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Who will win the debate?
Donald Trump
Ben Carson
Marco Rubio
Jeb! Bush
Carly Fiorina
Ted Cruz
Mike Huckabee
Chris Christie
Rand Paul
John Kasich
Bobby Jindal
Rick Santorum
Lindsey Graham
George Pataki
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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
The idea that CNBC is a left-wing network, well, I just can't even as the hashtag millennials would say.

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Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Joementum posted:

Probably about the same. 2016 Hillary doesn't exist without 2008 Barack Obama.

She is just super Obama more "centrist" and "serious" and "pragmatic" which translates to corporate shill

Mitt Romney
Nov 9, 2005
dumb and bad

Joementum posted:

By 2020 the GOP will only agree to have Fox News and the Blaze host debates.



That was one of Romney's key recommendations after losing in 2012: Control the 2016 GOP primary debates via the moderators/production so crazy things don't happen. Glad to see his recommendation was ignored.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



I don't think there's any amount of money you could pay me to be Reince right now

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I love that Reince is being angry about the debate he signed on with.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

OctoberBlues posted:

I thought that might be the answer, I'm just going to keep believing in my version where she dominates the republicans and Obama sweeps the electoral map in 2016. :allears:

I think that if Hillary had won in 2008 the Republicans would have opposed everything she did (wild, radical opinion there, I know) and Obama would be running this year much the same as she is now.

Winkie01
Nov 28, 2004
Bush sounds like a whiny bitch on CNN

Pox
Feb 16, 2015

Josh Lyman posted:

The Tea Party probably wouldn't be around.

The Tea Party is a different name for the same right wing movement thats been around for 60+ years.

Polygynous
Dec 13, 2006
welp

steelninja posted:

Best part of the debate was them playing pink floyd's the wall on that one commercial break.

you must have missed yakety sax

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
Too much dead air, remove the following next debate:

Paul
Kasich
Christie
Huckabee
Cruz
Fiorina
Rubio
Carson

Jeb! can stay so Trump has someone to pick on when he gets bored of talking about how great he is.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

zen death robot posted:

CNBC as "mainstream media" when it's one of the least watched channels

their pundits are the same flavor as the rest of the cable channels, just less competent and relegated to the third tier cable network who will hire them

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

Winkie01 posted:

Bush sounds like a whiny bitch on CNN

Not sure FOX is even going to interview him...

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

Pick posted:

These candidates are less convincing than Rush transcripts

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

zen death robot posted:

The debate was terrible and Trump reminded everyone that he kept it from dragging on for another hour

Literally the worst debate I've ever seen. The only thing that was accomplished was Jeb! proving he's a disaster.

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

So how did the clown menagerie do tonight? Was it as comical as the last debate? I only caught the last few minutes of the debate, and I got the feeling the candidates came off as less overtly absurd than last time and may have actually managed to cover their bullshit with a veneer of seeming plausibility.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

Joementum posted:

The idea that CNBC is a left-wing network, well, I just can't even as the hashtag millennials would say.

It makes sense when having big banks is a symptom of SOCIALISM according to Carly.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

StevePerry
Sep 5, 2003

don't stop believin
I had to gut a deer so I missed the debate, but I've read your reviews and It sounds like it was a cafeteria food fight.

Still don't have a great grasp on Jeb, other than it was bad for him and he spoke very few words. Out of the those times, any standout moments (good or bad)?

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002


lol

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Drunk Lindsey Graham owned, though.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

the debate was so bad that it probably helped the entire field as a whole; nobody crashed and burned except poor, poor John Ellis

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Mitt Romney posted:

That was one of Romney's key recommendations after losing in 2012: Control the 2016 GOP primary debates via the moderators/production so crazy things don't happen. Glad to see his recommendation was ignored.

They were smart and knew it would look bad if they only did things in a right wing media bubble so they go on more liberal networks and let the moderators prove them entirely correct in their media bias ideology

steelninja
Sep 26, 2015

Sheikh Djibouti posted:

So how did the clown menagerie do tonight? Was it as comical as the last debate? I only caught the last few minutes of the debate, and I got the feeling the candidates came off as less overtly absurd than last time and may have actually managed to cover their bullshit with a veneer of seeming plausibility.

nope, total poo poo show

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

graham somehow won the second debate as well

Polygynous
Dec 13, 2006
welp
like a wombat

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Sheikh Djibouti posted:

