The GOP frontrunner is pledging to defend Social Security, minutes after calling Iraq a "big, fat mistake."
— Luke Brinker (@LukeBrinker) February 14, 2016
Jeb Lund, at the Guardian liveblog:
Three times (so far) tonight the audience has lustfully booed the facts:
That the Bush administration lied to the country about an optional war in Iraq.
That he did not keep Americans safe, because over 3,000 people died on 9/11 on his watch.
That he ignored the warnings from the intelligence community.
These three statements were made by Donald Trump, and he might as well have doused the stage in kerosene and set it ablaze.
“Exciting” in politics is an extremely low bar to clear; the slightest side-eye is usually enough to send politicos and political journalists aflutter and especially a-Twitter.
This was far more than that. This was a man burning down a party from the inside.
PhoenixRising
I love this audience. No home training whatever, just hooting and hollering.
Trentrunner
It’s not “burning down the party from the inside.”
The GOP is not going to EVER let the Iraq debacle trouble its beautiful mind.
Rubio blamed 9/11 on Clinton
Carson blamed Iraq on Obama.
Trump recommended that Barbara Bush run for President.
Baud
@PhoenixRising: It’s what they’re paid to do.
redshirt
Rubio drinks!
DRINK!
Baud
Rubio has his paid operatives in the audience also.
Corner Stone
This crowd is so in the fucking tank.
redshirt
Dudes named Cruz and Rubio arguing about who hates Latinos more.
Corner Stone
Why do Cruz and Trump think attacking this home crowd is a net positive?
Baud
WTF just happened?
Corner Stone
Cruz speaking Espanol on stage? HOLY SHITBALLS!
beltane
In the thread below AL mentioned that tickets to this debate were issued by the SC Republican party. The audience is going to support Rubio or Bush no matter what. I don’t think they’re listening to the actual answers really.
Corner Stone
This is CRAZEBALLS!
PhoenixRising
@redshirt:
¡…ahora en español!
redshirt
@Corner Stone: I heard it! It’s over!
beltane
@redshirt: Isn’t America great?
Baud
My inner Chris Christie?
benw
@Corner Stone: Donde esta la casa blanca?
Old Dan and Little Anne
Jeb is going to channel his inner Chris Chrisie. Good plan, dude. His campaign is on fire.
Baud
@Corner Stone: ¡Ay caramba!
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Noche Buena with the relatives is going to be awkward this year!
Mai.naem.mobile
I thought SC justices got secret service. I’m not saying this as a conspiracy theory, I’m just wondering why the resort staff found Scalia and not his security detail.
beltane
Trump really has it in for Jeb and the whole Bush family. He deserves some kind of national service award for this.
Baud
@Mai.naem.mobile: I don’t think their security is that tight.
Corner Stone
Holy Shit this is a complete circus! These people are running for the WH??
Baud
STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR MAMA, JEB!
PhoenixRising
@Mai.naem.mobile: you know what this apparent Constitutional crisis in the making needs? A conspiracy theory.
Because what they’re doing right in plain sight isn’t crazy enough.
redshirt
@Mai.naem.mobile: I never saw a detail at Scalia’s house, but that was a long time ago. Maybe I missed it too.
Mandalay
Trump still winning this despite his magnificent heresy.
All the rest of them are insulting each other and rolling around in the dirt.
Adam L Silverman
@Mai.naem.mobile: Its already been floated at some of the gun sites in the comments that this is just too too convenient to happen now. That somehow every break seems to go to the President.
Corner Stone
Immigration is such a poison pill for the Rs. They are going to eat shit and die over the browns.
Bill E Pilgrim
Clown car has now been overrun as a satirical trope for this.
I don’t know what this is but clown car sounds tame and sensible compared to whatever this is.
Corner Stone
This WSJ lady is just awful. Flat out awful.
JPL
@Baud: I wonder what Jeb’s wife thinks. Has he mentioned his wife?
