Amy Hamm: J.D. Vance, salt of the earth - "Vance resembles other rising American political stars and commentators (Matt Walsh, anyone?). Canada, too, has seen a spate of young, white and conservative men — “nuclear family” archetypes — growing wildly popular in the past two years. Pierre Poilievre, with his young family, fits the bill, as does the west coast’s Aaron Gunn, the ex-military (viral) filmmaker turned BC Conservative candidate who, like Vance, possesses the forbidden appeal of all that is not a thinly-veiled diversity, equity, and inclusion candidate... Amidst the ruthless memes about Kamala Harris’ admittedly common, bewildering word salad diatribes — “Kamala Harris dumbest quotes” is an actual TikTok genre — you have Vance, referred to as an intellectual even by the critics who are simultaneously suggesting he is an illiberal authoritarian. Vance’s ethics could use an examination under the microscope, but his competence, at least, is visible to the naked eye of Republicans and Democrats alike... Whether Vance is the “New Right,” the right guy, or simply the right guy at the right time, the public — clearly — is all about the unrepentant revival of the prototypical, salt-of-the-earth family values candidate. And Trump knows that."
Renson Seow | Facebook - "That's quite impressive. Moderators for the US Vice Presidential debate lied about not fact checking both sides. Vance immediately put a stop to it and refuted citing evidence without needing to refer to notes. The media ended up being forced to cut his microphone... After watching the debate, I understood why Trump picked Vance. Basically he recognised what he was bad at (making a refined pitch, calm response) and picked someone who could do that, even though Vance was previously anti-Trump."
DogeDesigner on X - "JD Vance called out the moderators for lying to the audience, and CBS immediately muted him. Legacy media is clearly controlled by the Democrats."
Meme - Democrat with idiot hat with Democratic party. Ukraine, trans pride flag, Antifa and Palestine symbols: "Sure, inflation is at a 40 year high, and millions of illegal immigrants are flooding across our borders, and we're on the verge of WWII... but did you hear JD Vance said eggs are $4 are dozen and they're actually $2 a dozen?"
JD Vance on X - "It has been 50 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. In the dead of night yesterday, she finally released her campaign policy page. Here's what I think of it π§΅"
Extensive analysis thoroughly dismantling her bullshit. No wonder the media hate him
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "There's something surreal about these interviews.
JD Vance: "FEMA is incompetent."
Journalist: "But FEMA officials have stated that they are NOT incompetent, so that is clearly false, Senator."
Beyond parody."
Meme - John Shahidi @john: "The “weird” campaign didn’t age well. Top comment about @JDVance on Theo’s episode. There are a few other comments saying the same."
"I can't believe I was told this guy was weird. Most normal MF I've ever heard talk."
The Robber Baron on X - "Yes, this really happened.
MODERATOR: How does immigration impact housing and rental prices?
VANCE: More people competing for the same number of houses makes homes cost more.
MODERATOR: But what does that have to do with immigration?
VANCE: Immigrants are people."
Charles Fain Lehman on X - "What this actually reveals is that Vance is the kind of guy who reads the literature."
Car Seats as Contraception by Jordan Nickerson, David H. Solomon :: SSRN
Trust the Science - unless it threatens the left wing agenda
It's amusing how many left wingers were mocking Vance, when they were just revealing their own ignorance covered with smug condescension
Lyman Stone η³δΎζ° π¦¬π¦¬π¦¬ on X - "yes, JD Vance correctly read the literature. and to be clear, he made the comment in a hearing about transportation... where absolute dingbats were proposing TO BAN LAP INFANTS ON FLIGHTS."
wanye on X - "I think you have to admit that it’s objectively funny that the first true millennial candidate, a guy who’s online, who knows all the arguments, who goes down internet rabbit holes, who reads the literature, and so on, is not only a Republican, but on the Trump ticket. You know that drives normie liberals crazy."
Ashley Fitzgerald on X - "Car seats do not perform any better than chest seat belts for kids aged 2 to 6 on preventing death or serious injury. These unnecessary car seat laws and norms have huge impacts on family formation. Update your priors! I don't use a car seat past about 2.5 except for naps...
