DONALD J. TRUMP & JD VANCE 2024

Gern Blansten

Gern Blansten

LOL...Shapiro is such a fucking moron

Gern Blansten

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-emails/

Oh boy....I side with JD here but this is bad for their narrative

brianlux

mickeyrat said:

brianlux said:

On July 16, Neema Avashia of The Guardian newspaper published an op-ed titled: "I'm from Appalachia.  J. D. Vance doesn't represent us- he only represents himself."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-appalachia

I think this is something worth remembering.  And J. D. Vance may be from Appalachia, and he may be published, but he certainly does not represent some of his other fellow Appalachians who are much better writers (including songwriters) and much better people.  Some examples:

Neema Avashia

Barbara Kingsolver
Edward Abbey
Wendell Berry
Dolly Parton
Dwight Yoakam
Luke Combs

middletown ohio is not appalachia.

Which person are you referring to?

Tim Simmons

shecky said:

Buttigieg ripped for 'extraordinarily brazen' slam on Trump that critics say was accidental 'dunk' on Biden

It is unclear when and where Trump and Harris will have their first debate

By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News

Published July 26, 2024 6:00pm EDT

Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ripped by conservatives on social media Friday after he mocked former President Trump for showing "weakness" by not agreeing to debate VP Harris in September.

"Has a presidential nominee ever agreed to a debate, then pulled out? Remarkable show of weakness here," Buttigieg posted on X before being mocked by conservatives who argued that former President Trump had an agreement with Biden, who dropped out of the race and effectively pulled out of the scheduled debate.

"Yes. Biden. Literally this past weekend," CNN’s Scott Jennings posted on X.

"Joe Biden agreed to 2 debates, then pulled out of his entire campaign after the first one," pollster Frank Luntz posted on X.

"The only one I can think of is Joe Biden, right?" The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway posted on X.

"I’m actually surprised Pete would dunk this hard on his boss, Joe Biden," Fox News contributor Guy Benson posted on X. "The man *just* pulled out of the race (and therefore the second debate), clearly against his will. Undeniable weakness aside, give him a moment of peace."

"This is the sort of extraordinarily brazen tack you take only when you know that the media is in full campaign mode in your favor," National Review’s Charles C. Cooke posted on X.

Fox News Digital reached out to Buttigieg’s office and the Harris campaign but did not receive a response.

Trump said earlier this week he's open to debating Vice President Harris more than once as the two face off in the 2024 presidential election.

"Absolutely. I'd want to. I think it's important," Trump said Tuesday when asked by Fox News' Bill Melugin on a conference call with reporters if he would commit to debating Harris at least once.

"I would be willing to do more than one debate, actually," Trump said. Minutes later, Trump noted, "I haven’t agreed to anything. I agreed to a debate with Joe Biden."

The Trump campaign said Thursday he will not participate in a debate until Democrats finalize their nominee because it "would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds."

Harris criticized that position from the Trump campaign as "backpedaling." 

Big smooth brain energy to think it’s a dunk on Biden 

brianlux

Take this to the bank, J, D. Vance.

mickeyrat

brianlux said:

mickeyrat said:

brianlux said:

On July 16, Neema Avashia of The Guardian newspaper published an op-ed titled: "I'm from Appalachia.  J. D. Vance doesn't represent us- he only represents himself."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-appalachia

I think this is something worth remembering.  And J. D. Vance may be from Appalachia, and he may be published, but he certainly does not represent some of his other fellow Appalachians who are much better writers (including songwriters) and much better people.  Some examples:

Neema Avashia

Barbara Kingsolver
Edward Abbey
Wendell Berry
Dolly Parton
Dwight Yoakam
Luke Combs

middletown ohio is not appalachia.

Which person are you referring to?

vance. his hometown is between Dayton and Cincinnati

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax

Tim Simmons said:

shecky said:

Buttigieg ripped for 'extraordinarily brazen' slam on Trump that critics say was accidental 'dunk' on Biden

It is unclear when and where Trump and Harris will have their first debate

By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News

Published July 26, 2024 6:00pm EDT

Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ripped by conservatives on social media Friday after he mocked former President Trump for showing "weakness" by not agreeing to debate VP Harris in September.

"Has a presidential nominee ever agreed to a debate, then pulled out? Remarkable show of weakness here," Buttigieg posted on X before being mocked by conservatives who argued that former President Trump had an agreement with Biden, who dropped out of the race and effectively pulled out of the scheduled debate.

"Yes. Biden. Literally this past weekend," CNN’s Scott Jennings posted on X.

"Joe Biden agreed to 2 debates, then pulled out of his entire campaign after the first one," pollster Frank Luntz posted on X.

