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Post by aj2hall on Mar 10, 2024 14:33:31 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on Mar 10, 2024 15:25:53 GMT
Remember when they tried to tell us he wasn’t mocking a disabled reporter? This is the kind of behavior SEL in schools aims to prevent, BTW - and Republicans are opposed to it I try not to watch videos of TFG, but I wanted to hear this to make sure it wasn't being overblown. He is fucking disgusting. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 10, 2024 16:07:15 GMT
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Post by Merge on Mar 10, 2024 16:13:53 GMT
Remember when they tried to tell us he wasn’t mocking a disabled reporter? This is the kind of behavior SEL in schools aims to prevent, BTW - and Republicans are opposed to it I try not to watch videos of TFG, but I wanted to hear this to make sure it wasn't being overblown. He is fucking disgusting. Yep, I made myself watch it for the same reason. He’s a dick. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 10, 2024 16:15:56 GMT
The irony of Trump cruelly making fun of Biden's stutter is that by the end of his speech, Trump couldn't pronounce the word compliments, got stuck on words, said appointment instead of opponent and was incomprehensible at times.
To this day, of all of the things wrong with this creature, it is this — that he is a cruel, heartless, evil bully — that for me, is the worst of all.
Mocking someone’s disability… its depraved. It’s the worst of us. It’s everything I’ve taught my kids NOT to do.
And they cheer.
Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
Do you have kids?
Do any of them struggle with a learning disability, a physical impairment, a medical or mental condition, a stammer or a stutter?
Have they been bullied? Have they been mocked, taunted or teased? Have they been called names, been kicked out, left out or left behind?
Have you stayed up late with them, telling them it was going to be ok when they can’t fall asleep because they’re afraid to go back to school?
Have you worried it would get worse and wished you could do more?
Have you ever told them to ignore bullies, or to stand up and fight back?
Because if you have, and look, maybe you haven’t, but if you have been through anything like this, if your child has gone through any of this, how can you cheer for someone who mocks disabilities?
How can you vote for someone who demeans and bullies those who struggle through no fault of their own? And how can you look at your own child and explain how it’s somehow ok for HIM to bully someone who struggles but it’s not ok for someone to bully them?
What do they see? Do they see that the bullies should win? That they should be rewarded for their bullying? What does that do to them? Do you ever think about this?
You’re not reading this I’m sure.
But even if one or two of you can stomach getting through the whole post, can you explain this to me, because I’d really love to know.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 10, 2024 16:17:05 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 11, 2024 15:19:25 GMT
Katie Britt's 'victim' speaks out .. The woman who is the sex-trafficking survivor in the story U.S. Senator Katie Britt spun Thursday night in the GOP response to the State of the Union has come forward to denounce the Alabama Republican's telling of events.“I hardly ever cooperate with politicians, because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo — and that to me is not fair,” Karla Jacinto told CNN. Jacinto, now an advocate against human trafficking, "Told CNN that Mexican politicians took advantage of her by using her story for political purposes and that it’s happened again in the United States." Jacinto, "Was not trafficked by Mexican drug cartels, but by a pimp who operated as part of a family that entrapped vulnerable girls to force them into prostitution, she said." The Daily Beast adds that Karla Jacinto, "Said no one from Britt’s camp or anywhere else contacted her asking for permission to use her story in the GOP’s SOTU response, and she also confirmed allegations from a viral TikTok video that Britt’s telling of that story was, at best, completely misleading." Britt had told a story of a sex-trafficking survivor, now known to be Jacinto, that was crafted to sound as if the victim's horrific experiences had happened at the hands of a cartel and during President Joe Biden's term, in the United States, and as a result of his policies. In reality, the events took place in Mexico, during President George W. Bush's administration. As the news site Poynter reports, "Former Associated Press reporter Jonathan Katz put out a video on social media, saying Britt was 'beyond misleading.' “The woman Britt appeared to be talking about is Karla Jacinto Romero, who testified before Congress about being the victim of sex trafficking by Mexican cartels years ago when she was 12. She was at a roundtable discussion at the border last year with Britt and two other senators." CNN's Rafael Romo says he's known Jacinto since 2014, when CNN profiled her for a report. "She was very surprised, she told me, when she found out on Saturday that she was involuntarily put in the middle of a social media storm," Romo said on CNN. Through a translator, Jacinto told CNN: “I work as a spokesperson for many victims who have no voice, and I really would like them to be empathetic — all the governors, all the senators — to be empathetic with the issue of human trafficking, because there are millions of girls and boys who disappear all the time.” www.rawstory.com/busted-trafficking-victim-further-debunks-katie-britt-s-claims/The video from the border Sept 2023 Britt speaks .. youtu.be/Y-HeUYMa5uc?si=X9J6WRwufSxWC8GX |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 12, 2024 1:40:40 GMT
Karla Jacinto, the woman whose story Katie Britt shared in the State of the Union response, fact checked several of Britt's claims:
1. Jacinto said she met the senator at an event with other officials and activists, instead of one-on-one as Britt stated.
