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Where Does He Get This Sh*t?

By ‘He’ I mean VP nominee, Vance.

He has some wild ideas and makes one wonder where did he come up with this shit.

In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.”

Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, clarified that he was “just kidding.” But then he continued, “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”

He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”

Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance, whom the Republican Party just nominated to be Donald Trump’s vice president. If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted techno-authoritarianism to the White House, and one can imagine—with horror—what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas.

Trump’s first campaign was undoubtedly a watershed moment for authoritarianism in American politics, but some thinkers on the right had been laying the groundwork for years, hoping for someone to mainstream their ideas. Yarvin was one of them. Way back in 2012, in a speech on “How to Reboot the US Government,” he said, “If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.” He had also written favorably of slavery and white nationalists in the late 2000s (though he has stated that he is not a white nationalist himself).

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Vance has been labeled a ‘aristopopulist’….(love that title)….

An elite voice who understood the realities of working-class life, Vance became, for mainstream commentators, one of “us” who could speak about “them”, a guide to what many consider a mysterious species: poor white people living precarious lives.

In his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance chastises white workers as once he criticised Trump: for blaming everyone else for their problems but never looking to themselves. The troubles tormenting working-class communities may partly be the product of globalisation and industrial decline but, Vance insists, speak much more to cultural and moral failings; workers given to indolence (“we choose not to work when we could be looking for jobs”) and a desire to play the victim.

“We spend our way into the poorhouse,” Vance admonishes the poor of Middletown, buying “giant TVs and iPads” and “homes we don’t need”. “Thrift,” he adds, “is inimical to our being.” Vance talks of “we” and “us” but really means “they” and “them”. There are, for Vance, two kinds of workers, the deserving and the undeserving. His grandparents “embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking”. His “mother and, increasingly the entire neighbourhood, embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful”. Particularly undeserving are those on welfare, living a life of ease on “government largesse”.

It’s a diagnosis that, as Vance himself recognises, echoes the judgment many have projected on to black Americans. “I have known many welfare queens,” he writes, “some were my neighbors, and all were white.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/21/aristopopulists-like-jd-vance-can-offer-only-empty-promises-to-the-working-class

But you decide if this is a con artist or a legit person….

Will The Real JD Vance Stand Up?

If you vote for one then you vote for the other…..and this person should set off alarm bells in your head.

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America: Love It Or Leave It

A favorite of conservatives and other weak minded individuals…. at least decades ago.

An old tome from days of my youth is making a comeback….well at least in Missouri….I wish I had a nickle for every time some moron used that in an argument….if so I would be a rich man today.

But enough about me.

It seems that some cross-eyed Repub in Missouri has advice for black people….

On Monday (June 17), Valentina Gomez, who’s running for Missouri Secretary of State, shared a video on social media where she denounced Juneteenth as a “rachet holiday” and told Black people to “get the f*** out” of America.

“Reparations from slavery and Black victimization is about to be shoved down our throats for the most ratchet holiday in America,” Gomez said ahead of Juneteenth. “BLM [Black Lives Matter] raised millions. And what did they do for Black lives?”

“It is outrageous to see people ask you for reparations, even though they never went through slavery,” she continued. “These ungrateful people should be celebrating because they were born in the greatest nation to ever exist.”

“Here’s a tip,” Gomez added. “If you don’t like America, kindly, get the f*** out.”

Gomez, one of the candidates vying to become the GOP nominee for Missouri Secretary Of State in the August 6 primary, has been known to hurl homophobic remarks during her campaign. In Monday’s video, Gomez wore a shirt with the phrase “Don’t be weak and gay,” a callback to a remark she made earlier this year in a campaign ad.

Watch Gomez’s message to Black Americans below.

Maybe Ms Gomez might want to re-think her stupidity for there is a chance since she is a minority that it might be used against her….(we can only hope)

I love these people…..actually it is more loathe than love….but that is beside the point.

This antiquated thinking needs to be put where it belongs….in the crapper.

But I guess conservatives and other half wits cannot think for themselves so they have to resurrect stupidity from the past.

On reparations….that is a tricky subject and no one has defined the parameters so to make a blanket statement is always ill advised.

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Trump’s Number Two Sweepstakes

After the tally was counted on Black Tuesday it became very apparent that Trump will have no problem gaining the nomination for president for the GOP….if that is true then who will he choose to nestle up to him as his VP?

