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3 minutes ago, purdygood said:

I dont want to give Trump ideas. But he is so weird and dumb he should come out and say "they call me weird. You know whats weird? Inflation. The border. The economy. The homeless problem all across the country. I want to fix that.  And if you vote for me i will".   But he is psychopath and those words could never come out of his mouth because he is all about him and being a victim 100% of the time.

TDS must hurt.

 

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17 minutes ago, purdygood said:

I dont want to give Trump ideas. But he is so weird and dumb he should come out and say "they call me weird. You know whats weird? Inflation. The border. The economy. The homeless problem all across the country. I want to fix that.  And if you vote for me i will".   But he is psychopath and those words could never come out of his mouth because he is all about him and being a victim 100% of the time. 

Few weeks ago I said he could have diffused the whole thing Day 1. “You know what’s weird? How much I love America,” or “Yeah I’m a little weird - so what? Let’s talk about my direction for the country.”

But Trump can’t do that, because he’s a hypersensitive fragile little girl.

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46 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

ANOTHER TDS THREAD 😂 🌈 

 

 

What a disgusting, filthy old man. “Tirelessly”. He insults people that lost a loved one.  He does it all the time. 

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Teachers union chief: Vance ‘must really be disconnected from life’

09/02/24 11:21 AM ET
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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten suggested Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) “must really be disconnected from life” in response to resurfaced comments in which he called out the union head for not having children.

“It was just a bizarre thing for him to double down on it now because every parent and every teacher and every kid in August and September are thinking about the new year and what it means and that engagement,” Weingarten said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “So he must really be disconnected from life.”

Weingarten was responding to a resurfaced clip from 2021 of Vance speaking to the Center for Christian Virtue — an Ohio policy group — about left-wing ideology in schools.

“You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me, and it really disturbs me,” Vance said in the clip.

“Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, doesn’t have a single child,” Vance added. “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.” 

The clip was shared by the Harris campaign on the social platform X, where it has more than 11.9 million views.

Weingarten reposted the clip last week, calling the Vance comments “gross” and “sad and insulting to millions of modern families, and school teachers including Catholic nuns”

Weingarten said Sunday the comments were “strange” when they were initially made, but it was “even stranger” when Vance “doubled down” on them last week in the midst of backlash as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

“And we have 50 million kids in the United States, and they are our future,” she said. “And whether you go to public school or parochial school or private school, this is that moment that parents and teachers and kids are all bonding together, like it’s that moment of engagement. It’s that moment of the teachers trying to create safe and welcoming environments.”

Vance’s spokesperson, Taylor Van Kirk, said in a statement to The Hill, “There are a lot of great teachers across the country, and JD’s criticism of Randi Weingarten’s actions is not about them.”

“There is no bigger threat to American children than the left wing indoctrination being forced on our schools by elites like Randi Weingarten, with the support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Van Kirk wrote.

“It’s essential that our schools focus on teaching reading, writing, math, and the basics, and get out of the business of forcing anti-American propaganda into the curriculum,” Van Kirk added. “Senator Vance is committed to ending the leftist indoctrination in our schools and will continue to loudly call this stuff out to defend our kids.”

Vance has come under scrutiny in recent weeks over his remarks about family planning and single adults. He faced a firestorm around resurfaced remarks that the country was being run by “childless cat ladies,” which he has since called a “sarcastic comment.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4858559-teachers-union-president-criticizes-jd-vance/amp/
 

Vance’s obsession with whether women have kids is very strange. What a weird little man. 

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15 minutes ago, MDC said:

Teachers union chief: Vance ‘must really be disconnected from life’

09/02/24 11:21 AM ET

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Vance’s obsession with whether women have kids is very strange. What a weird little man. 

Yeah, "disconnected from life", but you liberals wanting to kill babies isn't weird. 

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20 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

The American Left: Focusing on whether women have kids is weird and strange!