Adam L Silverman
@PhoenixRising: starts with comment #1 and just keeps on going:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/02/robert-farago/breaking-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dies-at-texas-hunting-ranch/#comments
Baud
@Corner Stone: She seems like she would be more at home at a swanky Wall Street cocktail party.
beltane
@Corner Stone: I am here because I can’t stand her.
This debate is similar in some ways to the livefeed of the Oregon standoff from a few nights ago.
redshirt
So this is the first time I’ve ever seen any of these people speak, and I’m aghast that maybe one of these people (except, gulp, Jeb!) might be President.
Are they always this terrible?
Baud
@redshirt: Yes.
redshirt
Ted Cruz Immigration story….
Corner Stone
Cruz is so far off the plot it is nuts. NUTS!
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill E Pilgrim: John Wayne Gacy car?
Adam L Silverman
@beltane: Do you need me to get Michelle Fiore to call in with a question on the live feed?
Anne Laurie
@Mai.naem.mobile: Quick google, not as of 2009 they didn’t.
I suspect Scalia didn’t want anyone listening in on his bedtime prayers, anyway.
beltane
@Adam L Silverman: She was less annoying than this horrible WSJ lady. I also think this debate would be improved if they took prayer breaks every five minutes.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Didn’t Ted Bundy have a van?
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: I am getting my fix of crazy by watching Silence of the Lambs.
lgerard
@efgoldman:
yes it was
NotMax
El coche de muchos payasos.
redshirt
Donald Trump labor story.
Wow these debates are a trip.
beltane
@efgoldman: Yes.
Bill E Pilgrim
I would have loved it if Rubio took Cruz’s challenge and responded in Spanish.
I bet they already loved it in in the control room.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Probably, but I don’t remember the details.
hueyplong
In an earlier, more coarse time with different standards for party standard-bearers, we’d have called this cast of clowns window-lickers. The fact that this evening isn’t considered hair-on-fire shocking is itself a little breathtaking.
As for Scalia, he was so in-your-face, what-are-you-going-to-do-about-my-unaccountability that it’s almost disrespectful not to dance on his grave. It would mean that the left failed to recognize the threat he posed and his accomplishments in that regard.
So I guess I’ll raise a glass to him and say, “Fck you, I’m glad you’re dead and that the president gets to have another crack at Supreme Court appointing while black.”
Mandalay
Trump seems to be sporting a new set of teeth tonight. They are absurdly white.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: I’d rather listen to another psychiatric crisis streamed than read comments at that site.
Betty Cracker
@Bill E Pilgrim: That was a surreal moment. Of course, Cruz probably did himself no favors with the base by pretending to speak a language other than English.
amk
@beltane: the only good thing about his run.
PhoenixRising
@redshirt: Usually they’re only this bad only in English.
As the late great Molly Ivins would have said, They’re bi-ignorant.
Baud
@efgoldman: The Scalia news piqued interest.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: He was arrested in Florida while driving a VW bug. If I’m remembering correctly he used a van when he did the kidnapping portions of his serial murders.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: You are so missing out on the pure cray cray. Best theater going.
Betty Cracker
LOLTRUMP!
Baud
Single biggest liar
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Let me see what I can do.
Corner Stone
Trump is doing the damned thing, y’all!!
Old Dan and Little Anne
Trump is killing me. Lol…
Corner Stone
“One Weird Trick for Winning the Conservative Vote”
redshirt
Trump pro-women’s health!
Corner Stone
Holy Fuckballs! Loving this.
Fish & chips you taste so good…
Adam L Silverman
Its South Carolina, can we just issue these guys dueling pistols?
Renie
this is great – it’s like a schoolyard bully match
LOL
Steeplejack
God, you people are sucking me back in. One of my DVR “channels” is going to be free in a couple of minutes, and the debate is calling me.
benw
The dunks going down in the NBA slam dunk contest right now are ASTOUNDING
Corner Stone
Trump has to be some kind of fucking grenade. This is awesome.
