan basically a thinly disguised attempt at right wing social engineering?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:16pm

re: #283 Big Beautiful Door

Excepting LGBT families

Those aren’t real families, silly wabbit.

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:24pm

OK, I turned it on again—the Google trend searches kind of say it all. How tall is Jeb Bush?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:29pm
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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:31pm

that little dinger is too little…

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Charles Johnson  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:31pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:52pm
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:57pm

I need a new backpack.

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:50:58pm

I guess Marco’s safe word tonight is family.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:12pm

re: #287 BeachDem

OK, I turned it on again—the Google trend searches kind of say it all. How tall is Jeb Bush?

I think Jeb is either 6’3 or 6’4. Taller than his dad and brother.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:31pm

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t cost $22,500 to live under a bridge, John.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:41pm

re: #284 Brian J.

Again, it should have been much louder and accompanied with trap doors and sharks with fricking laser beams.

Austin Powers- Mustafa

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:41pm

re: #291 The Vicious Babushka

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Exactly.

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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:44pm

re: #278 freetoken

Cruz pulling claims out of his ass re: tax and economic growth.

I wonder if the good folks in Louisiana will still believe the tax cut = magic growth thing after they close half of the public universities there?

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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:49pm
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Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:51pm
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JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:51:55pm

re: #294 HappyWarrior

I think Jeb is either 6’3 or 6’4. Taller than his dad and brother.

Tall.people are better presidents. It’s true…

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:52:12pm

re: #294 HappyWarrior

I think Jeb is either 6’3 or 6’4. Taller than his dad and brother.

I didn’t really care, but thanks—I was pointing out that was one of the trending Google searches.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:52:29pm

re: #301 JasonA

Tall.people are better presidents. It’s true…

President Shaq, please.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:52:51pm

re: #302 BeachDem

I didn’t really care, but thanks—I was pointing out that was one of the trending Google searches.

Ah heh sorry. Weird that it’s trending.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:52:57pm

re: #292 jaunte

Take your pick. These last a long time.
llbean.com

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:53:11pm

re: #298 funky chicken

I wonder if the good folks in Louisiana will still believe the tax cut = magic growth thing after they close half of the public universities there?

We don’t. Especially when John Bel Edwards, our new Democratic governor, noted that cuts to LSU would impede the Bayou Bengals’ ability to field a team.

Okay, it’s a low blow, but you’ve got to speak the language people understand.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:53:29pm

re: #292 jaunte

I need a new backpack.

Don’t get me started.

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Great White Snark  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:53:32pm

Ted Cruz wants to raise my taxes. Middle class tax increase. What a masterful plan!

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Viscous Obama  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:53:33pm

REAGAN

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:53:37pm

re: #299 jaunte

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And yet Marco you belong to a party that opposes the right of gay couples to be able to adopt children. What do you say for that? Fucking dickhead.

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BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:53:51pm

Ooh, we might have a cage match between the “governors!”

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freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:54:04pm

Carson is wearing his cloak of invisibility again…

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:54:17pm

Kasich not a troooo conservative

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:55:01pm

GOP Debate…. Where the bell doesn’t matter and the answers are all made up.

RBS

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:55:10pm

I think Jeb~! and his handlers took a week or so and just learned attack lines. He is noticeably much more aggressive tonight.

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Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:55:20pm

Jeb* defending his tax on hedge funds. Raising taxes on the wealthy in a GOP primary? That’s a bold strategy.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:55:43pm

re: #315 Major Tom

I think Jeb~! and his handlers took a week or so and just learned attack lines. He is noticeably much more aggressive tonight.

Jeb has to do well in SC or he is toast, and he knows it.

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Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:07pm
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jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:10pm

The coyotes outside are louder than Jeb.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:11pm

skin in the game!

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funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:12pm

re: #317 Big Beautiful Door

Jeb has to do well in SC or he is toast, and he knows it.

SC loves them some Bush.

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Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:33pm

Moderator: Ben Carson, what is you’re tax plan?

