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Dems face last chance to stop Bernie. 8pm ET on CBS.
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Llllllettttt’s get ready to have a substantive debate on the ISSUUUUUUUES!
(i’m so debated- out, people)
And blueberries
I’m hoping Amy just slaps Pete silly like she’s wanted to all along.
Ha, a Bloomberg ad introduces debate
Gayle King’s wig makes my eyes itch.
Bernie disses Bloomberg in his first sentence.
Bernie didn’t really respond to Bloomberg’s dig about Putin helping his campaign.
Do the hard work Liz
Is Biden there?
ask and receive
Biden gets in, dings Bernie
Klondike Bars????
Is Amy there..
We’re having Samoa cookies and cashew nuts.
Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches
They walk out… And only Joe Biden doesn’t wave to the crowd.
South Carolina’s unemployment rate is 2.6%… Must be a lot of billionaires… Bernie is crazy…
Elizabeth Warren is counting on people who want a progressive who doesn’t love Castro…
Buttigieg is right about what Russia wants… And loved his pitch for cash…
Biden goes after Bernie… Looks stronger than he has in previous debates…
Is Amy in this debate?… Oh… there she is…
Damn, Liz rips Mike’s head off again
Biden not so much.
Just started watching …. are they only going to ask Bloomberg and Liz questions?
I dug the submarine song.
I love Amy…. too bad she won’t be the nominee.
I’ve played their debate venue. Nice acoustics.
I wish the procedure would be to ask one candidate a question, allow an uninterrupted answer for 2 minutes and give each other person a minute to comment on that …. I am tired of this type of debate format.
I absolutely hate seeing them raise their hands like school kids.
I love Amy too.
Craig… agree!
agree with you Craig
Biden on fire
is it too late to move this debate to ABC?
Biden is a big entitled asshole
IT MATTERS IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET THINGS DONE!!
i’ll change it back after the debate, Mr. S!
Bernie is a big entitled asshole… fixed your typo.
“i bought…”. whoops, mike
choosing hope over fear ….. good slogan
Thanks RR
so far Amy is the winner
Liz so good, NBC so terrible
So far, I think everyone is losing
zero commercials in the official cbs feed i posted in the first comment, just a live shot of auditorium
I’m sitting this debase out. There are at least two too many on the stage. From now on there’d better be just Democrats, or as a viewer I’m going on strike.
I’m giving money to the fillies in this horse race. The colts and geldings be damned.
I raise a glass of Pinot noir to you KGC… none for you, Craig.
1pt for Biden Bloomberg Warren Amy Pete so far
-.5 point for Warren Buttigieg Bloomberg
Pete shoots and SCORES with his down ballot comment. Democrats are running from Bernie.
Go Biden! “I’m gonna talk!” The fire could help him win South Carolina.
Bernie gets booed! That made me happy.
Warren continues to push that she is the progressive who can win who isn’t Bernie.
I like Amy, but her debate performance is not moving the needle in these states. But she is right – she has a better track record getting things done.
Is anyone going to mention that Bernie is a Castro-Sandinista loving Communist who honeymooned in Moscow?
You haven’t missed anything, yet, xrep
omg pete so eager to recite his lines he practiced in front of a mirror🙄
GO Pete on the ban on sale of weapons and nice point “what I trained on when I served in the military”
I am starting to think Amy’s inability to breakout maybe due sexism
RR
old vine zin here
”I am starting to think Amy’s inability to breakout maybe due sexism“
Liz too, especially from other females
im having some of Flatus’ brandy. Thanks, Mr. F!
Just for South Carolina : rum and water.
Lose the moderators, they always just get in the way of real debating
Liz is over waiting to be recognized by raising her hand …. she just jumps in!!
Bloomberg’s voice is really high-pitched, and nasal. Not sure I want to listen to that for 4 years.
Don’t go away mad Tom Steyer, just go away
Aw shit Steyer just went “400 years”
Bink
Liz too
Great answer from Amy on the question about health care in rural areas
lol his “frederick douglass plan” what a tool
Nobody has put a real dent in Bernie, only thing that would matter tonight.
i wish Amy could start as strong as she finishes
yeah so ill never see a woman President in my lifetime- men are too terrified of being called out on their shit
Sanders winning again by not getting picked on enough. Why are they afraid of him? Political malpractice.
“Frederick Douglas Plan” I just realized who Mayor Pete reminds me of— Eddie Haskell. (I missed the first hour; got hung up on PBS genealogy show.)
