8:11 – I’m a bit late to the debate. What did I miss?

8:13 – I love Kaine for reminding Pence about Trump’s love of Putin. It’s the height of hypocrisy to blame Hillary for Putin when your running mate is fellating Putin all day and all night. 

8:16 – who is this moderator? Couldn’t they find anybody even mousier and with a quieter voice?

8:19 – Pence can’t decide if he wants to go back to the 1980s or the 1960s. It’s like he’s obsessed with even numbers. Creepy. 

8:28 – what drag show did this moderator come to the debate from? How does it occur to anybody to use somebody so inappropriate for a political debate?

8:44 – Pence is talking to the victims of the heroin epidemic. It’s Trump’s base that Hillary is not reaching and is not trying. I wish she talked to them, too. 

9:00 – Pence is quoting Lean In. Creepy. 

9:02 – Pence has gone completely off message on Russia. Is he aware what the position of the campaign on Russia even is?

9:03 – both candidates are condescending to the android moderator. This is what you get when you show up to a debate looking like this. I feel like I’m in Russia where the only women who are allowed to appear on TV are the ones who look like they just serviced a bunch of truck drivers at a truck stop. 

9:09 – Kaine says we need to continue sanctions against Russia. ❤🎉🎊🍨⛄🚀🔝🔜🎉

9:11 – Pence begs Kaine not to put something in his mouth. I didn’t hear what exactly he referred to. 

9:26 – Pence should have kept quiet about his so-called faith. He slipped and revealed how empty and formalities his “religious” upbringing was. The fellow hasn’t as much as stood next to a religious person. 

42 responses to “Veep Debate Liveblogging ”

  1. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Canned answers so far.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Kaine is pushing back strongly. I like that.

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  2. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    Oatmeal v. Mayo: the VP debate

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    1. Dreidel Avatar
      Dreidel

      “Oatmeal v. Mayo”

      I agree, they’re both on the chubby side. 🙂

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      1. Clarissa Avatar

        Fat people, fat people on the offensive! They are everywhere! 😆😆😆

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        1. Shakti Avatar
          Shakti

          Actually it’s a comment on how they are bland foodstuffs that take on almost whatever flavor is added to them, not their fighting weights.

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  3. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Tim Kaine talking too fast. You want to pause sometimes, for emphasis.

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  4. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    Random observations: Oatmeal hasn’t had Botox and smiles. Mayo is very Botox and doesn’t smile

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      The Botox fellow must be taking pointers from Putin.

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  5. Dreidel Avatar
    Dreidel

    That poor moderator — she can’t control the candidates at all!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      She can’t control her love for fake eyelashes either. It’s scary.

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      1. Dreidel Avatar
        Dreidel

        What a sexist remark!

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        1. Clarissa Avatar

          Drag queens are not limited to one gender, actually.

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  6. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    927: there is way more yelling in this room about interrupting Pence then on the debate.
    929: Saudi Arabia is funding Chelsea! Something about diarrhea! Stripping! Apples to bullshit!

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  7. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    “You can roll out the facts all you want..”

    Yes. Yes, that’s how we analyze things. GOP permanently allergic to facts.

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  8. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    935: What do you say to your colleague the senator who keeps getting racially profiled? Mayo: Don’t hurt LEO feelings! Support their feelings! Stop and frisk! Oatmeal: oh btw your candidate can’t talk about feelings because he’s an asshole.

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    1. Dreidel Avatar
      Dreidel

      What does LEO mean? Are you talking about a lion or an astrological sign???

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      1. Stringer Bell Avatar
        Stringer Bell

        Law Enforcement Officer. Cop.

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      2. Dreidel Avatar
        Dreidel

        Never mind — the dozenth time one of them said “law enforcement officer,” I figured it out!

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  9. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    940: mayo: You’re candidate is the real meanie!
    Oatmeal :Trump never apologizes.

