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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is just getting hilarious now.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I literally woke my partner up laughing. So he donated to Kamala and appointed Walz to a position. They have both been endorsed by him. This is so delicious

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump on Walz: “…He's very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great ... I think it's very insulting to Jewish people.” 

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Did he actually say that? My God, the man's brains have been replaced with rancid oatmeal, and he never noticed the difference.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think he's trying to hit key words, but can't do it gracefully. He's been told that the terms transgender, Jewish, and whatever else, riles up his base, do he squeezes as many of those words as he can in to every single sound bite. By the time you've processed what the fuck he said he's already moved on to the next idiotic sound bite.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He eulogized a fictional cannibal serial killer and said he was a great guy. The bigotry and antisemitism is just latent in his brain and will come out more and more as his dementia removes whatever filters were left in his speech center.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

brain worms. RFKs jumped ship

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

RFK's died in his brain. His thoughts were so toxic that it killed the worm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Were they that toxic, or did it just die of starvation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm assuming it was pickled.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

he never noticed the difference.

Neither did his oatmeal-brained followers

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago

He'LL uNLEaSh HeLL oN eArTh!!- Syphilis Riddled Big Brain who forgot he appointed him to a position.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As president, Trump appointed Walz to serve on the Council of Governors in 2019. The bipartisan advisory council consists of five Democratic and five Republican governors and helps build federal-state partnerships in matters of homeland security and civil support missions.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

interests of governors across the nation are accurately represented on the council

Is this just bad wording? Shouldn’t it be the interests of the people whom the governors represent?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, it is accurate. The committee was about the interests of the governors in the context of differences between states, and while the governor's interests should align with the people they represent, they don't always line up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

In my state it doesn't like up at all. "I see there's a lot of hunters and fishermen in this state. How about we sell more land to giant corporations and poison the waterways with farm runoff?" And half of them are like "anything to own the libs! Hyuck hyuck!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
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