It was the RamaSmarmySwamy show

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/us/politics/republican-debate-takeaways.html
https://archive.ph/Xsk80

Ramaswamy Seizes Spotlight as DeSantis Hangs Back: 7 Debate Takeaways
As Republican presidential candidates traded fire at their first debate, they mostly left their party’s dominant front-runner unscathed.
By Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
Aug. 24, 2023, 1:57 a.m. ET

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Six months ago, the idea that Mr. Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old entrepreneur, would be standing center stage at a Republican presidential debate would have seemed unimaginable.

And yet there he was, leaning into that fact with a line echoing one used famously by Barack Obama, asking, “Who the heck is this skinny guy with a funny last name?”

That skinny guy quickly became a punching bag for rivals, led by former Vice President Mike Pence, who invoked his experience to say that it wasn’t time for a “rookie” who needed “on-the-job training.” Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey recalled the Obama line, quipping, “I’m afraid we’re dealing with the same type of amateur.”

But Mr. Ramaswamy smiled his way through the night, delighting in the attention as he staked out positions that might be unpopular among his competitors — cutting funding for Ukraine’s war effort (he mocked the country’s president as “their pope”), and promising to pre-emptively pardon Mr. Trump — but that resonate with the Republican base.

He hewed closely to Mr. Trump not just on substance but also on style. He stirred controversy to soak up screen time, and lobbed some of the evening’s most strikingly personal slights: accusing Mr. Christie of auditioning for an MSNBC contract, Nikki Haley of having her eye on lucrative private-sector jobs and declaring — to some boos — that he was the only candidate not bought and paid for by special interests.

The Harvard-educated Mr. Ramaswamy came off at times as slick — Mr. Christie dismissed him as “a guy who sounds like ChatGPT” — but he was the one everyone else was talking about, a victory in itself.

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[Walleye]

1. I hear entrepreneur and I read scam artist

I think it is an insult to the presidency and to the United States that a person who has never been elected to anything would assume he could be president. Didn’t we do that once with Trump.

[Sympthsical]

2. "a guy who sounds like ChatGPT"

That's really, really funny, and actually not far off the mark.

[spanone]

3. It was a collective shit show.

Six of the eight pledged to vote for trmp even if he's convicted of crimes.


That alone should have exempted them for life. How can you swear to uphold the constitution when you've vowed to ignore it.

[YDogg]

4. He is a cosplaying charlatan.

[Blue Owl]

5. The GOP's latest Swamp-a-rama creature feature

[Oneironaut]

6. Really NYT? This is why journalism sucks now.

Ramaswamy sounded like a psycho all night. Apparently, all you need to do to “steal the show” at debates now is just scream nonsense while sporting crazy-eyes.

Of course, Trump did the same thing, and, the media loved him. Clickbait-based news is destroying America.

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

7. A sleezy Trump wanna be

even dressed like him last night