Republican Candidate For Utah State Senate Goes Viral For Dropping The Hottest Bars Of 2022

The internet got a new addition to its oldest and most consistent genre of viral videos yesterday when a Twitter user discovered Utah State Senate candidate Linda Paulson adding to the illustrious canon of "geriatric white people being absolutely horrendous at rapping."

republicans have gone absolutely off the rails because what is this LMFAO pic.twitter.com/jX2SBjJ0bF

— matt (@mattxiv) September 18, 2022

Paulson posted her campaign rap to YouTube two weeks ago, where it received a humble 47,000 views, but it gained over a million more views in less than 24 hours once @mattxiv posted it to Twitter.

It doesn't take a professional music critic to infer that Paulson doesn't quite have a knack for this whole rap thing, as her flow is chaotic and her rhymes, should there even be rhymes attempted, are slant rhymes at best (one line goes, "I want less government control and regulation / want to stop and expose political corruption"). The budgetary planning for the ad appears to have been "have grandson make campaign ad in Windows Moviemaker" as many users continue to mock the clip.

To her credit, Paulson does a decent job of outlining her politics slowly and memorably, which may help her when Utah's District 12 voters go to the ballot box. Things do start trending more contentious towards the end of her video when she starts shoeing in prominent Republican talking points like Critical Race Theory and transgender people, concluding with the line, "In schools, they're pushin' for new beliefs, and just to clarify, as a female adult, I know what a woman is."

Overall, social media has mostly been cringing in response to the video, though it appears at least some begrudgingly admit it maybe is a little catchy.

This is not a bop. https://t.co/YFLeRCeUST

— Emily M. Farris (@emayfarris) September 19, 2022

If I can’t unsee this neither can my followers. We shall suffer together. https://t.co/ayvHeTlmkm

— 𝔈𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔐𝔍 (@DarthMayder) September 19, 2022

“My name is Linda Paulson, republican and awesome. I love God Family and the Constitution” https://t.co/HzHhkZmil0 pic.twitter.com/oDueOFpF6k

— Churp (@churpinturpin) September 19, 2022