Vice Presidential Debate Live Thread (with links)

.......... nah, I can't be bothered either.

And these two definitely can't be bothered.
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Is it me, or is this the most painfully awful election campaign ever.

Please make it stop.

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riverlover's picture

Best choice, just don't let us know.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Shahryar's picture

I'd sort of like to see a summary but no, I'm not interested in listening.

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Shockwave's picture

IMO Kaine is winning on points. Pence as VP is scary.

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The political revolution continues

Many years ago, while screaming at the TeeVee during one of Dubyah's State of the Union™ speeches, I noticed the dog had disappeared. I stopped screaming and found him cowering behind the couch. That dog is long gone, but I'd scare his successor even worse were I to watch any of this year's debates.

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Salutations.

WoodsDweller's picture

has a very good chance of running the country. Kaine if Clinton wins and her health fails, Pence because Trump won't do a damned thing besides stand in front of the cameras and brought Pence on board to be "ghost President". So I suppose this VP debate matters more than most.

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elenacarlena's picture

More pooties sleeping:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8XtxpenGdc width:500]

I peeked in on the livestream. Kaine interrupts constantly and seems smug. They're talking Russia, as if any voter really cares. They're both making decent points but I don't know who has the facts and who is just making it up as he goes. Gack.

Back to cats.

Big cat songs!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZm52nvBB4 width:500]

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Thanks for the much-needed kitty relief, especially Garfield Yoga-Cat, who I would like to nominate for the US Vice Presidential position, if I only could.

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A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

elenacarlena's picture

the VP we're likely to end up with.

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The political revolution continues

But the movement of a butterfly's wings - possibly assisted by a soon-coming Koala sneeze - can stir a storm of giggle across the globe...

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would make me sneeze! That is one amazingly bold butterfly and tolerant koala, though.

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KenInCO's picture

I guess I wasn't the only one who chose Netflix and a little nap over listening to those two talk. Couldn't stomach Clinton and Trump, either.

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I'm only here for the cute animal videos, myself.

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elenacarlena's picture

Best debate livestream we've had, IMHO.

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Alphalop's picture

Teeheehee

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elenacarlena's picture

You do good serious livestreams. Sometimes we just have to check out instead, and this is a good silly livestream for this occasion.

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Alphalop's picture

of the thread. Smile

I couldn't even be bothered to watch it either.

Gotta save my strength for the next debate between the real Deplorables. Smile

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elenacarlena's picture

Looks like the number will be about 40 million, less than half the first Pres debate at 84 million, less than the 2004, 2008 or 2012 VP debates. The most popular VP debate was Biden/Palin at about 70 million. http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/vp-debate-ratings-down-fr...

This shows once again what egotists the front-runners are, that they choose the most unexciting VP candidates in history. Heaven forbid someone should outshine the boss! Imagine the ratings if it had been Liz Warren or Bernie vs. Ted Cruz or Chris Christie or even John Kasich.

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snoopydawg's picture

I'm watching NCIS and the Blacklist
I could care less about either of them or the other two. Nothing anyone says is going to happen.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.

KenInCO's picture

I'll probably watch season 2 of Narcos next. Haven't gotten around to Better Call Saul yet, either.

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Hawkfish's picture

Plus a moderate snort of rye.

Ajuma called them on their crap. Best line from him was when he said it was hard to watch them being so disrespectful to the woman moderator. He also actually answered a question about North Korea when the other two went down some rabbit hole.

I thought Kaine was less together than Pence. But both are scary.

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elenacarlena's picture

I think I'll do that next time, if they have Jill on there when the other two go at it again.

Good for Ajamu, sticking up for the moderator! I didn't go back to look after the little clip I saw, but I noticed that too.

I don't like it when they interrupt each other unless one is over their time limit. I want to know where both stand on the issues. I think my mind is made up, but it's possible one of them could change my mind. Much less likely if they're going to talk at the same time so they're both incomprehensible.

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Hawkfish's picture

I would kill for some of his ties.

The other two wore these garish shiny things. Their campaigns are rolling in cash - why they can't afford better outfits is beyond me.

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elenacarlena's picture

wear the blue tie? It was a tad confusing.

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Hawkfish's picture

Big blue tie. And didn't Hellery wear a red pantsuit? Is this some sort of focus group/confuse the uninformed thing?

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k9disc's picture

I would have most likely had an aneurysm.

Mike Fucking Pence! Tim Fucking Kaine. WTF!?

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

Fucking's too good for them. They don't deserve fucking.

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karl pearson's picture

Both Kaine and Pence were good debaters and did their job; however, Kaine interrupted too much. Pence appeared calm to me and not as high-strung as Kaine, who smirked sometimes. I'm sure Kaine took orders from Hillary to really come on strong. I think that was a mistake, but Hillary did the same thing to Bernie Sanders during their debates. CNN's poll: Pence 48% Kaine 42%

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Sister Havana's picture

Chaplin approves.

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Alex Ocana's picture

I am just watching a Bananaquit debating with a Lesser Antillean Bullfinch over the proper use of bread crumbs. The Anole lizard is the moderator. Both birds agreed, "Whatever is best for the babies." "We want more breadcrumbs!"

Bananaquits like bananas more than breadcrumbs and are more secretive than the Bullfinch. They disagreed on the economy. Bullfinch thinks a bakery would be the way to go. Bananaquit prefers a banana plantation economy.

The bullfinches are people birds, like cattle egrets are cattle birds. Bullfinch thinks transparency would solve the problem and Bananaquit prefers a heavier tree branch quota near my work table.

For now it looks like the Bullfinch won the debate... His cinammon colored cumberbund was more effective than Bananaquits yellow chest suit.

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