I do think we’ll see some of Trumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Got some red wine ready. I swore that this was the week I’d go back to the gym and lay off the booze – not to be I guess.
Watching MNF. Is roughing the passer on a flea-flicker a BS penalty?
Okay, if we can get people to leave the bar area and take their seats please. We’re about 20 minutes from starting.
The debate chairmen are warning the audience to keep their mouths shut.
Got some mescal tucked away, too (I used to live in Oaxaca) … probably will break it out on Election Night.
Russ Feingold was very sweet with my 5-year-old son. We biked back home, Mom cooked us some delicious curried beef, we’re tucking the kid in now, and then it’s time to rock’n’roll. As Happy hilariously and aptly put it, it will feel like watching a woman give birth on the roof of the Sears Tower. 
On my second mug of mulled cider with bourbon and it’s not even kickoff. Kow-a-yipee, lesgo!
So what other tabs do you all have open?
For me:
Twitter
Andrew Sullivan liveblog on New York Magazine
For those not watching, the stage is raised about 3 feet above the audience. There are 2 podiums placed about 12 to 15 feet apart. The audience is present, all seats appear to be filled. Candidates are in the green room. Moments away from starting.
So they are drinking through straws?
Haig Club scotch for me. For now. May need to upshift to absinthe depending on how things go. Also, I ended up looking at the YouTube livestream chat for about thirty seconds and it burned my soul. It was like an overflowing toilet. The idiocy just kept coming. It wouldn’t stop. It wouldn’t stop.
Thank you. Do fill in the visuals. It will be like listening to Gramma tell a bedtime story. Before the apocalypse.
These are two of the worst hype men that I’ve ever seen. They’re going to need to set off a firecracker before the candidates come out.
More rules, no cell phones, photography, introducing the spouces of the candidates.
Trump’s family makes an entrance, receiving line like.
Bill Clinton.
Introducing moderator Holt.
Chelsea there next to Bill
It feels like watching the moon landing live, if Apollo 11 was a mission to destroy the moon before it destroyed the Earth. Historical, but also fantastically terrifying, with all the stress and tension of knowing that one wrong move could mean imminent disaster for the entire planet.
Well, decided to start with an Aberfeldy 12, but I’ve still got the El Senorio reposado mescal and I might finally open the Cava de Oro extra anejo tequila on Election Night.
Lester Holt has been introduced.
Debate goes “live” in just a minute or so.
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.
New start time 9:03:30
I am wearing my Cthulhu for President 2016 shirt. I pledge to wear it while I watch each of this year’s debates.
Posted this in another thread but it’s relevant here:
I hate that we grade debates on a curve. “Oh, we expected Trump to lose by a lot, and he only lost moderately. That means he’s really the winner!”
We treat debates like the D-student who manages a C once did better than the A student that scored an A- once. Instead of letting it confirm that the A student is a better option than the D student. So dumb.