Carson: Go to bencarson.com Its there. I don’t know it off-hand.

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Cheechako  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:49pm

When anyone says “The facts of the matter are…” I just know I’m going to be fed a big fat lie.

324
nines09  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:56:53pm

Trump just called out the entire GOP. He’s in the street, screaming “Pussies!” right in front of their clubhouse.

325
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:57:00pm

The free market wants what it wants, which apparently is a commercial and not the collapse of this auditorium on all within, somehow.

326
BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:57:02pm

Remember, Dr. Ben said he’s going to win South Carolina, so there’s that.

327
JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:57:15pm

I really should have just went out to see Deadpool. Again.

328
Stanley Sea  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:57:29pm

Promise you. All the talk tomorrow is Trump saying there were no wmd.

The other candidates will pounce more on ‘he’s not really a conservative’

329
Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:57:31pm

re: #318 Lidane

How is that different from any other Republican Debate we have had for the upcoming election.

330
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:57:55pm
331
Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:58:07pm

re: #320 Big Beautiful Door

skin in the game!

Sorry, time to go to #godsofegypt commercial, Dr. Carson. But you’ll be happy to know that we worked in the granary-pyramid fantasy.

332
Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:58:29pm

re: #327 JasonA

I really should have just went out to see Deadpool. Again.

Boyfriend and I plan to go see Deadpool on Monday, since I’ve got Presidents’ Day off.

I may even talk him into going and getting Mexican food after we’re done because chimichangas. Haha.

333
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:58:51pm

re: #331 Barefoot Grin

Sorry, time to go to #godsofegypt commercial, Dr. Carson. But you’ll be happy to know that we worked in the granary-pyramid fantasy.

So Ben Carson has made his mark on popular culture. At least he’ll have that, and his book sales and lecture fees.

334
HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:58:56pm

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

The poor are already taxed you stupid elitist dick.

335
Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:59:30pm

Seriously. With Ben Carson, I have never seen a candidate get so far phoning it in as he does.

336
Stanley Sea  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:59:49pm

Scalia isn’t even trending on twitter anymore.

337
freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 6:59:51pm

I assume that Trump is playing for the crossover vote. In polls he by far brings in more non-Republicans than the rest.

It’s a gamble… but Trump’s a WINNER!

338
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:00:00pm

re: #335 Major Tom

Seriously. With Ben Carson, I have never seen a candidate get so far phoning it in as he does.

Because babby Jebus loves him.

339
BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:00:08pm

Kinda funny that every time they go to commercial, my feed crashes. So I enjoy a few minutes of silence, refresh, and it’s back to the insanity.

340
JasonA  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:00:12pm

I miss Christie.

341
freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:00:37pm

re: #340 JasonA

I miss Christie.

Those jolly cheeks and beady eyes…

342
jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:00:43pm

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Carson wants to “tax the poor” so they can have “skin in the game” whatever the fuck that means

Having your skin in the game is sort of the definition of being poor.

343
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:00:49pm

re: #340 JasonA

I miss Christie.

I’ll take “Words No One Will Ever Say” for $1,000, Alex.

344
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:01:02pm

re: #342 jaunte

Having your skin in the game is sort of the definition of being poor.

Flayed off you by the rich.

345
jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:01:30pm

re: #344 Big Beautiful Door

What a game, right?

346
Decatur Deb  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:01:37pm

re: #272 Lidane

What @SenTedCruz knows about US economic history wouldn’t fill a postage stamp.

To be fair, I don’t know shit about Canadian history.

347
Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:01:51pm
348
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:01:58pm

Immigration. Oh, this will be fun.

349
goddamnedfrank  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:00pm

re: #335 Major Tom

Seriously. With Ben Carson, I have never seen a candidate get so far phoning it in as he does.

350
Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:02pm

“our people”

351
PhillyPretzel  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:05pm

re: #340 JasonA

re: #341 freetoken

I know this is a cheap shot. He is at home playing with his lap band. //

352
Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:07pm

Just got a call from my mom. Her mom (my last grandparent) is in the hospital and not expected to live. If she makes it over the next two days, she goes into hospice. I have started looking at flights from NC to Los Angeles. I guess you can get compassionate family emergency rates from a travel agent for verified death in the family events.

