They Said What? Here Are The 13 Nuttiest Quotes From Wednesday’s Democratic Presidential Debate
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Are these really the best and brightest that the Democratic Party has to offer? It was going to take a monumental effort to top Marianne Williamson’s level of craziness on Tuesday night, but on Wednesday there were several Democratic contenders that gave it their best shot. Kirsten Gillibrand and Jay Inslee were particularly unhinged, and Joe Biden “repeatedly stumbled over numbers and phrases” during an incoherent performance that will be remembered for a long time to come. The Democrats may have more than 20 candidates running, but none of them looks like a president at this point. Perhaps that will change, or perhaps a stronger candidate will enter the race eventually, but right now Democratic strategists cannot be feeling too good about their chances of winning the 2020 election. Of course Republicans are facing some very serious challenges of their own, but at least they don’t have to worry about a powerhouse candidate on the other side.
After what we witnessed on Wednesday night, there are several candidates that should simply pack up and go home, because their performances were downright embarrassing. The following are the 13 nuttiest quotes from Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate…
#13 Kirsten Gillibrand: “The first thing that I’m going to do when I’m president is I’m going to Clorox the Oval Office.”
#12 Jay Inslee: “Our house is on fire. We have to stop using coal in ten years and we need a president to do it or it won’t get done. Get off coal. Save this country and the planet.”
#11 Joe Biden: “Obamacare is working.”
#10 Julian Castro: “I don’t want to make America anything again. I don’t want us to go backward. We’re not going back to the past. We’re not going back where we came from. We’re going to move forward.”
#9 Andrew Yang: “We need to do the opposite of much of what we’re doing right now and the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.”
#8 Kamala Harris: “What we need is someone who is going to be on that debate stage with Donald Trump and defeat him by being able to prosecute the case against four more years. And let me tell you we’ve got a long rap sheet.”
#7 Cory Booker: “We have a real crisis in our country, and the crisis is Donald Trump — but not only Donald Trump, I have a frustration that sometimes people are saying the only thing they want is to beat Donald Trump. Well, that is the floor and not the ceiling.”
#6 Bill de Blasio: “If we’re going to beat Donald Trump, this has to be a party that stands for something. The party of labor unions. This has to be the party of universal health care. This has to be the party that’s not afraid to say out loud we’re going to tax the hell out of the wealthy. And when we do that, Donald Trump right on cue will call us socialists. Here’s what I’ll say to him: ‘Donald, you’re the real socialist.'”
#5 Jay Inslee: “And number two — number two, we have to make America what it’s always been, a place of refuge. We got to boost the number of people we accept. I’m proud to have been the first governor, saying send us your Syrian refugees. I proud to have the first governor to stand up against Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. I’m proud to have sued him 21 times and beat him 21 times in a row. I’m ready for November 2020.”
#4 Andrew Yang: “Raise your hand in the crowd if you’ve seen stores closing where you live. It is not just you. Amazon is closing 30% of America’s stores and malls.”
#3 Cory Booker: “There’s a saying in my community that you’re dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don’t even know the flavor.”
#2 Kirsten Gillibrand: “I think as a white woman of privilege who is a US senator running for president of the united States, it is my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren’t being listened to. And I can talk to those white women in the suburbs and explain to them what white privilege actually is.”
#1 Jay Inslee: “We have one last chance. When you have one chance in life, you take it. Think about this. Literally the survival of humanity on this planet in civilization is in the hands of the next president. And we have to have a leader who will do what is necessary to save us. That includes making this the top priority of the next presidency.”
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#13 Kirsten Gillibrand: “The first thing that I’m going to do when I’m president is I’m going to Clorox the Oval Office.” (so would I)
#11 Joe Biden: “Obamacare is working.” (it isn't?)
#9 Andrew Yang: “We need to do the opposite of much of what we’re doing right now and the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.” (well since trmp has pretty much undone everything Obama did, I think he's right. And I like math, too)
#6 Bill de Blasio: “If we’re going to beat Donald Trump, this has to be a party that stands for something. The party of labor unions. This has to be the party of universal health care. This has to be the party that’s not afraid to say out loud we’re going to tax the hell out of the wealthy. And when we do that, Donald Trump right on cue will call us socialists. Here’s what I’ll say to him: ‘Donald, you’re the real socialist.'” (He's right. These people need to talk more about policy and less trmp)
If it's working, why are half of them trying to outlaw private insurance?
I know, right? With the Affordable Care Act repealed, US schools now on a voucher system, the border wall complete, gay marriage illegal, abortion banned, it's difficult to recognize the place from 2016. Oh...wait...
Do you think you could possibly inject some into the Democratic Party?
They need to talk about sensible policy, unlike this short list he's mentioned.
Because the company she keeps is so pure.....
My take away...
Your Medicare plan stinks. No, your Medicare plan stinks. No, Obamacare stinks. Trump is racist.
They could have done the entire debate in 10 minutes.
Not the greatest, but if they were to ask about healthcare plans during a Republican debate, you'd just wind up with them staring blankly. So at least they have healthcare plans to debate about.
Where you not listening to them? They said nobody's plan was worth crap.
