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Debate Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  October 28, 20157:55 pm| 209 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity

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I watched the JV RNC debate shitshow on CNBC. Smirking douchenozzle / Tea Party Podfather Rick Santelli was one of the moderators. Gyad, what a loathsome prick.

The assembled aspirants were talking over the one-minute time limit, shouting down the moderators and behaving disruptively. I kept hoping a muscular cop from South Carolina would charge in and slam them to the ground, along with their podiums.

After the small-timer show, assembled bloviators, including a toupéed idiot and an old fart from the Reagan admin, insisted the candidates weren’t supportive enough of corporate tax cuts. One of those nitwits was a former Bear Stearns economist, so it was like listening to Captain Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdez opine on oil tanker navigation.

The spectacle made me want to pour a quart of bourbon into a half-gallon container of butter pecan ice cream and spoon the contents down my throat until I pass out or spew projectile vomit across the room to cover the screen and make it stop.

Round 2 will have the blessed distraction of baseball. Go Mets!

Open thread!

PS: World Series open thread downstairs.

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    I want to marry this F/P post. Brava, Betty!

    And yes, re: World Series, go Mets, and re: Debate, go Meteors!

  2. 2.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    The twitter feed on the crawl on CNBC is pretty funny.

  3. 3.

    CJ

    October 28, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    What’s the best way to watch, as a cord cutter?

  4. 4.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    Three ‘Rs, Three ‘Rs.

    Re-brand, re-launch, re-boot!

  5. 5.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    Only question is if Bed Carson will share his stash with the rest of the candidates, remember it’s in Colorado.

  6. 6.

    Big ole hound

    October 28, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    Betty, ya nailed. Best blog ever.( that made no mention of the boxers)

  7. 7.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @Rising Above: Crashed and burned on the Launchpad and bluescreened the first time out, eh?

  8. 8.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Rubio, Rubio, Rubio.

  9. 9.

    Renie

    October 28, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    I’m already eating halloween candy; every year I say I will buy candy I don’t like but then I always slip in something I like

  10. 10.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    @Baud:

    Rubio is going nowhere fast.

    PREDICTION: It all comes down to Jeb vs. Cruz come February.

  11. 11.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    Hey it’s RNC PR BS, wondered where he’s been hiding.

  12. 12.

    cokane

    October 28, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    @Rising Above: no

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Jeb’s launch crew is entirely Kerbal-based.

  14. 14.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    @cokane:

    Yup yup!

    Jeb will be the candidate from Establishment Street, Cruz the candidate from Insurgent Avenue.

    They will occupy each “lane” of the GOP and duke it out in the Spring.

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    When does this shitshow debate start? Tuned in to CNBC and just saw Kudlow bloviating.

    Like any other night on CNBC.

    Ion with Law & Order episodes I’ve never seen (Fred Dalton Thompson!) or the debate. The choices, the choices.

  16. 16.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    Santelli went to my high school and so did that scumbag Drew Peterson.

  17. 17.

    Surreal American

    October 28, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Can I take that to the bank? Is it in the bag?

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    Also, for non-cable cord cutters: TCM is counterprogramming with Disney cartoons.

    If memory serves, it’s the Three Lil Pigs, The Big Bad Wolf, Mr. Toad and Ichabod, Witch Mountain.

    Those three pigs understand the importance of raising the debt ceiling.

  19. 19.

    Anoniminous

    October 28, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    GOP Debate Theme Song.

    (NSFW)

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    @Surreal American: You can bookmark it, lib!

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    The pigs are in a brick house. Playing a brick piano.

  22. 22.

    Surreal American

    October 28, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    @dmsilev:

    VICTORY!

  23. 23.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    Word is Drudge primed to lead with pro-Jeb headlines should he win the debate.

  24. 24.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    @Elizabelle: So it’s the same as what’s on CNBC?

  25. 25.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Are they playing Brick House on the brick piano?

  26. 26.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Rising Above: Drudge is still around? So 1990’s.

