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5 Ways to Massively Screw Up a Vice-Presidential Debate
Alternatively: a drinking game for tonight.
If the 2016 Presidential debates were one really good speech interrupted by intermittent farting sounds then the 2020 Presidential debate we’ve seen so far was a man trying to articulate a single meaningful point whilst an enraged troglodyte screamed and threw faeces at him and its trainer ineffectually begged it to stop while transparently questioning his own life choices.
I mean, it was a nightmare. I didn’t even drink during that thing and I still had a hangover the next day.
But probably tonight will be better. We were all sent flowers and promised that the debates will never hit us again so surely this isn’t a massively inappropriate and foreboding metaphor. It should be though. Sen. Kamala Harris is a brilliant debater with a history of cutting directly to the issue at hand and Vice President Mike Pence … will also be there.
*sigh*
Yeah, so this time I actually brought alcohol. Given Harris’ record I am expecting Pence to start sobbing and I do think this is going to be less enraged-chimpanzee and more boss-lady-takes-on-lego-movie-character but my expectations are sufficiently and appropriately lowered.