Also the American Left:  We need to focus on women having abortions so they don't have kids!

I seriously wish liberals wouldn't have kids. But I wish they would solution it by actually not having kids instead of simply killing the children. 

Has any popular liberal EVER come out and said they wish they had been killed while in the womb? 

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3 minutes ago, MDC said:

Peefoam’s mom wishes she didn’t have kids. :( 

Spot on by mr. dynasty. :thumbsup:

On 6/8/2007 at 4:25 PM, Mr. Dynasty said:

 

Oh, I am fully aware of how ignorant MonkeyDeathCar was back in 1997.

I'm just reminiscing at how funny it was that you ran away, deleted a few posts and your account, but couldn't resist re-registering in '04 once the Eagles were the favorites in the NFC.

Your plan to rejoin the board as a drobeski front runner went terribly awry so now your only enjoyment is to troll the NE Patriots threads. It's killing you that you were ALMOST the Prom Queen.

 

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JD Vance takes 'Worst VP pick EVER!' crown from Sarah Palin, and gets less likable every day

Vance is the guy nobody wants to get stuck next to at the office party. Or at the bar. Or in the grocery store line. Or anywhere, really.

That’s it, folks, I’m calling it: Let it be known, in September of the year 2024, that JD Vance ‒ aka “The Bearded Weird” ‒ is officially the worst vice presidential candidate pick in all of U.S. history.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, please turn in your crown. Vance will accept it while saying something unfunny that makes normal people feel uncomfortable. It's kind of his thing.

With a seemingly endless stream of “previous podcast appearances” in which he speaks of women as faceless baby pods and with ongoing public appearances that show him struggling with the basics of human interaction, Vance has proved himself almost staggeringly unlikable.

He’s the guy nobody wants to get stuck next to at the office party. Or at the bar. Or in the grocery store line. Or anywhere, really.

 

JD Vance is proving himself uniquely awful at being a VP candidate

Oozing whatever is the opposite of charisma, Vance has been booed at a firefighters union meeting, excoriated for past comments about America being run by “childless cat ladies”and mercilessly dragged online for video of a painfully awkward exchange at a Georgia doughnut shop.

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He is, it's worth remembering, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's VP pick only because Trump's previous vice president, Mike Pence, now refuses to endorse him. Vance is a replacement-Pence, which is the saddest thing a person can be.

In terms of favorability, Vance has little

I, and I suspect many other Americans, would usually feel empathy for a person so flabbergastingly awkward. But there’s an empathy-eviscerating meanness at the core of Vance’s character. So here we are.

The 538 polling average presently has Vance’s favorability so far underwater that he needs scuba gear, with 44.4% of people having an unfavorable opinion of him and only 33.9% approving. 

 

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday has his favorability at -12%.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has an impressive +11% favorability rating in the same poll, and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is at +3%.  

Will Trump and Harris debate?Donald Trump's 10 very specific demands for a debate with Kamala Harris, probably.

Trump is at a sad-trombone-worthy -25% favorability. Hopefully part of that comes from Americans annoyed at him for forcing them to be exposed to Vance in the first place.

Beating out Sarah Palin as 'worst VP pick ever' is a real achievement

That Vance has somehow out-Palin-ed Sarah Palin is nothing short of remarkable.

For those fortunate enough to have forgotten or never heard of her, Palin was … a lot. Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008. She quickly turned Americans off with her mean and fact-averse version of folksiness and revealed herself as little more than a reality television contestant in search of a low-rated show.

 

Running neck-and-neck with Palin in the “Ooof, that was a bad VP pick” category is former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate. His exciting-as-a-jar-of-generic-mayonnaise personality added zero value to the ticket that eventually lost to Trump.

That was then, and this is now. I imagine Kaine and Palin will soon meet at a neutral Applebee’s to hoist a beer in celebration of Vance’s pitifulness.

