Yeah, yeah—you can say the real winner of the fourth GOP debate was, once again, Donald Trump. But in terms of who was most memorable, the prize goes unsurprisingly to Vivek Ramaswamy, who bashed both Chris Christie and Nikki Haley with some memorable rhetoric. Ramaswamy rightly called out Haley for being a corrupt, warmongering, neocon shill, and he told Christie to pack up and "enjoy a nice meal"—quite possibly the politest way ever to say "You're a fat fucking pig." Vivek also noted that the deportation of illegals can absolutely happen now, under existing law—something no other GOPer is saying.
Styx, however, remains unimpressed with Vivek:
By Styx's reckoning, DeSantis and Haley are jockeying for second and third place, but I think it depends on which polls you're relying on. At least Styx agrees that Vivek distinguished himself the most this time around, with both DeSantis and Haley as little more than background characters. I remain a Vivek fan despite his corporatist flaws. You're not going to find anyone in this race who's perfect, so don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
During his "live" show, Styx came out and called Vivek a corporate Republican plant with his on stage defense of DeSantis by goi.ng after neocon Haley so hard and ignoring DeSantis. Styx had been claiming there was a plant for months, and now he named the name, Vivek.
ReplyDeleteI find his live shows to be quite entertaining when watching after titmouse places bookmarks in the comments section for all of Styx's topics. Makes his hour long show into a 15-20 minute one.
So what's your take? Is Vivek a plant?
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I still wonder if this is some weird Indian-on-Indian thing: two Americans of subcontinental heritage arching their backs and hissing at each other when in close proximity. And while I don't know the actual chronology, I suspect Haley started it by laying into Vivek hard early on.
I hope not, but it wouldn't surprise me at this point in my life. Power makes people do some pretty unbelievable things like driving Epstein to kill (sic) himself while opening the border to counter Democrat abortion population losses.
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