Baud
Jerry Springer would be proud.
Betty Cracker
This is the most awesome debate evah!
divF
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Marat / Sade without Glenda Jackson and the uptempo tunes.
amk
da truth
Best debate ever! They tell the truth about each other and lie about themselves.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Do it. You know you wanna’.
Davebo
Chain link fencing. This debate needs some chain link fencing.
And maybe a very attractive female with a large numbered card after each commercial break.
Keith P.
This debate is just nasty. Nasty, mean, you name it. I’m glad to stream it.
Bill E Pilgrim
It really was clear for years that Republican politics was heading towards ending up as a cross between the Jerry Springer Show and WWE, but it’s still amazing to actually see it happen.
redshirt
Marco all dry mouthed.
scottinnj
All this nonsense aside it is kind of amazing the guy in the lead puts the blame for 9/11 on George Bush, defense social security and says Planned Parenthood does some good things.
Baud
It’s what I want, Ben.
Corner Stone
These are the worst moderators ever to be seen.
dr. bloor
@efgoldman: Polar Vortices?
Betty Cracker
Gyad, Carson’s such a fucking wet blanket. Think of the chillllllldren!
Mandalay
@amk:
Win.
redshirt
@scottinnj: Right? Trump is often speaking truth in a way no one else does. Not even democrats.
mike in dc
Trump is already pivoting towards the general. LOLZ. But he’s right. Cruz is a liar and Bush (W) was a huge failure.
Davebo
Ben Carson gets honest!
Corner Stone
Good Lordt Ben Carson is fucking crazy.
Old Dan and Little Anne
You’re exactly right, Ben. You are never going to be a politician.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Just horrible. Every single one should lose his/her moderator card forever. They shouldn’t be allowed to moderate a middle school student council debate.
Omnes Omnibus
“Irresponsible, evil government” WTF?
Rocky
Jeb winning the night!
Steeplejack
Christ! Kasich on “growing the economy.” I wish these idiots had to hold some magical Indian talking stick that would burn the shit out of them when they lie. They’d all be wearing mitten bandages on their third-degree burns.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Betty Cracker: It is! The knives are being thrown. Is Carson medicated, badly?
Ben Jacobs Twitter:
^From the Guardian liveblog
Rocky
Trump stepped in shit tonight. Blamed Bush for 9/11. Denigrated Justice Roberts. Defended Planned Parenthood. Trash talked the decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam’s tyranny.
Huge mistakes!
Misterpuff
Kasich policies sound like Kansas-Lite. He is a True Believer who sounds blue collar.
Baud
Profanity!
Betty Cracker
Language police!
Mandalay
@scottinnj:
Trump called himself a “common sense conservative” tonight. That might be a highly effective line against the Democrats.
Trump has decided that he has the nomination in the bag against this bunch of losers, and he’s already tacking to the center.
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman:
Metal-headed canes, would be traditional.
Although, if you want collateral damage…
Renie
this audience is so packed with anti-trump people
some of the stuff he says is funny but they won’t laugh
lgerard
I ‘ll bet Christie is sorry he missed this
It seems like the type of event he would enjoy
Baud
@lgerard: True.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Jeb Lund:
Zurcher tweet, same source:
Bill E Pilgrim
I use only the top, top, profanity, really tremendous, quality stuff, best in the business.
Misterpuff
Fundies ears are burning…The Great White Hope uses liberal gutter language.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@efgoldman: the excitement is not only the demise of the pig fucker but it flips the balance of the court for the first time in 44 years (by the 44th President no less), and saves the CO2 reduction plan, that the pig fucker halted this very week.
Matt McIrvin
Half of the commenters here are going to vote for Trump in the fall, I can feel it now.
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): As we were discussing in the previous thread, Dr. Carson appears to have a left side facial droop and he’s slurring his speech. He also can’t seem to maintain eye contact.
mike in dc
I think this is Trump’s worst debate performance, but he is just throwing live grenades out there.
