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    Optimus Prime said:
    “If the Chinese invade us in 10 years, they’re going to be beaten back by boys like you who practice fighting the monsters who become proud men who defend their homes.”

    By contrast, for Vance, “They’re not going to be defended by the soy boys who want to feed the monsters.”
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    ..."and their stories will be written by strong men, LIKE ME"!
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    Usha Chilukuri Vance loves her “meat and potatoes” husband, JD Vance. She explained to a rapt Republican National Convention audience how their vice-presidential candidate adapted to her vegetarian diet and even learned to cook Indian food from her immigrant mother.

    That image of her white, Christian husband making the spicy cuisine of her parents’ native state in South India is atypical for the leaders of a party whose members are still largely white and Christian.

    Her presence at the RNC sparked enthusiasm on social media among some Indian American conservatives, particularly Hindu Americans, although most Indian Americans identify as Democrats.

    But for all Usha Vance shared about their identity-blending marriage in her speech last month in Milwaukee, which was a little over four minutes, she made no mention of her Hindu upbringing or her personal faith and their interfaith relationship – biographical details that have exposed her to online vitriol and hate.

    While some political analysts say her strong presence as a Hindu American still makes the community proud, others question whether the Republican Party is really ready for a Hindu Second Lady.

    Usha Vance is choosing to remain silent about her religion in the run-up to the election and declined to speak with The Associated Press about it.

    She opted not to answer questions about whether she is a practicing Hindu or if she attends Mass with her Catholic husband, an adult convert to the faith, or in which faith tradition their three children are being raised.…..

    “To me it seems like her Hindu identity is more of a liability than an asset,” she said. “It also feels like the campaign wants to have it both ways: Usha may be Hindu, which is great, but we don’t want to talk about it.”…….

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    Is Usha Vance's Hindu identity an asset or a liability to the Trump-Vance campaign?

    Usha Vance's presence in the Trump-Vance campaign has energized some Indian Americans, particularly Hindu American conservatives.
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    Long before he became a senator or the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance championed a far right-wing Heritage Foundation report that called hunger a “great motivation” for Americans to find work and said abortion should be “unthinkable” in America.

    They included opposition to in vitro fertilization and fertility treatments, which they called harmful to women, the Times reported.

    Vance wrote the introduction to the essays and called them “admirable.” At the collection's release party, he was the event’s keynote speaker...........

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    Optimus Prime said:
    Long before he became a senator or the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance championed a far right-wing Heritage Foundation report that called hunger a “great motivation” for Americans to find work and said abortion should be “unthinkable” in America.

    They included opposition to in vitro fertilization and fertility treatments, which they called harmful to women, the Times reported.

    Vance wrote the introduction to the essays and called them “admirable.” At the collection's release party, he was the event’s keynote speaker...........

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    Good! Keep pounding his horrible stances on policy.
     
    By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or career success.

    It also amounted to a political conversion.

    Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described in his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

    “I felt desperate for a worldview that understood our bad behavior as simultaneously social and individual, structural and moral; that recognized that we are products of our environment; that we have a responsibility to change that environment, but that we are still moral beings with individual duties,” he wrote in a 2020 essay.

    His conversion also put Vance in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings, that has been little known to the American public until Vance’s rise to the national stage as the Republican vice presidential nominee.

    These are not your father’s Catholic conservatives.

    The professors and media personalities in this network don’t all agree on everything — even on what to call themselves – but most go by “postliberal.” Vance has used that term to describe himself, though the Trump-Vance campaign did not respond to questions about where Vance sees himself in the movement and whether he shares some of the beliefs promoted by many postliberals.

    Postliberals do share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

    But where Catholic conservatives of the past have seen big government as a problem rather than a solution, the postliberals want a muscular government — one that they control.



    They envision a counterrevolution in which they would take over government bureaucracy and institutions like universities from within, replacing entrenched “elites” with their own and acting upon their vision of the “common good.”

    “What is needed … is regime change — the peaceful but vigorous overthrow of a corrupt and corrupting liberal ruling class and the creation of a postliberal order,” wrote Patrick Deneen, a prominent author in the movement, in his 2023 book, “Regime Change.”

    Vance has signaled his alignment with some of what Catholic postliberals advocate. He’s said the next time his allies control the presidency or Congress, “ we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power” and said Republicans should seize institutions, including universities “to make them work for our people.”

    He’s advocated for government policies to spur childbearing, a notion reflected in his digs at “childless cat ladies” with allegedly no stake in America’s future.…….

    apnews.com

    JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

    Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.
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    Optimus Prime said:
    By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or career success.

