{"id":177462,"date":"2019-09-12T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/12\/live-drunk-blogging-the-debates\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:12:00","slug":"live-drunk-blogging-the-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/12\/live-drunk-blogging-the-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Live (Drunk) Blogging the Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>10:48 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Debate over, not listening to the talking heads.<\/p>\n<p>I am not drunk enough. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:44 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Cory Booker says that, &#8220;The election is not a referendum on Donald Trump, it is a referendum on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very eloquent, and also a good strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Castro just used the southernism, &#8220;Y&#8217;all.&#8221; It did not sound authentic.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:39 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Checking Twitter, and I think that the heckle was, &#8220;3 million departed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They should have done this when immigration had been the subject.  Also, they should <b>ENUNCIATE<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker just said &#8220;Dagnabit&#8221;.&nbsp; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?&nbsp; Take a drink. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:33 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Questions about resilience, and what your worst personal failure was.<\/p>\n<p>Biden just got heckled.  I cannot make out what is being said.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s asked about professional setbacks, and he mentioned his wife and daughter&#8217;s deaths in an auto accident, and his son&#8217;s death of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Warren talks about getting fired as a teacher because she is pregnant. Humble beginnings, drink by the Taibbi rules.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders talks about his electoral failures before he becomes mayor of Burlington.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:26 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Ad break.<br \/>Alzheimers society advertising a lot too, as is some sort of student loan scam called Sofi, which sounds like a dotcom.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:21 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Julian Castro notes the documented fact that charter schools do not perform better than conventional public schools, and notes that they need more transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker comes out with a pro charter patter, and then goes back to environmental racism, which he has at least twice before.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:18 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Lindsay Davis calls out Biden&#8217;s racist statements in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Biden sputters word salad.<\/p>\n<p>This format, and 10 people on stage, is exhausting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:10 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Yang is a big backer of charter schools.  F%$# that.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigeig:  Step 1 is to appoint a secretary of education who actually supports public education.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Davis asks Warren if she is &#8220;in bed&#8221; with teachers unions.  Lindsay Davis can go Cheney herself.<\/p>\n<p>Warren mentions that she was a public school teacher.  Good for her. (optional drink taken)<\/p>\n<p>Sanders finally gets called on.  Talks up his debt forgiveness.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>10:06 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Anthropogenic climate change: Moderate Jorge Ramos seems to be hostile to the idea of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is being studiously ignored on this question.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yange is talking up &#8220;Democracy Dollars&#8221;.  There is someone who did too much LDS in the 1960s.  When does he start swimming with humpback whales?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:53 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Sanders to Biden:  I never believed what Cheney and Bush said.  <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Righteous!!!<\/span><\/b>  Drink, because it was epic.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:48 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Afghanistan.  How the F%$# did we get out?<\/p>\n<p>Biden now disavows the AUMF that allowed Bush to invade Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>He claims that he&#8217;s a critic of the Iraq war.  Bullsh%$.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:42 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Sanders makes a cogent statement about how &#8220;Free Trade&#8221; is really about labor arbitrage.<\/p>\n<p>Biden cries, &#8220;Think of the intellectual property.&#8221;  Not incoherent, but morally bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker:  \u201cI\u2019m the only person on stage who finds Trudeau\u2019s hair very menacing but they\u2019re not a national security threat.\u201d  I laughed, and I am definitely got a buzz on.<\/p>\n<p>Win from Taibbi:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I second this. DRINK if you think Kamala had a warmup edible tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8jCAAnFVh\">https:\/\/t.co\/C8jCAAnFVh<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1172324497396916224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris sounds seriously off.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:36 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Trade policy questions, and the responses from everyone is fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to come out against tariffs, so they are criticizing Trump&#8217;s incoherence.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is really sounding awful.