Old Dan and Little Anne
63% of Americans can’t afford a $500 car payment. Jebra 2016!
eric
@Adam L Silverman: the “Trump Effect”
sharl
Hippo @InternetHippo 26 minutes ago
BEN CARSON’S WIFE: Are you coming home for dinner
BEN CARSON: Go to ben carson dot com and read my plan to come home for dinner
Omnes Omnibus
Rubio has weird ears.
Adam L Silverman
@Anne Laurie: JDAMs and TLAMs it is.
Renie
hope no one is taking a drink everytime reagan is mentioned; you would be in a blackout by now
Steeplejack
Oh, Jeb! He just said that “63 percent of Americans can’t make a $500 car payment.” Really, Jeb? Most Americans probably have trouble with the $200 or $300 car payments they actually have, rather than the payment on the low-end Mercedes that you consider a rock-bottom ride.
Misterpuff
Marco makes coveted Obama-Carter two cushion shot
Baud
@sharl: LOL.
FlyingToaster
@Adam L Silverman: TIA or minor stroke?
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: Mad cow disease?
redshirt
Even 50% Reagan is better than ANY Democrat.
Omnes Omnibus
Reagan straight up lied, you dumb fuck.
Bill E Pilgrim
Carly Fiornia just Tweeted: “I watched a fully formed Republican party on stage, its mouth moving, its arms flailing, while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest what’s left of its brain.”
Steeplejack
It’s just hitting me that this “speed round” questioning is totally bogus. They don’t have to divide the two hours into hectic 30- or 60-second niblets. It’s guaranteed to make the crazy word salad even crazier.
redshirt
@Steeplejack: I know, right! I barely scrape by with my 450$ Land Rover payment. Jeez!
Steeplejack
@Baud:
I’d like to see somebody bust a folding chair over somebody.
gogol's wife
@Rocky:
RtR?
amk
god
It’s not “off the rails”. There never were any rails. #GOPDebate
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@FlyingToaster: I’m guessing TIA, Bell’s Palsy or bad med dosage. i do not, however, have a MD.
p.a.
I’m sure the comments are even better than the debate, but it sounds like a wonderful shitshow.
I haven’t had a celebratory drink over my goombah’s demise yet. what say ye? Bourbon, Scotch, or Rye?
No grappa here to keep it ‘in the family’ as it were.
Baud
@gogol’s wife: Yes.
Kay
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I laughed ’till I cried.
lgerard
I say that for the next debate we honor the 2nd Amendment by arming the candidates with paintball guns to help them make their points
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
I’m back. It is hideous, and yet I cannot look away.
Betty Cracker
@redshirt: Rubio is running to be Reagan’s mini-me.
Aleta
@Bill E Pilgrim: she wants to abort ?
Keith P.
How many more debates are there, anyway? The nastiness is starting to get distilled, but I doubt the GOP will do 20+ again.
redshirt
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: It is a glorious evening.
amk
@gogol’s wife:
didn’t rtr ditch dumbya 3 and move on to kissing dreck’s a$$?
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
LOL.
Cheryl Rofer
@p.a.: The debate is far more outrageous than anything here.
p.a.
@Renie: Actually isn’t that a desired effect for watching these turds?
Baud
No, Kasich, God wants Baud!
Frankensteinbeck
This will be an interesting test. My observation has been that Trump’s followers do not care what his policies and opinions are, as long as he doles out the hate speech. He is flying in the face of two of their most sacred hate cows here, though, Our Noble War Against Muslims and Evil Baby Butcherers.
lgerard
Carson quoting Stalin
smooth move
Mandalay
@mike in dc:
On the contrary, it’s his best. For a lot of the debate he stood aside while the rest of them tugged at each other’s hair and bra straps, and now he’s presenting himself as the reasonable side of conservatism.
The rest of the pack had treated him with kid gloves for far too long, and now that they have finally grown some balls to fight back it’s probably too late.
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman: You knew I’d have to google those terms, didn’t you?
