The GOP primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio has been one big competition for who can be the worst MAGA candidate. Looks like J.D. Vance (R. OH) scored a big point on that level:
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) endorsed Ohio Republican J.D. Vance in the Buckeye State’s GOP Senate primary Tuesday, lending his conservative bona fides to the venture capitalist and best-selling author’s bid to replace outgoing Sen. Rob Portman (R).
Hawley, a firebrand who entered the Senate in 2019 and was a vocal supporter of objections to the 2020 election results, touted Vance as an advocate of several red-meat issues to conservatives, including tightening immigration restrictions and clamping down on tech companies.
“I’m proud to endorse JD Vance for U.S. Senate from Ohio. JD knows well the devastating realities that our country faces. Especially in Ohio, families gripped by addiction have the cards stacked against them and entire towns continue to plummet,” he said in a statement of the “Hillbilly Elegy” author.
“JD will fight for tighter restrictions at the southern border, bring back a robust manufacturing industry and put the needs of our own American citizens first. JD is the only candidate out in front of the corruption in our technology industry. He will crack down on Big Tech bowing down to China, stand up for the American worker, and put our country back on the track of prosperity and opportunity.”
That’s right, this piece of shit:
A terrorism expert believes Senator Josh Hawley’s fist-bumping antics helped stir up the crowd before the January 6 riots.
Former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts told MSNBC’s The Sunday Show that politicians were helping to fuel the rise of domestic extremism and singled out Mr Hawley and Donald Trump by name.
Mr Watts said political leaders were directing extremists at particular targets such as the US Capitol.
“It’s our political leaders that are doing this more than domestic extremists,” Mr Watts, who served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, said.
“What you see right there President Trump told them they were going to the Capitol that day. They didn’t pick the Capitol, he said it, his organizers they promoted it, his fellow congressmen in the GOP, they promoted it.
“It was Josh Hawley out there fist-bumping the crowd, right? Before it went in," he added.
“That’s the thing we look for to see, hey, where are they tipping to. For the most part, the groups aren’t picking the targets. It’s the elected leaders.”
Mr Watts was asked about former President George W. Bush’s comments at Saturday’s Flight 93 memorial in which he linked the ideology of the 9/11 terrorists and the mob who stormed the US Capitol.
It isn’t surprising because Vance is nothing but a human troll:
But Vance is incorrect.
For the record, "Two-spirit" refers to a person who identifies as having both a masculine and a feminine spirit.
The term has been used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people within their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender ceremonial and social role in their cultures.
According to the Indian Health Service, "The term "Two-Spirit" does not simply mean someone who is a Native American/Alaska Native and gay," adding:
"Traditionally, Native American two-spirit people were male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and women with traits unique to their status as two-spirit people."
"In most tribes, they were considered neither men nor women; they occupied a distinct, alternative gender status."
"In tribes where two-spirit males and females were referred to with the same term, this status amounted to a third gender."
"In other cases, two-spirit females were referred to with a distinct term and, therefore, constituted a fourth gender."
Again, it’s a race to the bottom on who can be a bigger piece of shit between Vance and Josh Mandel (R. OH):
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