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:26 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Ad break.  Notable ads:<br \/>The <i>New York Times<\/i> is advertising the sh%$ out of the debates.<br \/>I am depressingly sober.  It&#8217;s what happens when I drink something with the alcohol content of a strong wine. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:16 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Beto speaks Spanish, Taibbi rules, drink.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:11 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Biden is challenged about Obama being deporter-in-chief.  Good.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>9:05 pm<\/b>:<br \/>If Booker mentions that he moved to Newark one more time, I think that I am going to scream.<\/p>\n<p>Warren says that Republican opposition to gun control is corruption.  Warren, corruption, drink.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:57 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Kamala Harris was poorly prepped for this debate.  She is sounding like an airhead, and she is not an airhead.<\/p>\n<p>I think that someone convinced her that she needed to be more &#8220;Feminine&#8221; and it was a bad move.<\/p>\n<p>Beto, &#8220;Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15.&#8221;  Swear word, drink. <\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke sounds remarkably animated and sincere, because, IIRC, he is animated and sincere about the ammosexual threat.<\/p>\n<p>Klobuchar called out McConnell.  Drink.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:49 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Best question so far, a challenge to Kamala Harris about how she opposed law enforcement accountability, marijuana legalization, etc., as a prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>A close second is a question to Klobuchar over her awful record as a prosecutor.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:45 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Quote of the night so far, Beto O&#8217;Rourke: &#8220;We have a white supremacist in the White House, and he constitutes a mortal threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am impressed that O&#8217;Rourke is not doing his pre-El Paso shooting unity bullsh%$.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:42 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Andrew Yang, &#8220;I&#8217;m Asian, so I know a lot of doctors.&#8221;  Sounds like Joe Biden stupid sh%$.  (Drink)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:38 pm<\/b>:<br \/>So much sucking up to Barack Obama when discussing healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Castro just said to Biden, &#8220;Did you just forget what you said 2 minutes ago?&#8221;  Burn!  (Drink)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:33 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Kamala Harris sure picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.  Complete word salad and invoking John f$#@ing McCain?  (Drink)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:30 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Butgigeig says, &#8220;Damn,&#8221; quoting Sanders, and sounds completely uncomfortable doing so.  Awkward, take a shot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:26 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Elizabeth Warren says that she&#8217;s never met anyone who loves their insurance company.  Too true.  (No drink)<\/p>\n<p>Sanders notes that Americans pay twice as much as everyone else in the world, Biden interrupted, &#8220;This is America.&#8221;  Stupid sh%$ from Biden.  Take a shot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:22 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Stephanopoulos whines to Warren and Sanders about taxes, and refuses to consider the savings of single payer.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders says damn.  Take a shot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:18 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Stephanopolous serves up a big slow one over the center of the plate for Biden, basically asking if Warren and Sanders are icky socialists.&nbsp; Take a shot. <br \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:12 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Sanders sounds a bit hoarse in his opening statement.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>8:06 pm<\/b>:<br \/>Castro&#8217;s opening statement had both Spanish and a sports reference.&nbsp; 2 Shots.<\/p>\n<p>Yang just announced that his campaign will give 10 people $1000.00\/month for a year.&nbsp; Literally a lottery offer onin his opening statement.&nbsp; Definitely a shot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We are finally down enough candidates that they will all be on one stage, so I guess that I <b>have<\/b> to live blog this, so I will be drinking, because, forget it Jake, it&#8217;s ABC.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only the primaries, so I&#8217;m doing Buttershots, Butterscotch liquor that is only 15% ABV. <\/p>\n<p>I will be playing a drinking game based loosely on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/rolling-stone-third-debate-drinking-game-883560\/\">Matt Taibbi&#8217;s 3<sup>rd<\/sup> debate drinking game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting at the top, with each update having a time in H:HMM pm format.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>On edit<\/i>)<br \/>Watching on ABC and have some comments about ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:48 pm:Debate over, not listening to the talking heads. I am not drunk enough. 10:44 pm:Cory Booker says that, &#8220;The election is not a referendum on Donald Trump, it is a referendum on us.&#8221; Very eloquent, and also a good strategy. Julian Castro just used the southernism, &#8220;Y&#8217;all.&#8221; It did not sound authentic. 10:39 pm:Checking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[643,385,374],"class_list":["post-177462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-drinking","tag-media","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}