Reason Live Tweets the GOP Debates

News, views, and abuse from the Reason staff on tonight's Fox Business Network GOP debates

The mainstage debate airs at 9 p.m. and is moderated by Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo. Candidates at the podium for the later debate will be: real estate mogul Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

The undercard debate at 6 p.m., is moderated by Trish Regan and Sandra Smith. CEO Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has said he will not participate.

Comments

[Juvenile Bluster]

I have about as much desire to watch this as I did the State of the Union.

[Florida Man]

Here's the summary: God, make America great, bomb it, fiscal responsibility, increase military funding, balance freedom with safety, Obama is weak, 2 cent titanium tax goes too far, Ted Cruz is Canadian, Donald trump is a clown, I bang your mom, seal the border.

[Episiarch]

And I say your 2 cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!

Also, I banged your mom.

[Notorious UGCC]

I banged your mom, and so did you.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

There's a political debate on! Quick, change the channel!

[Episiarch]

Hey, that's what Florida Man said when we turned on the debate!

[Florida Man]

I'm impressed that you read all that gibberish, also that you had the stomach to bang my mom.

[Episiarch]

I took some Dramamine beforehand. It worked like a charm.

[Florida Man]

*scribles note to buy Dramamine on hand*
Well I'm off to the pharmacy, then your mom's place.

[Episiarch]

Don't forget antibiotics, you're going to need them!

[AlmightyJB]

And anti-itch cream

[Los Doyers]

And some Preparation H, to be safe.

[Suthenboy]

"...also that you had the stomach to bang my mom."

I am picturing something along these lines...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIDgPVg9HM

[Suthenboy]

"balance freedom with safety,"

Every time I hear someone say that I have an almost irresistible urge to punch them in the mouth.

[coloraDOOM]

Do you knock them off balance when you make them unsafe?

[Pathogen]

Bail's cheap.. grab the brass ring.

[Ted S.]

There's another hockey game on.

[Lorenzo Zoil]

Does anyone really give a sloppy fuck? I mean, at this point, what, difference, does, it, really, make?

[Crusty Juggler]

Some of us enjoy the day shift at the strip club.

[Ted S.]

Do they tip you better in the day shift?

[Crusty Juggler]

Not with these hips, girlfriend.

[Los Doyers]

The hips are a lie, as the popular song goes.

[straffinrun]

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[Notorious UGCC]

This will be as fun as a barrel of monkeys.

[The Hyperbole]

Does anybody know if this is going to be online, I'm a smug bastard that likes people to know that I don't even own a Tel...oh who am I kidding, I'm not gonna watch this.

[AlmightyJB]

"Maria Bartiromo"

Would

[Crusty Juggler]

I am tuning in just to see which broach she is wearing tonight.

[AlmightyJB]

I'd be ok if she wore this.

http://gonetworth.com/wp-conte.....worth1.jpg

[Crusty Juggler]

She does look fine covered up with a lone bed sheet.

[DesigNate]

Agreed.

[coloraDOOM]

"Pass."
"Because Dennis is a bastard-man!"

[Episiarch]

"See, this is what I'm talking about. Illiteracy? What does that word even mean?"

[coloraDOOM]

"Intervention! Intervention! Ugh, is nothing private?!"

[Crusty Juggler]

"Shut up, dog!"

[coloraDOOM]

Do you feel sick from all that cake stuff?

[straffinrun]

I hope they clear up the issue of whether or not Cruz was actually born a poor black child.

[DEG]

If there are no titties and beer, I am not interested.

[Sexbot]

" and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie."

Oh.... there will be big titties.

[DEG]

I just remind myself that there are good things in the world.

[B.P.]

That person we're not supposed to talk about just showed up in the Twitter feed.

[Hyperion]

Lucy?

[B.P.]

Gah!

[B.P.]

" Kennedy
?
@KennedyNation

Mike Huckabee wants to tax me like his dog?! #GOPDebate
Retweeted by Matt Welch"

I wanna be your dog.

[Hyperion]

No. Fuck FoxNews, fuck them to hell.

[creech]

Eleven damn GOP candidates and the libertarianish folks don't even add up enough support to get one candidate in this pitiful debate? Looks pretty much like non-interventionist foreign policy (which is Rand's main difference from the other guys) is not about to be co-opted by a major party.

[Rhywun]

I'll check it out during Project Runway Junior commercial breaks.

[AlmightyJB]

Im crashing. Ill find out tomorrow who won and who was terrible by checking Trumps Tweets.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bump this thread, dummies.