"The only one I can think of is Joe Biden, right?" The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway posted on X.

"I’m actually surprised Pete would dunk this hard on his boss, Joe Biden," Fox News contributor Guy Benson posted on X. "The man *just* pulled out of the race (and therefore the second debate), clearly against his will. Undeniable weakness aside, give him a moment of peace."

"This is the sort of extraordinarily brazen tack you take only when you know that the media is in full campaign mode in your favor," National Review’s Charles C. Cooke posted on X.

Fox News Digital reached out to Buttigieg’s office and the Harris campaign but did not receive a response.

Trump said earlier this week he's open to debating Vice President Harris more than once as the two face off in the 2024 presidential election.

"Absolutely. I'd want to. I think it's important," Trump said Tuesday when asked by Fox News' Bill Melugin on a conference call with reporters if he would commit to debating Harris at least once.

"I would be willing to do more than one debate, actually," Trump said. Minutes later, Trump noted, "I haven’t agreed to anything. I agreed to a debate with Joe Biden."

The Trump campaign said Thursday he will not participate in a debate until Democrats finalize their nominee because it "would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds."

Harris criticized that position from the Trump campaign as "backpedaling." 

Big smooth brain energy to think it’s a dunk on Biden 

They don’t know who they’re dunking on. No clue.

brianlux

mickeyrat said:

brianlux said:

mickeyrat said:

brianlux said:

On July 16, Neema Avashia of The Guardian newspaper published an op-ed titled: "I'm from Appalachia.  J. D. Vance doesn't represent us- he only represents himself."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-appalachia

I think this is something worth remembering.  And J. D. Vance may be from Appalachia, and he may be published, but he certainly does not represent some of his other fellow Appalachians who are much better writers (including songwriters) and much better people.  Some examples:

Neema Avashia

Barbara Kingsolver
Edward Abbey
Wendell Berry
Dolly Parton
Dwight Yoakam
Luke Combs

middletown ohio is not appalachia.

Which person are you referring to?

vance. his hometown is between Dayton and Cincinnati

Oh, right, for sure.  Should have worded my post better.

Yeah, Vance's never lived in Appalachia.  His grandparents did and he seems to think that makes him an expert.  I almost read his book, but I'm glad I didn't waste my time.

Gern Blansten

It's actually a good movie... Never read the book. Directed by Ron Howard 

brianlux

Gern Blansten said:

It's actually a good movie... Never read the book. Directed by Ron Howard 

Well that's interesting because I've always like Ron Howard's films.  I wonder what Howard thinks about all this now?

Lerxst1992

shecky said:

Yes, I agree with you, LOYALTY is a concept that Democrats do not understand. Just ask Joe Biden.

So you going to go to show support for good ol' Hangin JD, who is blaming his problems on people who don't or can't have children, or to hang JD Vance

shecky

Border czar Kamala Harris visits Houston weeks after Jocelyn Nungaray allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants

Vice President Kamala Harris did not visit parents of Jocelyn Nungaray or the southern border during stop in Houston

 By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten Fox News

Published July 27, 2024 4:00am EDT

"Border czar" Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Houston, Texas, choosing to attend a dinner for a convention for teachers rather than visit the grieving parents of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was raped and murdered, allegedly by two migrants.

Nungaray was found strangled to death June 17. Authorities identified the suspects as two Venezuelan nationals — Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26.

Authorities previously confirmed the pair illegally entered the U.S. earlier this year.

Harris' visit to Houston came as the vice president began a whirlwind campaign tour after President Biden announced he would not seek re-election.

Harris began her trip by greeting local leaders to be briefed on the region’s recovery efforts from Hurricane Beryl and then attended the American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) annual convention.

"And I thank you also for your support over the years and for being the first union to endorse me this week," Harris said.

Harris' address highlighted her campaign hot-button topics, which included key parts of the Democratic Party platform, such as eliminating voter ID to expand mail-in voting, banning assault rifles, protecting LGBTQ+ rights and restoring national access to abortion.

"In this moment across our nation, we witness a full-on attack on hard-won, hard-fought freedoms," said Harris. 

"In this moment, we are in a fight for our most fundamental freedoms. And to this room of leaders, I say bring it on. Bring it on. Bring it on."

Harris' visit notably did not include a visit to Nungaray's grieving parents who, since her death, have pleaded for a "safer country" and called for heightened border security to prevent other families from suffering the same fate.

"We have to stop burying our kids," Jocelyn's mother, Alexis Nungaray, said tearfully on "Hannity." "This isn’t right. We have to have more reinforcement when it comes to letting people in. This is not OK."

