Live Blog: The Trump Debate
Posted: August 6, 2015 Filed under: Republican politics, U.S. Politics | Tags: first 2016 GOP debate, live blog 134 Comments
This is it, folks–the main event. What will Trump do? Will the other candidates attack him or try to ignore him? Will the moderators be able to stop him from hogging all the airtime? Document the atrocities in the comment thread.
A few people have mentioned they might need to imbibe some spirits in order to get through tonight’s debate. I found a few suggestions for GOP debate drinking games.
Alternet: The GOP Debate Drinking Game: Special Trump Edition.
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone: The Official GOP Debate Drinking Game Rules.
Drink THE FIRST TIME:
1. Donald Trump mentions his wealth, or how smart he is.
2. A candidate mentions Benghazi
3. A candidate says, “This president…”
4. A candidate whines about not getting called on enough.
5. Someone promises to “take America back.”
6. Trump interrupts someone by saying, “Excuse me, let me answer that…”
7. Anyone mentions Hitler, Nazis or Neville Chamberlain. Includes related imagery, e.g. “ovens.”
8. The crowd cheers a racist/bigoted statement by a candidate.
9. A candidate mentions his poor/hardscrabble upbringing, or a parent who “worked every day of his life.”
10. A candidate talks about “stopping Hillary Clinton.”
11. Anyone warns the U.S. is becoming Greece.
12. Trump refers to himself in the third person.
13. Anyone invokes St. Ronald Reagan.
Drink EVERY time a candidate:
14. Claims a positive relationship with a minority. Also known as the, “Some of my best friends are…” rule.
15. Tries to speak Spanish
16. Tries to warm up to the Ohio crowd with an awkward LeBron shout-out.
Drink EVERY TIME you hear the word(s):
17. “I’m not a scientist.”
18. “You can keep your doctor.”
19. “ACORN.”
20. “The war on Christians.”
21. “Thug.”
22. “Right here in Ohio.”
23. “Culture of dependency.”
TAKE A SHOT OF JAGER AT ANY MENTION OF:
24. “Kenya.”
25. “All Lives Matter.”
Mashable: Dan Rather’s Debate Drinking Game. You’ll want to go look at this one, but here are a few of Rather’s suggestions for Trump keywords:
While many candidates are trying not to admit it, this debate is shaping up to be Trump vs. The World. It’s like some sort of WWE Grudge Match. None of the normal debate rules apply to Trump, so he has to be in his own category (thus no one draws his name from the hat). One thing’s for certain, Trump will go on the attack, often personally.
Here’s a short list of shot-worthy Trump-isms”
“Stupid”
“Loser”
“Stupid Loser”
“Completely Idiotic”
“Horrible idea”
Finally, from USA Today: It’s time to play debate bingo! There are six Bingo cards. Here’s one:
Check the others out at the link, and of course take a swig of your chosen beverage as you place your Bingo markers.
Pick one of these games or mix and match! But don’t forget to add your commentary below.
peej
Carissa
bostonboomer
ecocatwoman
mablue2
peggysue22
quixote
skydancingguestblogger
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
Here’s the Comcast description for Hardball with Chris Matthews on their live stream:
Has Chris Hayes been cancelled?
Bingo.
Damn that looks like a basketball arena!…………Say what, Fox news declared Carly the winner of the previous debate. Oh, hound dog.
Holy fuck, the entire country is Republican.
I’ll confess to having a couple Coronas but I’m not doing a drinking game. I got home a little while ago after driving my dog to my brother’s house in Maryland. I’m home and ready for some fun.
If anybody’s interested in a few laughs, I recommend #Ronald Raven on twitter. Apparently Rick Perry referred to Ronald Raven during the Happy Hour debate of the losers who didn’t make the main debate.
Perry just can’t help himself.
Now that was funny: Fox says they never seen a crowd as excited as these folks.
Here they come!
Is there a place to watch this shit on the internet live? I can’t seem to get this thing to load properly on Fox News.com
Apparently the only place you can get the live stream is the fox news website.
Damn and you have to login and give them so home info, I don’t want to do that with fox.
Don’t miss this, JJ. It’s a riot already.
I don’t know where my reply went but I beg you not to miss this, jj. It’s hilarious already.
oops! there it is! 🙂
Isn’t it on C-span?
I’m watching on my Comcast live stream.
There you go, BB you gotta pay to see our politics in action.
