Drinking Game/Politics

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General

• Well, first and foremost, regardless of your country, make sure you have a nice, stiff drink. You're gonna need it.
• Ad Hominem attacks: Shout "Ad Hominem!" in unison and take a drink. Take a second drink for mispronouncing Ad Hominem.
• If one person repeats the same point, drink! Really, for most debates, this rule alone will be plenty, and needs to be narrowed down with these rules:
  • 1. Each point should involve a specific word that directly harkens back to that point. Then that word can be used as an unambiguous trigger to drink.
  • 2. Each trigger should be one specific petty issue, not a broad idealogical stance. Since the petty issue can be brought up with just a few words (or even one), it's common practice for politicians to bring them up again and again in the middle of bigger, unrelated arguments. This is much harder to do with real issues, so don't use those (don't worry, they don't come up very often).
  • 3. Try to focus on points made as early as possible in the speech\debate; these are most likely to be repeated a lot.
  • The 2011 Canadian English-language election debate is a sterling example, where in the first question of debate (point 3), the opposing leader criticizes the ruling party's budget for including "jets" and "prisons" (point 1), and repeats these two words many times throughout the debate without elaborating on them (point 2). In some debates, the petty talking points won't be so obvious at first, but if you keep listening, a few concrete ones will make themselves apparent.
• Every time a major political official is caught in a sex scandal, drink three shots of tequila out of a hooker's navel.

Canadian Politics

• Canadian election debates have a monitor who has the job of making sure every party leader has a chance to defend any points being made, and to ensure everyone gets roughly equal speaking time. One drink if someone speaks out of turn, and another drink for every time the monitor repeats the name of the person who is supposed to be talking, or otherwise protests.

American politics

• Take a swig of Vodka and shout "Budem zdorovy" every time somebody attempts to shoot down a policy or idea by calling it socialism or something similar.
• When a major politician changes his policies entirely upon election, drink a Black and Tan
  • When a major politician is simply accused of this by people who didn't pay any or enough attention to what he was promising, drink one of the two colored ales straight, smashing the other one over the head of the person in question
• When a US presidential hopeful tailors large parts of his initial campaign towards Iowa, take a shot of corn whiskey
• Take a shot every time somebody filibusters
  • For a fun variation, take a shot for every hour the filibuster goes on. ^[1]
• Take a shot every time somebody uses the phrases "balanced budget", "national debt", "federal budget deficit", and "selling our country to the Chinese". If anybody actually accomplishes anything meaningful on this, down the entire bottle, and any other bottles you have in the cabinet.
• There was one for the 2008 presidential debates. Take a drink any time Obama stammered or said "Let me be clear". Or drink every time McCain said "Maverick" or "My friends..."
• Whenever a candidate for any office mentions repealing an amendment take a drink. Take two if said candidate has already show a lack of understanding of any of the amendments in the constitution.
• Whenever any politician strongly opposes a nonexistent strawman, take a shot through a straw.

Australian politics

• Take a sip every time Julia Gillard dips her head as she speaks. There's a reason why Reiko Kazama nicknamed her "Dippy Ostrich".

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1. ↑ this side-game only works when actual filibusters are required. At the moment, the mere promise of a filibuster is sufficient, meaning they can effectively last for months or years, and as such the variation is, for the moment, suicidally insane