2. Jacinto said she was never trafficked in the U.S. — as Britt appeared to suggest.
3. Jacinto was not trafficked by Mexican drug cartels, but by a pimp who operated as part of a family that entrapped vulnerable girls.
4. Jacinto said she was kept in captivity from 2004 to 2008, when President Bush was in office. cnn.com/2015/11/10/americas/freedom-project-mexico-trafficking-survivor/index.html
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 12, 2024 2:41:20 GMT
We have more about Katie Britt from people who have known her over the years.. youtu.be/Kj0DyKnXCGk?si=AqGlfa9GxNq701hTChildhood friends say Katie Britt 'did everything right' — until she turned to TrumpSarah K. Burris March 11, 2024 11:13AM ET Childhood friends of Republican Sen. Katie Britt think she did everything right for her political career in Alabama — until she became pro-Donald Trump. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Republican strategist Rina Shah revealed that her husband grew up with Britt in Alabama. "Senator Britt has definitely lost rising star status here, which is sad for her," said Shah. "My husband and many people knew her growing up in Alabama and said this is somebody who kind of did everything right. Clearly, what she's done here is prostrate at the altar of Donald Trump, and it will keep her out of rooms in which she really could have opened the door to herself." Britt's performance in Thursday night's GOP rebuttal of President Joe Biden's State of the Union was widely mocked — including in a Saturday Night Live segment. She was also shown to have elaborated a horrific story about a sex-trafficked woman that laid blame on Biden's border policies. It was debunked by a reporter who revealed the victim was trafficked in Mexico and that it happened during George W. Bush's administration. "The thing that stuck out the most was she didn't use any data points," Shah continued. "Of course, storytelling is the core of what all of us political communicators have told our clients to do over the years. In speech writing, it was central to me. I think now what she needed to do in that response, and what she fell flat on doing, was to speak about how Trump can make everybody's lives better than that of Biden." Shah explained that Biden gave a lot of "strong data points" in his State of the Union address that can't be contested. Britt followed with nothing. "What she followed with was absolutely — it felt like nonsense at moments, and I don't think it appealed to anyone because it was confusing at times," she explained. "And also, at the end of the day, who was it intended to drive out? It was intended to get to the heart of the base, but that's just not the name of the game here." www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-is-done/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 12, 2024 13:35:52 GMT
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Post by Just T on Mar 12, 2024 13:44:36 GMT
What I find so, I don't know the word even, about this photo of MTG is that she is wearing a button with a murder victim's photo on it. Yet a couple of years ago, when walking through a group protesting the latest school shooting (So many, I can't even remember which one it was!), MTG and other Republican senators were wearing AR15 lapel pins. I guess murder victims are only important and worthy of remembering fondly when they died at the hands of an immigrant.  |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 12, 2024 18:27:37 GMT
What Jon Stewart thinks about what was missed in the Katie Britt video... I seemed to have missed it too... Jon Stewart found the one moment in Sen. Katie Britt's repeatedly ridiculed rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address he felt had not been ridiculed enough. "Who smiles," asked Stewart on the Daily Show Monday, "when they say the line 'steeped in the blood of patriots'?"This was one of many lines delivered by the Alabama Republican last week that inspired parodies and even a horror movie take. But for Stewart, a New Yorker, it wasn't the "creepy" tone that bothered him so much as the notion that Republicans are somehow more American than citizens who live in liberal cities and states. www.rawstory.com/jon-stewart-2667489561/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 12, 2024 21:56:40 GMT
Katie Britt has a 'broken heart' and needs money.. and it's all the left's fault!! Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) sent out a self-pitying fundraising plea after her State of the Union rebuttal made her a national laughingstock. *** "Following my speech, the left-wing media didn't waste a second flooding the airwaves with despicable, disgusting messages about me," the senator's fundraising pitch states. "They attacked my character. They attacked my faith. They attacked my identity as a mother and a wife." "My heart is broken," she added. "Not just for myself, but for my children, your children and the ENTIRE next generation of Americans. Why? Because I didn't prepare a 20-minute speech and stand up to Biden in front of millions of Americans for ME. I did it for them, for YOU and your children, Friend!" Britt then tried a rhetorical trick often used by Donald Trump and claimed the attacks were aimed at her, but she was instead absorbing blows meant for her supporters. "Friend, they're not just laughing at me," reads her fundraising pitch. "They're laughing at every single American who dares to stand up to their radical agenda. Every patriot who fights to defend their American dream." "Because they can't handle the truth," the pitch adds. "The truth about their failed leader." Britt's State of the Union rebuttal was widely panned by critics who commented on her overacting and her wild swings between visual emotion. www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-speech/ |