I and others have come up with a not so short list of possibilities…..

Here we go….

Elise Stefanik–NY Rep.

Tim Scott–SC Senator

Kristi Noem–Gov. SD

Doug Burgum–Gov. ND

Sarah Huckabee–Gov. Ark

Dr. Ben Carson–

Add ons….

DeSantis–Gov. Fla

Vivek Ramaswamy–billionaire

Byron Donalds–Rep Fla

Tulsi Gabbard–Hawwaii

And have even heard Tucker Carlson batted around as a possibility as well.

I do not think that Donald will name a woman….he will want someone that will kiss his ass and sit in the corner for 4 years….to me that sounds like Ben Carson or Tim Scott.

The one name that sort of surprised me was that of Tulsi Gabbard….that closet hater from the 2020 election….who showed her true colors once the election was over with….do not trust her!

You have my list….do you have a better one or would you like to give your take on my list?

If so I am all ears.

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Another Goes Down–Then There Was Two

The 2024 GOP candidate pool just got smaller by one….DeSantis has called it quits and endorses you know who…..

Two days before the nation’s first primary, Ron DeSantis abandoned his struggling Republican presidential campaign and endorsed the front-runner. “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” the Florida governor said in a video posted Sunday on X announcing the suspension. “If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it,” DeSantis said, per NBC News. “But I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources. We don’t have a clear path to victory.”

DeSantis began his campaign as a candidate many Republicans saw as a viable challenger to Trump after winning a landslide reelection as governor while Trump’s endorsements fared poorly in the 2022 midterms. But polls showed DeSantis fading, per the Washington Post, even before he officially entered the race in a problematic live chat on X. He had been scheduled to attend an event Sunday afternoon in New Hampshire, which votes Tuesday, but instead flew home to Florida late Saturday after appearing in South Carolina, per the New York Times. “While this campaign has ended, the mission continues,” DeSantis said in his video announcement.

Trump’s campaign issued a statement saying “we are honored” by the endorsement from DeSantis, per NBC News, and attacking his remaining competitor for the GOP nomination. “Nikki Haley is the candidate of the globalists and Democrats who will do everything to stop the America First movement,” it added. Haley told supporters in New Hampshire that Desantis “ran a great race,” per the Times. “He’s been a good governor. And we wish him well. Having said that, it’s now one fella and one lady left,” she said.

One less mini-dictator in the mix….that leaves Haley to carry the banner of stupid against the banner of absurd.

New Hampshire looms and DeSantis wasa nobody, which hurt his feelings, and he decided to step out before he was known as a major loser.

How will the4 elections play out?

Will Haley stick with it until she makes it to her home state of South Carolina?

What say you?

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The Next GOP Debate

I know the news is that the field has narrowed to three for the GOP nomination so the ne4xt debate may be a bit better than the preceding ones.

After their showing in Iowa the two also rans are flex what little muscle they have left…..

Haley thump the loudest but DeSantis could not let a mere woman best him so he had to come up with a retort for Haley….

Haley, one of only three Republican candidates remaining in the 2024 race as of Tuesday, says she will participate in future debates only if they feature former President Trump, the GOP frontrunner who easily won Monday’s Iowa caucuses with 51% of the vote, or Democratic incumbent President Biden, per the Hill. Trump, who refused to participate in any of the five GOP primary debates, needs to stop hiding, the former UN ambassador says in a statement. Two more debates had been planned ahead of New Hampshire’s primary next week: ABC News was to host one Thursday, followed by CNN on Sunday. Given Haley’s statement, it’s unclear whether either will take place.

Trump—with a rally scheduled for Sunday, per Politico—isn’t expected to participate in either debate, leaving DeSantis on his own. The Florida governor, who already accepted his debate invitations, claims Haley is “afraid … to answer the tough questions.” “I won’t snub New Hampshire voters like both Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, and plan to honor my commitments,” he says. “I look forward to debating two empty podiums in the Granite State this week.” Haley, meanwhile, accuses Trump of running scared. “He has nowhere left to hide. The next debate I do will either be with Donald Trump or with Joe Biden. I look forward to it,” she says. Haley, who finished just behind DeSantis in Iowa, is polling well in New Hampshire, but still trails Trump by double digits.

Sad news for us political junkies….ABC opts out of a debate….

