Alpha's Florida Democratic Debate Live Blog
Submitted by Alphalop on Wed, 03/09/2016 - 4:30pm
Tonight I will be doing another live blog since I had so much fun doing last nights MI Election one!
I will start probably 30 minutes or so (appx 8:30 EST) before the commencement of the debate and hope to see a bunch of you there!
Keep feeling the BERN and catch you guys and gals in a few hours!
Have an Amazing day and remember to:
(Now I am off to smoke some meat!) 
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Liveblogging a debate — now that's a challenge, Alpha.
It's a couple of dimensions above numerical election returns.
But you made those numbers so damned interesting….
I wouldn't miss it for the world.
What time and where can folks stream it?
Pluto
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Yeah, its gonna be... Interesting... :)
Mostly I will just be dropping commentary and providing a place for people to do the same.
Gonna have to see if my "Google-FU" is strong enough to Fact Check things that will probably be said but I am sure I will have lots of help.
I am going to do it right here in this Essay, and hope I don't muck it up too much, lol! It's absolutely going to require me to be on my toes because as fast as the results came in it is nowhere near the speed of something like a debate.
Look forward to seeing you here Pluto!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Hi Alphalop!
So happy you are doing this again. I had a blast last night!
magicsister
'Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P. Dowd "
CNN is carrying it on the TeeVee
If you don't mind sneaking over to the Orange Place, someone usually posts a link to the Bernie2016TV feed in LieparDestin's Bernie News Roundup liveblogs.
Warning that CNN is having what sounds like an hour-long "conversation" with Donald Trump right before the debate, so proceed with caution. (BTW, Keith Olbermann is moving out of his domicile located in a Trump-owned building because of Trump's political stench; Olbermann has an op-ed at WaPo.)
Thanks for the info, Cali
I think I can snag CNN.
Heh. I read that Olbermann piece. It's got a slight tinge of drama queen, but who am I to criticize? I'm clutching my pearls over the shame of living on US soil.
We all calibrate our own moral compass
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
drama queen
KO may be a drama queen (more like a drama Emperor) but never forget that he's our drama Emperor!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Don't know if I will be participating
because I am not feeling too well.....got a nasty head cold that snuck up on me last night. But I sure look forward to reading it in the morning if I do not make it tonight. Last night's live blog was amazing to read.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Sorry to hear that
I hope you get some rest and feel better in the morning.
take care
maybe I should go lie down too. Take an 8 minute nap
get well gulfgal
your a real trooper to have cranked out the excellent TO today while coming down with the crud. I'm a bit overwhelmed with this sudden influx. It's good to find my old 99% friends among the surging population .Love you, take care.
I love that photo.
I better start living a little more on the edge!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Thank you from one dog lover to another
Don't believe everything you think.
is that an English Springer?
We have two of them.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Landseer Newfoundland female
weighs 140
Don't believe everything you think.
She's a very handsome girl, hester. Doesn't look her size,
I must say. (Must be the camera angle, and/or she's very muscular.)
Hey, great to see you here--a hearty C99P welcome!
I'll leave this link and this link for Nancy, since I looked up the breed. (I had never heard of a "Landseer" Newfoundland.) Very imposing and impressive, indeed.
Have a good one!
(Music City) Mollie
elinkarlsson@WordPress
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."--Japanese Proverb
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
The Young Turks
usually do a good job of coverage and are 100% Sanders centric...
Cannot embed it here...but below is a link to their show...
https://www.tytnetwork.com/live/
Please help the Resilience Resource Library grow by adding your links.
First Nations News
thx Martha.
got it up in the corner of my computer.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Hi guys!
Little late getting here, been smoking meat all day and still got a few hours to go and I already need a nap, lol!
Where are you guys watching the Debate? Online or TV?
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Anyone else hoping Bernie calls her out on the Transcripts?
I hope he does! He needs to go on the offensive without being offensive. It's a tough line to walk, particularly with the Clintons Fauxtrage team constantly on standby.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
O/T but man this pollen is giving me a headache.
Seems way worse and earlier this year than normal, everything appears to be blooming based on the layer of pollen on my car.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I'm enjoying TYT coverage.
I have TYT up in another window, put it small in the corner, and then I can also participate here.
Gotta go to the store, got no milk for coffee in the AM and that is a crisis.
Be back later.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Yeah, I am too, it's good coverage
Sometimes though, they walk over the candidates answers which is kinda annoying when you are trying to figure out what the hell Clinton's last doublespeak answer meant...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Sits down, pops a beer
Hi everyone! Hola amigos!