[Quincy.]

Party's upthread.

[Quincy.]

I stand corrected.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I take credit.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Weren't the incompetent sailors returned in less than 24 hours?

[Suthenboy]

the Iranians want their money.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Wait...where's Rand?

[commodious spittoon]

Oh, honey.

[JWatts]

Sulking

[commodious spittoon]

How does one march to a balanced budget?

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Kasich nails it. Reduce regulations; balance the budget; and lower taxes.

[Suthenboy]

Of those three things which does he intend to do?

[Cytotoxic]

If only he had done that as governor.

[commodious spittoon]

Cruz has the most punchable face, but only because Christie is too gross to touch.

[commodious spittoon]

Seriously, he looks like if you flicked pennies at him, they'd stick.

[Cytotoxic]

He'd eat them.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

They say you're fat

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I know I feel unsafe.

[Quincy.]

"Bridge to the future" not a probable Christie slogan.

[commodious spittoon]

Woah, wait, Christie is taking talking points from the Paul campaign?!

[Rhywun]

Psych!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yeah, we would never detain Iranian boats in our waters.

[commodious spittoon]

And we'd almost certainly deprive the hijabs from their naval women.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Well, they'd have to be able to sail that far, first...so odds are pretty low.

[commodious spittoon]

"Battle-tested terrorists" I kinda figured they'd be dead like, you know, most terrorists who experience battle.

[commodious spittoon]

*ahem* "battle"

[Cytotoxic]

What makes you think most of those are dead?

[commodious spittoon]

I suppose they're terrorists in the sense that they're terrorizing their region of the world.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Jeb Bush: "Between the White house and the courthouse."

[Quincy.]

Hillary! Because you shits are nostalgic for an impeachment.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

OMFG!

Learn from mistakes much?

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Stroke that war boner, Rubio.

[SIV]

"The current century":

[commodious spittoon]

Wait... dirty bombs? Cyber attacks? Christ, Carson, you are *so* 2006.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is Ben Carson describing NBC's Revolution? Because, SPOILER ALERT.

[SIV]

If the EMP comes first there won't be anything for the cyber attack to run on.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Fucking fearmongers!

[Fist of Etiquette]

TOTAL SAUSAGEFEST

[Quincy.]

Maria is in charge, what are you queer?

[Fist of Etiquette]

No, I'm talking about Trump saying the refugees ain't sending their chicks, only dudes.

[Quincy.]

*Fist bump*

[Crusty Juggler]

I love a nice piece of hot, Italian sausage in the morning.

[Rhywun]

Go on....

[Crusty Juggler]

I like to put it in my mouth, you know, like a person is supposed to do with hot sausage.

[Tejicano]

...the memo my ex never got.

[Rhywun]

Crusty, how fast can you make it to Brooklyn?

[Crusty Juggler]

To suck the juices off of some prime New York sausage? Not soon enough!

[Quincy.]

Go for it, I know where your keys are.

[Los Doyers]

Brooklyn?! That's a hipster wasteland.

[Rhywun]

It's so bizarre that a few thousand white kids moving to Williamsburg changed the national opinion of a city 2.5 million.

Is there nothing white privilege can't do?

[SIV]

Give back the that puppy Checkers, Ted.

[Quincy.]

Cruz: I born was a poor un-superPACed black child.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So Ted Cruz doesn't think the Constitution is important.

[SIV]

Elizabeth II is Ted's queen.

[Quincy.]

Cavuto: Fuck you, filthy Canuckistani.

[Quincy.]

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[coloraDOOM]

How are the sociopaths doing?

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Good one, Cruz. Give the Donald a run for his money.

[Quincy.]

Donald's grandfather ran whorehouses in the Yukon!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Christ, what an idiot. I can't watch anymore.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Give it up, Donald. You're an idiot.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

How can anyone be associated with this party?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Looks like someone needs to rewatch the campaign song.

[commodious spittoon]

Pretty sure that's Donald d'Trump's endgame. Making the GOP toxic and showering Clinton's path in rose petals.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Then he's doing a great job.

[commodious spittoon]

Oh, goodness, yes. At this point it's only a question of whether he abdicates in favor of Hillary like he and Bill planned, or simply carries on as her surrogate.

[Cytotoxic]

Not just the GOP. The entire conservative movement will be left in ashes if he gets the nom.

There are retards on this board who seriously believe the guy's electable. THIS PEOPLE ARE REALLY REAL

[Winston]

The entire conservative movement will be left in ashes if he gets the nom.

