I watched the GOP debate tonight and I honestly don’t have much of a reaction. None of it made any sense. If I were to create a transcript from memory, it would look like I ripped it off from All in the Family. In other words, it would look a lot like this:
TRUMP: No bum that can’t speak poifect English oughta stay in this country…oughta be de-exported the hell outta here!
KASICH: (looks at Trump, then the camera) He’s got some grand strategy that he can’t revulge.
FIORINA: They’re picking bananas in Brazil and them Indians down there, they don’t care about what you look like.
RUBIO: (points at Fiorina) That woman is liable to come at you like a Doberman’s Pincher.
PAUL: (looks dismissively at Rubio) Don’t talk like an ignarosis.
BUSH: (says for no reason) Between here and Florida, ya got your original 48 states.
FIORINA: (turns to Bush) You made a certain referential remark there.
TRUMP: Sit right down there, seniorora.
CRUZ: (blurts out) The atheist religion don’t believe in the Bible!
CARSON: (sees something invisible on his podium) This is a Jewish cake! They give this to a Jewish kid before he gets circumscribed!
TRUMP: (gestures towards Carson) Raise him a Luferan if you want, raise him a Norman with 7 wives, a holy roller, a Seventh Day Adventurer…..
PAUL: I’d say that the Meathead (Carson) probably got magnesia and forgot where his mouth was.
KASICH: I’m half prostate in the heat.
FIORINA: The rules are written by the bureaucraps.
BUSH: It’s only the mercy of the lord I ain’t had a stroke already…and a coronary trombonus in the bargain.
PAUL: I hate to leave in the middle of all this hillerarity.
CARSON: (increasingly confused) Well, yous two may have come from monkeys and bamboons, but not me.
PAUL: (looks at Carson) ?????
TRUMP: (needs attention) I work for myself. I’m what ya call an “entramanure.”
KASICH: (to Trump) You ain’t got no qualifidations.
CARSON: (blurts out) There is an invason of my privates!
PAUL: (looks at Carson) ?????
BUSH: (considers his debate performance so far) I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.
KASICH: I’m suffering a little bit from smoke exhilaration.
RUBIO: (to Kasich) Dial 919.
CRUZ: I just want to take the opportunity to express my waddya call, gratitude and depreciation.
BUSH: (growing morose) One of these days I’m gonna dehead myself!
TRUMP: (to Bush) Stifle it, Edith!
In this context, it doesn’t make any sense to talk about who won. Nobody won.
Our nation is a joke.
This would be even funnier if it weren’t so painfully true
Comes close to another Hollywood production with illiterate screenwriting, as the military-industrial-complex runs
[interchangeable with ruins] US foreign policy and corporate pharma destructs basic health care.
Monsanto is somewhere in between all of this turmoil profiting from TPP and TTIP. So Trump has no idea to which treaty China
has committed itself, glad he knows the soul of Vladimir Putin after 60 Minutes just like George Bush did before him.
Is there an escape hatch to parachute outta here?
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driftglass’ transcript paraphrase along the same lines:
Incidentally, let the record show that a plausible GOP nominee has committed to letting the banks fail in future. Strange days; the terms of the Faustian bargain for the soul of the Republican party may be coming due.
Well I am too. TARP I & II were mass theft of the American public.
The banks should have DIED. The FDIC should have paid depositors up to and not beyond the statutory limit. Anyone who had say $500,000 in one bank deserved to be clipped for their folly. Instead the government guaranteed BONUSES of up to $100 million dollars to the casino managers.
DAMN! I feel the CEOs should have gone to the guillotine!
So, let the world economy go into a depression? Likely worse than 1929, if you let 40% of the US economy essentially die.
The problem wasn’t the bailout. The problem was how it was accomplished.
I haven’t really been paying attention, waiting for the real campaign with real candidates to begin.
Yes, indeed, these debates are really sharpening their skills! Stifle—if only it could be done.
But as for them making any sense, that is approaching these charades with an erroneous expectation. These are more like religious revival meetings—faith is the key, faith. Not sense. Not facts. Not knowledge. Only the bullshit of the conservative faith. That’s why the “moderators” cannot intervene in any of the ritual incantations of the faithful—it’s a sacred mystery and outsiders should simply observe it, respectfully.
We are indeed a joke as a nation, but hearing the primitive imbeciles of the “conservative” audience cheer wildly every militarist outburst makes painfully clear that we are a very dangerous joke nation.
I only managed to hang in there for about ten minutes.
Cruz praised the econ policies of Calvin Coolidge. (Boy that Hoover sure did a number on the economy in his first ten months in office.) (In another round Cruz promised to ax five agencies and then listed the five, only instead of “oops,” included Commerce twice.)
Carson cited the low minimum wage when he was young as the reason why he was able to get a job. Ergo, jobs will be plentiful for Black kids if the minimum wage is low. (1969 minimum wage in 2015 dollars = $10.58; current minimum wage $7.25 and Black youth employment is worse than ever.)
Paul – Income inequality is worse in states with DEM governors, then went off on a rant about the FED.
Black Knight at dKos: So Rand Paul’s prescription for income inequality to move to cities/states with GOP mayors/governors??
nexttime at dKos: paul: i know you’ve had problems losing weight. it could be your calorie intake, but have you ever thought about the federal reserve?
The bald guy asked Fiorina to explain why substantially more jobs were created under Clinton and Obama than under GWB. She responded with an anecdote about a woman with several children that she met who stays awake at night worrying about the future for her children. Then went on and delivered one of her mini-speeches about something else.
An army of fact-checkers couldn’t have kept up with the distortions, lies, and plain old-fashioned nonsense these guys dished out.
Correction — Hoover was inaugurated on March 4th and the Great Depression began that August and the stock market crash was in October. So, according to Cruz, he trashed the great Coolidge economy within six or seven months.