Give us a break. The only action you guys have taken is to weaken gun laws, allowing scores of criminals to get guns; shut down funding for anti-violence programs in our cities; close the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. You've taken action - and it's gotten people killed.
Pray in one hand and shit in the other - see which one fills up first, JD
Except it’s been happening for years & years & NO action is ever taken. You can pray all you want, it seems disingenuous when you’ve done it hundreds of times over & done less than nothing to protect people/children.
These are the same people who (for years) claimed that mental health was the underlying factor in US gun violence, yet took ZERO action to address that issue. Action, my ass.
I know! Sanctimonious douchebag 😑
We know God is listening. It's Republicans who are not.
The guy had sex with a couch
"Literally nobody thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Which is why America hasn't had a school shooting since Columbine. Oh wait....
Well couch fucker, I'm praying for you to disappear as soon as possible. Maybe take a long walk on a short pier with your hands tied behind your back
Yes God is listening to their voting on gun rights
He’ll say anything that the right might like.
Don't ever trust Vance.
if your prayers aren't accompanied by the willingness to do something about it, then they're meaningless.
I got news for you JD, God isn’t listening. Hasn’t been for awhile if at all. An omnipotent God who has heard the screams of bullet ridden children before they die and devastated, heartbroken parents and done nothing, as has been the case, is no God at all!!
GFY...
Weird, its like theyre manufacturing the problem themselves, then refusing to do fuckall about it, like always
Ok fair enough.. could we try “action” now?
JayDee, those children were in the act of praying. Tell me why your god allowed them to be murdered?
If JD Vance were a real Catholic and not merely a clout-chasing convert, he’d know that works are more important than professions of faith and being defensive about it just demonstrates a lack of humility.
Remember the previous pope.
Humility? Never his strong suit. He leveraged his family history using an old stereotypical lens to gain public attention & conservative kudos. Arrogance has crowded out any shred of decency that remained. It’s on full display in everything he does & says. No time for nice.
God does listen, but there is also some watching going on and she isn't happy with what she is seeing.
Fucks sake why can’t religion just be left out of government as intended? Clearly prayer did nothing for this or any other massacre that happens nearly daily here.
Well god ain’t listening
One would think, that a person who attended law school, especially a school as prestigious as Harvard, would know the definition of complicity. Vance owns the actions or inactions of this administration just like Trump. Inaction plus a choice.
The GOP? I wish they did nothing, said nothing, took no family photos with AR-15s, didn’t taunt traumatized survivors, weren’t bought by the NRA, didn’t block the passage of gun regulations, and didn’t pass laws to allow more guns, open carry etc I wish they did nothing at all!
Yes, but they prayed for forgiveness
Please, if you are a deranged Nazi sympathizer, don’t buy a gun and hurt anyone!!! Join ICE and we’ll GIVE you a gun and you can do whatever you want!!! MAGA!!!
If God were listening then why does he allow kids to be slaughtered in American schools every damn week?
God doesn’t allow, republicans do.
So, #jamesdavidbowman aka #jamesdavidhamel aka #jamesdavidvance aka #jdvance, your thrust here is that you #pray because your heart is broken, so therefore, you pray for yourself, leaving me to think your #selfishpraying instead of #prayingtohavethestrengthforaction to make others suffering stop!
I can tell he is not a real Catholic. He so right wing Protestant. Back in the old days of the conflict of Catholics Vs Protestants the puritans believed you get to heaven by faith alone. Catholics believed that you get to heaven by faith and Good Works.
I am writing about hillbilly fundamentalist Vance. You can take the hillbilly out of the hills but you can not take the hills out of the hillbilly.
It is good works to struggle for gun control laws.
Tell Vance his fundamentalism is showing.
They love the money from the gun lobby so much they are willing to risk our children’s lives everyday. You too JD
MAGA are experts at hiding under desks then pretending that nothing happened!
Assuming there is a God, He (or she) has left the building.
Hello, Chris Murphy's staffer: Could he please ask his GOP colleagues to explain, on camera, how the lack of due process is an American ideal? If his conscience permits, could he expose the colleagues who confide that they like his opposition but fear the base? Could they Grow One Pair, please?
His heart is NOT broken. His moral compass is
It’s more the performative sympathy in place of meaningful reforms that we have a problem with.
somebody ought to tell this ASSHOLE - there is no god because if there was one he would be long gone😠
We prayed and got Vance. LOL
A bit less of the praying TO God, and more of the listening to God.
