Jason Sattler thinks that telling other people to have children is really weird, and:

"JD’s freakshow launch is a huge reason that the groundswell to call Republicans 'weird' is working so well that Republicans can’t help but help grow the groundswell."

#Trump #JDVance #weird#Republicans
/10

https://thecause.substack.com/p/telling-people-to-have-kids-is-just

"His weirdness around women isn’t just a personal failing. It extends to actual policies that would control women’s lives and bodies. Strict abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest. A belief that childless cat ladies are running everything. His proposal that parents with kids have more votes than those without.

These policy proposals transform the whole weirdo thing into something truly abusive and creepy."

~ J. Kuo

#Trump #JDVance #weird#Republicans
/11

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-vibes-election

"As Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans know, sometimes just naming something – giving folks a frame into which to put their emotions – is rocket fuel. For once, 'telling it like it is' benefits Democrats.

And let’s face it – using the adjective 'weird' to describe Republicans really is telling it like it is. Frankly, it’s hard to even catalog all of the weirdness that surrounds Trump and MAGA Republican leaders."

~ Michele Hornish

#Trump #JDVance#MAGA #weird
/12

https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/democrats-get-weird-revenge-of-the

"That it’s working is evident in how openly Republicans hate it, the party that runs against every resident of a big city and wanted to toss out 81 million votes so a reality star could own the libs and be king — which dismisses the Democratic candidate as a 'DEI hire' — now decrying Democrats’ nasty lack of decorum."

~ Charles R. Davis

#Trump #JDVance#MAGA #weird
/13

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/29/old-and-quite-weird-democrats-finally-discover-new-effective--and-hate-it/

Greg Sargent talks with Jill Lawrence about how Republicans are now admitting that J.D. Vance's weirdness is a big liability for Trump. "The sheer, unchecked weirdness of the Trump-Vance ticket has suddenly become a big campaign issue."

#Trump #JDVance#Republicans #weird
/14

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gopers-finally-admit-it-j-d-vances-weirdness-is-a/id1728152109?i=1000663775469

NEW: Chart and overview of key links for JD Vance with mentor Peter Thiel, the little-known Rockbridge Network and 2016 kingmaker Rebekah Mercer

One key person in the network close to Vance includes Cambridge Analytica founder Rebekah Mercer, my latest.

#JDVance#PeterThiel#RebekahMercer#RockbridgeNetwork

https://newstracs.com/chart-and-overview-of-key-links-for-jd-vance-with-thiel-mercer-rockbridge/2024/07/29/

"JD Vance claims that Kamala Harris wants to free criminals who assault
police officers.

Donald Trump has promised to pardon criminals who assaulted Capitol Police officers on Jan. 6 if he is re-elected."

~ Republican Voters Against Trump

#Trump #JDVance#KamalaHarris#LawandOrder #crime
/26

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc3a17dd-a78b-4e8a-a880-6c354459ad6c_587x553.png

Is J.D. Vance "just" an opportunist pretending to be radicalized in order to grab power? Or is the radicalization real? Some thought-provoking observations from Noah Berlatsky:

"J.D. started off with a lot of reactionary and invidious ideas about marginalized people; he believed they were immoral, he believed they were irresponsible, he believed that their lack of traditional values led them astray."

#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #racism #authoritarianism
/19

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/was-vance-sincerely-radicalized-or

Washington Post does a deep dive into the pressure campaign big-name tech bros mounted with Trump to have him select J.D. Vance as his running mate. These include Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Jacob Helberg.

"Vance’s most forceful Silicon Valley advocates are euphoric about the former Never Trumper’s rise in the GOP."

See Elena Lacey's drawing at the head of the piece: do you spot any face that's not a white male?

#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #authoritarianism
/22

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/

"Then he marinated in the eugenic ferment of Silicon Valley techbro reaction, and he came away convinced not that he was wrong, but that he hadn’t sufficiently appreciated his own rightness. Trump’s cruelty and contempt had put Vance off; Thiel and company convinced Vance (by argument or example) that he was being too soft. They told him to listen to his own hate. That’s how radicalization works."

#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #racism #authoritarianism
/20

Via Kamala HQL

#JDVance responds to the backlash to his “childless cat ladies” comment by apologizing to cats and then doubling down on attacking women: “I’m sorry, it’s true”

#HarrisForPresident#Harris2024