Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Consensus Is ... "Weird": Reading Notes

 




“Every type of white man that gets a hasty ‘swipe left’ on his dating profile was in attendance,” wrote Salon’s Amanda Marcotte about a Vance event in Philadelphia, including “glowering loners staring at the two women under 40 like cats watching birds out a window.”

The Trump campaign appears to think angry men can send him back to the White House. Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt at the Republican National Convention. Trump went on professional wrestler Logan Paul’s podcast and joined UFC boss Dana White ringside. At an event on Aug. 3, Trump told the crowd how his wife hates it when he groans and moans onstage, pretending to be a girl struggling to lift a barbell.

--Dana Milbank, WaPo

 


“I work with JD Vance,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told the Philadelphia crowd. “And I’m here to confirm that he is a seriously weird dude.” 

When Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who had been on Harris’s list of potential running mates, mentioned that Vance is “not exactly off to a good start,” the crowd responded with an impromptu chant: “He’s a weirdo!”

Tim Walz delivers a message on abortion rights — “There is a golden rule: Mind your own damn business” — and says not to believe Trump “when he plays dumb” about Project 2025 and its plans “to restrict our freedoms, to rig the economy to help the super rich.” Walz then dispatches Vance as an elitist: “Like all regular people I grew up with in the heartland, JD studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a bestseller trashing that community.” Walz concludes: “These guys are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell.”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Terry Gene Bollea (Hulk Hogan) should rip off his jock to reveal the damage steroids have done. James Donald Bowman (JD Vance) has already ripped off many book buyers with lies and misrepresentations. Vance's stage name was invented for purposes of becoming a heavily promoted author of a cultural insult. Trump is so decrepit that any effort to rip off outer layers could be fatal.
If he pops his corset he may go jello.
Trump is entirely correct that sea levels will rise one-eighth of an inch in the the next 400 years if we allow for it to happen about a thousand times.