Considering how terrible they have been will that be a bad thing? Though what replaces it...

And DC, Chicago and Detroit show that even shitty Democrats can remain in power indefinitely with no Republicans...

[Cytotoxic]

I would love for the conservative movement to die but I don't want it replaced by GOP Hugo Chavez.

[ant1sthenes]

The conservative movement is primed for a full-on mass movement, The Donald just happened to jump in front of the bandwagon. It isn't just the conservative movement that's going to be in ashes, anyway, it's the whole damn country.

The cons have realized that the promise of democracy is hollow -- not in the sense libertarians have, cons buy the basic premise and can accept losing if they don't have the numbers, but they don't feel like they get access to the levers of power even when they do. The Donald has managed to create the sense that he is a proxy for themselves, that if he gets powerful, they will finally get the power they're owed on account of winning, the power that they feel like the other teams gets when they win. If he loses, they might boil over into full-fledged revolt. If he wins and inevitably fucks them over like every other politician, they will absolutely boil over into full-fledged revolt.

[Cytotoxic]

" If he loses, they might boil over into full-fledged revolt."

LOL I'd love to see these buck-toothed retards attempt a revolt. I see a cleaner gene pool in the future.

This isn't a 'mass movement'. It's self-destruction.

[Cytotoxic]

Reluctantly and with constant self-reminder of the endgame ie how Rand gets through ever day.

[Rhywun]

Well, this is feisty.

[Quincy.]

Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, snowback.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

These are the people libertarians can't beat.

We are fucking doomed.

[Winston]

What about the Libertarian Moment?

[ant1sthenes]

Why is that shocking? If we put science up for a vote, pi would be 3.

[SIV]

Ted Cruz bleeds maple syrup.

[Knarf Yenrab!]

Oh, so this is why some people vote Democrat. Makes sense now.

[SIV]

This, a ride to the polls, 2 packs of Newports and a half pint of Crown Royal.

[Quincy.]

"The country runs on incompetent people."

High Five.

[Tejicano]

If only we could use them as the fuel rather than the engine.

[Los Doyers]

Shit! I was still sitting around with my pants down in the Trump pep rally thread. Thanks for the heads-up, Reason.

[SIV]

Fat liar

[Crusty Juggler]

Elizabeth N. Brown ?@enbrown 6m6 minutes ago

Dick Measuring 2016! #TrumpCruz #GOPDebate

Ew, GOP. Ew.

[Tejicano]

Tallest midget

[commodious spittoon]

Tallest little person.

[Los Doyers]

THREE QUARTER CHUB

[Notorious UGCC]

It seems I missed an exciting moment in the debate - I'll have to watch the video tomorrow.

[Quincy.]

If Jeb would wear some proper thick rimmed nerd glasses. how much better would he be doing?

[Knarf Yenrab!]

Can't take any more. Rubio stumbling over dull GOP talking points with all the fiery Cuban passion he can affect just done me in. This is how Obamas get elected.

After that spectacle, the thought of the state being run by a shadow government seems optimistic in the extreme.

[This Machine]

Well, there's always Lizard People...

[SIV]

Shout out from the Dr.!

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Alright, guns comes next!!11!!

[Quincy.]

Carson: End Internet War because Jewy something.

[SIV]

Chris Chrsitie entered politics so he could ban guns. Jeb! comes from a family of gunbanners.

[Jerryskids]

Next debate, no moderators, 1 open mike. Rules: You gotta keep one hand on the mike to talk. Open-hand only blows to the face, everywhere else is fair game, no chokeholds. Belts, suspenders, ties, sock garters (all your own) the only allowable weapons. After 60 minutes, or 2 deaths or 3 heart attacks, whichever comes first, the candidate who has managed to talk the longest is declared the winner.

[Quincy.]

Newsletter. Subscriber. Etc...

[Quincy.]

Newsletter. Subscriber. Etc...

[Tejicano]

I vote to add chainsaws to the list of allowable weapons. They can even bring a second to ensure they (the chainsaws) are running.

[Jerryskids]

You miss the nuance. These guys are mostly old, mostly out of shape, mostly don't know how to fight. They know enough to go for the face - but you only let them slap the face. You tell them their only weapons are their belts and ties and suspenders and sock garters, their clothes are going to be falling off. No chokeholds, so you get to hear all the grunts and squeals and swearing and blustering threats of what they're going to do to each other. The guy at the mike has only one hand to either try to hold his pants up or slap at one of the other guys trying to wrestle the mike away from him. What's he gonna do?

