Pete Buttigieg, on Bill Maher’s show, on JD Vance’s
idiocy and hypocrisy:
“It’s not that complicated. I know there are a lot of folks
who say, what’s going on with some of these Silicon Valley folks [Peter Thiel]
veering into [The Felon] world with JD Vance … what are they thinking? Silicon
Valley, they’re supposed to care about climate. They’re supposed to be … pro-science
and rational and libertarian. So normally libertarians don’t like
authoritarians. What’s up with that? I think it’s actually we’ve made it way
too complicated. It’s super simple. These are very rich men who
have decided to back the Republican Party that tends to do good things for very
rich men. That’s kind of what you’re getting with JD. When I got to Harvard, I
found a lot of people like him who would say whatever they needed to get ahead.
And five years ago, that seemed like being the anti-[The Felon] Republican. So
that’s what he was talking about. How [The Felon] was unfit, how he was
cynical, called him an opioid, which is kind of a weird thing to say about a
person … [and] behind the scenes … calling him Hitler, right? … I actually
watched this exact same process with somebody else I got to know in my days in
the Midwest, which was, my former governor, Mike Pence, who I watched start out
as an evangelical Christian who cared about rectitude and family values and
then get on board with a guy who was mixed up with a porn star, make excuses
for him so that he could have power. He got four glorious years, I guess, as
Vice president of the United States. And it ended on the west front of the
Capitol with [The Felon] supporters proposing that he be hanged for using the
one shred of integrity he still had to stand up to an attempt to overthrow the
government. So I guess, maybe not as a politician, but as a human being, what
I’ll say is that I hope things work out a little bit better for JD Vance than
it did for him.”
The good news is that JD Vance won’t get into the White
House, except maybe as a visitor with a very limited pass.
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Also with Faux News: They had to admit that those evening shows ARE NOT news shows, they're "entertainment." So anyone on that channel or station or whatever you call it can just go fuck all the way off. They're getting paid millions to sit there and spout that bullshit and coming from one of their very few DEI hires - LOLOLOLOL.
ReplyDeleteThey call it "entertainment" but it's not even that!
DeleteFox is not news, it's trash entertainment, opinions voiced there have absolutely no value. Hannity's a billionaire who wants a tax break. If he loses his cultist fan club, Walsh is out of a job. And Walz for VP proves that the Democrats are moving full speed ahead.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing the right crashing and burning in their feeble attempts to appear relevant.
DeleteAt least you started and ended with two men who are articulate and well-meaning. The stuff in the middle is just pure garbage...garbage in, garbage out in the bin.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I needed to buffer the crazy at both ends with simple common sense from Pete and Tim.
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Always Pete.
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Love Pete, of course. The man is so very good at making concepts so much more easy to understand... Very smart.
ReplyDeleteAny Faux News 'opinion' is bullshit, of course. I like how they keep up the fuckery after they had to pay all that money. Hey, they have it so let them spend it.
Matt Walsh is one of the most despicable people to have surfaced from the white nationalist/xtianist movement in the last years. Ugh. Really.
And DonOld is really losing it, no? Whoa.
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I didn't see DonOld's speech, but when I read about it my first thought is, "This is what losing your mind actually looks like in real time."
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My idea of torture is being in a room where I have to listen to a conversation between don-old and Sarah Palin, two idiots who would just talk over each other and never say anything worth hearing. So far I think Tim Walz is a what you see is what you get kind of guy, and in his case, that's a good thing.
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You've only got to look at Kale Macaninny to know that she is doing a disservice to all other blondes. She looks vacuous and what comes out of her gob only accentuates the overall impression.
ReplyDeleteShe's just a fraud saying nonsense for bucks.
DeletePete has a very unique perspective and his comments resonate. I, too, watched from inside Indiana how Pence morphed over the years; he accepted The Felon's invite because he knew he wouldn't be re-elected as governor. We need more from Pete. Hopefully President-elect Harris will appoint him to a larger role in her cabinet.
ReplyDeleteI agree 100% about Pete and hope he stays to work with Kamala. We need his voice.
DeleteI love Pete Buttigieg. There. I said it.
ReplyDeleteWTF is Matt Walsh talking about? I haven't done a formal survey but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of all-white Olympic podiums even now. (Certainly at the winter games!) This white-male grievance culture is so tiring.
And that word salad from Trump -- WOW! I'm eager to see Fox put that on repeat and talk about his dementia. Oh, wait...
I love him, too; simple common sense, though rare, is a great thing.
DeleteMatt Walsh is a Nationalist Christian, AKA a Nat-C.
The Felon's speeches are getting more demented each day and I am here for it.
Poor Tim and Pete to be mixed up in this mess of dipshits.
ReplyDeleteI look at them as the bright spots shining out over the darkness and dumbshittery,
DeleteOh, so much “dumbshittery.” Thanks for the word that sums it up.
ReplyDeleteI think it's fitting for most of what we got today!
DeleteThree cheers for Tim Walz! He'll have the last waltz with The Orange Turnip and his fake hillbilly VP - young James. No chance that he'll AdVance!
ReplyDeleteCommon sense over a common liar would be nice for a change.
DeleteI know you pick out the worst of what comes out of Republican mouths, but I wonder if there is such a thing as a reasonable Republican who has certain views but could also be progressive, especially about wealth distribution and social matters. Nah, my head is just in lala land.
ReplyDeleteThere are two Republicans I can think of who don't fall into the rightwingnuttery: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. But they are both far from progressive, they are also far from MAGAtry.
DeleteI read DonOLD's speech twice and what I got is he is upset that Google hasn't put up a page about him and his speeches and/actions. Which isn't their job anyway. But if I google Donald Trump I'm sure there is something there....
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't like being ignored ... and is always a victim.
DeleteHe seems to think Google is another "news" service like Fox?
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love Pete Buttigieg. He is always so spot on and clearly spoken. I watched a clip from that idiot, Jesse Watters, somewhere on line, and my mouth was open, aghast at what he was saying. People actually watch this crap? Even if I was a Republican, I wouldn't watch it. I guess he is broadcasting to the MAGA-ots.
ReplyDeletePete is just simple common sense and facts, and it's hard to argue against that!
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