Go Bernie!
Progressive to the bone.
Sits down, fires up the vaporizer
I'll need a good buzz to tolerate this.
Go Bernie!
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Can they start already?
I have a live stream from CNN open (if you don't have CNN on your cable package, then there is no way to see any of the debate on real TV, so how do people expect those people who do not follow online coverage, know much of anything about Sanders?) and the young turks open. Hopefully it's worth to watch the debate. May be it will all the same over and over and people watching out for either HRC or Bernie making a "mistake" that is "headline worthy". So we can foam out of our mouth about the "headline worthy" blob. Sigh.
I am already tired.
Have that issue with the MSNBC coverage
The first MSNBC town hall, I was able to listen in the car (we've got Sirius XM and MSNBC has a channel), but the last one I totally missed because Mr. Scribe was late getting home.
this whole fake primary process is tiring.
Debate is starting...
I hate the way they make it out like a sporting event on CNN with the music and graphics and whatnot.
They really are stripping the dignity away from the debate process by turning it into a show...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I hear the voices on NYT but no streaming video /nt
You can watch (without live video of the debate)
but good commentary at https://www.tytnetwork.com/live/
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I do and listen ... :-)
the questions are pretty good too.
Best national anthem yet
Well done.
Progressive to the bone.
I'm opposed to this Star Spangled Banner business
another step on the path to loyalty oaths for Der Homeland
I've heard the GOP
does both the anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance -- that's going a bit too far.
scratch*
They play the National Anthem before sporting events, and I guess a debate is just another type of sporting event in a way.
Das Heimatland ... /nt
thanks Mimi.
I'll use that next time.
ack, I am just nervous and bored and mean ...
I can't live blog what I hear, can't type and comprehend fast enough. Makes me mad. So I comment silly stuff.
silly stuff works! :) n/t
'Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P. Dowd "
I love the
silly stuff you post, always. Especially when your bored, nervous and mean. That's how I feel. This whole farce makes me bored nervous and really mean. Seem to me a sane reaction to this incomprehensible circus show were watching. I love your comments and value your point of view as your honest and from the heart and show me another view that is quite eye opening, humanistic and personal. All of which are underrated in this binary incomprehensible world we are living in. Anyway you rock. Your ack is right on.
Heimat is not what you think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimat
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Replace the Star Spangled Banner
which commemorates a battle, with "This Land is Your Land" as the national anthem. Another in my list of hopeless causes.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
And it was a battle during the war of 1812, to boot
... in which British North America (Upper Canada, now Ontario) kicked some serious U.S. ass, including burning washington in retaliation.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
No other national anthem has bombs and rockets in it.
But then, no other country is as crazy about them as we are.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
We *sound* the way North Korea or Iran are *portrayed.*
As far as that part of America’s self-image goes, Trump is the perfect front man.
Bernie brings climate change.
Bernie brings climate change.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I may be a tad bit biased
But I think Sanders opening statement was a stronger one.
(And yeah, I bet she was pleased with the outcome last night, lol!)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Hey Alpha and 'Live Debate' Gang! Gotta finish
choking down our Italian carryout, and we'll join you.
Mr M sometimes provides 'technical' support, by providing me with statistics and/or other info. I'm betting that tonight's debate won't cover much detail, but we'll see.
Oh, here we go--opening remarks.
Later.
(Music City) Mollie at DKos
elinkarlsson@WordPress
"Only he who can see the invisible, can do the impossible."--Frank L Gaines
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Good, got in the "convince superdelegates"
They're not locked in yet.
two in Vt jumped ship today.
I'm a progressive says
I'm a progressive says Hillary
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
yeah right
you, Hillary and a large section of the deluded voters have no idea what progressive means. Tell you the truth this terminology has bee so tweeked it's meaningless. See Jaye Raye's diaries if you want to know what progressives are really about.
Asks the same question twice
She never answers the question...
Progressive to the bone.
So many mistakes
- Hillary 2016
Progressive to the bone.
Wow, they are asking some tough questions right out the gate
and wow, what a dodge on that Email question...
Apparently for someone that was supposed to be annually trained on this she doesn't get the concept that some things are BORN classified.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Univision
is impressing me. You don't answer the question, they ask again.
Good show.
Progressive to the bone.
