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Pete Buttigieg Shreds J.D. Vance For Using ‘Pro-Family’ Rhetoric To Cloak His Bigotry

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttgieg slammed GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance this morning during an appearance on CNN, making it clear that while Vance claims to be “pro-family,” his words suggest otherwise.

Asked about an interview CNN conducted with Vance in which the Ohio Republican accused Democrats of being anti-family, Buttigieg made it clear he has no use for the senator’s bogus pronouncements on the topic of what constitutes a family.

“Let’s be clear, we’re the ones trying to get the Child Tax Credit expanded and J.D. Vance couldn’t be bothered to show up in the Senate and vote for it and Republicans have blocked that from being expanded or it’d be the law of the land right now.”

“So if you want to talk about promoting children, promoting family, put your money where your mouth is,” Buttigieg added.

Buttigieg also told host Dana Bash, “Look, when you asked him and pressed him on whether my family was legitimate, he said yes because I think he felt shamed into it. But let’s remember also, the last time I checked, he doesn’t even think I should legally be able to have a family.”

“Now, if he really got his way in his anti-marriage equality views, I don’t know if that means that he would want me and my husband to be forcibly divorced and separated from our children or if he’d be satisfied just to have us lose legal protections like the ability to do our taxes together, visit them in a hospital,” he added. “I don’t know exactly what his vision of us not having a family looks like, but I know that it’s not pro-family for me.”

Make no mistake. Vance and his political godfather, Donald Trump, think they have the right to determine what constitutes a family. But their version of family is something from the 1950s and has no relevance at all in 2024.

Buttigieg is right. And Vance’s narrow-minded bigotry needs to be called out every time he opens his big mouth.

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Megyn Kelly Gets Her A*s Handed To Her For Whining That Kamala Called Trump A ‘Criminal Sexual Predator’

Even though he has attacked her numerous times, former Fox host Megyn Kelly remains slavishly devoted to failed one-term, twice-impeached, and multiply-indicted former president Donald Trump.

So it should come as no surprise that Kelly is upset by Vice President Kamala Harris pointing out on the campaign trail that Trump is a convicted felon who has been accused of sexual assault and rape by dozens of women.

Trump is also a serial fraudster who is facing sentencing next month in Manhattan for years of systematic tax and insurance fraud committed by the Trump Organization.

But to hear Kelly tell it, Harris has no right to highlight Trump’s legal troubles.

Taking to Twitter, Kelly posted this message on Saturday in response to a report from the New York Times that Trump calls Harris a “bitch” in private:

“She calls him a criminal sexual predator fraudster so I’m pretty sure none of us care.”

That was all it took for others on social media to remind Kelly that Trump has indeed been found guilty of sexual assault, fraud, and other crimes.

 

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Republicans Have A Plan To Stop The 2024 Election If Harris Keeps Rising In The Polls

More than a month ago, President Joe Biden announced to the nation that he would withdraw from the 2024 presidential election. He also endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be his replacement as the Democratic nominee.

At the time Biden left the race, the Democratic Party was in a funk, with many convinced that Donald Trump would easily romp to victory and destroy the American experiment of self-governance and representative democracy.

Now, however, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are campaigning in key battleground states such as Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and just-released polls show the Democratic ticket in the lead over Trump and the GOP.

Behind the scenes, however, all of the momentum Harris and Walz are building could be destroyed by just a few election officials in a handful of states who may refuse to certify ballots, leading to a Constitutional crisis and threatening the entire American electoral system.

As A.B. Stoddard explains in a chilling column she penned for The Bulwark, we could be on the verge of an event that would put the election in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court or House of Representatives, both of which would likely declare Trump the victor.

Across the country, the November election results will have to be certified in more than 3,000 counties, and all state results must be final by the time electors meet in each state on December 17. Members of county election boards are not tasked with resolving election issues; certification is mandatory and “ministerial,” not discretionary. Disputes over ballot issues are separate from the certification process—investigated and adjudicated by district attorneys, state election boards, and in court.

Election experts say the new rule could disrupt the entire process across the state by allowing local partisans to reject results. And Georgia appears to be at the center of Trump’s plans. Casting doubt on Fulton County, which makes up the bulk of Democratic votes in the state, will help him claim he won the Peach State as the rest of the results come in red.

What happens if there’s no certification? Technically, there would be no president, though Biden would remain as head of state until the matter could be adjudicated in court and a solution found.

