My plan is to say things I never said before about these candidates. Which will be hard because there have been so many of these debates already.
Join me in efforts to be original!
20:16 – I’m watching the debate with Klara, and she’s a lot less repetitive than the candidates even though the range of sounds she can make is quite limited.
20:17 – if I were playing a game where I’d take a shot whenever Bernie gave a specific answer to a specific question I’d be as sober as I am already.
20:20 – the debate sounds like a soap opera: break up, break up, break up, put to bed, put to bed, break them up.
20:21 – if I were playing a game where I’d take a shot whenever Hillary gave a specific answer to the question about the transcripts, I’d still be very sober.
20:24 – Bernie looks a little frazzled. But why would anyone grill him on taxes so much? It’s obvious he’s very honest and doesn’t cheat on his taxes. Come on, move on already!
20:27 – fuck Verizon!
20:40 – Bernie wants to return to the 1950s and Hillary wants to return to the 1990s. Maybe by year 2050 we will accept that the twentieth century is over.
20:51 – we have minimum wage workers at my department: students who work at the lab. If the minimum wage went to $15, we’d have to fire most of them because the money is simply not there. Besides, the work is SO not worth $15 an hour. They furiously browse their Instagram and Snapchat while visitors to the lab pass their cards through the scanner. We do need somebody to make sure the cards are scanned but we don’t need it at such a cost.
20:59 – I like how Sanders speaks about climate change. He’s neither apocalyptic nor mumbly and says exactly what is needed. And what I’d say.
21:05 – hallelujah! Finally, somebody has mentioned that fracking has been crucial to keeping Russia in check. Yay!
21:09 – at this time, I was tempted to reiterate that the Pope is a dick but I won’t because I don’t want to be repetitive.
21:20 – good point on Bernie’s closeness to Trump on the issue of NATO.
21:25 – I love Hillary for finally bringing up Ukraine.
21:27 – Bernie is very good, very reasonable on Palestine. I like! That’s, once again, verbatim what I’d say on the subject. I’m pleasantly surprised for the third time in this debate.
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I’m listening to the debate in the background, and so far haven’t heard either Bernie or Hillary say ANYTHING new that they haven’t already stated many times before — so there’s really nothing to comment on.
Just wanted to let you and Klara know that you aren’t the only two people watching this nonsense. 🙂
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We are very politically active. 🙂
But yes, my comments are so much more interesting than what the candidates are saying.
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Off-topic, but WordPress seems to have changed the way it places smiley faces in comments! The last few times I’ve put an icon at the end of a comment (like I did above), WordPress has moved it to the beginning of the last line.
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They keep tinkering with the website and as a result of the improvements I don’t see 80% of the comments on my app. I don’t even know that people are commenting until I go to my desktop.
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There’s probably some kind of extension that’s not working anymore …
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White anchors: ‘To ask a minority-related question, we hand you over to a minority anchor not yet seen in this debate. We’ll be back with serious questions after he’s done.’
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CNN does it every fucking time.
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I always detested this kind of thing.
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Israel is where Clinton loses me completely. What a craven response.
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Bernie is the voice of reason on Palestine.
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Bernie crushing her on this. Go Bernie!
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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/720800623332077568
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That’s a pretty blatant instance of tearing things out of context.
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Bernie fucked up with the ‘south is conservative’ comment. Yes, the south is extremely conservative but the democratic party voters there are consistently progressive.
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I hope this doesn’t become his “they cling to guns and religion” moment. I hate it when people are hounded for clumsy turns of phrase.
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I’ll bet the Clinton campaign will turn this into ‘Bernie doesn’t care about Black voters’ attack by tomorrow morning.
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I really hope not. This is divisive and ridiculous.
If anybody is looking for racists in this electoral cycle, there are better places to look than the Democratic race.
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Agreed.
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20:21 – if I were playing a game where I’d take a shot whenever Hillary gave a specific answer to the question about the transcripts, I’d still be very sober.
Yeah, she was deflecting all of over the place. I assume they’re not talking about this speech
20:24 – Bernie looks a little frazzled. But why would anyone grill him on taxes so much? It’s obvious he’s very honest and doesn’t cheat on his taxes. Come on, move on already!
I agree. However, it’s just shocking to me he doesn’t have that cleared away. That’s pretty standard for serious presidential runs. He kept putting it off on his wife which I didn’t like. And saying they were simple just makes it even more boggling.
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Style notes: Clinton went for a modified Olivia Pope. Bernie’s suit wearing has improved vastly since the first debates.
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I’m striving for creativity here. Firstly, Clarissa’s observations regarding Hillary and Bernie are spot on tonight. That’s something I haven’t said before. Here’s something else: I’m beginning to think that the optimum outcome would be for Bernie to continue generating enthusiasm, but fall just short on votes. Then Hillary could win the nomination, Bernie could graciously endorse her and urge his followers to vote Democratic.
America would get a well-qualified president, and also the first woman president. Bernie would have accomplished most of what he set out to do. He raised the consciousness of many American voters and pushed Hillary to be a more progressive leader than she was previously inclined to be. Best-case scenario: We’d also elect a Democratic House and Senate, enact universal health care, greatly reduce the cost of tuition at public colleges and increase taxpayer support for higher education. Am I an optimist, or what?
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Sounds like a beautiful plan! 🙂
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