The #GOP candidates’ debate getting underway. The media on site for the Fox News/RNC event is restricted to watching from the Fiserv Forum players’ parking garage.
Political novice 38-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy is called a "blank slate" by Brett Baier. He responds that "it's going to take an outsider" to turn around America.
"I'm incredibly proud of the record of the Trump-Pence administration," says former VP Mike Pence. "I'm unquestionably the best prepared...in this race."
@w7voa He's Trump with curry instead of mayo. Slicker-talking, shallow-thinking money-grubbing dilettante who isn't in it to win it, just to be a wrecking ball.
Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota, who injured his Achilles tendon quips: "I think I took it too literally when they said go to Milwaukee and break a leg."
After more than 20 minutes in to the debate, the former Arkansas governor, Asa Hutchinson, gets in his first words reminding folks he was also "head of the DEA."
@w7voa I’m not going to watch but from your live tooting I see that bunch of white guys have already ganged up on an Indian guy. Pence said something about how he’s going to speak slow so this idiot can understand, and now Chris calling him a computer. Lol, right on brand for the gop. I fully expect some of them to call Haley smelly terrorist by the end of this charade.
Nearly a half hour in to the #GOPDebate and the only one who has uttered the word "Trump" is Mike Pence and it was to tout that administration's accomplishments.
"No Republican president can ban abortions" due to the political reality in Congress, responds Haley. "You have to be honest with the American people."
@w7voa Rich women will always have access to on demand abortions. Poor women will die from do-it-yourself abortions. Tim Scott will never be pregnant, he can sit this one out (he obviously wants more dead women from do-it-yourself abortions).
Pregnancy is a pre-existing condition which is covered by Obamacare (Republicans hate Obamacare).
@w7voa Did he ever say why we can’t? Because the Church tells us we can’t? Or did God tell him directly that 13 year old girls need to bring a forced pregnancy to term?
@w7voa he’s right. North Dakota is 49th in the number of advanced degrees. New York clocks in at number 9. North Dakotans have trouble reading the directions.
Hutchinson, to boos, says Trump "morally disqualified" from being president again and brings up the 14th amendment. "I'm not going to support somebody who is convicted of a serious felony."
"I do think Vice President Pence did the right thing," responds Haley. But let the American people decide whether Trump should be president again. "Trump is the most disliked politician in America. We can't win a general election that way."
@w7voa Does Ramaswarmy know that Ukraine is fighting Russia? He says Russia is a threat but won't increase funding so that Russia is defeated. Makes no sense to me.
#Ukraine is "a pro-American country that was invaded by a thug," says Haley. "A win for Russia is a win for China. Ukraine is the first line of defense for us."
"Beating a Democratic incumbent is not easy," says Christie, noting the last time it happened it was by a Republican governor in a blue state. "I'm the one who can win this race if you give me the chance."
@w7voa White latex fetish guy talks basements (I can imagine DeSantis keeps the rest of his white gimp outfit in his basement). You won't see Joe Biden wearing high white rubber boots on a hot sunny day in Florida. Joe Biden can be seen bicycling.
@w7voa I am sure the NYT will find nothing wrong with invading Mexico, dropping support for Ukraine, or criminalizing abortion and Trans People when a majority of Americans oppose it.
@w7voa Arkansas's median income was about $26,000 in 2020. About 11.6% of people in Arkansas are uninsured for health care (worse than New York and California, better than Florida and Texas).
@w7voa Teachers are poorly paid, poorly treated, and apparently should expect to be shot at work. And because of Christian terrorists they can't do much teaching. So, yeah, let's destroy the teachers union. Fucking marshmallow.
@w7voa I have said for years they're agenda is "Keep them poor, sick and stupid." You can't exercise absolute power over an educated, healthy and well-off populace, and Trump didn't say "I love the poorly educated" for nothing.
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It's synchronized and coordinated sustained attack on our institutions starting from any weak points and vulnerabilities. That's how fascists do.
@w7voa I love how no one knows what the schools actually teach. All three high schools in our town have full blown tech ed departments with very high tech metal and woodworking equipment. And yes, the schools DO teach civics.
@w7voa We was way off topic. It was supposed to be an opportunity for them to express their LGBTQ bigotry and blow a dog whistle for racism. Haley chose to talk about education, only briefly mentioning the topic as her time was running out. 😆 #debate
@w7voa How about if we actually partner with Central American people to reduce violence and increase economic activity? I have nothing against immigrants, but isn't it easier to put up some money to improve the living situations there. I am sure if conditions were better people would much rather stay where they are.
@w7voa Huh. I didn't realize that the Mexico's military was in charge of the Mexican government. Or does Pence plan to ignore the Mexican government and pick a general to "partner with"?
@w7voa Yeah. Trump admires the Russian president just like Yanukovich admires the Russian president. Both had Manafort there to help make sure that the admiration would take place from the seats of our democratic countries.🤨
@w7voa What a putz. Is Christie really saying that Russia will invade the US if we don't stop them in Ukraine?
No one gets to be president if they forget that we have nukes and are the only country in the history of Earth who's ever used them and are prepared to use them again in 30 minutes or less.
@w7voa Please use hashtags on these posts thing forward. (Looks like you started to and then forgot?)
It will increase your reach. On Mastodon, a lot of people follow the hashtag, not necessarily individuals.
Those of us who follow you but don't want a blow-by-blow of the debate will be able to filter out the hashtag but still follow you and get your posts on everything else.
@w7voa Puleeeeease...the man tried to have him killed ffs. The praise for him from the others means they know he can't come close to winning the primary
@w7voa Do criminals get to have people vote in a general election to decide if they go to jail or not (or if they are even put on trial)? Haley is an idiot. Trump, the criminal, shouldn't be prosecuted for his crimes according to Haley, let people vote for him to be president or not and that should cover everything. I just can't with this stupidity. Ask Haley why she worships a rapist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
@w7voa Christie worked (works) for ABC. Ramaswarmy is an idiot. Joe Scarborough (former longtime Republican) and Nicole Wallace (worked in George Bush's White House) work for MSNBC.
@w7voa So, as many of us expected, this whole thing is just the candidates trying to establish themselves as the most delusional, most dangerous freak in a suit
@w7voa that just shows he has no understanding of the Constitution and American government. The police don’t do indictments. The justice system does. And yes they are indicting their political opponents, but not because they’re opponents but because they’re criminals.
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I would like just one of the questions to point out that WI is under a heat warning and right now, with the sun down, it's 96 degrees and a heat index of 109. What is their policy?
Interesting how this supposed #capitalist advocates for dirty, extractive, expensive, finite 19th century technology rather than low cost, clean technology.
I guess math basic math competency is not a requirement for the presidency
@w7voa The last outsider almost destroyed the Country. How about aomeone who has real ideas for America and knows how democracy works? Oh, and he or she should probably not be a criminal either.
@w7voa OK, where have we heard that before?? Hardly got the orange menace outsider criminal off the stage, not to mention the outsider wolf in fleece-vest-dad clothing who’s ruining VA….really? Turn America around to what? Nazi Germany?
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