The New Hampshire Republican Debate

~ Clarissa

The question of the night: will Trump make a comeback or sink himself even deeper?

Stay tuned!

19:17 – Carson forgot he needs to keep walking? That’s embarrassing.

19:18 – they FORGOT about Kasich? This is so damn embarrassing. What a fiasco. What’s happening? Is everybody drunk at this debate?

19:20 – these questions have already been asked verbatim. Is everybody having a neurological episode?

19:22 – Cruz needs to stop scratching the podium. It’s making him look even more creepy.

19:26 – I’m not surprised somebody in Carson’s campaign died. Probably died of boredom.

19:28 – Cruz’s explanation of the Carson debacle makes him look weak and dishonest.

19:30 – Rubio is pouting already and asking everybody not to vote for Biden. Who is not running.

19:33 – Christie hit Rubio hard with the barb about his canned 30 – second responses. Rubio tries to defend himself and the audience boos him down. I like!

19:39 – Cruz sees no difference between North Korea and Iran. And this is the caliber of politician we have running for president.

19:46 – Trump’s foreign policy is more dovish than that of any Democrat. He’s completely opposed to any foreign involvement. He’s only aggressive in internal affairs.

19:52 – Cruz lays out the creepiest deportation scheme ever. The fellow is ill, folks.

20:00 – is Cruz reviving the death panels myth? What a piece of ugly Canadian trash.

20:05 – Trump is a bleeding Liberal, people. A stupid one, but a Liberal. He hates the wrong kind of immigrants but that’s the only departure I’m seeing, and it’s not a huge one.

20:16 – Rubio is right: Republican governments do tend to be very limited intellectually.

20:39 – Trump seems to have brought a single supporter who claps for him amidst silence.

20:42 – the Ham woman looks drunk.

21:14 – why are we talking about the draft all of a sudden? It’s ridiculous.

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73 thoughts on “The New Hampshire Republican Debate”

  1. I’d donate $20 to Trump’s campaign if he says ‘Please clap’ after Jeb finishes answering a question.

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  2. they FORGOT about Kasich? This is so damn embarrassing. What a fiasco. What’s happening? Is everybody drunk at this debate?
    YES. It’s Saturday night. Next question.

    Ha. I think the internet is collectively watching Formation for the umpteenth time.

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  4. That awkward applause break following the creepy Cruz apology that got no applause. Double awkward.

    Rubio back to his stump speech. Motherfucker’s a wind up doll.

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  5. 8:29 p “What did you actually do?” “Stop asking for experience, because then you’d elect Biden. Also everything in this list is bad. America is DIFFERENT.”
    830 p “I’m an executive. You aren’t. You truant schoolboy. Accountability! I have experience you don’t.”-Christie
    8:32 p Rubio: Your credit sucks. I hate change.
    8:33 Cheers. “Drive by questions!” Stop being a parrot and get a shovel to get the snow. (but I’m not the former Camden mayor).Christie
    8:34 Rubio keeps parroting. “he knows what he’s doing.” Boos from the audience.

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  8. 8:36 I will let you talk Trilogy. Why are you changing your mind on Rubio? Look at my endorsements-Trilogy. (meh) We had all of the natural disasters! Not your piddly snowstorms. Marco =Obama=bad.
    8:37 North Korea shot a missile. What would you do if you were president right now!
    It’s Bill’s fault. More missiles. North Korea is going to shoot missiles from a satellite.

    8:40 Would you have destroyed the missile on the launch pad preemptively? Cruz backs down from saying yes.

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  11. 8:42 Kasich: You recognized me! MAD doesn’t work on stateless actors. Impose more sanctions on North Korea.
    8:43 Trilogy thinks preemptive strikes are great.
    8:44 Trump “our country is going to hell!”Starts boasting about his Chinese connections. He’s going to outsource NK control to China.
    8;45 Rubio: “Obama wants US to be weak.”

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  12. Sorry, but any American college student that would choose to visit North Korea as a tourist is an idiot — his release isn’t the U.S.’s biggest priority at the moment.

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      2. Cruz is right about the need for intense, sustained targeted bombing against ISIS, but he’s stupidly mislabeling that type of bombing as “carpet bombing” — not the same thing at all.

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  21. The audience is booing indiscriminately before candidates even state a position — obviously has a number of Democratic trolls.

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  23. Cruz: I’ll repeal everything!
    Trump: I’ll make the classiest deal. Obama sucks at BATNA. He plays too much golf.
    Kasich: Goes on about executive orders. Obama has issued far less than Reagan actually despite everything.
    Bush: Money back to the states. Guess FL will never get a train from Orlando to Tampa.
    Kasich: My presidency will be a bullet train.

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  24. Seriously, watching crowds getting all hyped up for torture is such a creepy spectacle.

    American Conservatism in 2016.

