Not surprisingly, the kitty litter is hitting the fan. If only J.D. Vance had asked me, I would have warned him. There are two groups you should never go after: cats and the women who love them.
Is it possible nobody told J.D. to check Catster.com? Turns out that “[b]etween 2023 and 2024, 46.5 million US households own a cat,” and that “[m]illennials have the highest rate of pet ownership at 33%.”
Even though J.D. replaced Appalachia with Yale, then Silicon Valley, he fancies himself a regular guy. But somewhere along the line, he obviously forgot about the country cat who so easily dispatched the mouse who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am not sure whether this behavior is instinctual or learned, but most folks have learned this basic lesson: Mess with a cat and you will regret it. And multiply that many times for the women who know love conquers all and never seem to hold their cats accountable for those mouse slaughters.
I should know. Fluffy lives nearby. Yes, I have changed her name in case she is reading this. Now, a quite recent prolonged cat-and-mouse match I witnessed is indelibly printed in my brain. Cats, for those of you who don’t know it, are far more brilliant than they let on. Certainly, a lot smarter than J.D. Vance. When watched, they will often pretend to lick their feet. But what they are really up to is conducting a deep mind-meld, probing the very psyches of those humans within their perimeter. I know this because the very first time we met, Fluffy offered me a very subtle smile. But I felt the weirdest tickle in my neocortex, and after several moments, that smile shifted. You might think I am certifiable, but I am betting Fluffy had found that memory of mine. Was she watching it, like the referee checking the instant replay? Could it be I was pro-mouse? It seemed to me she was very close to deciding I couldn’t be trusted when Sophia, her mom, swept her from the ground up into her arms and, with a “Fluffy, Fluffy, Fluffy,” immediately began a kiss fest. Fluffy smiled and purred but took a moment to look directly back at me, as if to say “we’re not done here.”
I have never met J.D. Vance, but I know his type. Based on his recent behavior with women interviewers, it is clear he doesn’t like them. Could it be that he has somehow managed to charm enough women along the way that he imagines they haven’t noticed his contempt? That is the thing about the growing epidemic of the arrogant and self-absorbed. Their powers of self-deception are beyond compare. And because J.D. Vance is a consummate big mouth, so clearly convinced he is the smartest person in the room, his vanity and narcissism prompt him to say out loud the stupid things he is thinking.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the pompous always delude themselves into thinking that their nonsense won’t eventually bubble from the digital muck below up to the surface. Fatally ambitious, it was J.D. himself who decided to run to be the guy one stroke or heart attack away from having the power to send our nukes anywhere or everywhere.
Vance is arrogant enough to join the same man he described just a few years ago as either an asshole or a Hitler, thinking we wouldn’t notice:
Given Vance’s propensity to say and do stupid things, you would imagine he would confine himself to safe spaces, like maybe working out of a small corporate cubicle owned by a MAGA billionaire. There his mistakes would hardly matter, and his unfortunate, mistimed, and inappropriate musings might garner, at worst, the repeated shake of a superior’s head but would never travel so far as to invoke the kind of public and repeated rebuke he is having to get used to. Yes, a more modest man might have hesitated, at the very least, for the sake of his family, his Indian-American wife, for example, who has to pretend that his oft-repeated racist attacks on immigrants of color are just a joke that isn’t really funny. Perhaps she has just accepted it as part of the for-better-or-for-worse deal that has brought a sterling corporate law career, internships with MAGA judges, and a million-and-a-half-dollar home with a swimming pool. That might explain why she has sat by as he hitched their future to a blatantly racist convicted sex offender and pathological liar.
J.D.’s part of the bargain, now that he is a staunch adoptee of Christian nationalism and the agenda of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, means he pretty much needs to insist full time that he is some kind a moral arbiter. Like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, he brags on X (formerly Twitter) about his Christianity before his marriage and kids:
We quickly learn he is far better than so many of us. Apparently, he is wise or inspired enough to lecture women and their partners about their sex lives, on why they should forego abortions and—even at the risk of grave injury, perhaps death—why they should birth even the offspring of their rapists and incestuous abusers. He would recommend they shun the single life and propagate—but never ever resort to in vitro fertilization (IVF).
So touched by God or MAGA is he that while he believes in the right to control those deeply personal decisions of a woman, he can’t resist piling on layers and layers of sanctimonious and malicious cruelty. He is convinced the incredibly difficult decision to abort is an incontrovertible acknowledgment that the woman must be motivated by convenience, an indisputable sign she doesn’t care about life—Vance’s version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” Shame on Usha for not smacking him upside the head.
