Make no mistake about what J.D. Vance did yesterday in his speech.

[madaboutharry]

He said that VP Kamala Harris never showed any "gratitude" and wasn't "grateful" enough about America.
This is racist bullshit that racists white people say about black people all the time. We all know that.

He then went on to say: "All she did was collect a government check for the past 20 years."

Say that out loud to yourself: "All she did was collect a government check for the past 20 years."
Here is the translation: He was calling VP Kamala Harris, and by extension black women, "welfare queens."

I have a slogan that the republicans should adopt: No Dog Whistles, Only Megaphones!

[Solly Mack]

1. Yep

[BonnieJW]

74. And what does SENATOR Vance think he does?

Collects a government check. What did he do as a marine? Collected a government check.

[Solly Mack]

75. For him and his ilk, he's a white man who earned it. Everybody else? Shiftless, lazy, malingering Welfare Queens and

cheats.

Vance is one of those "white makes right" folks.

[COL Mustard]

106. Watch JD's head explode if Kamala picks

Buttigieg as her running mate...someone else who wore the uniform and faced hostile fire.

[Dulcinea]

112. I hope that happens!

JD will have to debate Secretary Pete. Wouldn't miss that for the world. Pete will turn JD into roadkill.

[Solly Mack]

115. I like Pete Buttigieg. Vance's head exploding would be something to see.

[stage left]

123. I really can't think of

anybody who would be better. So smart.

[babylonsister]

110. "white makes right"

Exactly, Solly, and so many of them think that way.

Exciting times.

[Solly Mack]

116. They do, indeed. I'm getting a little too old for too much excitement. :)

Well, for the Trump/Vance kind of excitement anyway.

Hey, babylonsister!

[czarjak]

122. White Right Might

Or wrong? Doesn't matter, their end game.

[YoshidaYui]

119. sounds like a

white supremacist to me

[Solly Mack]

120. Precisely

[mucifer]

2. This has worked it the past. I don't think

It works now.

[yardwork]

24. It's so 20th century. Vance can't come up with anything better.

They've got nothing.

[PCIntern]

3. What an overeducated slimy piece of shit he is

[Layzeebeaver]

33. "Over"? You mean under?

[PCIntern]

37. No

He’s a Yalie.

[Layzeebeaver]

49. lol

[sop]

72. A Yale education is a terrible thing to waste.

Ron DeSantis, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh....the list of Yalies who misused their educations is long.

[PCIntern]

76. Yep.

Second only to Harvard.

[The Roux Comes First]

121. And Princeton has Its Own Problems

[The Roux Comes First]

100. So Was Shrub!

[PCIntern]

102. You betcha!

And a cheerleader there if I recall correctly!

[Cha]

125. And de Santis is a Yalie with honors and got a Harvard Law Degree..

which, of course, tells us.. It doesn't matter if they get degrees at Prestigeous Universities.. they can still be Viciously Dumb and spitting snake venom.

And then there's brilliant people like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Hillary who use their intelligence for the Betterment the Planet.

[The Wandering Harper]

4. I was very confused about "welfare queens" when I was a kid

we were on welfare during much of my childhood.
Sure as heck weren't living like royalty

[spanone]

5. They've only just begun. They're racists. Plain and simple.

[Layzeebeaver]

35. And there you did it. Spoiled a good Carpenters solo...

[spanone]

36. Bwahahahahahaaa

[Towlie]

6. Expect an increase in the frequency and atrocity of Republican lies as the confidence they had gives way to desperation.

[barbtries]

87. yep.

they're already off the rails now they're going to be working their way through the weeds and the swamp all the way to the deep blue sea, and may their party drown in it.

[Botany]

7. All she did was collect government checks

Top of her class @ Howard
@ on near the top of her class @ U.C. Berkeley Law School
Assistant D.A. Alameda County
D.A. Alameda County
Private Practice Law
Assistant D.A. San Francisco County
D.A. San Francisco County
A.G. State of California
U.S. Senator for California
Vice President of the United States

[madaboutharry]

13. She didn't go to law school at Berkeley.

She went to law school at U.C. Hastings.

