Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a “fact of life” and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.

Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vance’s comments against them.

“Kamala’s interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,” Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.”

Except Harris’ campaign shared the same video.

Here’s what Vance had to say:

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”

All of that was in what Harris’ campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didn’t say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.

  • @[email protected]
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    1418 months ago

    I like how they say “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said", knowing that the full video does the opposite, but their fans will never bother clicking on it.

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      178 months ago

      Kamala posted sections of the full video, of course showing the bad comments from Vance. Trump posted only once section, but says watch the full video, while claiming all Kamala and her team do is lie. I’m actually trying to find the full speech and can’t. Pretty annoying since you know Trumpers will say Kamala is lying

    • lurch (he/him)
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      428 months ago

      Maybe the video needs a thumbnail of some open mouthed guy pointing at something. At least thats what virtually all of youtube thinks makes idiots watch their vids.

      • @[email protected]
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        108 months ago

        Children watch a ton of YouTube videos. So sadly, all the most annoying stuff exists because it works to get them to click…

    • KillingTimeItself
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      58 months ago

      they even quote the shit and it into the comments, even though it has captions LOL

  • @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

    JD Vance’s next speech

    “Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”

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    688 months ago

    Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”

    Only in America. Weird that ‘reality’ ignores all other first world nations.

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        188 months ago

        The definition of a first world country includes being a “stable democracy”.

        If you ask Americans how likely they believe attempts at election fraud will happen in the 2024 election I would be shocked if less than 80% said “very likely”. That is not a stable democracy.

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          48 months ago

          If you ask Americans how likely they believe attempts at election fraud will happen in the 2024 election I would be shocked if less than 80% said “very likely”. That is not a stable democracy.

          to be clear, most of the people that are going to say that are insane MAGA people that think biden is going to try and steal it…

          The rest are non trumpers who think trump is going to steal it so…

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            That’s exactly my point. Pretty much everyone in the country believes “If who I vote for doesn’t win it will be because of election fraud.” If the citizens do not trust their country’s democratic process then it’s not a First World Country.

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              28 months ago

              yeah this is definitely the biggest problem right now.

              I’ve been predicting for a little while that if people don’t “change how they view the government in the next 5-10 years we won’t have a government at all in 10-20 years”

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      58 months ago

      In the US the oligarchs worry about models of profitability like keeping wages dirt low, profits sky high and workers at each other’s throats rather than proven models of success like universal health care and sensible gun control employed by Europe and first world countries worldwide…

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      158 months ago

      His kids are not in public school or in any sort of danger from a school shooter. Else he’d actually do something about it

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      James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent. His parents divorced when he was a toddler. After Bowman was adopted by his mother’s third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father’s name while using an uncle’s name to preserve his nickname, JD.

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    I mean, at least part of what he said isn’t technically wrong… School shootings are a “fact of life” in America.

    And honestly, if we’re not going to address the actual issue, which is guns at a national level, I wouldn’t mind seeing every single school turned into a miniature 1980s Beirut.

    Why not? Let’s assign a Meal Team Six to every school. We’ll get snipers on the roof, and random strip searches going on in K-12 education.

    Maybe we can empower groups of students within each school to be miniature deputies who are tasked with keeping order among the other inmates, I mean students. We can call this the trustee program.

    Oh, and by I wouldn’t mind, I mean I would be horrified and it would traumatize at least an entire generation of children before the program was scrapped, but if we’re already on this death drive and refuse to do anything meaningful, a part of me wants to see just how dumb we can really get.

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    98 months ago

    His cultists are locked in they don’t hear this stuff and if they did they don’t care. Sad state of affairs

  • themeatbridge
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    1828 months ago

    “No fair using the entirety of what we said to make us look like shitbags!”

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    38 months ago

    I’m not reading all that but I assume he said something like “If we had fewer childless liberals in this country, we’d already have replacements for the dead ones.”

    • Optional
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      Along with Peter Thiel’s money? No chance. Unless Elmo wants to double-down.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        If he hasn’t given the money already I’m skeptical if it’s going to happen.

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          Downpayment now, the rest on delivery

          Standard Terms of Political Bribery.

          • BarqsHasBite
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            Ain’t going to be any delivery at this rate, that’s the problem.

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    268 months ago

    “People get shot at, look at Donny! Fuck I love this country!”

    Delivered behind bullet proof glass with an armed team of mercenaries.

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      28 months ago

      Mercenaries get paid. The guy standing around trump are just normal idiots with mercenary ambitions.

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      I mean, I too hate that this is normal. Sending kids to school in prisons just isn’t my solution.

  • ElcaineVolta
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    he’s already said, “we have to get over it.” how is that so much worse than “it’s a fact of life.” ?

    they’re both fucking ghouls who cheer on the arms industries whether they’re tearing through Palestine or american schools, really what’s the difference?

    edit: to clarify, I mean what’s the difference between these two statements - why all the amplified outrage now?

    • KillingTimeItself
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      18 months ago

      they’re both fucking ghouls who cheer on the arms industries whether they’re tearing through Palestine or american schools, really what’s the difference?

      one of them is an accomplished couch fucker, the other is dealing with extremely complex global geopolitics

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease
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      Gee one of them is a damned Nazi and the other is only(relative to fucking Nazis) a wall st leech.

      One of them is So. Much. Worse. as to invalidate any comparisons.

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    48 months ago

    Helluva a pick there, donnie. Seems that the couch-fucker being very very weird only reflects on how weird you are.