election-denying liar whines about being fact-checked

JD Vance lies as easily as other people breathe

it takes a special kind of self-entitled to stand up in front of an audience of millions and bitch and moan about how it’s not fair, you said I could lie, and oh Lordy, JD Vance — bogus hillbilly, absentee senator, and fabled fornicator of furniture — is just that kind of self-entitled.

Margaret Brennan: “just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does has a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status.”

Vance: “Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact check.”

so unfair! so unfair! what is this bullshit?

it’s true — when CBS announced that they weren’t going to be fact-checking during the debate, they were in effect telling JD that he could fabricate his scary werewolf face off. thank the gods that CBS came to their senses and realized their folly, because JD Vance lies as easily as other people breathe. it’s his thing. hey, he’ll freely admit it.

“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.”

remember that? that was Vance, confessing to CNN that he made up the whole illegals are eating our pets story — the lie that turned sleepy Springfield into a disaster area.

so yeah, JD lied his way through the entire debate. he lied about immigration. he lied about his stance on abortion. he lied about the roots of the housing crisis. he even lied about Obamacare, making the ludicrous claim that Donny Convict protected the Affordable Care Act.

but JD’s endless barrage of lies was not where he really shit the bed. the moment JD lost the debate — and the trust of the American people — when he refused to admit that Donny Convict got his ass handed to him in the 2020 election.

Walz: “[Trump] is still saying he didn’t lose the election. I would just ask that: did he lose the 2020 election?”
Vance: “Tim, I’m focused on the future. did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation?”
Walz: “that is a damning non-answer.”

oof. game over, bro.

Uncle Tim is right — that is a damning non-answer. Americans hate a sore loser.

now, here’s the moment where JD took the bed that he just shit in, and rolled around in it.

Norah O’Donnell: “Senator Vance, you have said that you would not have certified the last presidential election, and would have asked the states to submit alternative electors. that has been called unconstitutional and illegal. would you again seek to challenge this year’s election results — even if every governor certifies the results?”

Vance: “well Norah, first of all, I think we’re focused on the future. we need to figure out how to solve the inflation crisis.”

bzzzt! wrong answer! here’s a no-longer-undecided voter to explain why.

host: “all seven of you came in undecided. one of you made up their mind. Ryan, who are you going to vote for, and what solidified that opinion?”

Ryan: “well, I’m going to be voting for Kamala Harris. one of the stark aspects of that debate that really stuck with me was when they were talking about January 6th and how Mike Pence certified the election, and they were wondering if JD Vance would certify the election, should Trump lose, and JD Vance didn’t really give us a definitive answer. I’m disappointed in that fact, and I don’t think that I can trust someone with my vote if they’re not going to respect it.”

Ryan has it exactly right. to Donny and JD, your vote doesn’t matter. to paraphrase Fox News, you vote, we decide.

by the way, refusing to certify an election has been “called unconstitutional and illegal” because it is unconstitutional and illegal. certification is a ceremonial task — there are no if, ands or buts to the process. just ask Mike Pence.

oh wait, we can’t ask Mike Pence. he’s been banished from the MAGAsphere for the crime of having integrity.

Walz: “when I do know, is I see a candidate out there who refused, and now, again — and I’m pretty shocked by this — he lost the election. this is not a debate, not anywhere other than in Donald Trump’s world. look: when Mike Pence made that decision to certify that election, that’s why Mike Pence isn’t on this stage.”

Donny wanted someone who would violate the constitution as eagerly as he would violate a couch, and in JD Vance he found his man. fortunately, Vance will have nothing to do with the certification of the 2024 election. that job belongs to the current vice president, Kamala Harris.

speaking of Kamala, her campaign team has already cut a campaign ad featuring JD’s double-talk and cowardice. check it out.

Team Kamala is so fucking good at this.

now let’s watch Megyn Kelly melt down into a molten puddle of rage — because she’s so fucking good at that.

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Donny Convict gave a speech yesterday that veered so off the rails and into the tall weeds that the Washington Post — at long last — had no choice but to commit a journalism.

He spoke of “a million Rambos.” “Turnarounds” and “gotaways” and “dead-head spending.” He mixed up Iran with North Korea and strained to pronounce United Arab Emirates. He marveled at Hurricane Helene coming so late in the storm season, which typically runs through November. He falsely claimed government agencies can’t name the U.S. population, and he compared the conflict between Israel and Iran to “two kids fighting in the schoolyard.”

Trump, 78, often speaks in a digressive, extemporaneous style that thrills his fans at large-scale rallies. But Tuesday’s event, in front of almost entirely reporters, was especially scattered and hard to follow. Polls show voters’ concerns about Trump’s age and fitness have increased since President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew and was replaced as the Democratic nominee by Vice President Kamala Harris.

but Donny wasn’t just a demented, shambling mess — he was also an unpatriotic disgrace.

reporter: “do you believe that you should have been tougher on Iran after they had launched ballistic missiles in 2020 on US forces in Iraq, leaving more than a hundred US soldiers injured?”

Donny: “injured. what does injured mean? you mean because they had a headache?”

this heartless fucking psychopath. as recounted correctly by the reporter, Iran attacked a US base in Iraq in 2020 — while Donny was president, mind you — injuring over a hundred US soldiers. they blew the base to pieces.

Donny didn’t do shit in response, and let Iran get away with it. then he mocked the wounded soldiers, dismissing their brain injuries as headaches.

Milley has also said the military will take good care of the service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq, saying they will be monitored for “the rest of their lives” and receive any treatment they need.

Trump recently seemed to downplay the service members' condition, saying in late January, “I heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it is not very serious.”

tell me, if you barely escape death while a member of the US armed forces, and end up with life-long brain damage, does that make you a loser or a sucker?

now check out this stunning bit of what the fuck:

“they had to do that, and I thought it was a very nice thing.”

again: a base blown to bits. brain-damaged soldiers. and Donny thinks that Iran did us some kind of favor by only firing 18 missiles.

as president, Donny never stopped siding with our adversaries. he’s aligned himself with the worst of the worst: Putin, Kim, Orban, Erdogan, and the ruling class of Bone Saw Arabia — and now he’s taking Iran’s side.

Donny Convict has never once sided with America.

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