Not the best source, but I can’t post the image alone.

Here’s the image to save you a click on Newsweek.

  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I mean, it’s not a good look given what he’s trying to become… but isn’t he just dressing up as a wrestler whose story has a Soviet background?

    This looks like a costume party and he and his friends are dressing up as wrestlers. It’s like someone dressing up as The Iron Sheik.

    There are worse things to go after him.

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      Republicans seem to like russians now in any case - which is so bizarre for anyone who remembers the “Better Dead than Red” tshirts etc that were all over during the last decade-ish of the cold war.

      In any case, I don’t think the 15 people who were happy about the Vance VP pick nor the frothing cult members who would still vote for Trump if his VP pick was Satan himself really care even if it were something more damning than a costume.

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        I’m from Central America and the u.s fucked us with its CIA dick and set up death squads to execute my country men even suspected of communism. They used us as proxies in a civil war backed by the Americans and Soviets on opposite sides. And after my country was wrecked and bombed, Americans rebuilt it and now own it. Like a neo colony. And the politicians who killed all my country men to keep the Reds away from this hemisphere, now bow to Russia and suck Putin dick. And after bombing my home, they dared call me a wet back and potential rapist, for trying to flee to North America. To flee to the Empire that colonized us

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          I just wanted to say I’m sorry for this, I know this to be true, and many of us here are not proud of the imperial/colonial/rampantly destructive aspects of our history, which are absolutely not something I can lay at the feet of only one party.

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      3 months ago

      I wonder how many of the people who shit on Republicans for being stupid look at this and don’t see the obvious.

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      True. Just doesn’t seem like a well vetted candidate to me.

      Additionally, it’s just such a low effort, lazy costume if that is what he’s going for.

      It makes me wonder what pushed him to choose this character for his costume, surely there are better, more recognizable choices that could have been made? Unless he wants to be like late stage Soviet Russia.

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        True. Just doesn’t seem like a well vetted candidate to me.

        If there’s anything we’ve been able to determine this last decade or so… it’s that vetting political candidates simply isn’t something that’s done anymore. The fact this shit is discovered by random people on Twitter instead of from the political parties doing actual research is ridiculous. apparently Opposition Research is just non-existent now.

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        3 months ago

        Even if he kept the same character, the costume should be more than just a damn t shirt.

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        3 months ago

        It seems right in line with his beliefs. It seems that he’ll bend his ideology to whatever makes him the most heinous. He’s a living foil.

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      3 months ago

      Maybe, but it does help highlight how weird he is.

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      3 months ago

      There are worse things to go after him.

      And if someone eventually reports on it the audience is already primed to doubt that reporting thanks to stories like this. I’m not saying it’s a vast right wing media conspiracy, but it’s what one would look like.