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Post by luckyjune on Mar 12, 2024 22:22:17 GMT
I try not to watch videos of TFG, but I wanted to hear this to make sure it wasn't being overblown. He is fucking disgusting. Yep, I made myself watch it for the same reason. He’s a dick. I remember watching the speech when he mocked the reporter and thinking, "Well, that's it! His campaign is done!" That kind of behavior would have meant curtains for a candidate's campaign. Look how far we've fallen. |
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 0:28:52 GMT
Someone heckling and getting escorted out He was Steve Nikoui, the father of U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui. He was from one of the 13 new gold star families that biden created from his failed Afghanistan decisions. His military advisors advised him and biden didn't listen, or forgot, or something.🤔 |
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 14, 2024 1:01:09 GMT
Someone heckling and getting escorted out He was Steve Nikoui, the father of U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui. He was from one of the 13 new gold star families that biden created from his failed Afghanistan decisions. His military advisors advised him and biden didn't listen, or forgot, or something.🤔 Told him what exactly? |
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Post by Merge on Mar 14, 2024 2:21:56 GMT
Someone heckling and getting escorted out He was Steve Nikoui, the father of U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui. He was from one of the 13 new gold star families that biden created from his failed Afghanistan decisions. His military advisors advised him and biden didn't listen, or forgot, or something.🤔 The important viewpoint you’re missing: none of the soldiers killed in the Abbott/Trump campaign stunt at the border get to be called gold star families. Neither do the many dozens of migrants and US citizens who have been killed in unsafe chases in border counties during this stunt. They’re just dead. So spare us all your fake concern about soldiers killed overseas. Republicans have no problem sending soldiers to die when it suits them. And it’s disgusting when they’re dying in a political campaign stunt to benefit the people who sent them. I guarantee you if the families of one of those dead soldiers had interrupted Trump’s SOTU, they would have been excoriated by right-wing media immediately. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 14, 2024 2:24:50 GMT
You're leaving out some important details. Both Milley and Austin conformed that President Biden did in fact follow the advice of military advisors. Setting aside the agreement that Trump made, leaving 2,500 troops behind was an option that was considered but rejected because it wasn't realistic. Those 2,500 troops alone would not have been sufficient, they would have needed reinforcements. Pulling troops out was the right call. The death of the American service members is tragic and unfortunate and the evacuation could have been smoother but leaving Afghanistan was the right call. www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/at-armed-services-hearing-on-afghanistan-secretary-austin-confirms-that-president-biden-followed-the-advice-of-military-advisors-when-planning-and-executing-withdrawal-operationSenator Warren: Okay. So the military planned the evacuation. Did President Biden follow your advice on executing on the evacuation plan?
Secretary Austin: He did.
Senator Warren: Did President Biden give you all the resources that you needed?
Secretary Austin: From my view, he did.
Senator Warren: Did President Biden ignore your advice on the evacuation at any point?
Secretary Austin: No, Senator. He did not.
Sen Warren: Did he refuse any requests for anything that you needed or asked for?
Secretary Austin: No.
Senator Warren: So the President followed the advice of his military advisors in planning and executing this withdrawal.
As we’ve already established, the seeds for our failure in Afghanistan were planted many, many years ago, so let me ask you one more question, Secretary Austin. Knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in Afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference?
Secretary Austin: Again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. There are a range of possibilities, but if you stayed there at force posture of 2,500, certainly, you'd be in a fight with the Taliban. And you'd have to reinforce yourself. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 14, 2024 2:30:40 GMT
www.pbs.org/newshour/show/milley-military-leaders-contradict-biden-on-support-for-complete-afghanistan-withdrawalGen. Mark Milley:
An outcome that is a strategic failure. The enemy is in charge of Kabul. There's no way else to describe that. That outcome is the cumulative effect of 20 years, not 20 days.