Election attorney Marc Elias has been warning for months that we all need to prepare for a worst-case scenario and have plans in place if and when such an event arrives.

“I think we are going to see mass refusals to certify the election. Everything we are seeing about this election is that the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared.”

What can be done to make sure the 2024 election isn’t stolen by those loyal to Trump? First of all, we have to be informed as citizens and ready to make our voices heard. Then we have to vote in record numbers so Harris and Walz win in a landslide that cannot possibly be denied.

Most importantly, however, we have to band together and prepare for the days ahead. United, we cannot be beaten. Even the pro-Trump forces know that, and it should give them pause.

 

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Donald Trump Jr’s Disgusting Attempt To Slag Tim Walz Backfires Badly On Him

If you were wondering whether or not desperation is setting in among the Trump-Vance 2024 campaign, the answer arrived in disgusting and downright weird fashion from none other than Donald Trump Jr.

Hoping to thwart the endless array of jibes and memes circulating on social media about Sen. J.D. Vance allegedly having sex with a couch (he didn’t), Don Jr. decided to counter with a lie about Democratic running mate Gov. Tim Walz, HuffPost reports.

Well, ever since Walz mocked Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance with a reference to a satirical-but-false internet meme that claimed the “Hillbilly Elegy” author wrote about having sex with a sofa, Trump toadies have been trying to get even.

For some reason, somebody decided to combat the false couch sex claims by claiming that Walz enjoys drinking horse semen.

Weird, right?

Here’s what Junior posted on Twitter:

Not funny and not the least bit effective, as a person on the Reddit channel “Ask A Liberal” explained:

“Well, if that’s your strategy, you can go ahead and make up gross stories about Tim Walz. But I wouldn’t expect it to work out in quite the same way. Everyone seems to hate JD Vance, while everyone seems to really like Tim Walz.”

“Mean-spirited jokes tend to be easier to (aheh) swallow when the butt of those jokes is considered an ‘acceptable target.'”

Twitter users also let Don Jr. know that his “joke” reeked of childishness and desperation.

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Flailing Trump And Vance Look Like ‘Chimpanzees’ Tossing ‘Fecal Remains’: Reporter

As they continue to lose ground in the 2024 race for the White House, one reporter with decades of experience covering elections is noting that both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are starting to look like “chimpanzees” who are throwing their feces in a desperate effort to blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

In an article he wrote for Salon, Brian Karem notes that Vance’s attack on Walz’s 24 years of service in the Army National Guard proves that the GOP is flailing about and losing ground with voters.

“At the end of the day, the GOP looked like those chimpanzees in the zoo who are kept behind glass walls because they fling their fecal remains at everyone. So far, very little of this has stuck to Walz, who remains affable and effective at blocking the demagoguery. Still, the GOP won’t give up its attempts to demonize Walz and Harris. The Democrats had to know it was coming, and if they didn’t then they’re more headless than I thought. The Republicans are certainly heartless. “

Trump also looks weak and feckless when compared to Walz, who spent decades as a public school teacher and is beloved in the state he leads, Karem adds.

“Trump, meanwhile, has dissolved under Walz’s addition to the Democratic ticket. Insiders in the Trump camp who still can nominally engage in cogent thought believe Trump made a horrible choice in choosing Vance and it will cost them the election. They’re running around with their hair on fire while trying to pull it out.”

In other words, Trump and Vance deserve each other, Karem rightly observes, because both of them are widely despised by a large majority of Americans.

“Donald Trump’s mental decline becomes more apparent every day. Vance’s fear of women, his desire to destroy voting rights and both of their desires to turn back time to ‘Make America Great Again’ when that past was never great for children, minorities, those of certain faiths and those in the LGBTQ community, are taking a toll on this country.”

The 2024 election, Karem concludes, isn’t just a choice between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives. It’s much deeper than that, and while Harris and Walz seem to understand that and have tapped into the larger zeitgeist.

“Watching Trump and Vance meltdown in public is funny, weird, creepy, and dangerous. But the more it becomes apparent that Trump is slipping, the more dangerous he and his vile movement become. For the country to come together, Trump cannot win. After all, who the Hell wants JD Vance a heartbeat away from the Presidency? I’m told even Trump doesn’t relish that thought.”

If Trump and Vance win, the United States as we know it is finished, and so is any pretense that this country is even the least little bit of a democracy or a republic. Instead, it will become the sort of “shithole” nation Trump loves to sneer at.