politics

If Trump loses in November he'll be in jail by January. The sentencing has already been scheduled. If the election is going to be stolen it'll have to be stolen when the votes are cast or counted, not when the election is certified.

Why did everyone believe this obvious fake news?

Hopefully it drags down the whole trump campaign.

He broke kayfabe.

The Republican party needs to have plausible deniability. In the conservative playbook, it's okay to repeat things that they know for a fact are untrue, or to tell a lie of omission to further their agenda, because they can always walk it back at the point in time which they are receiving blowback by saying they didn't know it wasn't true or that they didn't have all the facts at hand. Assuming that the lie doesn't manifest itself into truth or that there are enough people who care enough about the real truth to bother fact checking it at all to the point where it would necessarily generate any kind of controversy.

This was Vance saying the quiet part out loud, probably by accident, and his pivot was not convincing at all.

I’m seriously considering getting an “Ohio eats pussy” patch as an Ohio lesbian

Sometimes, you are genuinely insightfully funny, and sometimes what you post makes me want to vomit.

I appreciate that level of posting. It takes a very special kind of person to strike that balance.

I could almost buy that given my feelings about the mental capacity of the poster child for failing upwards, but why would he think specifically Haitian immigrants are lesbians? You know, as opposed to "liberals" or "college girls" (to quote the terrible song from that episode of Bill Nye - did you learn gay in college?) or something...

He did say exactly that in the interview when called out. It's in the twitter thread linked.

Towards the end.

It's so disheartening that the polls are basically tied. However much they can be trusted

Unfortunately and with deep regrets, I think it'd be tough. From https://lipskylowe.com/when-are-false-accusations-of-racism-defamation/ there are four points:

False Statement about the target was stated as fact (not opinion)
Publication or communication of that statement to a third person
Fault on the part of the person making the statement amounting at least to negligence
Harm to the subject of the statement (damages)

Considering how hard he's publicly pushed the story as a true fact, I think prongs 1 and 2 have been met. Alas, I can see 3 being not reached (he checked with his constituents who claimed the story was true and a judge accepts that as sufficient due diligence).

And 4 would be the hardest - how does one prove damages (like a dollar amount) and that they were specifically caused by his comments?

People need to call it what it is, as often as needed: stochastic terrorism

Yeah, therapists have noted a sharp upward trend of people dealing with politically driven grief. Basically, people separating from their family members due to political differences. And it’s almost universally from liberal people cutting off their Trump-crazed parents.

If it helps, realize that it’s his insecurity coming out. Don’t be mad, be sad. Can you imagine being an adult and stilling acting like an edgy teen.

And yet I am also 95% certain that he's never eaten pussy.

Thats probably why Trump picked him.