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Vanilla Ice Is Livetweeting The First Democratic Presidential Debate. It Is Glorious.

He's endorsed Bernie Sanders for President #IceIceBernie

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The first Democratic Presidential debate is on right now. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton is facing off against progressive insurgent Bernie Sanders, former Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, and two old white dudes who are literally just there to fill out space on the stage. Here’s a livestream, if you’re keen.

Obviously, the debate is the centre of an absolute whirlwind of liveblogs, livetweets, recaps, hot takes, analysis, quasi-analysis and spin from American and international news outlets. But there’s only one person whose coverage of the debate is unmissable: Robert Matthew Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice.

Most of his tweets so far have been fairly middle-of-the-road, asking his fans what they think about the various candidates and asking for predictions about who’s going to win in 2016, while using the helpful and widely-used hashtag ‘#hmmmmm?’ more often than is strictly advisable.

He’s also expressed a preference for Sanders, thereby ensuring the democratic socialist candidate secures the crucial aging-white-rapper vote and goes on to slay it in the primaries.

But if there’s a single tweet that needs to be printed out, framed and hung above your bed to gaze lovingly at every night before you fall asleep, it’s this one. Come. Bask in its radiance.

This is it. There’s no way the 2016 Presidential campaign can serve up anything better than this. We can tune out now. It’s done.