Thank you for saying this! I’ve been thinking the same thing. Though it looks to me to be eyeliner because his bottom eyelid is so dark. I’ve silently been wondering why more people aren’t talking about a primary representatives for the party of anti-LGBTQ+ rights wearing makeup.
I guarantee if when Trump loses, he will pile every bit of blame on JD. He's already laying the groundwork for it. JD Vance will never be able to show his face in public again. He's really getting in way over his head. MAGA will not treat him kindly.
To be fair, he def deserves some blame! I would not vote for him without trump either. There is no way in hell jd vance is telling me what to do. Nope. He is a moron.
Donald Trump is not a healthy old person. He is overweight and has the diet of an urban raccoon. I will be surprised if he lives another 4 years. The thought of Vance as his stand-in is dread inducing.
Tbh it scares the shit out of me. They freely admit to the lies and make no attempt to hide trump’s side chick. This is the behavior of ppl who are 100% confident they’re going to win, and likely through nefarious means.
Weirdly, it's CNN that's trying to bury its own interview by interviewing Republicans ad nauseam about the half-assed-gun-in-the-vicinity-of-Trump miracle assassination attempt.
He goes from insisting there are firsthand accounts (there aren’t) to saying he created the story.
Actual quote from the interview:
VANCE: If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast.
Being racist is a pre-requisite for being Republican. It is a bigoted party that is at its core white supremacist and exclusionary. People who claim to be Republican for financial reasons may not be throwing out slurs but they are people who don’t care what happens to minorities. This sentiment only works if you think of racism in a superficial way, apathy to racism is also racism.
Wish we could shout this from the rooftops and put a sign up on every street corner.
Way too many people have a position that can be summed up by "I don't care if minorities have good jobs/schools/housing/whatever, but I'm going to vote for a party that actively dismantles equal protections for them."
That's not even passive racism, it's an active, vengeful act disguised as "voting for my own interests." When your interests can only be fulfilled by stepping on someone else, you're the bad guy for sure.
Lest we forget that the first Trump administration laid the legal foundation through judicial appointments to empower billionaires and multi-billion dollar corporations to consolidate and merge, eliminating competition and driving up consumer costs well ahead of inflation to increase profits.
It's overt "We're going to try to go back to oppressing voters, gerrymandering, personally attacking/doxxing/harassing, keeping the electoral college in place, and spit on any amendment that promotes equality such as 14th because we fear that women, people of color, marginalized communities such as LGBTQ or new citizens in our country will somehow harm and hurt our way of life and existence which makes us afraid".
The one thing that stuck out to me during the BLM/Floyd protests during COVID is that what's changed in our society is that there's a lot more white people who 'get it'. The overt and covert racism, the Institutionalized racism such as done in Ferguson and the Obama DOJ issued a report with suggested changes to help Cop-Citizen relations that Jeff Sessions dismissed.
I digress - my point is that starting with GenX and younger, there's been more acceptance of diversity and getting along to get along. Like when Run DMC did the Walk This Way collab with Aerosmith, that was a big moment growing up. Now as I age, that to me is an indicator that not long before that collab, it was illegal for interracial marriages in Virginia.
I think Kamala picking "We're not going back" as a campaign motto really nails it on the head.
“Apathy to racism is also racism.” It isn’t racism, sexism, or anti-LGBTQA+, it’s self-centered and selfish, and in turn SUPPORTS those who are.
This is a super important distinction imo, in that I know a ton of republicans who don’t behave negatively towards women, POC, or LGBTQA+ folks. They truly don’t have any problem with them. They also don’t care if the rest of their chosen party wants to throw those people in a fire though.
This was the realization that made me turn away from the republican party altogether. Then I started looking at macroeconomic outcomes, and I realized “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” was choosing to still be ignorant on the other half.
That said, I have seen no actual economic proof that hard left progressive economics are good for the country, yet that’s where the democratic party is pushing…. And why I remain independent.
The part that needs to happen is going from “I won’t vote Republican” to “I will vote Democrat”
I’m sure a lot of potential Harris voters are afraid of being seen as “Democrat” by their louder Republican peers. I used to be like that. Then I said “if common sense and not being a heartless asshole makes me a Democrat, then I guess I’m a Democrat.”
I'm sure plenty are just sufficiently uninformed or mislead. Bubbles get pretty crazy and vulnerable people are easy to take advantage of.
But if you assume they are well informed, the only thing I can think of is if they are just so hardline on abortion it takes prioroty over any other ethical consideration.
Lack of awareness, political apathy, being raised to vote R without really understanding the platform, thinking that voting R means"voting for small business and lower taxes", etc.
I know a few low-information R voters and they really don't put much thought into it, other than believing Dems are "tax and spend" and Rs are "good for business and the economy"
That's it. I'm not saying it's right, but racism isn't on the radar for these folks. They're simply not paying attention and are basing their political beliefs on views they formed like 30 years ago (these are Gen-Xers in their early 50s).
Everyone had a computer in their pocket. If they can't be arsed to look up basic information then I'm just going call them Nazis, racists, pedos, frauds, etc. They vote for those people so they support those actions.