  27. 27.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    After hearing Lindsay Graham spouting his garbage, my husband looked at me in astonishment and said, “He’s a war monger!” We have missed the minor league debates and Graham hasn’t appeared on his radar before tonight.

  28. 28.

    Chris

    October 28, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Readin’, writin’, ‘rithmetic? That’s what you’re pinning your hopes on?

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    October 28, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @CJ: I don’t think you can, at least not legally. There was somewhat of a controversy about that.

  30. 30.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    “It’s Drudge’s world, and we’re living in it” Mark Halperin, 2013

  31. 31.

    Surreal American

    October 28, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Would that be the “word on the street”?

  32. 32.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    @Chris:

    Re-brand.

    Re-launch.

    Re-boot.

    Heard through the grapevine the campaign may even be unveiling a new, “refreshed” Jeb logo next week, with a more 21st-Century look, perhaps a single “J” or “J16” just like his brothers famous “W04” logo. A sleek almost Apple-esque design to connote modernity and streamlined efficiency.

  33. 33.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    @Rising Above: Mark Halperin? ROTFLMFAO.

  34. 34.

    GregB

    October 28, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    Sweet Jesus the panel from CNBC reminds me of the moderators of The Hunger Games and the lead creepo from American Psycho.

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: @Baud:

    Now they’re running around, bottomless, talking to Little Red Riding Hood. She is adequately dressed.

    We have no idea if Larry Kudlow is wearing pants.

    These pigs. One of them is laying bricks. The others are playing musical instruments. That’s so … French. Socialists.

    The wolf has just appeared. He is wearing pants.

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    According to some random GOP strategist:

    Man oh man, the dumb, pre-planned move a certain campaign is about to make in the big debate is campaign-ending stupid.

    I’m going with Jeb$ here.

  37. 37.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    Check the horseshit intro.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Now they’re running around, bottomless,

    They’re not in a blanket?

  39. 39.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    If jeb? moves much further left in the lineup, he’ll be at the kid’s table.

  40. 40.

    Anne Laurie

    October 28, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    @CJ: I like the Guardian liveblog.

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Kasich starts by blowing off the question and trashing the other candidates.

  42. 42.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Ben Carson doesn’t raise his hand much. Christie does not wave at all.

    What’s your biggest weakness? How long do we have?

    Kasich: they’re on the verge of picking someone who cannot do this job. He’s taking on other candidates. Refreshing.

    But: cut taxes? Ummmm….. he’s going to get the country moving again.

    Huckabee: he’s in this race? He lives by the rules.

  43. 43.

    ThresherK

    October 28, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    @Rising Above: You forgot Retch-a-sketch.

  44. 44.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    Jeb: Build up, don’t tear down. It can be morning in America again. We can rise up.

    Veiled shot at Trump!

  45. 45.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    Jeb! can’t fake anger. People are rewarded for tearing down this country. (On your side.)

    Jeb said rise up.

  46. 46.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    The fucking genius Bush “and all that stuff”.

  47. 47.

    Fair Economist

    October 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    jeb: may get less attention now that he’s so obviously circling the drain. I expect the guns to get trained on Rubio this go-round. Who does CNBC favor?

  48. 48.

    Just One More Canuck

    October 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    @Elizabelle: Higher level of discourse than the debate

  49. 49.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    No more update on who’s wearing pants?

  50. 50.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    CNBC has done everyone a favor by making the worst pre-game show ever. They’ve probably given the World Series a few extra ratings points.

  51. 51.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    Carson with the first Reagan reference. Drink!

  52. 52.

    Betty Cracker

    October 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    God, they’re all horrible.

  53. 53.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    @Rising Above: I do not doubt this.

  54. 54.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Ted Cruz was passionate about the Constitution when he was a tot.

    He will also DD you when you’re sloshed, I think.

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Trump trusts people too much? Really? And then he never forgives those who deceived them.

    That strikes me as the most honest answer so far.

    Carson: not really seeing himself as prez until hundreds of thousands told him he should do it. Invokes Reagan’s 11th commandment.