People hate this because they have a moral superiority complex about car seats and can't handle the cognitive dissonance but it's fine you can relax and stop using them past toddlerhood. BTW the chest seat belt means no booster. Just the belt. For those of you saying it's dangerous without a booster that is incorrect and for those saying it's uncomfortable, if the kid is sitting right next the the buckle the chest strap hits them right across the chest. Nbd"
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
Meme - The Other 98%: JJ @JJkinz: "JD Vance: The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check.
So you agree? You were lying?"
The Other 98%: "Fact checkers have been working overtime to protect The Heritage Foundation & Project 2025"
Fact checking is only good when it supports the left wing agenda
The left pretends Trump's 'rhetoric' worse than assassination attempt - "Donald Trump’s more deranged critics are so focused on tone and language that they are either dismissing the assassination attempt against him or they are outright blaming him for the attack. As regrettable as the Saturday shooting at the Trump rally was, his critics seem to think, what’s truly disturbing is the “rhetoric” that characterizes the U.S. presidential campaign. And by rhetoric, of course, they don’t mean the Democrats, and their water carriers in the media, constantly painting the former, and possible future, president as a fascist threat to the American republic. You know the kind of argument that might persuade an unstable 20 year-old owner of an AR-15 rifle that to save democracy, Trump can’t simply be defeated at the polls, he must be eliminated. No, Trump’s critics mean his tone, his choice of words, are the real problem. After being shot in the ear, Trump could be heard saying “fight, fight, fight.” To any normal, well adjusted, person, that was a call for his supporters to stick with him in the election campaign. Politicians use fight and war terminology all the time, but when Trump uses such language, and only when Trump uses such language, it is interpreted as a literal call to violence. So, predictably, a pearl-clutching CNN host scolded the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for his choice of words, calling them “odd.” A British journalist similarly called them “depressing.” On Sunday, writing in The Nation, author Sasha Abramsky argued that it would be a “terrible mistake” to “let the narrative take hold that Biden and the Democratic Party are to blame for this event.” Biden asking his supporters to forget about his mental capacity, and to, instead, “put Trump in a bullseye” apparently gets a pass. (Imagine what the reaction from progressives would be if Trump had said those words weeks before an assassination attempt on the current president.) Abramsky doesn’t even bother to address Biden’s comments, instead writing that “Trump’s violent rhetoric ought to be as disqualifying tomorrow as it was yesterday.” So, there must be a long list of statements by Trump where he objectively incited violence, right? Well, not exactly. Among the examples of such “rhetoric” that Abramsky takes issue with, is when during the Black Lives Matter riots, Trump posted on Twitter about possible plans to send in the military to quell the unrest. Abramsky doesn’t offer this context, and just highlights that the tweet included the phrase “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” So actual violence in the form of rioting and looting should be allowed to unfold unchecked, but Trump’s admittedly careless tweet about sending in the military, “disqualifying.” Another example from Abramsky stretches what could be counted as “violent rhetoric” to the point of ridiculousness. “This is a man who said there were ‘very fine people’ among the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville in 2017,” Abramsky wrote, referring to a news conference Trump gave at the time. Pretending “very fine people” is somehow violent is, at least, less egregious than implying that Trump was calling neo-Nazis “fine people.” In fact, anyone who looked at the transcript would see that “very fine people” was not a reference to neo-Nazis. “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally,” Trump said. But, whatever. Expecting progressive media to accurately report on Trump is a foolish exercise best left to toddlers... Trump’s behaviour shouldn’t be excused, but the Democrats and progressive journalists rarely bother to wonder why so many Americans were willing to believe the fraud story. If they bothered to ask, they might discover that the false claims that Russian “collusion” with Trump led to his election in 2016, bred skepticism and distrust in American institutions. The same could be said about the false claim that the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the 2020 election was Russian disinformation. As norm breaking and disruptive as Trump was and is, U.S. institutions — Congress, the press, intelligence agencies, the justice department — have all responded to him by debasing what they stand for, by overtly politicizing and twisting their mission. After years of that, it seems pretty obvious why Trump voters might be open to believing the election was stolen, even though it wasn’t. But for progressives, the blame is almost always on the “rhetoric.” They aim to put words on equal footing with actual violence."
