Donald Trumpā€™s running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a ā€œfact of lifeā€ and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.

Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vanceā€™s comments and called for ā€œaction to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.ā€

And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vanceā€™s comments against them.

ā€œKamalaā€™s interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,ā€ Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. ā€œWatch the full video and youā€™ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.ā€

Except Harrisā€™ campaign shared the same video.

Hereā€™s what Vance had to say:

ā€œI donā€™t like that this is a fact of life,ā€ he said. ā€œBut 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. Weā€™ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children theyā€™re not able.ā€

Vance said he doesnā€™t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, ā€œbut thatā€™s increasingly the reality that we live in.ā€

All of that was in what Harrisā€™ campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didnā€™t say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.

  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    heā€™s already said, ā€œwe have to get over it.ā€ how is that so much worse than ā€œitā€™s a fact of life.ā€ ?

    theyā€™re both fucking ghouls who cheer on the arms industries whether theyā€™re tearing through Palestine or american schools, really whatā€™s the difference?

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

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      2 months ago

      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.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      theyā€™re both fucking ghouls who cheer on the arms industries whether theyā€™re tearing through Palestine or american schools, really whatā€™s the difference?

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