I mean, they have nothing interesting to say, no policies to discuss, and are a black hole of charisma.
Ramaswamy has ideas about policies. But they’re horrible policies.
To his credit, he does appear to be the only GOP candidate with clear, actionable policies he is pushing.
They are batshit insane, but at least he has ideas other than “vote against anything the Dems like.”
That last part is all that really matters in this case. None of them can make their insanity interesting to watch without the reality TV star around.
What a surprise? Why would anyone watch when the front runner isint even going to be there.
Why would you want to watch? They’re all a bunch of losers and one worse than the next. They’re the current failures that rose to the top.
None have compelling arguments or solutions and are only there to shitsling each other. Even monkeys at the zoo are smarter.
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what percentage of people were:
A) aware of it?
B) enjoy watching aspiring politicians?
C) gave a fuck?
None of the candidates are compelling or inspirational. At least Biden is good at the job and gets things done. He’s fine and competent. All I see on the Republican side are idiots yelling with no solutions or answers. I don’t even think the Republicans could be that bad if they could just get their shit together and actually try to do something for regular folks. People don’t get elevated with Republicans, they get stepped on.
fine and competent.
He can’t even read a teleprompter. I think he’s a better option than Trump, but jesus. He’s a decrepit old man.
I’d think about the same amount as previous debates.
There was a second Republican primary debate?
FR, first I’ve heard of it.
It’s Republicans debating against each other? Like aren’t they all the same?
They’re all racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and antisemitic, just in different orders.
Listen to the difference between their opinions on Ukraine
Holy shit some of those are comedy gold! These assholes are on the same team which makes it even more funny!
I only got the Chris Christie clip. Are there supposed to be more?
Here’s another candidate:
https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1703146886008373379
That is kind of a good point tho? Why are we ridiculing this person/debate (I’m not familiar all) based on this video?
“I’m a piece of shit.”
“No I’m a piece of shit!”
“Heh… that’s cute. I’m the biggest piece of shit.”
rapturous applause
Narrator: The audience was the biggest piece of shit, after all…
It is a championship of “Who is the most shitty politition behind Trump”.
News media use to have a respectability solely by being the people carrying the torch. With every inch of our lives being saturated with what ever digital media we want to consume at any given moment the established news media has run its course. Not even mentioning all its faults and the bullshit it propagates. You had 50 years and we are tired of the show. Please cancel, do not renew.
whats to watch. a bunch of un-empathetic sycophants pretending to have a platform or relevance to an audience already “not votin for a lib”
It was even worse than you’re imagining.
I dunno, I’m imagining them doing the Nazi salute to punctuate the end of their hate speech.
[…] lowest viewership since 2015
Hasn’t there only been one other debate since then…? That’s rather misleading.
Probably looking at all republican debates since 2015. In short, the lowest its been since Trump.
lowest ratings since the first one a little bit ago.
Is the article only looking at presidential primary debates, or all Republican primary debates?
It also represents — by a significant margin — the lowest TV audience for any Republican presidential debate since the start of the 2016 cycle, when Trump first became a candidate.
Who wants to watch a bunch of mentally ill psychopaths talk over each other? I sure don’t.
To the most of the world, they are “mentally ill psychopaths”, but to their rabid supporters, they can do no wrong. They will still watch them, cheer them on, and support them and vote for them…
That’s the thing, though. They don’t actually have rabid supporters. Trump does, and they want his supporters to support them.
That’s why no one is interested in watching their debates. The people who actually care about debates aren’t interested in their nonsense, and the ones whose vote they are courting are just waiting for Trump to give them the Go signal.
Yup I’ve looked at conservative spaces online and it’s all still Trump Trump Trump! I was honestly pretty surprised that they don’t want to try anyone else considering how much everyone else hates Trump but that’s just how out of touch they are I guess.
I was honestly pretty surprised that they don’t want to try anyone else considering how much everyone else hates Trump
In their eyes, that’s one of his best features. The Republican party’s singular common goal these days is to be as contrarian as possible, and the angrier everyone else is with them, the better they figure they’re doing.
They like him BECAUSE everyone else hates him
For a significant portion of them, I think everyone else hating him is a feature
Clearly not that many of them.
Wasn’t Jersey shore insanely popular?
They were running their mouths not trying to run the country.
It showed that America, if it is going to keep its greatness, is in desperate need of new politicians or a new generation of politicians. All these people on the debate stage have no clue how hard it is out there right now or what people stree going through. Desperate people need help, solutions, and answers. These debaters/ Republicans aren’t it.
Not the tryouts for it.
So in other words, lower than the ones in 2019?
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Was there a repugnican debate in 2019?
You’re right, there wasn’t. I didn’t read the article at first since I thought the title was clickbait, but it seems like they’re actually saying the ratings were lower than any debate in 2015 or later. They just phrased it in a confusing way.
I had no idea it was happening. None.
I imagine you don’t watch the news then
I don’t watch cable news, no.
well that’s probably why you didn’t hear anything about it
They are all running for VP candidate but are too dumb to realize it.
I highly doubt Amy of them gets the VP slot on the R ballot in the general.
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But that’s the thing, even if they’re the VP on ticket, all they’re going to do is sink the ticket further. Voting for any of these buffoons, whether it be locally, nationally, VP or president, is just asinine. They’re all condescending as fuck and they all think we’re too stupid to realize how much they suck. It’s weird, but I miss the days of Bob Dole and McCain.
Except we all know Trump will pick his VP during an Adderall fuelled constipation party on social media. So it could be either of these morons, regardless of their debating performance (I use those words liberally).
Or it could be Kanye.
I heard someone point out that Trump might want a dynasty and pick Don Jr. That’s probably the most likely option now that I think about it. His son is one person who will be loyal no matter what and and someone who would be even worse than him if he is removed from office.
They’re well aware of it, it’s why they’re not really badmouthing Trump.
Christie did in the first debate if I heard correctly
So as low as when Trump first ran. Not sure what that means, but I don’t like it 🤔
It means the people voting republican already know everything they need to know because of their top secret source on youtube with 13.4 million subscribers.
Linus tech tips?
Shhh
This is incredibly obvious but it’s stated this way because a more honest headline would be uninteresting. The last time there was a serious Republican primary was 2015.
So they’re saying debate ratings are lower than the last time there wasn’t an obvious front runner. Yeah, no shit cnbc. Good job.
Yeah, the better question is - whose actually watching? Trump is obviously going to be the nominee unless he’s literally forced off the ballot, and if that happens it’s just going to be chaos because I guarentee he’s just going to continue running as a write in candidate
