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My favorite part is how they keep talking about how dangerous China is, then they keep showing tik Tok ads
Fuckin A right, the limits of hypocrisy know no bounds
“We need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country,” Ron DeSantis said.
Says the one who is at the forefront of indoctrination in schools.
No, ya see, indoctrination is when we tell kids to respect one another's differences and teach them all about the world. An education is when we teach them "America rules" so they become good little worker drones without complaints. /s
"I want to see how people conduct themselves" says the voter whose top choices are Donald Trump and Ronald DeSantis.
"Consensus is the opposite of leadership" eeesh Mike. So if 60% of America agrees, the leaderlike thing to do is argue with them?
It does seem to be a very undemocratic statement, doesn't it? Par for the GOP course.
This is the one, rare instance where I'll agree with Pence to a point.
Democracy can be cruel to the minority, and creating an equitable society built on freedom and justice means that sometimes, you have to listen to 60% of the people demanding something and then say "no." Leaders lead their people to where they should be, living by example and making persuasive arguments. Leaders also compromise and build consensus, and great leaders recognize that sometimes they don't get to have it their way. We should choose leaders we trust to make those judgement calls.
The problem with that is that Pence is not anywhere on the list of people with the qualities or integrity to be trusted to make decisions. Pence is the sort of guy to order pizza for a group and get four white pizzas with olives because he likes olives and sauce is sinful.
I don’t know what I expected, but somehow the “debate” is worse than that.
Ramaswamy is a used car salesman. I wouldn't put money on him actually believing any particular statement that left his mouth. Absolute grifter.
They all are because they know their audience
He has to be a Trojan horse, right? He nearly took over the entire "debate."
I especially liked the part where Desantis froze and needed to reboot before giving his closing statement.
And he gave us his best Uncanny Valley Terminator smile!
Freaking Pence thinks he's on a pulpit.
Pence was on a pulpit, and he condemned Trump to the court system from it.
Have you met Republicans? He's trying to be what they want.
Vivek "drill, frack, burn coal" Ramalamadingdong. I'm having flashbacks to that dipshit Palin and her drill baby drill battle screech.
He's a piece of shit, but calling Ramaswamy "Ramalamadingdong" is pretty gross to me.
Exactly! That title belongs to Mr. M. Night Shamalamadingdong!
Please don't
Out of curiosity, why?
I think in terms of mutable and immutable characteristics.
We can choose to have integrity, dignity, honesty-- things he chooses not to. We can't choose our ethnicity, surname at birth, bone structure, childhood hardship.
People find it acceptable to make fun of people enacting character they don't like by transferring to things they don't understand or don't regularly encounter.
Think about some feature of yourself that's unusual but immediately apparent. I have a large facial mole, for instance. Think about how it sucks when people put down that feature for no good reason. It fucking sucks.
Then try to imagine: the thing that's unusual is something everyone in your family, or your community, or your culture, possesses. Maybe it's even a source of dignity and pride, like wearing a turban to show your religious devotion. But most of the majority culture doesn't understand or regularly encounter it, so it's just a joke. Or a threat. Or a scapegoat. It's hard to tell the difference, sometimes.
It's more than a little vaguely racist.
It's the equivalent of calling Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell's wife, "Elaine Chingchongdingdong".
Being disrespectful through casual racism is low hanging fruit. You can dislike them without being racist about it.
Please reallty try to giive everybody else on the stage a similarly racist treatment and come back to us.
You could replace all of them with animatronics controlled by ChatGPT, and no one would know!
They would, because the replies would be smarter.
One of them literally said Vivek was a cgpt.
That whole top row in the thumbnail is going nowhere.
For various Republican reasons.
I don't see anyone in the debate going anywhere unless Trump is forcibly removed from consideration.
A very weak field
Except Denumbnuts. He's probably going to be the nominnee.
You're going to have to be more specific than that
Bunch of ass-clowns.
I had to turn it off when they did the thing about Bidenomics. Fox News really sucks, and I had forgotten how much.
They want to invade Mexico, wtf?