    It also amounted to a political conversion.

    Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described in his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

    “I felt desperate for a worldview that understood our bad behavior as simultaneously social and individual, structural and moral; that recognized that we are products of our environment; that we have a responsibility to change that environment, but that we are still moral beings with individual duties,” he wrote in a 2020 essay.

    His conversion also put Vance in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings, that has been little known to the American public until Vance’s rise to the national stage as the Republican vice presidential nominee.

    These are not your father’s Catholic conservatives.

    The professors and media personalities in this network don’t all agree on everything — even on what to call themselves – but most go by “postliberal.” Vance has used that term to describe himself, though the Trump-Vance campaign did not respond to questions about where Vance sees himself in the movement and whether he shares some of the beliefs promoted by many postliberals.

    Postliberals do share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

    But where Catholic conservatives of the past have seen big government as a problem rather than a solution, the postliberals want a muscular government — one that they control.



    They envision a counterrevolution in which they would take over government bureaucracy and institutions like universities from within, replacing entrenched “elites” with their own and acting upon their vision of the “common good.”

    “What is needed … is regime change — the peaceful but vigorous overthrow of a corrupt and corrupting liberal ruling class and the creation of a postliberal order,” wrote Patrick Deneen, a prominent author in the movement, in his 2023 book, “Regime Change.”

    Vance has signaled his alignment with some of what Catholic postliberals advocate. He’s said the next time his allies control the presidency or Congress, “ we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power” and said Republicans should seize institutions, including universities “to make them work for our people.”

    He’s advocated for government policies to spur childbearing, a notion reflected in his digs at “childless cat ladies” with allegedly no stake in America’s future.…….

    apnews.com

    JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

    Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.
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    I feel like Vance was rooting for the Opus Dei albino in the DavInci Code.
     
    everything is about him

    “he’s great and I’m the one who picked him so I’m even greater!”
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    Donald Trump has reportedly compared himself to legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi with his tapping of JD Vance as his running mate, despite ongoing and frequent criticism of the Ohio Senator.

    The former president has bragged to those close to him that his eye for talent is equal to that of the Hall of Fame coach, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest of all time, sources told The New York Times.……
    www.independent.co.uk

    Trump is comparing his tapping of JD Vance to iconic football coach Vince Lombardi

    The former president has bragged to those close to him that his eye for talent is equal to that of the Hall of Fame coach, according to reports
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    Optimus Prime said:
    By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or career success.

    It also amounted to a political conversion.

    Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described in his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

    “I felt desperate for a worldview that understood our bad behavior as simultaneously social and individual, structural and moral; that recognized that we are products of our environment; that we have a responsibility to change that environment, but that we are still moral beings with individual duties,” he wrote in a 2020 essay.

    His conversion also put Vance in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings, that has been little known to the American public until Vance’s rise to the national stage as the Republican vice presidential nominee.

    These are not your father’s Catholic conservatives.

    The professors and media personalities in this network don’t all agree on everything — even on what to call themselves – but most go by “postliberal.” Vance has used that term to describe himself, though the Trump-Vance campaign did not respond to questions about where Vance sees himself in the movement and whether he shares some of the beliefs promoted by many postliberals.

    Postliberals do share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

    But where Catholic conservatives of the past have seen big government as a problem rather than a solution, the postliberals want a muscular government — one that they control.



    They envision a counterrevolution in which they would take over government bureaucracy and institutions like universities from within, replacing entrenched “elites” with their own and acting upon their vision of the “common good.”

    “What is needed … is regime change — the peaceful but vigorous overthrow of a corrupt and corrupting liberal ruling class and the creation of a postliberal order,” wrote Patrick Deneen, a prominent author in the movement, in his 2023 book, “Regime Change.”

    Vance has signaled his alignment with some of what Catholic postliberals advocate. He’s said the next time his allies control the presidency or Congress, “ we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power” and said Republicans should seize institutions, including universities “to make them work for our people.”

    He’s advocated for government policies to spur childbearing, a notion reflected in his digs at “childless cat ladies” with allegedly no stake in America’s future.…….

    apnews.com

    JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

    Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.
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    “To make them work for OUR people” (emphasis mine) code for massive implementation of religion based othering.
     
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    In the latest installment of “JD Vance insults childless people,” which arrived last week, the Republican vice-presidential nominee turned his attention to teachers.

    “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child,” he told the Center for Christian Virtue, in remarks unearthed from 2021. “... That really disorients me. And it really disturbs me.”