Hey JD Vance, It amazes me that so many elected republicans have the power to help curb the mass murdering of children in schools and chose only to pray after the deaths of children have occurred. I PRAY elected republicans wake the F up and DO something substanitive!!!
Trump this week: “I … have … the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.”
You have to have a heart for it to break! You laughed and thanked God for taking food& medical care from the poorest among us, you celebrate Satan you 🤡🤡‼️
Vance jerks off to photos of shot-classrooms.
If Vance had an ounce of real pray in him he would distance himself from the raging orange monster who is his boss. Support prayer JD, not a preyer. Don't be such a disingenuous fake hillbilly.
You like seeing gun nuts kill school children.
F*ck him! They vote against anything to do with stopping this violence against the children. We are saying enough with the thoughts and prayers, not because we're against people praying! We're against the same line of "thoughts and prayers" followed with no action to protect children!!!
God gave him a brain to pass policy to get rid of the problem. He doesn't use it
Prayers aren't enough
Chris — where you been lately?? Call for a general strike, or at least a march?
Pray all you want. That's not an excuse for your INaction, JD.
“Faith without works is dead” James 2:26 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.” Matthew 6:1 “Sit down. Be humble.” Kendrick Lamar: HUMBLE-2017
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Pro tip to J. D. Vance. God isn’t listening
218 as of Today. The fascists are raging forward. Fascists at all gov't levels. I am being ASKED why I am protesting by TEACHERS!!! They had the summer off, why have they missed what is happening? Please do SOMETHING to save Democracy! youtu.be/O6EzqLPbMt8?...
And Paula White will pray for you. It costs money and the more money the more powerful the prayer. Paula is the Christian Spiritual Advisor with an Office in the WH.
She charges thousands for each prayer she says for you.
She can send an Angel to protect you as well
How much does she charge for sending an Angel!
$1000
Outrageous when you can buy a star for only $39.95 star-name-registry.org/39-gift-folder
Well Angels are apparently more desirable. People actually buy this stuff from her.
She’s certifiably crazy! youtube.com/shorts/VZVtv...
That's what Jesus would do. Btw, crypto or cash?
Trump wishes this song was about him! youtu.be/NEETldY4jCo?...
I was just listening to the Broadway album the past few days! And yes he does. P'raps he does.
Vance keeps running the self-victimization play... 'The guns aren't the problem, people upset with us for doing nothing other than praying are the problem.'
Insanity includes doing the same thing you've always done, while expecting to get a different result.
"Faith Without Works Is Dead"
His prayer doesn't seem to wotk...?
GOP is owned by the NRA.
Maybe they should pray that God will save the children from their own ideological cowardice and stupidity.
Praying is a way to tell an omniscient, omnipotent entity that they need your help, because you're correct, and they're not.
We are drowning in guns. 🚨 A We're at just the beginning of AI and its replacement of entry level college degree jobs. We are drowning in guns. 🚨 L The Big Beautiful Bill will kick millions off their healthcare over the next 10 years. We are drowning in guns. 🚨 T
Oh, God is listening. You will receive exactly what you deserve.
God listens. And she thinks Tattoo Vance is a jerk in denial and on the wrong side of history. Innocents die every year BECAUSE you and your GOP cronies make it easy as shoo-fly pie for bad people to get guns. Don’t you dare deflect and deny your part in creating tragedy. Pray on that.
Exactly! "This is not the time," they say Every. Damn. Time. This is the perfect time for action. When everyone's emotions are raw. But they'll never do a thing. Where was Vance's god inside that church?
When are we going to see an inquiry into the staged assassination attempt? When Dems retake Congress next year that inquiry needs to be on the Dems' agenda.
Sen Murphy, we need to get the Russian asset out of the office. Thank you for your attention to this matter 😉
God is listening? Prayers are harmless and all but laws actually help.
I guess Vance believes that God was listening when a whole Catholic congregation was gunned down in Minneapolis while praying.
I buy that, yeah..
Hey hillbilly….eff u and your prayers. You conflate prayer with action and they have absolutely nothing in common. Just more bullshit gaslighting with fake piety.
The kids were in church literally praying, u soulless bastard, j.d
Vance seems overly energized of late. Still talking stupid….though
No one is rejecting prayer! We can pray AND enact more gun safety laws! 🙄
Hey JD as a 77 yr old practicing Catholic my God is saying: "why won't you ban automatic weapons and stop the slaughter of innocent children you horse's a$$"
If God is listening, JD and the rest of the MAGA cabal should avoid buying green bananas. We should be so lucky.