The problem for J.D. Vance is that, try as hard as he might now, because he so despearately seeks more power, there is no longer hiding or white-washing his gall. And he so often shared his arrogance. Politifact reports on what he said during a debate with Congressman Tim Ryan during their Senate debate:
In the first debate of Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said Republican challenger J.D. Vance holds a ‘very extreme position’ against abortion.’ …The Ryan campaign told us the source of Ryan’s claim was a September 2021 interview Vance gave to Curtis Jackson of Spectrum News 1 in Columbus. In it, Jackson asked Ryan his opinion on the Texas law that bans doctors from providing an abortion after detecting a fetal heartbeat. The law has no exceptions for rape or incest … ‘I think in Texas they’re trying to make it easier for unborn babies to be born,’ Vance said. ‘There is a view, common among leaders of the Democratic Party, that babies deserve no legal protections in the womb. That is a common view in the Democratic Party, and all I’m saying is that view’s wrong. It is.’
Jackson asked Vance whether anti-abortion laws should include exceptions for rape or incest.
Vance replied: ‘Look, I think two wrongs don’t make a right. At the end of day, we are talking about an unborn baby. What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded?’
Jackson tried to get Vance to comment directly about exceptions, asking ‘should a woman be forced to carry a child to term after she has been a victim of incest or rape?’
Vance replied: ‘My view on this has been very clear and I think the question betrays a certain presumption that is wrong. It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society. The question really, to me, is about the baby. We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have the right to life. Right now our society doesn’t afford that and I think it’s a tragedy and I think we can do better.’ (Emphasis added.)
Reuters reports someone convinced him to take down his brag about the Dobbs decision from his Senate campaign website:
What is it about male chauvinism, the bizarre, counter-intuitive notion of male superiority, that continues on despite all the obvious evidence that proves it delusional. Why didn’t his wife Usha warn him of the extraordinary dangers ahead if he embraced that aging, sexist nonsense? Especially him. Why didn’t she warn him that, given the overwrought and manufactured piety that marks his tendency to pontificate and offend, he would surely be a sitting duck?
I could have told him that it is one thing to peddle a renewed MAGA version of the Salem witch trials when you are hanging out with your far-right friends like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, but it is another thing when ordinary people actually hear what you have to say.
Especially when, with increased visibility, you are interviewed by pro-Putin, now-former Foxian Tucker Carlson:
J.D. Vance:
We’re effectually run in his country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies. Miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. And It’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned out country over to people who don’t really have any direct stake in it. I just wanted to ask that question and propose that maybe if we want to have a healthy ruling class in this country we should invest more, we should vote more, we should support more people who actually have kids because those are the people who ultimately have a more direct stake in the future of this country …
These people recognize that they’re unhappy – they live in one bedroom apartments in New York City. They’ve played their entire lives to win a status game. They’re obsessed with their jobs. They’re obsessed with their wealth and with their fortunes and they look at Middle America, people who are actually pretty happy with their lives and the choices that they’ve made and they hate normal Americans for choosing family over these ridiculous DC and New York status games … look if you’re a miserable cat lady you should not force your misery on the rest of the country. They just get really upset about it and I think by the way Tucker it’s a good thing that they get upset about it. Just so they know we’re hitting a nerve. Not just in this campaign but in this message that we should invest in American families in this country. Nothing else we should be about healthy stable families …
People who know where they came from, people who go home at night and see the face of a smiling kid whatever their profession I think they’re happier. I think they’re healthier and they’re going to be better prepared to actually lead this country. And the problem that I have especially as we’re entering this period of Covid obsession again is that we have so many people proposing that we mask our children again. Look, the people who are proposing it they don’t have to go home to a child at the end of the day. If they did I don’t think they’d be proposing all these ridiculous restrictions. (Emphasis added.)
J.D. Vance has an absolutely bizarre way of promoting healthy families. Somehow, he has convinced himself that these childless cat ladies, with their allies like gay Pete Buttigieg, are in league with the maskers. Which enables him to dismiss any real acknowledgement that the COVID epidemic, infecting more than 100 million and killing more than 1.1 million Americans and caused the hospitalization of significant numbers of children under the age of 17. Meanwhile, this coalition of the miserable realized something Vance might have missed: This was an airborne virus, and in addition to vaccinating, it made sense to socially distance and wear masks!