Shameful profs were quick to make light of Trump's near-assassination - "Their conduct sends the message that it doesn’t matter whether doctors and lawyers air in public their smug satisfaction that an effort to off the opposition — “fascists” and “dictators” no doubt — almost hit home. It’s a cue to students that such behaviour is normal and broadcastable. Some will argue that professors should be fired, or at least met with some kind of consequence, for appearing to wish for or joke approvingly of violence. Others will argue that their comments shouldn’t be remarked on at all, to prevent online harassment. The best course is somewhere in the middle: sacking academics for poor-taste wisecracking on foreign politics bodes poorly for campus freedom, but observers should be free to rubberneck when filterless grown adults who work there bring embarrassment to their institutions. Article content Academics are supposed to represent the best of Canada’s thinking class; they should behave with professionalism; they shouldn’t have to be told — they should just know. They’re setting an example for the next crop of people running this country, who we will depend upon in future years. I don’t yearn for universities to censor their speech, but I do wish that fewer faculty seats were reserved for the deranged fringe."
Allen Young on X - "So their "oppo" is Trump thinks Germany had some great generals in WW2? That's an empirical fact. They did have great generals. Trump is far from the only person who's acknowledged this fact."
Mathew Carson on X - "US Army doctrine for large scale, direct-action, armored warfare is based on German blitzkrieg strategy, pioneered by Guderian and Rommel. It has been the basis of US Army doctrine for three quarters of a century."
Kamala Harris on X - "Donald Trump vowed to be a dictator on day one. He vowed to use the military to carry out personal and political vendettas. His former chief of staff said he wanted generals like Hitler’s. Trump wants unchecked power. In 13 days, the American people will decide what they want."
Auron MacIntyre on X - "We’re at an interesting inflection point politically. The left has basically done everything that can be done rhetorically. Racist, fascist, white supremacist, theocratic dictator, there’s really no where left to go. Kama is basically calling for someone to murder Trump on live television. They couldn’t put him in jail or strip him from the ballot, so what happens now if he wins? What if no one murders him for the left despite their desperate pleading and the people vote for him so overwhelmingly that the election can’t be credibly rigged? Do they just walk away, shrug and admit Trump wasn’t that bad? Or do they take their own rhetoric seriously and attempt a coup? If they really believed Trump is what they say he is, how could they do anything else?"
Coddled affluent professional on X - "Sorry for the language but: A lot of people don’t want to think about politics and want it to run silently in the background. But libs have raised the stakes. For example, you have to worry about whether the midwit teacher is saying weird gender shit to your 6 year old (ours was). A lot of people are going to be voting for Trump purely as a fuck you because libs irritate and provoke them and force them unnecessarily to spend time and attention on politics when there are 100 other things they would rather be doing."
Meme - Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli: "So, if Trump wins and Republicans are successful in kicking out all the undocumented immigrants, who is going to do all the necessary work that keeps the US economy afloat? It ain't gonna be MAGA. That's for sure. Anyone have any answers for the catastrophic consequences?"
Linda Stevens @Linda_Stevens: "They will put non white folks in detention camps and then have them work as prisoners. When they can't work, they will deport them or let them die."
steveo'no @SteveM112: "Yeah...just like he did during his last term. Oh...wait."
Meme - "How the Trump and Biden Economic Records Stack Against Each Other
Trump - Biden
Inflation (YoY rate) 1.89% - 5.28%
Inflation - (cumulative) 7.8% - 19.2%
Average gas prices -5.4% - +46.6%
30-year Mortgage rates -34.8% - +132%
Average rent costs +11.8% - +21.6%
Nasdaq composite +138.2% - +39.4%
Grocery prices +6.5% - +20.9%
Electricity prices +4.2% - +29.6%
Real hourly wages +6.8% - -2.2%
Sources: Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Energy Information Agency, Nasdaq historical data"
i/o on X - "There has been no remotely convincing explanation of how Donald Trump could plausibly become an actual dictator if he were to become president. And yet this still seems to be the most popular talking point among Democrats.
Do I think that Trump has some authoritarian rhetoric and tendencies? Sure. (To begin with, his refusal to accept the results of the last election ought to concern every voter.) But what exactly is the path he could take to install himself as an actual dictator?"
