Nutty and offensive stuff keeps popping up from Vance, who is truly a strange person. Don’t forget that even though Trump is trying desperately to disconnect himself from Project 2025, J D Vance wrote the forward for a bizarre book from leader Kevin Robert’s new book
Vance’s foreword is also, notably, a call for revolution. “The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems,” he writes. “We are no longer in this situation and must take a different approach.” That is where the muskets come in:
As Kevin Roberts writes, “It’s fine to take a laissez-faire approach when you are in the safety of the sunshine. But when the twilight descends and you hear the wolves, you’ve got to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”
We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.
His own Ohio congressman thinks he’s weird
“I represent 800K people in Congress from Southwest Ohio. They’re hardworking and kind, and they care about their families, neighbors, and communities. But I also represent JD Vance,” writes U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) in lengthy social media thread Monday that’s received nearly a half-million views.
“Right now, Mr. Vance is running one of the cruelest, most chaotic, and downright *weirdest* campaigns for Vice President we’ve ever seen,” Landsman adds. “And because Mr. Vance claims SW Ohio as his own, I want to clarify that he couldn’t be more different from the *normal* people who actually live here.”…..
“Mr. Vance has called for a ‘federal response’ to women traveling across state lines to get an abortion. Just last month, Mr. Vance voted *against* protecting the right to access IVF treatment.”
“Mr. Vance thinks people should have to stay in violent marriages and not get divorced. He thinks some people should get more votes in elections than others, depending on whether they can have children.”
JD Vance said people without children are sociopaths
What?!?
Those without children are sociopaths? Dolly Parton is a sociopath? Lindsey Graham isn’t invested in the country? Elon Musk, father of God knows how many, is somehow preferable as a person to Taylor Swift? Why? Who the hell is J.D. Vance to make these kinds of broad, grotesque statements?
The childless owe nobody an explanation. At what point did we begin equating fertility with patriotism? A friend of mine is a single woman in her mid-forties who has a good career, a satisfying life, volunteers, and is, by any standard, a perfectly good citizen of these here United States. No sociopathy detected despite the fact that she also has a cat!
Do you know why she doesn’t have any children? I would tell you, but I have no idea. Because it’s none of my goddamned business. Nor is it J.D. Vance’s. Should my friend’s vote less than Nick Cannon’s?
A Phone Call From Mar-a-Lago
—Bill Kristol
Call placed at 6:11 a.m., Monday, July 29. Answered on the fourth ring.
Caller One: Goddammit, pick up the goddamn phone on the first ring when I call!
Caller Two: Uh . . . uh . . .sorry . . . hello. Dad! Geez, it’s barely six o’clock. Is everything okay?
Caller One: Everything is not goddamn okay. We got a problem, and you’re going to solve it.
Caller Two: Dad, I know Harris is off to a good start, but we can go after her on crime and—
Caller One (interrupting): I’m not talking about Harris. I’m talking about Vance. I can’t believe I actually listened to you and that bullshitter Tucker.
Caller Two: Dad, JD will be fine. I talked with him yesterday. He’s a little rattled but he was going to go on Fox last night with Trey Gowdy and put things right. I didn’t see it, but—
Caller One (interrupting): Well, I DID see it. Everyone here saw it. And you know what everyone’s saying? They’re saying, “Sir, with all due respect, that guy’s a disaster.” They’re saying, “Sir, my daughter says she’s not voting for you anymore.” They’re saying, “Sir, you were conned.” Me, conned! You know what I don’t like? People thinking I’ve been conned. Me!
Caller Two: Yup, Dad, I know that. I’ll get with JD and we’ll work on—
Caller One (interrupting): Junior, you’ll get with JD and make him withdraw.
Caller Two: What? No. Dad. We can’t do that!
Caller One: Goddamn right we can. Susie had the lawyers check it out.
Caller Two: What?!
Caller One: Yeah. I didn’t tell you because you’d tell Guilfoyle and then it would be all over the place. The lawyers say, ‘No problem.’ All your buddy has to do is withdraw in the next ten days. There’s no issue with state ballots or any of that crap. The easiest thing you’ve ever seen. I couldn’t believe how easy. They say Eagleton withdrew after eighteen days, and they replaced him. I wonder if McGovern had some idiot son who told him a young, unvetted senator was a good pick.
Caller Two: But Dad, what do I tell JD?
Caller One: Tell him he’s fired. Tell him he failed. Tell him what Pelosi said to Biden—that we can do this the hard way, or the easy way. The hard way is, I fire him. The easy way is, he withdraws for the cause of Making America Great Again. Why don’t we have tough people like Nervous Nancy in our idiot party?
Caller Two: Aren’t you overreacting here, Dad?
Caller One: Are you kidding me? I’m under-reacting. We were doing great. That assassination attempt—people finally felt sympathy for me! The convention was good, my numbers were going up more than anyone had ever seen before. Then Biden gets out—he should have hung in there!—but then it’s Harris, who’s not their best.
That guy Sosnik—Clinton always had smart people, strong people, and he didn’t have an idiot son to give him terrible political advice—and Sosnik said, “He who defines first defines last.” Chris was ready to drop $100 million to define her. But then we couldn’t break through because all the goddamn news has been about Vance.
Tony gave me the numbers from ABC yesterday morning. Vance started underwater and he’s only cratered since. And he’s dragging me down. I didn’t do anything bad last week, and my numbers fell too! Vance is killing me. Killing me.
Caller Two: But Dad, if you dump him you’d have to say you’d made a mistake, which—
Caller One (interrupting): Screw that. I’m good at firing people. People like it when I fire people. I did it with all those guys in the first term, Priebus and Tillerson and McMaster and Bolton. No problem. I just blame someone else for recommending them, and I say they undermined me, and all my followers turn on them too.
Caller Two: But Dad, who’s going to take the hit on this one?
Caller One: [Silence]
Caller Two: Dad?
Call abruptly terminated by Caller One at 6:18 am.