JD Vance and his buddies have blood on their hands shoes, and clothing. They watch as yet another mass shooting occurs, call for prayers and then nothing. Not 1 DAMN THING. For a party that says they are right to life, they sure dont mind letting kids, students, adults get slaughtered daily
JD: if God were real and listening he would have smote you and that entire admin... Stop believing in fairy tales...
2.4 billion christians on earth but “God” has the GOP on speed dial because they’re so fucking special
The kids are in church praying when they got shot and killed. Yeah, I'm pretty sure God's not listening. Thanks, JD f*** off oh and, by the way, Do something about gun control.
….and that makes me wonder what, exactly, JD and his ilk are praying for?
Tired of these effing hypocrits.... if he meant any of his drivel he'd be on his knees 24/7 begging forgiveness for the shit he has done and abetted..... and note that he did NOT voice anything about rational GUN CONTROL measures. What a worthless piece of excrement, whatever name he uses
Maybe it’s because Republicans pray and celebrate the birth of Christ with war weapons🙄
July 19, 2023
So tired of these religious assholes.
They have always been and will always be the problem
God clearly is not listening or doesn't care.
when we want his opinion, 'couched' in self-serving rhetoric, we'll ask for it...
Republicans are a death cult. A spineless, gutless wonder of the absolute worst among us who advocate and facilitate sadism and idiocy.
Why is it always 'too soon' and 'too political' when Dems want to talk about gun control, but then every Republican post looks like Vance's?
The second amendment is worthless. It was supposed to protect us from a tyrannical government, but now that we have one, most people who own guns would sooner use them to help it persecute people than protect those people from it. Private gun ownership is a failed idea.
Government gun ownership is also a failed idea in the USA.
The government will always have the biggest weapons.
True. But the people outnumber the government.
Pea shooters versus tanks. What could go wrong?
Don't confuse racist cops attacking women & children with bombs as a known aspects of actual guerilla movements in history.
Which makes some semblance of an armed civilian population a requirement since the government & military cannot be trusted. Illiterate herdsmen in Afghanistan fought the US military to a standstill with 100 year old rifles & homemade bombs. So weapons alone do not make a conquest possible.
Not comparable to civil war in the US which 80% urban. You’re making foreign adversaries salivate. Afghanistan, a proxy war where for generations patriarchal illiterate tribal peasants in mud huts fought off occupiers & where there was nothing to “win”. Vietnam. A civil war that became a proxy war.
How do you assume the US is 80% urban? Population centers don't necessarily determine strategy in asymmetrical movements. Afghanistan circa 2001-2021 wasn't a proxy war. This was an invasion which was effectively countered with 100 year old Mosin-Nagant rifles & IEDs.
MOVE: pockets of armed resistance in urban areas can be easily eliminated Invasions & proxy wars are not mutually exclusive Before 2001, Soviet invasion in 1979 to prop up Afghan gov’t & limit Western influence. US supported Mujahideen: proxy war, then civil war. 40+ yrs of war, oppression, mud huts
You should actually read the vast US military literature on this topic because you are antithetical to the scholarship. The US military doesn't do asymmetrical conflict well & they know this. (Trying to insert "proxy war" as a catch phrase changes nothing.)
Mujahideen a victim of its success, fell into disarray fighting among itself. Infighting is not unusual within such alliances. Victory ultimately resulted in the opposite of US intentions. Taliban takeover, Al Qaeda safe harbor 30 yrs later there is still scattered fighting between ISIS & Taliban.
Have you actually studied this topic or read the academic literature written by experts? A good start would be the dissertation of David Petraeus. www.documentcloud.org/documents/72...
The 2nd Amendment was created to murder native women & children while keeping the enslaved population brutalized but not cost the government a dime. It worked perfectly as designed.
The couch was on top.
god is listening, and he see/hears what a hypocrite you are. god doesn't help those who won't even try to help theirselves
I’m tired of looking around the classroom at the faces of my students knowing that our government doesn’t give a s**t about them. $500 million cut from education. Guns rampant with no gun control. Shootings at schools every other week. Republicans suck a**.
The only thing these scumbags excel at is spin. Good grief, if the left was half as good at it, we probably wouldn't be living in this demented timeline.
Thoughts & prayers from gun-loving #Republicans are a load of bullshit & to hell with the #NRA.
Vance is such a fraud.
If they dont think it's a substitute for action, they sure as fuck think it's a replacement for inaction. Get fucked Vance.
hey butterpants vance god is not listening because he does not exist stupid
Obviously he’s not listening
He is such a gaslighting prick. And an aneurysm away from the presidency.