MSNBC Condemns Trump For Holding Rally On Planet Earth Where 66 Million Years Ago An Asteroid Caused Mass Extinction | Babylon Bee - "Amid the excitement of MAGA voters descending on Madison Square Garden, MSNBC condemned former President Donald Trump for holding a rally on the same planet where, 66 million years ago, an asteroid caused mass extinction."
Trump fills Madison Square Garden with anger, vitriol and racist threats - "The event at Madison Square Garden, in the center of Manhattan, had drawn comparisons to an infamous Nazi rally held at the arena in 1939"
Mail-In Ballot Fraud Study Finds Trump ‘Almost Certainly’ Won in 2020 - "roughly one in five mail-in voters admitted to potentially fraudulent actions in the presidential election... Jim Womack, president of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team, told The Epoch Times in an earlier interview and in additional written comments in response to the new study, that he believes the survey questions were flawed and make the survey statistically meaningless, though not without value... Regardless, he praised the Heartland Institute for engaging with the topic of mail-in ballot fraud and raising public awareness about what he said is an important problem... Mr. McPherrin acknowledged that it’s legal for people who are blind, disabled, or illiterate to get help from someone in filling out a ballot. However, he argued that the number of such individuals responding to the Heartland/Rasmussen survey (which was based on a representative sample of 1,085 likely voters) would likely have been tiny."
Thread by @sunnyright on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A short list of things and people Democrats have told you are Nazis and/or Hitler.
1. Nikki Haley
2. McCain supporters
3. Ron DeSantis
4. John McCain
5. Paul Ryan
6. George Bush
7. Dick Cheney
8. NYC Republicans attending a campaign rally at a sporting venue
9. Glenn Youngkin voters
10. The entire United States
11. Mitch McConnell
12. The world’s only Jewish country, so many times it has its own Wikipedia article
13. Border Patrol
14. American police departments
15. People who oppose abortion
16. The First Amendment"
Clearly they are 100% right when they say Trump is Hitler. See also: Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler
Trump says Cheney wouldn’t be ‘war hawk’ if ‘guns are trained on her’
Sam Rogers on X - "Democrats spent 25 years saying that Dick Cheney's kids should have to go fight in a war and all it took was Donald Trump agreeing with them to change their minds."
Blume Industries CEO Balding 倧θζΏ on X - "Events like this were the beginning of the end for me. I remember early in Trump's first term people were enraged by certain things he was doing and it was the same exact thing Obama had done and I honestly didn't understand why these people were so infuriated. I would ask why they were so enraged and all I got was pat responses about how I didn't understand the threat to democracy."
Leighton ζ Woodhouse on X - "Maybe I'm naive but I honestly never imagined I'd ever see the Democratic nominee condemning the Republican nominee for saying that mouth-frothing war mongers like the Cheneys should go enlist themselves if they're so eager to start new wars all over the world."
"Harris calls Trump’s violent language about Liz Cheney ‘disqualifying’"
MSNBC on X - "BREAKING: Arizona AG investigates Trump's comments about Liz Cheney as a possible death threat."
Billy Binion on X - "Many on the left say the worst part of a Trump admin would be that he'd prosecute his critics. Meanwhile, a Democratic AG is threatening to prosecute him over a tasteless soundbite where he criticized someone's foreign policy. I'm no Trump fan, but this is just so unserious."
David Frum on X - ""Liz Cheney is a warmonger" is code for "I will betray Ukraine and Taiwan.""
Auron MacIntyre on X - "Neoconservatives would send your entire family to die for foreigners before defending the border of the United States while calling you a traitor"
Meme - Donald Trump: "All I'm saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn't have "the guts" to fight herself. It's easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she'll say, "No thanks!" Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He's caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That's not what we want running our Country!"
i/o @eyeslasho" "If this were 1968, this kind of anti-war polemic would have come from the pen of a member of SDS or the Weather Underground — as would have yesterday's imagery of a politician facing enemy gun barrels — but today it comes from a Republican presidential nominee.
Who's the anti-war party? Who claims to be the party of free speech? Who claims to represent the working class? Whose ranks are filled with back-to-nature weirdos? Who wants tariffs? Who is being outspent in corporate donations?
