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U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

"And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war," Vance said.

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[–] YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yup, people need to understand its the candidate's responsibility to get people to come out and vote for them. If they aren't able to do that people should blame them for being a bad candidate and not trying to reach the masses.

Kamala spent so much effort trying to court republican voters, whom would never vote for her, rather than focusing on the 35% of the population that didn't vote. Two policy choices would have convinced a good chuck of the non voters to come out, no genocide (This is literally the bare minimum and should be easy) and one of the following: universal healthcare, universal childcare, legalized pot, or a reasonable path to citizenship for immigrants. She refused to try and win in my opinion it should have been such an easy election but she did everything possible to fuck it up and people should be pissed at her and the democrats for doing that, not the people who didn't want to vote for genocide.