JJ, NBC is live blogging; you can go to: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/live-coverage-republican-presidential-hopefuls-debate-n405591
Between NBC and BB we hicks might figure our what is going on. Or we can do what HRC says she is doing…not watching.
It sounds like the hosts have already been drinking.
Ding Dong, Ding Dong!
Do all republicans–including fox hosts– or is there any one that doesn’t have an orange spray tan?
0oooo Trump got boo’d
Haha! It looks like he spray painted his forehead.
He got a huge ovation at the end when he said he wouldn’t make the pledge to support the GOP candidate.
and Rand Paul just wen ROGUE!!!
Get that Rubio a glass of water!!!
wow, he screwed that line up! Bragging about understanding the middle class and then telling every one he paid off $100k in student loan debt which about corresponds to his time in the US Senate. That’s a ROMNEY moment if I ever heard one!
I noticed that too. How did he pay them off so quickly? Koch money?
Yeah. Do you know any one that could pay one off that size that quickly! Yowza!!! That’s the size of a lot of people’s home loans!!!
What I wanted to know is why he would have a student debt that large without becoming a doctor? My son is 31 and had about 45-50k from the University of Michigan. What he said doesn’t add up for me.
Well, you know, the cars and clothes and the eating out and the parties ya gotta have in college …
The real story is in how he paid it off so quickly. He has a very cozy relationship with a billionaire which will most likely come more to the surface if he becomes the front runner. He and the billionaire even bought a house together.
Rubio, stop go get your self a long drink of water!
Rubio is giving a prepared speech.
Did this just happen:
Ding Dong Rubio
Can’t believe Rubio actually raised the issue of his student loans.
“veto corleone” I’m already laughing my butt off.
Wow, telling Trump he’s part of the war on women.
Trump is tearing Megyn a new one when she was trying to call him on his treatment of women. Ouch.
Huckabee says life begins at conception. He wants to evoke the 5th and 14th amendments to protect the unborn child.
“invoke” not evoke. Oy!
Hick is an idiot!
OMG! Huckabee is looney tunes.
Oh yeah, well Rand Paul sounds pretty effing cray cray too. “Only ISIS is responsible for terrorism”
He certainly does!
Walker and Huckabee are crazy. That is all.
Yep
no one answered the question about letting woman die because they are against abortion.
Walker claimed there are alternatives to deal with the life of the mother. No specifics. Did you hear Huckabee claim that “we now know” through DNA that we are persons at conception?
yeah…i heard that DNA shit. but the Walker response was no answer…
Really, the presence of DNA makes that presence a person? Well, next time you clip your toenails you better not throw them away.
Ha. That is good!
Or spit. Or urinate. They are so effin’ crazy!
What the hell is Kasich talking about?
At least he kind of defended taking the medicaid expansion.
He is the only one that sounds half way intelligent!
Kasich is the only one who might actually have half an idea about the middle class.
oooo Kasich just talked about gawd’s “special Purpose”
I feel like I’m watching a Saturday Night Live skit.
This Trump spiel is incredible.
“Build a wall with a big, beautiful door…” The classiest door in the world!!
This is a freak show.
I can see the cartoons now….trump wall….
Maybe he’ll build a great big Golden Door and put a couple of statues of St.Peter in front of it.
Whoops, I meant put a couple of statues of St. Peter in front of the Big Golden Door in the Wall.
Coupla statues of himself, more likely!
You stupid mother fuckers! Time for commercial ———-my tongue is sticking out big time.
Confucius says “And that’s the way it is whether you like it or not”.
Brghahahahaha! I mean you can’t make this shit up!!!
Heh!
Yargh! Really?
Enough with the goddamn wall! Don’t you idiots think there are undocumented immigrants pouring in from Russia and Eastern Europe and Asia and the Dominican Republic? Freaking racist fools.
Hahaha!
hey, we’re waiting for Christy and Ran to bunt bellies.
Well, “an illegal” is now a noun which refers to a human being in the GOP lexicon.
Yeah, isn’t he intelligent enough to know that will backfire on him with the base?
They going at it……belly up
Oh no, Megan’s lost control. The Ding Dong ain’t working.
I love the Ding Dong. It makes it more like a game show!
Jeeze, Rand Paul makes no sense whatsoever.
Christie is using the old Rudy Giuliani tactic of “I was there on 9/11” but Rand Paul fires back.
What’s wrong, Huckabee ain’t got but one question?