Recently, ABC News reported this: “We applied our current favorability polling average formula to old polls of six freshly minted VP picks from the past 20 years ... and none of them ever had an average net favorability rating as low as Vance’s.”

Vance has weird views about women, and that's not helping him

One reason for that might be all the incomprehensibly weird things Vance said in the recent past when he apparently spent most of his time appearing on podcasts.

Over the weekend, The Guardian found a Vance clip from a 2021 podcast for a conservative group called “America Moment.” In it, Vance said women who opt to focus on their careers rather than having children are choosing “a path to misery.”

 

At one point, he presents his version of the perspective of such a woman, saying: “OK, clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible. … But I’m really better than these other people. What I’m going to do is project my, like, racial and gender sensitivities on the rest of them … even though the way that I think has made me a miserable person, I just need to make more people think like that.”

That’s a fairly smack-able thing to say. And it demonstrates Vance’s unique skill of sounding smug, sexist, faux intellectual, lonely, tragic and dumb all at once.

The GOP's problem with women:You're not imagining it. Republicans have been weird about women for years.

Vance could apologize for the dumb things he has said ... but no

He has been asked if he’d like to apologize for offensive past comments, but he won’t. Admitting any form of wrongdoing in Trump’s MAGA universe is strictly forbidden.

Last Thursday, the never-hilarious Vance posted a video on social media along with these words: “I have gotten ahold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview.” The video was of 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant Caite Upton struggling painfully to answer a question during the competition.

 

That moment haunted Upton and led her to have suicidal thoughts. So … you know … not funny.

When Vance was asked on CNN if he wanted to apologize to Upton, Capt. Smooth said: “I’m not going to apologize for posting a joke.”

You’re a joke, Mr. Vance. And, fittingly, an unfunny one.

Don't worry. JD Vance has only begun to annoy us!

Palin and Kaine had cringe-inducing moments, but they were nothing compared with Vance’s ongoing streak of insufferableness. He’s every office’s “one guy nobody likes.” He’s a shining example of Trump’s inability to make smart decisions. He is best forgotten.

And it’s only the beginning of September.

Lord knows how many other podcast clips are out there.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/03/trump-vance-favorability-rating-vice-president/75051520007/

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20 hours ago, MDC said:

Teachers union chief: Vance ‘must really be disconnected from life’

09/02/24 11:21 AM ET

Campaign 

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten suggested Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) “must really be disconnected from life” in response to resurfaced comments in which he called out the union head for not having children.

“It was just a bizarre thing for him to double down on it now because every parent and every teacher and every kid in August and September are thinking about the new year and what it means and that engagement,” Weingarten said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “So he must really be disconnected from life.”

Weingarten was responding to a resurfaced clip from 2021 of Vance speaking to the Center for Christian Virtue — an Ohio policy group — about left-wing ideology in schools.

“You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me, and it really disturbs me,” Vance said in the clip.

“Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, doesn’t have a single child,” Vance added. “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.” 

The clip was shared by the Harris campaign on the social platform X, where it has more than 11.9 million views.

Weingarten reposted the clip last week, calling the Vance comments “gross” and “sad and insulting to millions of modern families, and school teachers including Catholic nuns”

Weingarten said Sunday the comments were “strange” when they were initially made, but it was “even stranger” when Vance “doubled down” on them last week in the midst of backlash as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

“And we have 50 million kids in the United States, and they are our future,” she said. “And whether you go to public school or parochial school or private school, this is that moment that parents and teachers and kids are all bonding together, like it’s that moment of engagement. It’s that moment of the teachers trying to create safe and welcoming environments.”

Vance’s spokesperson, Taylor Van Kirk, said in a statement to The Hill, “There are a lot of great teachers across the country, and JD’s criticism of Randi Weingarten’s actions is not about them.”

“There is no bigger threat to American children than the left wing indoctrination being forced on our schools by elites like Randi Weingarten, with the support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Van Kirk wrote.

