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First Republican Primary Debate Recap
Is your bottle as full as mine?
Wow! What just happened? That was not at all what I expected. And I certainly didn’t expect to end up with a nearly full bottle of tequila because the word “woke” was only used once.
Once.
By Nikki Haley, of all people. Boy, you can tell that she has never debated on a presidential level before. Nikki, honey, this is the primary. It’s dog eat dog. Throw raw meat to the base. Save the reasonable, centrist shit for the general election debates. That is if you win the Republican nomination. To win the nomination, though, you have to pander to the base. Get down in the mud and wrestle with the boys. Bite their heads off like you bit off Rama-dama-swamy’s head.
Cuz he’s an ignorant upstart. But we’ll get to him in a minute.
First, let’s figure out if that was actually Ron DeSantis standing at center stage with a death grip on his lectern and a smile that looked like it had been drawn on his face by his 3-year-old.
Were you as creeped out by it as I was?
Here’s the thing. He only responded to questions from the moderators. He wasn’t mixing it up with his opponents. It’s almost as if … dare I say it? … he had been replaced by a voice-activated…