    Fiorina: told she didn’t smile enough …. but these are serious times. There she goes with the corruption theme. Fuck Carly. Wrong administration. She’s talking citizen govt.

    Cruz is too agreeable and easygoing. Laughter. He’s a fighter.

    I’d say not getting the point of Green Eggs and Ham, aimed at schoolkids, is a significant weakness.

  56. 56.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Fat fuck.

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Animation fans will want to tune in for “The Plausible Impossible” at 10:15 pm ET/7:15 pm PT — it’s a TV episode that explains the whole animation process.

    Also, “Lonesome Ghosts” at 1:00 am FTW!

  58. 58.

    Surreal American

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    @ThresherK:

    Now, now, it’s not nice to mock the troll who predicted “Mitt Reagan’s” VICTORY! in 2012.

  59. 59.

    SoupCatcher

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Ted Cruz just volunteered to be the nation’s designated driver.

    Good to know.

    Don’t think I’d ever willingly get into a car with him behind the wheel, drunk or sober.

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Christie calls HRC a pessimist and Bernie a Socialist.

    Sorry. The Sopranos is OVER.

  61. 61.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @Elizabelle: “Fuck Carly” not with your. . . oh wait!

  62. 62.

    gelfling545

    October 28, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    Flora is unimpressed.

  63. 63.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    Rand Paul doesn’t even bother pretending to answer the question, doesn’t like the budget deal.

  64. 64.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    YOOOGLEY UNFAIR.

  65. 65.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    @Baud: I turned to CNBC, but am missing the animated pigs.

    I don’t know if Riding Hood survived. Alas.

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    @Rising Above:

    As promised/threatened in a downstairs thread, and back by popular* demand.

    *(Popular = Elizabelle and efgoldman)

    With apologies to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II:

    Pore Jeb is dead,
    Pore Jeb Bush is dead,
    He’s lookin’ oh so peaceful and serene.
    He’s such a loser chump,
    Trailing Rubio and Trump,
    Kasich, Carson, Cruz, and Carly Fiorine.

    Pore Jeb is done.
    He said he would run
    Because he bears his family’s famous name.
    It turns out he is toast,
    ‘Cause he thought that he could coast
    And win the nomination by acclaim.

    (Then they’ll get up, all them Foxy Foxes and CNN types, to pay tribute to Jeb. And all them Villagers will be moanin’ and weepin’ because they thought Jeb was the Promised One. Only it turned out he ain’t, and he jes’ cain’t get the poll nummers he needs, not the money he craves, even though everyone in his fam’ly tried their durndest to turn things around fer ‘im.)

    This is the end.
    Jeb had to attend
    A conference with Poppy, Bar and bro.
    He looks like he’s asleep,
    It’s a shame that he won’t keep,
    But it’s autumn and we’re runnin’ out of dough.

    Pore Jeb is dead,
    Quinnipiac said
    (And every other poll that you can cite).
    If he’d give a few more fucks
    He would see those big BRINKS. TRUCKS.
    Dumpin’ money on his doorstep overnight.

    Pore ¡Jeb!
    Pore ¿Jeb?

  67. 67.

    GregB

    October 28, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    Mike Huckabee admitted his weakness was for deep fried Twinkies.

  68. 68.

    MomSense

    October 28, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    Becky Quick? Is that a stage name?

  69. 69.

    Mike in NC

    October 28, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    “Señor JEB!, the Brinks truck just arrived. But ay caramba only three rolls of pesos!”

  70. 70.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    @Baud:

    Wait, which candidate isn’t wearing pants?

  71. 71.

    dedc79

    October 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Oh man, the Clinton campaign is going to have a tough time figuring out what footage not to use in their ads.

  72. 72.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): All of them Katie.

  73. 73.

    Vtr

    October 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    This is all an elaborate practical joke. They think they’re plunking us.

  74. 74.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Oh, petulant Kasich.

    “You can’t do it [balance the budget] with empty promises. Fantasy tax plans.”

