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As a retired Marine, it embarrasses me to no end that Vance was in the Corps. Apparently he didn’t take our core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment too seriously.

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When you're down in the polls

When your brain's full of holes

Make up a story about immigrants!

When your opponent has the brass

To humiliate your ass

Make up a story about immigrants!

When you wake up today

And need some crazy to say

Make up a story about immigrants!

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Here in the backwater state of Ohio, the racist rubes elected Vance when we could’ve had a decent man like Tim Ryan.

In addition, the DNC concluded Ryan was losing and pulled their funding and the racist, misogynistic, IMMIGRANT Peter Thiel poured tons of money into the race. It ended up a closer race than anyone thought.

And now we’re stuck with this disgusting man.

Wonder how he’d feel if his brown wife or kids were targeted by the Klan or proud boys. But then Vance seems incapable of feeling anything remotely human.

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Jeez, he is their SENATOR and seems bent on doing as much harm as possible to achieve his political goals not the city’s welfare. 😡

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Of note, re: Holland being "across the state" : the original story that the wing nuts twisted into "they're eating the pets" (to the Peanuts theme music!) also happened across the state, albeit in the other direction (Canton). These guys sure did listen in geography class!

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Okay this is Nazi shit. Since I saw the ‘mass deportation now’ placards at the RNC, I knew this election they would be leading with the Nazi shit.

The Holocaust started with ‘deportation’ too. In fact ‘transportation’ remained a key Nazi euphemism to the end.

JD Vance called Trump America’s Hitler. He knows exactly what he is doing. He’s chosen the Nazi side.

It seems - as the memory of WW2 fades - people are actively forgetting exactly how badly this stuff ends. Now gramps has stopped telling his war stories, we forget.

Why towns throughout Europe are missing their centres. Why so many of those post-war concrete apartment blocks?

And we are forgetting what happened in Germany, and in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus. It’s become history to bicker about not lived memory.

JD Vance is being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, the white nationalist who recently interviewed a Holocaust denier. (Apparently to him it was just a deportation that went wrong.) Think about how revisionist the MAGA movement is - if they can bend reality over Jan 6th 2021, bending reality over something that happened 80 years ago will be easy.

Please vote. I don’t live in the U.S. but full Nazi countries are bad on a global scale.

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And yet, we do nothing, hoping that voting hard will save us from what’s to come.

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Well yes, voting will keep the Nazi separate from the Nuclear codes, which is why it is massively important we vote and encourage others to do so.

And we pressure the new government to pass the John Lewis voters rights act.

From there I am guessing the prosecution of the ongoing court cases will bring some of the main perpetrators of ‘Trumpism’ and put him behind bars.

As to ideas for de-radicalisation of the population - that’s going to be tough as I can only speak for the U.K. as to what’s tried and what works (and doesn’t)

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And make DC a State.

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And Puerto Rico. But DC not having representation is criminal.

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PR needs to vote on it.

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^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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My father's entire family came here (undocumented) from Danzig just before Germany invaded. Now the Asshat Party (going back to unreconstructed Confederate Steve King of Iowa) want to deport "anchor grandbabies.

I'm trying to figure out how I could be deported to a country which no longer exists. (I know the answer: Those "camps" they say they want to set up aren't for "transit": They're for enslavement and death.

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Indeed. My first thoughts were ‘deported to where?’ As the UK recently found out - to its cost, finding somewhere to dump your asylum seekers - let alone de-citizened ‘anchor babies’ is not easy.

Even if a country of origin is known it is under no obligation to accept them if they have tried to claim asylum or if - like anchor babies & grandbabies - they have no connection to the country.

This all smells very much like the Nazi’s Madagascar plan.

My heart goes out to everyone in the U.S.

I hope to goodness itself that MVP wins. I cannot believe ‘being an actual Nazi’ is not disqualifying.

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Trump said the other day that he wanted to deport Haitians to Venezuela. Perhaps that was just a slipup. Or it may suggest how deeply unserious he is about actually transporting anybody anywhere specific once he rounds them up and tosses them into camps. Fascism is eliminationist -- I'll trust the fascist Trump's "deportation" plans about as far as I can throw a gigantic boulder.

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like

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So, on the one hand, Orange Shitler does not have anything like the number of SA thugs available to Hitler mk I. On the other hand, the Internet amplifies the living daylights out of this nonsense.

A good time to be apprehensive and get some voter registrations verified...

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How many wingnuts with guns live in this country again?

Around here "liberal hunting license" bumper stickers have reappeared.

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Let's just hope that throwing gas on the fire works out like this for ol' J Divans:

https://i.imgur.com/OS0Euc9.mp4

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Jeebus Crisp, the comments on Legend's post. They're worse than YouTube.

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Dumberer & Dumberest

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OMG they are literally trying to make the Bowling Green Massacre happen.

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Speaking of JD Vance, as we were, he’s floating a peace plan for Ukraine that can be summarized as “just give up, okay?” Surely it’s just coincidental? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/vance-trump-ukraine-russia-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Kk4.SYob.NlO2ddsJ1ypV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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I have been to Haîti, for a World Monuments Fund project. It is an amazing country, with fortifications from the Columbus Spanish period, the French period, and the freed Haîtian period. The largest fortification in the hemisphere is La Citadel, built by the Hatîans after France left. The weeks I spent there, the hotel I stayed at had an open terrace where we dined. There were cats on that terrace every day, and I fed them scraps at each meal. They did not get eaten!

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Are Ohioans experiencing buyer's remorse with J Divan yet?

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Seriously. Your own Senator basically calling for violent attacks in your towns and cities? Sounds like it calls for violent attacks on your Senator. With votes, of course.

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Ta, Gary.

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