Gaslighting is a form of propaganda. Cut to the chase and call it that.
Or an open window!
A fitting fate
Yup. I can think of several others, also fitting, but let's not get me hopeful here!
I would suggest like Stalin, lying in a pool of his own piss, Wondering how it ever came to this as the light slowly fades......
That would work!
It has the advantage of being proven effective.
Just Dance Vance is a moron, he campaigned saying school shooters are “a fact of life” and he has 3 kids.
hearts broken, god is listening? listen to the people and stop ignoring things that matter to us.
Thank you for speaking the truth and fighting this regime. Now could you get the rest of the democrats on board to help us fight for our democracy?
If there was a god and it was "listening", it would tell you to regulate the guns. That would be what you call an "answer" to those prayers.
Hey Vance, if you were a Christian you wouldn’t be a simp enabler of the antichrist.
This Regime is absolutely disgusting
Just Dance Vance is a sanctimonious prick. Fuck that guy.
The grief I feel in myself and the people here in MN feels overwhelming, but so is the anger and disgust. I've cried and prayed, and will continue to do so, but we need real, tangible action now!!! The last person I want to hear from on this, is JD Vance.
He could care less about those kids.
Its shocking to me that anyone who is in a position to stop the slaughter could possibly think as a grieving parent i would rather see you pray instead of something to prevent this from happening to another child. Wtf is wrong with these people!
Vance not only won't stand up against racism for his own kids, he's a virulent racist himself So yeah, he cares more about this performative outrage than kids lives or well-being
JD Vance has proven w/the death of these children, he has NO low.
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I need the biggest fucking eye roll emoji.
jd is nothing but a liar and hypocrite.
If god is listening he/she doesn't give a fuck about you
Prayer is just pretend "Doing something"
Hint hint. God doesn’t care. Or he does and can’t/won’t do anything. So which is it you dumb confucks?
"God" wasn't listening when those kids were praying and they were shot
republicans are profoundly stupid people.
K, couch fker , when the 🍊 💩 stain collapses, bring in RFK jr as his Dr and Mike Johnson can pray over him until he’s healed. No taxpayer funded helo/jet rides to Walter Reed or the Mayo Clinic to be treated by *scientific* medical Doctors and professionals.
Posting on social media ain’t gonna cut it.
F**k you JD! Prayer is your “ action” which is you doing nothing!!!!
Prayer is not a course of action, but inaction!!!
If no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action, then why do they ONLY give prayers and ZERO action?
If JD's god does listen to prayers, why didn't he stop the bullets from going through the bodies of the children who were literally praying?
It's shocking to me that a turdsucking ass lamprey like JD Vance thinks that anyone not totally high on his beloved Trumpenfuhrer's bowel vapors actually takes anything he says seriously
I refuse to believe any Christian GOP members are ACTUALLY Christian. They are neo-nazis. Through and through.
Reality check, but will fall on deaf ears.
also they literally don’t act, but make a big deal about praying so yes, JD you do appear to think prayer is a substitute for action. ppl who are heart broken over this continually happening are the ones seeking anti violence & gun legislation that you & your ppl continually reject
Their god seems to be deaf given the myriads of shootings and subsequent prayers. Or cruel as he sends more shootings to get more prayers. Our it is the guns.
So now he likes the word, "weird"?!?!
See Dems...it's not hard...POINT IT OUT!
Right wing politicians with agency who shirk their duties to a higher power are a waste of fucking space and tax payer money. They will exacerbate the problem because our children are expendable so long as they can exhaust these culture wars for power and money.
F'em up Chris.
Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit VOTE out every single Republican from every single office Then fix gun laws
Cutting federal tax on silencers. That was their big help.🤬
If god was listening, none of these F*rs would be in office.
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HELLO SENATOR, WHEN ARE THE GLOVES COMING OFF FOR YOU & YOUR COLLEAGUES? OUR DEMOCRACY IS BEING DESTROYED. YOU NEED TO STOP PLAYING POLITICS AND END THIS SHIT NOW! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! NL
Yeah, ok. “God is listening”. What an infantile perspective
I hope you responded to him directly
Nobody would care if they were praying if they actually took action. Columbine was in 1999, what meaningful action has been taken in the last 26 years? The GOP needs to fuck all the way off they are vile evil little weasels and always have been… at least while I’ve been alive.
The children were in church literally praying
Weasel words. If prayer is not substitute for action, what action has this administration taken to keep our kids safe? They have done NOTHING.
