Thank you, fucking pussy Obama. Your "Hope and change" was a cruel disappointment, you let Russia shit all over our country and you let the Repugs steal your Supreme Court nomination.

Thank you, fucking Establishment Democrats, for screwing Bernie over to offer us Goldman Sachs Hillary.

Not a drop of alcohol this evening. I'm just pissed that this is the best that America could do.

James T Canuck [26] -

Shouldn't that be:

"Illegitimus non carborundum"?

I mean, it's usually said in the plural ("illegitimi") as in "don't let the bastards wear you down," but let's get our fake Latin correct, shall we?

Heh. Sorry, that alcohol is already doing some good, as you can tell...

:-)

JFC [29] -

Really? Is that true about McConnell and the female moderators? Wow....

BashiBazouk [36] -

Amen to that. Could have used at least two ad breaks...

TheStig [43] -

Amen to that too, brother! See my article, I made exactly the same point...

rdnewman [46] -

I think it'd be closer to: "Holy crap, Batman!"

Heh.

chaszzzbrown [47] -

OK, now THAT was funny!

Final note:

Sorry, LizM, it takes a while to type it all out. Hope you hung in there for the reveal.

Didn't have to have jaw wired shut, but am DAMN glad I stocked up on beer. As that famous SCOTUS jurist Justice Fratboy said: "I like beer."

OK, I'm going to go decompress further now...

-CW

(The title sums up how I felt afterwards)

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/09/29/being-hit-on-the-head-lessons/

Gotta go drink a bunch of alcohol now, if you'll excuse me...

-CW

Snap out of it.

LL&P

lol

LL&P

Thankfully, it's over. Trump's cooked.

D'ya really think so, JTC!?

It's done. Trump's pulled the pin on his own gig. I'd be astonished if Biden agreed to another Trump melt-down, why would he, Trump will just do another re-run. Biden is ahead to stay.

I was appalled and almost embarrassed by Trump's antics, and I have very little skin in the game, unless you think Trump is a disgrace to all mankind.

Thankfully, it's over. Trump's cooked.

LL&P

Trump: "Forests need raking!"

"Good lord."

Just another thing that makes you go hmmm...

1- Joe needed to demonstrate fundamental competence and he accomplished that. Also, Joe didn't drool on himself or melt like a snowflake in the face of Trump's obnoxiousness, so he checked that box as well. Trump set the bar very low for Joe and Joe cleared that bar by a mile. Of the two, Joe was the adult in the room.

2- Trump needed to change the dynamic of this race and he failed to do so. No doubt his 43% of America that support him thought that Cheetogod "won" but I didn't see Trump changing any minds in America.

Cain't wait for Kamala going up against Mike Pence.

The fact check o meter has not only been broken I think it has been vaporized tonight...

Of course they do!

I couldn't last for 20 minutes.

BREAKING NEWS: Biden camp denies Trump campaign request to cut him open and see if he is made of cake, pie, or some third thing.

Ice cream!

LL&P

If there is a quote to that effect it would sink his chances in KY.

He's to careful to say anything like that, but I'm not sure I agree with your assumption anyway. I've lived here too long.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article246072625.html

I love those guys and gals!

Especially the one who said it was Biden's time. Indeed, it is ... written in the stars.

Thank-you. Thank-you very much.

In addition to other weirdness it says:

Greetings from Washington, DC
America's 51st State!

Making DC America's 51st state guarantees the radical Democrats will give the "Swamp" two socialist Senators to represent the lobbyists and influence peddlers

It has all the inappropriate capitalized words, punctuation and bolding of a Fat Donny tweet. The projection and hypocrisy are breath-taking.

Again, Hillary not winning combined with Trump's lethal incompetence has the silver lining of hastening the rise of Progressivism so necessary to undo the effects of Reaganism ®.'

I appreciate that my 'brutal' screed is being taken in the same context as it's meant... A jackboot to the jacksie of complacency sometimes offends, but always gets noticed.

My call for tonight is not unlike most other peoples, I'm guessing.