Hastings is in San Francisco. It's a great UC school. But it's a different school from Berkeley.

[Botany]

18. Thanks for the correction

I knew it was U.C. and I thought it was Berkeley.

[Dear_Prudence]

55. Rephrase 'near the top' to 'cream of the crop'?

When I was a kid, the brightest kids were called "The cream of the crop." That makes those students among the best select few, while 'near the top' sounds too much like 'a near miss." So, I recommend listing Kamala a "the cream of the crop" at the law school.

[Marcuse]

130. Kamala is the cream of the crop, but Trump/Vance proves that scum also rises.

[LaMouffette]

8. Per Statista, in 2022 there were 19.23 million Americans working in state and government jobs. Vance just insulted

them all.

Plus, isn't he in the process of applying for a government job?

God, he's dumb. And a racist dog-whistler.

[madaboutharry]

15. He is in the Senate.

He is collecting a government check now! He is a jackass.

[LaMouffette]

60. Oh, that's right! Can't wait to see this dumb ass debate whomever Kamala picks to be her VP!

[COL Mustard]

107. To be fair...

He was a jackass long before he was in the Senate.

[Freethinker65]

9. Does Vance realize his time in the military, US Senate, and should he be elected VP (he won't be), is public service?

He wrote a mediocre book and got pumped with BS from a conservative think tank and somehow, with only that experience (and lots of financial backing from groomers), got elected to be a Senator from Ohio. He obviously didn't get elected because he was a critical thinker. What an idiot.

[Botany]

16. Vance won in Ohio in '22 because the top of the ticket.... the Governor's race .... was a screaming turd

… who lost by 30 points which pulled down Tim Ryan and 3 excellent Ohio Supreme Court
Candidates too. Ohio has also become ground zero for disinformation and right wing/christo
fascist shit. We also had lots of uneducated racists too.

[modrepub]

10. So What Does That Make Repub Politicians

Like Mitch McConnell who have been government employed for their entire careers? You'd figure some journalist with an ounce of integrity would ask Vance about that in public, right?

[CousinIT]

11. Decoding MAGAtSpeak: he was calling her "uppity"

And a welfare queen.

We was in college, became a lawyer, a state prosecutor, AG of California, Senator, and then VP.

Those "government checks" are what put Vance's ass through college. He is the one who ought to show some goddamned gratitude.

And "uppity"? That little weasel is the walking epitome of that!

[musclecar6]

12. A perfect pick

He'll appeal to all the racists, gay bashers, mysoginist's, women haters, etc.

[tetedur]

43. They are all women haters, even the women.

At least he didn't call her a whore yet. They are selling a fuck Biden t-shirt that does.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

61. He's already gone there in the past

saying she slept her way up with Willie Brown. Its Trump, he lives in the sewer.

[CrispyQ]

81. Vance will not get Trump one single more vote & he will turn off a lot of independents & undecideds.

I read a great article yesterday how Trump was so certain Biden would never drop out. He literally couldn't imagine Biden dropping out cuz he would never drop out, so against the advice of some of his campaign, they went all in on blitzing Biden & did hardly anything about Harris. Convention speakers asked the campaign, should I mention Harris, & they were instructed, no focus on Biden. Apparently Trump was stunned when Biden dropped out.

I think it was an article in The Atlantic.

[Mariana]

89. Then Trump gains nothing

Because all of those people were going to vote for him anyway.

[Irish_Dem]

14. She has worked her entire adult life as a public servant.

She is smart and charismatic enough to have made good money in the private sector.
But she chose the hard slog of being a prosecutor and AG.

She fought hard for the people of California for years.

What the H has Vance done?

[lastlib]

78. He has fought damned hard for his billionaire buds/patrons

...and would continue to do as VP. He is their investment. If TCF were to cross the Stygian river, Sofa-Boy would be their golden goose.

