This story is from August 31, 2024
Comedy of errors: US presidential election is getting 'weird'
US presidential election campaign is getting entertainingly weirder every day. So weird, it's hard to keep up. This column will try to catch the best of the worst. So far, Trump and his running mate, Vance, have run off their mouths. The Dems have been sober. Here's a pick
Donald Trump
"I think I'm entitled to personal attacks. I don't have a lot of respect for her (Kamala). I don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence"
"Everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of Honor (US military's highest honour), that's soldiers, they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead ..."
"He [Tim Walz] approved a bill recently tampons in boys' bathrooms. He wants tampons in boys' bathrooms. It's terrible (Fact check: Walz signed a law that required public schools to provide menstrual products to students)"
"You don't mind if I go off teleprompter for a second, do you? Joe Biden hates her (Kamala)"
J D Vance
"ÙS (is) being run by childless cat ladies miserable in their own lives and choices they've made ... childless Left [lack] physical commitment to US ..."
"Universal day care is a class war against normal people"
"Let's give votes to all children in this country, but let's give control over those votes to the parents of those children"
(To CBS, claiming that America's fentanyl addiction problem was Kamala's fault) "C6 If Harris was applying proper leverage to the Chinese and to the Mexican drug cartels, we would not have so many people dying of fentanyl overdoses"
(Post Trump shooting) "Central premise of Biden campaign is President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs ... That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination"
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"Everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of Honor (US military's highest honour), that's soldiers, they're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead ..."
"He [Tim Walz] approved a bill recently tampons in boys' bathrooms. He wants tampons in boys' bathrooms. It's terrible (Fact check: Walz signed a law that required public schools to provide menstrual products to students)"
"You don't mind if I go off teleprompter for a second, do you? Joe Biden hates her (Kamala)"
J D Vance
"ÙS (is) being run by childless cat ladies miserable in their own lives and choices they've made ... childless Left [lack] physical commitment to US ..."
"Universal day care is a class war against normal people"
(To CBS, claiming that America's fentanyl addiction problem was Kamala's fault) "C6 If Harris was applying proper leverage to the Chinese and to the Mexican drug cartels, we would not have so many people dying of fentanyl overdoses"
(Post Trump shooting) "Central premise of Biden campaign is President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs ... That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination"
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