This is an important video. It shows how the coverage of Biden is one-sided and how the republicans at their convention did all the same things they accuse Biden of. He says the news won’t cover it. I agree but not for the same reasons, the media is now corporate media is pushing for a tRump victory. Hugs with a mask from a sick Scottie
Donald Trump has chosen J.D. Vance as his running mate, the former president announced on Monday.
Vance, a first-term Republican senator from Ohio, was widely expected to be Trump’s vice presidential pick as the pool of potential hopefuls narrowed earlier in the day. Just hours before the announcement, several outlets reported that Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) were informed by the Trump campaign that they would not be on the 2024 ticket. Others previously thought to be on Trump’s short list included Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), U.S. House Rep. Elise Stefanink (R-N.Y.), and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
In a post on his own tech platform, Truth Social, Trump lauded Vance as the “person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States.”
“J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association,” he said, adding that he “will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond.”
The choice of Vance, who rose to fame as the author of the controversial memoir Hillbilly Elegy, was likely intended to help Trump shore up support among white, lower-income voters in the Midwest, where President Joe Biden is considered vulnerable in the 2024 race. According to poll averages from FiveThirtyEight, Trump leads Biden by more than nine points in Vance’s home state of Ohio, and Biden also trails in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Biden would likely need to win all three of the latter states to stave off a second Trump term, with swing states like Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada also looking vulnerable in 2024.
A former critic of Trump who recast himself as a politician in the MAGA model, Vance’s LGBTQ+ record differs very little from the man at the top of his ticket. During his two years in the U.S. Senate, Vance opposed the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified federal same-sex marriage rights in the event that Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2004 ruling legalizing marriage equality, is repealed by the Supreme Court. He also authored the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which would make it a class C felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, to provide gender-affirming surgery to trans minors. (This despite the fact that transition surgeries are rarely offered to patients under the age of 18 and only in cases of extreme medical need.)
Additionally, Vance is a supporter of the so-called “parent’s rights” movement, which advocates that LGBTQ+ students be outed to their parents and seeks to remove queer-affirming resources from classrooms. He has repeatedly referred to opponents of those actions as “groomers,” such as in an April 2022 post on X. “I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children,” he wrote at the time.
The 39-year-old politician has also opposed diversity and inclusion in the U.S. armed forces, suggesting that he is likely to support re-banning trans servicemembers from the military should Trump be elected. “American political leaders should stop using America’s military as a social justice side project,” his 2022 campaign site reads. “Troops don’t need to focus on diversity or equity or any other progressive buzzword; they need to focus on fighting and winning America’s wars.” The removal of trans troops from the military is a major component of Project 2025, a set of far-right policy proposals shaped and promoted by the anti-LGBTQ+ Heritage Foundation, which Trump has sought to distance himself from in recent days.
Vance’s anti-LGBTQ+ background also includes claiming that Biden supports Ukraine because Russian President Vladimir Putin is anti-trans and blaming the “childless left” for America’s decline, specifically citing U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Furthermore, he once accused U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) of making up the term “Two-Spirit,” which is broadly embraced by LGBTQ+ Native Americans to describe their identities. “Would love if progressives just stopped inventing words,” Vance posted on X in February 2021.
In repeatedly opposing LGBTQ+ equality, Vance has found a perfect match in Trump, whose administration was responsible for more than 200 attacks on queer rights in four years, according to GLAAD. These assaults included repealing protections for trans students, removing resources for LGBTQ+ Americans from federal websites, decimating funding for global HIV/AIDS prevention, and appointing a record-number of judges opposed to LGBTQ+ equality. His administration also made it harder for marginally housed people to find safe shelter and opposed workplace protections for LGBTQ+ employees.
Trump, whose own supporters threatened to kill his last vice president for refusing to support Trump’s 2020 bid to remain in office, is likely to resume many of those policies if reelected in November.
Thanks to Ten Bears (link below) for this link. The people need to hear this instead of the media’s constant drum beat of how bad Biden is. Hugs. Scottie
Ithink a lot of liberals and Democrats are hiding behind the question of whether the president should drop out of the presidential election. I think a lot of us, and I’m going to implicate myself in the interest of fairness, are spending too much time talking about what other people think about Joe Biden — ie, swing voters — and not enough time talking about what we think.
More to the point, I think a lot of liberals and Democrats are not saying what they’re saying when they say last week’s debate was a disaster. They’re not saying it because if they said it out loud for everyone to hear, they would be – and they should be – ashamed of themselves. They recoiled in horror at seeing an old man acting like an old man.