    He’s headed for the kiddie table for sure.

  75. 75.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    That’s a really racist statement.

  76. 76.

    MomSense

    October 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Oh, Kasich you apparently didn’t hear that Republican voters love fantasy economic plans.

  77. 77.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    @Betty Cracker: They are horrible. It’s painful to listen to them.

  78. 78.

    Roger Moore

    October 28, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Re-brand, re-launch, re-boot!

    You forgot Re-treat and Re-tire.

  79. 79.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    Kasich sounds like a whiny midwestern nerd. He’s the kind of dork that organizes his sock drawer for fun.

  80. 80.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    Kasich is on his rant.

  81. 81.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    So, I guess Kasich is the designated Trump/Carson attacker.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    @MomSense:

    Reminds me of Vanity Fair (the Thackeray novel, not the magazine).

  83. 83.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Trump whacks Kasich. Says the only way he balanced Ohio’s budget was fracking revenue.
    Which I suspect has some truth. Haha.

  84. 84.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 28, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    I think I’m way better off watching the game and reading about the debate here than vice versa.

  85. 85.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    @Rising Above:

    He’s the kind of dork that organizes his sock drawer for fun.

    HEY!!

  86. 86.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    This “debate” is a free for all, I LOVE IT.

  87. 87.

    MomSense

    October 28, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    We should be watching that movie instead of this mess.

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    Ted Cruz hasn’t managed to lose any of that most-likely-to-be-punched-in-the-face affect, has he?

  89. 89.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: The pigs are on a commercial break.

    More Disney animation up on TCM, one of these days.

    I was struck by how black the wolf was. Are there black wolves? I always see pics of grey ones….

  90. 90.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Nope.

  91. 91.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Just looked up. Carly’s hairdo makes her look like sort of a Russian icon. Not an attractive one.

    I have a hard time hearing her talk against the wealthy and the well-connected. Isn’t that her stock in trade?

  92. 92.

    MomSense

    October 28, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Is it just me or does it seem like his mouth moves about 3.5 times more than necessary for the words that are coming out of it.

    It’s like a badly dubbed film.

  93. 93.

    Mike J

    October 28, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    pourmecoffee ‏@pourmecoffee 45m45 minutes ago
    Ben Carson should come out in scrubs and place an Igloo cooler on his podium but say absolutely nothing about it.

  94. 94.

    SoupCatcher

    October 28, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Fiorina planning for the moon landing: All we need is one Power Point slide. Get it done, people!

    eta And, Rubio, the kids who were born during the Great Depression would like a word with you.

  95. 95.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    The gray wolf or grey wolf (Canis lupus[a]) also known as the timber wolf,[3][4] or western wolf,[b] is a canid native to the wilderness and remote areas of North America and Eurasia. It is the largest extant member of its family, with males averaging 43–45 kg (95–99 lb), and females 36–38.5 kg (79–85 lb).[6] Like the red wolf, it is distinguished from other Canis species by its larger size and less pointed features, particularly on the ears and muzzle.[7] Its winter fur is long and bushy, and predominantly a mottled gray in color, although nearly pure white, red, or brown to black also occur

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    I’m watching the debate with the sound off, so presumably I’m not missing anything, but I couldn’t help noticing that Carly’s lips were moving. May I conclude the obvious?

  97. 97.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Rubio: wait in line? Wait for what?

    I love how concerned these critters are for average Americans and small businesses. Not.

  98. 98.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Why isn’t Jeb getting any time? He’s had an opening statement and a few lines and that’s been it while these guys filibuster on and on.

    The former Governor of our fourth largest state and the son of a former President deserves more respect than this.

  99. 99.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: @SiubhanDuinne: Put it on a tee and let someone take a rip at that one!

  100. 100.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Question: “Senator Rubio, you suck. Can you comment?”

  101. 101.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    @raven: But are they obsessed with pigs and real estate?

  102. 102.

