Open Thread For Debate Liveblog, Plus A Prediction Of How It Will Go

“I would not presume to debate you.” – Star Trek II:  Wrath of (Prose and) Khan(s)

Clothing optional.  No, I really don’t want to know.  Really, I don’t.

It’s 2020, and the first debate, so let’s have a little fun with it.  Starting tomorrow at the beginning of the debate, you’re invited to a live debate party.  If you’re here on Wednesday morning, this counts as the Wednesday morning post.

Where?  Here.  On this post, right in the comment section.  Just be here when the debate starts and refresh the page every so often, and comment away!  No ID required and no cover charge, but there is a two-drink minimum.

The Mrs. has tentatively agreed to join in and may even be interested in having some wine during the festivities, so you can expect my stuff to be extra good.  The rules are fairly simple.  Join in, and comment as we roast marshmallows on the bonfire of Western civilization.  The funnier the better, but do please try to keep it PG-13 and don’t make me edit out stuff.

Because I will.

How do I think the debate will go?

Probably something like this:

Chris Wallace:  Good evening.  Per the rules that both of you approved, Vice President Biden will be allowed to occasionally bellow out the names of people that are dead, but that he thinks are still alive.  President Trump will be allowed to yell two words with strange emphasis whenever they pop into his head. 

The first question is for you, Vice President Biden.  How do you like doing soothing things, like painting?  Do you like other art projects?

Vice President Biden:  C’mon man!  I remember back when I worked in the chimichanga factory back in Delaware while running drugs for the Juarez Cartel.  This poor little girl, who was just as smart as a white girl, would want to touch the golden fuzz on my neck, right here . . . .

President Trump:  HUN-tEr CrackHEAD.

Vice President Biden:  Well, Fat, I was in the Senate back in 1840, and let me tell you that Henry Calhoun wouldn’t have had crack, because Lincoln didn’t invent that thing, you know, the toy . . .

Chris Wallace:  Lincoln Logs®?

President Trump:  UkraiNIAN corrupTION.

Vice President Biden:  C’mon, it was back when I had my first Buick.  It was a 1953, I think, bought it from John Travolta back when he was a ghost-man.  You know about the ghost-men, right?  Only come at night, crawl up your leg, leave a hell of a mess?

Chris Wallace:  Thank you Vice President Biden.  President Trump, can you explain how the 1963 IRS laws concerning tax treatment of hotel properties in Barbados after an earthquake are impacting Russian-Chinese relations?

President Trump:  Yes.  You see, HUN-tEr Bi-DEN was very sad in his dealings with his brother’s ex-wife – you know he married her, yes?  And then HUN-tEr had some sort of stripper baby.  Very sad.  Very disrespectful.

Vice President Biden:  Marlena Dietrich!  Is she here tonight?

President Trump (to Biden):  You work for me.

Vice President Biden:  What?  No, I don’t.  I quit that job.  C’mon.  Want me to bust you in the chops behind the gym?  I’ll show you who knows how to do pushups because . . . you know the thing.  I’ve gone on too long.  God bless Ruth Vader Gilbert and Sullivan.  Helluva Broadway show, let tell you that.  Full of sparkly toasters and ham.

President Trump:  You see?  Lock him up.

Or maybe it won’t go like that.  It’s 2020.  All bets are off.  I’d suggest a drinking game based upon Joe Biden saying “C’mon”, losing his place, visibly showing the signs of a meth overdose or brain aneurism or saying two hundred thousand.  One drink for each ad hominin attack on Trump.

For Trump, you’d take a drink every time he says two words and pauses, nodding knowingly, uses the word “Hunter”, uses the word Chin-a, or insults Joe directly with a “Sleepy Joe” or “Chinese Joe” type insult.

Finish your glass if Joe Biden suggests pushups.  Finish the bottle if Joe does a pushup or tries to physically attack Trump or his adult diaper leaks.  Also finish the bottle if anyone from CNN says anything other than, “decisive victory” for Biden.

See you at the debate!

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

254 thoughts on “Open Thread For Debate Liveblog, Plus A Prediction Of How It Will Go”

  2. It’s Wednesday night already here.
    The debate is unprecedented in US history because we’re all watching just to see if one candidate will appear lucid and make the distance without having to be led off by his nurse.

  3. It’s Wednesday night already here.
    The debate is unprecedented in US history because we’re all watching just to see if one candidate will appear lucid and make the distance without having to be led off by his nurse.

      1. Whoa, that is an interstellar dateline! You’re blogging from the future with Elon Musk! (BTW, I try to comment at your place, but WordPress won’t let me. Trying to figure that one out.)

