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Look Fat, here's the deal.

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Rule 12 is downright irresponsible!

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It was a horrible debate. Trump was certainly rude but Biden lied just as much. Softer tone, but garbage still came out. Pre-existing conditions as the opener? Are you kidding me? Then Trump calls him a socialist and says the Green New Deal is $100T. Bottom line: good people won't run. James Mattis--a serious man of history--said "Let's be very clear, democracy is an experiment. That's all it is." There was nothing tonight to make a young talent aspire to become a leader. This was the opposite.

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Trump's performance was like a mammoth stuck in a tar pit bellowing at the other archaic beast.

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I don't know if I have enough alcohol in the house to follow these rules. I don't see the debate offering up any type of dialogue other than what you have listed in the rules.

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When I was in elementary school, sometimes boys would get in a fight over something like...a ball...and name-calling would start and then there would be a semi-violent, but not really violent brawl and both would get sent to the principal's office. Both would end up getting detention. That's what I watched last night, except the principal (Wallace) was nothing like Sister Carmella from my childhood. She would have shut that shit DOWN.

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Biden seems more belligerent than Trump but he might forget what he’s angry about and wander off. Trying to imagine Trump in a fistfight makes me gut-laugh. There’s a reason the guy won’t throw a starting pitch.

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The usual Taibbi brilliance.

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Do you want people to get alcohol poisoning.

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What if Trump whips out his little orange mushroom, pisses in a cup, and declares it “beautiful, perfect, amazing, clean” piss and dared Biden do the same? Thus becoming a literal televised pissing contest. With a schlongsuit competition.

Will Biden go full McConnell and call his “mule piss”?

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This is an awful lot of opportunity. Alcohol-poisoning-level opportunity.

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#13 is going to make it a short night.

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Feeling it today. Thanks Matt.

What a damn mess.

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I believe these are guidelines for "deaths of despair"

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I’m going to start drinking early. I need my debate legs!

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Where's Ralph to scold us for playing a drinking game while important things are going down?

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