I’m having a debate watching party

[Sweet_Lara]

You’re invited.

What kind of snacks should I serve? Party favors?

Alcohol too risky? Everyone drink when the word “sleepy” is said?

We’re gonna have a ball, y’all

 

[KeithD]

I'll skip the debate and the irritation. I think everyone's already made up their minds and I've already voted.

 

[Rightguide]

You’re invited.

What kind of snacks should I serve? Party favors?

Alcohol too risky? Everyone drink when the word “sleepy” is said?

We’re gonna have a ball, y’all

Sounds like a plan. I'm getting a nagging feeling that somehow Joe isn't going to show. Could be wrong, but him in a debate, requiring detailed recall, doesn't seem plausible.

 

[Adre]

“Look at him,” Biden told WRAL’s Cullen Browder earlier this week. “I’m not the guy who by the way said the problem with the Revolutionary War is we didn’t have enough airports. I’m not the guy who said the attack that took down the trade towers was on 7-Eleven.”

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Canadian here, no interest, I have better things planed with my time that night. But thanks for the invite.

 

[bodysong]

"It all kicks off over 90 minutes on Tuesday night on the Health Education Campus
of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.

Trump and Biden will be at podiums a safe distance apart, as specified by health guidelines,
according to Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

From the start, the candidates will confront unprecedented decisions, such as how or even
whether to greet each other at a time when medical experts are warning Americans not to
shake hands.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...565f36-fd91-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html

 

[Rightguide]

Canadian here, no interest, I have better things planed with my time that night. But thanks for the invite.

I noted on of your Canadian citizens was arrested at the border the other day on a charge or trying to assassinate our President. So, it seems you bastards do have an interest in our domestic affairs.

 

[Rightguide]

"It all kicks off over 90 minutes on Tuesday night on the Health Education Campus
of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.

Trump and Biden will be at podiums a safe distance apart, as specified by health guidelines,
according to Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

From the start, the candidates will confront unprecedented decisions, such as how or even
whether to greet each other at a time when medical experts are warning Americans not to
shake hands.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...565f36-fd91-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html

Let them just flip each other off and get on with it. Why is it close to a clinic? Will Biden need medical care to continue?

 

[Adre]

They were just trying to do us a favor. They’re nice that way.

 

[bodysong]

On Tuesday, Chris Wallace and @Debates released the list of questions
for the first Trump-Biden debate.

Not one addressed the climate crisis. That is unacceptable.

Our planet is burning. We must make the climate crisis a centerpiece
of the presidential debates.

(pic)

— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) September 24, 2020

“The climate crisis isn’t coming, it’s here,” stated a Sept. 23 letter to the Commission on
Presidential Debates, spearheaded by Democrat Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts,
and signed by 36 sitting senators, including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

https://www.boston.com/news/politic...want-to-see-discussed-at-presidential-debates

 

[Wrong Element]

Let them just flip each other off and get on with it. Why is it close to a clinic? Will Biden need medical care to continue?

Someone remind me which of the candidates has a recent history with unexplained visits to a hospital?

I'll skip the debate and the irritation. I think everyone's already made up their minds and I've already voted.

I am among those who believe that the debates are virtually always completely meaningless, and may be more meaningless than ever this time given that everybody has made up their mind one way or another about Donald Trump.

It's something for the chatterers to chatter about, but their effect on the race is likely to be extremely small.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Someone remind me which of the candidates has a recent history with unexplained visits to a hospital?






I am among those who believe that the debates are virtually always completely meaningless, and may be more meaningless than ever this time given that everybody has made up their mind one way or another about Donald Trump.

It's something for the chatterers to chatter about, but their effect on the race is likely to be extremely small.

Someone stated in a thread that Trump should debate an empty chair, I actually might watch that debate... 90 mins, no audience, just Trump rambling, might make for good watching...

 

[bellisarius]

Sounds like a plan. I'm getting a nagging feeling that somehow Joe isn't going to show. Could be wrong, but him in a debate, requiring detailed recall, doesn't seem plausible.

I'm with you on the no-show.

 

[KeithD]

Someone stated in a thread that Trump should debate an empty chair, I actually might watch that debate... 90 mins, no audience, just Trump rambling, might make for good watching...

