Posted on 02/20/2020 9:45:33 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Forget Lincoln and Douglas. Forget Nixon and Kennedy. Hell, forget the Athenians and the Melians back during the Peloponnesian War. Last nights Democratic primary slagfest in Nevada was the greatest debate in all of human history.
Oh, was it glorious the sheer raging hostility spraying across the stage as every campaign besides the Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg bids faces the desperate possibility that each might fade into the woodwork against the Bernie surge and the Bloomberg billions.
Its not that the gloves were off. No, my friends, everybody was wearing steel-tipped boots and going right for the crotch. Those werent snowflakes. They were nunchucks.
Some priceless highlights:
Pete Buttigieg wagging his finger at Amy Klobuchar after she said shed made an error by forgetting the name of the president of Mexico in an interview.
Klobuchar wheeling on Buttigieg and demanding to know if he was trying to say she was dumb. Are you mocking me here, Pete?
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Let me script the counter ad:
How many NDA’s do _you_ have? ;-)
You want to see Warren and Bernie in a jello wrestling match with sex toys?
Tulsi I could imagine but Warren?
I think the moderators and the fellow debaters felt bad for Biden—Biden looked like an escaped nursing home resident who got lost on the stage...babbling incoherently...
Bob. Multi tasking. ...it’s a good thing. ..lol.
I watched Trump’s rally via the web, had the rat debate on TV (low volume) . and one finger on my FReeper keyboard. ...and was doing a few wash loads. ....
Haven’t had this much fun in years. ...good thing I don’t do those college drinking games anymore. ....
It was a hair pulling, eye gouging, food throwing, knife fight in a phone booth.
Call it what you want, but that was not a debate. It was a bitching and whining forum.
(copied) Debate is a process that involves formal discussion on a particular topic. In a debate, opposing arguments are put forward to argue for opposing viewpoints. It is a formal type of discussion, often with a moderator and an audience, in addition to the debate participants.
Logical consistency, factual accuracy and some degree of emotional appeal to the audience are elements in debating, where one side often prevails over the other party by presenting a superior “context” or framework of the issue. In a formal debating contest, there are rules for participants to discuss and decide on differences, within a framework defining how they will do it.
I used to do “off topic debating” in college. That is where the topic was not announced in advance, so no preparation was possible.
So, of course you had no facts so you just made up stuff!
That was closer to last night... ;-)
I said it’s to the death, who cares what they were armed with...lol.
Im not sorry I missed it.I was too busy watching President Trumps rally in Arizona on CSpan.
Love Hank.
Bloomberg and his arrogance thinks he won last night.
The fake Indian is chest pounding. ..
Bern Boy is feeling BURNED. ...aka That 70’s Show
PedoJoe is still on the stage waiting for the next question. ...
ButtPlug is wrapped in a blankie and sulking in his safe space. ..
KloButcher is still bitchy. ..
President Trump is on to Colorado and rally in a few hours. ..
Ryan Newman is home. ....
And today. ..Rush is on Fire.
One pundit nailed it.
Mike Bloomberg brought a wallet to a knife fight.
Needless to say, great TV! I bet MSNBC's ratings were out the roof. I would give the moderators an F if their objective was to allow candidates to distinguish themselves against their opponents and an A if their objective was to provoke heated and bitter insults being wielded like spiked clubs in as confusing format as possible.
Definitely one for the ages!
Well, if nothing else it sounds like it would have been entertaining to watch. Better than an NBA game by far.
One of the contestants (lamey clubcar?) suggested bloomee and sanDUHs do a cage match this weekend. We had a lof of laughs watching it. And if it were a jello filled cage match with sex toys, ‘peter’ would LUV him some of that.
Folding chairs would be nice.
Wow. It isn’t like she just didn’t recall, Amy was completely ignorant.
To the death though, to the death.
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