Presidential Debate Drinking Game

Place your bets , Ladies and Gentlemen

$20 says republicans will proclaim Biden is the winner at being on the most drugs.

Which drugs? Idk. The drugs that cure late stage dementia that don't exist.
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Not sure if you if you (or others that might be reading this) saw the Planet of the Apes reboot, but it was a testing of a cure for Alzheimer's that made the apes more intelligent.

I have seen none of the reboots and I'm not even sure I saw the whole OG one. 🤔

Oh my. First one is my favorite movie. Of all time. Ever.
The current reboots are pretty good, fantastic even. But, yeah, that's the mechanism, how the apes managed to advance intellectually, skipping the longer process of evolution.

It doesn't bug you that they keep milking a classic?

Maybe I'll try to catch one of them one of these days to see for myself.

Actually would seem more sin to touch a classic like that, and that an exceedingly unnecessary one like that wtf Spielberg remake of West Side Story. They've been talking about rebooting Rocky Horror, Phantom of the Paradise, and Escape from New York, amongst others, classics that should be left alone.

But with the original five Planet of the Apes movies, they descended in quality as the studio trimmed the budget for each subsequent one. The last one was literally television-level quality, so the series ended on that sour-ish note.

So when the 2001 Tim Burton one came out, it was like, why?, but still kind of cool seeing another version. It was a totally different story, so it wasn't like the West Side Story redo or that note-for-note Psycho vanity piece. But it has a frenetic claustrophobic feel, like being stuck in a hyper-fast Empire State building elevator filled with Crackheads. It felt like it 10 minutes long, whereas the 1968 original took its time to breathe.

The more recent reboots also take their time to breathe, some may argue a bit much, but it all works. They revisit the 1968 Planet of the Apes, but pretty much a different story, going in the same direction, but via a different route. It also manages to rectify some of the issues or limitations with the first ones, such as makeup can go on so far to make people look like apes, plus offers a mechanization for how the Apes became intelligent. Back when the first one was made, there were scientists who believed that all an ape needed to be more intelligent was a more intelligent upbringing, such as would be provided by being raised in a human household. That of course turned out not to be the case. So this new edition at least provides a more realistic possibility.

Yeah, well, that was sad. It was difficult to watch. Painful, even.

Time to put this fella away and move onwards and pretend the last 4 years didn't happen.

I thought it was somewhat reminiscent of the debates between them 4 years ago.. Trump is still the better and bigger liar and sh*t-talker.

And he might have defeated the dementia bar as far as knowing who and where he is but Biden flubbing that Medicaid line right at the beginning was not good.... I think all that right wing drug hype was effective too. It raised expectations for Biden going into it with no real possible downside.

?? Idk about you but I won't be forgetting the last 4 years at all... they were pretty good to me. Nobody I know is hopsitalized and dying from covid and my stock portfolio has never looked better.

But really, how different would the last 4 years be in terms of those (and everything else) if Gary Busey was president?

I'm actually having difficulty criticizing him because it just seems cruel harshing on somebody so feeble and gone.

I thought Obama's first (sleepy) debate against Romney was bad, but this makes that performance look like a comet zipping round in a Super Collider. And Obama went on to make up for that and then some with the subsequent debates.

Even if Biden somehow managed to pull that, even if he managed to hit the level of his debate with Ryan, this debacle of a debate can't be erased. Good State of the Union, bad debate, better... It'll just be used as proof of his slipping into senility. Four more years of that?

"how different would the last 4 years be in terms of those (and everything else) if Gary Busey was president"

That^ could basically be asked about any timeframe and the answer would be a guessing game.

I dont know the man's political leanings but I honestly I think a Gary Busey presidency would be more 2017-2020 than 2021-2024.

As far as I know he has absolutely no experience in government so it would probably be somewhat chaotic. People getting hired and fired. Him saying wild sh*t. Sounds like a trump to me. Idk

"It'll just be used as proof of his slipping into senility. "

The right can and will use anything as "proof" of anything.... to win. Literally photoshopped images, fake Ai generated voice recordings, Trump , and so on. This is how they can have wildly unpopular policy and still get more or less 50% of the vote.

Biden is old as dirt, has a stutter, and ya it shows. I mean what.... Grandpa Biden flubbed a couple 2 minute on the spot answers therefore I'm voting for bunny banging convicted felon Uncle Donnie for president? ...No.

Bad optics + good policy + good character wins in my book. I doubt it will win with the rest of America in a few months but it is what it is.

It's all about the optics. What else is politics about? It's about liars lying, and somehow having the ability to con people into buying into it.

Come on, he didn't create a single job, other than some government ones.

He didn't do anything for the Stock Market. No one does. Just those buying and selling stocks. You can't even say it's confidence in whomever is in office that might affect market trends, because often it's panic that causes them to sell, then buy up 3 days later. Then sell again. Then repeat.

