"No fair using the entirety of what we said to make us look like shitbags!"
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"No fair using the entirety of what we said to reveal we are shitbags!"
no one is making them look like anything
Fascists are the only ones where more context makes them look worse.
They are doing this to themselves
I like how they say “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said", knowing that the full video does the opposite, but their fans will never bother clicking on it.
Maybe the video needs a thumbnail of some open mouthed guy pointing at something. At least thats what virtually all of youtube thinks makes idiots watch their vids.
Children watch a ton of YouTube videos. So sadly, all the most annoying stuff exists because it works to get them to click...
Kamala posted sections of the full video, of course showing the bad comments from Vance. Trump posted only once section, but says watch the full video, while claiming all Kamala and her team do is lie. I'm actually trying to find the full speech and can't. Pretty annoying since you know Trumpers will say Kamala is lying
they even quote the shit and it into the comments, even though it has captions LOL
Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”
Only in America. Weird that 'reality' ignores all other first world nations.
all other
Are you trying to imply the US is a first world country? /s
The definition of a first world country includes being a "stable democracy".
If you ask Americans how likely they believe attempts at election fraud will happen in the 2024 election I would be shocked if less than 80% said "very likely". That is not a stable democracy.
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His kids are not in public school or in any sort of danger from a school shooter. Else he'd actually do something about it
In the US the oligarchs worry about models of profitability like keeping wages dirt low, profits sky high and workers at each other's throats rather than proven models of success like universal health care and sensible gun control employed by Europe and first world countries worldwide..
“But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”
The psychos are the students! What school is gonna prevent a student from walking in? If you are intended to be inside the building there will never be enough security to keep killers out when the killer is already in the building. They would have to start cavity searching students because if they want to shoot up the school they would find a way.
The only solution is LESS guns available!
Cavity searching the students is genuinely their recommendation.
Well. The problem students. You know the ones.
The ones with Republican parents?
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“But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”
I guess no one remembers the fire alarm fiasco... March 24, 1998
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/westside-school-shooting-3717/
There is another way.
Mental. Health. Care.
We need more of that, but we also need less availability of guns.
They're charging the dad again here.
I don't think that's appropriate for every case, but when the parent provides access to an AR-15 with a child that has shown clear signs of mental instability... yeah, that's negligent homicide.
I think every parent of a school shooter should be charged. Kids can't buy a gun without being old enough and if they go black market where did the kid get the cash? I don't let my kids hold onto enough cash to buy a gun, it goes in our joint bank account so I'll know if they withdraw it. When they are 18 we will sign it over to them.
There are so many things a reasonable parent can do that a neglectful parent doesn't. Also know who your kids friends are, meet them, meet the parents, judge them, judge the parents and the kids harshly. It's your right as a parent to keep your kids safe. If they are in a bad crowd then do something. Change their school, report any and all suspicions that you have, follow your kids if they go out alone. I know its overbearing and your kids may hate it but it's your ass on the line if they shoot up a school or theater.
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/
Does the J.D. stand for Jackass Dickhead?
Junior Dictator
Jorgen Depeanus Vance.
Jabroni Defined
Justthebiggest Dickhead
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“People get shot at, look at Donny! Fuck I love this country!”
Delivered behind bullet proof glass with an armed team of mercenaries.
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he's already said, "we have to get over it." how is that so much worse than "it's a fact of life." ?
they're both fucking ghouls who cheer on the arms industries whether they're tearing through Palestine or american schools, really what's the difference?
edit: to clarify, I mean what's the difference between these two statements - why all the amplified outrage now?
Gee one of them is a damned Nazi and the other is only(relative to fucking Nazis) a wall st leech.
One of them is So. Much. Worse. as to invalidate any comparisons.
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Once again, a maga/Republican is in trouble for saying out loud what they all believe.
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Do you think Trump's "October surprise" is going to be him swapping out VP candidates?
Election rules don't allow that in at least some places. Not sure how many.
past a certain point you're locked in for candidacy, RFK is already experiencing this issue himself, and republicans, predictably, and wrong about it.
RFK just won an ruling that kept absentee ballots from getting sent out in North Carolina because his name is on the ballots, so now the voting can't start until the courts get everything worked out and all the ballots get reprinted if he wins the appeal.
People are literally being kept from voting right now because of him, and that benefits Trump.
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Yet, somehow trump would be able to get away with it.
I mean, at least part of what he said isn't technically wrong.... School shootings are a "fact of life" in America.
And honestly, if we're not going to address the actual issue, which is guns at a national level, I wouldn't mind seeing every single school turned into a miniature 1980s Beirut.
Why not? Let's assign a Meal Team Six to every school. We'll get snipers on the roof, and random strip searches going on in K-12 education.
Maybe we can empower groups of students within each school to be miniature deputies who are tasked with keeping order among the other inmates, I mean students. We can call this the trustee program.
Oh, and by I wouldn't mind, I mean I would be horrified and it would traumatize at least an entire generation of children before the program was scrapped, but if we're already on this death drive and refuse to do anything meaningful, a part of me wants to see just how dumb we can really get.
His cultists are locked in they don't hear this stuff and if they did they don't care. Sad state of affairs
Trump's "if it makes us look bad it's a lie!"
And if I did mean it, you deserved it.
But don't they want to make America great again and bring it to a place back in time when there were no school shootings because everything was so great? I thought that was their whole platform?!
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Rest of the world: are they?
JD Vance's next speech
“Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
Next thing you know Vance will be pushing legislation requiring that every public school classroom have an AR-15 in it, and every teacher be required to regularly pass a test demonstrating proficiency with it…
Project 2025, page 357
Helluva a pick there, donnie. Seems that the couch-fucker being very very weird only reflects on how weird you are.
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