ABC has canceled its Thursday night debate in New Hampshire because it can’t meet a condition imposed by Nikki Haley. The former UN ambassador said Tuesday that she wouldn’t take part in any more Republican debates unless frontrunner Donald Trump participates. ABC and Manchester, New Hampshire station WMUR confirmed Tuesday evening that the debate had been called off, the Washington Post. ABC said it had given Haley and Trump a 5pm deadline to commit to the debate. The debate had been scheduled to take place at St. Anselm College just days before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary.

In the previous GOP debate, Haley debated Ron DeSantis. Before the Thursday cancellation was confirmed, the Florida governor said in a post on X that he’d show up even if Haley didn’t. “I won’t snub New Hampshire voters like both Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, and plan to honor my commitments,” he said. “I look forward to debating two empty podiums in the Granite State this week.” DeSantis, who came in second place in the Iowa caucuses, accused Haley, who came in third, of “running to be Trump’s VP.” CNN was planning to host a Republican debate in New Hampshire Sunday night but it’s not clear whether it will go ahead, the New York Times reports.

How unfortunate….without football or the debate where will the entertainment come from on Thursday?

Well my Thursday night just opened up…..

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GOP Debate #4

As promised here is what I saw in the latest debate of dumb vs dumber, the GOP candidates duke it our.

Let me say from the onset….the GOP never takes a day off from crazy.

I watched and that will be time I shall never get back….there were back and forth….DeSantis and Rama(whatever) attacking Haley…..Rama(whatever) attacking Christie for being overweight….Haley trying to be cute….all in all it was a just night at the Chuckle Hut.

Well was there anything interesting at all?

Very little with the exception of the question about Trump…

An hour into the Republican debate Thursday night, the topic turned to Donald Trump.

Ron DeSantis: “Father time is undefeated,” he said when asked whether the 77-year-old Trump was fit enough for another term. “I think we need to have somebody younger.” At another point, he said Trump “had failed to clean up the swamp.” However, Chris Christie broke in to accuse DeSantis of dodging. “The question was very direct, is he fit to be president, or isn’t he?” said Christie, per the Wall Street Journal. “The rest of the speech is interesting but completely unresponsive.” DeSantis denied dodging the question but did not answer with a yes or nor about whether he thought Trump was fit enough to be president again. He repeated his line that “father time is undefeated,” adding, “I do think that over a four-year period it is not a job for somebody that’s pushing 80.”

Chris Christie: He delivered by far the most blistering critique of Trump in this portion of the debate. “This is an angry bitter man who now wants to be back as president because he wants to exact retribution on anyone who has disagreed with him,” he said. “His conduct is unacceptable. He’s unfit. Be careful of what you’ll get if you ever get a second Donald Trump term.” The comments drew boos from the crowd. Christie also said his rivals were afraid to criticize Trump. “Failing to speak out against him, making excuses for him, pretending he is a victim, empowers him,” he said, suggesting that this was the reason Trump was so far ahead in the polls, per the New York Times.

  • Nikki Haley: Asked about Trump’s pledge to reinstate a ban on people from predominately Muslim nations, Haley said she would take a different tack. “I don’t think that you can have a straight up Muslim ban as much as look at the countries that have terrorist activity that want to hurt Americans,” she said, per CNN. “It’s not about a religion.”
  • Vivek Ramaswamy: He did not get a Trump question but said all three of his rivals have been “licking Donald Trump’s boots” for years.

All in all the only adult on the stage last night was Christie….Haley tried but she just falls flat in my opinion.

There you have a rundown on the night’s festivities….as sad as it was.

Now aren’t you glad you did not watch this stupidity?

You are welcome.

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Big Man From New Jersey

Right on cue another warmongering politician has made the trip to Israel to report on the war…..and to keep his handlers donating.

This was a useless trip that will do no go.

All of the major Republican candidates for president have expressed support for Israel in its war against Hamas. On Sunday, Chris Christie became the first of them to go there, seeing the destruction left by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, including the blood-stained remains of homes, the New York Times reports. “I want the people of Israel to know that there are hundreds of millions of Americans who stand with them, who understand the atrocities that were committed, and why in the future we need to stand absolutely shoulder to shoulder with Israel,” Christie said at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, where he saw burned-out homes still splattered with blood.