EU countries and China selling off US Treasury Bills while investors buy up silver and gold are better barometers of what's actually going on then what's going on on Wall Street. Sure, stocks might be an indicator of overall trends, but again, bottom line, it has nothing to do with the buffoon in office.

Congress passes laws, he signs. How many of them did he actually authorize? The infrastructure one? Yay, Baltimore, the Federal Government is going to pick up the tab, as opposed to who else? And now Arkansas no longer has an excuse to not invest in some Rust-Oleum for its covered bridges in cow pie counties. That's it, that's his legacy. A bill to get the Federal Government to do what it's been doing since the Great Depression. Only now they get to waste even more money on it.

His cabinet is Ringling Brothers worthy. His stances seem designed to irritate Trump's base, which is a really sure way of getting them to shrug their shoulders and simply not vote for Trump this time around. Illegal immigration? It is a flat out lie that Biden has done nothing about it. Who the heck supplies free rent, food stamps, Medicaid, and expediated citizenship to illegal aliens en masse? They're supposed to come here, rent an 8hr slot on a cot for $35 a night - or day - and do the jobs that no one wants, and that for well below minimum wage. That's why they come here. That's their purpose. That's what we get from them.

Sounds cold, but that's the reality. They can stay home on a big farm with their extended family and live comfortable lives, albeit without the His and Hers SUVs in the driveway, but no. Don't they come here because to date no one has posted on their Facebook page so they're relatives can see back in the old country that the streets really are not paved in gold in here? Doesn't matter, because now they're going straight to good housing and great jobs. At the expense of taxpayers.

Time for Joe to go.

Optics changes basically nothing (for us) except perception.... but I guess there are some who would say perception is literally everything. Matrix theory and such.

As far as jobs created and stocks/ "the economy" my bad I thought we were still playing by the "it happened under" rules from roughly 6 years ago.

Seems like whenever I try to play by the rules they (the right aka the majority here) set up, someone comes along and says "nope, new rules buddy"..... I did not think it would be you. Callback to matrix theory I do not think my perception of you is/was accurate.

Pretty sure there are more jobs now than prepandemic beyond the government. You don't think it's attributable to Biden ok. No more "it happened under".. until that comes back in fashion again.

Trump, the guy who handed out corporate tax breaks and immediately installed goldman sachs into his cabinet, seems to barely have corporate support. Zero Top 100 CEOs donated to him despite 2/3 of CEOs typically being registered repubs... Fake news? "woke" CEOs ?

"Yay, Baltimore, the Federal Government is going to pick up the tab, as opposed to who else?"
Maybe no one. *bridge collapses*

"Ringling Bros worthy"
in that.....?

"His stances seem designed to irritate Trump's base"
Maybe so but multiple things have been done that was stuff trump claimed he wanted done as well.. the 3rd stimmy check, building more wall, infrastructure bill, exiting Afghanistan, Hunter Biden prosecution, etc..

"Who the heck supplies free rent, food stamps, Medicaid, and expediated citizenship to illegal aliens en masse?"

Sounds like you're saying Biden does. Source?

Who would make a better president, you or Biden? Heck, think of the least qualified person you've ever known in your life. Would you rather have them or Biden sitting in that chair?

His predecessor was elected because because his silly reality show had a cute catchphrase that caught on with people. Then he used whatever airtime he can get to make up bs about Obama which was appealing to a certain faction. Add to that a chant about a wall, and...

Now name anyone you've even known who's even less qualified then Trump.

I'm not playing by any rules, games, or partisan. I deal in facts. Cuts out the middleman, and trims away the excess excrementitious fluff. It also helps me keep with Modda 1:1, as seen in my tagline. If I have to lie or pretend, that only proves that I have to lie or pretend, and what I'm lying and pretending about doesn't have the merit to stand on its own.

I've ridiculed Biden's sole grand crowning achievement Infrastructure Bill many a time, and to you directly, have I not? I've said the reason he was selected in 2020 was because he was SUPPOSED to lose to Trump. Can you really truly honestly argue that Biden has been actually trying to win this campaign?

The jobs he 'created' we're mostly the feelings of the vacancies left over from 2020. Add to that the usual growth, and voila!

The only position in government that can have any influence on economy is the Chair of the Fed. And that's by raising or lowering interest rates. That's it. Biden, Trump, Reagan, anybody... Their impact was coincidentally tied to timing. Granted, Republican presidents during recessions hiring thousands of federal workers to help boost employment numbers, but not like that really helped turn things around.

Ringling Brothers in terms of the clown show that Biden has surrounded himself with. Yeah, spiking the ball is one thing, but rubbing his salted nuts in the face of Trumpites with the very things that got them to vote for Trump in the first place? Smart move, yay or nay?

And instead of allowing them to say stay sneaked in after they sneaked in so they can work and live in the underground, he's granting illegals asylum and all the perks that come with it.

But hey, good news! That is the quickest recovery from a massive cold and sore throat I've heard of in the entirety of my life. If only he can recover his campaign from the seemingly intentional failure that it has been.