JD Vance is living in an alternate Reality

[Coldwater]

[Lovie777]

1. The republican party are void of reality.........................

[Irish_Dem]

2. Psychopaths like to claim victim status to justify their crimes.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. I am so tired of hearing them glorify that weirdo pissant podcaster.

[Grim Chieftain]

4. I never heard of him until he was killed

Now he's a MAGA martyr.

[Delarage]

5. Same!

When I heard "Charlie Kirk was murdered!" I assumed immediately he was a Democrat somewhere. Because that's what usually happens. Did not have to mourn this one, though!

[ShazzieB]

14. I had kinda sorta heard of him, or least heard his name, before he died.

But I couldn't have told you who he was or anything about his beliefs or activities prior to the shooting.

[hatrack]

6. A college dropout with a website, a fat motormouth, a well-developed Gish Gallop and a shitty attitude . . .

And now he's St. Francis of Assisi, George Washington and Aragorn son of Arathorn all squished together into one greasy beatified sausage skin.

[madinmaryland]

16. He did look a lot like Gorn!!

[Hey Joe]

10. As am I and so many others

Gaslighting, bullshitting , gishgalloping, and lying while talking down to those who questioned him were his only talents.
The right wants to elevate him to sainthood for it.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

7. So, apparently, people who are not in control of the White House, the Senate, the House of...

...Representatives, or the Supreme Court, are actually in charge of the country?

Or, as pointed out by Lakota Man, is he talking about people in his own party?

I'm confused....

So is he....

[wolfie001]

8. The boys in that wacked-out religious family where the shooter was from.....

....wore "I'm Proud To Be A Virgin" t-shirts. Fucking pathetic jack-offs if you ask me.

"Virginity Rocks!" How stupid and pathetic
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[ShazzieB]

12. From what I know about Mormon purity culture, this doesn't shock me in the least.

The LDS Church is obsessed with sexual purity, teaching that "sexual sin," defined as the "illicit sexual relations of men and women," is the worst sin of all, next to murder. That includes any sex outside marriage between a man and a woman: adultery, fornication, and (of course) any sexual activity between people of the same sex.

It's almost kind of refreshing to see boys wearing shirts like that, because Morman purity culture is so often laser focused on women and girls. That kind of preoccupation with policing people's personal lives is, of course, not healthy for anyone, but Mormon girls as young as 12 are particular targets, being frequently admonished to dress modestly, lest showing "too much skin" (whatever that means) should tempt males to sin.

Mormon kids who are LGBTQ+ get the worst of it, because their religion strictly forbids both sex outside of marriage and marriage between people of the same sex. They are left to choose between leaving the faith they were rraised in or living a life of celibacy.

I'm sorry if I sound like I'm dunking on Mormons. I'm not opposed to the LDS Church or its followers, per se. What I'm opposed to is the kind of strict and punitive purity culture that causes kids to feel guilty about every sexual urge they may feel and/or arouse in anyone else, and the purity culture of the LDS Church is particularly strict and punitive in that respect, from what I know. In my opinion, kids who are raised in a culture like that are more to be pitied than derided as "stupid and pathetic." They've been brainwashed since childhood. That is NOT their fault.

[wolfie001]

15. Sorry if I come across as over-the-top but our enemies (rePUKES) are so hateful mockery is one of our few weapons

And yes, I agree with your whole statement. Measured and logically coherent.

[ShazzieB]

18. I appreciate this response!

Confession: you did come across a *little" over the top, but I understood your meaning. Mocking Republican excesses is a popular activity into around here, and I consider it to be needed stress relief for the most part, so I get where you're coming from.

I had a different kind of reaction to this because I happened to have seen some videos about Mormon purity culture recently that made me aware of how extreme it is. (I also have some definite ideas about how that all relates to how a Mormon boy in a relationship with a trans person could have felt driven to kill someone like Charlie Kirk, but I won't get into that right now!)

Glad we are on the same wavelength about this!

[wolfie001]

19. ......

[yellow dahlia]

9. Don't let the facts get in the way of your narrative, JD.

[ShazamIam]

11. The entire national legacy news and conservative talk show propaganda system is working hard to sell the lie that the

Charlie Kirks deatj was caised by , liberal, lefty Democratic. Personally I had never heard of Chirlie Kirk until he was murdered.

[spanone]

13. K&R

[B.See]

17. Like Kirk, Vance dreams of

some alternate reality haven where "those people" don't exist except at their benevolent behest (hence the missus), where white is always right, and where they needn't be apologetic about believing it.

Someone just like THEM took out Kirk. But that won't stop em from believing it was someone... something, else.