Jocelyn's grandfather, Kelvin Alvarenga, turned his attention directly to lawmakers.

"I would like the people that can make changes to our laws to just sit back and reflect," Alvarenga said. "I don’t know if we can transmit the pain that we’re having through cameras, but please sit back and reflect and think of all these little angels that shouldn’t have been taken away, and they have for the reason that we’re not doing what we need to, screening these people."

"Screening these people" fell under Harris' charge as "border czar" for the Biden administration.

"Border czar" is an informal title widely granted to Harris in 2021 when Biden appointed her to handle the "root causes" of illegal immigration.

In July 2021, she introduced a five-point general strategy to combat those "root causes" of illegal immigration. The plan did not include specific policies, but instead called for "diplomacy, foreign assistance, public diplomacy and sanctions" to "establish a fair, orderly and humane immigration system."

The document emphasized the "push" factors of migration, including natural disasters in Central America, poverty, hunger, and gang violence, each of which contributes to people leaving their homes in search of a better life in America. 

"In Central America, the root causes of migration run deep — and migration from the region has a direct impact on the United States," Harris said at the time. "For that reason, our nation must consistently engage with the region to address the hardships that cause people to leave Central America and come to our border."

The Biden administration has pushed back against categorizing Harris as the "border czar," saying the vice president was never formally given that title.

"[Border apprehensions] are down by 55%. Not because of Republicans and what they did. It's because of what this president and this vice president did," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told Fox News' Peter Doocy when pressed on Harris' title. 

"We are going to debunk the false characterization of the vice president. She was not a border czar. And it's not just us. Independent fact-checkers have said the same thing — that that did not exist, and that is not true."

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott torched Harris' visit to Houston, saying she "couldn't trouble herself" to visit the southern border.

"Kamala Harris flew to Houston for a political rally, but couldn't trouble herself to go a few hundred miles more & see the damage she caused to our border," Abbott wrote in a post on X.

"She refused to mention Jocelyn Nungaray who was recently killed by illegal immigrants in Houston."

Nungaray is among victims killed in migrant-related crime during the Biden administration.

In July, Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, allegedly murdered Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza at an Airbnb property in Syracuse, New York. 

The gruesome crime was reportedly carried out on the victim's 21st birthday.

In February, 22-year-old Laken Riley was murdered when taking a run along dirt trails on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.  

Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal migrant from Venezuela, is facing 10 counts following the death of Riley. The 26-year-old recently pleaded not guilty in the death of a college student.

In August 2023, Maryland mother Rachel Morin was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered by Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, a 23-year-old illegal El Salvadorian migrant.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hernandez had attempted to enter the country illegally four times after being accused of a similar murder in his native El Salvador.

The ongoing border crisis is a top issue for voters ahead of the November election. The Biden administration has pushed back against Republican criticism, saying there has been a 50% drop in illegal immigrant crossings since Biden announced an executive order in June limiting crossings into the U.S.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Harris campaign and the White House for comment.

Halifax2TheMax

shecky said:

Border czar Kamala Harris visits Houston weeks after Jocelyn Nungaray allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants

Vice President Kamala Harris did not visit parents of Jocelyn Nungaray or the southern border during stop in Houston

 By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten Fox News

Published July 27, 2024 4:00am EDT

"Border czar" Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Houston, Texas, choosing to attend a dinner for a convention for teachers rather than visit the grieving parents of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was raped and murdered, allegedly by two migrants.

Nungaray was found strangled to death June 17. Authorities identified the suspects as two Venezuelan nationals — Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26.

Authorities previously confirmed the pair illegally entered the U.S. earlier this year.

Harris' visit to Houston came as the vice president began a whirlwind campaign tour after President Biden announced he would not seek re-election.

Harris began her trip by greeting local leaders to be briefed on the region’s recovery efforts from Hurricane Beryl and then attended the American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) annual convention.

"And I thank you also for your support over the years and for being the first union to endorse me this week," Harris said.

Harris' address highlighted her campaign hot-button topics, which included key parts of the Democratic Party platform, such as eliminating voter ID to expand mail-in voting, banning assault rifles, protecting LGBTQ+ rights and restoring national access to abortion.

"In this moment across our nation, we witness a full-on attack on hard-won, hard-fought freedoms," said Harris. 

"In this moment, we are in a fight for our most fundamental freedoms. And to this room of leaders, I say bring it on. Bring it on. Bring it on."

Harris' visit notably did not include a visit to Nungaray's grieving parents who, since her death, have pleaded for a "safer country" and called for heightened border security to prevent other families from suffering the same fate.

