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Official Drinking Game, "The Speech Joe Biden Has Been Preparing For His Entire Life" Edition
taibbi.substack.com ^ | 8/20/2020 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 08/20/2020 3:38:01 PM PDT by bitt

Start your livers.

The DNC drinking game Monday night was so painful (and Tuesday was worse), that I’ve decided to shorten the game tonight to cover Joe Biden’s acceptance speech only.

I watched Biden speak probably a half-dozen times during the primary campaign, and perhaps a half-dozen times before. He has definite tendencies, and his stump speech hits the same six or seven notes every time, but convention addresses are different. Every line, every word, will be scripted. There shouldn’t be ad-libs, freak-outs at hecklers, etc.

Guessing what an unscripted Joe Biden will do at any given moment is pretty interesting. Here we’re basically trying to guess what Biden and his handlers have decided to put on a teleprompter.

Biden will be speaking sometime after 9 p.m. I will be live-streaming with Katie Halper. Details to follow.

Drink EVERY TIME:

Biden says, “Folks.”

Biden says, “The United States of America.” Double-shots for any multiple-America construction, e.g. “The best America is an America where Americans believe in the American dream.”

Biden says, “Middle-class.”

Biden says, “Get up!” as in, “Folks, you’ve got to get up! This is the United States of America!”

Biden says, “You guys.”

Biden says, “Barack” or references the “Obama-Biden administration.”

Biden says, “Soul of America.”

Biden points out a surprising percentage of something, e.g. “Look, folks, seventy-four percent of venture capital goes to four cities.”

Biden says, “My Mom used to say” or mentions one of his father’s relatable jobs, e.g. “He sold a hell of a lot of cars!”

Biden makes a self-deprecating joke about his age or his tendency to say puzzling things.

Biden finishes a section of his speech with a rhetorical flourish, and he sounds angry, and you can’t tell why, because he’s talking about something non-angering.

Biden tells a story about a rewarding interaction with an ordinary person, as in, “I walk over to the guy up in the bucket. And there’s seven guys around him, all with hard hats on. I yelled up and said, ‘Hey, man, thanks!’”

Biden references a job you’ve never heard of, as in “Why is a sandwich maker being forced to sign a non-compete clause?”

Biden says “systemic.”

Biden tells us there’s nothing we can’t accomplish.

Drink the FIRST TIME only:

Biden begins a sentence with, “Look.”

Biden mentions Scranton.

Biden says something that sounds sort of inappropriate.

You may FINISH THE BOTTLE or QUIT if Biden combines any four of the above in one sentence, e.g. “Look, folks, we’ve got to get up if we’re going to be the kind of America we know America can be.”

“Malarkey,” as always, is an automatic drink.

Again, apologies to Substack subscribers. Back to grownup content soon.

Take small sips and hydrate. Good luck, America!


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1 posted on 08/20/2020 3:38:01 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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2 posted on 08/20/2020 3:38:17 PM PDT by bitt (IF YOU CAN PROTEST IN PERSON, YOU CAN VOTE IN PERSON— Donald J. Trump)
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To: bitt
Biden says “systemic.”

Double drink when he mispronounces it "systematic."

3 posted on 08/20/2020 3:40:44 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: bitt

Will Slow Joe be live or is it going to be Memorex? I suspect it will be taped. I wonder what the Vegas over / under will be on how many digital edits are made?Hollywood will earn their money tonight.


4 posted on 08/20/2020 3:44:54 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: bitt

Give yourself 20 points if your drinking causes you to race to the toilet.


5 posted on 08/20/2020 3:45:45 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: bitt

This will not be a live speech. It will be pre recoded and heavily edited.


6 posted on 08/20/2020 3:46:20 PM PDT by RayBob (If guns kill people, can I blame misspelled words on my keyboard?)
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To: jonrick46

Take away 5 points if you mute it and do hip hop lip sync with Biden.


7 posted on 08/20/2020 3:47:30 PM PDT by bitt (IF YOU CAN PROTEST IN PERSON, YOU CAN VOTE IN PERSON— Donald J. Trump)
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To: jonrick46

extra 10 points if you tape a kleenex over your teeth and maniacly grin every time he flashes his choppers.


8 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:18 PM PDT by bitt (IF YOU CAN PROTEST IN PERSON, YOU CAN VOTE IN PERSON— Donald J. Trump)
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To: jonrick46

We drink BEFORE, I hope.

Estimate how many gaffs he’ll make and chug that many shots as the CONvention starts?

I sure can’t watch it sober...uh uh...nope...


9 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:36 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: bitt

It would be a hilarious You Tube video to do lip sync of Pro Quo Joe’s speech.


10 posted on 08/20/2020 3:51:55 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: bitt

It will be per-recorded. If you want to get drunk, just drink every time the video is spliced. I guarantee you’ll be passed out 5 minutes into it.


11 posted on 08/20/2020 3:52:49 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Its not about color, its about character.)
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To: bitt

Triple score each time he says, “Period!”


12 posted on 08/20/2020 3:53:43 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Trumptilla MOAB--Mother of All Boat Parades--Clearwater FL, 8-15-2020)
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To: bitt
Sleepy Joe will have help:


13 posted on 08/20/2020 3:54:36 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: bitt

Fun list! You’ve got him so pegged we’ll all be blitzed four minutes in. I’d add pandering and victimization, particularly on reparations and black lives matter. And I fully expect some garble on climate change #s and how many cases of Corona beer the US has come down with. Come on, man!


14 posted on 08/20/2020 3:54:46 PM PDT by Moonlighter
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Bad Lip Reading could have a blast with this

Be hard to beat Cruz saying “bogle for the glotch” though


15 posted on 08/20/2020 3:56:24 PM PDT by digger48
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“...just drink every time the video is spliced.”

Oh, boy. I’ll be passed out in the recliner. Better get a bowl to keep next to me...


16 posted on 08/20/2020 4:00:47 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: bitt

I’m sure he’ll have a high (as in count, not in substance use) viewership, but only because they’re wanting to see him go off the rails ‘live’.


17 posted on 08/20/2020 4:02:03 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: bitt

It’ll be working man Joe lecturing us on equality for wimmins.

And he’ll claim to own firearms.

Gay

Ran

Teed


18 posted on 08/20/2020 4:09:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: bitt

Unite


19 posted on 08/20/2020 4:09:58 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bitt

How much for a ‘come on man’?


20 posted on 08/20/2020 4:10:49 PM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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