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        9 days ago

        Then why the hell do we keep hearing from him every 2 minutes. I would be so happy never to see his face again

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        Dick Cheyney changed that forever. Vice presidents very much do have power. He ran the presidency for the most part, and gave VPs real power, rather than symbolic value.

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        7 days ago

        He has the power to start the 25th amendment process. And don’t forget the tiebreaker vote in the Senate.

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      9 days ago

      are you claiming he’s wrong about israel? I dont care if they are ok with it. The dems are ok with it too.

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        USA bombed a school day 1 of the war and murdered 140 kids. Nothing happened, they don’t care. War is a business for these people and they seek more of it. USA goverment is 100% fine with this war or they wouldn’t have get involved.

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    9 days ago

    “trump says” “vance says” “thiel says” “vought says”

    Treating the latest burble of lies from the pedo con-artist coalition regime as a headline is lazy ragebait, not news

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    10 days ago

    I dont want to give him the credit of the ‘worst person made a great point’ meme, ugh.

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    Vance has to navigate a tricky path between the MAGA faction that wants more genocide of Arabs and Muslims, and the antisemites.

    There’s also a good-faith position possible, opposing foreign interference in US politics, but I have serious doubts that Vance does anything based on honest motives. If it were foreign interference that’s the real issue, he’d have said something about Russia too. Oh, but he can’t do that, can he?

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      9 days ago

      He’s playing both sides so he can always come out on top.

      Especially since there’s a growing Republican base that’s against war and against funding going to Israel

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        He’s playing both sides so he can always come out on top.

        Yeah, I’ve seen him doing more of that lately, talking out both sides of his mouth. Trying to distance himself from the Trump shitsow without losing the bigot vote. He twists and turns more than a weasel.

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    9 days ago

    “Wahhhhh, NetanYahoo made us do it. Wahhhhh!
    Wow, look at the curves on that couch. Hubba Hubba.”

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    This is what is really dangerous about the right-wing right now. The savvier fascists have figured out that support for Israel is a bipartisan loser, so they’re staking an anti-Israel position, and some of them (Tucker Carlson, for example) are starting to integrate their antisemitic dog whistles into it.

    The left-wing should counter with any anti-zionist, anti-colonial position that explicitly rejects antisemitism, but unfortunately, the defacto left-wing party is the Democrats, who have essentially staked out the same pro-Israel middle east policy as the neocons. Right now, Trump’s support for Israel is keeping the right pro-Israel for now, but when he’s gone (and his health makes that appear imminent), the right may outflank the Democrats on Israel, leaving us to choose between antisemitism and genocide. I would guess that’s what Vance is doing here.