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    1. Cruz is planning to combat drug addiction with border controls. Maybe he needs to patent this method because it will be big news to narcologists. What a loser.

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  26. Cruz should have summed up his sister’s tragic life in a couple of sentences before addressing the question about heroin abuse. Nobody wants to hear a prolonged story about a candidate’s family history.

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  29. The Hillary is a pioneer question.
    Trump: She won’t want to run against me. She is incompetent and I will win in a landslode.
    Rubio: Emails! Benghazi!
    Carson: Benghazi! I am so honest

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  30. Not a single question about Israel so far. Obviously, the moderators already know that all the Republican candidates are on the right side when it comes to the Israeli vs. Palestinian terrorists issue.

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  31. The question of people “signing up” for Selective Service is misworded. Nowadays almost nobody physically signs up for that. It’s done automatically for young men when they register to vote — and in many states voter registration occurs by default with obtaining a driver’s license.

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  32. “why are we talking about the draft all of a sudden?”

    Because if the combat restriction against women is officially removed by Congressional legislation, then federal law already mandates that all eligible potential combatants be registered with the Selective Service.

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  33. 1027: Marco believes in heterosexual monogamy. “Hillary believes in abortion on demand right up through labor!”
    1029: I’m more prolife than everyone else! I’m in the sweet spot of nominees. -Bush
    1030: I’m soooo prolife! I will lose the election first: Marco
    1031: Christie: I defunded Planned Parenthood! As long as she didn’t freely choose to have sex or is going to live, I’ll allow exceptions.

    Where is their outrage over Flint. I hear lead is incredibly bad for fetuses.

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    2. Train wrecks that spill deadly flaming oil flumes into the air are bad for fetuses. Why isn’t anyone outraged that the Democrats are blocking the Keystone pipeline, a much more environmentally friendly method of fossil fuel transportation that would negate the need for much of the current oil transport via rail?

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      1. If there were an actual deadly spill that is happening right now, if course it’d be discussed. But wasting debate time on imaginary spills or drafts is weird.

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        1. I was a king a rhetorical question. 🙂

          But the Selective Service law isn’t the draft — it’s the current law, and will be affected by any legal change in the combat status of women. (Google it and read the details.)

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      1. Shakti: Click on the ‘…’ under any tweet, select the ‘copy link to tweet’ and c&p that to the blog. No need to add any tags. Works for me every time.

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          1. Ah, yes, Hurricane Katrina. When New Orleans had a Democratic mayor who is currently in prison, and Louisiana had a Democratic governor who refused to mobilize the National Guard or formally request help from the federal government (which was a legal requirement before the U.S. President could intervene).

            Beyonce needs a good history book.

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            1. Beyonce needs a good history book
              Don’t you mean Antonio Brown? Whatever the reason, the government did not send help.. Brown doesn’t mention parties, mayors, governors or presidents. Anyways:

              Wikipedia:
              “On Sunday, August 28, President Bush spoke with Governor Blanco to encourage her to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans.However, during the testimony by former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Michael Brown before a U.S. House subcommittee on September 26, Representative Stephen Buyer (R-IN) inquired as to why President Bush’s declaration of state of emergency of August 27 had not included the coastal parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines.[15] The declaration actually did not include any of Louisiana’s coastal parishes, whereas the coastal counties were included in the declarations for Mississippi and Alabama.[16][17] Brown testified that this was because Louisiana Governor Blanco had not included those parishes in her initial request for aid, a decision that he found “shocking.” After the hearing, Blanco released a copy of her letter, which showed she had requested assistance for “all the southeastern parishes including the City of New Orleans” as well specifically naming 14 parishes, including Jefferson, Orleans and Plaquemines.[18]

              Then there was <a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown#Hurricane_Katrina’>Heck of a job Brownie This fucking idiot also thought the government overreacted to the Deepwater Horizon spill.

              Also who could forget Kanye West’s breakdown:

              …which Shrub considered the worst moment of his presidency. Not the actual debacle of the flood. Not 9/11. Kanye hurt his precious feelings.

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              1. Who cares what Kanye West or any other celebrity thinks? Those privileged idiots have never run anything but their mouths.

                Brown was basically incompetent, but he was pushed onto his sword for a cascading series of people who acted too late, including President Bush (assuming that’s who you’re calling “Shrub”), Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco (I suppose I could come up with a non-sexist insult to call her), and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. (What can I call him that’s non-racist? How about “Jailbird”?)

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  36. So the debate is finally over. Rubio performed horribly tonight, while Trump and the governors (including Jeb) all did rather well.

    It will be very interesting to see the results of the New Hampshire primary the three days.

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    1. I think Trump bombed. He kept saying things voters don’t like and find irrelevant. He failed to capture attention.

      Christie did well, I think. Bush was not horrible either.

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