So how did the clown menagerie do tonight? Was it as comical as the last debate? I only caught the last few minutes of the debate, and I got the feeling the candidates came off as less overtly absurd than last time and may have actually managed to cover their bullshit with a veneer of seeming plausibility.

it was a trainwreck covered in piss and poo poo

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

Sheikh Djibouti posted:

So how did the clown menagerie do tonight? Was it as comical as the last debate? I only caught the last few minutes of the debate, and I got the feeling the candidates came off as less overtly absurd than last time and may have actually managed to cover their bullshit with a veneer of seeming plausibility.

an actual thing that happened tonight: multiple candidates agreed that instead of spending money on medicine, we should just cure all the diseases

Polygynous
Dec 13, 2006
welp

Commie NedFlanders posted:

They were smart and knew it would look bad if they only did things in a right wing media bubble so they go on more liberal networks and let the moderators prove them entirely correct in their media bias ideology

yeah those loving socialists at cnbc

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Peachstapler posted:

I had to gut a deer so I missed the debate, but I've read your reviews and It sounds like it was a cafeteria food fight.

Still don't have a great grasp on Jeb, other than it was bad for him and he spoke very few words. Out of the those times, any standout moments (good or bad)?

Trump made the moderator apologize for quoting him from his own website and then spun their attempt at a correction back on them, took credit for this horrible thing being shortened to applause, and was the only candidate who wasn't aggressively campaigning to burn it all down on the way out

Rubio gained the most ground, Trump won, everybody else lost bad

Shammypants
May 25, 2004

Let me tell you about true luxury.

mormonpartyboat posted:

an actual thing that happened tonight: multiple candidates agreed that instead of spending money on medicine, we should just cure all the diseases

Meanwhile in NIH funding land, things are roughly the same year in and year out or worse

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Peachstapler posted:

I had to gut a deer so I missed the debate, but I've read your reviews and It sounds like it was a cafeteria food fight.

Still don't have a great grasp on Jeb, other than it was bad for him and he spoke very few words. Out of the those times, any standout moments (good or bad)?

He tried to join in on the slams on Marco about still being senator while running for president (and hilariously whining about the few times he shows up for work) but instead wound up with Marco's dick in his mouth and everyone around him laughing.

Jeb was not good, is what I'm saying.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Tatum Girlparts posted:

He tried to join in on the slams on Marco about still being senator while running for president (and hilariously whining about the few times he shows up for work) but instead wound up with Marco's dick in his mouth and everyone around him laughing.

Jeb was not good, is what I'm saying.

well he's good at one thing :q:

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

steelninja posted:

nope, total poo poo show

Haha glad to hear it. Maybe I'll watch it later for kicks, if I feel like I can stomach it. The field really does seem to comprise a new low this year, even by recent Republican standards.

TyrantWD
Nov 6, 2010
Ignore my doomerism, I don't think better things are possible

Joementum posted:

The idea that CNBC is a left-wing network, well, I just can't even as the hashtag millennials would say.

They are pretty much only have one real position - cut corporate taxes. We could have a corporate tax rate of 0 and Kudlow would just move on to demanding that the government give corporations a financial prize based on how profitable they were. Beyond that you could have an illegal immigrant who was a gay, half black half Mexican transgender doctor handing out mandatory abortions in the lobby of Planned Parenthood and sending all of the money he got from ripping off the government to ISIS, and CNBC still couldn't give a poo poo as long as the doctor got a tax cut.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Peachstapler posted:

I had to gut a deer so I missed the debate, but I've read your reviews and It sounds like it was a cafeteria food fight.

Still don't have a great grasp on Jeb, other than it was bad for him and he spoke very few words. Out of the those times, any standout moments (good or bad)?

relive the moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSocqevS8u8

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Winkie01 posted:

Bush sounds like a whiny bitch

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
if the whole arena collapsed killing everyone in it, the eulogy would be "well they loving deserved it"

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

mormonpartyboat posted:

if the whole arena collapsed killing everyone in it, the eulogy would be "well they loving deserved it"

:rip: rand pauls curly locks

double negative
Jul 7, 2003


Rubio really poo poo all over Bush in that back and forth, like definitively. Bush managed come off as the most petulant person on a stage he shared with Rand Paul, who I believe had more speaking time than he did

e: nope, I was wrong. That it's even in question still makes me laugh at Jeb

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Final:
Fiorina: 10:32
Rubio: 10:10
Kasich: 9:42
Trump: 9:26
Christie: 8:31
Huckabee: 7:39
Cruz: 7:34
Carson: 7:02
Bush: 6:39
Paul: 6:15

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