Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio is running for Senate against Trump bootlicker and overrated author J.D. Vance. On Monday, the two candidates meet to debate for the last time before Election Day. Vance was dragged all about the stage by Ryan. It was fun to watch!
Ryan has pointed out that Vance is a liar who lies a lot and has mostly done pretty corrupt things with his first forays into politics and public service. This includes starting a dubious charity to help with opioid addiction but not actually spending much of the money on anything resembling public health. Like all GOP candidates, Vance’s debate strategy was to attack California’s Nancy Pelosi while lying and saying that he never said any of the things he is on the record saying.
Ryan took a relaxed posture during the debate, keeping one hand in his pocket while gesticulating with the other as he dropped truth bombs on the Hillbilly Elegy author.
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One such exchange came towards the end of the night when Ryan tried to hammer home that Vance, regardless of what you believe about political parties, has such low standards of both ethics and intelligence that it would be criminal to allow him to become a U.S. senator.
Ryan reminded the audience that it is this very same Vance who has openly and publicly said that Alex Jones—a man who just recently and deservedly was hit with almost $1 billion in compensatory damages because of how brutally, irresponsibly, and greedily he promoted the lie that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 was a hoax—is a “reputable source of information.” That Alex Jones.
Vance’s response to this statement by Ryan was to say, and I quote, “This is a complete fabrication.” Ryan told him to stop lying since there’s a trail of receipts that people on the internets will find and put out there. “It’ll be like 30 minutes and we’re all going to know you’re lying.”
He wasn’t wrong.
Here’s a picture of it for posterity. It’s nice to have Greenwald in it as a reminder of what he now represents.
We all knew he said it. We all know that along with people like Trump and Greenwald, Vance represents the naked ambition for power and to control their destiny, no matter what the cost to others might be. In fact, they all have such bleak views of humanity that their belief in an oligarchical capitalist system, rigged from the top down, makes sense … to them.
Some people said that Vance didn’t actually vocalize his support of Jones.
Oh boy.
Let me get a little more analysis.
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