Nick Schifrin:
The commanders defended the chaotic evacuation of more than 100,000 Afghans and Americans, and they said President Biden did take their advice on withdrawing by August 31, even though thousands who wanted to leave were left behind.
Gen. Mark Milley:
If we stayed past the 31st, which, militarily, is feasible, but it would have required an additional commitment of significant amounts of forces, probably 18th Airborne Corps, 15,000, 20,000, maybe 25,000 troops, we would have had to reseize Bagram. We would have had to clear Kabul of the 6,000 Taliban that were already in Kabul.
That's what would have had to have happened beginning on the 1st. And that would have resulted in significant casualties on the U.S. side, and it would have placed American citizens that are still there at greater risk.
Nick Schifrin:
But the war's critics say that argument for rapid military escalation was the heart of the U.S.' strategic failure, and even Milley today agreed that, despite years of training, the Afghan military wouldn't have survived U.S. withdrawal, no matter the date.
Gen. Mark Milley:
I think the end state probably would have been the same no matter when you did it.
Nick Schifrin:
Indeed, senators and commanders revisited a series of fatal mistakes, creating the Afghan army dependent on the U.S., Afghan corruption, and U.S. failure to create strong Afghan institutions.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin:
Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense: Did we have too many strategies? Did we put too much faith in our ability to build effective Afghan institutions, an army, an air force, a police force, and government ministries?
We helped build a state, Mr. Chairman, but we could not forge a nation.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 14, 2024 2:40:43 GMT
Didn't TFG make commitments to withdraw on a certain date. Wasn't TFG the one who wanted to host the Taliban at Camp David just before? Wasn't he the framer of the deal?
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 14, 2024 2:41:40 GMT
www.npr.org/2023/04/06/1168424901/biden-administration-assessment-afghanistan-withdrawalA Biden administration review of the Afghanistan withdrawal blames Trump UPDATED APRIL 6, 2023 President Biden's White House is blaming the "conditions created by his predecessor" for the way the U.S. ended its more-than-two-decade-long military presence in Afghanistan in 2021.
The State and Defense departments are sending a classified review of the withdrawal to Congress on Thursday.
The assessment is part of a National Security Council document that provides the Biden administration's views on the controversial withdrawal that ultimately resulted in the deaths of American service members.
The assessment notes that in his last 11 months in office, former President Donald Trump ordered a series of drawdowns of U.S. troops. He lowered the number from 8,600 in June 2020 to 4,500 in September 2020.
"A month later, President Trump tweeted, to the surprise of military advisors, that the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be 'home by Christmas!,'" the assessment notes, but Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, testified in September 2021 that "on November 11, he had received an unclassified signed order directing the U.S. military to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan no later than January 15, 2021. One week later, that order was rescinded and replaced with one to draw down to 2,500 troops by the same date."
"During the transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration, the outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies," the assessment said. "Indeed, there were no such plans in place when President Biden came into office, even with the agreed upon full withdrawal just over three months away."
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters at the White House Thursday that the decision to withdrawal from Afghanistan was the right one but that the previous administration had not done sufficient planning for the withdrawal and put Biden in a difficult position.
"Transitions matter. That's the first lesson learned here," he said.
He would not answer directly about whether Biden would have done things differently and pointed to the document to speak to lessons.
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 14, 2024 3:16:46 GMT
Yes trump made a deal with the Taliban that did not include the legally elected government of Afghan.
As the time of Biden depart date grew closer something happened that no one in the US saw coming and that was the collapse of the US trained Afghan Army. Not only did they train them, they armed them as well.
By the time of Biden’s departure date the president of Afghan had already fled the country.
One of the reasons it took so long to get people out was those in Afghanistan who were coming to the US had to be vetted. Which would included extended family members. The State Department was not fully equipped to handle the numbers for two reasons. One COVID and two trump had no intention of letting any Afghans into the US so the vetting process didn’t get started until I believe April of that year.
There is no question in my mind the reason the Afghan Army and government collapsed as quickly as it did was because of the agreement trump made with the Taliban. And agree,ent that did not include the government.
Just think how much smoother the departures would have been if the Afghan army and the elected government were functioning.
IMO.
