I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

Many XPS I imagine most of the college-educated males going for Trump majored in Date Rape.

yeah well everyone thinks their life is hard

more warm enveloping ilxpundit compassion

yeah you're famous for your compassion

Should we wager on the audience reaction(if any) will be tonight? Are we gunna get any "you lie!" ejaculations from the crowd?

If I understand the rules correctly, audience reactions will be prohibited. I really hope that ejaculations are similarly discouraged.

Personally I don't want to think about whether the candidates or the moderators are permitted to ejaculate.

Cruz would have won this thing easily, just as would have literally any republican but trump. Even if he wins, we were lucky to have him be the candidate. I think Clinton is smart and qualified etc, but it was insane to nominate the most hated person in America

unlike cruz, a beloved america respected by all

american*

I don't know. I think Cruz was the only guy on that GOP primary main stage that would be doing worse than Trump here.

or rubio tbh i think yr forgetting that before he was losing to hillary in the general election trump was more popular than all these other losers

it's kind of stunning in that cruz is essentially just as repellant as trump, but in this completely different, smug-ass college republican that in his mind is a gifted 19th century orator or 1980s televangelist, brought back just in time to save america, kind of way. they really epitomize two aspects of everything gross and awful about the republican party.

Should we wager on the audience reaction(if any) will be tonight?

One of the debate-commission people just told the audience to "be quiet." Which is what I would have expected anyway.

Here we go, guys

this completely different, smug-ass college republican that in his mind is a gifted 19th century orator or 1980s televangelist,

Yes -- I said last year that he reminded me of some McCarthy ass-kissing senator from 1951.

have fun!

http://www.aperol.com/media/45720/pack.png

I knew I forgot to get something at the store

Was it Karl Malone that did those great, unsettling graphics overlaying several images of the candidates' faces, like with a "blue and red 3D goggles" type effect? That kinda captured a lot of Ted Cruz for me.

https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/777568225538088960

Cruz wouldn't make inroads in the midwest, nor would Rubio or any other Republican. Perhaps Kasich? No, Trump is doing better than what a generic republican would be doing, it seems. He gets the famed missing white vote in the midwest, and turns out other republicans don't give a fuck about racism or sexism anyway. Who would have guessed?

Well, I hope HRC has been able to figure out something that'll work tonight.

RE Steve King HOLY FUCK

I'm sure that's what his wife says.

despite the intense dread i'm feeling atm (maybe just bc i have to wake up super early to travel for work tmmrw) i am watching this

Are there commercial breaks on this?

why does everyone call trump donald j trump just like he wants

Drinking a pretty good islay single malt (a birthday present from my brother) to try and numb the unpleasantness of watching this.

Come down, collardio gelatinous!

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 September 2016 11:25 (four days ago) Permalink

Thanks Alfred! (much belated reply)

Jealous, I have to wait to hit the scotch until after a couple business calls.

XP

lmao trump sucks so much

i already feel 1000x better about this debate

Did Trump do a line before he walked out? Some serious sniff sniff

This is studious civil trump right now

some of the best plants

she's already baiting him

Not a bad start for either, I don't think Trump is really flailing just yet. His ideas are somewhat well articulated and completely horrible. Don't know if people get that or just hear someone sounding semi reasonable about those bad Mexicans.

Coked to the gills

Totally, sniffing like a maniac

trump with the sniffles!

i can't stop noticing him sniffing

First note of condescension this evening.

It's hard not to notice

Xp

it's very distracting surely we can't be the only ones

jeez it's a shame that trump is dying of some kind of rare super-flu

everybody is going to notice & Trump is going to blame the sound people at ABC

Who was the last major party candidate to openly call for protectionist tariffs?

She's kind of nailing him here

Protectionism is very appealing to workers who are completely exposed. It's frustrating.

A hoax perpetrated by the Chinese

haha @ hillary's "well, actually"

hillary with the "well actually"

lol xp