Ted Cruz would get rid of ISIS by uttering the words “radical Islamic terrorists.”
Well, you know if you say “radical Islamic terrorist” three times, touch your nose, close your eyes and walk in a straight line, they’ll all just disappear, or is that the drunk driving test? Cruz is a total troll. Every time he repeats one of his mantras he juts out his chin and shakes his head up and down waiting for applause. His candidacy won’t last much longer.
Total word salad from Jeb!
Jeb is pathetic. He is just plain boring.
Carson refers to himself in the first person?
Ben Carson should go back to the operating room. Not a good speaker, and can’t think on his feet.
And he’s a pediatric neurosurgeon. I wouldn’t let him operate on my cat.
Idiot Savant, maybe?
Tithing to balance the budget?
WTF?? Tithing?
He wasn’t any better on PBS with Gwen the other night.
I didn’t see that.
Rand you stupid mother fucker, you’re having a hard time tonight. Fox you stupid mother fucker, you’re having a hard time tonight. Get hard dicks.
Trump says he’s given money to most of the people on the stage.
Hey Walker, nobody asked you to chime in about Hillary Clinton. You mofo.
Carson isn’t talking a progressive tax system, but a Regressive System.
Right, If you make $10, you pay 10% and if you make $10 billion you pay 10%. The old flat tax.
It’s such an ignorant concept and so transparently favors the richest among us.
As soon as Jeb starts talking, I start to nod off.
Pesky facts. Who needs ’em?
“As soon as Jeb starts talking, I start to nod off.”
You shouldn’t have taken the Benadryl. 🙂
There are a lot of parents who have jobs that require them to move. I disagree with Bush, because if Tenn. is teaching some different at 3rd grade level, then if I move to Arizona my child ought to be able to pick up and learn the same as 3rd graders. Bush blew it, they need to stop blaming the teacher unions………….and thank God, they endorse Hillary Clinton.
Been there, done that.
“My dad was a mailman,” so I understand regular people.
He sounds like all he reads is Infowars … Scary man!
I think Carson has been operating on his own brain.
Apparently Ben Carson said “Lewinsky” when he meant “Alinsky.” Hahahahahahaha!
I didn’t catch that……….oh no.
Christie just said the Social Security trust fund is “filled with IOUs.”
How did these people get out of high school, let alone college?
Good Grief……….ding dong. Pimps, Drug Dealers, and, and, mofo Huckabee.
I think I’m on sensory overload. I had to turn off the sound and turn on closed captioning.
I know! It’s too much!
You’re right that it feels like a Saturday Night Live skit–except way too long!
That was cringe worthy by Walker.
Social issues…brace yourselves.
Rubio going on about small businesses, and what to do. It’s the same talking points they all have repeal, repeal, repeal. Dodd and Frank, wanted to bring back small banks, and small business. Ding Dong.
There’s not a solid candidate on that stage. None of these people could beat Hillary. I don’t even think they could beat Bernie, even with his socialist tag.
Exactly. Hillary could drop kick any one of them off the campaign field, dust off her hands, and walk off with it.
That answer that Scott Walker gave on Black Lives Matter was given to him by a 7th grader.
Ding Dong.
Or maybe even a 3rd grader.
Ding Dong Ted Cruz, the questions was, what would you DO about it? No pressure to answer the fucking question.
Getting ready to give their closing statement, and GOD. Say what, what’s more important God or the Constitution? I’ll say this, this was a fair debate. Some got away with far to easy questions, some didn’t have hard questions at all. Walker was one who didn’t get hit hard.
How many times did they all say Hillary, how many Obama?
Correction: This was not a fair debate.
GOD…………..HE, HE, HE, HE…………..
What really pissed me off was when the fucker Rubio pitted veteran against veteran. Religious democrats versus republican democrats. I’ve see this hate, and I refuse to buy into it.
The biggest ding dong up tonight was Huckabee, when he said “I’m talking about Hillary”, and they laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Let’s us not forget that laughter.
The moderators laughed too, which I thought was totally unprofessional.
This is how you work the edges:
WP:
[The big question is, will Kelly do the same tonight? New York Magazine reported that the Trump campaign was so concerned about Kelly’s approach in the debate that Trump ally Rudy Giuliani reached out to Roger Ailes, Kelly’s boss, about it.]
Thanks, all for blogging this — I didn’t get to listen in real time. Probably just as well, it would have stunted my cognitive abilities for the rest of the month.