I have a question: Is this debate on local CBS stations or just on streaming?
lol BiD stop making me laugh im still mad at you grrr
Didn’t realize I could’ve watched the live stream of CBS on my phone at the same time.
I think the best presidential voices would be like Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Della Reece or Julie London.
The reason I ask is that the local South Texas CBS station is airing 3 hours of home gardening / how to grow melon shows – while the cable guide says the debate is on.
It’s on the Boston CBS station for me.
More taking credit for others people work
Sen Feinstein is considered by most people as the architect of the assault weapons ban
Biden tells lots of porkies
lol dvitale3000- classic Republican electioneering via control of information-channels, ty for sharing that
I know Joe is trying to be more energetic and passionate but it’s coming across too angry.
Finally someone trying to hit Bernie on his China praise. His response? Infuckingcomprehensible. You go, Joe. Fuck him.
”it’s coming across to angry.”
who cares? everyone’s angry.
You go, Pete. Nail Bernie!
go away Pete
Go Amy!
Pete set the nail, raised the hammer, and then offered no solutions, like always, Pogo
Bink, so long as he directs his fire at Bernie he can stay. By directs his fire I mean calls him out on his own positions.
Joe is doing well
Pete’s the guy who shows up at the job-site, criticizes everyone’s work, then goes for lunch and cocktails
These folks should fire their coaches and just watch 8 hours of the master Bill Clinton debating.
Bink – Not everyone is angry. Bernie is sick and tired.
Is that Bernie coughing? That’s a sign of heart issues.
Bink, I think so.
Steyer is a bit of a truth teller. I think he serves a purpose. He won’t be the nominee but he’s a voice that speaks at the right times.
btw, Better put a pressure gauge on Bernie. I think he may blow a gasket.
ok obviously everyone reads “trailmix”
For somebody so smart Mike weirdly comes across like he’s thinking through every issue for the first time.
Amy, We don’t know that he tweets in his bathrobe.
Trump “in his bath robe” – – no thanks Amy, now I can’t get that image out of my head.
Worst moderated debate this season.
Hate to say it but Joe’s past his bedtime.
BiD, yep. This 75 second format absolutely sux.
Nice pivot Pete made from mass murder question to attacking Bernie’s Medicare plan.
…is it too late to move this debate to ABC?
Yeah that’s awesome how he can’t give a straight answer, CC
…love ya, Pete! Will vote for you if you’re the eventual nominee!
Words you live by. Hmmm. Isn’t that the thing they do at beauty pageants? Can’t wait for Mayor Pete’s response; a giant sucking sound trying to be everything to everyone without being anything at all.
Moderated debates all suck. Best debate I ever saw was CA gov with Schwarzenegger that had no moderator.
OMG BiD it’s gonna be a platitude-explodion. $10 says he quotes Maya Angelou
Edward R. Murrow, Eric Severeid and Walter Cronkite all spinning in their graves ?
I’m not hating Mike.
Biden charmed me tonight
“everyone deserves to be treated with dignity”
fuckin’-A right
Biden promising a black woman justice seemed a bit pandering.
Pete just copied off of Liz’s paper for his motto!
Joe had his best debate, took long enough.
ok im out another $10 though
Craig, you’re on a roll. Got a little special ingredient in those sandwiches?? LOL…some funny stuff!
Bernie is a deft debater. My guess is Trump won’t do any debates.
Still very happy I voted for Warren. Did they do any damage to Bernie?
3 good debates in a row for Joe, CC. if you didnt vacillate so much maybe you’d have noticed
Bernie didn’t do great but CC is right that he didn’t take much heat
Terrible job, as usual, NBC
I’ll be damned if I’ll treat ‘both sides’ with dignity.
That’s trump’s bs on the Charlottesville murder.
Hmmm, noticed Mike made a bee line to Amy for a friendly chat in front of cameras.
Bloomberg ads ran on CBS before and after debate.
…that’s not what he meant, xrep, and you know it
Yay back to Saturday’s thread to listen to the new Tame Impala album (so good), giving up TrailMix for Lent, goodbye forever!
Craig, I think the same thing. The dictator will not debate. He won’t be able to circle Bernie like a big, fat shark like he did with Hillary.
Will trump duck the debates ? Remember his stalker routine from ’16 ? Maybe the Dem will refuse to share a stage with him unless she can carry a stun gun or cattle prod.