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 5:36:00 GMT
Stephanopoulous asked, "So no one told -- your military advisers did not tell you, 'No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that'?" To which Biden said, "No one said that to me that I can recall."Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and US Central Command head Gen. Frank McKenzie both told Congress during Tuesday's testimony that they personally supported keeping a small number of troops past the withdrawal deadline. They refused to share exactly what they had told the sitting President but shared their personal opinions on the situation. "I won't share my personal recommendation to the President but I will give you my honest opinion. And my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation," McKenzie said. "I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan."CNN |
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Post by hop2 on Mar 14, 2024 11:10:06 GMT
He was Steve Nikoui, the father of U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui. He was from one of the 13 new gold star families that biden created from his failed Afghanistan decisions. His military advisors advised him and biden didn't listen, or forgot, or something.🤔 The important viewpoint you’re missing: none of the soldiers killed in the Abbott/Trump campaign stunt at the border get to be called gold star families. Neither do the many dozens of migrants and US citizens who have been killed in unsafe chases in border counties during this stunt. They’re just dead. So spare us all your fake concern about soldiers killed overseas. Republicans have no problem sending soldiers to die when it suits them. And it’s disgusting when they’re dying in a political campaign stunt to benefit the people who sent them. I guarantee you if the families of one of those dead soldiers had interrupted Trump’s SOTU, they would have been excoriated by right-wing media immediately. Let’s not forget that the withdrawl from Afghanistan & the timeline of withdrawl were negotiated by the Trump whitehouse with the TALIBAN. The Taliban, who held up zero parts of their end of the agreement. And this is also after Trump gave US troop movements away to both Russia & Turkey. Great negotiator my behind. Trump negotiated a shitshow in Afghanistan. |
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Post by Lurkingpea on Mar 14, 2024 15:09:36 GMT
The important viewpoint you’re missing: none of the soldiers killed in the Abbott/Trump campaign stunt at the border get to be called gold star families. Neither do the many dozens of migrants and US citizens who have been killed in unsafe chases in border counties during this stunt. They’re just dead. So spare us all your fake concern about soldiers killed overseas. Republicans have no problem sending soldiers to die when it suits them. And it’s disgusting when they’re dying in a political campaign stunt to benefit the people who sent them. I guarantee you if the families of one of those dead soldiers had interrupted Trump’s SOTU, they would have been excoriated by right-wing media immediately. Let’s not forget that the withdrawl from Afghanistan & the timeline of withdrawl were negotiated by the Trump whitehouse with the TALIBAN. The Taliban, who held up zero parts of their end of the agreement. And this is also after Trump gave US troop movements away to both Russia & Turkey. Great negotiator my behind. Trump negotiated a shitshow in Afghanistan. How can we take you seriously if you aren't bolding and changing font sizes for certain words? [sarcasm] Exactly what you said though. Biden inherited a national nightmare and a completely flawed plan. He did the best he could. It is a tragedy that lives were lost. I do not see how Biden should be held personally responsible for those lives and labeled a murderer though. Trump bears responsibility for that entire situation. And then shouldn't Trump be held responsible and called a murderer for the covid deaths under his reign of terror? |
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 18:52:52 GMT
Someone heckling and getting escorted out He was Steve Nikoui, the father of U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui He was from one of the 13 new gold star families that biden created from his failed Afghanistan decisions. |
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 18:57:14 GMT
Only 2 outbursts, maybe 3 MTG - say her name (Laken Riley) He called her "Lincoln" Riley. He couldn't even get her name right. Even holding a pin with her name written on it right in his hand. |
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 19:04:24 GMT
Well, if Republicans wanted a contrast to President Biden, she was that. At home, in an informal setting, young and a woman. That might work better if the Republican candidate was anyone other than an old white man. I mentioned VP, because she is supposedly now on TFG 's short list and her kids would be a bonus. Maybe this was her audition.. If that was supposed to be some sort of audition, I think she failed. |
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 19:30:06 GMT
I may be wrong but I think the reason she was in the kitchen was to talk about “kitchen table issues”. Kitchen Table Issues are supposedly issues talked about around the kitchen table. Mostly, I guess, by Republicans in the mid-west. They are mysterious issues that are important to these folks Biden talks about "kitchen table issues" all the time  : Bloomberg CNN whitehouse.gov
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 14, 2024 19:41:56 GMT
Who can afford her refrigerator and kitchen? Nancy Pelosi can! She has 2 subzero’s, worth about $25k, stuffed with $12+ pints of Jeni’s ice cream. SHE can continue to fuck all the way off! I guess I missed the part where Nancy Pelosi was responding to the SOTU and pretending to be a good housewife espousing "kitchen table values"? Showing off her expensive fridges with the freezers stuffed full of expensive ice cream at a time when many people in America are wondering how to feed themselves and their families during the quarantine was a disgusting display. |
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