[Irish_Dem]

79. He is the jezebel.

Selling himself for cash.

[COL Mustard]

109. To be fair (not that I really want to be fair to him)

But he did serve in the military, in a combat zone. That ought to count for something.

[Irish_Dem]

111. Yes he was a correspondent in the Marines.

U.S. Marine Corps, where he served from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent, with six months in Iraq.

[COL Mustard]

113. It's still six months longer

Than I have. I was in the Army for over two years after 9/11. I fully expected to get sent someplace but it didn’t happen.

[Irish_Dem]

114. You never knew if you would be shipped out and in harm's way.

It could have happened. One day you are stateside, next day heading out to parts unknown.

[pfitz59]

17. JD will have the best propagandists

That Elon Musk and Peter Thiel can buy. He is their puppet.

[lapfog_1]

19. I remember one Thanksgiving

maybe a decade ago... sitting down at the table with my sister, her husband, and her 4 adult children. They were all budding MAGAts at the time. And the pre-dinner conversation turned to politics and they all sat there and slammed the "freeloaders" and do nothing government workers... etc.

For the sake of peace in the family I said nothing.

7 adults at the table include myself.

All 6 of the complainers were getting money from the government. My Brother-in-law was getting thousands a month in a disability checks, one of the kids worked as a sheriff's deputy for the county, another worked as an IT worker for the state university, another one was in the military ( Navy ), and the last kid worked for a private company but she worked on a government grant to study a new drug from a big pharma. and even my sister was getting money for a job that had mass mailing contracts for the federal government. Every LAST one of them was doing a job that directly or indirectly was being paid by the government.

I will never understand these people.

[canuckledragger]

45. I understand those kind of people.

They're hypocrites to the extreme, because it's different for them when they mooch from the government in one form or another.

Paul Ryan comes to mind, whose rich family wouldn't be so rich without the government contracts they depend on, along with him using his father's government pension survivor's benefits to put himself through school, and having his family home declared a heritage site so that the government would pay for it's upkeep. Absolute hypocrite, and greedy, seeing how hard he worked to take away the opportunities he benefited from away from everyone else.

[whathehell]

118. I don't know how you managed to stay quiet..

I would have had to speak up and "raised their consciousnes", as it were.

[oasis]

20. I dare JD to repeat that in a debate w/Kamala.

She’ll reduce him to pudding.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

21. JD will not get that chance, unfortunately...

If the felon brings it up, Kamala will be ready for it.

[oasis]

22. Right. Different day!

[madaboutharry]

25. No doubt that would have been epic!

Now I am looking forward to Harris reducing Trump to pudding!

[oasis]

31. Meltdown for the ages, on Fox no less.

[ChazInAz]

68. He's more than halfway there, already.

[lastlib]

82. I don't think it'll be pudding.....

Certainly won't smell like it.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

26. No worries...

[genxlib]

93. At this point, that would not be the match-up

When Joe was still in, the VP debate would have been JD vs Harris.

Now it is Trump vs Harris or not at all.

It wouldn't surprise me if they tried to say it should be JD vs Harris just to try and belittle her back to VP but no way should she do that.

[ecstatic]

27. Yeah that's disgusting. He's collecting

government checks himself for doing absolutely nothing.

But please proceed jd. You are uniting us and lighting a fire in all of us. We will defeat you and shitler.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

28. JD Asswipe, member of the United States Senate

A. Receives government checks.

B. Receives full healthcare, for himself and his family, at taxpayer expense. While he calls for the P2025 plan to revoke the ACA.

He’s got a pretty good deal going, latched onto the public tit as he is, while railing against a POC who has worked hard her entire life.

[GreenWave]

29. My slogan is brief and applicable even to their crazy comments:

Unfit to govern

[johnnyfins]

30. I wish there was a way to get the

"Doughboy" name to stick.

[oasis]

32. Jackass Doughboy

[llmart]

70. That's why he grew the beard.

He thinks it hides the fact that he looks like a baby-faced bowl of pudding without it.

