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JD Vance’s Election Denialism Is Deepening
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 12, 2024, 11:49 a.m. ET | Jamelle Bouie

Posted on 10/12/2024 12:07:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The first thing I thought of while watching Senator JD Vance of Ohio refuse to say whether Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election in a recent interview with this newspaper was “The Manchurian Candidate,” John Frankenheimer’s 1962 psychological thriller.

The linchpin of “The Manchurian Candidate,” of course, is the scene in which we learn that the sterling and charismatic Raymond Shaw, a war hero, was actually captured and brainwashed during his time during the Korean War. He was programmed as a sleeper agent to kill on command, and his handlers also brainwashed his fellow captured soldiers so that the truth of his identity would be kept under wraps. When asked about Shaw, those soldiers repeat the same robotic statement, that Shaw is “the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”

My colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro gave Vance five opportunities to answer a single simple question: Did Trump lose the 2020 election? And each time, Vance gave the same rote response. “Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes?” he asked.

Each refusal to answer was more chilling than the last. It was as if Vance had just been repeating a set of programmed answers, unable to deviate from his commands. Of course, Vance isn’t the victim in a Hollywood thriller. He is a willing participant in an effort to degrade and destroy the truth in order to win power.

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He is a willing participant in an effort to degrade and destroy the truth in order to win power.

Jamie seems to be describing himself.

1 posted on 10/12/2024 12:07:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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NYT in burst mode today.


2 posted on 10/12/2024 12:08:55 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve never seen the NYT in more desperation mode.


3 posted on 10/12/2024 12:09:08 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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I’ve never seen the NYT in more desperation mode.

It is a beautiful sight.

4 posted on 10/12/2024 12:10:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Dear NYTs:


5 posted on 10/12/2024 12:11:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dear God just give it up. Everybody... even dems, know they stole 2020 with election fraud.


6 posted on 10/12/2024 12:11:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

JD Vance will be a MAGA star for a long time. His performance has been awesome.


7 posted on 10/12/2024 12:12:29 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: mmichaels1970

The New York Times seems to have become something other than a newspaper.


8 posted on 10/12/2024 12:13:05 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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“My colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro”

A London born Cuban/Panamanian.... badgering an actual American.


9 posted on 10/12/2024 12:14:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Editorial cluster bombing today, I see.


10 posted on 10/12/2024 12:14:31 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: mmichaels1970

Other than birds that might look down at the bottom of their cage before pooping, no one looks at the NYT except the looney leftists anyway!


11 posted on 10/12/2024 12:14:36 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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You know what this thread needs?

A CZJ pic.


12 posted on 10/12/2024 12:14:53 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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Excellent observation.


13 posted on 10/12/2024 12:15:17 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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14 posted on 10/12/2024 12:16:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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There is going to be massive election denial after November 5th.

The democrats will be the ones engaging in it.


15 posted on 10/12/2024 12:17:13 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is nothing but trivial bullsh!t


16 posted on 10/12/2024 12:17:56 PM PDT by Gaffer
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17 posted on 10/12/2024 12:18:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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So the MSM/DNC/Deep State Commie-La inevitability gaslighting ends. PANIC!!!!
18 posted on 10/12/2024 12:20:34 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Yup, makes every thread better.


19 posted on 10/12/2024 12:21:27 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR Weekend Edition Host

20 posted on 10/12/2024 12:22:10 PM PDT by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun! Left Foot! Right Foot! Thank God For Guns!....Denny Crane)
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