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Aug 8Liked by Jim Hightower

And how many different names has he gone by? Now he's trying to "Swift Boat" Gov. Walz, saying he never carried an assault rifle in combat, even though he (Vance) was never in combat himself. He served as a PR person; granted, he was in a combat zone but he was never engaged in actuall combat. We can't let the Swift Boaters win again!

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And let's not forget who is running mate is, a draft dodging loudmouth with bone spurs that insults decorated veterans because they showed up. trumps statements about John McCain were some of my first reasons to never vote for him.

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Here comes yet another really mean and hateful bought and paid for puppet of the oligarchy. Lots of money goes into raising up a terrible person like this to national prominence. It would hep if the mainstream media was more factually honest about such horrible characters and who has bought them, but we continue to see this distortion of the facts in the name of presenting both sides as though they were reasonable. This new, more aggressive facism is a terrible danger to our country. At least the Lowdown is calling it as it is. Thank you. Lynn Means

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I agree - there are not "two sides" to oligarchic Christo-fascism (or any other kind). It's all bad for the people. Now with oligarch-fascist in chief Elon Musk spewing mis- and disinformation on his global platform to manipulate voters, my short-lived waltz (Walz) with hope - that demise may not be imminent - is definitely over.

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There is no way I could plunk down a single dollar for one of Musk's Teslas. It's not the vehicle, but the corporate driver.

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more bizarre the GOP MAGATS have managed to out do themselves ! The V.P.from the friggen twilight zone! He is sofa king weird !😅

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With The Donald rapidly disintegrating (a process we can help along with the “weird” calls and laughter) the Juvenile Delinquent is stepping forward (rather, creeping around more prominently) as MAGA’s replacement presidential candidate. Just imagine Couch Boy Vance as U.S. President! On with the “Creepy and Weird” campaign! 👹🤡💩👽

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VD Vance (some journalist somewhere must get this wrong and call him VD Vance) reminds me of the Chad Mitchell Trio song: Friendly Neighborhood Liberal Klu Klux Clan - when John Denver was singing for Chad Mitchell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTcsLPgDiE "The Klan's collected so much cash that by golly now we're rich white trash!"

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Right on! But I think you have misused the term "vulture capitalist."

Obviously the term is a send-up of "venture capitalist," but it refers not to the real venture capitalists (those who invest in startups hoping to hit the jackpot), but to people like Mitt Romney who borrow money to buy existing businesses and squeeze all possible cash out of those businesses to pay the loan , and then sell, close, or go public with those businesses to generate massive amounts of cash for themselves.

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I wonder. As a condition of being his running (or is that stumbling) mate, did trump make him buy a newly minted million dollar membership at Merde-A-Lardo?

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I think Trump considered the Hitler comment a compliment.

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The scum rises to the top

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J.D. or whatever he goes by cannot win on a conservative platform based on hate and division but he keeps trying to gin up the base. It is all he knows besides going with Q and extreme alt right ideology.

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I don’t do “social media”, but this wrap up sounds spot on — 🥴

“People on social media watched Donald Trump’s decidedly weird press conference Thursday and concluded that the ex-president is “massively overconfident,” “incoherent,” and “one egg short of an [omelet].”

as reported by HuffPost POLITICS 08/08/2024 05:58PM EDT

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I remember when the 'publicans claimed the worst thing a greasy Democrat could be was a 'Flip-Flopper.' Now the pachyderms flip and flop all over the place.

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olypic update : Trump and Vance win team gold for lying topping2021's bronz in BS . coach Putin extatic !

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Whew! Vance has gone around the bend, surely bound for the nuthouse. To be followed shortly by Trump, looks like. I'd gladly chip in toward their transportation if they don't get shipped there shortly in straightjackets by the authorities. They can meditate on Hannibal Lecter between electroshock treatments. and exchange notes on planned violence for their "perceived" enemies.

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If you need to locate JD Vance,look up Donald's butt and you'll find him.

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Vance is more like Molehill William

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