(Well done.)
Bill E Pilgrim
I think Kasich just announced his engagement.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Kay: Me too!
Lund again:
And 30 min ago from the liveblog (just for us!)
Wrb
@Renie:
Oh, so that is what happened.
Bill E Pilgrim
@p.a.: No really we’re not doing it justice. Nothing could.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Old Dan and Little Anne
Fuck off, Rubio, you fucking fuck.
amk
luntz the mofo. you built this asshole.
Seriously, this is insane.
The GOP is destroying itself tonight, and they have no one to blame but themselves. #GOPDebate
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
LOLUZ!
Steeplejack
@Bill E Pilgrim:
LOL.
Baud
If Dems don’t get 100% of the athiest vote, then atheists can go to hell.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
I was supposed to go out tonight. But this is so good, I need to watch Matthews go nutz in the post game.
redshirt
Cruz is the scariest of the bunch. By far.
Omnes Omnibus
I debated against people like Rubio in high school. Every point written out on 3×5 cards and recited. Cruz is so much better at actual debate – otoh, he is more demented and evil.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
Granite => Rocky? Possible.
ETA: Rocky => Pebbles => Sand => Dust in the Wind.
mike in dc
@Mandalay:
He had a pretty solid closing statement.
Kay
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Yeah, and when did he start talking like this? When he arrived in New Hampshire?
I’m reading DC conservatives on Kasich. They hate him.
NotMax
@p.a.
All of ’em, Katie.
And a dash of Amaretto.
:)
p.a.
@NotMax:
Agreed.
Kay
@amk:
Let that be so.
dr. bloor
@lgerard: My seventeen-year-old just said “so he thinks quoting Stalin is a good idea here?”
Renie
after tonite if trump wins SC he is unstoppable
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep.
Baud
That was nuts.
What a day.
Mandalay
Rubio is still reciting memorized chunks of text. It’s so fucking obvious.
Princess
Bill Kristol just tweeted:
“Is the Republican Party really going to nominate someone who thinks Bush (and presumably Powell, Tenet et al) KNEW there weren’t WMD? No.”
Guess it’s Trump for sure now.
Adam L Silverman
@Anne Laurie: I thought about including the explanations, but figured you’d enjoy looking them up. If you want to see what they can and do do, just go to youtube and google them. There’s plenty of surveillance of them impacting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
lgerard
I would love to be a fly on the wall at the post debate discussion at RNC headquarters
what can they say?
tybee
that was a shit-show from beginning to end.
one of those will come very close to being president.
that makes me nervous.
Rocky
Jeb looked like a real man defending the honor of his family against the Trump attacks. Trump sounded like Michael Moore circa 2003 tonight. Horrible optics!
Felonius Monk
@Adam L Silverman:
I was thinking that earlier. Would not this be simpler and less painful for the view audience, if they just had a duel off. Last man standing is the nominee.
Kay
@Princess:
NotMax
@Felonius Monk
Nah, too modern. Maybe Zell Miller could show up with a rack of swords.
p.a.
@Princess:
The GOP in thrall to an aluminum siding salesman who inherited a billion dollars.
Princess
@Kay: When you’ve lost Glenn Beck because you are too unhinged…
NotMax
Just saw a clip of the gruesome group lined up on stage; Rubio crossed himself.
Steeplejack
@Rocky:
Jeb doesn’t want you back, honey. You broke faith with the family. [Insert Godfather snippet I can’t remember.]
Adam L Silverman
@Felonius Monk: It would certainly allow them to demonstrate their 2nd Amendment bona fides.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
It now claims it was trolled.
Renie
can JEB? be anymore of a loser always talking about his family’s hurt feelings? must be his mommy telling him to say this stuff
pathetic
seaboogie
THIS IS GOD SPEAKING…..
Hey – all my ‘botherers”, today Imma yank Scalia, and give you the GOP debate in SC. Quit invoking my damn name, you don’t have the first freaking clue.
