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Social Media Erupts With Mockery After Bizarre Video Of JD Vance ‘Laughing’ Like The Joker Surfaces

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a very strange person. He’s downright weird, and so are many of the things he’s said over the years about denying women the right to control their bodies and how men need to be more “alpha” if the United States is to survive as a superpower.

Vance often comes across as little more than an animatronic wax figure trying to pass himself off as a human being and failing miserably.

But a video making the rounds on social media is drawing new mockery of Vance for his so-called “laughing” during a campaign speech, with many noting that he sounds like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the 1989 film, “Batman.”

Here’s the Vance video, which has been trending on Twitter/X over the past few days and currently has 181,000 views:

Now take a look at Nicholson at the end of the aforementioned movie.

As many commenters noted, Vance has crossed the line from weird and entered the bizarro world.

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Trump Urges GOP To Shut Down The Federal Government Just Weeks Before 2024 Election

Perhaps sensing that he’s on the verge of losing the 2024 presidential election in humiliating fashion to Vice President Kamala Harris, failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is now urging his Republican allies to shut down the federal government shortly before voters go to the polls in November.

Speaking with Monica Crowley on her podcast, HuffPost reports, Trump insisted that the GOP needs to either force Democrats to support legislation barring non-US citizens from voting or refuse to pass funding that would keep the government open.

“I would shut down the government in a heartbeat if they don’t get it and if they don’t get it in the bill,” Trump declared.

Since it’s already a federal crime for noncitizens to vote, it’s unclear why another law is needed.

Trump added that Republicans should also add language to the spending bill that would severely restrict legal immigration to the United States.

“If they don’t get these bills, they should close it down, and Republicans should not approve it.”

Despite the disgraced ex-president’s call for a government shutdown, it doesn’t appear there’s a lot of GOP support for such a move, which could backfire and cause voters to cast their ballots for Democrats in response to government gridlock, the report adds.

“The Freedom Caucus doesn’t have enough members to actually block a clean government funding bill, which would likely pass the House with lots of support from Democrats and Republicans alike. Trump’s support for the SAVE Act could sway some Republicans, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who also supports the measure, hasn’t said he would insist on it in a funding bill.”

Additonally, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is also said to be working behind the scenes to get his House GOP colleagues to avoid any sort of government shutdown.

Sounds like Donald Trump is going to lose twice in the coming months. But he should be used to that by now. After all, he’s been a loser his entire life.

 

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A Crucial Voting Bloc Is Abandoning The Trump-Vance Ticket: New Polling Data

For years, failed former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party have tried to make inroads with one of the fastest-growing voting blocs in the country: Hispanics.

But it appears that outreach was all for naught, according to new polling data.

On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire asked former Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki about the polls.

“It’s not like Trump’s numbers are really going down per se. At least not much,” Lemire noted. “It’s more Harris’ growing support. It seems like Democrats that, for whatever reason, had really cooled on President Biden are now coming home because they’re excited about Kamala.”

“That’s exactly right, and remember just over a month ago, there was a larger number of double haters as we called them, people who weren’t thrilled about either candidate,” Psaki explained. “There was a large percentage of undecided voters that kind of wavered from poll to poll, and this all is a reflection of Democrats coming home, or Democratic-leaning voters coming home, which is a very good sign for the Biden (sic) and Walz campaign, exactly what you want coming out of the convention.”

“One of the most interesting numbers, certainly 18 to 34-year-olds, but the Hispanic number, Latinos is super interesting because this is a group that Trump and the Trump team has really done a ton of outreach to, and it is a group that you have seen some trends in certain states that has been leaning sometimes more Republican than they have been historically Democratic,” she added.

The segment concluded with Psaki remarking, “So this is a very good sign for them. What this means too, and you see this in state polls which are much more interesting to me than national polls, is that some of the states that seem to be off of the competition lane for the Democratic ticket like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, are back in competition, and that’s a very good sign for the Harris-Walz team because they have more maps to get to 270, and it’s not just the Blue Wall, even though the Blue Wall will still be pivotal.”

Women, the single-largest voting bloc in the country, are now registering to vote in record numbers, as are young people. Harris will likely win the black vote by a mile and is also looking good among Asian voters. If the Hispanic vote also breaks for Harris, Trump will be left with little more than angry white men who wouldn’t vote for a black woman in a million years.

Could a popular and electoral vote be in the offing for Democrats in November? That’s very possible, but only if we all get out and cast a ballot against Trump and his extreme right-wing agenda.