    Kay

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Kasich has been threatening to “break out” all week with a bold, new maverick persona. This is his big night. He’s taking. his. Party back from the insurgents and giving it to rich people, who are the rightful owners :)

  103. 103.

    MomSense

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Graham sucked too so why is the liebrul media picking on me?

  104. 104.

    Betty Cracker

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Rubio whining about the MSM — crowd goes wild!

  105. 105.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Why isn’t Jeb getting any time?

    Ratings.

  106. 106.

    Roger Moore

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Are there black wolves?

    Apparently so. It sounds as if the black genetics was originally from domesticated dogs and was introduced into wolves by interbreeding with them.

  107. 107.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Jeb schooling Marco on what it means to be a leader.

  108. 108.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Rubio’s getting treated shabbily by the MSM. Audience cheers.

    Jeb! gets after Rubio for not showing up to work. Showing up to work. Loving this.

  109. 109.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    “A French work week”!

  110. 110.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    @Kay:

    It’s my party too! /Whitman

  111. 111.

    Stillwater

    October 28, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Rubio’s on fire!

  112. 112.

    mai naem mobile

    October 28, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Carly is annoying. Rubio looks like a newly minted art history college grad looking for a job. Kasich would do best against HRC IMHO.

  113. 113.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Rubio is better at this sort of thing than Jeb is. Low bar to clear, granted..

  114. 114.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    They’re all yelling.

    I am not speaking of Disney characters.

  115. 115.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    @Stillwater:

    Rubio’s on fire!

    More water bottles, stat!

  116. 116.

    Iowa Old Lady

    October 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    Not watching, just reading here. This sounds a little Lord of the Flies-ish.

  117. 117.

    NonyNony

    October 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    @Kay: Has King John decided he doesn’t want to be president anymore? That certainly doesn’t sound like a plan to win a GOP primary.

  118. 118.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    Jeb! looks thin. I’ll give him that.

  119. 119.

    Felonius Monk

    October 28, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    @Rising Above: You forgot the 4th R: re-gurgitate!

  120. 120.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:41 pm

    @Baud: Leslie Gore

  121. 121.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    Q to Fiorina: “You sucked at HP. Comments?”

  122. 122.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    @Roger Moore: Thank you all re black wolves.

    Ms. Fiorina gets asked about HP: “the market was not kind to you.”

  123. 123.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    @Rising Above: At least he’s not at the kid’s table YET.

  124. 124.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    Kasich is back to sounding rational again, but we heard what he said the other day and he’s not any more rational than the rest, possibly less sane than the the rest.

  125. 125.

    Mary G

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    I can’t watch it for longer than 10 seconds at a time. Carly looks like she had a lot of face work/botox done way too recently. (I don’t approve of criticizing a woman’s appearance, but I can’t resist commenting on the plastic face. Bad Mary.)

  126. 126.

    Roger Moore

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    @Rising Above:

    The former Governor of our fourth largest state and the son of a former President deserves more respect than this.

    Respect isn’t inherited, it’s earned, and it can be lost.

  127. 127.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    Trump is fun.

  128. 128.

    Betty Cracker

    October 28, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    I’ve been hoping Jeb could pull this off because I’d love to see Hillary crush him like a bug. But he’s just awful. Only an outright donor coup could save his sorry bacon now.

  129. 129.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    @Mary G: Fried, dyed and laid to the side!

  130. 130.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    @Mary G: I iz enjoying the cattiness. Something is up with her.

  131. 131.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    @Rising Above: Fuck him and you.

  132. 132.

    Chyron HR

    October 28, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Why isn’t Jeb getting any time? He’s had an opening statement and a few lines and that’s been it while these guys filibuster on and on.

    Because the people that hate Bush the most aren’t EEEVIL LIBRULS, they’re your fellow Republicans. Deal with it.

  133. 133.

    Stillwater

    October 28, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    @Betty Cracker: But he’s just awful.

    He’s outclassed even by the folks without any class.

  134. 134.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    May I say: Hillary looked beautiful and more relaxed at both the Dem debate and the Benghazipalooza! hearing.

