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1. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   — Isn’t that kind of an insult to grade schoolers?

2. 5 days ago on Prickly City

   Farah Stockman of the New York Times editorial board: “Vance did an excellent job of impersonating a decent man.”

   Vance: slick, polished, programmed robot — elitist Yale shyster and Silicon Valley tech venture capitalist. Smooth-talking used car salesman. Repeatedly lied (“Trump saved Obamacare”; Trump peacefully turned over power; Vance had never supported a nationwide abortion ban [extensive published and video statements where he called for a total national abortion ban], could not say that Trump lost the election).

   Walz: nervous, human, folksy, relatable, personable high school teacher and coach but scored point after point on actual policy substance and factual accuracy. Imperfect. Human. Authentic. Can “lose” a debate in terms of smooth delivery, while actually achieving the objective: showing that you are the guy who can reach across the aisle, tell the truth (and correct errors if you make them) and actually get things done.

3. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   — Yes, exactly right. Also the difference between acknowledging and correcting misstatements versus doubling down on them.

   Also the difference between a minor use of a single wrong word or getting a date slightly wrong (and then acknowledging and correcting) versus serious, egregious intentional, malicious lies that put others in danger and even cost human lives.

   34x CONVICTED FELON DonOLD Trump’s — the guy at the top of their ticket — falsifications (forgeries) of documents and outright lies about the 2020 election endangered the lives of election workers and actual cost the lives of capitol police officers and even one of his own violent mob members that he incited to violence and whose lives he endangered. Trump has never acknowledged nor correct this egregious lie, and this is only one of some thirty thousand that have been documented and compiled.

   JD Vance admitted that he made up his story to gin up hatred of LEGAL Haitian immigrants despite the REPUBLICAN state governor, city mayor and city manager refuting his false statements, and endangered the lives of that community to the extent that even small children had to be accompanied to school by armed guards.

   JD Vance also lied about Trump trying to save Obamacare (he tried to kill it and was blocked by Republican John McCain), lied about Trump peacefully turning over the reins of power (only after his violent coup attempt failed) and about the 2020 election results.

4. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   — Oh knock off your false equivalence crap about Tim Walz’s big “lies.” UNLIKE TRUMP OR VANCE, he has been man enough to acknowledge when he has misspoken.

   Before you say a single word about the very minor misstatements (that were acknowledged and corrected) from our number two at the ticket, please address the far more egregious and numerous lies of your own and, to an even greater extent, the guy at the top of your ticket, whose lying is legendary.

   Tim Walz has an honorable record of military service. He made a slip of ONE WORD that he has corrected. He said he carried “weapons IN war” when he meant “weapons OF war” and HE WENT TO ITALY (where he served longer than Vance was overseas in Vance’s non-combat public relations role) where, as a top sharpshooter, HE TRAINED OTHERS GOING TO BATTLE on use of weapons of war. There is no comparison to the egregious and numerous lies of Trump and Vance that put others’ lives in danger.

   He got the dates of a trip to China off by a couple of months but was otherwise substantially accurate and, again, he acknowledged and corrected the error, something Trump and Vance have never been man enough to do.

5. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   — You are correct. I will re-post with the correct one and then delete the incorrect one. Thank you.

6. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   It should come as no surprise that a self-described thirty-something unemployed high school dropout still living with Mommy thinks that the standard for a debate win is based on superficialities like glitz and shine from a slick Yale shyster but cannot even begin to understand, much less respond to, the extensive litany of specific points of substance and objectives achieved that were enumerated in detail and on which debates are actually judged by serious people.

   Was Tim Walz nervous? Of course he was. He was a plain-spoken high school teacher and coach facing off against a slick Yale shyster on national TV.

   Vance was mechanical, slick and robotic. He performed like a well-programmed machine that can follow the script but can’t place a donut order with real human beings.

   Walz was nervous. Human. Someone that real people could actually relate to. He admitted as such. He also admitted something that neither Trump nor Vance could ever do: admit he sometimes misspeaks or demonstrates imperfections in other ways.