[onecaliberal]

34. Rapist supporter said what? That's the response to these tropes.

We do not have time for this bullshit. We've got a lot of work to do. Let's get to that.

[Farmer-Rick]

38. All Pedo Trump did

Aside from raping little girls, was collect a government paycheck for the past 8 years.

And he's a convicted felon still getting his $230,000+ government funded free bee.

Get a real job Pedo.

[lefthandedskyhook]

39. Jaydee abuses women, children, cats and the TRUTH

nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

91. Abuses kids women and

Cats?!! I hate him even more!! Don’t fuck with the Cats!!🐈 🐈‍⬛😾 Vancy pants.

[twodogsbarking]

40. Now there are reports that Trump picked the wrong VP candidate.

I knew this would come. Ha ha.

[jaxexpat]

41. It is a great day, 44 years waiting, when the "welfare queen'' meme is finally recognized for what it always was,

racist propaganda and a mean-spirited relic of Reagan Republicanism, a half-witted president from a backwards and, judged in the aspect of actual evidence, universally condemned era.

In addition to half-baked hate mongering, Reagan was also instrumental in laying the foundations of for-profit prisons and narco-terrorism by coupling universal homelessness with an endless/pointless war on drugs. These were real city-destroying social innovations which, even now, showcase the enduring nature of deeds done with well monied smugness and "Genuine American Made" stupidity.

[ms liberty]

42. He is specifically why I'd like to see Pete Buttigieg as the VP nominee

Because in a civil, reasoned tone he would shred Guyliner's every argument with a smile and a friendly zinger at the end. I am really looking forward to seeing this little twerp taken to the woodshed by our candidate, whomever it may be.

[DinahMoeHum]

44. When he says "Marines", say "Rear Echelon Mother Fucker"

Because he was in Public Affairs, not in actual combat.

[relayerbob]

46. "collect a government check"

While prosecuting assholes like him and his boss

[cynical_idealist]

47. their "stinktanks" are working overtime to come up with new BS

[I_UndergroundPanther]

92. LOL stinktanks

That is great😹

[thomhartmann]

48. Amen! Here are the receipts:

https://hartmannreport.com/p/jd-vances-audacious-attack-demands-f35

[karin_sj]

50. That came to my mind immediately

What an utter a-hole. What has he ever done to help people or improve their lives? NOTHING! Keep running your ignorant mouth, JD. Every toxic, racist, misogynistic word helps us get more voters.

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

51. The last words that came out of my racist...

...mother in law was "He should be grateful", because she fell ill and as my wife walked her to her room, through the living room and she heard the tv mention Colin Kaepernick. She was 49er's fan until Colin of course. When he courageously took a knee, she couldn't keep her mouth shut, until I "had the discussion" with her. So she didn't say it again until her frigging death bed.

(She lived with us her last four years and is now deceased.)

I will not speak well of that woman because she was a stone cold racist and she seethed once I told her she could not say those things without my verbal pushback. She should expect me to respond to her racists comments. In addition, she should consider what she is saying which is:

"African Americans are to shut up and be grateful as police murder them, and America continues it's systemic racist policies against African Americans. Yet, they are to love America and be grateful."

I've heard it from other people too over the years. It's ridiculous and pathetic, but we all know why and how the attacks work.

However, this time we are or should be ready and I argue there's only one way to counter their racist attacks, which is; Attack them back. Call them out. Highlight the logical conclusions of their statements. Call them assholes too.

(I am not a knee jerk reactionary. I understand the tactics of being quiet, of temporary retreat and sometimes, taking the high road so to speak, but we're WAY past that with the religiously insane and the Republicons. They will not stand down in any way. The only way to defeat bullies is to beat the shite out of them. It's much more than that of course, but I'm telling everyone - ridiculing the Republicons' racist and often ridiculous messaging is the necessary tactic now.)

