JD Vance Seems Confused By A Voting System Used Across America

JD Vance feigned not to understand a perfectly understandable voting system. Ranked-choice voting simply lets voters rank candidates in order of preference. If nobody wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and those ballots are redistributed according to voters' next choices. The process continues until someone wins.

Vance told reporters ahead of the Texas rally that ranked-choice voting is "confusing." But it's not confusing. It's just different from the winner-take-all system he's used to.

"It seems to me that you have an election; the person who wins the most votes should win," he said. "That seems to be not what happens with rank choice voting. So I'm not a big fan of it."

"The fact that it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics, I think suggests we should do our elections in like the normal way, which is if you vote for a person and they get more votes than the other person, they should win," he added.

Oh, like Hillary Clinton when she received more votes than Donald Trump? Like that, JD? Because I'd be all for abolishing the Electoral College.

And that line about doing elections "the normal way"? Oh, please. Ranked-choice voting IS a normal way to conduct elections. It's used in various U.S. jurisdictions, including Alaska and Maine, and in many other democracies worldwide.

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Oopsie! Fox News Gets Punked By Trump Rallygoer

Kudos to “Tom” for doing whatever he did to get on camera with the Fox News correspondent covering Donald Trump’s South Carolina rally Thursday.

“We’ve got Tom right here, kind enough to answer a few questions,” Fox’s Lucas Tomlinson said. It suggested that Tom had been pre-screened to some degree.

“Tom, why are you here this morning?” Tomlinson asked.

He got the answer of a lifetime.

“Well, in the late '70s, I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the Jonestown massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here,” Tom replied.

“Wait, the Jonestown massacre?” Tomlinson said, in disbelief.

“That's right. See, it's nothing like seeing a cult right up front, man."

“Alright, maybe this is not a Trump supporter,” Tomlinson said, in what may be the understatement of the year.

Tom’s assessment was proved correct in an earlier clip with this woman. Tomlinson had a lot more he wanted to discuss with her.

"I know God is using Donald Trump right now"

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Top Dems Demand Answers As Trump's Reliance On Grok Chatbot Hits TERRIFYING Extreme

The two top members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have now demanded that President Donald Trump preserve all of his prompts and conversations with any artificial intelligence chatbots, including and especially Elon Musk's Grok, after coming to learn that the sitting president of this country appears to be relying on AI chatbots to shape White House policy, and even weigh in on decisions to invade foreign nations.

POLITICO has obtained and reported on a letter sent to Donald Trump by Democratic House Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia -- who are expected to wield the Judiciary and Oversight gavels if Democrats secure their expected victories next week -- in which they demand that the president henceforth preserve "any prompts" he has submitted to artificial intelligence chatbots, including Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude, while "carrying out your constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties." The letter also demands that the AI chatbot responses be preserved.

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The Older Trump Gets, The More NSFW He Gets, And It's Grossing Everyone Out

Guys, Grandpa's being super, duper yucky again.

Listen, I make absolutely no claims to know the depths and nuances of Donald J. Trump's sexuality.

I genuinely do not even want to know, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Literally, please, don't ever tell me.

I honestly wish I'd never even had to see this...

Last night, Trump made a pit stop in Corpus Christi, Texas, to stump for the Lone Star State's most embarrassing crook and adulterer, Ken Paxton, in his Senate run against beloved Democratic challenger James Talarico, who recently took a few days off from the campaign trail due to being down with a bad case of the flu.

Paxton and his team tried desperately to frame Talarico's brief absence as a severe mental health crisis, going so far as to suggest that Talarico spent those days inside a mental health facility and was trying to cover it up with claims of a run-of-the-mill virus.

But it seems the president has another theory... and I really, REALLY don't like it.

Trump has long attempted to falsely claim that Talarico is a vegan, and suggested in last night's rally speech that the Democratic candidate's absence from the trail was actually a result of being sickened by eating meat.

That alone is weird enough. Because why is Donald Trump so deeply and bizarrely obsessed with what this man eats? Nevertheless, he so very unfortunately did not stop there.

I truly, deeply apologize for what you're about to witness.

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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]

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'Sir, My Wife Finally Loves Me': Trump Is Now Claiming Credit For Saving Marriages

I've heard so many "Sir" stories come spewing out of Donald Trump's putrid mouth over the course of my career; I've truly lost track of them all. But this one might actually be the most bizarre yet.

Last night, the president made a pit stop in Corinth, Mississippi, where he attempted to give Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith a boost in her race against Democratic challenger Scott Colom. Polls have predicted Colom's defeat to Hyde-Smith in the deeply red state, but the margin is much slimmer than the GOP would hope for, due to the president's overall unpopularity in this country, especially with respect to his ongoing war with Iran that's left Americans holding a bag full of suffering with no recourse or end in sight.

In a level of true egotism and cowardice that only Donald Trump can really pull off, despite losing ground all across this country, the sitting president has focused his campaigning attention toward traditionally red, safe states, where the incumbent Republican candidates are struggling to keep their heads above water because he and his policies really suck that bad.

But, again, in true Trump fashion, Donald spent far more time harping and bragging on himself than the candidates he's supposed to be stumping for.

Last night, Trump stood at the podium and less-than-humbly bragged about the gains seen in the stock market since his return to office two years ago -- because we can all feed our families and fill our gas tanks with stock market gains, right?

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Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?

Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?

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