Republican Also-Rans Gear Up For Second Debate – TPM – Talking Points Memo

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I have a can’t-miss appointment to have my eyes scratched out.

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Much as I like him and often agree, he never saw a DJT presidency. Wonder if he’d hold the same opinion if he had.

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Tonight? Early to bed, early to rise,
I’ll check the damage anon.
Keep your sense of humor, dear ones.

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Mebbe he could play dress up and wear traditional clothing complete with a turban. That’d get the rural anti Islam vote fer sure.
( I know… he’s not a Muslim)

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Me too. Although between eye surgery for a cataract, and a nasty crash from an inattentive driver who ploughed into my reinforced rear bumper on my old Tacoma and hassles with their insurance ( do not do any business with Geico) it has been a September I’d rather forget.
I’ll not watch any goober debate. They’ll just try to out right wing each other.

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If it’s a valley, wouldn’t they be holler people?

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Debate?!

Exempting Christie, the only action on that stage is gonna be over who licks Trump’s boots best.

(And Bergie McBergface doing his best Arnold Horshack impersonation just to get noticed.)

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Hollerin’ in Sou-th-er-n Ca-l-if-or-ni-a is generally done farther south, and more centrally.

Sorry, been watching Fred Armisen.

Christie might go all in here. This is a race for the person that might get the reigns if/when Trump gets cut out, fakes a TIA, goes to jail, etc.

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Debate ??
How can I when Hulu is headlining “Dancing with the Stars” or the movie “A Bridge Too Far” (a fine WW2 war epic)?? It’s too bad the studios never made a war epic about the Battle of the Philippine Sea which was a tooth and nail rip em up battle with a small Anerican escort class carrier facing down multiple major Japanese warships and planes.

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Is it a federal crime to publicly pray that Trump suffers a fatal anal aneurism?

(Asking for a minyan.)

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Is that like a rectal prolapse a friend wished for trump in a text to me?

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Good call since you don’t partake in weed or whiskey anymore. The only way to make it through their debate is to be whacked out of your skull.

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I’d love to see her in that cashed-stuffed monogrammed jacket on the vid podcast.

Her writing is gem-like, yes. Also too, she’s always got some keen observations on the podcast.

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Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh?

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Kern County was populated in the '30s by Dust Bowl refugees, Fresno County isn’t exactly liberal, nor is the rest of the Central Valley and parts East. San Diego County used to be a very right-wing Navy center with very rich, reactionary towns on the coast; don’t know whether it still is, or has gone the way of Orange County with an influx of folks of varied ethnicity. California might well be purple still, if Pete Wilson hadn’t gone to war against the rights of the descendants of our original settlers and their newly arrived cousins. [spits]

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ahem

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why is this debate starting at 9, like 75% of gop primary voters are in bed by then

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) September 27, 2023
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