Trump will outdo himself in rudeness, vulgarity, idiocy and rage inducement, again. Same shit storm of lies, conspiracy theories, manufactured accusations of familial corruption, and most disgustingly of all, projection pedophilia. It's all Trump has, and it's designed to provoke.

Biden, he's the man to watch, I think everyone knows what Trump is about, the world is going to be watching Biden's reactions. Will he get riled? Will he speak to his points over interruptions? Will he be give Trump a dry slap when he belittles his son, Bo? Will he collapse and leave the stage broken and sobbing?

Will he say...."Well, that's the 750 dollar question, isn't it?" :)"?

This would be a tough one to call were it not for the fact that very little is riding on this for Biden, Trump will have to work all his angles to see any benefit.

Illegitimis non carborundum, Biden....

LL&P

Ahhh, thanks Kick. That gives me an excuse to post my fave Wake Up.<

This is a well considered miniature essay, JTC. No "America bashing" just the facts, Ma'am.

Here's an article just for you...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-super-fans_n_5f720265c5b64e06666093b5

:-)

Enjoy! You're not alone...

-CW

Holy Moley --

The Lincoln Project got Sully!

"VoteVets" got Sully, and "The Lincoln Project" teamed up with them on that one.

It ranks right up there with my favorite:

Benedict Donald

At the debate tonight, Biden should start his response to every question by looking at Chris Wallace and saying:

"Well, that's the 750 dollar question, isn't it?" :)

Speaking of the debate, how about a little drinking game!?

As long as we're not doing it to the words "fake news," we should be fine.

Every time my guy flashes the famous Biden smile, I'll have a sip of Sambucca.

We'll all get wasted!

I like it. :)

James T Canuck wrote,

Voting in a known bounder and unabashed cad simply because the other candidate was a woman. (and don't kid yourselves, that's what torpedoed Clinton, it wasn't that people disliked her more than Trump, it was a continuation of the American angst. Eight years of sturdy leadership by a black man so incensed white America, no one but a white man, regardless of his vulgarity, was a slam dunk in 2016...When you come to terms with that as a society, you'll enjoy maturity and growth as a nation. As it stands right now, America resembles a kindergarten class trying to elect a milk monitor, with all the attendant crying, wailing, and stomping off in a huff.)

Brutal. And likely spot on. Misogyny is impossible to quantify but beyond (or in addition to) Establishment Dems screwing Bernie, Comey and the Rooskies that's probably what sank Hillary.

Again, Hillary not winning combined with Trump's lethal incompetence has the silver lining of hastening the rise of Progressivism so necessary to undo the effects of Reaganism ®.

Oh I remembered Don Jr.’s comments, and I do not disagree with your comments on Trump’s money laundering for Russia, but I also knew Eric told on daddy’s dirty deeds years earlier as well. The Times is reporting that Trump has over $400 million in loans that are coming due in the next 4 years based on the new tax returns that they received.

Waddaya know, we were both right...Therefore, it must be true.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-said-money-pouring-in-from-russia-2018-2

LL&P

My confidence in the grace of the thoughtful society, voting with their maturity to wisely choose a leader based solely on the strength of a candidate's character has been eroded since 2016. Voting in a known bounder and unabashed cad simply because the other candidate was a woman. (and don't kid yourselves, that's what torpedoed Clinton, it wasn't that people disliked her more than Trump, it was a continuation of the American angst. Eight years of sturdy leadership by a black man so incensed white America, no one but a white man, regardless of his vulgarity, was a slam dunk in 2016...When you come to terms with that as a society, you'll enjoy maturity and growth as a nation. As it stands right now, America resembles a kindergarten class trying to elect a milk monitor, with all the attendant crying, wailing, and stomping off in a huff.) I'll have no truck with any other consideration, America has struggled to mature beyond its infancy as a democracy because it still holds Victorian era sentimentality up as a standard for electing individuals to office... By that I mean, the candidate must be in harmony with society's 'model' man, well-off, Ivy league, religious, family orientated, preferably of ancestral military blood and any other archaic characteristic usually assigned to upper-middle-class assumed snobbery. When one cuts through that reality one ends up with a white male whose family can trace their ancestry back 300 years because the family preferred to look back in awe instead of looking forward with excitement.