You film this, you speed it up, add the "Yakkity Sax" soundtrack - you got yourself Benny Hill Presents: The GOP. And nobody's ever gonna vote for any one of these clowns. You don't beat these people by arguing with them, you beat them by laughing at them.

Hillary and Bernie get the chainsaws.

[Tejicano]

For Hillary and Bernie I would prefer a brace of mounted mini-guns at 50 paces.

[ant1sthenes]

Hey, maybe if Trump loses the nomination, he'll invoke the right of trial by combat.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Oh, mental health. That's the problem.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yeah. The government is going to determine who is mentally competent to own a gun. They can't find their asses with both hands...

Great idea.

[commodious spittoon]

Yeah, conservatives selling out on that question because it's more convenient than arguing for right of ownership itself is a principle reason why I mistrust the GOP. No, fuck you, you three-card-monte-playing motherfuckers.

[Tejicano]

/\ /\ THIS /\ /\

[Francisco d'Anconia]

We aren't a democracy fat boy.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Obama's a petulant child. Great one, fatso!

[SIV]

In NJ hollowpoints are illegal and you can go to prison for having a single loose round in your vehicle. You can by them without ID at almost any Walmart in the other 49 states.

[commodious spittoon]

Any chance Christie might explain what prevents someone from buying his hollowpoints in Pennsylvania and then committing murder in NJ? I mean, since the GOP is supposedly all over the impossibility of prohibition when it comes to guns. Not so much drugs, but Christie's supposedly a GOP candidate, so he should at least be able to articulate the case against banning ammunition. You'd think.

[Bubba Jones]

That is not actually true. HP are not illegal in NJ but the cops claim they are. Bizarro world.

[Bubba Jones]

New Jersey law doesn't absolutely ban hollow points, but makes it virtually impossible to use them for self-defense outside the home. One may own hollow points in their home or property, but only "sportsmen" are allowed to transport them, but their guns must be unloaded and the ammunition removed and kept separate, and even in some circumstances, locked up. In addition, one must go straight to and from their range or hunting area and have a valid hunting license. The New Jersey State Police have a helpful article on the issue available here. http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....rationale/

Given that you can't have a gun outside the home...

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Noooooooo! Not the 9/11 defence!

[straffinrun]

I'm waiting for Christie to rip open his shirt and see Rand mumbling, "Quaaaaid" as he stretches his rubbery arms.

[Rhywun]

Get your ass to Vashingkton!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Fox is actively attempting to prop up Cruz (read undermining Trump). Cruz has had, what, 40% of the questions?

[Quincy.]

DJP name checks WJB!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Maybe we shouldn't have been beating the shit out of the equipment with nonsensical unwinnable wars?

[Winston]

So should Brooklyn win because it is about immigrants or should the Revenant win because it is directed by a Mexican? However they nominated all white actors and snubbed the lesbian movie.

[commodious spittoon]

Sicario should win because it was intense and enjoyable and I can't wait to watch it again.

[Tejicano]

WTF would any of that have to do with the Oscars?

[Cytotoxic]

No sorry it's plot undermined it. Should have been a lot better. Amazing camerawork and OST done in by lousy plot and resolution.

[commodious spittoon]

Pfft, if I were in it for just the ending, I'd crank one out rather than go clubbing.

[Cytotoxic]

*Sicario spoilers*

The plot was too hopeful and not bleak enough to fit the tone and direction of the movie. It indulged the 'there's a master plan' comfort fantasy. It should have just been 'everything's fucked and that's not changing'. Basically The Wire border edition.

[SIV]

Mad Max:Fury Road should win because Granny drives the truck, just like in The Beverley Hillbillies.

[Quincy.]

Why would you invoke Strom Thurmond at an R debate?

[Quincy.]

Positively, I mean.

[Tejicano]

What part of "The Stupid Party" did you miss?

[Quincy.]

Duh

*slaps forehead*

[Heroic Mulatto]

HEY!

You know what's more entertaining than both the GOP debate and Reason's live tweets?

THIS!

STOP WASTING YOUR LIVES!

[commodious spittoon]

I'm single, spending the night alone, drinking, on the worst forum ever, chatting about the worst election season ever. Why do I want to watch some chunky dude surrounded by attractive women?

[commodious spittoon]

I'm watching it anyway, but I do have to ask: what's up with Japanese music incorporating English into the lyrics?

[Tejicano]

It's called Engrish and they do it because it sounds cool.

