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The left’s efforts to portray JD Vance as someone who, like the Bad Orange Man himself, is a far-right, neo-fascist gargoyle whom all decent people should shun is in full swing. The intrepid reporters over at Politico, ever savvy, ever unfoolable, have discovered that Vance has “a bunch of weird views on gender,” views that in ordinary times would get you consigned to the looney bin if we had looney bins anymore and that nowadays get you the Republican party’s vice-presidential nomination. Voters: caveat emptor!
The mind reels with lurid possibilities. What are Vance’s “weird views on gender”? Does he think that men can magically turn into champion female swimmers and women of the year? Does he think drag queens should be sent into primary schools to teach children the glories of the latest LGBTQWTF fantasies? Does he think parents should lose custody of their children if they don’t affirm their delusions that they belong to the opposite sex?
Nah. Politico would think all that was as normal as pink hair and nose rings. What Politico finds “weird” is that Vance is “staunchly opposed to abortion” and has even compared the left’s sacramental child sacrifice to slavery, another moral evil that once enjoyed the protection of a Supreme Court ruling. Even worse, as far as Politico is concerned, is the fact that Vance has “promoted Viktor Orban’s pro-natalist policies in Hungary, which offer paybacks to married couples that scale up along with the number of children.” Good heavens! He wants people to have more children? But what about their carbon footprint?
Vance also “opposes same-sex marriage.” He had the audacity in 2022 to suggest that “the sexual revolution had made divorce too easy (people nowadays ‘shift spouses like they change their underwear’), arguing that people in unhappy marriages, and maybe even those in violent ones, should stay together for their children.” This is a canard Vance has heard before, and Politico was minimally gracious enough to include his response: “His campaign said such an insinuation was ‘preposterous,’ but you can watch the video yourself and be the judge.”
All this and more situates Vance within “the faction of the American New Right that typically refers to itself as ‘postliberalism.’” Did you know that we had a New Right, or more precisely, yet another New Right? The idea that there are conventional, respectable conservatives who are challenged by an extreme, radical “New Right” is a decades-old leftist scaremongering trope. Back in 1980 or 1981, I remember my university newspaper running a hysterical piece about the scary evangelical Christians on campus, who were, it said, “inextricably bound to the New Right.” This morning, I looked up the author of that article and discovered that he is a New York Times columnist who lives in the Hamptons with his husband. Figures.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
One thing that the Left has pounced over Vance is his “childless cat ladies” remark from 3 years ago. He was talking about women who chose their career advancements over having kids
In fact, I recalling a Tucker conversation w/ either Mark Steyn or Nigel Farage, where he asked his guest why various European leaders – Merkel, Macron, May, et al didn’t seem to care about what happened to their countries as they threw open the borders. The theory that was put was that those leaders – particularly the women – were childless, and so didn’t have any stake in the future of their countries. After all, once they were gone, they wouldn’t have to care about what sort of country is left to their descendants, since they don’t have any
The issue is not about women who can’t conceive, for whatever reason. It’s about those who are on a marathon career-ladder mounting mission, and only when they are in their 40s do they get to think about it, by which time it’s too late. At any rate, it is valid to desire that anybody we elect – man or woman – has a stake in the country’s future, in terms of actually having offspring who’ll live in it. They are less likely to be as cavalier in the decisions that they make
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“…it is valid to desire that anybody we elect – man or woman – has a stake in the country’s future, in terms of actually having offspring who’ll live in it. They are less likely to be as cavalier in the decisions that they make…”
Spot-on.
Mike says
Mr. Spencer: first, YOU concern YOURSELF with YOUR country, and let US concern OURSELVES with OURS!!
(I had to get that whiny, tiresome, feeble-minded bullshit out of the way.)
Secondly, WHO are YOU to say that JD Vance has normal views on WEIRD AL’S GENRE??
Vance has never openly commented on Weird Al Yankovic’s genre! Everyone knows that Weird Al is essentially a pop song parody musician, though he has occasionally writes and performs original songs, and even does straight cover versions at times (such as his cover of Toto’s “Africa.”)
Really, Mr. Spencer, you need to learn more about music. You probably think that Beethoven was a gothic superhero who responded to bright signals in the night sky!
Please stick to musical genres that YOU know, let otgers stick to song styles that THEY know!
Scotsman48 says
Mike I sure how you are attempting to make people laugh with your diatribe but sarcasm doesn’t translate into the written word so either you are trying to funny or you are nucking futs..
Mike says
I’m just trying to mock “John Allan.”
“YOU concern yourself with YOUR country, Mr. Spencer! Let US concern ourselves with OURS!”
It’s like, “Whatever, John. And what exactly are you trying to do to concern yourself with the jihadist takeover of Britain?”
I strongly suspect that he’s a jihadist who welcomes it.
Scotsman48 says
If you wish to know who a man is and what he believes then check out who his enemies are and go from there.
The women JD Vance mentioned were women without children of their own but a Far Left MSM moron stated that Pete Buttplug the Transportation Secretary had a child with his husband thereby totally missing the point of what JD was saying, also Kackling Kamala has two Step Children from his Husbands previous marriage, not her own kids.
THATS the point JD was saying but they feel the strong need to take everything he and Trump says out of context…
Tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become truth by itself… Herr Goebbels…
This is exactly what the MSM are doing today… Every day..