Let me preface this by saying, Republicans, please vote for Trump. Because Cruz is iffy. He’s weird, something’s wrong with him.
20:07 – Rubio thinks he is running against Obama. The poor puckered up fellow is so clueless.
20:08 – Bush is trying to crack a joke and fails, as usual.
20:12 – asking the perennially Peter-Pannish Rand Paul about his Daddy is a low blow.
20:15 – I’m still not entirely sure how Kasich’s last name is pronounced. Or what his first name is. That’s not a good sign re: his popularity.
20:18 – again with milking the ISIS thing? Will they ever speak of this country that they profess to love so much? Hello, wage stagnation over here! College debt! Underemployment! Enough with the freaking “carpet bomb the enemy” already.
20:27 – Christie looks like he is about to cry with big, slobbering, heaving sobs.
20:28 – Cruz is such a bully.
20:32 – yes, let’s discuss terrorism anxiety and pretend that economic anxiety does not exist. A great way to remain completely irrelevant, guys.
20:36 – Megyn Kelly is not letting Christie fib about San Bernardino. Good for her!
20:38 – Carson is trying to sub for Trump with a “political correctness is evil” spiel.
20:50 – of course, Cruz will be fine with people losing their health insurance. He’s a smug, rich, grubby sociopath.
21:01 – Fox News is beating up Rubio real bad on immigration.
21:07 – the spectacle of immigrants’ sons competing in which one of them hates immigrants more is disgraceful. Do none of them have any balls to defend their own positions they’ve espoused for years?
21:13 – at least, Bush managed to squeeze out something positive about immigrants.
21:32 – Rand Paul is a religious libertarian? What a joke he is. I especially love his “the abortions WE have.” Maybe the freak should stop having all these abortions if they bother him so much.
21:35 – Fox News must think Putin is beyond irrelevant if they give the quest about him to Carson.
21:43 – this debate is a joke. They are on to Bill Clinton’s sex life? Seriously? There is no greater problem in this country than Bill’s affair 20 fucking years ago? People who were born in that year are old enough to vote. Can we discuss their college bills and not Bill’s penis?
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Rubio is a tongue-tied moron. Such a lightweight.
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Attacking Obama only makes him look pouty and tantrumy.
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Seriously, nobody says so much gibberish with so much earnestness than this guy.
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Probably because Hillary clearly campaigning to carry on Obama’s third term…
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Actually, the biggest criticisms Hillary is receiving are about her differences from Obama.
By the way, who is the nice moderator beating down on Cruz?
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‘They want to trigger an apocalyptic armageddon showdown so we will…give them an apocalyptic armageddon showdown by carpet bombing”.
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They keep repeating this same stuff in every debate. It’s like they have zero interest in what is happening in this country.
It’s not surprising that the party is collapsing.
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Yes, but he and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have the same unique hair style, so their images are always entertaining.
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Trump’s holding a fundraiser, shown live on CNN. Surprisingly boring. He needs opponents to beat up on.
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Say what you want about Cruz’s personality, he’s the best debater on the stage tonight.
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That’s not a very impressive feat, though. 🙂
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Rubio doing PR for ISIS.
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The candidates are simply addressing the questions actually being asked, instead of turning every answer into economic inequality like Bernie does in the Demo debates.
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It would be nice if they had something to say about the economy at some point. We all know they are scared of ISIS ,what’s the point of repeating it?
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ISIS controlled lands are not Mordor and HRC isn’t trying to get the Ring.
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Is this a reference to Bored of the Rings? I never read Tolkien.
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They literally found the least difficult Ferguson question ever. Rand why aren’t you answering this softball?
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It’s ridiculous to talk about repealing Obamacare — or any other big government program already in place! The best anyone can do to existing government programs in slow down their growth.
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Yes, that’s what the people need: pass it, repeal it, pass it, repeal it. Fun!
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These idiots seem to think that Planned Parenthood and Foreign Aid are the biggest items in the budget.
“How will you balance the budget?”
“DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD! NEXT QUESTION!”
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Cruz health care reform is the dumbest thing I have heard on the subject.
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I stand with Rubio and wholeheartedly oppose Barack Hussein Obama’s official ‘Let ISIS into the country’ immigration policy.
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Discussion of Flint was surprisingly weak. Lead is incredibly bad for fetuses.
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This is an incredible, shocking level of hypocrisy. How absolutely shameful.
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Puerto Rico is never going to vote to become a U.S. state — the island has a much better deal remaining an unincorporated U.S. territory.
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Kelly is quite confrontational: “Now that you’ve already proved that you can’t be trusted on this subject…” 🙂
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Kelly is doing great. She’s the best moderator of all debates on both sides.
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Which is why the Democratic candidates would never agree to a Fox News debate!
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“Let’s watch Rubio age.Also here’s raw material for all of the other PACs.”
You are Cuban. Your parents got “blanket amnesty”.
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Cuban refugees are a special case of course, thanks to U.S. animosity toward Castro.
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That’s one of the reasons why US Hispanics don’t like Cubans and don’t identify with them.
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Bush is really in this race to sell books on Kindle. Worst book tour ever
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Yes, as book tours go, this one is pretty expensive.
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Ahahah. “Let’s watch Cruz age and squirm.”
Please visit my website.
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So where is it? There’s no link associated with your on-line handle.
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A mysterious, elusive website. . .:-)
Maybe it’s not a natural-born website.
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Whoops. I should put Cruz: Please visity website
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Darn Autocorrect.
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It’s John Kay-sich. I don’t have any idea of what he would be like as far as foreign affairs, but domestically, he would be like GW Bush (as you may recall, he is my governor).
He only looks good on that stage because the others are so, so bad.
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He seems to pronounce the “ch” as in cackle, not as in chase, like I do.
