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.
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Canned answers so far.
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Kaine is pushing back strongly. I like that.
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Oatmeal v. Mayo: the VP debate
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I agree, they’re both on the chubby side. 🙂
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Fat people, fat people on the offensive! They are everywhere! 😆😆😆
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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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Tim Kaine talking too fast. You want to pause sometimes, for emphasis.
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Random observations: Oatmeal hasn’t had Botox and smiles. Mayo is very Botox and doesn’t smile
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The Botox fellow must be taking pointers from Putin.
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That poor moderator — she can’t control the candidates at all!
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She can’t control her love for fake eyelashes either. It’s scary.
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What a sexist remark!
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Drag queens are not limited to one gender, actually.
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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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“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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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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What does LEO mean? Are you talking about a lion or an astrological sign???
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Law Enforcement Officer. Cop.
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Never mind — the dozenth time one of them said “law enforcement officer,” I figured it out!
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940: mayo: You’re candidate is the real meanie!
Oatmeal :Trump never apologizes.
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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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All of this debate:
Kaine: “Here’s what Trump said about ”
Pence: ¯_(ツ)/¯
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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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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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Oh, that was him! You are right! I completely repressed. What a dumb fuck.
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https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/783488299335725056
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😊
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Argh. I am missing it. I got held up really late at work. I can’t wait to see it!!!
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Kaine is doing very well, in my opinion. But I’m biased. 😊
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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Pence: “I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day.”
In front of Donald.
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😆😆😆😆😆
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😴😪
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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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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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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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