The intelligent and responsible people knew the threat COVID posed to children. As CNN reported on January 30, 2023: “Covid-19 is a leading cause of death for children in the US, despite relatively low mortality rate.”
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) detailed the increasing number of children who were being hospitalized in 2020 and 2021.
Instead of acknowledging the need to protect children, folks like Vance thought it was worth making this about politics. Protection became an invasion of privacy—as if this was somehow a leftist thing to do—when, according to Trump, all we had to do was inject our kids with bleach and shove some horse-worm medicine down their throats.
Now what J.D. Vance has said about childless cat ladies is moronic, but much of it ultimately was insultingly harmless. But his decision to politicize public-health policy was and is completely irresponsible.
One more point from that Tucker Carlson interview: Maybe it is just me, but I for one found it absolutely delightful that the ordinary guy from Appalachia, the man who knew what it was like to be white and poor, is now so worried about the health and longevity of the “ruling class in this country.” Not the middle class. And certainly not the working class.
Is it any wonder that the more we learn about J.D. Vance the more we dislike him?
Vance spends an awful lot of time trying to sound like an ordinary guy. But how much like the rest of us are J.D. and Usha Vance? CNN reports on the financial disclosure form they filed now that he is running as Trump’s running mate:
JD Vance has a low-rate mortgage, bitcoin and millions in a brokerage account, new disclosures show … Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is doing very well financially for someone who just turned 40, new federal disclosures reveal. The Ohio senator, whom former President Donald Trump chose as his running mate last month, has roughly between $4 million and $11 million in assets to his name, with only $750,000 to $1.5 million in liabilities. He owns a home, has a stake in two businesses and has three 529 education savings accounts for his children. His biggest single asset is his Schwab brokerage account, which he values between roughly $2.2 million and $7.5 million – with investments largely in passively managed exchange-traded stock and bond funds. (Emphasis added.)
It seems sacrificing truth in service of ideology is nothing new for J.D. Vance. In a 2021 speech called “Woke Capitol,” Vance made the case for his vision of America. It is always interesting to learn that someone else’s version of democracy doesn’t really include you:
I thought I’d start today by sketching out a vision for what we should be about in the conservative movement in the twenty-first century, because I think it’s useful to anchor ourselves, not just in first principles but in the lives of the people affected by those principles, and then I’ll talk about why I think “woke capital” is such a problem.
I think that we should fight for the right of every American to live a good life in the country they call their own, to raise a family in dignity on a single middle-class job. It’s a simple vision: If you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to live a good life in this country that is your own, that was built by your parents and grandparents, that will be inherited by your children.
Now that’s of course more complicated than it sounds. I think it requires that we respect our history so people are anchored in the traditions of this country, so they can teach their children those traditions, and so they can pass on a feeling of rootedness in their own community. That’s why we worry about the assault on our history and our schools. I think it requires that we give our children and ourselves the right to speak openly and participate meaningfully in this democratic society of ours.
That’s why we worry so much about censorship, whether it comes from the government or whether it comes from the big corporations. I think it requires that we live and have work that has dignity and is meaningful. That’s why we worry about our trade and economic policies, so that the people who do work hard and play by the rules actually have good jobs. That’s why we worry about our foreign policy, so that we don’t send people to wars that have no connection to our national interest and end up depleting our country of our most useful resource: the young men and women who fight for our military. All of these things, all of the battles that we fight, complicated as they are, affect this question of whether we’re enabling the people, the citizens of this country, to live a good life in their own nation.
Now, I happen to believe that the biggest obstacle to accomplishing this vision is woke capital, which of course is the topic of conversation today. And I believe that those of us on the right need to wake up to what’s really going on, because in practice, we have lost—and I hate to sound cynical, though I think I’m just being realistic—nearly every institution in this country that actually matters. We have lost the academy, we have lost the media, we have now lost the government, and we have lost the business and financial institutions too. (Emphasis added.)
How have I missed the fact that the schools, the colleges, and universities; the American government; and the American businesses and banks have somehow been seized by the left? That despite FOX and Newsmax and the constant alt-right propagandists, it is J.D. Vance and Trump who have been censored?
[T]he biggest businesses, the most powerful institutions, the most powerful banks in this country have aligned themselves against us. Now that is an obvious fact, you see it in a number of ways. A couple of years ago Stacey Abrams said, about a Georgia abortion restriction, that this was a bad bill because it was bad for business. That was the argument of our new corporate, neoliberal class. And she was right. This is something that those of us on the right have to accept. When the big corporations come against you for passing abortion restrictions, when corporations are so desperate for cheap labor that they don’t want people to parent children, Stacey Abrams is right to say that abortion restrictions are bad for business. (Emphasis added.)
