@afshinrattansi:
Kamala Harris meets Benjamin Netanyahu and shakes his hand
Kamala Harris has as much blood on her hands as Joe Biden. 
Kamala I am sure knows Heil Bibi lied in his speech, and lies all the time, to get more and more $billions in blood money from USA. She’s not stupid like Trump is, and she’s a lawyer. She fucking knows better and still coddles the genocidal war criminal.
Joe Biden says he’s passing on the torch of democracy to a new generation…the only torch he’s passing on is the torch of genocide
Alec Karakatsanis@equalityAlec:
Instead, one of the most fascist moments in U.S. political history–adoring applause and chants for obvious, knowable lies in support of genocide–is portrayed as “forceful” without any correction of the lies. It’s a breathtaking low point for @anniekarni and @SangerNYT
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This is brilliant! And funny!
@JaneyGodley:
No president of America has ever given birth – I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue
So many US Presidents, so many eye colours, yet not one of these almighty men gave birth. JD Vance hasn’t either. Why must Kamala?
@HikerCA:
Harris – Michelle Obama 2024, sit back and watch heads explode
Biden and Trump were infected with SarsCOV2, often. The virus damages the brain, even in asymptomatic cases. It was easy for me to see their cognitive function turn to shit, after each bout of COVID, but, their rich handlers (Israel lobby, catholic and other raping religions, fossil fuel, frac and munitions industries, tech, Musk, etc.) LOVE stupid leaders, brain dead are even more lust worthy because it makes everything easier to get.
Nikki EatKS@EatKS:
Dear internet,
Having children is not a sign of accomplishment or success in life.
Pointing out a woman doesn’t have kids as a means that she is of no value to society is chauvinistic, which is the underpinning of misogyny.
Signed,
A woman who has kids
Too funny!
Stingy cowardly not so smart Musk sees his “donation” failing to enrich him? Pathetic.
@JohnVaillant:
The “Vance Effect” ?
@Phil_Lewis_:
Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’ https://fortune.com/2024/07/23/elo
“Black faces in high places are not going to save us … Just look at the Black women’s hand voting against a ceasefire in Gaza”
– Professor Ruha Benjamin
Israel, oil and gas and the Zionist/Israel lobby will never allow any prominent politician to protest Israel’s crimes and genocide, and will never allow them to stop funding the mass murder and torture of innocent citizens, mostly kids and women. It’s no longer the United States of America, it’s the Israeli States of America.
Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being ‘childless,’ testing Trump’s new running mate by Adriana Gomez Licon, The Associated Press, Jul 23, 2024, Halifax City News
Comments JD Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced, testing the young conservative senator in his early days campaigning as part of the Republicans’ presidential ticket.
During Vance’s bid for the Senate in Ohio, he said in a Fox News interview that “we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats,” and referred to them as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He said that included Harris, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.
“How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?” asked Vance, who is now Donald Trump’s running mate. Harris became stepmother to two teenagers when she married entertainment lawyer Douglas Emhoff in 2014. And Buttigieg announced he and his husband adopted infant twins in September 2021, more than a month before Vance made those comments.
The clip has started to spread online, with Hillary Clinton sharing it in a Tuesday post on X and adding sarcastically “what a normal, relatable guy who certainly doesn’t hate women having freedoms.”
The recirculated comment may be a sign of the GOP ticket’s troubles appealing to women voters, and on the issue of reproductive rights. It follows the explosive entrance in the race of Harris, who secured the support of enough delegates to become the official nominee in less than 32 hours after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid.
It also lays out some of the fears expressed by strategists that Trump took a political risk in picking a running mate who has been in Congress less than two years and is largely untested on a bigger stage. Trump liked Vance’s telegenic evangelical bible-vomitingqualities and said he reminded him of “a young Abraham Lincoln.”
The Harris campaign contested Vance’s stance, saying “every single American has a stake in this country’s future.”
“Ugly, personal attacks from JD Vance and Donald Trump are in line with their dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion, decimate our democracy, and gut Social Security,” said James Singer, a Harris campaign spokesman, referring to a policy and personnel plan for a second Trump term that was crafted by a host of former administration officials. Trump has been trying to distance himself from it. Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services should “pursue a robust agenda” to protect “the fundamental right to life.” While the rich and powerful are aided by scuzz bags like Trump, Pierre Picklehead, Steve Harper, Danielle Smith, Scott Moe et al propagandizing and deregulating to hasten the fossil fuel industry’s destruction of human life and that of many other species.However, the document contains no proposals to cut Social Security, though the Heritage Foundation that oversaw it has long pushed for changes to the entitlement. The plan outlines a dramatic expansion of presidential power copying the lipsticked pig, Steve Harperand a plan to fire as many as 50,000 government workers.