“It’s essential that our schools focus on teaching reading, writing, math, and the basics, and get out of the business of forcing anti-American propaganda into the curriculum,” Van Kirk added. “Senator Vance is committed to ending the leftist indoctrination in our schools and will continue to loudly call this stuff out to defend our kids.”

Vance has come under scrutiny in recent weeks over his remarks about family planning and single adults. He faced a firestorm around resurfaced remarks that the country was being run by “childless cat ladies,” which he has since called a “sarcastic comment.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4858559-teachers-union-president-criticizes-jd-vance/amp/
 

Vance’s obsession with whether women have kids is very strange. What a weird little man. 

 

1 hour ago, MDC said:

JD Vance takes 'Worst VP pick EVER!' crown from Sarah Palin, and gets less likable every day

Vance is the guy nobody wants to get stuck next to at the office party. Or at the bar. Or in the grocery store line. Or anywhere, really.

That’s it, folks, I’m calling it: Let it be known, in September of the year 2024, that JD Vance ‒ aka “The Bearded Weird” ‒ is officially the worst vice presidential candidate pick in all of U.S. history.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, please turn in your crown. Vance will accept it while saying something unfunny that makes normal people feel uncomfortable. It's kind of his thing.

With a seemingly endless stream of “previous podcast appearances” in which he speaks of women as faceless baby pods and with ongoing public appearances that show him struggling with the basics of human interaction, Vance has proved himself almost staggeringly unlikable.

He’s the guy nobody wants to get stuck next to at the office party. Or at the bar. Or in the grocery store line. Or anywhere, really.

 

JD Vance is proving himself uniquely awful at being a VP candidate

Oozing whatever is the opposite of charisma, Vance has been booed at a firefighters union meeting, excoriated for past comments about America being run by “childless cat ladies”and mercilessly dragged online for video of a painfully awkward exchange at a Georgia doughnut shop.

DraftKings Sportsbook

He is, it's worth remembering, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's VP pick only because Trump's previous vice president, Mike Pence, now refuses to endorse him. Vance is a replacement-Pence, which is the saddest thing a person can be.

In terms of favorability, Vance has little

I, and I suspect many other Americans, would usually feel empathy for a person so flabbergastingly awkward. But there’s an empathy-eviscerating meanness at the core of Vance’s character. So here we are.

The 538 polling average presently has Vance’s favorability so far underwater that he needs scuba gear, with 44.4% of people having an unfavorable opinion of him and only 33.9% approving. 

 

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday has his favorability at -12%.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has an impressive +11% favorability rating in the same poll, and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is at +3%.  

Will Trump and Harris debate?Donald Trump's 10 very specific demands for a debate with Kamala Harris, probably.

Trump is at a sad-trombone-worthy -25% favorability. Hopefully part of that comes from Americans annoyed at him for forcing them to be exposed to Vance in the first place.

Beating out Sarah Palin as 'worst VP pick ever' is a real achievement

That Vance has somehow out-Palin-ed Sarah Palin is nothing short of remarkable.

For those fortunate enough to have forgotten or never heard of her, Palin was … a lot. Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008. She quickly turned Americans off with her mean and fact-averse version of folksiness and revealed herself as little more than a reality television contestant in search of a low-rated show.

 

Running neck-and-neck with Palin in the “Ooof, that was a bad VP pick” category is former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate. His exciting-as-a-jar-of-generic-mayonnaise personality added zero value to the ticket that eventually lost to Trump.

That was then, and this is now. I imagine Kaine and Palin will soon meet at a neutral Applebee’s to hoist a beer in celebration of Vance’s pitifulness.

Recently, ABC News reported this: “We applied our current favorability polling average formula to old polls of six freshly minted VP picks from the past 20 years ... and none of them ever had an average net favorability rating as low as Vance’s.”

Vance has weird views about women, and that's not helping him

One reason for that might be all the incomprehensibly weird things Vance said in the recent past when he apparently spent most of his time appearing on podcasts.