And Dems – you doubting Thomases, you – see above and tell me I don’t have a plan. Heh. Go get gay-married or something…
CHILL THE FUCK OUT – I GOT THIS!
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman:
Everclear.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Rocky:
NO ONE gives a shit about the honor of jeb?’s family.
Kay
@Princess:
I listened to him on the (car) radio the other day. His whole show is now an anti-Trump screed. I think he backs Cruz.
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus:pass the Everclear
And a match.
BillinGlendaleCA
@seaboogie:
Wait, God’s a thin black guy with big ears?
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: He does, he headlined Senator Cruz’s event the other night and introduced him. His schtick was that Senator Cruz is the last chance to save the country by electing a godly man anointed by god who understands the divine nature of the bible and the Constitution.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Ooh.
rikyrah
you all have been hilarious
FlyingToaster
I’m glad I didn’t watch; I don’t think I could stand the crazy. Reading about it is horrifying enough.
Off to bed; WarriorGirl and I are escaping the freeze tomorrow. It’ll be about 0 when we reach Logan, and in the mid-50s when we get to sunny (or probably, cloudy) Ft. Myers. For her, a vacation with Grandma, for me, arguing with my mom as I have done since 1969, and being required to drive upteen million miles*.
*In the Hub, I drive around a hundred miles a week; I generally end up driving a hundred miles every day down there. Urgh.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel: Again:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/02/robert-farago/breaking-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dies-at-texas-hunting-ranch/#comments
Starts with comment #1 and just keeps on going!
redshirt
@seaboogie: BHO is just a man.
But like one of the best ever.
redshirt
PS Also too there is no God. :)
seaboogie
@BillinGlendaleCA: Who knew? Also, the Easter Bunny is real…
Not the best version of the pic, but I love it!
Scapegoat
Open Thread?:
Meet Billygoat
7 lbs 5 oz, 20.5″
3:44 pm, 2/13/16
Mamagoat was AMAZING!!! Long labor (32.5 hrs) — terrible at first with wave after wave of contractions with no break. Then epidural. Smooth sailing after that,it just took time. When he was ready for his grand debut he hit the streets with three pushes — Mamagoat didn’t even break a sweat!
I’m still high as a kite. Best experience of my life.
BillinGlendaleCA
@seaboogie: Is that the same bunny that attacked Jimmy Carter?
amk
ftw
It’s time for the GOP to drop out of the race.
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Mike G
Ha Ha
BUSH: “My mom is the strongest woman I know.”
TRUMP: “She should be running.”
p.a.
@Scapegoat: Great great! Congrats to all involved.
Steve in the ATL
@Steeplejack:
For the record, my Mercedes in neither S-class nor AMG, so I’m still a man of the people.
But seriously, who the fuck has a $500 car payment? That’s not smart.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Scapegoat:
I thought they saved the good drugs for the momma. Congratulations.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: Mercedes? I’ve got a 30 yo VW.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman:
Did he take the brown acid by mistake? Because there was a PA announcement about that.
different-church-lady
@FlyingToaster: Stay at Logan and it will be mid-50s on Tuesday.
Weird, huh?
Adam L Silverman
@Scapegoat: Mazel Tov, and to confuse everyone: Mumtez Jiddan!
Omnes Omnibus
@Scapegoat: Congrats.
TaMara (BHF)
@Scapegoat: Adorable. congrats.
divF
@Scapegoat: Congrats to the newly-augmented family !
seaboogie
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Had to look that one up as I don’t remember it, but let me go a little Tommy on your ass:
My family moved to Canada just after Carter was elected. We had lived in a small town in Wisconsin, and the marching band was a really big deal there. I was a part of it, and that was probably the thing that I missed the most after we left – because our band was amazing and we just killed in competitions. Our precision drill band played MN Vikings half-time shows.
So I was sitting there in Toronto at the ripe old age of 14, lost and adrift – waiting for the striking teachers to get back to work so that I could start school in a big scary new place – while I watched my friends march down Pennsylvania Avenue during Jimmy Carter’s inaugural parade. Adolescence (and parental divorce) bites!