    Good question about Tom Perkins and $1 million is 1 million votes. Carly answers well: This is why Tom Perkins and I had trouble in the boardroom.

    I think the questions have been good, actually. The candidates, not.

  135. 135.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    Rand Paul is apparently being punished for not even pretending to answer the opening question. He has not spoken since.

  136. 136.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    Ted Cruz: “CNBC is a liberal media conspiracy”

  137. 137.

    MomSense

    October 28, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    @Mary G:

    Her left eyebrow is in permanent Spock mode.

  138. 138.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    Oh good. Let’s all run against the media.

  139. 139.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    IT’S THE MEDIA!!!!!!!!!

  140. 140.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    @dmsilev:

    He’s on to us!

  141. 141.

    GregB

    October 28, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    Senator Cruz, is it true you will go back to sitting on Wayland Flowers lap if you don’t win the Presidency?

  142. 142.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    haven’t seen much Christie action either

  143. 143.

    SoupCatcher

    October 28, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    Cruz: I’ll complain about the critical questions, while reminding everyone in the audience of each of the critiques.

    Slick.

  144. 144.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    Sen. Cruz might want to have Dr. Carson look into that cough.

  145. 145.

    Stillwater

    October 28, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Gotta give some points to Cruz on that one. First time I’ve ever agreed with him, actually.

  146. 146.

    Mike J

    October 28, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    John Scalzi ‏@scalzi 11m11 minutes ago
    To be clear, on my thread right now the left is snarking on the candidates and the right is snarking on the moderators.

  147. 147.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    This crew does not have more experience than the Democratic candidates. Outright lie by Cruz.

    Does call them the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks.

    Now they’re all yelling again.

  148. 148.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 28, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    @Mary G: Just in time for Halloween, she is going as herself!

  149. 149.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    @Elizabelle: Count your blessings.

  150. 150.

    Stillwater

    October 28, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    @Elizabelle: No, not that part. The trickeration in the questions.

  151. 151.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Ouch.

  152. 152.

    raven

    October 28, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    I liked the moderator dude laughing at Cruz.

  153. 153.

    Anne Laurie

    October 28, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Jeb! looks thin. I’ll give him that.

    Reports from the trail are that he’s complained that his paleo diet leaves him hungry all the time; it’s mooted as one reason he’s so cranky & stumble-tongued.

  154. 154.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 28, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Real good pitching game going on.

  155. 155.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Meanwhile, Mr. Toad and Rat are drinking tea before a fire.

  156. 156.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 28, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I am playing my tiny violin for Prince Jeb.

  157. 157.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Jeb! is a gatherer, hmmm?

  158. 158.

    Kay

    October 28, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @NonyNony:

    Don’t you think the Kasich/state GOP divide is weird? It’s like they ignore him. He’s not one of them. He was re-elected and then they all started running for governor. They don’t even talk about him here, not as President, not as governor, not at all.

  159. 159.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): All of them, Katie.

  160. 160.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I want to live in their world.

  161. 161.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    Now the Disney characters are yelling too. What an unpleasant evening.

    McBadger is a “nervous wreck.” And he has a Scottish brogue.

  162. 162.

    PaulW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Respect works both ways.

    Jeb’s not getting respected because he does NOT respect the voters. Not with effort, not with focus, not with genuine empathy, none of that.

  163. 163.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Oh drat, you beat me by a lot. We are recording this and started late so we are way behind the rest of you.

  164. 164.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    @Baud: They’re on a wild ride with a toothy horse right now. They’re singing.

  165. 165.

    PaulW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    And My Heaven Will Be a Big Heaven
    And I Will Walk Through the Front Door
    – every Republican candidate on the CNBC stage tonight

  166. 166.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I agree. I though HRC looked smashing at the Benghazi!!! thing (the Dem debate, too, but especially last Thursday. She needs to put whoever her hairdresser is on permanent retainer for the next 5-9 years).

  167. 167.

