“The Climate Change Hoax” was the most poinant takeaway of the evening, alongside Pence getting fired up without mentioning Mother. It was a wild ride of bullshit with no real substance by a pack of propaganda clowns posing as candidates.
They know their voters.
Their dwindling base
It was yet another canary in the coal mine for the GOP however – the few young people who are Republicans are concerned about climate change and want serious action. The debate pretty much solidified the Republicans aren’t going to do that, unless maybe they somehow nominate Haley.
My takeaway is that half of our country is dumb as shit if they are considering voting for any of them. The denial of climate change should be game over considering the entire world is on fire around us.
Conservatives have been programmed to believe climate change is fake news.
Another way to say it is that they are dumb as shit. They make absolutely no effort to investigate issues themselves and instead rely on Fox to tell them what to think. It should be embarrassing to be that willingly ignorant but they have no shame.
I’ve seen
discount KermitPeterson try to pivot to the idea that climate change actually saves lives because more people die during winter. I wonder if he’d be willing to say that to the face of people who have lost everything because of the recent Hilary storm.Did we watch the same debate? Ramaswamy said “climate change is a hoax” and the crowd erupted in boos and jeers.
I think the climate change reality is a shared belief now. The disagreement between parties is in how we handle it. Ramaswamy is nutty and is clinging to the hardest right talking points.
DeSantis said under a DeSantis administration, people who cross into the United States illegally would end up “stone cold dead,” a promise he has repeated for weeks.
How is it that people are not calling him out on this? How the fuck can a Hispanic person vote for this Nazi?
Second generation (or more) descendants of immigrants often don’t appreciate what their ancestors did. Just “Born in the USA dammit, it’s mine”.
Even many first generation latinos don’t want further waves doing what they did.
Or, they don’t even see the next immigrants as doing what they did, or being like they were. They might help specific friends and family follow along, but not those “teeming hordes over there”.
the “I got mine, fuck you!” demographic is a lock for the Republicans.
A large portion of them say “I followed the rules and paid my fair share”
White racists are most of his base.
As the Democratic party is learning, “Hispanic” isn’t a monolithic bloc. Mexicans aren’t the same as Puerto Ricans aren’t the same as Colombians aren’t the same as Nicaraguans aren’t the same as Cubans etc. Some of them hate other Latin nationalities almost as much as white American Conservatives hate all of them.
They have the Hispanic propaganda machine on lock is how.
I hate Desantis as much as the next person, but he was talking about the cartels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXEvjRt8uRg
It does leave room for ambiguity, but I also think OP’s article’s quote is very disingenuous. CNN is trash.
It was a scary god damn fascist shitshow where they told the American people if you’re not a cis white male you will lose your civil rights and the harder you went fascist the bigger cheers you got.
And despite all of that, Trump still won the debate because the biggest cheers were from the extremists that prostrated themselves at the toadstool of Trump while Trump was going off on anothet unhinged, incomprehensible interview.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And because he has positioned himself as a defender of Trump, Ramaswamy was, at times, a stand-in for the former president, who momentarily ceded the stage Wednesday night but will take it back Thursday when he turns himself in at the Fulton County jail in Georgia as he faces election subversion charges.
And at a key moment – when the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they would support Trump if he is convicted in a court of law – DeSantis peeked around the stage to see how everyone else had responded before he half heartedly put up his right palm.
He shared his biography – thrice mentioning his military service and talking repeatedly about his young family – an acknowledgment that voters may not yet know his story beyond the cultural clashes and Covid-19 policies that have made him a Republican star.
Nearly eight years ago, the former governor embarrassed Marco Rubio during the final debate before the New Hampshire primary by pointing out the Florida senator’s habit of repeating lines.
The optics didn’t help: Fox News showed a split screen of Christie standing silently as Ramaswamy grinned until the moderators asked the crowd to let him finish.
Haley, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, brought onto the stage Wednesday a message that was geared more directly for a general electorate than those of her rivals.
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Vote Republican if you want to invade Mexico.
Calgon, take them all away.
Looks like Trump will have to worry more about Vivek than DeSantis.
If they pick Trump they will never hear the end of it.
Jesus that picture of the Iowa voters. Heavy people sure do love being conservative.
I opened the article after your comment expecting to see a bunch of Bubbas and Gurdys. Instead I only see two people that don’t even fall into morbidly obese, then a bunch of regular people, some overly skinny. In fact, there are more people that look like twigs than those who are overweight.