  4. After conclusion of debate, both sides will claim they won. I am pretty confident Trump will give more technical answers than Biden. I think Trump will win, but the media is waiting to tear down his answers (fact checking) with hardly any attention given to Biden. That is the Democrat strategy to success – tear down Trump and ignore their own candidate on why they are a better choice.

    Outside shot – waiting for Biden to go full Tourette’s – random words. Meme crop tomorrow will be epic !!

    1. Yup. “Well, Tom, Trump made the unfounded claims that there is oxygen in air and that the Sun will come up tomorrow.”

    2. Anon 11:20 am here – well, that was quite the show. Would have been more entertaining if ‘Thunderdome – Presidential Candidate Edition’ was put on instead. Chasing each other with chain saws with 30 seconds of gasoline. Auntie Chris presiding.

      Were you not entertained ?

  5. You may almost tempt me into renting a steamshovel for the demolition of the blogging room, and undertaking the house surgery necessary to implant a new supercomputer, just to join in on the nonsense and foolishness.

    Almost.

    But I give even odds that Nancy Pelosi calls in an anonymous bomb threat 15 minutes to air time to get the debate cancelled.
    She’s got Alzheimer’s too, but she’s not crazy.

    Personally, I’ve $20 down in Vegas on Biden having an epic Caine Mutiny strawberries-level meltdown before the “Technical Difficulties” graphic goes up, and the live TV feed is cut.

  7. John – – I have sent this out to all my Army buddies and also to my local contacts.

    I urged then to have adequate adult beverages on hand……..and I have plans to make Micheladas (https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/06/perfect-michelada-mexican-beer-cocktail-recipe.html).

    Going to our daughter’s home 15 min away, and hope the Deputies are not out stopping cars on our short drive home !!

    Hide’n Biden will be the golden boy bringing 9n the bucks for the alcohol industry this week !

      1. Glorius. Probably better than the glass of wine I have right here.

        But?

        I have the wine. Bug Quizzer for my email. It’s for you guys, too.

  8. I’m worried that Biden will win the debate. He, and his commie supporters, only have one thing to worry about: Does Trump show up?

    Have fun with the live-blog. I won’t be able to join you as I cannot multi-task beyond cigar and bourbon, I’ll come back to read the comments on Wednesday morning. Actually, Wednesday afternoon…

      1. Rocky Patel has a new (to me) CT cigar called “Freedom”. A marketing ploy, or a sign from God??

        Bourbon was Makers #46.

        Great night, but no knock-out blow. The D’s are encouraged and will now throw more good money after bad.

        1. Yup. And with Trump getting the ‘rona?

          Makes this look like when Rocky fought that Martian robot.

  9. Biden has been cramming for this debate in hopes of sounding like George C. Scott in the opening of Patton.
    Unfortunately, it’s gonna be more like Professor Irwin Corey. Watch for it.

  10. gotta drink everytime Biden says ” C’MON MAN” or “YOU KNOW, THE THING”

    GOOGLE: NAMADEN

    2. Not sure if this will be live/live or 7 second delay. Do we take a drink each time Trump says China Virus and Biden says Income Tax?

  12. Trump’s tax payments have been in the news today, and may appear in the debate. By now, everyone says that there were “some years” in which Trump paid no taxes, and “other years” in which he paid just $750. But what I haven’t heard anywhere is: what was the HIGHEST amount of income taxes he paid? I imagine that when a deal comes in, he pays mega-millions; when a deal goes bad, he claims income averaging to apply prior year taxes to the current year. Does anyone know what his AVERAGE tax bill has been? Is that just too complicated to be explained to the American public?

    I don’t have to like the guy to notice that there’s a big piece of the story missing!

    Today, we heard that the Biden household paid lots of income taxes… so, I’m curious as to what sort of work, and for whom, do the elder Bidens work to earn so much? (We’ve heard plenty about Hunter Biden’s employment.) If it’s investment income, how would a mere career Federal employee squirrel away so much excess income as to earn that much in a zero-interest rate environment?

    1. People who invest and take depreciation . . . don’t pay taxes, but they have great tax flow. I wonder how many of the reporters would trade income with the Golden Don?

      Answer?

      All of them.

    3. Plus, there is a difference between paying your taxes in installments throughout the year in estimated payments, and arranging things so you just owe $750 at the time of filing … smart, to insure you aren’t giving Uncle Sam an interest free loan, and just owing and paying $750. My understanding is that the NYT writers don’t know the difference, and have conflated the two. Both years that he “owed” $750 at filing, it is reported he apparently paid millions throughout the year (1 million one year, 4 million the other).

      Plus, real estate developers often have huge carryover losses (or even carryback losses) so it can be difficult to figure out when they made their money.