[commodious spittoon]

Of all of my bitches this is not a bitch but something I'm interested in knowing. Is it about finding a hook for weeaboos or what?

[Tejicano]

No, they really think throwing a few English words into a song makes it sound cool. Like you will see them (if you lived here in Japan) wearing t-shirts with English words on them and they don't have a clue what those words mean.

I give it 5 years before you start hearing Japanese words in American pop songs for the same (inane) reason.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

We already do it with French; just not quite as often.

[Tejicano]

Yeah, but we've been doing that wholesale since about 1066.

[commodious spittoon]

Hai, anjin-san! Gaijin! Er... that's all I remember from Shogun.

[Tejicano]

That's Gai-KOKU-jin to you, home-boy!

[commodious spittoon]

I thought Koku was the whore consort they traveled with.

Wait, I'm completely confused.

[Tejicano]

Gai (out) Koku (land) Jin (person) - or as I transliterate it "Outlander". It explains my outlandish behavior.

Gaijin is just a shortened form of the above.

[commodious spittoon]

I think I was thinking of Kiku, or somesuch.

So, you're in Japan. Is that... like, awesome?

[Tejicano]

It has its ups and downs. Thankfully it has a strong drinking culture and mass transit to get me home after that.

Some days I'd rather be in Albuquerque.

[commodious spittoon]

Today I woke up, scraped ice off my windshield, and spent close to twenty minutes between San Mateo and the interchange wondering WTF had slowed up traffic. Turns out three of BCSO's finest had decided to keep a stalled vehicle occupying the center-right lane on I-25 while standing around chatting. I was livid.

So that's the home front for you.

[Heroic Mulatto]

"Some chunky dude"? I'll have you know that is our very own Fist of Etiquette!

[commodious spittoon]

He *is* more hairless than some women I've dated.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hello, what's all this then???

[commodious spittoon]

Sadly, the most jiggly thing about a video is dude's waist.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Christ, you people are so needy.

[commodious spittoon]

Hey, *I'm* the guy who links Housos clips around... wait, that's not Housos.

[Crusty Juggler]

on the worst forum ever

How dare you!

[commodious spittoon]

I DO THUMB MY NOSE, SIR.

[commodious spittoon]

Er... wow. Thumb. I can't even begin to explain that.

[commodious spittoon]

Well okay. The truth is that I've had a bit to drink. I meant to say "BITE MY THUMB" and, well, you can probably imagine how the rest of it went.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

ISIS!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

MOAR WARZ! That's what we need.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Oh my god, what a retard. What do you think we've been doing for the past 15 years?

[Tejicano]

But, well, he thinks we haven't been doing it right. Not like he's going to put on a uniform and show us how.

[Cytotoxic]

Well you haven't. Don't need a uniform to see that. See my link to the ARI below.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Kermit, face it, you're gay. It's 2016...it's okay. You don't need to attempt to prove your manliness by stroking your warboner.

[Winston]

So what's with all this "New York Values" talk?

[Quincy.]

Folding pizza, sodomy and show tunes.

[Tejicano]

So I guess it's something like the Royal Navy...

[SIV]

Don't forget branded heroin!

[Juvenile Bluster]

I'm wondering if it's possible for the GOP candidates to be any worse.

[Cytotoxic]

"Welcome to Jan 2012"

[Juvenile Bluster]

Except for Cruz, Romney might be preferable to any of the rest of these guys. That's not saying anything good about Romney, it's just how terrible this field is.

[Cytotoxic]

Cruz and Rand and Fiorina are better than Failed Cylon Model MR2012. I struggle...to come up with better.

The reason the field is better now is because of those three I just mentioned. At least it's something. The 2012 field was just completely pathetic. One mook after another rising up only to get subsumed by Romney, who then ran The Worst Campaign Of My Life.

[Cytotoxic]

Maybe Kasich and Walk-oh he left.

[Smilin' Joe Fission]

It's hopeless, I've finally realized. I'm just going to try to live my life in ignorance. Well, other than constantly reading through the comments at H&R. But otherwise, not partake in politics or political discussions.

[commodious spittoon]

Yeah, I've gotten to the point at which I'm really, really hoping Trump is a Clinton plant and he comes out ostentatiously about it just prior to November 11th. And then Clinton is elected, but at least there's some semblance of an opposition party. Because then it's Clinton vs. the world and the GOP, for however little it's worth, at least has an excuse for being so fucking retarded.