Bink, give up chocolate. Get yer ass back here. You’re the whippersnapper we need to keep us old farts honest.
Let’s hope SNL gives Bernie the business this weekend. Maybe that’ll slap some sense into his folks before Super Tuesday. It really does have an impact. The year there was a writers’ strike; letting Trumpsky host; WU. It may seem silly, but it does matter.
Forever is a long time.
Stock up on water and canned goods so you don’t have to go out in case of an outbreak. Chocolate, too.
Bernie popped a few lines tonight that could wind up in GOP attack ads. I’ll have to review transcript but sounded like he was more critical of past US policy than authoritarian regimes.
😐
Of course I know it Mr Bink. I’d like dignity for all, too. But, I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more !*
*Credit Paddy Chayefsky.
Fare well, Mr Bink.
I bid thee sweet dreams and restful. Evade the virus, and so arise strong and ready to smite the day from weasand to fetlocks with all thy oomph.
That goes for the Rest of Ye, yea, whether Thou beist Trail Hands or Lurkers at the Threshold.
WaPo claims Warren and Biden were the winners; Bloomberg, Sanders and the moderators were the losers.
modi’s evil brownshorts have taken over the streets, setting fire to mosques and murdering Muslims. So much for the ‘toleration’ trump praised modi for displaying.
How ’bout if some smart candidate finally tells us that bernie! can’t beat trump. You see, trump is running for president of the US, while bernie! is only running to improve castro’s image.
I was finally able to get a good nights sleep when I saw the movie Gandhi.
It was like homage to Satyajit Ray’s most tedious film. Not Bicycle Thief, that one was too lively. I mean the one where we spend several decades watching a guy and his ox plow one furrow. Distant Thunder, maybe ? I get sleepy just thinking about it.
By the end of Gandhi I was ready to scream, “Don’t shoot him ! Shoot the Director !”
…great movie, great scene. ok, Flatus’ very special brandy is kicking in, love you all, let’s not go insane, goodbye forever, see you tomorrow
…live stream of debate was here
Bloomberg did his debate prep in Orlando, so I’m rooting for him. https://politi.co/2wLbRMv
Captain! Captain!
We are having artichokes for our debate snacks
We’re having ice cream sandwiches.
Llllllettttt’s get ready to have a substantive debate on the ISSUUUUUUUES!
(i’m so debated- out, people)
And blueberries
I’m hoping Amy just slaps Pete silly like she’s wanted to all along.
Ha, a Bloomberg ad introduces debate
Gayle King’s wig makes my eyes itch.
Bernie disses Bloomberg in his first sentence.
Bernie didn’t really respond to Bloomberg’s dig about Putin helping his campaign.
Do the hard work Liz
Is Biden there?
ask and receive
Biden gets in, dings Bernie
Klondike Bars????
Is Amy there..
We’re having Samoa cookies and cashew nuts.
Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches
They walk out… And only Joe Biden doesn’t wave to the crowd.
South Carolina’s unemployment rate is 2.6%… Must be a lot of billionaires… Bernie is crazy…
Elizabeth Warren is counting on people who want a progressive who doesn’t love Castro…
Buttigieg is right about what Russia wants… And loved his pitch for cash…
Biden goes after Bernie… Looks stronger than he has in previous debates…
Is Amy in this debate?… Oh… there she is…
Damn, Liz rips Mike’s head off again
Biden not so much.
Just started watching …. are they only going to ask Bloomberg and Liz questions?
I dug the submarine song.
I love Amy…. too bad she won’t be the nominee.
I’ve played their debate venue. Nice acoustics.
I wish the procedure would be to ask one candidate a question, allow an uninterrupted answer for 2 minutes and give each other person a minute to comment on that …. I am tired of this type of debate format.
I absolutely hate seeing them raise their hands like school kids.
I love Amy too.
Craig… agree!
agree with you Craig
Biden on fire
is it too late to move this debate to ABC?
Biden is a big entitled asshole
IT MATTERS IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET THINGS DONE!!
i’ll change it back after the debate, Mr. S!
Bernie is a big entitled asshole… fixed your typo.
“i bought…”. whoops, mike
choosing hope over fear ….. good slogan
Thanks RR
so far Amy is the winner
Liz so good, NBC so terrible
So far, I think everyone is losing
zero commercials in the official cbs feed i posted in the first comment, just a live shot of auditorium
I’m sitting this debase out. There are at least two too many on the stage. From now on there’d better be just Democrats, or as a viewer I’m going on strike.