    JPL

    October 28, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    For those without cable, what are the others doing while all this yelling is going on? Are Trump and Carson able to get a word in?

  168. 168.

    Schlemazel

    October 28, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    @Rising Above:
    so you are no longer guaranteeing us a JEB? win? Whats the problem, the assholes check stopped clearing?

  169. 169.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    Are the GOP candidates singing, cutting through hedges, and scattering ducks? I ask you. Mr. Toad is speechifying.

  170. 170.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Yay!

  171. 171.

    mai naem mobile

    October 28, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    Ted Cruz seriously needs to spend some money on some well fitting good looking clothes. The wife works at Goldman Sachs. They’ve got the money.

  172. 172.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    So, wait, Huckabee is saying we shouldn’t cut SSI? That’s not part of the conservative script.

  173. 173.

    Renie

    October 28, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHA ?JEB? has boots on that have his name on them. Does he also have his name on his clothing? What a jerk.

  174. 174.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @Baud: Horse by the name of Cyril. In a hat.

  175. 175.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @JPL: Trump has been weirdly silent.

    ‏@eliasisquith
    Why is Trump not butting in? He should be all the time. His campaign is a shark; if it goes longer than 3 minutes w/out talking, it dies.

  176. 176.

    NonyNony

    October 28, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    @Kay: I think its at least partly his lame duck status. He’s term limited and has a near zero chance of becoming President so why should they care about him?

    Also – he’s an asshole and nobody likes him personally. I’m sure that doesn’t help him.

  177. 177.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Baud!/Mr. Toad! 2016!

  178. 178.

    Anne Laurie

    October 28, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    @Renie:

    HAHAHAHAHAHA ?JEB? has boots on that have his name on them. Does he also have his name on his clothing? What a jerk.

    I think most of us women (among other genders) can attest that choosing to wear high-heeled boots to a debate where you’ll be standing up for two hours straight is not a well-thought-out decision!

  179. 179.

    Rising Above

    October 28, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    Jeb has an “Ace” up his sleeve. Just wait for it.

    The media is going to look for any excuse to fluff him.

    Jeb will win.

    Not only the debate.

    Not only the nomination.

    But the whole enchilada itself–the White House.

    Do you seriously think he’s going to drop out any time soon? Bush is fucking invincible. He’s a Bush–and the Bushes get the nomination any time they damn well please to have it since Reagan.

  180. 180.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    And we’re back. Trump and bankruptcy…

  181. 181.

    Stillwater

    October 28, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    @RaflW: So, wait, Huckabee is saying we shouldn’t cut SSI? That’s not part of the conservative script.

    Script is changing apparently.

  182. 182.

    Mike J

    October 28, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    Haunt-a Marie CoxVerified account @anamariecox
    This debate is a unleashed blimp.

  183. 183.

    Baud

    October 28, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Again?

  184. 184.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 28, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    @mai naem mobile: Please, no amount of money spent on clothes is going to make that face less punchable.

  185. 185.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    @Baud: The classics never go out of style.

  186. 186.

    Thoughtcrime

    October 28, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    @Mary G:

    I can’t watch it for longer than 10 seconds at a time. Carly looks like she had a lot of face work/botox done way too recently. (I don’t approve of criticizing a woman’s appearance, but I can’t resist commenting on the plastic face. Bad Mary.)

    Could this be the reason?:

    http://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/discussion-politico-mag-on-fiorinas-brand-of-feminism-step-one-less-whinng/28264/48?u=george_spiggott

  187. 187.

    dmsilev

    October 28, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    Jim Cramer asks a question to Ben Carson. The _average_ energy level is reasonable.

  188. 188.

    SoupCatcher

    October 28, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    Jim Cramer sets up the tee ball for Christie.

  189. 189.

    Stillwater

    October 28, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    Who spiked Cramer’s drink?

  190. 190.

    Anne Laurie

    October 28, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    New thread up top, for the second half!

  191. 191.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Oh, lord. Jim Cramer is now on the panel.