    It would have been an odd thing for almost anyone to say, but, as many immediately pointed out, it was an especially strange sentiment from a practicing Catholic, given the battalions of nuns who have long been the backbone of religious education in America……

    …..This, naturally, led some to wonder whether Vance didn’t mind hurting people who were childless by choice, but anyway, you get the gist: Disparaging childless people once is a misspeak. Twice is a PR crisis. Three times and you have, as we say in the journalism business, a trend.

    The question is, of what?


    At first blush, the answer seems obvious. It’s Harrison Butker all over again — a prominent conservative man saying the quiet misogyny out loud.

    Women are not real citizens; they’re barely even real people — unless they bear a child or at least desperately want to.

    Dress it up with a Yale law degree and some homespun stories about a gun-loving Mamaw, but the undercurrent is still the same: Vance sounds like a walking red pill who would prefer women bear lots of children, then stay in the kitchen to raise them.

    “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people,” he tweeted in 2021, and there you have it: “Normal” people don’t need or want child care, so the act of offering it to anyone is offensive to ... something, I guess.

    But as I’ve read through each of these comments, what struck me was a different problem.

    Something even more hopeless than misogyny, not a worldview as much as a brain wiring.
Vance did not say he found childless teachers pitiable; he said he was “really disturbed” by them. Vance did not say he found childless voters uninformed; he said they lacked “investment.”

    Vance did not merely use “childless cat ladies” as a lazy punchline; he lamented that “we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it.”

    In this way of thinking, someone who does not have children could only possibly be interested in children for nefarious purposes.

    Someone who does not have children could only possibly vote in their own immediate self-interest, rather than caring about the future of the country as a whole.

    These people could not have a direct stake in anything that exists outside themselves, because they could not care about anyone outside of themselves.


    In short, Vance seems to think that people who do not have children also cannot have empathy.

    And by revealing that, he may have revealed the limits of his own compassion……..


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    Optimus Prime said:
    In the latest installment of “JD Vance insults childless people,” which arrived last week, the Republican vice-presidential nominee turned his attention to teachers.

    “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child,” he told the Center for Christian Virtue, in remarks unearthed from 2021. “... That really disorients me. And it really disturbs me.”


    It would have been an odd thing for almost anyone to say, but, as many immediately pointed out, it was an especially strange sentiment from a practicing Catholic, given the battalions of nuns who have long been the backbone of religious education in America……

    …..This, naturally, led some to wonder whether Vance didn’t mind hurting people who were childless by choice, but anyway, you get the gist: Disparaging childless people once is a misspeak. Twice is a PR crisis. Three times and you have, as we say in the journalism business, a trend.

    The question is, of what?


    At first blush, the answer seems obvious. It’s Harrison Butker all over again — a prominent conservative man saying the quiet misogyny out loud.

    Women are not real citizens; they’re barely even real people — unless they bear a child or at least desperately want to.

    Dress it up with a Yale law degree and some homespun stories about a gun-loving Mamaw, but the undercurrent is still the same: Vance sounds like a walking red pill who would prefer women bear lots of children, then stay in the kitchen to raise them.

    “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people,” he tweeted in 2021, and there you have it: “Normal” people don’t need or want child care, so the act of offering it to anyone is offensive to ... something, I guess.

    But as I’ve read through each of these comments, what struck me was a different problem.

    Something even more hopeless than misogyny, not a worldview as much as a brain wiring.
Vance did not say he found childless teachers pitiable; he said he was “really disturbed” by them. Vance did not say he found childless voters uninformed; he said they lacked “investment.”

    Vance did not merely use “childless cat ladies” as a lazy punchline; he lamented that “we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it.”

    In this way of thinking, someone who does not have children could only possibly be interested in children for nefarious purposes.

    Someone who does not have children could only possibly vote in their own immediate self-interest, rather than caring about the future of the country as a whole.

    These people could not have a direct stake in anything that exists outside themselves, because they could not care about anyone outside of themselves.


    In short, Vance seems to think that people who do not have children also cannot have empathy.

    And by revealing that, he may have revealed the limits of his own compassion……..


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    Besides all the things one could write in response to Vance’s bullschlitz perhaps he might get a clue that his God would not be pleased by his comments.
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    www.independent.co.uk

    New poll shows Latinos really don’t like JD Vance

    Latest survey is bad news for Vance as he campaigns in Arizona this week
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    A Venn diagram representing all the different voting demographics with an overlapping set representing the percentage of voters in each demographic that don't like Vance would end up looking like several demographic circles inside one big non-Vance liking circle. You'd have to magnify it about 20X to see the slight slivers from each circle just outside the non-Vance liking circle.
     

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