When I was growing up in England in the 70's we looked to America for excitement and trend innovation, we all thought the US was full of bald detectives who 'loved ya baby' with leather-jacketed warm-hearted rakes who effervesced 'cool' and quirky hipsters that 'nanoo nanooed'... That was America selling the American way when America's standing at the top of the food chain was unassailable, sadly, America sat on its laurels and stopped maturing, like all teenagers, thinking it knew everything and could be told nothing.

And here we are, today, in the now. We have forty-something, living in the basement, listening to KISS on vinyl referring to everyone as bro or baby without even the hope of a mid-life crisis to blame because he never experienced emotional growth.

America now gives of the vibe that it really isn't old enough or wise enough to manage its own affairs, therefore it picks a Trump to lead in the hope he will absorb all the absurdity of the times and deflect from the rudderless nature of its direction. If you disagree, you need only to look to what drives issues like abortion and gun control, two moot discussions in every western democracy on the planet. If that isn't a tell you to recognize, try religion...No western democracy on earth even considers religion a part of political consideration, in fact it is the singular reason the Canadian 'progressive' Conservatives lost the last general election, their painfully religious leader repeatedly invoked his god and was soundly thrashed at the polls for doing so. That irreligious sentiment was cemented here in Ontario when Doug-the Plug Ford was swept into office on a Conservative ticket, indeed, the brother of Rob Ford who redefined vulgarity in Canadian politics long before Trump was heard bragging about grabbing pussies on a whim.

Now, don't misinterpret the point I'm trying get across, I'm not America bashing, that I leave those who hate the US and everything it represents, if I hated the US I wouldn't give a shit who ran it into the ground or why, I would heap derision on it to smother and kill it. On the contrary, I have nothing but concern, with a smattering of hope, because I hold many Americans in the highest esteem from my many interactions with a mosaic of Americans from every corner of the union (with the exception of South Carolina, where I'm convinced all the village idiots in the country are instinctively drawn to procreate).

I know there's a lot of hand-wringing and nervousness in the US right now, and I get it, no reasonable person wants to get in the mud to fight a pig...It is what it is, to coin a childish tautology. However, I have confidence in the collective decency of the American voter, I don't for a moment believe Democrats will stay away from voting in person due to CV19, in fact I think they will come out in droves. Nothing, in my experience, gets on an American's tits more than being told that their right to vote will be subverted in any way. Trump sealed his landslide loss before the echo died of him declaring "the only way we can lose is if they cheat"...that single utterance was so antithetical to an American ear, it will resound for a generation. Mark my words.

Chin up, smiles on, smoke a joint and keep your stick on the ice.

LL&P

Dunno who picked Fox's Chris Wallace to be the first.moderator but that choice should take the wind out of any, "The debate was rigged against me" post debate excuses.

You be careful with that Sambuca, Elizabeth!

The Lincoln Project got Sully!

I don't adapt easily to change but, the really cool thing is that, after a short while, I don't remember what it was like before the change. Heh.

Take care and stay safe, John!

I didn't know you were in retail too. That's cool. Lucky that you get to make your own schedule. I don't have to work every Sunday. But my schedule does vary enormously in fact. Just whenever I am needed.

I am in Florida. So I am in the Eastern time zone. Same as Toronto, Montreal, or New York.

I wish I knew when the Democrats will take voting seriously. Hopefully starting now. Sustaining it will be the problem.

I hope we're on a first name basis now Elizabeth.

People resist and are not comfortable with change generally. I think this is why voting is still done with polling stations like it was back in the 18th century, for the most part.

Biden in the most recent polls is also above 50 percent in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and I believe leads in both Nevada and Ohio also, but by a smaller margin.

Every time my guy flashes the famous Biden smile, I'll have a sip of Sambucca.

I hope Biden comes out flashing that smile right in Trump's face. You know, try to disarm him right out of the gate.

This is going to be so much fun, I can't even tell y'all!

:-)

His last best chance is to impress the Hell out of everyone watching. Ahem.

I will be writing a snap-reaction column to tomorrow night's debate, so it will have to be posted very late in the evening. Just to warn everyone what to expect...

-CW