Ohio Mom
@Scapegoat: A new baby (and new parents) is the most wonderful thing there is. Billy Goat looks very alert, and I wish him all the best.
Renie
Reince Priebus Verified account
@Reince
Our well-qualified & experienced candidates continue to put forth serious solutions to restore prosperity & strength to America #GOPDebate
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What debate was he watching?
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie:
Hudson area?
redshirt
@seaboogie: You shoulda been there! Yeah, divorce sucks. Is it not the driver in societal change over the last 50 years?
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep – New Richmond. The Vikings v Packers debates were very lusty indeed!
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: I know my Cheeseland.
Aleta
@Scapegoat: He looks like a wonderful fellow! Congratulations.
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Heh. A while back I heard a fellow (here in CA where I live) telling some folks “when you bit into it, it squeeks”. And I was all “Dude, you are totally talking cheese curds, aren’t you?”. He was.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: What else could it be? A mouse?
seaboogie
@redshirt: Thanks for your support! WRT divorce and societal change, I’ll give that a think. I do remember feeling a deep sense of shame, because divorce was not the done thing back in that day. Now, we actually have a notion of “good divorce”, and a grim, acrimonious march to the grave after making an unwise match is no longer the default option. Oh – and we can have gay divorce now too – so YAY!
Frankensteinbeck
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Yes. Morgan Freeman, specifically. Don’t you watch movies?
sharl
@Scapegoat: Welcome to the world Billygoat, and congrats to Mamagoat and Scapegoat!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Renie:
He’s Baghdad Bob. He’s closed the epistemic loop of the Bush era Republican establishment tightly around himself tonight, and assumed the fetal position. Karma’s a bitch.
Steeplejack
@Scapegoat:
Congratulations!
Steeplejack
@Renie:
He’s drunk-tweeting. Or joking and an intern accidentally posted it.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Frankensteinbeck:
No.
BillinGlendaleCA
@seaboogie: I was a freshman in college when that happened, there were lots of “Harvey” jokes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I am going with he is just that stupid (with a fall back of Kevin Bacon’s All is well.).
AnotherBruce
@Rocky:Jesus, Trump really is a performer. He’s like a shock rocker from the early 70’s. Basically he’s Alice Cooper, complete with snakes.
PurpleGirl
@Scapegoat: Awww, he’s a cutie. Congratulations to you and the wife, and baby makes a family now.
Kropadope
@Renie:
Is Reince Priebus confused, does he think he’s the head of the DNC?
Tommy
@Scapegoat: Just wonderful. I do not have any kids but I wish beyond all hope that one day I will.
AnotherBruce
@Kropadope: @Kropadope: Reince is trying not to let the party of his past slip through his hands like a tumbler made of tears. It’s tragic really.
Omnes Omnibus
@AnotherBruce: I speak Wisconsin. And I addressed this above.
AnotherBruce
@Omnes Omnibus: Niiiice. What a great week, I might have to start believing in smiling god. I have had more fun with my clothes on than this week, but not by much.
sm*t cl*de
@lgerard:
Nope, Carson repeating a long-debunked apocryphal statement fabricated by some anonymous John Bircher, attributed to Stalin, and circulated through e-mails ever since.
debbie
@Kay:
There’s no thinking. Beck has been the tank for Cruz from the beginning.
Iowa Old Lady
@Scapegoat: Now that’s worth a cheer or three!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Scapegoat: Congratulations! An auspicious day all around – the first day of America’s better future. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
revenant johnny aquatard
@scottinnj: Perhaps der Tumpenfuror is beginning the pivot for the general. He can afford to lose votes in SC to gain them in the general.
Paul in KY
@Adam L Silverman: If the motherfucker hadn’t been such a lousy driver, they might not have ever caught him.
Paul in KY
@Princess: That does it… Trump will be the nominee.