Monday October 7th, 2024
My Dear America:
I've been watching some very interesting but highly disturbing Television this Past week.
The Vice Presidential Debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz was evenly matched and exceptionally revealing concerning the views and values of the two candidates.
JD was very slick and polished in his debate style and I would guess might have been very appealing to the MAGA Crowd and to his running mate, whose views JD certainly tried his best to mainstream.
On the other hand, Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz seemed to easily handle the answers to questions posed to him by the CBS Moderators, Nora O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan. Walz appeared to be a bit nervous at first during the debate but he seemed to calm down quickly and the longer the debate continued the more stable and relatable the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate seemed to be.
Although Vance didn't really have much to work with in defending not only Donald Trump's extreme views and conduct he did his best to make Donald Trump seem like just another reasonable candidate. But although JD Vance did his best to put lipstick on this pig it was an impossible task.
Vance tried to put forth the notion that Donald Trump had actually been a supporter of the ACA (Obamacare) Health Plan. Walz was in the House of Representatives at the time that Trump and the Republicans tried over and over to kill Obamacare and Tim Walz reminded JD Vance that John McCain helped Democrats put the screws to Trump's plan to deep six Obamacare and helped to save the day and save Obamacare.
Tim put the finishing touch on JD Vance when he challenged JD to answer the all important question of "Who Won the 2020 Election?"
Vance answered the question by saying "I'm looking forward" and in my estimation his refusal to answer that question lost the debate at that moment.
Although I think that realistically Vance and Walz both did very well in the debate, I was disturbed that Vance did as well as he did primarily because of what I saw and heard on The Rachel Maddow show the night before the Vice Presidential Debate. Certainly I had not been a fan of JD Vance and was disturbed by the lies and distortions he had been peddling about Haitian Immigrants "Eating The Dogs" and Cats in Springfield, Ohio that was total Bullshit clearly meant to ramp up negative feelings and actions towards Haitian and other Immigrants in that city and elsewhere. That despicable conduct alone made JD Vance persona non grata to me.
But Rachel's Monday Night Show revealed something that I certainly had never heard about JD Vance before that suddenly made the Vice Presidential choice of JD Vance by Donald Trump make sense. Rachel began the story by talking about the fact that she had not particularly wanted to do this story but since no other journalist or network news person had done it she felt that this story she was featuring needed to be told especially since the Vice Presidential Debate was happening the next night after her show.
Essentially, the story Rachel told involved a man named Curtis Yarvin. Rachel had learned about the story from some of JD Vance's appearances on long ago podcasts on which he hawked his book, "Hillbilly Elegy" back in the day. The Podcasts revealed that JD Vance considered himself a friend and someone who had learned from and been mentored by a man named Curtis Yarvin. Rachel even had some video of Curtis Yarvin that had been recorded back in 2012 that showed Curtis Yarvin expressing some of his rather extreme and frightening views on politics and politicians.
In the video that Rachel featured Curtis Yarvin clearly stated that he felt that all of our leaders were corrupt (Don't forget that Barack Obama was President at this time) and should be arrested or otherwise been driven from power and in their place should be a CEO or someone in charge that would be in Curtis Yarvin's words "A Dictator".
Rachel Maddow also played video of JD Vance stating that he was friends with and got a lot of his ideas from Curtis Yarvin. Clearly views like those of Curtis Yarvin are not typical of Democratic Politics.
Indeed, I just saw a video today that was produced by "The Lincoln Project" that promoted the idea that in some circles of radical right wing thought it was anticipated that Trump will win the presidency with JD Vance as his Vice President. And as Trump becomes increasingly unfit to do the Job JD Vance will force Trump out by activating the 25th Amendment and will give himself the job of CEO or more accurately Dictator of the United States of America.
Now, I really don't know if this scenario is realistic or not but just the thought of JD Vance being Vice President scares the hell out of me.
Tim Walz has tagged both Donald Trump and JD Vance as being "Weird Dudes". He is right, of course. They certainly are "Weird Dudes" but they are far more than Weird. They are people who are willing to not only give up Democracy. They appear to be more than anxious to completely give up Democracy and join the Dictators Club.
I hope for our sake that Donald Trump and JD Vance are simply "Weird Dudes" that don't know what they are doing but I am being more and more convinced that these people know exactly what they are doing and I don't know about you but these "Weird Dudes" are clearly "Dangerous Dudes" who I freely admit scare the living hell out of me.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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