The former New Jersey governor had meetings with Israeli leaders scheduled during his one-day visit, per the AP. Christie, who visited Ukraine in August, has made foreign policy a centerpiece of his GOP campaign. Accompanied on Sunday by the speaker of Israel’s parliament, Christie talked about the horror of walking into a home and encountering the smell of death still, a month after the attack. The protesters in the US calling for a cease-fire don’t reflect majority opinion in the nation, he said in his remarks. Christie said that if the demonstrators saw what he just saw, at least some of them would change their minds. “Come to Israel and see it for yourself,” he told them.

You think I am being hard on the Big Man?

After this statement he deserves every bit of criticism…..

Touring the grounds of Kfar Aza with officials on the invitation of the Israeli foreign ministry, Christie surveyed the grim scene of the now-destroyed kibbutz, situated less than 2 miles away from Gaza’s border. Israel Defense Forces said it was one of the first places Hamas militants laid siege to in early October, murdering and maiming dozens of Israeli civilians amid broader attacks that killed more than 1,200 people and resulted in roughly another 240 kidnapped — the status of many still unknown, according to Israeli officials.

As if Israelis are the only people suffering.

What a sanctimonious twat!

This was a typical PR stunt that American politicians play….they visit one side of a conflict and pass judgement on the whole thing without any knowledge whatsoever….not just politicians…..all Americans see and hear one side and pass judgement.

Christie is being an Israeli useful idiot…like most of his ilk.

His empty words are typical from Repubs and conservs that pretend to be liberal….they have lost all touch with empathy and dehumanize in order to pretend to care….they do not.

I was in the anitwar movement for many years and had to deal with mental midgets like this slug many times…..and make no mistake if you only observe one side then you are truly a mental midget.

If I had been one of those protesters I would have had to chime in and say….’when I let some person dictate my conscience then I will join the GOP….until such time piss off!   And while you wait….Bite Me!

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2024 GOP Early Update

Time is closing in on the election and the voter needs to read the news…..

Trump’s closest competitor, DeSantis, has been losing ground to his opponent recently but this news may give him a shot in the arm….

DeSantis is channeling most of his effort and resources into winning the Iowa caucuses, making campaign trips to 87 of the state’s 99 counties so far, and now he has something to show for it. At a rally Monday in Des Moines, Gov. Kim Reynolds plans to endorse DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination, the Des Moines Register reports. It’s a major victory for the Florida governor in his attempt to slow front-runner Donald Trump at the beginning of Republican voting in the race: Reynolds’ 81% favorable rating in the state, as an August poll found, far exceeds that of any of the GOP candidates for president.

“I think what she’s been able to do in Iowa has really been a model for how people should govern,” DeSantis told reporters last month. They’ve been like-minded in their governing, with both signing laws to prohibit abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, prohibit instruction in LGBTQ topics in schools, and make available state-funded private school scholarships to all families. Their praise for each other and chumminess—they sat together at a football game while Trump watched from above—has irked the former president, and he didn’t take the endorsement well. “Kim Reynolds apparently has begun her retirement tour early as she clearly does not have any ambition for higher office,” his campaign said in a statement.

DeSantis is running 27 points behind Trump in Iowa, the most recent NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll shows. That has DeSantis tied for second with Nikki Haley, who’s on the ascent, per NBC News. Reynolds had said she’d stay neutral in the race, saying she wanted all of the GOP candidates to feel welcome in Iowa, then suggested in August and in October that she might change her mind. “It’s just too important,” Reynolds said last month, per the Register. “This next election is too important.”

Then there is Biden’s dismal policies on the economy is costing his valuable ‘good’ news as we approach the election….

Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in five of the six swing states that figure to be critical to winning the 2024 presidential election, a new poll shows, with voters expressing concern or unhappiness over the president’s age and job performance. At the same time, the New York Times reports, they’re less bothered by Trump’s bluster than in the past and trust him more to manage the economy. Biden’s deficit among registered voters ranges from 3 to 10 percentage points in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. The president has a 2-point lead in Wisconsin in the potential matchup. All are states that Biden won in the 2020 election.

A majority of those included in the poll, conducted by the Times and Siena College, said they’ve been hurt by Biden’s policies. Among the worrisome indicators for Biden is the nearly unprecedented support among Black voters for a Republican; 22% of voters polled in the six states overall prefer Trump. Overall, over every demographic and geographic category, 71% said Biden, 80, is too old to be president, including 54% of the president’s supporters. The poll reports a sampling error of plus or minus 1.8 percentage points overall and 4.4 to 4.8 percentage points for each state’s results. It was conducted from Oct. 22 to Nov. 3.

