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There is a term in linguistics called the "drift of the signifieds." In this phenomenon, a symbol remains the same but the meaning attributed to that symbol changes. For example: The red flag of the Bolsheviks, in the early Soviet Union, was the symbol of anarchist revolution, but it later became the symbol of mindless conformity. For another example, consider how the word "gay" has changed in apparent meaning since, say, World War 2.On the immigration issue, in the United States today, there seems to be an opposite effect holding; the actions by certain people, illegal immigrants, have not changed,...

Candice Bergen got her claws out at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards. The actress, 78, took the Emmys stage to present the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, a honor she won five times for her portrayal of hard-nosed “FYI” news broadcaster Murphy Brown on the TV series of the same name. Before handing out the trophy, Bergen took a swipe at Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance while alluding to one of the most famous moments from “Murphy Brown.”

Proving once again that she is not only a left-wing hack, but a truly dreadful and lazy reporter, we now know CNN’s Dana Bash spread foreign disinformation as it relates to the more than two dozen bomb threats that hit Springfield, Ohio. Springfield, which was a town of only 58,000 a few years ago, is now a town closer to 80,000 since the Harris-Biden administration sent some 20,000 Haitian migrants there. The results, as you might expect, have been catastrophic. What else could the results be when you import 20,000 unvetted people from the third world who have had no...

@JDVance If you were to ask what caused me to change my tune about President Trump from 2016 to 2020, I could give you a few reasons. But what we're seeing in Springfield really drives it home. Housing costs skyrocketing. Communicable diseases on the rise. Car accidents, crime, and insurance premiums moving up. Citizens complaining for months (or longer) and mostly ignored. But it's not just what's hapening, it's the way our leadership responds to it. Confronted with many of their citizens begging for relief, our broken elites offer only scorn. "It is racist," they tell us, to get angry...

A spin on the Movie Smokey and the Bandit but starring Donald Trump and his team. This meme was mainly made by my buddy RambleRants but i helped him with a few scenes. Brandie with a Bee also helped out. This is a Dilley Meme Team production. Hope you enjoy! Cast of characters includes (in order of appearance): Donald Trump Dick Cheney Liz Cheney JD Vance Jack Smith Chris 'Crispie Creme' Christie Melania Trump Kamala Harris Tim Walz (Various Trump supports) Elon Musk

Before I get started, I want to make it clear that I think it's great that on a solemn occasion like this, both parties can put their differences aside, shake hands, and pay respects to the lives lost on 9/11. It's something we need to see more of, in my opinion, because at the end of the day, we're all human and the level of divisiveness we're seeing today is not healthy in the long-run. With that said, now watch this drive. After the debate, the left is clamoring for you to believe that Kamala Harris had handily won. While...

Various past and current elected officials gathered in New York City yesterday to commemorate the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, and his running mate J.D. Vance were among them. The reactions to Trump's presence by some in the crowds were priceless. Take a look: On the day after what the Left is trying to paint as a debate loss for Trump (it wasn't), it's particularly amusing watching Harris and her friends act as if there's nothing going on. Love this so much! That’s got to just infuriate Harris. —...

Nikki Haley, a former Republican presidential contender, criticised Donald Trump's vice president candidate JD Vance by terming his controversial remarks about .childless women as “not helpful.” Speaking to CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on the Face the Nation, Haley recalled the Ohio Senator's statement that he is “disoriented and disturbed that the head of the most powerful teachers' union in the country doesn't have a single child.” Brennan asked Haley to elaborate her stand on Vance's comments as he “continues to say things that certainly are highlighted as being offensive to women.” “It’s not helpful,” Haley remarked, adding that “You can...

15 Ron Howard made JD Vance’s bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy into a major Hollywood movie four years ago. Now the filmmaker has publicly turned on the GOP vice presidential candidate, saying he is “surprised and disappointed” by the “rhetoric that I’m reading and hearing.” At the Toronto Film Festival to promote his latest movie Eden, Ron Howard faced questions about JD Vance from multiple news outlets, some of which clearly had an ax to grind against Vance.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) dismissed school shootings as “fact of life,” despite video that she played earlier in the segment that disproved her assertion and demonstrated that Vance advocated for stronger security at schools to help prevent shootings and said that it’s a “fact of life” that deranged people know schools are soft targets. Brzezinski played video of Vance, in which Vance said, “What is going to solve this problem, and I really do believe this, is, look, I don’t like this, I...

by KATE MULVEY, Daily Mail 08:54am 24th February 2006 As I lay on the bathroom floor, clutching my stomach, the tears rolling down my cheeks like torrents, all I could feel was a gaping, infinite sense of loss. Yet I was not at some funeral of a loved one, I was at a child's fourth birthday party, and I was the only woman there without a baby. Are you childless and is it right for you? Tell us in our reader comments below I never planned on being 39 and childless but somehow, here I was, a few months shy...

Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance to Deliver Remarks on the Economy and Energy in Erie, PennsylvaniaVice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance to Deliver Remarks on the Economy and Energy in Erie, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, at 3:00PM EDT. p>Since Harris and Biden took office, Kamala Harris has turned her back on everyday Pennsylvanians and broken one promise after another. In 2019, Kamala said that there’s “no question I’m in favor” of banning fracking; in 2020, after becoming Biden’s VP nominee, she flip-flopped to say she wouldn’t ban fracking. And as soon as she took power, the Harris-Biden...

Vice Presidential hopeful J.D. Vance pointedly told Vice President Kamala Harris to 'go to hell' during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday afternoon. Vance reacted to criticism after former President Donald Trump attended a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday in honor of the slain 13 Americans service members who lost their lives during the disastrous exit from Afghanistan. Democrats criticized the Trump campaign for taking photos and video at the cemetery. And campaign staff reportedly clashed with a cemetery official who tried to stop them. *** An official with the cemetery tried to 'physically block' members...

JD Vance had a surprisingly awkward time ordering two dozen donuts and chatting with the workers at a local shop, not only illustrating his basic weirdness but standing in cringey contrast to the naturally friendly Tim Walz at a Runza in Nebraska. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is evidently distressed by the surge in support for Kamala Harris and appears to be wearing out his welcome even on Fox.

Senator JD Vance faced ridicule over a viral video showing him stopping inside a Georgia donut shop on Thursday. On Thursday, Vance visited Holt's Sweet Shop in Valdosta, Georgia, a crucial battleground state Republicans are hoping will flip back to Trump after it narrowly voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. He faced a wave of ridicule over the video, with critics describing the stop as "awkward." The campaign stop comes as Vance's popularity among voters remains a sticking point for the Trump campaign.

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, and Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance will deliver remarks on National Security in Asheboro, North Carolina on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at 2:00PM EDT. Since weak, failed, and dangerously liberal Kamala Harris took office America has become a global laughingstock. From our wide-open border to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to the Hamas-Israeli war to enabling the Iranian terrorist regime, this Administration’s weakness on the world stage has put America’s national security in jeopardy and brought us to the brink of World War III. Kamala Harris played a...

The comments came a few days after Senator JD Vance, the vice-presidential candidate from Ohio, rejected far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who had recently targeted Vance's wife, Usha Vance, because of her Indian heritage. Vance stressed that the best way to handle such attacks was to "ignore" them. Jaden McNeil @JadenPMcNeil: Homosexual anti-Trumper Nick Fuentes praises Kamala Harris as a good candidate and says she's extremely likable. Aug 19, 2024

DNC ROUNDUP: Most Outrageous Moments From Day One Day one of the DNC in Chicago was exactly as you’d expect — unhinged, cringe, and detached from reality. Look no further than day one of the DNC in Chicago to demonstrate why Democrats aren’t fit to govern. It was a glimpse into the addled minds of the Radical Left — filled with lies, hateful rhetoric, and distasteful conduct.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, that GOP voters “tried to kill your predecessor,” during remarks at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. “Remember what the mob chanted as they stormed the Capitol and injured our officers? ‘Hang Mike Pence’,” Raskin said during his Monday night speech, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “Someone should have told Donald Trump that the President’s job under Article Two of the Constitution is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not that the Vice President is executed,” he...

The Harris campaign is using a CNN article to smear Vance even though the article contains the seeds of the narrative's undoing. Keen observers have highlighted that buried within CNN's latest hit piece targeting Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are the seeds of the intended narrative's undoing. A quad of CNN writers penned a Tuesday piece over 2,200 words long titled "Workers allege 'nightmare' conditions at Kentucky startup JD Vance helped fund." Their hit piece begins by highlighting Vance's alleged guiding principle for investing in a company: "A business should not only turn a profit, it should also help American communities."...