 

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Rachel Maddow Warns: This Is How The GOP Plans To Cause ‘Maximum Chaos’ In The 2024 Election

Even though the momentum of the 2024 race for the White House has shifted from failed former president Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats in recent weeks, the November 5 election is expected to be incredibly close, perhaps coming down to a few thousand votes in several key battleground states.

If Harris does manage to prevail in November, that doesn’t guarantee she will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow warns in a terrifying op/ed for the New York Times.

“Election boards across the country now include Republican officials who have not only propounded Mr. Trump’s lies about the last presidential election being ‘stolen,’ they have tested how far they can go in denying the certification of the vote,” Maddow writes. “Republicans tried this ploy more than two dozen times in at least eight states since 2020.”

How would this look if Republicans decided to try and contest the 2024 results? With “legal challenges” and “certification refusals” by MAGA Republicans, especially in states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all of which went for President Joe Biden in 2020 by narrow margins, Maddow explains.

“The point of these certification refusals may not be to falsify or flip a result, but simply to prevent the emergence of one. If one or more states fail to produce official results, blocking any candidate from reaching 270 electoral votes, the 12th Amendment prescribes Gerald L.K. Smith’s dream scenario: a vote in the newly elected House of Representatives to determine the presidency.”

Once the election was before the House of Representatives, here’s what would take place, Maddow continues: “Each state delegation would get one vote; today, Republicans control 26 state delegations; Democrats control 22; and two are evenly divided…. No one should be surprised when certification refusals happen or when they are then exploited to try to maximize chaos and upset.”

“After all, the Republican nominee this year is no Richard Nixon.”

With the House controlled by Republicans, it would be easy for the GOP to pull off the ultimate legal coup: Choosing the next president despite the will of the voters who cast their ballots for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, likely with the full blessings of the right-leaning Supreme Court, which has shown it has no problem stacking the deck for Republicans and giving the next president absolute immunity from prosecution.

The solution to this nightmare is for those of us who care about the United States to vote in massive numbers that cannot possibly be denied or overturned. Then we can begin to heal and repair the country that Republicans seem hell-bent on trying to burn to the ground.

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WATCH: Josh Hawley Tries To Ambush His Democratic Opponent And Gets Humiliated

Sen. Josh “Running Man” Hawley (R-MO) showed up at the Missouri State Fair on Thursday, but he wasn’t there to see the exhibits and enjoy the food. Instead, he decided he’d ambush his Democratic opponent, Lucas Kunce, and whine about the two not being able to arrange a debate.

Hawley posted a video of his confrontation with Kunce on Twitter, perhaps thinking it would make him look tough and spontaneous, but only proving what a complete douche he is.

The video begins with Hawley saying, “Guys, how are you? Let’s go find Lucas Kunce. Let’s go find him. Come on, where’s he been? I haven’t seen him, you guys seen him? He hasn’t been out of his basement two weeks, let’s go find him. Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Where is he?”

After finding Kunce, Hawley exclaims,  “Lucas Kunce! We gonna debate today?”

Kunce: “How you doing, man?”

Hawley: “We gonna debate today?”

To that, Kunce notes, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, dude.”

Hawley:  “You don’t know!? I read your bullshit letter to the Farm Bureau. Are you going to sue the Farm Bureau?”

The Farm Bureau reference, according to HuffPost, involves a campaign contribution made to Hawley.

Kunce’s campaign has agreed to five televised debates, according to St. Louis Fox affiliate KTVI-TV. But Kunce would not participate in a non-televised debate hosted by the Missouri Farm Bureau that his campaign contends would violate campaign finance law, since the group endorsed Hawley and donated $5,000 to his campaign, according to the Missouri Independent.

In a letter to the bureau, the Kunce campaign cited Federal Election Commission law preventing organizations that endorse and financially back candidates from hosting debates, the website said.

“Lucas does not wish to expose the Farm Bureau or your members to unnecessary risk,” Kunce campaign manager Caleb Cavaretta wrote.

After a few seconds of back-and-forth between the two men, Hawley asks Kunce, “It’s great to see out of your basement, Lucas. By the way, are you gonna do any campaign events around the state or just media?”

That’s when Kunce struck Hawley with the perfect retort.

“Josh, why are you so weird? Man, why are you so creepy?”

Here’s the encounter at the state fair, as presented by Hawley:

Kunce responded with a posting of his own:

Hawley was dragged on Twitter for his stunt.