It doesn't count if the plans are ridiculous.
Trying to sell dogshit as caviar is NOT better than not selling anything at all.
So, you are saying that America can NOT do what every other industrial country on the world can? You have that low of an opinion of America?
Not a very patriotic stance.
Nope every country has border issues, but none have 2000 mile walls or kidnap children.
Every country has these problems also, they just don't complain about "shithole" countries.
0 for 3. The only countries with rampant voter fraud are ones where the fraud is state sponsored, like Russia.
And get more for those taxes. Amazon made billions of dollars of net profit last year, they received a tax refund. Justify that.
BTW, you do understand the discussion was about healthcare, right? But you can't hold any water in that conversation can you?
"Everybody else does it" is the last line of argument for people who haven't a clue on the subject.
We "can" do lots of things.
We "can" rip up all of our interstate highways. We "can" outlaw cows because "milk is violence". We "can" address immigration by simply invading Honduras and any other country where immigrants originate. We "can" win the World Cup by outlawing all other sports. We can mandate all houses be painted grey.
We're actually not short of dogshit ideas, nor are we short of people pretending they are caviar.
Sure we can do it. Just as soon as NATO and every country we have military bases in gets their heads out of their asses and pays/develops a military capable of defending themselves.
We can then save billions every year by closing those over seas bases and bringing our troops home to take over port and border security.
Let's see if "every other industrial country in the world" can pay for guns and butter at the same time?
Here Are The 13 Nuttiest Quotes From Wednesday’s Democratic Presidential Debate
If those are the nuttiest quotes the right can find , Trump is in trouble.
Last night's Socialist Democrat show did not disappoint. Their identity politics and open borders policies were on full display. Gillibrand is even going to go around the country to teach white, suburban women about their "white privilege"!
Don Lemon, a so-called "journalist", missed many opportunities to ask the candidates hard follow-up questions. Oh, wait ... he's on their team.
One more thing: Their attacks on Barack Obama are the sure way to knock them out of the race ... and that includes Biden, who threw Obama under the bus a few times. That Hope and Change thing was a 2 time winner!
I bet Lemon got a thrill up his leg on that one.
Lemon's not into women.
Gillibrand's in for a rude awakening if she thinks she can use this kind of identity politics to gain votes.
White suburban women are not waiting around all day for a lecture from her?
Even the Lecturer in Chief Obama was not dumb enough to go that far.
White suburban women who my wife and I know (D, R, and I) are too busy working, taking care of their children/homes (which is also a job), and volunteering, so if they heard Gillibrand say this, they probably laughed.
So could Beto and the other wealthy ones who are embarrassed by their "white privilege", but they never put their money where their mouths are.
Gillibrand and some of the others have lifetime platinum healthcare for themselves and (I think) some members of their families. Pretty nice gig when you work only a few months a year!
This does not look good for Biden. 'The Squad' and their extremist left fringe friends are running the show now.
I have an open mind on things like pollution and climate change, but I don't think we need to stop using coal in ten years. I don't have a lot of respect for candidates that get ahead by trying to terrify the voters that the sky is falling.
Right this minute, I'd guess Joe is just about the only person in politics who thinks this is true. Even people in his own party are saying "something needs to be done" about health care. If Obamacare were working, there wouldn't be anything that needs to be done.
I don't even care what he said. He's terrible. Just. Terrible.
Is no one in the party bothered that this guy basically just said "vote for me because I'm trying to be a racist stereotype?"
The obvious stupid infesting this comment is - I hope - clear to everyone watching. If there is anybody in politics who is the opposite of socialist, it's the current president.
It's always so fashionable - also short-sighted and reactionary- to hate on a successful business. More efficient and successful businesses or business models (catalog retailers like Sears, shopping malls, online retailers, etc.) have been replacing mom-and-pop stores for well over a century. Heck, it goes back centuries when permanent market places sprung up to replace itinerant merchants. Mere decades ago, malls and gallerias were making it hard on the street side proprietors. Now Amazon is competing with the mall. Tomorrow, it will be someone else.
Democrats love to claim that Trump is inventing crises and preying on the fears of voters, but that's exactly what this kind of thing is. Do voters imagine Yang is going to outlaw Amazon, if he's elected?
God! Where is my barf bag? Is there a more self-important person running right now than Kirsten Gillibrand? Her sanctimony is nauseating.
And the sky is still falling with this guy. The fear is still being mongered. There isn't enough eyeroll in the world for this invented drama. Is this guy a closet millennial? Because I think he might be stretching the meaning of "literally."
Yang is running? That'll be the day a Chinese person will be elected POTUS. Okay America, you've had white, you've had black, you'll never have yellow. Now it's time for a REAL American - KAVIKA FOR PRESIDENT!!!
(Oh, before you call me a racist for saying you'll never have yellow, know that I and my Chinese wife have been happily married for more than a decade and I'm very comfortably living among her family and her people and they have always been comfortable with me.)
I submit a new number one for consideration. From Biden's closing statement:
"Eight more years of Donald Trump will change America in a fundamental way, the America we know will no longer exist."
Is that when he also said (paraphrased) "Vote for Biden 3030"? He was up long after his bedtime!