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“Oh well, you know, he’s not serious,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told reporters in the U.S. Capitol. “He likes to goad you. You can’t take him seriously when he’s talking about stuff like this.”
"i don't kid."
-trump
"he tells it like it is"
-trump ~~voter~~ cultist
This sentence is a lie.
-The Ascended, product of Trump and his cult fusing into one giant monstrosity... That promptly implodes from the self-loathing of realising it's mostly made up of 🤢 poor people 🤮
Fox wasn't even aware of Trump's unilateral debate announcement.
Need to find a way to make a hybrid scarecrow/tin-man/lion/trump. Seeing as how he’s brainless, heartless, and cowardly.
The same Vance that refuses to learn a nice life lesson from Mamaw?
"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I'm going to hell."
When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as "Mamaw" — she replied bluntly: "Don't be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you're gay?"
When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.
"JD, do you want to suck dicks?" she said, according to the book.
The young Vance, apparently "flabbergasted," said: "Of course not!"
"Then you're not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay," she replied. "God would still love you."
Oh wow. Even when they try they can't get it right. Many people know they're gay by 9, not all gay men want to do oral sex, and all most 9 year olds know is they're supposed to want this thing called sex. It's literally the grade where they talk about "it" and some braggart says they did "it".
And the God loves you line is just classic. According to conservatives God loves gay people which is why it's important to save them from hell.
This entire story is just a massive line of red flags.
My family loves to tell the story about my cousin and I running around the house when we were like 6 and supposedly he stopped dead in his tracks, looked at my stepmom and said "that dress is so your color."
Doesn't have to do with dicks, but from that day they knew he was gay and he very much is now that we're in our late 30s. I love him to death, he's such a great guy!
He finally came out to me when we went to an art exhibit because I always liked Tim Burton stuff and he kept commenting on paintings "why are the men all clothed and the women all topless? Why does Jack not have a bulge but Sally is full figured!?" That kind of stuff. So over dinner I was like "ya know... I couldn't help notice some of your comments? You know I love you, is there anything you want to share with me?" Lol
The hell is "skibidi"? I've seen it a few times and no idea what it means.
It's a gen-alpha slang term that is like a cross between creepy and gross.
And Ohio means boring and weird.
It's also based off a youtube series made by someone in Garry's Mod, that has recently been pocked up for a movie...
If he replaces Vance, it'll have to be Nancy Mace, the only one left in the potential pick pool whose one-syllable name ends in "ce".
But she doesn't have a 5 letter last name, so she's straight out.
Looks like he's stuck with JD then!
Ok I'm interested. He was picked July 15, 3 weeks, 21 days ago. That's 1.9 Scaramuccis as of today. If he's replaced tomorrow Aug 6, that's 2 Scaramuccis on the dot.
Ohio needs the names Aug 7.
Cap’n! Tha Mooch scale was ne’er intended for campaignin’! I dunnae how much longer she’ll hold!
But what happens in Ohio if Trump/Vance is the name on the ballot, but Vance has since been replaced by Rubio? Is the vote just torn up and tossed? If a VP candidate dies in a bizarre boating accident in October is it just... over?
Even if it is too late to remove a name from ballots, the Democrats and Republicans would name a new nominee as their standard-bearer.
Fortier said it's important to remember that when people cast a vote, they aren't voting for a candidate, but for electors who will vote for their preferred party in the Electoral College.
Because of that, electors in most states could simply vote for the replacement nominee, regardless of which name is actually on the ballot, he said.
Nevertheless, it gets complicated once again if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated when electors vote because of state laws restricting who the electors can vote for.
“There is a potential for some confusion,” said Ned Foley, director of the Election Law Program at Ohio State. That's because about a dozen states either don’t specifically address what electors should do if a candidate has dies, or have laws obligating electors to vote for the name on the ballot rather than the party’s nominee, he said
States might move to change the law, or the question of who electors should vote for could be decided in state courts, he said.
Oh yeah there's problems with that. The electoral college also elects the VP. It is not just an appointment. But if it's soon enough you know Ohio will just decide to honor it's post dated extension trap they tried to catch the Democrats in.
CARRY IT TO TERM LOSERS
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Why is this getting downvoted so much?
Edit: Downvoting me for asking a question? Don't ever change ~~reddit~~ lemmy
From what I've seen so far, a number of reasons:
It's not overly accurate, with a tendency to report from a basis of American centrism as though that's the sole metric to measure what is left and right. I assume they decided they had to pick something to base it off of, but even a lot of Americans take issue with what an American centrist considers left-wing.
It's a bot, and some folks hate those enough to downvote it every time rather than block it.
Some folks prefer to decide for themselves what's credible. I've also read comments saying they don't like that there's no disclaimer — plenty of people get riled when something is presented as though it's the sole arbiter of truth.
I've probably missed plenty, too.
It's not even centrist. It's straight up conservative. All the papers of record with good reputations are listed as at least left leaning. It's meant to feed into the idea that mainstream media is biased.
And it's meant to make very conservative stuff look mainstream. For example the Ayn Rand Institute gets a center right lean. The same rating as the New York Times on center left lean. It's very well done and you wouldn't notice it if you didn't take a close look.
Yep, definitely forgot to list this complaint. Frankly a paper with a good reputation having a left lean would seem obvious to me — the right abandoned reality a long time ago.
I think it makes more sense if you start from the supposition that centrists in America are just right-wingers who still remember how to be ashamed of their batshit views when they’re in public.
MBFC is a conservative project to give their rags more credibility while painting the news organizations with good records of being objective as left leaning. There is no actual center designation. The best anything can get is center left or center right. So on center left you have stuff like NYT, feeding into the idea that mainstream news is biased left. And on center right you have the Ayn Rand Institute, getting it's credibility washed by being placed in any category with the word center in the name.
Please keep doing this.
i don't know how much i would pay to see this as a huge banner at the debate, but it would be a lot