1968: Democrats
2024: Republicans"
Ian Miles Cheong on X - "This Democrat fearmongering ad is amazing. It depicts JD Vance as President for life and Elon Musk opens up concentration camps for illegal aliens and homeless people before uploading his consciousness into a super AI to become immortal. So based."
Meme - ""San Francisco has so much *shit* on the sidewalks."
San Franciscans: "Tell me about it, I almost stepped in it!
"Every bizarre headline includes a Florida Man."
Floridians: *Put "Florida Man" in their bios.* *crocodile*
"NYC is Rat City!" *rat*
New Yorkers: *Shares GIFs of rats stealing pizza.*
Comedian: "There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it is called Puerto Rico."
The Establishment: *triggered*"
Thread by @FischerKing64 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " Imagine you’re a 110 IQ white liberal with pretensions at intelligence working a mid tier white collar job. You’ve watched MSNBC and read things like the New Republic for years. You believe in your bones that Trump is potentially Hitler. His election could be the end. These people really exist. While Kamala or Chuck Schumer doesn’t believe Trump is a fascist, this white liberal does. And s/he is going to have a mental break if Trump wins. Seriously - there will be people in therapy, crying and coping - because they have believed all the nonsense, and are just smart enough not to understand how little they know. One of the many reasons to tone down the hyperbole - just for the mental health of such people. In 2016 I read articles about public schools setting up counseling sessions for middle and high school kids utterly distraught at Trump’s victory. That kind of thing will happen again multiplied many times over. When I said tone down the hyperbole, I was referring to the press convincing people that electing Trump will be the end of the world. The press should chill for the health of its audience. Trump supporters shouldn’t tone down anything. Apparently this wasn’t obvious to some."
George on X - "WOW! It wasn't just Trump. Vivek Ramaswamy also became a professional garbage collector today πππ We turned Biden's disgusting insult into a nationwide movement to get people to appreciate blue-collar workers again. This is what the America First movement is all about."
Thread by @Tyler_A_Harper on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I wrote about the question on everyone’s mind: are black men really going to vote for Donald Trump? White Democrats imagine minorities as half-saints, half-superheroes who they team up with to fight fascism. But the pesky truth is many minority men have Trump-ish beliefs.π§΅
For almost ten years, liberal politicians and pundits have spotlighted and relentlessly attacked Donald Trump’s open bigotry. And remarkably, these efforts didn’t just fail. They coincided with black and brown Americans moving in ever greater numbers toward the bigot’s party. These trends have been particularly acute among black men, whose support for Democratic presidential candidates has steadily decreased since 2012. Over the last year, polls have suggested Trump could get historic levels of support from black men. That wouldn’t be surprising. Black Democrats often have significantly more conservative views on immigration, gender, abortion and religion than other Dem racial demographics. A Pew poll this summer found black Dem voters were twice as likely as whites to say emphasizing family makes society better off. 64% of Black Dem voters said gender is determined by birth sex compared to 32% of whites. 53% said belief in God is required for morality vs 8% of whites. Another Pew poll found HALF of black men AND women think the government promotes abortion to control the black population. This isn’t just Black men: a recent poll found that 44% of young Hispanic men support Trump, and another found that OVER HALF of Hispanic men support deportations (51%) and building the wall (52%). They’re twice as likely to say Trump helped them personally compared to Biden. And it’s not just culture. Black voters also tend to have views on foreign policy that clash with the Democrats: they’re generally less supportive of sending money to Ukraine and Israel and more supportive of ceasefires. These are also views that don’t mesh well with the Dems.
Is it that surprising that Trump is polling so well with black voters, especially even more conservative black men? However, some political scientists told me that I shouldn’t take polls showing black men supporting Trump too seriously because the sample sizes are too small. They also argued that black discontent with the Democratic Party wasn’t new, neither were polls showing black men moving to the GOP. They felt these warning signs appear every four years, but typically fail to materialize on Election Day. These arguments are not unreasonable. But in my view they also discount the fact that Dems HAVE been bleeding black men for over a decade. And while many polls do sample small numbers of black people—and thus have higher error rates—that doesn’t explain why all the “errors” would be in one direction: to Trump. If we are in a racial realignment, it’s hard to see how Harris’ strategy will win these GOP-curious black men back (even if most black men still vote Dem). No matter how much she promises to expand the border wall, she can’t outflank Trump on conservative culture issues. So what can the Dems do? Black voters are perhaps the most conservative element of the Dem coalition, but they are also among the most progressive on economic issues. The key to winning these voters back is in my view the same as working-class white voters: it’s populism, stupid."
