So crack a 30-pack of cheap beer or screw open your favorite bottle of Trader Joe’s cabernet—this one’s going to hurt.
Here is your official drinking game for debate number two.
Take a sip every time Donald Trump uses one of the following adjectives:
- Tremendous
- Terrific
- Terrible
- Horrible
- Awful
- Disgusting
- Big-League
- Nasty
- Disgraceful
- Beautiful
- Broad-shouldered
- Strong
- Tough
- Illegal
- Self-made
- Fraudulent
- Failing
- Clueless
Take a deep breath, massage your temples, and take a sip for each mention of:
- Tic Tacs
- Billy Bush
- Access Hollywood
- Gennifer Flowers
- Juanita Brodderick
- The Starr Report
- “Locker room banter”
- Vince Foster
- Breitbart.com
- Linda Tripp
- Monica Lewinsky
- Altoids
- The mainstream media
- “Pussygate”
Finish your entire drink if Donald Trump:
- Says that the real enemy is political correctness
- Says that he has already apologized, and therefore does not need to apologize again
- Says that he was “playing a character”
- Says that “all men talk like that”
- Says that, also, ahem, women say some pretty bad stuff about men
- Claims that when he said that, he was young, and that he has really changed
- Complains about his microphone
- Complains about Hillary Clinton’s microphone
- Complains about the microphones on the Access Hollywood studio bus
- Picks a fight with Anderson Cooper.
- Picks a fight with Bill Clinton
- Picks a fight with a former co-host of The View
- Brags about receiving the endorsement of:
- ICE
- The National Enquirer
- Ted Cruz
- Lyin’ Ted Cruz
- Ted Cruz, son of JFK’s assassin
- A reader poll on ChicagoTribune.com
- The Dilbert guy
- Any Men’s Rights Activist
- A Twitter user who describes himself as a Democrat
- Advances a conspiracy theory about Washington Post reporter Paul Farenthold
- Claims that he has never been furniture shopping
- Claims that Sean Hannity can corroborate the fact that he has never been furniture shopping
- Claims that he doesn’t even own furniture
- Interrupts Hillary Clinton by leaning forward and saying the word “Wrong.”
- Claims that he is leading in polls
- Advances the theory that the polls are rigged
- Uses the phrase “false flag”
- Attacks Republicans who have unendorsed him
- Attacks Ted Cruz, just for kicks
- Answers a question that is not about Bill Clinton with a sentence about Bill Clinton
- Inexplicably brings up an old feud, including but not limited to:
- Khizr Khan
- Rosie O’Donnell
- Judge Gonzalo Curiel
- Megyn Kelly
- The baby he kicked out of one his debates
- Invites someone in the audience to go furniture shopping
- Announces a launch date for Trump TV
After the debate, treat yourself to a nightcap when…
- You realize that there are still 29 days until Election Day.
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