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GOP Senator Rips People Who Downplay Ken Paxton As 'Ethically Challenged' With Brutal Comparison In Resurfaced Clip
Tillis brought up Paxton’s history of fraud and corruption and the idea that some in the GOP tried to minimize by describing Paxton as merely "ethically challenged."
Tillis said:
"To call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer [a guy] suffering from an eating disorder."
You can watch the moment here:
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Tillis added:
"This guy is an empty suit and will do us no service by being in the U.S. Congress. I hope that Texans realize how tough [incumbent Senator] John Cornyn is, how pro-Second Amendment he is, how pro-limited government he is, how pro-America first he is."
"And when they go to the polls on Tuesday, I hope that they know that they have got a great American who deserves reelection, and the other guy is going to be nothing but an anchor on our conference for as long as he’s in the U.S. Senate."
Despite the many warnings, Texas Republicans decided to pick the guy whose own staff reported him to the FBI for bribery and corruption over Senator Cornyn in May, but in November the decision is being made by more than just a MAGA minion majority in the GOP. So Team Talarico is making sure they know what's at stake.
People felt Tillis' description of Paxton was spot on.
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As Texans head to the polls, will they choose the Democratic seminarian or the Republican serial adulterer? In the coming days, we'll all find out.
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Trump Blasted After Absurdly Claiming That He Could've Won Vietnam War 'In A Week'
"Vietnam, 21 years, thousands and thousands of people killed, hundreds of thousands of people killed. Afghanistan, years and years… we never fought to win."
"I could have won the Vietnam War in a week, you know. They dropped whatever the hell that red crap is that they…kept dropping it in the forest."
You can see Trump boast about his military prowess here:
After someone in the crowd yelled out what that "crap" was, Trump added:
"Agent Orange,even though it's red. Agent Orange, they drop it in the forest for years and years and years, instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City and the different places."
The herbicide "Agent Orange" was neither orange nor red, nor given its nickname because of the substance's color.
The mixture of dichlorophenoxyacetic and trichlorophenoxyacetic acids' wartime name came from the orange stripe painted on the 55-gallon drums it came in. It was part of a series of color-coded tactical defoliants used by the military and included Agent White, Agent Blue, Agent Pink, Agent Green, and Agent Purple—each identified by the color on its container.
Ho Chi Minh City, known as Saigon during the Vietnam War, was the capital of South Vietnam, the seat of the government backed by the United States forces. Hanoi was the capital of North Vietnam, which was backed by the Soviet Union and China.
Despite clearly being confused on his facts and geography, Trump added:
"I would have won that war in one week."
Hunter Biden, who after years of being attacked by the GOP has clearly taken the gloves off now that he's sober and his father is no longer President, made a few pointed remarks on social media regarding Trump's Iowa MAGA rally claims.
The son of former Democratic Senator, Vice President, and President Joe Biden wrote:
"Last night Trump said he could have won Vietnam in a week. His plan was 'going after Ho Chi Minh City.' Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Our ally. The enemy’s capital was Hanoi. We bombed it."
"He called the presidents who fought that war stupid, then explained how he’d have won it by attacking our own side. 58,220 Americans died in that war. Trump got five deferments. Now he’s telling the rest of us how easy it would have been."
"He’s had more than fifty years to learn which side we were on. He still hasn’t. That alone should disqualify him from sending anybody else’s kids to war. Instead, he’s weighing more strikes on Iran after Tuesday. His administration has reportedly considered using the 'mother of all bombs,' the one he calls 'like a tiny nuclear bomb.'"
"The man who thinks we should have bombed our ally’s capital gets to choose the targets."
Perhaps Trump would have known who the United States allies and enemies were in Vietnam if he'd participated there instead of fighting his own "personal Vietnam" against sexually transmitted diseases, as he claimed in 1993 and again 1997.
Or perhaps Trump got his history lessons from Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping, who would have both called North Vietnam their ally.
Either way, people found "draft dodger" Trump's latest boast about his acumen for military strategy absurd.
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While Trump was supposed to be bolstering Republicans' chances in the midterms, most of his MAGA rallies have devolved into a string of non sequiturs about his personal gripes, denial of reality, and bragging about how great he is.
Whether that strategy works for the GOP will become evident as the votes are counted and results come in.
JD Vance Dressed As Dumbledore For Halloween—And Everyone's Making The Same Hilarious Point
In it, he says:
"Vice President Dumbledore here with little Dobby the Elf wishing you a Happy Halloween. Have fun. Be safe. Eat a lot of candy.”
You can see the video below.
In a post on X, Vance shared a photo of himself and his family decked out in their costumes and commented:
"Happy Halloween from the Second Family!"
You can see the post and the image below.
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Vance's choice of costume gave many a chuckle.
Dumbledore’s sexuality has been a subject of discussion among fans for years. In 2007, following the publication of the final book in the main series, author J.K. Rowling confirmed that the character is gay.
At the time, she told an audience:
"Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a bad wizard he defeated long ago], and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was."
"To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down by him.'
'Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, "I knew a girl once, whose hair..." I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!"'
It's especially funny because Vance has not only attacked the LGBTQ+ community but has also been criticized for hypocrisy considering he has been caught dressing in drag in the past.
The mockery was swift.
Could Vance have been trying to tell us something?
Even so, his choice of costume sends another message considering how openly the Trump administration has attacked the transgender community.
Rowling herself has repeatedly come under fire for her anti-transgender views and their inclusion in her writing. Her responses to proposed changes to gender recognition laws in the United Kingdom have also drawn public backlash. She has pledged to fund organizations seeking to deprive transgender citizens of their rights and remove them from public life.
Anderson Cooper's Uncomfortable Interview With Haley Stevens Is An Absolute Cringefest
With just a couple of days before the election and facing criticism for appearing with Rogers at a Detroit church, Stevens published a video on social media in which she endorsed the man she once hoped to defeat for a Senate seat. She claimed that "who we are as Michiganders is not hate, it is not what we are getting out from our Democratic nominee right now."
Stevens was in the middle of a response in which she mentioned how there are "all these great Democrats across the country come to check Trump" when Cooper asked her if she wants Democrats "to win control of the Senate." She paused before responding, "I absolutely do."
She added:
"I'm just casting my vote this one way."
Cooper then asked:
"But with all due respect, you're casting your vote that way and you're on television right now talking about it and you had a press conference earlier, so you're not just casting your vote, you are very publicly casting your vote."
"Which is fine, but that's what you're doing, right?"
Things got awkward when Stevens paused and replied:
"Look, Anderson. I am happy to be speaking with you. I love my state, you know, I have a lot of deep respect for my constituents, and many, many people who have worked on Democratic campaigns who want Democrats to win who also feel heartbroken. And you're totally right, I'm just one person."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
At another point, she offered further justifications for Cooper:
"I think the Republicans have kind of shown they are, you know, really focused on just letting Trump be the dictator. And that's not what the Democratic Party is. We've got Democrats when they go into the chamber, sometimes they don't always vote with the party."
"I wasn't for the Biden switcharound—"
But Cooper cut her off, asking her to confirm whether she believes El-Sayed "is hateful or an antisemite." Stevens accused El-Sayed of having engaged in antisemitic "actions" and said she is "sick of who he stands with," naming activist and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, a regular target for Republicans.
You can watch what happened in the video below.
Stevens' remarks were badly received, with observers agreeing she'd only worsened the controversy and rung her own death knell within the Democratic Party.
After that performance, we can see why Stevens lost the primary to El-Sayed.
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