J.D. Vance can’t hide the crippling combination of resentment, arrogance, and ineptness that seems to rule him. I don’t really know what happened to him as a boy, but I have known guys like him from my earliest days playing on Bronx streets to schools I have attended or taught in: boys/men who haven’t fully come to terms with the pain of early life, who because they haven’t faced it, have chosen to turn that bitterness towards others. The wounded bully, so controlled by that simmering rage that he has constructed a world view of victimhood and then makes others the victims of that construct. Remarkable how comfortable Vance is declaring that others “don’t want people to parent children.”
Here is an example of how he has completely distorted the dreadful reality of American racism and the tragic deaths of Black victims like George Floyd. Police brutality has vanished while he rants about Amazon, transforming an unrelenting tragedy into an over-cooked right-wing farce:
I think no moment illustrated what woke capital meant for our country better than the riots last summer tied to the Black Lives Matter movement. Now we all know the ideology that underpins this movement. Woke capital is when companies and businesses are more invested in a movement like BLM than they are in traditional American principles, and they are. And if you peel back the onion, what you find is that the businesses that are most connected and most devoted to destroying our values are also benefitting financially from it …
Now who was one of the biggest funders of the Black Lives Matter movement? The insurance companies. They refused to pay their own clients’ claims for their damaged property while at the same time they were making that damage more likely by funding the movement that was causing it.
The best example, of course, is Jeff Bezos, one of the largest funders of the Black Lives Matter movement, to the tune of millions of dollars. Now who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed? Who wants to see their competitors unable to deliver goods and services to people so they get it delivered in the Amazon box? Jeff Bezos. There is a direct connection between woke capital and the plunder that’s happening in our society today. The people who are invested in destroying America via our corporate class are also getting rich from it. This is an important piece of the puzzle to understand. (Emphasis added.)
First off, what is the ideology underpinning the shock and sorrow and anger in response to the unprovoked murder of a Black man by an out-of-control policeman? J.D. Vance doesn’t want you to know the truth, but the fact is Amazon’s response to the increase in Black deaths was to try and do something positive, to donate $10 million dollars, of which $8.5 million was raised by matching campaign donations from Amazon employees working in 33 countries. The money was raised to support programs in social and economic justice and went to organizations like the ACLU, the Brennan Center for Justice, the United Negro College Fund, the NAACP, the National Bar Association, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the Urban League, and Black Lives Matter.
It is far too easy to laugh at J.D. Vance’s stupid attack on cat-loving women without kids. But, unfortunately, in this age of rage, in the land where day after day we witness damaged Americans act out their anger with high-powered weapons, his failings can’t really be forgiven. And Vance repeatedly reveals he is immune to self-reflection or unwilling to take responsibility. Whether it is a product of having to deny, forget, or forgive the savagery of the January 6 insurrection, or it is the mindless misinterpretation of the Second Amendment, J.D. Vance has developed such an embarrassing tolerance for violence:
Politifact reported on J.D. Vance’s remarks about the recent school shooting in Georgia and his pathetic, reflexive need to somehow blame Kamala Harris:
What happened in Georgia is just an awful tragedy and I know we’ve got a lot of parents and a lot of grandparents in this room. I mean, I cannot imagine, you know, little kids so excited to go back to school. God love them. And they’re at their first week back from the summer and an absolute barbarian decides to open fire and take their lives, and also a couple of teachers. We gotta, we gotta think about these people if you’re the praying type, and I know I am, we gotta hold them up in prayer.
We gotta be hoping for the best for these, for this incredible community because no parent should have to deal with this. No child should have to deal with this. And, yes, after holding these folks up in prayer and giving them our sympathies, because that’s what people deserve in a time of tragedy, then we have to think about how to make this less common.
Now, look, the Kamala Harris answer to this is to take law-abiding American citizens’ guns away from them. That is what Kamala Harris wants to do. But we have to ask ourselves, we actually have, have been able to run an experiment on this because you’ve got some states with very strict gun laws and you’ve got some states that don’t have strict gun laws at all. And the states with strict gun laws, they have a lot of school shootings and the states without strict gun laws, some of them have school shootings, too. So, clearly strict gun laws is not the thing that is going to solve this problem.