Vance’s spokesperson said the Harris campaign is lying about Vance’s views, noting her record is “littered with countless failures and disasters.
“It’s well known that Senator Vance found success in life due in large part to the influence of strong female role models like his grandmother,” spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk said.
Vance, 39, is a former Marine and businessman who was first elected to public office in 2022. He wrote the 2016 bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy,” and developed a strong rapport with Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and leading MAGA figures with his personal story of growing up in Appalachia in poverty with a mother battling drug addiction could resonate with voters.
One of the major questions Vance is facing is on his abortion stance. Vance previously said he would support a federal bill to prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but believes in certain exceptions.If extreme misogynistic religious politicians were sincere in their blithering about the sanctity of life, they’d 1) immediately stop all fossil fuel exploration, production and transport, and 2) mandate vasectomies for all early teens, with reversals permitted only when mature enough to raise and protect a child.
In 2021, Vance floated an idea to allow parents to cast ballots on behalf of their children, saying during a speech at the conservative nonprofit Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Virginia that people who don’t have children “don’t have as much of an investment in the future of the country.”In my observations of human behaviour, many of those with kids are less interested in the futures of their kids than those without, and most with kids do shit all to try to reduce their pollution and harms to other species, air, land and water.
“When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power, you should have more of an availability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don’t have kids,” he said.JD Vance = Ass wart of stupidity.
When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. It’s pain only for others.
It’s the same thing when you are stupid.
— Richard Feynman
“Doesn’t this mean that non parents don’t have as much of a voice as parents?” he said critics would then ask. “Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how a democracy functions? Yes, absolutely.”And yet, I am forced to pay very high school taxes every year with my property taxes even though I have no kids so that people with kids pay less (they ought to pay more for each child birthed for the many harms their offspring bring to the world). Tax theft trickery used by the mega rich and powerful to keep people making babies which the rich use to get richer.
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@jerichobrown:
The real difference between Harris & Rump is that the former has to win this race under the pressure of issues both international and domestic from fracking in Pennsylvania to genocide in Palestine. Rump doesn’t have to do anything at all. No one ever requires anything of him.
Jon-Marc Valentini-McDonald@JonMarcValMcD:
Nothing ever. Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine if VP Harris’ name was all over the Epstein files? Or if she had five different kids with three different men? Or paid off a male pornstar for an affair she had while Doug was home taking care of one of those five kids?
Su Zi@xsuzi00:
The pastors are already calling her Jezebel
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Former GA Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has endorsed Kamala Harris for President:
“This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a convicted felon without a moral compass”
Sandy Garossino@Garossino:
The GOP runs SCOTUS as a DEI program for Catholics, so what’s their problem?
21% of Americans are Catholic
67% of SCOTUS judges are Catholic.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1:
Maybe good moment to re-up Ag Secretary Ezra Taft Bensen’s 1962 question about biologist Rachel Carson: “Why is this spinster without children so worried about genetics?”
Conclusion: she was a likely communist.
Her book Silent Spring warned about prenatal pesticide exposures.
Perhaps related: Benson went on to become a Prophet of Mormon Church.
… It’s good to remember that the suspicions and preoccupations of conservative white men about the fertility of women leaders have a long history.
@JohnVaillant:
It’s the same damn note whenever a woman names what demands naming.
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill@JacquelynGill:
For all the childless, child free, stepmoms, child loss folks, and others feeling tender today because of the disgusting attacks on VP Harris for not having biological children: I see you. May we find productive ways to channel our pain and our rage.
Farnad Ezati-Talab, PhD@DocDarnell:
For reference, this is the same Ezra Taft Benden who became leader of the Mormon church.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1:
Correct. And the misspelling is my fault. It’s Ezra Taft Benson, in case anyone wants to google him, and he was the Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower.
Farnad Ezati-Talab, PhD @DocDarnell:
I forgot about that last part. As a former Mormon I met him once when he was the prophet of the church. It was lost on me then how misogynistic and patriarchal the church is. I don’t know a church or religion that isn’t; patriarchy and religion feed off each other.Makes me angry now that I look back on it. Thanks for referencing Rachel Carson. This is important.
Silvia Secchi@ProfSecchi:
Something that should be more widely known IMO is how much Rachel Carson went after USDA’s pro-chemical industry policies.
USDA AND Monsanto attacked her for her science.
Plus ça change and all that
Cartoon of Eve running free, escaping the patriarchy (Adam and God, who look as stupid as JD and Trump):
Titled: If only things had happened this way.