I’m giving money to the fillies in this horse race. The colts and geldings be damned.
I raise a glass of Pinot noir to you KGC… none for you, Craig.
1pt for Biden Bloomberg Warren Amy Pete so far
-.5 point for Warren Buttigieg Bloomberg
Pete shoots and SCORES with his down ballot comment. Democrats are running from Bernie.
Go Biden! “I’m gonna talk!” The fire could help him win South Carolina.
Bernie gets booed! That made me happy.
Warren continues to push that she is the progressive who can win who isn’t Bernie.
I like Amy, but her debate performance is not moving the needle in these states. But she is right – she has a better track record getting things done.
Is anyone going to mention that Bernie is a Castro-Sandinista loving Communist who honeymooned in Moscow?
You haven’t missed anything, yet, xrep
omg pete so eager to recite his lines he practiced in front of a mirror🙄
Florida Democrats sue to keep Bernie off ballothttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/25/florida-democrats-sue-keep-bernie-sanders-primary-/
Sounds like Mike stacked the crowd
GO Pete on the ban on sale of weapons and nice point “what I trained on when I served in the military”
I am starting to think Amy’s inability to breakout maybe due sexism
RR
old vine zin here
”I am starting to think Amy’s inability to breakout maybe due sexism“
Liz too, especially from other females
im having some of Flatus’ brandy. Thanks, Mr. F!
Just for South Carolina : rum and water.
Lose the moderators, they always just get in the way of real debating
Liz is over waiting to be recognized by raising her hand …. she just jumps in!!
Bloomberg’s voice is really high-pitched, and nasal. Not sure I want to listen to that for 4 years.
Don’t go away mad Tom Steyer, just go away
Aw shit Steyer just went “400 years”
Bink
Liz too
Great answer from Amy on the question about health care in rural areas
lol his “frederick douglass plan” what a tool
Nobody has put a real dent in Bernie, only thing that would matter tonight.
i wish Amy could start as strong as she finishes
yeah so ill never see a woman President in my lifetime- men are too terrified of being called out on their shit
Sanders winning again by not getting picked on enough. Why are they afraid of him? Political malpractice.
“Frederick Douglas Plan” I just realized who Mayor Pete reminds me of— Eddie Haskell. (I missed the first hour; got hung up on PBS genealogy show.)
I have a question: Is this debate on local CBS stations or just on streaming?
lol BiD stop making me laugh im still mad at you grrr
Didn’t realize I could’ve watched the live stream of CBS on my phone at the same time.
I think the best presidential voices would be like Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Della Reece or Julie London.
The reason I ask is that the local South Texas CBS station is airing 3 hours of home gardening / how to grow melon shows – while the cable guide says the debate is on.
It’s on the Boston CBS station for me.
More taking credit for others people work
Sen Feinstein is considered by most people as the architect of the assault weapons ban
Biden tells lots of porkies
lol dvitale3000- classic Republican electioneering via control of information-channels, ty for sharing that
I know Joe is trying to be more energetic and passionate but it’s coming across too angry.
Finally someone trying to hit Bernie on his China praise. His response? Infuckingcomprehensible. You go, Joe. Fuck him.
”it’s coming across to angry.”
who cares? everyone’s angry.
You go, Pete. Nail Bernie!
go away Pete
Go Amy!
Pete set the nail, raised the hammer, and then offered no solutions, like always, Pogo
Bink, so long as he directs his fire at Bernie he can stay. By directs his fire I mean calls him out on his own positions.
Joe is doing well
Pete’s the guy who shows up at the job-site, criticizes everyone’s work, then goes for lunch and cocktails
These folks should fire their coaches and just watch 8 hours of the master Bill Clinton debating.
Bink – Not everyone is angry. Bernie is sick and tired.
Is that Bernie coughing? That’s a sign of heart issues.
Bink, I think so.
Steyer is a bit of a truth teller. I think he serves a purpose. He won’t be the nominee but he’s a voice that speaks at the right times.
btw, Better put a pressure gauge on Bernie. I think he may blow a gasket.
ok obviously everyone reads “trailmix”
For somebody so smart Mike weirdly comes across like he’s thinking through every issue for the first time.
Amy, We don’t know that he tweets in his bathrobe.
Trump “in his bath robe” – – no thanks Amy, now I can’t get that image out of my head.
Worst moderated debate this season.