Shit.

I knew this was coming at some point, but you can never be really prepared.

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

353
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:10pm

re: #345 jaunte

What a game, right?

Hunger Game

354
funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:17pm

re: #316 Brian J.

Jeb* defending his tax on hedge funds. Raising taxes on the wealthy in a GOP primary? That’s a bold strategy.

Trying to grab the Bernie voters in the GOP primary? Bold move.

355
goddamnedfrank  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:41pm

re: #350 Barefoot Grin

“our people”

White people.

356
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:02:53pm

The moderator needs to ask, “And when Mexico tells you to take your bill and shove it, as they have already, then what, Trumpy Dumpy?”

357
freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:03:04pm

re: #355 goddamnedfrank

White people.

White male people

358
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:03:11pm

re: #356 Brian J.

The moderator needs to ask, “And when Mexico tells you to take your bill and shove it, as they have already, then what, Trumpy Dumpy?”

It gets ten feet higher!

359
HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:03:14pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

Just got a call from my mom. Her mom (my last grandparent) is in the hospital and not expected to live. If she makes it over the next two days, she goes into hospice. I have started looking at flights from NC to Los Angeles. I guess you can get compassionate family emergency rates from a travel agent for verified death in the family events.

Shit.

I knew this was coming at some point, but you can never be really prepared.

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

Sorry. I know how tough that is. I hope you can get there to say goodbye to your Grandma.

360
Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:03:17pm
361
jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:03:22pm

People are not “flooding across.”

362
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:03:58pm

re: #361 jaunte

People are not “flooding across.”

Rapists and drug dealers!

363
Decatur Deb  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:04:03pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

Just got a call from my mom. Her mom (my last grandparent) is in the hospital and not expected to live. If she makes it over the next two days, she goes into hospice. I have started looking at flights from NC to Los Angeles. I guess you can get compassionate family emergency rates from a travel agent for verified death in the family events.

Shit.

I knew this was coming at some point, but you can never be really prepared.

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

Sorry. Talk to the airlines directly and see if they still have “standby” priority.

364
PhillyPretzel  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:04:08pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

I am sorry to hear that. I think you can emergency travel tickets but I am not sure of cost.

365
Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:04:23pm

re: #346 Decatur Deb

To be fair, I don’t know shit about Canadian history.

Wasn’t Dudley Do-Right a Canadian hero or something?

///////

366
Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:04:30pm

re: #363 Decatur Deb

Sorry. Talk to the airlines directly and see if they still have “standby” priority.

Thanks

367
sagehen  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:04:54pm

re: #262 Big Beautiful Door

106 year olds!

Is Trump perhaps unaware that widows continue getting pensions under their deceased husbands’ Soc Sec accts? Lots of those “106 year olds” married women 20 or 30 years younger…

368
jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:03pm

They’re paying taxes already, Marco.

369
Lidane  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:04pm

re: #348 Brian J.

Immigration. Oh, this will be fun.

Boyfriend just walked in and begged me to watch a show with him so he could avoid the immigration topic. Back later. :)

370
HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:06pm

I’m tired of the scapegoating of immigrants by these fuckers.

371
Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:07pm

Rubio drinking and gargling: LOL

372
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:20pm

Cruz lying again!

373
freetoken  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:34pm

You wouldn’t know it by this crowd, but illegal immigration is way down.

374
HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:39pm

re: #368 jaunte

They’re paying taxes already, Marco.

Everyone pays taxes in some form. This lie that the poor don’t pay taxes is so fucking full of crap.

375
HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:05:58pm

re: #373 freetoken

You wouldn’t know it by this crowd, but illegal immigration is way down.

Thanks Obama. //

376
b_sharp  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:06pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

Just got a call from my mom. Her mom (my last grandparent) is in the hospital and not expected to live. If she makes it over the next two days, she goes into hospice. I have started looking at flights from NC to Los Angeles. I guess you can get compassionate family emergency rates from a travel agent for verified death in the family events.