The white boys and girls will cry and threaten, they will whine and call us demonic - the goal is to force them into errors and to become so incensed they show who they really are on camera. Kock them off their center(s). Then hit them until they fall.

Show the casual voters what this is really about, and how Democrats fight too, and let them decide who is being honest. It's obvious, unless you're a religiously insane sociopath.

My goodness -

[summer_in_TX]

117. We can also flood the zone with our joy and the truth about our candidate.

Counter-programming.

Studying what's trending and then countering the lies where they seem to be about to go viral. Plus slapping down their racist and misogynist nonsense.

Information warfare has been happening awhile and it's high time we counter it.

Not that we want to amplify the small accounts that say something, because responding will draw attention. But the bigger ones, yes.

BTW, not my idea but that of Jennifer Mercieca (@JenMercieca) who teaches rhetoric at Texas A&M.

[Martin68]

52. Typical MAGA racist bullshit. As expected, it didn't take them long.

The misogyny comes next. Then the commie-baiting. It's like clockwork with these zombies.

[Peregrine Took]

53. Was this said in his second speech....the one he re-configured?

In his first speech he told that "Mtn Dew" joke...and no one laughed.

I heard during his second speech of the day he dropped the joke (!) minimized his populist crap and hit at Kamala a lot harder.

Strange how he changed his mind so much it that time between speeches.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

54. That was one loud

dog whistle. You would think there would be a lot of stories about this in the media. Barely a chirp about in traditional media. I guess anything short of the N word is OK by them.

[LilElf70]

56. He's Trumps lapdog

He fits right in with all the other asswipes. They never know when to keep their mouth shut.
Just another magat moron.

The stupidity is astounding.

[Aristus]

57. Defaulting to his (fictional) hillbilly roots, I guess.

"Collecting a government check".

He was pretty careful not to say that she wasn't working for it. Kamala Harris has a spectacular record of service.

But he knows his ass-scratching supporters will draw the inference...

[mwb970]

58. What filthy people! Yuck.

[Rebl2]

59. Isn't he

collecting a government check too?

[Aviation Pro]

62. Ok, baby daddy

So, what do you have in your background, J.D., if that's your real name?

Kelly or Shapiro will take you apart, fuckwit.

[iluvtennis]

63. Working as a CA prosecutor and AG is a "welfare queen" -- she was working for the people. The real welfare queens are

corporations with all of the tax cuts they get from the GOP. Let's talk about them.

[Bitbit]

64. He works on average 150 days a year for a gov check

The American public works 260 or more (full time work).
The President and VP are on call 24 hours day, mostly.

He needs to sit down and stfu.

[The Wizard]

65. Why didn't Vance just say what all Reuugnants say when no one is watching

She's a nixxer. For Trump and Maga bigotry is normal.

[alarimer]

66. This is an insult to every government worker as well.

I know the GOP hates everyone who works for the government in any capacity.

I’m also sure J.D. had some “government checks” too. Like in the Senate, which I forgot he was in, somehow.
Also, who paid for his schooling? Yale is expensive.

[patphil]

67. All she did was collect a government check for the past 20 years...huh?

Kamala Harris has an impressive work resume, as a District Attorney, State Attorney General, US Senator, and Vice-President. That's quite a bit. She's served the state of California, and the nation, and has excellent credentials; very well qualified to be President.

JD Vance has about a year and a half of time as a US Senator, and has not distinguished himself in any way. I don't think he can point to a single major piece of legislation that he has authored, and got passed. On a scale of 1-10, his leadership skills rate about a 1.
At this point, Vance is simply picking up a paycheck each month. He's quite a few years away from having the "creds" that allow him to rate someone else's career performance.

He's probably the least qualified candidate for VP in the nation's history.
I don't expect him to bring any votes to Trump's table, and may actually cost him votes.

[Mopar151]

103. Lower than Quayle? Shocked, i tell you! nt

[CBHagman]

69. She holds criminals accountable. J.D. Vance runs with them!

It's on.