Over the weekend, The Guardian found a Vance clip from a 2021 podcast for a conservative group called “America Moment.” In it, Vance said women who opt to focus on their careers rather than having children are choosing “a path to misery.”

 

At one point, he presents his version of the perspective of such a woman, saying: “OK, clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible. … But I’m really better than these other people. What I’m going to do is project my, like, racial and gender sensitivities on the rest of them … even though the way that I think has made me a miserable person, I just need to make more people think like that.”

That’s a fairly smack-able thing to say. And it demonstrates Vance’s unique skill of sounding smug, sexist, faux intellectual, lonely, tragic and dumb all at once.

The GOP's problem with women:You're not imagining it. Republicans have been weird about women for years.

Vance could apologize for the dumb things he has said ... but no

He has been asked if he’d like to apologize for offensive past comments, but he won’t. Admitting any form of wrongdoing in Trump’s MAGA universe is strictly forbidden.

Last Thursday, the never-hilarious Vance posted a video on social media along with these words: “I have gotten ahold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview.” The video was of 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant Caite Upton struggling painfully to answer a question during the competition.

 

That moment haunted Upton and led her to have suicidal thoughts. So … you know … not funny.

When Vance was asked on CNN if he wanted to apologize to Upton, Capt. Smooth said: “I’m not going to apologize for posting a joke.”

You’re a joke, Mr. Vance. And, fittingly, an unfunny one.

Don't worry. JD Vance has only begun to annoy us!

Palin and Kaine had cringe-inducing moments, but they were nothing compared with Vance’s ongoing streak of insufferableness. He’s every office’s “one guy nobody likes.” He’s a shining example of Trump’s inability to make smart decisions. He is best forgotten.

And it’s only the beginning of September.

Lord knows how many other podcast clips are out there.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/03/trump-vance-favorability-rating-vice-president/75051520007/

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16 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

 

Use bold and bigger font next time.  Someone is super excited today.  Bwahahahahahahaha

I copied it directly from the websites. 

Good grief. 🤦‍♂️ 

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On 9/2/2024 at 5:22 PM, MDC said:

 

Vance’s obsession with whether women have kids is very strange. What a weird little man. 

You know what is really really really sick?  The lefts's obsession with killing babies and stopping pregnancies.

 

From vasectomies to abortion pills, Planned Parenthood sets up mobile clinic near DNC

Focking sick authoritarian bastards hellbent on reducing the population of 'deplorables" whether through endless wars or creating pandemic diseases in labs or hundreds of millions of abortions or castration of young children and adults.  Somehow everything the left pushes is to reduce the population.  Democrats are the party of death. 

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47 minutes ago, jonmx said:

You know what is really really really sick?  The lefts's obsession with killing babies and stopping pregnancies.

 

From vasectomies to abortion pills, Planned Parenthood sets up mobile clinic near DNC

Focking sick authoritarian bastards hellbent on reducing the population of 'deplorables" whether through endless wars or creating pandemic diseases in labs or hundreds of millions of abortions or castration of young children and adults.  Somehow everything the left pushes is to reduce the population.  Democrats are the party of death. 

Excuse, but it was Vance that said trump would never get rid of abortion, so you might want to rethink that judgement, because it’s not righteous.  Trump is a liberal, hiding in a conservative suit, like most conservatives.  

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4 hours ago, weepaws said:

Excuse, but it was Vance that said trump would never get rid of abortion, so you might want to rethink that judgement, because it’s not righteous.  Trump is a liberal, hiding in a conservative suit, like most conservatives.  

 

Trump's position is to leave it to the states.  Trump's appointments helped rid this country of the horrendous Roe v. Wade.  Democrats love killing people so much they openly embrace euthanasia, a policy which in Canada has made it tge 5th leading cause of death, even using it in many non-terminal instances. 

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18 hours ago, thegeneral said:

JD’s the kind of guy who strikes up a convo in the bathroom at the airport. 