God must like dead children.
God only listens when there is action with those prayers. Not much different than praying you'll win the lottery and not placing a bet. Even if you buy a ticket, you might not win, but at least you did something. We are doing nothing about gun laws...
Exactly right!
Sow the wind
You pray to soothe your own soul. As a Catholic you go to confession for yourself, not someone else's sins. It is to fix yourself. That is the value of prayer and that has nothing to do with gun silencers.
Listening ? ... Or laughing with an evil cackle ... These were children literally praying in church ... They'd still be alive if they'd been at Drag Queen story hour instead ... Just sayin' 😑
I’ve thrown two books across the room in disgust after reading them. Hillbilly Elegy was the second. No need to embarrass the writer of the first.
If god was real they'd stop letting people murder children in schools and churches. Just a thought, for his prayers.
When it's the only response one side has to a tragedy? Yes, it's going to get mocked.
When all you do is pray, while not trying to solve the actual problem when it is well in your power to do so, your prayers lack sincerity…
Oh yes I forgot. The “thoughts and prayers” crowd are the victims here. For a minute I was focused on the children.
And it will continue until a schoolhouse-style shooting happens at the Republican National Convention.
We’re a nation with nearly half a billion guns in the hands of private owners. That doesn’t count the 10s of millions in the hands of cops, and a few million more held by the military. We are the most heavily armed group of people on Earth.
God listen to ruthless authoritarians enriching NRA by swamping US with guns, so children have weapons to mass murder their classmates with & right-wing adults can murder children & adults alike with semi-automatic guns that in any decent society should be banned from civilian access? Hypocrite!
Republicans are killing our kids.
Vance allows hearts to be broken so certain wallets can be stuffed.
They really are sitting back laughing at the inaction of the left.
When I see a picture like that all I can think of is the damage that would be done if the guy gets so scared he pulls the trigger before he pulls out the gun.
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If his prayer is "Please, God, help me to get off my butt and actually DO something about gun violence!" then I'm all for prayer.
He is such a slick jackass
Only because the media allow it. He faces zero pushback on anything, so like his daddy Trump, Jimmy Dave is just another spoiled child whining to get their way.
Bullshit vance. ONLY reason a maga prays is for forgiveness. Don't put off any solution to gun violence is snafud by anyone else but the republican/maga party.A dem tries, ya'll say "they're coming for your guns". FO btch. If dems wanted to violate rights, guns would been collected already. Dumbass.
It is absolute proof that there is no god, for 4000+ years you idiots have been praying to your god delusion and throughout that time you have been preying on the women and children whether they believe in your delusion or someone else's delusion.
The fuck have you done? Reclassify SA firearms as machine guns, put them under class 3, all of them
You know, if prayer was going to solve this horrendous issue, it already would have.
If Vance really is Catholic he should know that faith without action is worthless. If he’s not acting to prevent more kids dying, there’s no everlasting life in Heaven for him.
He doesn’t know what he is
so when does the “action” happen?!
If he is listening,why does nothing ever change! Is the NRA buying him off also?
Their evil deity would be cheering this on if the source material is correct.
Until it happens at one of their children’s school or church, nothing will happen. Because it only happens to us it doesn’t matter! Because we do not matter. But if it happens to them and theirs? They’ll change it up immediately. They only care about themselves
Those kids were literally in church. How about the right try something new just this once and actually DO something.
"Literally no one thinks..." Let me stop you right there, Vice President Baby Head.
Despicable how he, Leavitt, and other MAGA Christians weaponise their faith to make themselves the real victims of a mass shooting.
And pardoned 1500 maniacs who attacked the Capitol!
When are we going to demand that gun owners must have liability insurance for their guns? It’s time that gun owners are held financially responsible for their gun violence instead of all of US.
P.S. Senator Chris Murphy, great response to him.
What Hearts? If the MAGA folks had Hearts, they wouldn't have put forth the Horrific Bill....which ultimately means a Genocide for Millions of American people.
…Couchfuck McGee said, in between bouts of fucking couches…
And democrats had plenty of chances too and did NOTHING either.
Well then that makes it ok. I think ye forgets that repugs blocked them every step of the way. Democrats will come to the table to help. Repugs will block anything that hurts the NRA.
The people who were shot WERE PRAYING!
Would someone start sh00ting these fuckers please?
Vance is such a snowflake. "You hurt our widdle feelings!"
Its shocking to me that all the Hypocrites try to use Prayer instead of Action in response to mass shooting of innocent people!
