The reason #Weird works is there's no way to spin that as a power move. "Dangerous" doesn't work, because they want us in danger. "Racist", "Hateful", "Fascist", none if these work, because it's what they want.
But #Weird #Nonsense #Ugly #Bizarre #NotNormal, there's no way to spin that.
You can't imagine #Trump or #JDVance laughing at a normal joke, or rubbing a puppy's belly like an everyday human. It's out of their zone, because they are #Weirdos.
jdvance
#JDVance Desperately Tries to Give #Trump Credit for Prisoner Swap
Trump’s team is pathetically trying to make the #Russia #PrisonerExchange all about him.
After #POTUS Joe #Biden on Thurs announced a deal to free American #hostages in Russia, #Vance somehow tried to give Trump the credit.
#Desperate #pathetic #deranged #weird #criminal #losers #USpol
#Harris2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/184486/jd-vance-trump-credit-russia-prisoner-swap
#Trump’s #BroPocalypseNow Advisers Got Him #Vance
Since assuming the mantle, Trump’s running mate, #JDVance, has pretty much shit the couch.
by Nell Scovell
The embarrassments keep mounting. Vance’s dull speech at the convention may have lulled Trump to sleep, but women sat up when the OH senator was caught on a recording slagging off #childless #women, calling them miserable “cat ladies” w/“no direct stake” in the #future of #America.
#misogyny #heterosexism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-real-crisis-a-dire-estrogen-shortage
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©
"Never heard of Chadron State? Me neither, but Tim #Walz of the GI Bill & that public U. truly gets the importance of a college education, while Yale's #JDVance wants to blow it all up
That's what this election is all about
November will decide the future of college. This is huge." 🎁https://inquirer.com/opinion/tim-walz-jd-vance-higher-education-policy-20240808.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
Via Vote Vets
“A CNN review of public documents, and interviews with a dozen former workers, shows that AppHarvest not only failed as a business after pursuing rapid growth, but also provided a grim job experience for many of the working-class Kentuckians #JDVance has vowed to help.” 1/…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/politics/kentucky-startup-appharvest-jd-vance?cid=ios_app
Coach Walz wants a hungry middle school girl to have food.
JV Couch wants to put her menstrual cycle in a spreadsheet.
We are not the same & MAGA is creepy as hell.
#Walz #HarrisWalz2024 #JDVance #JVCouch #CreepyMAGA #MAGAisWeird
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it:
"The story of the most serious White House bribe allegation in U.S. history can't be allowed to fall under the cushions of #JDVance's couch
Congress must probe what really happened with #Trump, #Egypt and the $10M - and make bribery a crime again. My column🎁"
🧵 1/...
Via Luckovich, who's amazing:
#JDVance’s false claim that ‘#GreenEnergy scam’ ships jobs to China
…one of Vance’s consistent claims is that VP #KamalaHarris shipped jobs to China by casting the tiebreaking vote in 2022 in the Senate for the #InflationReductionAct, a bill that included $370B in #climate & #energy funding to combat #ClimateChange.
…Vance’s claims make little sense. The #IRA was designed to foster #green #manufacturing #jobs IN the #UnitedStates.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/jd-vances-false-claim-that-green-energy-scam-ships-jobs-china/
More than 1,000 veterans and military family members have signed an open letter in support of Tim #Walz, saying they're "appalled" at #Trump and #JDVance's "politically motivated attacks" accusing him of lying about his decades of military service.
"Given Donald Trump's long record of expressing disdain for service members, veterans, and their families, it's unsurprising that his running mate has stooped to such lows." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/13/veterans-defend-tim-walz-military-service/74780851007/
Minnesota National Guard defends Gov #TimWalz service and deny #JDVance's claims he abandoned his unit.
“Governor Tim Walz received his notification of eligibility for retirement on August 3, 2002,” Cochran said. “He retired from the Minnesota National Guard on May 16, 2005.” Further allegations Walz is misrepresenting his rank are also unfounded, according to the MNG.
#HarrisWalz2024 #elections2024 #uspol
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/08/12/minnesota-national-guard-officials-weigh-in-on-walz-service/
#Wrong & #offensive on so many levels
#JDVance said he thinks the #DNC is being held in #Chicago so #Walz can say he visited a combat zone.
1. US Army non-commissioned officer command sergeant major #TimWalz served in the #military for 24 years. He was deployed to Italy during the #War in #Afghanistan / War on #Terrorism. All military #service members know they don’t have a choice as to where they are deployed.
1/
Via Emptywheel:
#Trump puts the guys negotiating real estate deals with the Saudis on his transition team, even if only in an honorary position.
Andrew Feinberg:
INBOX:
Trump has announced his transition team co-chairs, ex-SBA administrator Linda McMahon and Cantor Fitzgerald boss Howard Lutnick.
#JDVance, DonaldJTrumpJr
and EricTrump are "honorary chairs" as well.
"What the Harris and Walz ticket understands is that the best way to take down a bully with the kind of power Donald Trump has, the kind of unimaginable power he hopes to seize, is to mock him and encourage others to laugh at him.
'She actually called me weird,' Donald whined Thursday. 'He’s weird.’ And it was just a soundbite. And she called JD and I weird. He’s not weird.'"
~ Mary L. Trump
#PeteButtigieg, #OprahWinfrey & #TimWalz destroy #DonaldTrump & #ShadyVance (#JDVance) during #DNC’s third night.
