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July 31st, 2024 - 2:09 am § in Politics, Republicans

Vance fails to explain how he’ll solve the migrant and drug problems

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[...]

July 31st, 2024 - 1:22 am § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Trump refuses to clarify voting remark

Here’s what Trump told a Christian group on Friday, July 26, 2024, during an hour-long campaign speech: “We have to win this election, most important election ever. We want a landslide that’s too big to rig. If you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone y[...]

July 30th, 2024 - 11:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Vance’s “war against women”

“CHILDLESS CAT LADIES” REMARK WASN’T AN ISOLATED INCIDENT J. D. Vance’s hostility to childless couples and single adults is deeply embedded in his psychology. He has called them “deranged,” “mentally unstable,” “driftless,” and “sociopaths.” Confronted about his remarks, he f[...]

July 30th, 2024 - 2:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Economics, Politics, Republicans

Will Republicans force you to have children?

This question should be laughable, but it’s no joke. If the Trump/Vance ticket is elected this November, it’s possible J. D. Vance could become president, either by succession or as Trump’s likely successor. And by now it’s out in the open that Trump’s running mate has [...]

July 28th, 2024 - 4:04 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Should children vote?

Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s 2024 running mate for now, seems to think so. The premise of Vance’s now-infamous “childless cat ladies” jibe is that people without children shouldn’t run the country because they have no stake in its future. Like much else Vance believ[...]

July 28th, 2024 - 2:56 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

July 23rd, 2024 - 6:17 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Even GOPers think Vance is a mistake

The “most striking thing … heard from Trump allies yesterday was the second-guessing of JD Vance—a selection, they acknowledged, that was borne of cockiness,” MSNBC said on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, a day after Kamala Harris became Trump’s opponent. Trump made the choice, and th[...]

July 22nd, 2024 - 7:03 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Who is Curtis Yarvin and why does he matter?

Curtis Yarvin (photo, left; profile here), 51, grew up as a prodigy and became a software developer, which doesn’t make him important. Yarvin’s influence derives from his blogging and radical political views. He’s worth posting about because J.D. Vance, the 2024 GOP vice presidenti[...]

July 21st, 2024 - 7:58 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Biden put [x] party [x] country first

It’s perfectly clear that Biden wanted to take on Trump, beat him, and serve another term. Even as polling collapsed, and donors and fellow Democrats defected, he clung to that dream. He had to be nudged out. Obama and Pelosi talked to him, gently. Others went public, openly worried he’d[...]

July 21st, 2024 - 6:55 pm § in Democrats, Law and Courts, Politics

Can Barack be vice president?

USA Today says (here) the 22nd Amendment, which imposes presidential term limits, is ambiguous. The relevant language says, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two y[...]