The alternatives are just so godawful: Trump is honest and we end up with a Trump nominee and the Dems can just walk it in, or worse yet, one of the actual GOP contenders gets the nod.

[Cytotoxic]

If Trump actually becomes the nom, Hillary is a lock. Any Dem nominee not named Sanders is more of a lock.

In this situation, the GOP must forget about the WH and focus on damage mitigation. They should run an 'independent republican' to limit brand damage and Congressional losses. Mark Sanford would be a fine choice. I WISH HE WERE RUNNING

[Francisco d'Anconia]

OH, JESUS FUCK!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The threat of ISIS...

Yep. They're going to topple Washington and raise the ISIS flag any second now.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Creating these people?

Freudian slip?

[american socialist]

Get off the stage, you fucking Canuck! Trump...Trump...Trump...Trump...

[Juvenile Bluster]

Don't you have a Communist Party of America Bernie rally to go to, AmSoc?

[Winston]

CPUSA has endorsed every Dem nominee since 1988...

[commodious spittoon]

Piss off, you're not even doing it right.

[Quincy.]

Fuck You China! BTW fix DPRK, KTHXBAI.

[american socialist]

I'm voting for the pro-choice candidate who voted against the Iraq War and who doesn't want to send tens of thousands of troops to syraq. Unfortunately, he doesn't think Randian superman are about to drop out of society so his appeal is limited to libertarians.

[Cytotoxic]

Cool story bro.

[Tejicano]

Don't you have some Off to fuck somewhere (else)?

[Cytotoxic]

You'd think he'd already be in Cuba or Venezuela. They've implemented his system of choice.

[Cytotoxic]

I get the impression the debate sucks. Here's a piece from ARI on foreign policy that is better than anything Reason has ever made. It starts a little odd but gets very good.
link text

[american socialist]

You're missing out. Men on men measuring dick sizes. It's hawt!!

[Quincy.]

Waves small American flag (made in China).

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

"Employment Prevention Agency"

Thanks Rubio.

[Cytotoxic]

WHY ISN'T MARK SANFORD RUNNING?!?!

[Quincy.]

Bulldozer habit, dead kid, freaky wife.

[Winston]

Dave Weigel's twitter pick is Thomas Dewey? What a shock.

[american socialist]

Ooh, man. He is awesome. Love it. More fucking idiot bluster from right-wing blowhards!

[straffinrun]

Blowhards? C'mon throw in a "vast majority of..." or maybe a "common sense...". You're slacking.

[Thymirus]

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/6.....fa91a4.jpg

[This Machine]

So this thing is still going, huh?

[straffinrun]

Who won?

[Juvenile Bluster]

The Democratic Party.

[Quincy.]

Nobody.

[Tejicano]

They're all still breathing so I guess nobody won.

[Cytotoxic]

Hillary

[Crusty Juggler]

Bagels.

[Quincy.]

Scooper.

[american socialist]

That's an easy one Fox Business Channel bimbo. I'm going to figure out who my political enemies are and close down the roads to their houses.

[Thymirus]

The Politburo appreciates your input, Commissar. Da zdravstvuyet oktyaborskoye vostanye!

[commodious spittoon]

You're wasting your time. Being a socialist means never having to apologize for the innumerable failures of socialism.

[Thymirus]

When he shuts his ears and hysterically drowns out counters to his degenerate dogma with "LA LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU", the ghost of Lenin sheds a tear of pride.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

How are the roads in NJ? Are they as good as Texas? Otherwise, Christie has nothing to say to me about rebuilding infrastructure.

[Quincy.]

I don't wan't to hear another fucking thing about crumbling infrastructure. Who the fuck was in charge if it fucking crumbling in the first place!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Carson just made the most intelligent statement of the last two hours.

[Tejicano]

Talk about low hanging fruit

[Cytotoxic]

Conservative Movement = Syria

GOP establishment = Assad

Tea Party = FSA

Religious weirdos and other come-latelies = 'moderate' Islamists

Trumptards = ISIS

Libertarians = Kurds

Hillary = Putin

What I'm saying is we need to consider bombing and possibly even a ground invasion of the GOP. I am not happy about this at all but the situation isn't going to remedy itself.

CYTOTOXIC 2016: you're already dead inside so what difference, at this point, does it make?

CYTOTOXIC 2016: mark the ballot with your tears!

[commodious spittoon]

Would be hilarious if the political revolutionary of our times is a Canadian who can't vote for his own political progeny.

[Cytotoxic]

What's a 'political progeny'?