    He shouts his questions in a halting fashion that suggests he thinks the GOP candidates are hard of hearing children.

  192. 192.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    And Jen Bish says the budget deal in Congress was announced “today or yesterday.”

  193. 193.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    October 28, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    @RaflW:

    GOP candidates are hard of hearing children.

    He’s half right.

  194. 194.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    Looked in from TCM. These Republicans (Jeb!) are not acquainted with John Maynard Keynes.

    They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. It’s horrible small minded cruel people they hope to appeal to.

  195. 195.

    Emma

    October 28, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    @Rising Above: I give you two words: Terry Schiavo. That son of a… privileged family… nearly threw this state into a freaking constitutional crisis just so he could freaking grandstand. Screw him and his horse.

  196. 196.

    Elizabelle

    October 28, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    @Anne Laurie: New thread.

    About the debate, regrettably.

    You’d be happier watching Mr. Toad. Trust me on that.

  197. 197.

    RaflW

    October 28, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    @Wonkette
    Jeb Bush is going to do warm kisses to all the Democrats who want to cut taxes. Lots of tongue. Probably a surprise boner too. Jeb!

  198. 198.

    Kay

    October 28, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    @NonyNony:

    nobody likes him personally.

    They’re going to have a really bloody primary for the governor’s race on the R side. I hope Cordray jumps in. He’ll dominate on the Democratic side (and he should). Democrats can’t afford a bloody primary. I went to a dinner where David Pepper was the speaker and I asked him about Cordray after but he obviously and clumsily dodged the question, so I don’t know what that was about. I don’t know why he wouldn’t just answer even if it’s “I don’t know”. They need a really strong candidate and Cordray is the strongest.

  199. 199.

    Schlemazel

    October 28, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    @Rising Above:
    Ah, there ya go, I knew you could reach his tiny dick from your knees, keep up the . . . work

  200. 200.

    Schlemazel

    October 28, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    @Emma:
    Now, now, that poor horse hasn’t done anything to deserve that sort of thing! JEB? on the other hand, where is the rusty chainsaw?

  201. 201.

    oldgold

    October 28, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    It really kind of sad that in a country this big and full of talented people, that this group is the best pool of candidates one of the two major political parties can put forth to be our next President.

  202. 202.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    October 28, 2015 at 9:23 pm

    @Renie: Barbara sews them on, so when he gets lost, people can help him find his way back to Kennebunkport.

  203. 203.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    most of us women (among other genders)

    You are so inclusive, AL. That’s one of the things I like about you.

  204. 204.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    @Elizabelle: We’ve given up. We’re watching the finale of Worst Cooks; it’s somewhat better than the debates and there’s less yelling and lying.

  205. 205.

    Pie Happens (opiejeanne)

    October 28, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    @PaulW: I always think about Republicans when I hear that song. There’s also :
    When I show them ’round my house, to my bed
    I had it made like a mountain range
    With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head

  206. 206.

    chopper

    October 28, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    @Rising Above:

    Why isn’t Jeb getting any time?

    because he’s a shithead.

    The former Governor of our fourth largest state and the son of a former President deserves more respect than this.

    no, he doesn’t.

  207. 207.

    Juju

    October 28, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    @Renie: It’s nice to know other people do that as well.

  208. 208.

    Bruce Webb

    October 29, 2015 at 3:01 am

    The spectacle made me want to pour a quart of bourbon into a half-gallon container of butter pecan ice cream and spoon the contents down my throat until I pass out or spew projectile vomit across the room to cover the screen and make it stop.

    I am sure I am not the only person on this thread wondering aloud whether this was a bad thing to want to do. Personally the projectile vomiting is more likely to be some combo of white rum and rocky road ice cream. Which I have to say would provide more screen coverage and stopping ability. But I am still caught on the question of admonition? or advice?

  209. 209.

    someofparts

    October 29, 2015 at 10:15 am

    With burbon I would have to stick with vanilla.
    Now you’ve got me thinking about Christmas.

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