"We have to stop burying our kids," Jocelyn's mother, Alexis Nungaray, said tearfully on "Hannity." "This isn’t right. We have to have more reinforcement when it comes to letting people in. This is not OK."

Jocelyn's grandfather, Kelvin Alvarenga, turned his attention directly to lawmakers.

"I would like the people that can make changes to our laws to just sit back and reflect," Alvarenga said. "I don’t know if we can transmit the pain that we’re having through cameras, but please sit back and reflect and think of all these little angels that shouldn’t have been taken away, and they have for the reason that we’re not doing what we need to, screening these people."

"Screening these people" fell under Harris' charge as "border czar" for the Biden administration.

"Border czar" is an informal title widely granted to Harris in 2021 when Biden appointed her to handle the "root causes" of illegal immigration.

In July 2021, she introduced a five-point general strategy to combat those "root causes" of illegal immigration. The plan did not include specific policies, but instead called for "diplomacy, foreign assistance, public diplomacy and sanctions" to "establish a fair, orderly and humane immigration system."

The document emphasized the "push" factors of migration, including natural disasters in Central America, poverty, hunger, and gang violence, each of which contributes to people leaving their homes in search of a better life in America. 

"In Central America, the root causes of migration run deep — and migration from the region has a direct impact on the United States," Harris said at the time. "For that reason, our nation must consistently engage with the region to address the hardships that cause people to leave Central America and come to our border."

The Biden administration has pushed back against categorizing Harris as the "border czar," saying the vice president was never formally given that title.

"[Border apprehensions] are down by 55%. Not because of Republicans and what they did. It's because of what this president and this vice president did," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told Fox News' Peter Doocy when pressed on Harris' title. 

"We are going to debunk the false characterization of the vice president. She was not a border czar. And it's not just us. Independent fact-checkers have said the same thing — that that did not exist, and that is not true."

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott torched Harris' visit to Houston, saying she "couldn't trouble herself" to visit the southern border.

"Kamala Harris flew to Houston for a political rally, but couldn't trouble herself to go a few hundred miles more & see the damage she caused to our border," Abbott wrote in a post on X.

"She refused to mention Jocelyn Nungaray who was recently killed by illegal immigrants in Houston."

Nungaray is among victims killed in migrant-related crime during the Biden administration.

In July, Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, allegedly murdered Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza at an Airbnb property in Syracuse, New York. 

The gruesome crime was reportedly carried out on the victim's 21st birthday.

In February, 22-year-old Laken Riley was murdered when taking a run along dirt trails on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.  

Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal migrant from Venezuela, is facing 10 counts following the death of Riley. The 26-year-old recently pleaded not guilty in the death of a college student.

In August 2023, Maryland mother Rachel Morin was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered by Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, a 23-year-old illegal El Salvadorian migrant.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hernandez had attempted to enter the country illegally four times after being accused of a similar murder in his native El Salvador.

The ongoing border crisis is a top issue for voters ahead of the November election. The Biden administration has pushed back against Republican criticism, saying there has been a 50% drop in illegal immigrant crossings since Biden announced an executive order in June limiting crossings into the U.S.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Harris campaign and the White House for comment.

I know this is way lost on some but notice “border czar” is in quotes. Thinking people and smart people know it’s because it’s a moniker that the repub party has assigned to Kamala in an effort to place blame for the “border crisis.” One POOTWH helped create with his policies and directing his minions in the house to scuttle the bipartisan immigration legislation. We also know that Kamala was never put in charge of the border and was never appointed as the “border czar.” But do go on, Schek.

Halifax2TheMax

And you gotta love Faux News Diatribe hiring “journalists” from Bob Jones University with its 60% graduation rate. What’s the matter? POOTWH U graduates not available or asking too much starting salary? What a sewer.

teskeinc

No one cared about or disputed Kommie as the Border Czar until she became Dems appointee. Wonder why? She has to own her record now, she’s trying to run away from it. 

For JD Vance being such a bad pick as VP, the lefty liberals sure spend a lot of time worrying about him here.

benjs

teskeinc said:

No one cared about or disputed Kommie as the Border Czar until she became Dems appointee. Wonder why? She has to own her record now, she’s trying to run away from it. 

For JD Vance being such a bad pick as VP, the lefty liberals sure spend a lot of time worrying about him here.

Who do you see on here worried about him? The dude's as awkward as they come, has the charisma of a sock, is on the record about thinking the worst of Trump, and hardly any political experience. I can only speak for myself, but I think his picking Vance is a gift to Democrats. 

Bentleyspop

teskeinc

Bentleyspop said:

Nice! Hitler comparisons have worked out well.