Shit.

I knew this was coming at some point, but you can never be really prepared.

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

{{{CD}}}

377
jaunte  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:08pm

Cruz is bursting with smarm.

378
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:09pm

re: #369 Lidane

Boyfriend just walked in and begged me to watch a show with him so he could avoid the immigration topic. Back later. :)

Good call. Cruz is yammering about the “Rubio-Schumer” amnesty plan in response to whether he’d actually deport 800,000 DREAMers Obama has legalized.

379
Barefoot Grin  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:34pm

Does Rubio have prosthetic ears?

380
Brian J.  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:36pm

Rubiobot has had some decent programming tonight.

381
Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:53pm

re: #375 HappyWarrior

At this point, it seems to be a code word for the demographic shift that is occurring.

382
BeachDem  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:06:54pm

Rubio seems to have some boisterous fanbois in the audience.

383
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:07:08pm

IN SPANISH!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:07:55pm

re: #381 Ziggy_TARDIS

At this point, it seems to be a code word for the demographic shift that is occurring.

I know. Anyhow, I’m going to enjoy seeing these fuckers squeal as the country’s demographics change.

385
Major Tom  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:08:12pm

This debate is unbelievable.

386
gocart mozart  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:08:37pm
387
HappyWarrior  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:08:49pm

re: #378 Brian J.

Good call. Cruz is yammering about the “Rubio-Schumer” amnesty plan in response to whether he’d actually deport 800,000 DREAMers Obama has legalized.

Someone should really ask him and Rubio both about the special treatment Cuban immigrants get.

388
funky chicken  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:08:56pm

re: #377 jaunte

Cruz is bursting with smarm.

He gives me the creeps. Makes my skin crawl. His dad is straight up insane. I call him Voldemort.

Thanks, Texas.

389
Kragar  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:09:40pm
390
ObserverArt  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:09:56pm

I was watching the end of a hockey game…

…and a political fight broke out.

What the fuck is this shit? Sounds like sports with the cheering squads.

391
calochortus  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:10:18pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

Just got a call from my mom. Her mom (my last grandparent) is in the hospital and not expected to live. If she makes it over the next two days, she goes into hospice. I have started looking at flights from NC to Los Angeles. I guess you can get compassionate family emergency rates from a travel agent for verified death in the family events.

Shit.

I knew this was coming at some point, but you can never be really prepared.

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

I’m sorry. It is never easy.

392
calochortus  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:10:54pm

re: #390 ObserverArt

I was watching the end of a hockey game…

…and a political fight broke out.

What the fuck is this shit? Sounds like sports with the cheering squads.

Jerry Springer for the GOP candidates.

393
sagehen  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:11:09pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

{{}}

394
TedStriker  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:11:52pm

re: #183 Major Tom

Holy Shit.

That Moment when Barbara Bush is insulted by Trump in a GOP debate.

re: #184 Reality Based Steve

OH!!!!! This is turning very ugly.

RBS

395
ObserverArt  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:13:21pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

Just got a call from my mom. Her mom (my last grandparent) is in the hospital and not expected to live.

…

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

Thoughts heading your way…and take care.

396
TedStriker  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:15:45pm

re: #242 Charles Johnson

It seems that someone here’s prediction of folding steel chairs a-flying at this debate may not be far off…

397
EPR-radar  Feb 13, 2016 • 7:22:49pm

re: #229 jaunte

For the first time I start to believe speculation that this is all entertainment for Trump and that he’s looking for a way to lose before he gets the nomination.

One does not tell a crowd of Republicans the truth about the GW Bush administration lying the US into war in Iraq.

398
CleverToad  Feb 13, 2016 • 8:45:53pm

re: #352 Aunty Entity Dragon

Positive thoughts/prayers/etc appreciated for my family. My mom sounded real bad on the phone.

{{belated, but sending a prayer for you and yours}}


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