[commodious spittoon]

The president you end up whelping, which would be infinitely preferable to this lot.

[Quincy.]

you're already dead inside so what difference, at this point, does it make?

CYTOTOXIC/HOUELLEBECQ 2016!

[Quincy.]

I HAZ DEAL!

[Winston]

So I see that Cytotoxic and Hyperion and others here have argued that Trump is proof that certain people shouldn't be able to vote. So what's the libertarian take on universal suffrage? One of the big arguments against it was that it would allow "the dregs of society" to vote.

[Cytotoxic]

Obama is proof of that too. See also FDR, Chavez, Peron

[Quincy.]

Raise the voting age to 40.

[Thymirus]

The most significant failing of democracy is that rights are necessarily subjugated by popular opinion. Sacred liberties cannot be subject to the whims of the mob. Modern democracy is an execrable contest between disparate, ideologically combative factions of slavemakers -- variant in flavor as they may be, they are mostly authoritarian, and the sole difference between them is the severity with which they advocate the enchainment and plunder of the citizenry.

[Quincy.]

Sorry, raise the voting age to 45.

[Thymirus]

Don't be an asshole. If that happens, I won't be able to vote for American Socialist's deportation to Pyongyang.

/Rage.

[Quincy.]

Suck it, Millenial.

[Thymirus]

You've offended me with your comment. Is there some organ of government I could contact to have you forcibly reeducated for your insensitivity?

/Harvard alumnus.

[Quincy.]

Not during the Presidency of the Donald. BWAHAHAHA.

[Thymirus]

I predict thousands of simultaneous aneurysms and fainting spells among America's college students if he secures the Presidency. It'll practically depopulate Oberlin College within an hour.

[Quincy.]

So, last man on Earth? I like the way you think, Thy.

[Quincy.]

Cuban cat fight!

[Winston]

Matthew Feeney. I remember his "What can Republicans can learn from British Conservatives". Yes because Republicans need to learn to love socialized medicine.

[Thymirus]

The British Conservative Party is significantly more authoritarian than the sternest card-carrying Democrats in the United States. Such comparisons are farcically absurd. I'm genuinely astonished a serious person would even suggest otherwise.

[Quincy.]

Christie: I will not fuck old people.

[Winston]

Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie

How about you guys specify any single outlay that you would cut or eliminate?

What outlay would Nick cut or eliminate? Doesn't he support the welfare state and argue that libertarians need to stop hating government and that Republicans are dumb to try argue to cut anything?

[Cytotoxic]

No. That's just the voices in your head.

[Winston]

http://reason.com/blog/2016/01.....oe-biden-c

The smart response from a libertarian perspective would be to lay out the conditions and contexts for legitimate and efficient deployment of government actions.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Again, voices in your head.

[Winston]

No Gillespie has actually endorsed the welfare state.

[Cytotoxic]

Stop lying.

[Winston]

http://reason.com/reasontv/201.....curity-now

If we want to protect seniors from poverty in old age, we should address that directly through welfare payments to the truly needy rather than creating a system that pits one generation against the other.

[Quincy.]

Fuck old people.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Shit?

[Rhywun]

Oh god, cop-sucking time.

Shouldn't this thing be over already?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Fuck you fat man

[Francisco d'Anconia]

We want Rand?

[Quincy.]

Immigunts!

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

"Gives the benefit of the doubt to the criminals instead of the police." Why is that a problem, mister Christie?

[Tejicano]

Way to presume innocence there, fat boy!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Not to mention it's an outright lie. Completely the opposite, in fact.

[Thymirus]

In the eyes of a just, republican judiciary, individuals are not labeled as criminals until their guilt is established by righteously executed due process, and upon conviction at the conclusion of that process by a jury of a given defendant's peers. Why mendacious assholes like Christie insist on calling everybody a criminal is beyond me.

[Quincy.]

DING!

[Quincy.]

DING!

[Winston]

So are Clinton, Sanders and Trump evidence of the Libertarian Moment?

[Quincy.]

DING!

[jesse.in.mb]

Vote Bush to put the NSA in charge of civilian America and ban encryption!

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

This shit is still going?

[Thymirus]

I'm not even watching the broadcast, but judging by people's summaries here, I'm missing nothing of value.

[jesse.in.mb]

It's sometimes instructive to spend two hours staring into the face of whatever the combination of stupidity and evil is. I'm sure the Germans have a word for it.

[Thymirus]

It may be instructive, but it might lead to severe alcohol poisoning. The sorrow won't drown itself.