Hasn't he essentially done that frequently already? Followed by a couple of days of the White House trying to explain it all away.

 

[LakeShoreDrive]

You’re invited.

What kind of snacks should I serve? Party favors?

Alcohol too risky? Everyone drink when the word “sleepy” is said?

We’re gonna have a ball, y’all

I'll bring queso dip & spanakopita.

 

[WillJ8787]

Is it a key party?

Unless some heavy petting occurs, I'm out

 

[WillJ8787]

Someone stated in a thread that Trump should debate an empty chair, I actually might watch that debate... 90 mins, no audience, just Trump rambling, might make for good watching...

I'd watch that!

 

[YDB95]

Alcohol too risky?

Nah, this is tailor-made for a drinking game!
I suggest two drinks every time Trump says "A lot of people don't know" followed by something everybody over the age of 8 knows (and which he presumably just learned in debate prep). Unless you have to work the next day, of course.

 

[Sweet_Lara]

I am among those who believe that the debates are virtually always completely meaningless, and may be more meaningless than ever this time given that everybody has made up their mind one way or another about Donald Trump.

True. This isn't an election between Trump and Biden. It's an election between the I like Trumps and the I hate Trumps.

I'll bring queso dip & spanakopita.

Yummy.

Unless some heavy petting occurs, I'm out

Heavy petting definitely encouraged

This is tailor-made for a drinking game! I suggest two drinks every time Biden says "C'mon, man" followed by a blank stare, then the white teeth flash.

Agree!!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Nah, this is tailor-made for a drinking game!
I suggest two drinks every time Trump says "A lot of people don't know" followed by something everybody over the age of 8 knows (and which he presumably just learned in debate prep). Unless you have to work the next day, of course.

Nah, let's make this really hardcore.

Do a shot every time Cheeto waves his hands accordion style while talking, on every fifth wave.

guaranteed blotto city by debate's end.

 

[YDB95]

True. This isn't an election between Trump and Biden. It's an election between the I like Trumps and the I hate Trumps.

Yes, and the latter have led in the polls for months. That's good enough for me. (Incidentally, it was the "double haters" who didn't like either candidate who put Trump over the top last time. This time they're breaking for Biden.)

 

[Rightguide]

Someone remind me which of the candidates has a recent history with unexplained visits to a hospital?

Biden's two surgeries for cranial aneurysms come to mind and that he was recently seen when his eye filled up with blood on live TV, and was forced to recall those brain operations, but his campaign refused to explain the cause.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...brain-aneurysm-days-after-bloody-eye-incident

 

[Sweet_Lara]

Yes, and the latter have led in the polls for months. That's good enough for me. (Incidentally, it was the "double haters" who didn't like either candidate who put Trump over the top last time. This time they're breaking for Biden.)

Uh, I dunno, YD. Four years ago, the polls were way off. And I remember tons of Trump signs and very few Clinton. On my day trips through Michigan the past few months, the Trump signs continue to pop up and outnumber the Biden signs probably 15 to one. I think the people who are voting for Trump really like Trump and what his policies have done for them.

 

[YDB95]

Uh, I dunno, YD. Four years ago, the polls were way off.

Not to the degree people like you think. You're forgetting how much Comey's letter late in the game hurt Clinton, and that she was still a ways off from 50% even when she was in the lead. Biden is now ahead by more and is near 50%. I don't know what part of Michigan you're in, but I do know the polls there have consistently shown Biden comfortably ahead statewide. It really doesn't matter if Trump is ahead in the parts of MI where the Republicans have dominated since the Civil War. There are blue neighbourhoods in Oklahoma and Utah, too.

 

[KeithD]

The polls in 2016 were based mostly on popular vote. Trump ran all of the close-popular vote states, taking all of the Electoral College votes. Even though the Electoral College has come into play before, Americans have moved to the concept of "one citizen, one equal vote" in their understanding of elections--what they should be. But the actual system hasn't moved there yet. If the polls had a formula to give the proper precedence to the weighting of the state "more equal than others" reality in 2016, or if simply everything hadn't split Trumps way in state unit results, the polls might look more realistic. I'm not sure Americans have "gotten" what the system is and how it works even yet--or that the current polling reflects this.