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JD Vance says he and his daughter, 3, were confronted by pro-Ukraine protesters
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Oh wait this is Lemmy not Reddit. My bad
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The kid should know that daddy is making other little boys and girls die because he can't steal from their country.
He should stop whining and think about thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped and brainwashed in Russia. That is much more stressful than one child and their couch-fucking creepy daddy, to face some protesters.
What a douchebag.
Using your child as a shield for bad policy decisions? That’s a new low, JD.
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But not using them as a literal shield yet, so he needs to work harder.
He still doesn't want to stoop to musk's level there
What new low? The Dipship already did that.
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Good. This administration should continue to be confronted and challenged on their stupidity. They are, and never should be, free from receiving criticism for their stances, and using the child to deflect from the real questions being asked is a cop out and completely on brand.
I bet the three year old has a more objective view on Ukraine anyway. The press should be interviewing them instead of JD.
I agree. Make them uncomfortable. Make them see how reviled they are.
Vance, in tears, asked his daughter if they could go home to mommy where there weren't any scary people asking why he is Putin's bitch
Someone who chose to go into politics, chose to be confrontational, chose to exploit people …. Surprised that people are unhappy with his choices? (Where’s that shocked pikachu face meme when you need it?)
Oh boohoo - somebody maybe said mean things to him while he was using his daughter as a human shield (or maybe they didn't and he's lying).
And meanwhile, parents in Ukraine are digging their children's corpses out from under rubble.
So Vance just so happened to be "walking his daughter" near a group of Ukrainian protestors? The secret service didn't have the capability to look down the street he wanted to walk down and say "maybe we should take another route"?
Or did he purposely take his young daughter near a polite-looking group of protestors just so he could have a low-risk confrontation as fuel to demonize his detractors online?
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Much better than families and their toddlers being faced with pro Russian missiles.
Cry me a river you petulant fuck.
LOL, "confronted".
What fucking snowflakes these assholes are. I've seen the video. More like "asked pointed questions and I am too much of a gigantic man-baby to deal with consequences like that".
FUCK YOU and every single asshole that voted for you.
Republicans didn't seem too concerned when a Democrat was confronted by a guy with a hammer who attempted to kill him, in fact it was a big joke with them.
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Children do not make you immune from criticism. If you're afraid of your child hearing that you're a collossal piece of shit, leave it at home or get out of politics.
Or stop being a huge piece of shit.
"Today while walking my 3 year old daughter"
Was that a typo? Or does "JD" "Vance" talk about walking his daughter like he would talk about his dog?
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As a parent this really hits home. I can remember vividly the time I was harassed, 6-month-old in my arms, when I cut off desperately needed funding. I was literally causing death and misery, all because I thought a ruthless foreign dictator was kind of a cool dude. If we were both threatened and harassed for being massive turd nuggets, where does it end? /s
It's like you can't betray your allies and turn your country into a fascist shithole anymore. Well you can, but then some woke mob will calmly tell you that what you're doing is bad and I don't want my children being around that negativity!
are these the same people who ate cats and dogs?
And it should happen every time he leaves his house or goes outside.
If he uses his 3 y/o as a sheild that's just more pathetic
Must be nice not having a foreign invader taking your kids away from you huh?
Must be nice not having your kids separated from you and put into cages huh?
You don't get to be a morally bankrupt Putin puppet and then appeal to actual morals.
Like anyone can get within 300 feet of Vance without permission. Ridiculous.
Exactly, like the US Secret fucking Service would just let anyone "chase" the sitting Vice President around lmfao.
What a stupid lie for him to tell, but most of the conservative base will still eat it up because they're too politically uninformed to realize the premise of what he's saying is impossible.
Despite my… unpopular view regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
I’d like to say that this is nonsense. His street was closed off with massive police presence yet he deliberately took his kid to confront the protesters when he had many other options.
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I'd prefer his version of events, honestly. Why do these fuckers ever get a moment of peace? Life should be made as difficult as possible for them, for every facet that we still have control over.
Serious question: when does he start having a decoy child lookalike so he can always have a child with him 24/7 so he can continually say he's being harassed with his daughter.
Confronted. lol. He needs to actually be confronted, in a deposition.
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Vance is a verified unabashed fucking liar.
Where’s the proof this happened? Where was his secret service detail?
Remember his fabricated story about Haitians in Ohio? I call Bullshit 💩
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JD: "Stay back! I have a child." Raises their child up as if they were shield
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Never too young to learn how much your dad is a piece of human garbage that non braindead people hate
I'm confronted by this fucker's stupid fucking face every goddamn day
Deal with it you fucking child
I don't think you should get a job in public service if you don't want to deal with members of the public.
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Hey does anybody know whose kid is in the stroller and how old they are? Guessing between maybe 2-4 years old, and prob with a father who wasn’t exactly leading his best life as protestors impugned his integrity (not simply debated genuine views), but who knows
I’ll watch again and try to use context clues to figure this out… maybe someone mentions the age
Glad someone's confronting republicans on Ukraine. No one we elected will.
Sucks to suck
Nut up you fucking pussy.
Sucks to suck, maybe you should think about consequences before becoming a nazi.
Oh and he even pulled out the "use my daughter as sympathy bait" card. Classic snowflake!
JD joins the Elon club of using his children as human shields.
Wow if that’s how upset he is over a potential minor emotional trauma for his child I wonder how he would feel about her living in Ukraine under bombings?
Imagine you and your family being confronted by a Russian conscript who shoots anything that moves.
This is the price of being a politician and being a complete P.O.S. one at that.
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