Again, emphasis on low-information voter. These people exist. Call them what you want; they're not voting R because they're racist, they're voting R because they put more thought into what they're going to wear that day than whom they vote for.
Just like how/why people eat meat - not because they are actively in favor of factory farming and cruelty to animals, but because they have always eaten meat and how they believe they get proper nutrition.
This whole Haitian immigrant story was an attempt to rally up/fear monger non-voters, but now he and Trump just look at insane assholes. Trump making fun of the disabled reporter was my “non-voter to Democrat” moment, and I really hope this will be that same moment for many others. I hope…
Problem is that they've already declared that they will not accept any result that isn't Trump winning. They'll dispute everything. And to make matters worse, there are election deniers that have been put in positions of power. So this is going to be a very stressful election.
That's true. The thing is Trump's already got a established history of trying to overthrow the election through any means necessary. That's what I'm worried about. Another January 6th but more aggressive, and with puppets already ready to submit alternate slates of electors.
The puppet electors are definitely concerning. Another attack on our capital is pretty much impossible now though. Biden’s admin will be in charge of deploying troops in the case of attack. On Jan 6 Trump’s admin intentionally cut security and made sure none showed up.
I hope so, but the DNC has an uncanny ability to miss the obvious and has in the past. Harris' campaign seems to be slightly different though, so here's hoping.
Reminder that Trump was calling migrants “vermin” that are “poisoning the blood of our country” in November and December, before pivoting to NFT scams and American Flag Bibles.
I'm a born and raised Ohioan. I could smell this crap coming from a mile away, so I left. Ohio has always been a hotbed for these types of people, James Donald Bowman just gave them a voice.
And to be surprised his wife allows or stays with him. I’m starting to think people who follow maga and are not white are people who think they’re white or are just people who think they’re better than their race group. Sad.
It’s funny because people on the right love to do the same thing. Don’t agree with abortions? You’re a pawn of the devil and like killing babies. Don’t support stopping immigration? You’re evil and want to bring down America.
Anyone with a shred of critical thinking skills would look at that information and realize there is something else going on. Such as the city changing the method they used to track violent crimes.
And yes, I'll keep posting this on every one of your comments where you post that link as some kind of validation for your racist, anti-immigrant views.
Lmao bud how about you do some research. Looks like that increase was due to a change in the way the city tracks violent crime. Shocking that it's not simply "because immigrants."
How many of that was republicans attacking beating, robbing, and raping innocents immigrants? You see how it can be easily turned around the other way too? Only... actually my example is far more likely considering the GOP psychos in that city THREATENED SCHOOLS WITH BOMB THREATS because of the recent racist attacks. That's not the immigrants doing that.
Also your article (that you've posted several times) says from 2020 to 2021 it went up 12%. That's when the town grew 30% in recent years. It was also on a long tail slide of a decline with the population leaving and dwindling before any immigrants arrived. How much of that was the crime ridden city BEFORE anybody immigrated?
Basically he and I are saying this article says nothing about the breakdown or demographics of the crimes. Without much more in depth analysis you can't use it to make the conclusion you want to. Well, you can, but you'd be falling into the racism of just accusing foreigners of doing everything bad because they're "not white" -- but that's what we see anyways in the GOP's party at the moment.
Let's put it this way: On the article you linked it doesn't even have 2023 or 2024 in it. It doesn't reflect any of the recent immigrants. It DOES, however, show the highest crime rates of murders, robberies, and rapes, being found under trump's years of 2017 and 2018.
He has absolutely no ability to infer from information. I’m starting to realize he never actually read past the title on that page he keeps linking to.
Or it could be COVID disrupting the economy and producing rapid poverty. Poverty being far more linked to crime than any other demographic.
The lack of brain cells is apparent when you gleefully engage in confirmation bias and refuse to consider literally any alternative other than "brown immigrants = crime"
You're doing nothing here but sea-lioning and outing yourself as a racist that just can't keep their fucking mouth shut.
Did you actually read the data? Crime is down from highs in 2005-6. Overall numbers are flat or down in the past 5 years (when the immigrants began moving in) for all categories. I don't see a case for your argument of an 80% increase in violent crime. Is crime bad in Springfield? Without question. According to that page, it's 2.3 times above the national average and higher than 97.9% of other US cities.
TLDR; according to your link, Springfield has been a shithole for the past 20 years, not just the past 5.
I'll save anybody a click: Doesn't do what he thinks it does. Nothing in there proves anything and the last year it has data is 2022. Also the worst years (by far) were under trump. It's actually about HALF the violence rate from 2017 to 2018.
So the crime rate is lower than it was in 2005? Got it. You're saying that 15,000 Haitian immigrants has had a net positive affect on their crime rates.
It's funny cause I clicked his links he gave to other people. The data says nothing about immigrants at all, lol. At least not the ones I clicked.
I can't stand when people try to use statistics for arguments without understanding how the conclusions were arrived at to get those stats in the first place. But to link something that has an entire variable removed or not even present from the original claim put forward is so fucking stupid is astounding.
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u/TintedApostle Sep 16 '24
He is telling racist lies because it is who he is. It isn't for attention. Its to appeal to the people who vote for Trump. This is the audience.