Ok so now that's two instances I've seen of Republican candidates pretending to have a family to signal to their base this election cycle.
Stop the Post Truth Future ride, please, I want to get off.
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We get a guy with mental illness playing his alternative reality card for 8 yrs and now this thing that is a mental illness trait has normalized the associated behaviors (though not the belief) for everyone else. How fucked up is that?
Living in the fevered alternative reality dream of a narcissistic personality disorder for 8 yrs twists everything up.
Wtf, man.
Lmao. Everything about these people is a fucking lie.
Typical GOP alternate facts.
It's totally normal to stand among a group of kids and even pick one up and look at them adoringly. I'm not weird, YOU'RE WEIRD!
So is she a childless cat lady, or does she think her children aren't ~~white~~ photogenic enough?
Weird.
So I guess the next question would be if the kids are real or AI...
Interesting that only two of the kids are showing hands, so we can't count fingers...
it's texas, they can't count high enough anyway.
Hey! As a Texan, I represent that insult!
One, two, a few, some, a handful, enough.
But how do you know how many you lost in that drop saw accident?
Long as it ain't more than enough I can hold it in my head. If it is I have to take off my boots.
Weird
That’s another thing republiQans do. Now. Apparently.
I mean, the video shows her talking at them like a politician. I know it's important to criticize republicans, and she did pick one up, but this one didn't seem as obviously misleading as that Virginia guy. She's talking about what she's "done" to protect kids, and she has kids in the ad. I don't think any political ad that has kids in it that aren't the politicians' own means they're pretending to have kids.
There are plenty of political ads showing politicians hugging kids or interacting with kids that aren't theirs -- Biden and Walz quickly spring to mind. There's an entire academic journal article on the topic. I think it's just the super weird Virginia politician thing makes people think otherwise. I don't think anyone would have blinked about this if it came out before the "can I borrow your wife and kids and take a picture in front of a residential home" thing happened.
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