#LGBTQ+ #speakers graced the stage, with one of them telling the #SupremeCourt, "You can pry this #weddingband from my #cold, #dead, #gay hand!"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #Megathread
At this point I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but GOP Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance is a fascist and it's important to say that. Merely calling him Peter Thiel's puppet, or a techbro authoritarian doesn't go far enough; Vance is an out and open fascist, and there's no "crypto" about it. From my perspective, this reality is obvious when you listen to the things Vance says and the policy positions he endorses; now that the Pig Empire media has gotten interested enough to dig into his short political career however, the evidence of Vance's support for overt fascism is piling up high enough that it's literally undeniable. For a good example of what I'm talking about here, let's turn to a piece in today's edition of The Guardian talking about that time oh so long ago (you know, literally December 2023) when Vance defended noted white nationalist shitlord Douglass Mackey (aka Ricky Vaughn on Twitter) and then praised a book full of right wing extremist essays published by the minions at noted (fascist) think tank the Claremont Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/jd-vance-speech-extremist-far-right-book
Revealed: JD Vance promoted far-right views in speech about extremists’ book
"In his speech, Vance first offered “congratulations on such a great book, and thanks for getting such a good crew together”, and then warmed to themes similar to Milikh’s.
“Republicans, conservatives, we’re still terrified of wielding power, of actually doing the job that the people sent us here to do,” Vance said, later adding: “Isn’t it just common sense that when we’re given power, we should actually do something with it?”
Brad Onishi, author of Preparing for War, a critical account of Christian nationalism and the host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, said: “Vance, many Claremont people, including some folks in this volume, and especially the ‘post-liberal’ conservative Catholics that he hangs out with, have advocated for a form of big government that will wield its power in order to set the country right.”
He added: “And you may think, well, OK, that doesn’t sound so bad. But here the common good is rooting out queer people, making sure non-Christians don’t immigrate to the country and outlawing things like pornography that are currently a matter of personal choice.”
Despite the Guardian's inexplicable squeamishness about calling all of this what it is, fascism, I strongly encourage you to read the entire article because the more of it you read, the more obvious it becomes that Vance supports overt, bald-ass fascism. However, for purposes of summarization we can divide its contents into two major issues.
First, JD Vance expressed support for and told lies to protect a white nationalist influencer who used to post on Twitter; the aforementioned Douglas Mackey, aka "Ricky Vaughn." For those of you unfamiliar with his work, in addition to being an admitted white nationalist, Mackey was also convicted (in 2023) of "conspiracy against rights" for trying to rig the 2016 election for Trump using online disinformation.
"Prosecutors said that on 1 November 2016, Mackey as Vaughn produced an image depicting a Black woman standing in front of a sign that said “African Americans for Hillary Clinton”, with a caption falsely claiming that voters could “avoid the line” and “vote from home” via text. Another fine-print caption at the bottom of the image read “Paid for by Hillary for President 2016”.
Prosecutors say that at least 4,900 people texted the candidate’s name to the number on the image in following days, as instructed by the disinformation image."
During his speech, given after Mackey was charged but before he was convicted, Vance accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of trying to throw Mackey in prison for "posting a meme" and said the post describe above was somehow "a joke." Obviously, a federal jury did not agree, but Mackey is still appealing the conviction. Vance also suggested, I shit you not, a solution to cases like Mackey's would be stacking the judiciary with fascist loyalists, saying “maybe we should be appointing people at the Department of Justice who actually take a side in the culture war, the side of the people who elected us, and not just pretend we don’t have to take sides at all.”
(Continued)
#Fascism #JDVance #GOP #USPol #DouglasMackey #DOJ #Trump #Election2024
Via Doug Landry:
We interrupt our coverage of the flawless Democratic National Convention to bring you the news that - shocker - #JDVance & his team remain *terrible* at this
1) he does not know how many donuts to order without help
2) his team picked and sent him into a place where the staff literally wants nothing to do with being on camera
this is an awkward an off-the-record stop as you'll ever see
JD Vance buys donuts in Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta Georgia
Via Rupar, who has vid:
!!!! #JDVance just got booed in Boston by a firefighters group when he claims he and #Trump are the most "pro-worker Republican ticket in history"
Tim #Walz spoke to this same group yesterday and received a very positive reception. Jarring contrast.
I simply cannot get enough of this story (“ #JDVance buys donuts in Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta #Georgia”) #Weird
Via Conor Rogers:
This is possibly the worst advance work I’ve ever seen
- staff wasn’t briefed and doesn’t know who he is
- staff declines to be seen on camera
- principal (JD) doesn’t know how or what to order
- dead silence between stilted questions
- no supporters included for filler
“‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of #JDVance’s dark vision of women and immigration
#Trump’s running mate rants against feminism, immigrants and Ilhan Omar in a newly unearthed podcast from 2021”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/31/jd-vance-podcast-feminism-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Rupar:
BERMAN: Last night you posted a clip from Ms Teen US 2007 -- Caitlin Upton. When you posted that, were you aware she thought about committing suicide for the attention that received?
#JDVANCE: No, certainly not.
BERMAN: Would you like to apologize?
VANCE: I'm not going to apologize
👠💪🏼🩷Oh HELL yeah
Via Kyle Griffin:
Gwen #Walz knocks #JDVance for his comments on teachers having children and fertility treatments: "We do not take kindly to folks like JD Vance telling us when or how to start our families."
"So let me use my teacher voice … Mr. Vance, how about you mind your own business?"
Via Angry Staffer:
This!
#JDVance was #Project2025’s pick for a reason - they know the chances of #Trump making it through another 4 year term aren’t great.
They lobbied hard to get their puppet on the ticket, and make no mistake: JD Vance will implement every bit of Project 2025.
Alexander S. Vindman:
Are people really going to vote to a rapidly declining 78 year old @ realDonaldTrump ? He’s not healthy enough to survive a full term. And @JDVance would be a disaster as President.