Birmingham church targets black Trump supporters ahead of election day using racial slurs - "New Era Baptist Church, a predominantly-black congregation in the city’s West End neighborhood, put up the sign as election day approaches on November 5, 2024... “Attention to all blacks who plan to vote for Trump you are an ignorant stupid Negro,” the sign currently reads on one side and, “Warning African Americans a vote for Trump will put blacks folks back to picking cotton,” on the other. Jordan is no stranger to displaying inflammatory messages. In 2018, he made national headlines opposing the Church of the Highlands’ decision to establish a campus in Birmingham’s inner city. The church’s sign read, “Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches” on one side and, “White Folks Refused to Be Our Neighbors” on the other. During the 2020 election cycle, the church displayed a message saying, “A black vote for Trump is mental illness,” on one side and, “A white vote for Trump is pure racism,” on the other."
Left wingers are the racist ones
Shaun Maguire on X - "Barack Obama is using the “very fine people” hoax in an attempt to appeal to Jewish Voters Obama is smart and this is so thoroughly debunked that the only reasonable conclusion is that he’s deliberately lying"
Thread by @ggreenwald on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The most consequential - yet overlooked - Trump era change is many debates are no longer shaped by old left/right divisions, but instead by who loves, respects, and is loyal to institutions of authority (Dems) and who believes they're fundamentally corrupted (Trump supporters). Today's NYT column by @ezraklein notes obvious exceptions (abortion, gun control), yet argues the key difference between Kamala and Trump voters is how much one likes US ruling institutions. Hence, Dems love CIA, FBI, DHS, corporate media. Even views of corporate power changed. Think about key debates. Which is right or left?
- Trust in large media corporations.
- Opposition to BigTech/state internet censorship.
- Opposition to funding endless wars (Ukraine).
- Eagerness to remain tied to NATO and EU-based institutions.
Because leading institutions of ruling class authority -- the US Security State, the corporate media, the Pentagon/war machine, banking sectors -- began to view Trump as a threat, and thus Dems embraced them as their allies are thus loyal to them:"
Thread by @wassielawyer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I feel gaslit by the US elections.
The party that:
- is in power
- is pro-war
- pro-censorship
- pro-judicial lawmaking
- controls media
- uses state apparatus against political enemies
- opposes secure elections
is running on the basis that their opponent threatens democracy? You don’t have to like Trump to realise that this is fully retarded. But somehow every journalist, every celebrity and every academic (shown on media) is repeating the exact same talking points that he is evil?"
When Heterodoxy Goes Too Far - The Atlantic
memetic_sisyphus on X - "By “heterodox” they mean cooky professors who say wild things from time to time but still come home to vote for the Dems every year. They mean Sam Harris."
Clearly, if you vote blue, no matter who, the Democratic party will listen to your voice and follow your priorities. Erstwhile Democrats who now support Trump must all be deluded or corrupt
Attacking Democracy = disagreeing with left wing elites
I like how if you don't vote for Harris you are "Black" (i.e. not really black)
Mason on X - "Call me crazy, but at an absolute bare minimum heterodoxy as a principle should leave room for people to vote for whichever candidate they like"
Rachel Bitecofer π½π¦π΄π₯₯πΊπΈ on X - "I’m not dating a guy who would let me die from a routine pregnancy complication, and neither should you."
Wokal Distance on X - "The consistent lying about the views of Trump and his supporters are the reason Trump has up in the polls. the social capital our institutions run on is trust, and every time these people hide the facts, twist the truth, or tell a lie they lose a little bit of that capital."
Clifton Duncan on X - "It's pretty insidious to divide men and women like this at a time when so many people are having trouble finding love They are driving social disintegration for political purposes and it's pretty vile"