[AKwannabe]

71. What is he collecting?

A government check!
Stupid is as stupid does…

[Aaeia]

73. Dog Whistles

Isn't that exactly what he's doing????

[MagickMuffin]

77. MAGAPHONE is the new dog whistle

Their racist tropes are going to get More Souls to the Polls!

[Turbineguy]

80. Vance thinks he'll become President.

Especially if the Democrats take the Senate and the House. It would only be a matter of time until Trump is impeached again.

[joanbarnes]

83. this from the Hillbilly Elegy guy.....

[Biglinda 52]

84. The GOP is mouthing...

that Harris is a DEI choice. I say Vance is a STUPID choice.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

85. Speaking of government money, didn't Vance go to college on the G.I. Bill?

This Bozo also went to college on the G.I. Bill.

Thank you, FDR, for signing that bill. Very Democratic of you (capital "D&quot .

Vance, acknowledge that you got "government checks", too.

[barbtries]

86. such blatant racism.

she worked her ass off and still does.

republicans are so bad.

[rubbersole]

88. JD - Phony Phuckin' Hillbilly

STFU until you apologize. you don't have enough class.

[SomedayKindaLove]

104. Suburban Hillbilly?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

90. Whistle

I would say
No more dog whistles they are dirty mean vicious mangy Republican dogs.

[poozwah]

94. unconcerned

vance, and most of the magats, just don’t care. race, an anagram of care, will play a very important role in the november election.

[bluewater]

95. Thank you for highlighting Vance's racist dog whistles!

Though the very term "dog whistles" isn't really adequate to describe Vance's ham-fisted racism.

[FakeNoose]

96. This sounds like something that despicable Stephen Miller would have written

I wonder if he's moonlighting as a speechwriter for Vance now? Or maybe Miller wrote it for Chump and Chump decided it was too much for him. Now he's going to make Vance do the "dirty work."

[debm55]

97. OMG so true. And my husband collected a government check for almost 40 years as a Federal Employee.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

98. JD Vance is the gift that keeps on giving.

He's got to be a big Second Amendment addict. He keeps shooting himself in the foot.

[BComplex]

99. MAGAphones. That's what the MSM has become. And THAT is what we should start calling them!

I misread the last line of your post, madaboutharry! It registered in my brain as MAGAphones...and I thought "that's perfect for how we describe the mainstream media"! I love DU.

[MontanaMama]

101. JD will be a drag on the Felonious Rapist's campaign.

He's not good looking, he's not smart, he's not funny. He's a big doughy dud. The Felonious Rapist didn't need him to win OH...that's in the bag. The FR won't get one additional vote that he didn't already have because he chose the Dud. The media is beginning to point this out and when the FR finally figures it out, he's going to have a big mad.

[Dem4life1970]

105. He is an empty suit.

The other day he almost did the Jeb Bush (2016) "please clap" when he told his stupid, racist(?), Diet Mountain Dew joke and none of the MAGA crowd laughed. They just stared at him awkwardly.

[NBachers]

108. How "Willie Horton" of him

[Cha]

124. What a Steaming Pile of Shit... The

Maga Ass faces don't even like this Dirty little magat.. one of their own. lol

I'm not even gong to respond to This Venomous Rascist POS.

I'm sure POC & WOC got the message loud and Clear.. GREAT GOTV For Kamala..

You fucking Idiot.

[RandySF]

126. He drips with entitlement.

[applegrove]

127. Gratitude to me would involve following the Constitution.

Now who ignores those laws and norms? DJT, Scotus and the MAGA GOP.

[keithbvadu2]

128. Vance's white supremacists will cheer mightily for this.

[Aussie105]

129. Proof that J.D. Vance is a time traveller.

Straight from an earlier century, where men were dominant, and people of color picked cotton and were beaten into showing gratitude to their White Masters.

Thanks for showing us who you are, Mr Jackass Dunderhead Vance!

(Is this guy for real? Tell me it isn't so!)