• Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    His first big exposure to the national spotlight was when he gave the Republican response to one of Obama’s State of the Union addresses. And for whatever reason he had insane dry mouth and had to pause his live-on-air speech to grab an off-screen bottle of water and take a drink and for a while that was all anybody associated him with. It kind of killed his momentum as a rising star at the time.

    https://youtu.be/dWkjVvoXIS0

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      23 hours ago

      Which is weird bcz everybody gets thirsty. It’s weird the things we focus on. The fact that he’s a bumbling moron should be what people talk about, not some extremely mundane human need.

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah it was like the Howard Dean scream. You could see him getting more and more nervous about it until he finally freaked out and grabbed the water, but such a normal thing to experience.