Democrats follow for once
The first week of Harris for President has been, as they say, lit.
“DAMN. This is how you slam Donald Trump,” tweeted Victor Shi, a Gen Z phenom from the Harris Youth Engagement Team. Shi boosted a campaign statement on Trump’s remarks to Turning Point USA Believers Summit on Friday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“Tonight, Donald Trump couldn’t pronounce words, insulted the faith of Jewish and Catholic Americans, lied about the election (again), lied about other stuff, bragged about repealing Roe, proposed cutting billions in education funding, announced he would appoint more extremist judges, revealed he planned to fill a second Trump term with more criminals like himself, attacked lawful voting, went on and on and on, and generally sounded like someone you wouldn’t want to sit near at a restaurant — let alone be President of the United States,” said James Singer.
“Someone you wouldn’t want to sit near at a restaurant” is evocative in a way seldom seen in Democratic statements. “Criminals like himself” too. The gloves are off.
Shi had more:
As lit as the Harris team is, the Trump campaign is creepy and weird. A J.D. Vance-inspired meme as taken off as well. Senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Brian Schatz (HI) picked up that fumble and ran with it, spotlighting a “super weird” 2021 statement from Vance about Americans who have babies getting more votes.
Is there an embarrassing photo of Vance in weird, white boots?
No representation without procreation!
The ReidOut blog noticed this Vance-ism on Thursday:
The clip is from a 2021 speech that Vance gave to a conservative organization called the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. At one point, Vance offered up an unusual idea about voting:
Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power — you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic — than people who don’t have kids. Let’s face the consequences and the reality: If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.
The reason I said there’s more to the story than Vance’s disdain for childless people is this proposal also epitomizes the Republican Party’s growing embrace of openly antidemocratic policies.
“No representation without procreation!” snarked X user Abracadabrian.
In 2011, as Republicans systematically gerrymandered U.S. districts to concentrate their power and promoted voter suppression legislation aimed depressing the votes of youth and minorities, The Guardian noted this idea’s origins:
Szájer said he was inspired by the work of the American demographer Paul Demeny, who developed the concept in 1986. Under Demeny Voting, each parent is given half a vote for each child, permitting a split vote in the event that the parents have differing political loyalties.
However, to counter concerns about the Roma winning more votes, Szájer said in the Hungarian case, the move would have “permitted the passage of a law giving mothers the vote on behalf of a maximum of one child”.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” wrote George Orwell in 1945 in satirizing Stalin’s Russia. Can’t have undesirables sharing power on an equal footing with white Europeans now, can we?
Better yet, Trump suggested last night that voting itself will go away if he gets one more chance in the White House: “Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.”
MAGA is not flying American flags upside down as a sign of distress. They are flying them to promote their plans for turning the very idea of America on its head.
Don’t sit back and let that happen to you. Don’t let them take your freedoms. Get busy. Harris has knocked Trump back on his heels. Don’t let him recover. Register. Vote Volunteer.
And meme the hell out of them.
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