[jesse.in.mb]

Yeah, I might've had more gin than is appropriate for a week night.

[Thymirus]

Don't worry. If we're lucky, a cop won't shoot some homeless guy tomorrow, and we won't have reason to pour liquor on the psychological wounds it causes.

Probably.

Maybe...

... possibly?

/Pops a handful of Vicodin.

[jesse.in.mb]

Look at you, all full of crazy, but pleasant fantasies. Tomorrow I'll win the powerball!

This is fun.

[american socialist]

Yeah! Shove it up your ass, Canuck!

I have to put the gosh darn kids to sleep and I'm going to miss out on this intellectual midget fest. Fucking sperm, man.

[Tejicano]

The thought that you might actually have offspring makes me even sadder than watching this debate would have made me. Please tell me that's just another one of your (many, various) lies.

[Cytotoxic]

This is why I'm pro-abortion.

[Thymirus]

Have you blessed your offspring by gifting them copies of Mao's Little Red Book yet?

[TheZeitgeist]

Clown show is pretty good tonight.

[Winston]

Ed retweets Pelosi and Shikha retweets Donna Brazile.

WHYCOME NICK DOSUNT RETWEED JIM CARVILLE?

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

"I'm going to fight for you because I'm a fighter and I've fought all my life to fight for what you need. Because I'm a fighter, I want your vote so I can't fight for you.

Don't forget that I'm a fighter."

[Palin's Buttplug]

This is a sad sack batch of shit-for-brains the GOP is offering up.

[Thymirus]

Who's your candidate of choice?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Kasich is the best of the GOPers in this debate. I hate all the others with and I don't like Kasich very much. The Dems don't have anything.

As I often say here - Romney vs Obama puts whatever comes out of this clusterfuck to shame.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Because they constantly berated your hero.

[Tejicano]

Hey PB. When somebody says something demeaning about Obama does that make you feel more or less regret for sucking his dick? (It's a rhetorical question. I don't really give a fuck either way)

[Palin's Buttplug]

BENGHAZI! DERP! BLOOP!

Way to go Ted!

[jesse.in.mb]

Not only did he Benghazi, he Michael Bay'd.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The horror!

[Winston]

shikha sood dalmia @shikhadalmia

Sorry, but the biggest threat to America is the GOP. 2nd biggest is the Democratic Party.

Considering the Dems have the White House right now (and for longer?) and the GOP is so damn feckless as an opposition party I'm not sure that order is the most appropriate?

[SIV]

Reason is just living their liberaltarian-fusionist dream

[Thymirus]

That tweet is grade-A senility.

[Cytotoxic]

No kidding. And I like Shikha more than most.

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

I vote for Cruz...for the worst closing statement. "I'll have your back!"

[Tejicano]

"I'll have your back(side)!"

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Ah, Lou Dobbs

[jesse.in.mb]

How long have you been waiting to say that again?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

A year tomorrow.

[jesse.in.mb]

Awww.

*Pours one out for Kmele and Matt*

[Winston]

Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie

Well I'm glad that we heard each of the candidates' detailed plans to cut federal spending to match revenues and reform entitlements

I guess Nick has no cocktails parties tonight...

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Winston, you are a mendacious cunt. Please fuck off and die in a fire.

[Winston]

Eh I was poking fun at my once "Cocktail Parties!" jabs since as I far I can tell any attempt to cut federal spending and reform entitlements is genocidal. At least The Guardian Commenters on Greece told me so.

[jesse.in.mb]

Oh man, I feel like "mendacious cunt" doesn't get the play around here that it did when I first started commenting.

This made me smile.

[Thymirus]

I'm uncertain of the motivation for your complaint. The systematic evisceration of the federal government must necessarily be the primary aim, and first priority in urgency, of any moral candidate.

[Winston]

I wasn't attacking him for saying that...

[Winston]

So the leftist infighting over the Oscars is amusing. Despite the Hollywood Left's liberalism they are still rich white men after all. Presumably we need quotas on black and gay films being nominated.

[Thymirus]

When the Academy nominates genuinely good movies, it's a practical certainty that some leftists will bitch about their inclusion on the list of nominees, because some shitty grievance-mongering claptrap didn't get nominated instead.

[Sevo]

There is the further point that their self-congratulatory pre- real- and post parties are presumed to have value beyond a bunch of people applauding each other for pretending to be other people.
Intelligent people would mention that it seems only white folks pat each other on the back for such tomfoolery.

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[Thymirus]

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[TheZeitgeist]

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