Wide stance

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Wait, are vasectomies now in the crosshairs of MAGA? Please tell me this is true... 

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2 minutes ago, Fnord said:

Wait, are vasectomies now in the crosshairs of MAGA? Please tell me this is true... 

Yup. Going to be outlawed and punishable by 5 years in Gitmo.  Jerkoff. 
 

 

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yup. Going to be outlawed and punishable by 5 years in Gitmo.  Jerkoff. 
 

 

 

 

It's right there in the Terrorist's link, cuck. I'm just asking questions. Hopefully you've had a vasectomy, assuming your member has not just become ornamental at your advanced age and blood pressure.

Ah, nevermind. Forgot you're an incel!

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1 minute ago, Fnord said:

It's right there in the Terrorist's link, cuck. I'm just asking questions. Hopefully you've had a vasectomy, assuming your member has not just become ornamental at your advanced age and blood pressure.

Ah, nevermind. Forgot you're an incel!

Derp! Vasectomies illegal! Derp! 

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2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Derp! Vasectomies illegal! Derp! 

Low T, incel, AND too dumb to comprehend what you read. The MAGA trifecta!

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2 hours ago, Fnord said:

Low T, incel, AND too dumb to comprehend what you read. The MAGA trifecta!

Concentration camps for lgbtq! Derp! 

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29 minutes ago, squistion said:

 

You know what’s weird? Two teachers taking a student on an outing after school hours , some might call it a date , I choose outing. Weird very weird. 🚩🚩🚩

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https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1845848429022544231

Liz Cheney to NBC on Vance refusing to admit Trump lost in 2020:

"When people write the history of this period, the Republican elected officials who know it's false, who continue to spread the lie, will be among those who are shown to be complicit in this attempt to unravel the republic."

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5 hours ago, MDC said:

Weird.

Isn't he talking about women having children versus women not having children. He's making a point about women conceiving children vs women that do not. So stfu. His wife is a woman, so that is why he phrases it as her children in the context he's speaking about them.

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10 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

Isn't he talking about women having children versus women not having children. He's making a point about women conceiving children vs women that do not. So stfu. His wife is a woman, so that is why he phrases it as her children in the context he's speaking about them.

Very weird. :unsure: 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/fact-check-vance-trump-political-opponents/index.html

Fact check: Vance falsely claims Trump did not ‘go after his political opponents’ as president

Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, falsely claimed Sunday that former President Donald Trump “didn’t go after his political opponents” during his presidency – an assertion that is contradicted by a mountain of evidence.

Vance, who said Friday that the attorney general would be the most important government official other than the president in a second Trump administration, was asked by ABC News host Martha Raddatz in an interview on Sunday if Trump would go after his political opponents. Vance said no, then added, “Martha, he was president for four years and he didn’t go after his political opponents.”

Facts First: Vance’s claim is false. As president, Trump publicly and privately pressured the Justice Department, and others in his administration, to investigate or prosecute numerous political opponents.

Trump made extensive behind-the-scenes efforts to get his political opponents charged with crimes. But you don’t have to rely on investigative reporting or the memoirs of former administration officials to know that Trump went after political opponents as president.

He often went after them in public, too.

As CNN reporter Marshall Cohen has noted, there is a long list of political opponents whom Trump publicly called for the Justice Department and others to investigate or prosecute. The list includes not only 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton and 2020 election opponent Joe Biden but also Biden’s son Hunter Biden, Democratic former Secretary of State John Kerry, Trump’s former national security advisor turned critic John Bolton, Democratic former President Barack Obama, unspecified Obama administration officials, the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed by a Trump administration official critical of Trump, MSNBC host and Trump critic Joe Scarborough, former FBI director turned Trump critic James Comey, other former FBI officials, former British spy Christopher Steele (the author of a controversial dossier of allegations against Trump), and various congressional Democrats – including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia.

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