Hate to say it but Joe’s past his bedtime.
BiD, yep. This 75 second format absolutely sux.
Nice pivot Pete made from mass murder question to attacking Bernie’s Medicare plan.
…is it too late to move this debate to ABC?
Yeah that’s awesome how he can’t give a straight answer, CC
…love ya, Pete! Will vote for you if you’re the eventual nominee!
Words you live by. Hmmm. Isn’t that the thing they do at beauty pageants? Can’t wait for Mayor Pete’s response; a giant sucking sound trying to be everything to everyone without being anything at all.
Moderated debates all suck. Best debate I ever saw was CA gov with Schwarzenegger that had no moderator.
OMG BiD it’s gonna be a platitude-explodion. $10 says he quotes Maya Angelou
Edward R. Murrow, Eric Severeid and Walter Cronkite all spinning in their graves ?
I’m not hating Mike.
Biden charmed me tonight
“everyone deserves to be treated with dignity”
fuckin’-A right
Biden promising a black woman justice seemed a bit pandering.
Pete just copied off of Liz’s paper for his motto!
Joe had his best debate, took long enough.
ok im out another $10 though
Craig, you’re on a roll. Got a little special ingredient in those sandwiches?? LOL…some funny stuff!
Bernie is a deft debater. My guess is Trump won’t do any debates.
Still very happy I voted for Warren. Did they do any damage to Bernie?
3 good debates in a row for Joe, CC. if you didnt vacillate so much maybe you’d have noticed
Bernie didn’t do great but CC is right that he didn’t take much heat
Terrible job, as usual, NBC
I’ll be damned if I’ll treat ‘both sides’ with dignity.
That’s trump’s bs on the Charlottesville murder.
Hmmm, noticed Mike made a bee line to Amy for a friendly chat in front of cameras.
Bloomberg ads ran on CBS before and after debate.
…that’s not what he meant, xrep, and you know it
Yay back to Saturday’s thread to listen to the new Tame Impala album (so good), giving up TrailMix for Lent, goodbye forever!
Craig, I think the same thing. The dictator will not debate. He won’t be able to circle Bernie like a big, fat shark like he did with Hillary.
Will trump duck the debates ? Remember his stalker routine from ’16 ? Maybe the Dem will refuse to share a stage with him unless she can carry a stun gun or cattle prod.
Bink, give up chocolate. Get yer ass back here. You’re the whippersnapper we need to keep us old farts honest.
Let’s hope SNL gives Bernie the business this weekend. Maybe that’ll slap some sense into his folks before Super Tuesday. It really does have an impact. The year there was a writers’ strike; letting Trumpsky host; WU. It may seem silly, but it does matter.
Forever is a long time.
Stock up on water and canned goods so you don’t have to go out in case of an outbreak. Chocolate, too.
Bernie popped a few lines tonight that could wind up in GOP attack ads. I’ll have to review transcript but sounded like he was more critical of past US policy than authoritarian regimes.
😐
Of course I know it Mr Bink. I’d like dignity for all, too. But, I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more !*
*Credit Paddy Chayefsky.
Fare well, Mr Bink.
I bid thee sweet dreams and restful. Evade the virus, and so arise strong and ready to smite the day from weasand to fetlocks with all thy oomph.
That goes for the Rest of Ye, yea, whether Thou beist Trail Hands or Lurkers at the Threshold.
WaPo claims Warren and Biden were the winners; Bloomberg, Sanders and the moderators were the losers.
modi’s evil brownshorts have taken over the streets, setting fire to mosques and murdering Muslims. So much for the ‘toleration’ trump praised modi for displaying.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/worst-communal-violence-in-delhi-in-decades-leaves-13-dead-as-trump-visits-india/ar-BB10nNim
i watch too many movies
How ’bout if some smart candidate finally tells us that bernie! can’t beat trump. You see, trump is running for president of the US, while bernie! is only running to improve castro’s image.
I was finally able to get a good nights sleep when I saw the movie Gandhi.
It was like homage to Satyajit Ray’s most tedious film. Not Bicycle Thief, that one was too lively. I mean the one where we spend several decades watching a guy and his ox plow one furrow. Distant Thunder, maybe ? I get sleepy just thinking about it.
By the end of Gandhi I was ready to scream, “Don’t shoot him ! Shoot the Director !”
…great movie, great scene. ok, Flatus’ very special brandy is kicking in, love you all, let’s not go insane, goodbye forever, see you tomorrow
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