If the president were that far gone, someone somewhere would have pointed out that time when things went very, very wrong. I don’t mean choices. I mean mistakes – serious, consequential, unforced errors. No one has.
I think it’s important to say this plainly. If Biden is too old for you, you should say so. You should say he should not be president, because he’s too old, not because you think swing voters won’t vote for him. Then we can have a serious conversation that begins with this question:
If Biden is too old – that is, if his “mental acuity” is so compromised – how do we explain everything he’s accomplished, including today’s job report, according to which the economy added 206,000 jobs? The Post reported that “even as interest rates remain high, weighing on some parts of the economy, the labor market continues to buoy workers, wages and consumer spending, preventing a broader downturn.”
How do we explain this achievement?
We can’t. And because we can’t, we must conclude that the president’s campaign is now in peril, not because of substance, but because of vibes. The downside is that he might lose because of them. The upside, however, is that you can turn some of these vibes around. You can regain your balance and your confidence, and you can fight like hell.
If you’re old, you’re done If the president were that far gone, someone somewhere would have pointed out that time when things went very, very wrong. I don’t mean choices. I mean mistakes – serious, consequential, unforced errors.
No one has, not even in recent months, a time when some allege that he’s shown rapid decline. How about the Israel-Hamas war, the worst Middle East conflict any president has faced? Nope. He’s handled that like the statesman he is. Inflation? Nope. He brought it down and dodged a recession. How about the “border crisis.” Also nope. Indeed, not only did Biden not screw that one up. He outfox Donald Trump. A change in border policy has led to a record drop in illegal crossings.
But I guess Biden’s accomplishments don’t count for much these days, because, for God’s sake, he lost his train of thought a few times!
If there’s one word that can describe the Biden administration all the way up to last week’s “disastrous debate,” it’s orderly – public servants running the federal government according to the law and Biden’s preferred policies. If, on the basis of that “disastrous debate,” you no longer think Biden can be president, you must reckon with the fact that he has been the president. If you think he’s been showing signs of mental decline for months, you must reckon with the fact that no one can point to a single mistake he’s made during all that time.
And because no one can point to a serious, consequential, unforced error that is the result of his alleged mental deterioration, we must conclude something that’s distasteful to conclude. Maybe the “disastrous debate” says more about us than it does about Biden. It showed us something none of us has seen before, a president aging in public view. And our reaction to it showed us something else – that it doesn’t matter how accomplished you are, how good you are, how decent you are, how deserving you are – if you’re old, you’re done.
Now’s the time to answer Ageism seems to be the root of most of the reaction to the president’s performance. Normal aging, like losing your train of thought, can’t and won’t be tolerated. (If Biden shows several mental lapses, or even just one, it’s over.) Because discrimination against the old is so common, and because weakness, which is associated with age, is so commonly despised in politics, most of the reaction seemed rather reasonable.
And because most of the reaction seemed rather reasonable, a lot of liberals and Democrats lost their nerve. We let the Times editorial board and its columnists, including liberals, undermine our confidence in ourselves. And we let it happen, in part, because we did not fully appreciate the ageist lens through which we watched the debate.
Liberals and Democrats spent more time talking about what other people think of Biden and not enough time talking about what we think. That allowed rather reasonable arguments rooted in ageism to go unanswered. But that was then. Now’s the time to answer them.
Watch! Resolute Square:Strategy Session! This episode had Lisa Senaca Joe Trippi Dem Strategist, and Mark Jacob who was the former Editor of Chicago Tribune and Sun Times. He writes a sub stack called Stop The Press Right Wing Extremism.
I am as pissed as she is. I was watching Emma on The Majority Report. She is totally anti-Biden and has been for a couple of years, but it got much worse over Gaza. She is adamant that Biden be replaced. She doesn’t care, she is convinced that who ever it is will win. And they will bring Israel to heel. With no facts or figures to back it up. Sam has backed off that position a lot. But on today’s show Emma and guests were talking about how horrible Biden was and the George Clooney op ed in the paper, where he claims Biden is not the same person he met years ago. But even when they reported that the White House said Clooney left hours before Joe Biden showed up. They laughed it off. They thought it was funny that the White House would point out that the man had no way to know how Joe Biden performed because he was not there to see it. No facts get through their convictions. They are like covid and vaccine deniers about this. And the damage they are doing, they might as well be getting paid by the tRump campaign. They never talk about how bad tRump is anymore, they don’t talk about the lies tRump made at the debate, they never talk about where tRump has been the past several weeks while Biden has been doing public events every day. Biden every day they ignore, tRump nowhere to be seen they ignore, to beat a dead horse of a bad debate. If Biden loses, they will be one of the major reasons. Hugs. Scottie
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