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Yes, it is like “ick,” ironically appropriate.
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That’s a great mnemonic device to remember. Thank you!
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Christie: I will be the Matlock of the federal government. I will be the prosecutor and the POTUS at the same time
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Off-topic, but has everyone noticed how the volume on commercials is always much louder than during the programs? Very annoying!
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Did you just start watching television? That has been true for as long as I remember.
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I never noticed. I always put the TV on mute during commercials.
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Well you did not grow up here in the time before remotes. When I was a child, it must have been a developmental milestone of sorts, the moment you realized the commercial are louder and are able to comment on it.
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Fascinating. You are a fount of interesting information today.
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I was watching television before you were born, but changes in noise levels are much more jarring as you get older, because you have to set the minimum noise level a bit higher to understand conversation against background noise.
Stick around a few decades, you’ll see what I mean. 🙂
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changes in noise levels are much more jarring as you get older, because you have to set the minimum noise level a bit higher to understand conversation against background noise
A bit higher? Ha!
I think they actually did jack up the volume level on certain commercials. It’s not just your ears.
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Those rules are definitely being violated.
I think you misunderstood me. What I meant was, I personally have to set the volume on my television a little higher than I did forty years ago, because as you age your high-frequency hearing slowly decreases, and when it dips into the range of human conversation, words are harder to understand against background noise.
So I have to set the volume higher for shows like “Law & Order,” which have a lot of background noise, than I do for political talk shows.
The sudden increase in volume when a commercial starts is definitely more than a bit, no argument about that.
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The chair of Cruz’s campaign endorses him? Good to know.
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Well, he might switch to Trump before the end of the debate. Everybody else has.
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The good doctor is making a lot of sense about Putin and the Balkans. You disagree, Clarissa?
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The Baltics. If anybody thought this was an important issue, the question would have gone to less hopeless candidates.
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Sorry about the stupid name mix-up — but you didn’t answer my question: Do you disagree with anything Dr. Carson said about Putin?
(Replying that what he said is irrelevant because he’ll never be President is dodging my question.)
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It’s all completely outdated. The time to send weapons to Ukraine passed over a year ago. The situation is different now. What will help is to push France hard to stick to the sanctions. Putin needs to be shown that his presence in Syria is not wanted. And the comments he made today about Russia’s claims to even more of Ukraine’s territory need to be shut down.
Carson’s speech would have made sense in the summer of 2015 but you can’t just get stuck in the past. New developments happen all the time.
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NATO exercises and a troop build-up in the Baltic states are still a good idea. Putin’s bullying isn’t welcome either in Syria or Eastern Europe. Obama’s never stood up to him anywhere.
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Yes, I like the NATO exercises. The NATO leadership is doing a great job.
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NATO leadership depends on the United States. There hasn’t been any for the last eight years.
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21:43 – this debate is a joke. They are on to Bill Clinton’s sex life? Seriously? There is no greater problem in this country than Bill’s affair 20 fucking years ago? People who were born in that year are old enough to vote. Can we discuss their college bills and not Bill’s penis?
The Starr Report is the best argument against government created porn.
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The Starr Report came out right after I moved to Canada. My relationship with my husband was collapsing, I was depressed, but reading that report was so entertaining that I felt relief. I will forever remember it fondly. 🙂
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As long as we’re reminiscing: The Lewinsky scandal broke the week after I retired from the Air Force — the first week in ages that I’d been home to watch daytime television on weekdays. It was also the week that Pope John-Paul became the first-ever Pope to visit Cuba, and it would have been a very boring news week without the scandal. 🙂
The impeachment trial was also a very entertaining week, even if the melodrama had a disappointing ending.
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Yes, I traveled to Cuba soon after that and they were all crazy for him. I don’t think Cubans cared much whether to adore the Pope or Che Guevara.
One thing is for sure, though, being young is vastly overrated. I wouldn’t want to go back to that age.
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Today I learned that you cannot be a feminist if your husband did something bad.
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I really love it that this particular crowd of clueless men should be lecturing a woman on feminism.
Clue-less.
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“Vote for me, my wife was near ground zero on 9/11.”
Christie
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Why did they invite Paul and not Fiorina? It was all “Paul the Lesser’s greatest hits!”.
Notes from the peanut gallery:
“Go back to Jersey, shovel some snow and eat some pasta!”
“Rubio’s face is red on one side and has a scratch on it. What’s up with his makeup?”
” [poor baby]” (said about Bush)
“I like Kasich.”
“Ok chant Hillary’s name one more time” (to Rubio)
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Because they needed at least one person on the stage whose foreign policy views were to the left of Obama’s.
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I agree! The candidates should have been attacking Hillary, not each other.
We’ll see who’s still standing, in both parties, after the Monday caucus.
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Tangentially:
Maybe it’s the candidates or this year or me, but there’s a distinct lack of dreaming and an overall positive vision for the future coming out of the entire 2016 field.
The Republican candidates claim they’re going to protect me the nightmare of Hillary Clinton dealing with ISIS and socialism. The Republican field is a nightmare to me, but I just notice the lack of even a positive conservative vision with any tangibility. I don’t have a sense of a conservative vision except oh, “This is a rerun of the 1980s.”
The Democratic candidates claim they’re going to protect me from the Republicans. Sanders sort of has a positive vision but it feels like a throwback in every single way. Otherwise, why soundtrack your political ad with the melancholy Simon and Garfunkel song<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W773ZPJhcVw“>America (see the lyrics at the link)? Hillary Clinton is very much, “did you like the ’90s? Did you like Obama? If you elect me, you’ll get more of that!”
2016: It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday LOL
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I agree completely. I’m tempted to attribute this to the age of the leading candidates but then I see Rubio who is young yet as apocalyptic as the rest of them.
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