Originally published at: Ohio Republican Leaders Gently Beg Trump To Please Not Visit Springfield
Republican officials in Ohio are politely pleading with the Trump campaign to not visit Springfield after it spent weeks stoking false claims about Haitian immigrants eating residents’ pets, plunging the city into chaos. City and state officials have been calling the conspiracy theories out since before Donald Trump brought the manufactured hysteria to the national…
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Is chickenshit one word or two words (chicken shit)? Asking for me.
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“You’re destroying the good people of my community and I’ll still vote for you, but please don’t come.”
Feckless.
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It’s really extraordinary. When’s the last time you heard about a governor asking a presidential candidate and his running mate to stay away when said candidate might take the state by double digits? Not to mention that the running mate they’re asking to stay away represents that state in the Senate?
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Danceable.
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Stop being gentle. “Stay the fuck out” is the appropriate response.
And, please mention over and over again your own junior (in all ways) senator is causing the problems.
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DeWine also tried to discourage a Trump campaign visit… though the campaign has not yet publicly committed to it.
In this corner: Trump’s Compulsion to Dominate
In the other corner: Trump’s Need To Win The Election And Stay Out of Prison
Place your bets!
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I’ll bet on the referees who have rigged the fight by declaring Trump cannot be prosecuted for anything they don’t want him to be prosecuted for.
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If the substance, two words.
For the affect, one word.
The chickenshit bastard ran around the corner right into a pile of chicken shit.
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Joe Biden has failed at the border, spectacularly. His failure, however, is not that he allowed too many people in. His failure is quite the opposite. America, instead of being a beacon of hope for the world, became a cruel ethno state that ignored its obligations to refugees and fellow humans.
There is a crisis at the border, but the crisis isn’t people wanting to come here. The crisis is our refusal to welcome them. We are not good people, we are not a good country.
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Either way it’s the truth.
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What is the alternative to your criticism that wouldn’t cause
even more trouble with the scum that follow him?
You are going to have to explain your reasons for claiming that.
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DeWine looks the part of a spineless coward. He seems rather insipid for the image Ohio likes to project.
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Which claim do you disagree with? Are you trying to tell me that we efficiently have a system for welcoming refugees to America that is working and not causing refugee camps on our borders on the Mexican side? Are you claiming that immigration is super easy, barely an inconvenience?
Are you saying that Democrats and Joe Biden didn’t support an immigration bill that largely reduced immigration, and punished people for the crime of wanting to come to America and work?
Edit: I don’t really want to debate immigration with my friends right now, my only point is is that we are presented with two options in this election. One who is openly xenophobic, and one whose xenophobia is hidden because it’s so wrapped up in what it means to be an American. Let’s just not pretend that either one of these nominees is going to open the doors to the people who need doors opened.
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Oh, brother. Then let’s elect Trump, so we can separate parents and children, put them in cages, and/or see the bodies floating in water when they couldn’t walk on water.
It’s not an easy fix when we have the other side who kick Immigrants to the curb just to get elected.
It’s repulsive.
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As was predicted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/18/house-bill-government-shutdown-funding/
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This was a rhetorical slight of hand that I wanted to avoid, and it’s why I should have kept my mouth shut.
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I wasn’t going to bring up the asshole. Rhetorical? Whatever. You want it settled. We all would love to see a better solution.
Not in this climate.
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Thank you for your enforcement of orthodoxy. Yes, if only liberals would talk about safe, easy, sanitary ideas, even amongst themselves, they would win more elections. If we all just echoed the position of those nominated for office, we would all have the space to grow and eventually talk about actual change. The key is to always play their game, on their field, according to their rules.
/sarcasm
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