The Times quotes disappointed voters who are switching this time. “I actually had high hopes for Biden,” said Jahmerry Henry, 25, of Georgia. “You can’t be worse than Trump. But then as the years go by, things happen with inflation, the war going on in Ukraine, recently Israel and I guess our borders are not secure at all.” A Biden campaign spokesperson told Axios it’s too early for concern; the Trump campaign did not immediately comment. “Gallup predicted an eight-point loss for President Obama only for him to win handedly a year later,” said Kevin Munoz of Biden’s staff. But CNN reports White House polls are just as bleak for Biden.

Yes I know this is a momentary snapshot but unless the economic trends do not get better then Biden will be looking at Trump in the lead as we approach the vote.

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Trying To Out Stupid Each Other

It seems that the GOP candidates spend a bunch of time trying to out stupid each other….one of the best moronic statements cam from GOP candidate Nikki Haley…..

Ron DeSantis wants suspected drug smugglers at the US-Mexico border to be shot dead. Nikki Haley promises to send special forces into Mexico. Vivek Ramaswamy has accused Mexico’s leader of treating drug cartels as his “sugar daddy” and says that if he is elected president, “there will be a new daddy in town.” Donald Trump, who has long shaped his Republican rhetoric on the border, has often blamed Mexico for problems in the US and promises new uses of military force and covert action if he returns to the White House. Many of the GOP presidential candidates say they would carry out potential acts of war against Mexico in response to the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, the AP reports.

I have hear other GOPers mouth this same type of stupidity.

I know it is a lot to ask but think about this for a split moment.

Sen. Graham also has this same idea….only he mouthed the stupidity first.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday said he was prepared to introduce legislation to “set the stage” for U.S. military force in Mexico, saying it was time to “get tough” on the neighboring country after four Americans were kidnapped by armed men this week.

Graham told Fox News host Jesse Watters that he would follow the advice of former President Trump on Mexico policy.

“I would put Mexico on notice,” Graham said. “If you continue to give safe haven to drug dealers, then you are an enemy of the United States.”

Graham added he would “introduce legislation to make certain Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary.”

“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” the senator said.

(thehill.com)

If the US sends Army troops into Mexico to hunt down drug dealers and cartel….is that similar, in principle, to Russia sending troops into Ukraine to hunt down Nazis?

I wrote ‘in principle’ we are not dealing with specifics.

Do we really want to invade our neighbor to the South?

Is that a prudent decision on any level?

Turn The Page!

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Rama-Lama-Ding Dong Speaks

There is this billionaire that is trying desperately to gain the GOP nomination and he keeps spouting crap and promising crap that he can never deliver…..

Let’s talk about his latest manure spreading…..

Vivek Ramaswamy, predicting that he would “get a lot of pushback,” outlined a proposal Wednesday night to fire more than 1.6 million federal workers and shut down agencies including the FBI. “Do we want incremental reform? No,” the Republican presidential candidate said, per Reuters. “Or do we want a revolution?” Ramaswamy, speaking at a pro-former President Trump think-tank in Washington, DC, said he would also eliminate the Department of Education; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Food and Nutrition Service; and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees radioactive materials and nuclear power plant safety.

Ramaswamy said that if elected president, he would reduce the federal payroll by half in his first year in office and by 75% during his first term, the AP reports. With the FBI, he said 20,000 employees would be fired and another 15,000 sent to other agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration. He claimed that despite “myths” about the limits of presidential authority, he would be able to make the changes without the approval of Congress. “We will use executive authority to shut down the deep state,” he said.

“Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you, and you can’t fire them, that means they don’t work for you,” the entrepreneur said. Other candidates, including Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have also vowed to eliminate government agencies but Ramaswamy’s proposals go further than anything his rivals have proposed. Experts on the Constitution and the separation of powers said the legal theories behind his proposal wouldn’t survive a court challenge, the New York Times reports. Peter M. Shane, a specialist in separation-of-powers law at New York University, described a campaign white paper on the theories as “fantastical.”

1.6 million unemployed people….what would that do to the markets and the economy?

Just a thought.

This idiot is trying to find his niche in the GOP field….wild promises seems to be the way to go with the slugs.

Let’s see how popular these wild ideas are with the GOP voter. (wink, wink)

Enough said….I hope everyone has a great weekend.

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