The 2016 GOP Presidential Debate Drinking Game
Fox News is hosting the first GOP presidential debate between the top ten candidates Thursday night. Here's a fun drinking game you can play to make it a little more entertaining.
Drink ONCE any time a Republican candidate:
- Says “Obamacare”
- Compares themselves to Ronald Reagan
- Says the phrase “free market”
- Uses the word “Socialism”
- Says the phrase “personal responsibility”
- Mentions their own religion
- One or more candidates cut each other off
- Uses the phrase “failed presidency”
- Proposes something so similar to another candidate that you can’t really tell the difference between their ideas
- Donald Trump brags about himself
- Mentions Iran and/ or the Iran deal
Drink TWICE any time a Republican candidate:
- Confesses their love for Ronald Reagan
- Talks about “illegals,” but you can tell they’re really talking about people of South
- American descent in general
- Complains about taxes
- Mentions Benghazi
- Says something negative about marriage equality
- Says something about President Obama that you know, for a fact, isn’t actually true
- Portrays all of Islam or all Muslims as terrorists
- Attacks Hillary Clinton
- One or more candidates are caught throwing Donald Trump a helping of evil eye
- Jeb Bush is trying really hard to distance himself from his brother
- Refers to America’s poor in a way that makes you believe they’ve never once missed a meal in their lives
- Suggests, veiled or otherwise, that we should be bombing Iran instead of negotiating peacefully
Drink THREE TIMES any time a Republican candidate:
- Quotes Ronald Reagan
- Says something homophobic, sexist, and/ or racist
- Says the phrase “pick themselves up by their bootstraps,” or some variation of that
- Mentions Planned Parenthood in any way
- Says something that would give either or both of the Koch brothers a chubby
- Says the phrase “real America”
- Mentions how many firearms they own
- Attacks Bernie Sanders
- Is asked a softball question by someone at Fox News
- Plugs a book they wrote
- Says a joke that no one who surpassed the fourth grade would find humorous
- Promises to bust up one or more unions
- Blames the recession on President Obama
- Uses the phrase “mainstream media”
FINISH YOUR DRINK and open the next one any time a Republican candidate:
- Confuses socialism, fascism, and/ or communism, in any combination
- Compares the Republican Party or themselves to one or more civil rights leaders
- Mentions President Obama’s birth certificate in any way
- Argues that they’re more like Ronald Reagan than another candidate or multiple other candidates
- Promises to shut down Planned Parenthood