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It’s been a full three weeks since the last Republican debate, and hopefully you’ve recovered from the intense hangover you battled the next day if you upped your enjoyment of politics by coupling it with an old-fashioned drinking game. Because tonight is the night the other side of the aisle gets to try take down Hillary Clinton debate the issues.
CNN’s debate will have Hillary, Bernie and the three other candidates that no one knows taking the stage in Las Vegas to answer questions from Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Dana Bash and Juan Carlos Lopez. Since Facebook is co-sponsoring the debate, regular folks can suggest questions via Facebook and Instagram. And no, Donald Trump, “Hillary, do you know how ugly your face is?” is not a legitimate question, so quit submitting it.
Speaking of the Donald, we all know that this debate is likely to be a snoozefest without him yelling about whatever while the other candidates stare at him with a mix of confusion and bitchy side-eye. So if you’re committed to watching the Dems debate, what better way to go up on a Tuesday than with a little left-wing drinking game?
Take a drink each time…
A Republican candidate other than Trump is mentioned.
Bernie mentions “inequality.”
Chafee, O’Malley or Webb actually get a word in.
Hillary does that weird hyena laugh she’s got going on.
The words “Benghzai” or “email” are uttered.
Ditto for “middle-class.”
And “black lives matter.”
Anderson Cooper tries to politely cut a candidate off when they’ve go over time.
The camera pans to a semi-attractive person in the audience.
A candidate starts a sentence with “On day one…”
Someone mentions their “experience.”
Finish your beer if…
Trump says something racist/sexist/any other –ist while live-Tweeting the debate.
Martin O’Malley starts randomly planking.
Yes that's @MartinOMalley planking and reading his iPad in our Campaign story today pic.twitter.com/m5trJAnJQj
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) October 6, 2015
Someone mentions “Mrs. Clinton’s husband.”
Bernie looks like a confused absent-minded professor.
Chafee, O’Malley or Webb reminds you of their old jobs. (Governor of Rhode Island, Governor of Maryland and Senator from Virginia, for your reference)
Someone you follow refers to Anderson Cooper as a “silver fox” while tweeting about the debate.
A candidate says “What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas” and thinks it’s funny.
The fact that Webb used to be a Republican is mentioned.
Or Webb reminds us that he worked for Ronald Reagan.
A candidate brings up gun control and then looks panicked.
Hillary fakes a southern accent.
Guzzle massive quantities of vodka if…
Joe Biden declares his candidacy and struts onto the stage like a boss. Things are about to get real interesting up in here.
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Unrelated, but can we agree that its time they bring back Global Guts?
And Legends of the Hidden Temple.
Any candidate that runs on that platform I’m voting for.
I have asked a lot of people this question lately, but let’s see if anyone here has an answer. Why in the world would you vote for Bernie Sanders?
Because what he’s selling sounds pretty and the majority is, unfortunately, most uninformed.
I’m still trying to figure out how his whole “free tuition” thing works. I’m sure we’ll be footing that bill.
As if freely available federal loans for tuition didn’t already jack up tuition costs, just wait until the government offers to pay the whole thing.
Probably cuts to defense spending and hopefully, cuts to shitty countries that don’t like us anyway. Funny, we as tax payers pay for Israel’s free college tuition. Personally, I believe public education should be available to those that merit it. We used to subsidize our education a lot more until our good friends, the baby boomers, cut the funding. My college tuition at a land grant univ. went up 5.5k from freshman to senior year.
Free tuition was estimated at 70B. Going to need a lot more than the 50B to foreign aid (across all countries/causes). What’s the point of more college graduates when so many don’t obtain gainful employment with a degree as-is?
That is the problem though, that little word merit. Who decides who merits education? Our society places way too much importance on “everybody gets a ribbon” for me to have any faith in that sort of system.
I do agree though, that it would be nice.
The same people who decide merit today; university’s admission boards. People don’t read the end of his statements where he insists that admission to college won’t change. You still have to have the grades to get in. If you’re a fuck up in high school, you aren’t getting any money for college.
Admissions won’t change? Public universities will admit up to capacity. Drop out, no big deal, bill was covered. No skin off big U to add more undeclared freshmen into already giant classes. On-campus housing a problem? Free tuition and let them “commute.”
National ranking of school goes down, nobody wants to go there anymore. School closes.
Land grant and public universities have a duty to the people of the state (look at the mission statements). As someone that has worked in academia as well as for a large land grant university, it is in the best interest of the people to have the most qualified students. Better students = more grants and research for the university. Prestige goes up. As Cube said, admitting stupid shit people in will only hurt the school, it allows the school to be more selective and it puts those that are more tradesman material where they need to be. Make it affordable to go to college, not 8% plans that take 20 years to pay back. It is modern indentured service. Fostering education in people that are capable but not able due to $ only helps our country.
I agree that not much will change for top tier colleges, but there are a lot of schools out there. My loans were at 6.5% or whatever, get a degree that you can actually pay them off with (which I did a few years back) and they’re not a problem. Asking the public to subsidize degrees that aren’t profitable as-is just seems asinine.
While I agree individuals should be earning a degree that will help them attain their goals and allow them to be paid enough to pay off the loans, the problem with your thought then becomes who gets to determine what degree is worth more than the other?