    4. reply to Lathechuck:
      The late Kerry Packer, Australian newspaper and TV media owner, famously said to a Senate Committee investigating his tax, “I don’t know anybody that doesn’t minimise their tax … Of course I’m minimising my tax. If anybody in this country doesn’t minimise their tax they want their head read. As a government I can tell you you’re not spending it that well that we should be paying extra”.
      Apart from the final sentence, maybe Trump should use Kerry Packer’s quote, but tell it in his own inimitable style…. just saying!

    1. Okay, need clarification here. Does making it through mean:
      A. Staying awake
      B. Not having a seizure
      C. Not abducting George Stephanopoulos as his long-lost puppy?

  15. Two minutes to midnight.

    Presidential candidates . . . come out to plaaaaaay.

    Presidential candidates . . . come out to plaaaaaay . . . .

  16. Here we go. What a mess this is gonna be. Let the games begin!

    LOL – Warriors reference!!! THey shoulda left empty beer bottles on the podiums!

    Not sure either guy has the finger control to do the clanking….

    Go Chris, go!

  18. Will Biden’s liver spots take over if he’s incapacitated? Is that in the Constitution?
    I thought I saw one of them talking.
    The Mrs. thinks his hair plugs will take over, but in order of seniority.

  19. What line does Joe Biden put all the money he gets from China on? I don’t usually fill out the Traitor-1093 form.

  35. And in February, Joe was saying that Trump was extreme. (COVID-19)

    Joe: “And in July I had perfect hindsight.”

    1. Spot on.

      If I keep drinking, my responses will be as bad as Biden’s, or start interrupting like Wallace.

  45. Joe’s right. We have the *very best* Scienke that money can buy! Why wouldn’t you let ’em jab a 100 needles in you? All over? It won’t hurt at all as long as you are wearing your protective and healing mask.

  49. Wallace is interrupting again, whole time the idiot Biden tries to recall his lines.

    Notice Biden is staying very mellow. Dementia causes angry outburst when excited.

    2. A K-shaped recovery (so they say) is a recovery for some people (the upper diagonal), but a continued decline for others (the lower diagonal).

  63. Trump made a good point about Biden being a flunky in college. When I was a junior engineer decades ago, the old engineers called Biden an idiot. It is well known for a long time. It is not the recent dementia.

  65. Joe: “Here’s the deal . . . I don’t want to talk about things that bother me, like my son taking millions of dollars from Ukraine?”

  66. Race issues: It’s about the thing. That thing we can’t do. The reason I got in the race is because of bulging veins.

  73. I can’t even comment anymore on this mess. They are both the wrong people to be on the stage. God help us and the united states.

  74. I definitely need more to drink to keep watching this Thing, you know “ the thing”!

          2. Required: guns, smoke bombs (lasers) and living in not a crappy area. Move out. BLM is Marxist and Evil. Satanic level evil.

    2. First Presidential debate you’ve listened to, huh? They are all like this. America really does need fewer politicians and many more statesmen.

    1. Very true. US Forest Service hands are tied by environmentalist to do controlled burning and other forest management activities.

        1. Here is the point – you don’t want a likable leader, you want a strong one. And Joe? He looks like the guy who runs the local soda shop.

          1. I’m in major Liberal-land and they want someone non-threatening and cuddly. They don’t think about how the rest of the world sees him. Wimp? Sure! He won’t hurt me!
            I want a guard dog. They want a puppy.

          2. No.

            Every woman wants a guard dog.

            Every man wants a hero.

            Every person wants someone who will fight for them. The want a leader.

  88. Wallace was way off on the corrupt Critical Race Theory. It is pure racism against whites. Evil to the core.

  90. Amen. In SoCal they completely gave up on thinning the brush. Plus major sections outlawed mechanical equipment to enter even for government agencies. No fire breaks for 10s of miles in a stretch.

    1. Yup. Same thing happened near Wilder Mountain where I grew up. The fuel load grew so big that . . . the National Forest Service said:

      LOG IT.

  92. Comment from someone on Gab:

    Lol… this is pretty entertaining.
    Everyone’s all cranky.
    Boomer bloodsports is cozy af

    Fact Check: True!

    2. Boomer Bloodsport! LOL! Love it! My college kid was cranky until I told him that if Joe kicks the bucket before the election maybe Bernie would jump in as the only likable Veep in the race. He perked up. All he wants is free college.

  94. Let’s just ignore the Project Veritas ballot harvesting. Because? Paying for a ballot? That’s legitimate.

    And Joe just said that if Trump wins? He won’t challenge it.

      1. OH YEAH!

        Look at that. Amazing stuff.

        And poll watchers are thrown out. Why?

