Comments on: I have a trivial question about J. D. Vance

By: Checklight

Checklight — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:21:19 +0000

Junior:
In Bonekemper’s “The Myth of the Lost Cause”, about the way Dixiecrats manipulated the Civil War narrative, there’s a quote about how bad emancipation would be for slaves deprived of the benevolent, civilizing hands of their white masters.

It reads very well as a description of Democrat-run inner cities. Hmm….

[I can’t cite it correctly, because I listened to the Audible edition. *sigh” I’m going to have buy the Kindle edition, or even, Horrors! the dead tree.]

By: junior

junior — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:31:08 +0000

Skip –

He has an autobiography – Hillbilly Elegy. I’m reading it right now, and think it’s a good read. The focus is as much his life as it is the hillbilly culture that he grew up in, and the effect it has on those caught up in it.

I suspect that a lot of parallels can be drawn with the inner-city black culture.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:25:26 +0000

Tall enough to serve in the USMC.

By: ObloodyHell

ObloodyHell — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:37:22 +0000

}}} But humans naturally prefer their leaders tall.

“We can’t fake anything. These guys are short. We have to face it.
– A Japanese Foreign Ministry Official, in the late 1980s, on complaints
by Japanese upset that their leaders look shorter than American leaders.

They particularly prefer them to be taller than The Other Guys.

😀

}}} I’m shocked, shocked that there is wrong information on the internet. Where are my winnings?

I’ve done an internet search, and it says they are in the mail. 😛

By: FOAF

FOAF — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:43:55 +0000

I’m shocked, shocked that there is wrong information on the internet. Where are my winnings?

By: R2L

R2L — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:34:48 +0000

Of course the real question is not “how tall does he stand?”
But “does he stand on constitutional principles?”
So far the answer seems to be Yes!

By: Johann Amadeus Metesky

Johann Amadeus Metesky — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:02:54 +0000

Vance is the first major party candidate for president or vice president to have a beard in over a century.
Benjamin Harrison was the last president to have a full beard and he served in the 1890s.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:42:49 +0000

I never realized that dick Cheney was a bit of a runt. Putin too, never realized that about him either.

By: Karmi

Karmi — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:46:36 +0000

Trump and Vance were ‘of similar height.’

By: Skip

Skip — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:14:49 +0000

I really have no idea who he is other than common man, war veteran and good American.
If all goes right could be a fantastic MAGA leader