Hillary bring "I made a
Hillary bring "I made a mistake"
Again.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Wow, her refusal to answer the question outright
I think is gonna hurt her, makes her come off as VERY arrogant
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Wow, nice softball question on Trump
:facepalm:
Need a fact check
Hillary says she was the first to make issue of Trumps racism.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Not unless she has been doing it since 1973
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089495/donald-trump-racist
And if she did know it, makes one wonder why she went to his wedding and took happy pictures with him?
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I love these questioners!
They are holding her feet to the fire and MAKING her go back to the question when she waffles and doublespeaks.
How hard is it to say, "Yes, I think He is a racist."
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Bernie ties Trump to the "birther" movement
Big applause.
Great chance to remind audience that he's the son of immigrants.
he answered the question if one can call Trump a racist
quite smartly and well, I think.
It's really, really hard, because you have to remember
that in the end, she and Trump are fellow oligarchs. If he weren't running against her, he'd be contributing to her campaign.
You might as well try to get her to say that HFK is a war criminal.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Someone with Photoshop skills
should put together pictures of HRC with Kissinger, Blankfein, and Trump at his wedding, with a caption "Known by the company she keeps"
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Hispandering! LOL
The quality of the Univision debate is far superior to anything we have had so far I think.
I really wish they still had the League of Women voters hosting the debates.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Univision
I think I heard Jorge Ramos' voice. Really like him from what I have heard previously. A few interviews. I don't get Univision or Fusion. He speaks his mind. Very smart.
Excuse my short, choppy sentences. My caps key is broken and you won't believe what I am going through to use capital letters and make this readable.
Years ago when the return key on my ancient MacBook gave out,
for months I was typing “return” by calling up the OS X equivalent of the “Keyboard” desk accessory and clicking on the return key’s graphic representation.
This went on until my “children” gifted me with a new MacBook Air.
Maybe because
Univision is such a unbiased media outlet. (snark)
Who owns Univision?
Forget it Univision is neocon owned and in the bag for the mad bomber Killary. May be better the media we get here but look at who own and runs it.
Good catch. Haim Saban is a “my one issue is Israel” type. n/t
I'm listening on TYT
Hello. I think TYTs must be on time delay. Seeing comments from others before I hear it.
Just tuned in.
yeah, they are on a delay
I am watching on CNN so I can see the candidates body language.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
cable
Yes, would prefer that. no cable.
They had it streaming on a "Free Trial" for the debate for me.
Then it cut off right after the debate ended.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Not surprised that immigration is a focus
and seems like Bernie did his homework.
BOOM!
Sned them back.
Go Bernie!
Progressive to the bone.
Wow Hillary
Out comes the lying slime. She's desperate.
Progressive to the bone.
I don't like that woman
and she could end up as President!
oh, HRC is getting very mean ...
I hope someone can fact check her accusations with regards Sanders supporting minutemen etc.
I'm going out of my way
To avoid using "Me" and "I".
Clinton abuses both of those words.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I guess that still leaves you with, "mine"
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Nope, Hillary has that one too. :)
It's what has been rolling on an endless loop in her head for decades, particularly when she looks at the white house.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Missed the last 15 minutes trying to get a Possum
away from my darn dog...
She is fast, I think I am having a heart attack, lol!
Did I miss much, had to leave at immigration
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Bernie, apparently, patrols the border looking to shoot
loves the Arizona Minutement crazies.
Now we know! Thanks, Hillary!
Wow, did she really say that? I am gonna watch it over again
with the young turks feed this time so that I can get their live commentary.
I may be spending a little too much time on politics this season, lol!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I live down here...
...in Minuteman country. Heck, years ago, I even had coffee a couple times with the future founder. But no, I have never seen Bernie down here...I think Clinton was wrong to say, Senator Sanders STANDS WITH....
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
the Koch brothers
funnelled auto bailout money to him through Fidel Castro, which he then dispensed to the Minutemen.
At least I think that's what she said.
I can't watch it.
I can't watch her. I will watch through you. Thanks, friends.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
At the risk of sounding Voiceist
her's is like nails on the chalkboard of my soul....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Absolutely--it's very grating. We've decided
to cut out for a 30-minute, or so, walk with the dog. The weather here is perfect--about 68 degrees, right now.
Later, I'll read the transcript of this Debate which will be posted at WaPo. We'll also listen to 2-3 cable news channels for 'analysis,' and then I'll join you Guys with our own 'brilliant analysis!'
Hey, total snark, intended! (about the analysis)
Later.
(Music City) Mollie
elinkarlsson@WordPress
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