Ladies first:
"That's how — that's how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism, is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body; freedom to be safe from gun violence; freedom to have access to the ballot box; freedom to be who you are and just be, to love who you love openly and with pride; freedom to just be. And that's who we are. We believe in all that."
(That's from whitehouse.gov, by which I mean to highlight that they do not know how to punctuate her utterances. The semi-colon is for sentences, equivalent to periods and conjunctions. They should have been commas. But that would make it seem like a long sentence. Or that's the best reason I can figure besides incompetence.)
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The Donald:
"They're eating the dogs! The people that came in. They're eating the cats! They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."
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The question is not, "Which of these quotes is true and which is false?"
The question is, "Which lie (they are both lies) is the BIGGER lie?"
I have already indicated that eating wild animals that Americans typically don't eat, like geese from the local hangout spot lake, is okay by me. But that isn't what makes Trumps claim a lie. It is that no one in Springfield, OH (or anywhere else likely) has eaten someone else's pet. So that's a doozy for sure, on account of scale.
But! But, but, but! Kamala's lie contains many, many lies and confusions and deceptions. I have time and so have listed them.
- The antecedent to "we" slips from "Harris/Walz" to "Americans" without comment. Which "we" does she mean, for example, when she says "that's who we are" at the end? That's who "Harris/Walz" is? Or that's who populates America?
- "The people who came before us" could mean "previous democrats" or "founding fathers".
- Abortion, as the issue it is today, wasn't on the minds of either early Democrats or the Founding Fathers.
- Gun violence, in the contemporary sense, wasn't on the minds of either early Democrats or the Founding Fathers.
- Access to ballot box, in the contemporary sense, wasn't on the minds of either early Democrats or the Founding Fathers.
- Sodomy ("love who you love") was definitely on the minds and deemed immoral by early Democrats and the Founding Fathers.
- Vagrancy ("just be") was also definitely on the minds and deemed immoral by early Democrats and the Founding Fathers.
Taken together, what began as a history lesson turned into a party paper and yet no one can say for sure what Kamala said or meant. This actually undermines the lies she told, and yet she is the winner, in my book.
Kamala, puppet that she is, told the bigger doozy. What do you think?
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