J. D. Vance hopes to be vice president in a second Trump administration. In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 (details here), he said he wants a role in solving the border and drug crises. How does he plan to solve them? On the border, he said “I’d basically do the [&helli[...]
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Palestinians are people, too
If you listen to Netanyahu, Israeli settlers and militants, and U.S. Republican politicians, sympathizing with Palestinians makes you “pro-Hamas.” That’s bullshit. Like most people, I think the Oct. 7 attacks were a reprehensible act of terrorism. I’m no fan of anti-Israel pr[...]
Is this man a “cat lady”?
In a now-viral rant back in 2021, when J. D. Vance dissed on “childless cat ladies,” he basically was saying childless people shouldn’t run the country because they have no stake in the future. This phrase has resurfaced in the 2024 campaign as a jibe against Kamala Harris and (oth[...]
Three kinds of facts
There are three major categories of facts. Real facts represent reality. Legal facts are used to decide legal cases, and may bear a resemblance to real facts. Political facts serve partisan interests, and range from half-truths to fantasy. The FBI director’s testimony on July 25, 2024, that [...]