The market… free education across the board minimizes a major incentive to get a degree that pays itself off. It’s not hard to see that you don’t do art history if you don’t want to be handicapped by loans until you’re 35.
Art history majors are being offered by schools currently though because there is a demand for it. You can’t be telling people “Oh, it’s great that you have a dream to be the curator at the Lourve, but Tommy’s dream over there to be an accountant is more important than yours.”
There’s demand from students, not in the job market. Do you think Tommy loves accounting more than he’d love looking at all the ass in art history class while making a Chinese pot or some shit? Nah, but Tommy knows he needs to make money after graduation to pay off his loans because he’s not a hot white chick with a vagina.
If someone wants to flirt with poverty by majoring in art history that’s their choice.
Absolutely not, but don’t be surprised when Tommy starts paying off his debts at 22, and you are going back to grad school accruing more.
There was an interesting article in The Atlantic that compared the cost of what it would take for government to offer “free” college to everyone versus what government spends on educational loans. They’re surprisingly close: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/heres-exactly-how-much-the-government-would-have-to-spend-to-make-public-college-tuition-free/282803/
It would require a complete overhaul of how government treats college funding, but given how predatory student loans are, I’m kind of okay with the government not making money off of them anymore. But it’s also probably something that a president would have to start with in his honeymoon period, otherwise it won’t get done.
Bernie has a lot of whacky and wonky ideas about government spending, but this is one that makes sense. You’d still have to apply and get accepted into college, and private universities would still be an option, but a better educated population is a good thing, especially when it’s one that can use their funds to stimulate the economy (houses, cars, other large purchases) rather than pay off a ridiculously high loan that eats into savings.
Yes it would be great to have a more educated population, but at the same time most universities push more left and liberal agendas. By giving more access to universities you then get essentially a liberal breeding ground.
End of the day it will never happen, nothing is free, some people will always want things to be free and not understand that it is completely impossible. Someone is always paying.
If that happens get ready for all your hard earned degrees to be worthless
I pray for the day Joe Biden enters the race. At least he’s likable.
I’d definitely grab drinks with Biden. Can’t say the same about the others. Bernie would insist that the bartender fill all the women and minorities’ drink orders first. Hillary would take forever to choose what she wants to drink and then change her order at least twice.
Bernie would insist 10% of the bar pays for everyone else’s tab. Hillary would be the person who sends her drink back and tries to get out of paying for it. Then again, not much on the right seems a whole lot better.
I’d like to see Christie, Jeb, or Kasich to get the nomination. I realize not a lot of people like Christie, but I’ve met him and he’s actually a pretty cool guy. However, I’d say Jeb with Kasich as Vice is our best chance to beat Hillary since they’re both governors of swing states.
Kasich is my guy right now. He’s logical and actually has a good record. He doesn’t really have any big weak spot. The primary is the real problem because he’s far to moderate (see: reasonable and realistic) so long as idiots like Trump, Carson, Cruz, Huckabee etc are still around spewing nonsense.
I’d much prefer Rubio and Kasich.
Unfortunately that won’t happen until people wise up and get rid of Carson and Trump. As long as those two are still in the race, the GOP can’t produce a viable candidate.
Until further notice, Fiorina has my support (because Rand and Cruz are unelectable). Loved watching her take Trumps lunch money. I think she may be the smartest one in the room.
Fiorina is just as bad as Trump. As far as I can tell, her allegations against Planned Parenthood hold no water. I don’t smoke weed, but it’s also a proven fact that weed is less dangerous than alcohol. She also doesn’t have enough (any) political experience. Kasich 2016.
I’m a Cruz fan, but I don’t have any hope that he gets the nomination. He focuses way too much on social issues for that.
I like him though because I think he probably would follow the constitution better than anyone, and limit the POTUS’s power back to what it is supposed to be for the first time in 20 years.
Cruz was born in Canada. I firmly believe a POTUS should be born in the United States or on an American military base.
Fiorina is not electable. Her business record at HP really is bad and she’s literally making things up when it comes to Planned Parenthood, which is a ridiculous issue to begin with.
Biden makes me dream (political) golf foursome. Biden, Bubba Clinton, John Boehner three days into a bender, and myself.
Just please no Bernie
Likable my ass, Biden wants all my guns and I paid good money for those.
Hopefully Jim Webb can get going.
Half hour in and I AM DRUNK.
Chafee used to be a Republican, not Webb. He was a Republican Senator from RI actually, before he was their Independent Governor, and now Democratic POTUS candidate probably just there to sell a book or something.
Webb used to work in the Reagan Admin as Sec of the Navy. He should be an Independent though because he’s way too good and reasonable of a person for either major party. I’d probably vote for him over any Republican running, besides Rand Paul. But unfortunately our party system sucks, and neither of those men have a chance.
I won’t be watching, I’ll we watching baseball, and finishing my beer regardless if the Mets win or lose. Though it’ll be a nicer beer if they win.
Chafee was a Republican, not Webb. Chafee was a Republican Senator, then an Independent Governor, now a Dem POTUS candidate.
Drink every time you feel your taxes increase…
First I am democrat. That being said I’m guessing you support the Hillary the way she was introduced. I really don’t think she gets the nomination after all of the debates. If she does she will lose. Here’s hope the Pant Suit looses .
Also you I will play this and be hammered by the end so either way it’s a win, win.
Are you certain you aren’t already drunk?