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Bitter Scribe's avatar

I just heard a part of the Vance interview on CNN that I hadn't been aware of before. Dana Bash asked him about the racist shit Laura Loomer has been saying while she pals around with Trump, specifically her assertion that if Harris is elected, the White House will stink of curry. Vance responds with, "Whether it's curry or fried chicken, most Americans are concerned with..."

Give the man credit. He does have his dogwhistles straight.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Fat Bastard is out doubling down. Now they are raping and sodo*ising everything with a pulse in Springfield. Well, their GOP gov better call a state of emergency and send in the Guard.

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Patrick Edwards's avatar

You think there might be some local white jealousy when a Springfield shop owner says that the Haitians are getting the job done when the locals are to methed out to do the job?

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Patrick Edwards's avatar

Is there any other human being who has become so detested and so hated so quickly? Of all the Trump minions who have been convicted of felonies, gone to jail, ruined their careers, or gone bankrupt, Vance appears to be the very worst of the lot. I bet his wife is proud.

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Nemo's avatar

In terms of rapid decent into universal hatred and detestation, I think he's in a league with Martin Shkreli:

https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/

Charles Manson also comes to mind. Vance shares with Manson a commitment to using racism to advance his career.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

A state rep in Ohio, Democrat, I assume, has called for him to resign his Senate seat over the whole Springfield thing.

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Jjamie's avatar

As he should, he's being completely irresponsible and hurting his constituents. Of course he is too arrogant to even consider such a thing 🙄

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Jjamie's avatar

Fuck you jd asswipe@

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, MM. You have a week, too.

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Debra Dassow's avatar

You know we have a lot of ass hat GOPs in WI, but this douche noodle as Rebecca would say, is the f"ing worst.

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Debra Dassow's avatar

You know we have a lot of ass hat GOPs in WI, but this douche noodle as Rebecca would say, is the f"ing worst.

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BellaTank's avatar

Fuck JD Vance. With Ted Cruz's beard.

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Darth Trad's avatar

In the USA, 920,000 abandoned and unwanted pets are euthanized every year. Call it a million and that is 3,000 a day. At the same time there are 40 MILLION hunting licenses, tags and permits issued every year. One assumes that would add up to 100 million kills each year.

Even if every person in Haiti turned up and went in a killing frenzy across every major city and town in the US they couldn't touch the number slaughtered for fun and convenience by Americans. Make them run vet clinics and buy hunting licenses if you are so worried about the optics. But don't pretend you give a fuck about kittens and ducklings.

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agony's avatar

I have been a bit surprised by the "OMG! They're eating geese!" aspect. In rural parts of the country, there is a heckuva lot of goose being eaten every fall. Snow geese especially go by in the millions, and where I live there is no limit on them.

Eating geese is a pretty red-blooded American guy kinda thing.

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Void's avatar

Fun and convenience is a bit dismissive of hunting. It’s also for getting food, just like some folks go to the grocery store and managing species. But your overall point is correct

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Hank Napkin's avatar

TRUMP / VANCE 24 is/are/am a living inspiration to America's Yute, some of whom have been calling in bomb threats to our local schools.

So! Great! Again!

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Slamtundra's avatar

Yeah, what the fuck, my kids' schools have been sending out emails and texts about bomb threats (thankfully not credible) all last week and this week. These goddamn fascist fucks need to be held responsible and accountable.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Sir declines your invitation to responsibility.

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Darrell Leland's avatar

I just was thinking of what a turd JD Vance was, casually admitting he's lying about the whole “Haitian Immigrants eating pets” thing. That reminded me of something old Carl "Turdblossom" Rove once said many thousands of years ago. Just like JD, he was talking about using government power to create a reality independent of fact. Remember this old gem of wisdom?

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

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"M"'s avatar

Karl Rove wanted to stop the MVP before she took statewide office

In part because that whole "Empire Presidency" has had a long history of salivating over by the wealthy White men of America

But also because even though he's a Sith Lord, he's also great at spotting true talent

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Nemo's avatar

While this post did mention such Ohio GOP luminaries as Gym Jordan, Mike DeWine and of course Vance himself, it neglected to mention Larry Householder, former Speaker of the Ohio House, now taking extended sabbatical leave at a federal facility in Oklahoma. He was awarded that sabbatical in recognition of "the largest bribery scheme ever perpetrated against the state of Ohio", as mentioned in his Wikipedia bio. All these goppers, grifting like their gold plated god.

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el duderino's avatar

He was my state representative!

Fuck that guy

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"M"'s avatar

OMG 😲

Do you have a link?

Because in light of what's been reported about Frank LaRose, Republican Secretary of State for OH, removing thousands of voters from the voter rolls with NO report of whether he put any of them back ...

... I'd love to know at least exactly how close the two of them were as colleagues before one of them goes to the Big House

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Nemo's avatar

You can check their Wikipedia pages. A quick web search turned up this link:

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/06/29/ohio-sec-of-state-frank-larose-wont-discuss-householder-connections/

So LaRose mentioned that Householder is a crook, but he didn't find that surprising based on his knowledge of the guy. Whether or not he disapproves of that goes unsaid. I see them as being members of rival factions in the Trump Party, sort of like the Gambino and Colombo families. Householder was convicted under the RICO statute after all.

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Edgar Allen Shmoe's avatar

This whole thing is so frustrating. This dumb story is dominating the news right now, because Vance and Trump love to talk about it because it gets people riled up, and everyone else loves to make fun of Vance and Trump about it because it's fucking ridiculous, and the mainstream media loves to write stories about how crazy Trump and Vance are, and how everyone is making fun of them.

It seems like maybe border policy had nothing to do with the influx of Hatian immigrants into Springfield (see (https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/springfield-probing-secret-corporate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email). If this turns out to be true, Trump and Vance will just shrug and say, "it got you talking about immigration, didn't it?" Which, yes, it did, but does this goddamn campaign have any plans besides MASS DEPORTATIONS (impossible and would wreck the economy) and WALL (we've been down that road before)? The answer is no, no, they don't, and if you press them on it, they'll say "we have a concept of a plan" or some similar trash, and that's the end of it.

They just bullshit ALL THE TIME, and the media mistakes their bullshit for lying and stupidity (which are VERY different things from bullshit), and they fall for it every time.

Meanwhile, the Harris campaign actually has plans and ideas that will help people, and the only thing the mainstream media will say about her is that "we don't know what her plans are" and "she won't give us an interview."

I'm just fucking tired of it.

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marcus816's avatar

The more JD Vance speaks and reveals who he really is, the more you realize he is just a selfish sociopathic prick (and couchfucker).

Minor edit.

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Nemo's avatar

He didn't understand the distinction between "couch" and "cooch". He probably failed phonics.

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