        It doesn’t matter who casts the ballots. It matters who counts them.

  95. Go and vote.

    Go and vote.

    Go and vote.

    BTW? Your ‘umble ‘ost is going to win an election on November 3. Thus my domination of the world begins.

    1. You have my vote ONLY if you continue meme-blogging. Also if you add male bikini charts you sexist pig. LOL

      1. Male bikini charts?

        It. Will. Never. Happen.

        And if it did? You would wish it didn’t.

        But?

        I can offer a beer. Or wine. Or hootch. And a really funny time.

        1. Meh. I hoped, but I can go elsewhere.

          Blog on!

          PS I still can’t believe Joe survived that, unless it is the happy sauce talking.

  96. “The real loser is Donald Trump.”

    HA!

    Only in the mangina world. This was an amazing victory for Trump.

    Best. Debate. Ever.

  97. Looking forward to reading all the headlines declaring Joe the winner because he didn’t keel over at any point. He “outperformed his expectations”, they’ll say.

    1. Yeah. I could have two girls because I don’t disagree with either one of them. But dudes?

      Not on my watch.

      The bikini charts have gone down. Why? Because we’re in a civil war. The bikini charts are funny when . . . we’re not at war.

      But you have given me an idea. Come back Monday.

  101. Everyone who commented, and everyone who watched?

    Thank you. Good times for all here.

    Please save me. Now The Mrs. is trying to explain why I should love “The Phonecall of the Opera” or something like that.

    John Wilder?

    Nah, that’s not gonna happen.

      1. I’m in the Great White North (in an igloo) so it won’t take long for that beer to get cold!!
        Just make sure it’s not any of that Crap Beer oops I mean Craft Beer!
        Cheers and thanks for the gits and shiggles!

  103. Omigod. Now The Mrs. has it up on some streaming service. I think I might want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller. I love The Mrs. But this?

    I am not gay.

    1. See! You could have gone with male bikini graphs but no! Now you must pay!

      PS Insist on singing along with the male parts with gusto! She’ll give up after a few scenes.

      1. Well, this is a bit of payback.

        Arrrgh. She said it would be only ten minutes but it seems like it’s been since 732 A.D.

        Already.

        Give me Leonidas with his 300.

        They don’t sing.

        Alternatively? I’ll watch Cannibal: The Musical or Paint Your Wagon on my deathbed.

        1. Really? I remember loving it as background music to an RPG game. It was the Corruption Campaign (If you read Prospero Lost my character’s cat makes a cameo).

          But I also like Opera.

          1. Well, it’s over. I think I aged a few years.

            In the middle we discussed Captain Janeway and Ripley.

            I’m okay with them. But Tasha Yar?

            She can die in a fire.

  104. Okay, this has been insanely fun. We’ll do it again for the next debate. And other things. Heck, tell me what we want to live blog?

    I’m in.

    1. You should block out Nov 3-28. Everyone needs to stock up on liquor at CostCo as we live-blog the slow-motion live-action theft of an entire country.

  108. It’s The Morning After. We had to watch on CNN because wife. For once I agree with Jake Tapper: That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.

    The only way Chris Wallace could have maintained control was with two big red buttons hooked up to shock collars hooked up to a nuclear power plant. Which I really, really wanna see if anybody has the nerve to stage a spectacle like this ever again.

    You gotta never lose sight of The Mission. The Mission of that “….debate….” was to win over (the seven remaining?) undecided voters left in America.

    Trump dominated. Biden prevailed.

    Only Xi and Putin won.

    1. This was like a couple screaming at each other, and now it’s spilled on to the street in full view of the neighbors.

      I am surprised the stock market isn’t much lower on open as we just demonstrated to the rest of the world our disdain for each other.

      1. Uncle Joe looking into the camera to ask for votes was creepy. It was so rehearsed it made him look like a puppet.

    2. Heh – great way to put it. I just got the news that Trump has the ‘rona.

      Told you we weren’t done with crazy yet.

  111. Interestingly, Biden did not denounce Antifa, instead saying “Antifa is an idea, not an organization”. And other times. So what, Biden supports the AntiFa riot, pillaging, burning, and killing idea?

    Quote from Ben Shapiro, 2020.09.02 at Townhall

    “Biden simply cannot condemn Antifa or BLM by name, because to do so would be to recognize two simple truths: first, that Trump isn’t the chief source of violence in American cities; second, that in spite of his “return to normalcy” message, Biden’s “systemic racism” narrative provides the ideological groundwork for those who seek to tear down the system.”

    AntiFa is to blame for the current burning the cities down per police chiefs.

    1. Yes. And Soros is equally responsible because he funded the DA’s that are turning jail doors into revolving doors.

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