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  10. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    946:TERRORISM.
    Oatmeal :Starts touting HRC’S bona fides. Starts on a four point plan. Trump will fight on twitter and pick fights indiscriminately and wants everyone to get nikes. Mayo laughs.
    Mayo: I was in DC. Oatmeal says he was near the Pentagon. Mayo blames the Iraq withdrawal agreement on Obama and HRC. The Iranian deal was fiasco! Crosstalk.

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  11. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    All of this debate:

    Kaine: “Here’s what Trump said about
    Pence: ¯_(ツ)

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      It does seem like Pence hasn’t met his own running mate. Does Pence think he’s running back in 2008 with McCain?

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  12. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Pence has this chill vibe around him which allows him to look reasonable while saying insane things.

    It’s unreal. I mean, this is the guy who signed a law in his state making funerals mandatory in case of abortions/miscarriages.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Oh, that was him! You are right! I completely repressed. What a dumb fuck.

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  13. Evelina Anville Avatar
    Evelina Anville

    Argh. I am missing it. I got held up really late at work. I can’t wait to see it!!!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Kaine is doing very well, in my opinion. But I’m biased. 😊

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      1. Dreidel Avatar
        Dreidel

        Pence is winning in both style and message, staying much calmer than Kaine and sticking strictly on message in defending Trump. He knows that what matters in a debate isn’t what you say — it’s how you say it.

        (Both Pence and Kaine are defending idiots. They have no choice.)

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        1. Stringer Bell Avatar
          Stringer Bell

          You’re deranged if you really believe Trump is in the same universe as Clinton in terms of intellectual capacity.

          This is not a partisan comment. I’d say this to you even if you were a diehard lefty instead of the racist, reactionary conservative that you are.

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          1. Dreidel Avatar
            Dreidel

            I may be deranged, Stringer Boy, but I can VOTE!

            Until you have that right, you’re just another impotent clown crawling around on monkey hill at the San Bernardino Zoo, and throwing his poop at the moon.

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            1. Stringer Bell Avatar
              Stringer Bell

              “I may be deranged, Stringer Boy, but I can VOTE!”

              Not a trade I would make but more power to you, dude.

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        2. Clarissa Avatar

          The only problem is, Pence is strictly on somebody else’s message. He seems to have zero familiarity with his own candidate.

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  14. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Why was this entire debate about foreign policy? The first social policy ‘question’ was an invitation to brag about how religious they are.

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  15. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    1024: Oatmeal:LIBERAL CATHOLICISM IN THE HOUSE! (But at a moderate volume and against the death penalty )
    Mayo: I found the Jesus in college. Fetuses! Adoption! HRC is a baby killer who supports d&cs.
    Oatmeal :This is about a woman and her private life.

    I think this debate is a draw. Which means the Trump campaign will see it as a win.

    Mayo: When someone shows you who are believe them.

    This whole debate is like a sedate dinner party among moderate NPR listeners after they’ve taken Ambien. Except their candidates piss the hell out of the other side.

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  16. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Pence: “I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day.”

    In front of Donald.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      😆😆😆😆😆

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  17. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    😴😪

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  18. adrianaurelien Avatar
    adrianaurelien

    Wow, how underwhelming. Kaine isn’t delivering as good a debate performance as I’ve seen from him in the past, he’s very repetitive. I felt like most of his attacks didn’t land well, Pence is good at lying and claiming things didn’t happen. Pence is condescending and annoying, I hate his little exasperated sighs and laughs and utterances of “that’s nonsense.” The moderator could be replaced by an audio recording and there’d be no difference. I no longer feel sad about missing the first half hour.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      It’s interesting that Pence has felt the need to issue so many denials not only of Trump’s words but also of his own. These people have no convictions, no integrity.

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      1. adrianaurelien Avatar
        adrianaurelien

        A lot of people will never look up what they actually said and will just take Pence at his word. Did the moderator ever step in and clarify, “actually, that is what you said”? Of course not.

        I’m disappointed Pence’s governorship didn’t get brought up (unless that happened in the first half hour.) That would’ve been a bad time for him, lucky he avoided that.

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