What is going to solve this problem? And I really do believe this is, look, I, I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re, if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets, and we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person who walks through the front door … we, we’ve got to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to.
And again, as a parent do I want my kids’ school to have additional security? No, of course, I don’t. I don’t want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you’ve got to have additional security. But that is increasingly the reality that we live in.
And a, and a bunch of my colleagues in the Senate, we actually worked on legislation that would give schools more resources to bolster their security because if these psychos are gonna go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it.
We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the, the reality that we live in. We got to deal with it. (Emphasis added.)
Broken record time: It is the guns. Psychos without guns need to be treated. Psychos with guns will kill before they are treated. J.D. Vance seems completely unwilling to change “the reality that we live in.” His lack of imagination and lack of courage to challenge our relationship with guns is one thing; his reckless encouragement of violence is another. Somewhere along the way during his Yale education, a teacher or two might have clued him in to the history of American resentment of immigrants
It is hard to imagine the mix of cynicism and desire for power that underlies his decision to lie about and endanger the lives of the Haitian immigrants who have chosen to live and work in Springfield, Ohio. How far must he have fallen to tell the American public that hard-working innocents have been killing and eating the pets of their neighbors?
Here is the National Public Radio account:
Using dehumanizing language to describe immigrants is nothing new for former President Donald Trump or vice presidential candidate JD Vance. Accusations of immigrants being criminals, being rapists or poisoning the blood of the nation have become common currency. But this week, the rhetoric seemed to hit a new low: the allegation that immigrants eat pets.
Vance, who represents Ohio in the U.S. Senate, spread a debunked claim about Haitian migrants living in the city of Springfield, Ohio, on Monday, accusing them of abducting pets and eating them.
The claim, which local police say is baseless, was made by far-right activists, local Republicans and neo-Nazis before being picked up by Vance. A well-known advocate for the Haitian community says she received a wave of racist harassment in the aftermath of Vance’s post.
Vance made the claim as part of a political attack against Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee …
Springfield, a small city of around 60,000 people, has received 15,000 to 20,000 migrants in the past four years, many from Haiti, which has created tension as the city works to absorb so many newcomers in a short amount of time. The city has often been cited by Vance and other Republicans as what they view as a cautionary tale of the economic woes caused by immigration.
Less than 30 minutes after Vance’s post, the Springfield News-Sun reported that local police said that incidents of pets being stolen or eaten were ‘not something that’s on our radar right now.’ The paper said the unsubstantiated claim seems to have started with a post in a Springfield Facebook group that was widely shared across social media.
The next day, The New York Times reported:
A falsehood that migrants have killed wild animals and household pets for food ricocheted around the internet this week, vaulting from fringe social media posts to the presidential debate stage in a matter of days. The claims were based on several unsubstantiated anecdotes and appeared to mix together unrelated stories about animal cruelty. The idea also has deep roots in racist stereotypes, which depict foreigners as willing consumers of a variety of undesirable animals …
It also signals the willingness of President Donald J. Trump to echo falsehoods and conspiracy theories as Election Day draws near. At the presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Mr. Trump raised the baseless claims about migrants to an audience of millions.
‘In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs,’ he said, falsely, in a portion of the debate about immigration, offering no evidence. ‘The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.’
The results of such rhetoric was remarkably easy to see: fear, anger, and a surge in racism. And the threats of violence:
The threats began last week after Donald J. Trump mentioned Springfield during the presidential debate, repeating a baseless rumor that Haitian immigrants in the city were abducting and eating household pets. Since then, 34 bomb threats have targeted city schools, most recently on Tuesday when a threat was directed at the high school, a spokeswoman said. But in contrast to Monday, when two elementary schools were evacuated because of threats, the high school was not evacuated.
The threats have shaken the city and disrupted school for thousands of students. The deployment of 36 troopers to the city was intended to allay anxieties and ensure that students could focus on learning. The troopers were stationed at the 17 public schools and at a school district transportation depot.
Talk about cynicism. Vance couldn’t help but brag to CNN’s Dana Bash about his role in spreading lies.
BASH: So the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, Rob Rue, said — quote – ‘All these federal politicians that have negatively spun our city, they need to know they’re hurting our city, and it was their words that did it.’
Before Donald Trump talked about eating dogs and cats on a debate stage, it was you, Senator, who first elevated this baseless rumor. These are your constituents. So, why are you putting them at risk by continuing to spread claims about Haitian immigrants, despite officials in your state saying that there’s no evidence and pleading for you to stop?
