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Sarah Palin's Donald Trump endorsement sounds uncannily like an Iggy Azalea verse

Christopher Hooton
Wednesday 20 January 2016 12:50 EST
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Sarah Palin officially endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday night, and boy did she Sarah Palin the hell out of it.

Not only did she reference “our troops” about a thousand times and talk of “kickin’ Isis’ ass”, but she delivered the speech with a manic cadence and gusto reminiscent of a fire rap verse.

People on Twitter were quick to point out the similarities between her "Right wingin', bitter clingin', proud clingers of our guns, our god, and our religions, and our Constitution” bar with the completely unintelligible one Iggy Azalea once spat on stage.

Let’s take a look at them side-by-side:

And oh yes, the remixes have already started:

On a kind-of related note, Kevin Spacey was asked last year if he ever felt House of Cards and its vision of politics were implausible.

“There are times when I’ll leave the set and, you know, we’ll have shot a particular storyline, and I’ll think, man, this is really pushing it,” he admitted. “And then I get back to the hotel and I turn on the news.”

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