   But even so, when the high school teacher and football coach came face to face with the slick, robotic Yale lawyer, his knees may have been knocking, but he actually delivered on SUBSTANCE — which is what really counts.

7. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   And the moment a candidate whines about being “fact-checked” (“waaaah!”) in response to a rather predictable follow-up question, he has conceded the debate.

8. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   About Tuesday night’s debate:

   Walz fact-checked Vance when Vance LIED (or his memory failed him) about Trump being the one to save Obamacare (Trump repeatedly tried to kill it and came within one senate vote until John McCain famously gave his “thumbs down”).

   Walz ran circles around Vance on the subject of whether or not it should be BIG GOVERNMENT that dictates medical choices to women.

   Walz ran circles around Vance on the subject of balancing reasonable gun safety laws with Second Amendment rights, which he respects as a hunter, gun owner and skilled marksman who taught marksmanship in the National Guard and won the annual congressional sharpshooting contest every year he was in Congress, beating out all those gun-totin’ Republicans.

   Walz boxed Vance into a corner when Vance refused to say if he would separate undocumented parents from their children who are U.S. CITIZENS born in this country, and after Vance repeatedly LIED about the status of FULLY LEGAL Haitian immigrants who were recruited to fill job vacancies opened up by the Biden / Harris prosperity in recovering from the Trump economic meltdown.

   Walz boxed Vance into a corner when Vance refused to say that Biden actually won the election — his deadly “That is a dämning non-answer” will be replayed over and over after Slick Vance tried to weasel out from an unpopular position. Walz further reminded Vance of the reason Vance was on that stage instead of Pence — the first time a vice president has ever failed to support the president he ran with and served under when that president sought a return to office.

   And most important in terms of reaching the extremely small number of undecided people who are actually up for grabs: the thing they care about the most is that they want someone who will be civil, flexible and reach across the aisle, and it was Walz who was far more reassuring on this point.

9. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   How refreshing to see that the Fern troll’s only defense of JD Vance’s bold admission that he knowingly MAKES UP STORIES to call attention to the hate speech issues he is trying to peddle.

   In other words, the amoral Fern troll, in his cult-worshipper obeisance to the false deities he worships, echoes their amoral — nay, immoral — implicit position that “the end justifies the means.” It is OK to knowingly lie, to admittedly “make up stories,” as long as it is in furtherance of their agenda of hatred and divisiveness.

   So then the Fern TROLL returns to his favorite tactic — divert, deflect, pivot and CHANGE THE SUBJECT away from Vance’s knowing, intentional lie in admitting he “makes up stories” in response to an interview from almost three weeks ago (due to the time lag between when the non-editorial cartoons have to submit their ’toons) to the vice presidential debate — an event that just happened Tuesday night and has nothing to do with the cartoon.

   OK, I’ll probably regret it, but I’ll respond to the debate, in which slick Yale-educated shyster tech hedge fund manager continued to lie and again admit that he would be completely willing to join Trump’s criminal enterprises as spelled out in the unsealed court filings by Jack Smith today.

10. 6 days ago on Prickly City

    The exact statement made by JD Vance, Sunday, September 15 in an interview on CNN with Dana Bash, who was pushing Vance on why he and Trump keep pushing a proven LIE about “illegal” Haitian immigrants (who were LEGAL immigrants responding from recruiting calls from the city of Springfield, Ohio, to fill industrial jobs created by the Biden/Harris prosperity, that were not going unfilled), falsely accusing them eating people’s pets, even after the REPUBLICAN governor of the state, the REPUBLICAN mayor of the city and the REPUBLICAN city manager all confirmed that THE RUMORS WERE FALSE (even those who initially filed the reports admitted they had been mistaken; in one case the pet owner found her “missing” cat in her basement, alive and well).

    Vance said: “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.”

    Trump and Vance were lying. The rumors were false and THEY KNEW THEY WERE FALSE. But it served to promote their false, lying hate message trying to stir up hatred for LEGAL immigrants who just happened to be Black.

    A preview of what life under a Trump / Vance prevaritocracy would be like.