VANCE: Well, Dana, first of all, what’s putting the residents of Springfield at risk, which was a town completely ignored by the American media until Donald Trump and I started surfacing some of these concerns, is that they can’t afford housing, they can’t afford health care.
The schools have been overwhelmed. The hospitals have been overwhelmed. And they’re overwhelmed because Kamala Harris allowed 20,000 Haitian migrants to get dropped into a small Ohio town of about 40,000 people, and it’s completely overwhelmed the services. Now, you ask, why have I talked about some of the things that I have been talking about? Let me just say this. My constituents have brought approximately a dozen separate concerns to me. Ten of them are verifiable and confirmable, and a couple of them I talk about because my constituents are telling me firsthand that they’re seeing these things …
The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes.
BASH: But it wasn’t just a meme, sir.
VANCE: If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast … You didn’t push back against the fact that she cast the deciding vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, which is why a lot of Americans can’t afford food and housing.
BASH: You just said that you’re creating a story.
VANCE: We ought to be talking about public policy.
BASH: Sir, you just said that you’re creating the story.
VANCE: What’s that, Dana?
BASH: You just said that this is a story that you created…
VANCE: Yes.
BASH: So, the eating dogs and cats thing is not accurate.
VANCE: We are creating — we are — Dana, it comes from firsthand accounts from my constituents. I say that we’re creating a story, meaning we’re creating the American media focusing on it. I didn’t create 20,000 illegal migrants coming into Springfield, thanks to Kamala Harris’ policies. Her policies did that, but yes, we created the actual focus that allowed the American media to talk about this story and the suffering caused by Kamala Harris’ policies.
Creating a story that provokes bomb threats, turns neighbors against neighbors, fosters hate—all for political gain. How Christian is it to falsely accuse his Haitian constituents? How Christian is it to provide false testimony that endangers public safety? How Christian is it to suggest that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are somehow culpable of provoking the attempted assassination of Donald Trump?
Here is The New York Times of September 17, 2024:
Senator JD Vance of Ohio, in his first public remarks since the apparent assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump, condemned on Monday the inflammatory rhetoric ‘coming from too many corners of our politics.’ But he took specific aim at Democrats, accusing them of going too far in casting Mr. Trump’s potential re-election as the end of democracy.
‘I’m not going to say conservatives always get things exactly right,’ Mr. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, told the crowd at a Faith and Freedom Coalition event in Atlanta on Monday evening.
But, he continued, ‘no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. I think that’s pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric or somebody is going to get hurt.’ (Emphasis added.)
How stupid does he imagine us to be? Demeaning women. “Somebody is going to get hurt?” I guess he means someone other than the Haitians?
Unfortunately, it is hard not to slip into exhaustion, fall into despair, when we are so continuously assaulted by their lies and swamped by the fear and rage that results. And so it might seem preposterous that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump might finally have gone too far, not by lying about the 2020 election, not by their COVID incompetence, or their lies that immigrant families dine on pets, but by attacking childless cat women. And by going after America’s most famous of cat lovers without kids. First they mocked Taylor Swift. Then they tried to misappropriate her:
But Taylor, like millions of outraged American women and the men who respect them, had had it with J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. There was now Kamala Harris for president, a woman determined to counter their desire to divide with a call to unite, to oppose their desire to control with a call to fight for freedom.
And here is what Donald Trump’s AI-generated lie about Taylor Swift wrought:
Then Trump turned to rage:
To this day, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and their minions still seem to not understand what is happening. Like their cats, these childless cat ladies are ready to fight. And Kamala Harris and Tim Walz easily fill stadiums with crowds of Americans who enthusiastically want something so much better than what MAGA has to offer.
When it comes down to the choice between the phantom courage of J.D. Vance and the strength, determination, and sincerity of Taylor Swift, J.D. doesn’t stand a chance. If he is lucky, Usha will make him study these New York Times poll results:
I am pretty sure J.D. Vance is not too interested in what I have to say, but I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. You can add fans of Beyonce and Billie Ellish and Travis Kelce and dog lovers and those who care about penguins and those who love who they love and want to read what they want to read to those who believe it is a sin to make young women carry the babies of their rapists.
What J.D. Vance and Donald Trump don’t realize is that every time they open their mouths, they make it easier for more Americans to vote against them. And there is just no way to prevent the revenge of the childless cat ladies.
