Monthly Archives: September 2024

Some Thoughts On J.D. Vance

Politics, Rants

With Election Day just seven weeks away I thought to take some time and talk about the GOP V.P. Candidate J. D. Vance. What I want to talk about is not really his positions on most of the burning issues. Mostly because just like Donald Trump he has not really stated any positions on any. No what I’m going to talk about is just how good a campaigner he is.

To put it bluntly, he is not a good campaigner. In fact I’d rat him as one of the two worst campaigners I’ve ever watched over the last 60 years. He is right down there with Dukakis and Palin. He is not ready for prime time. Unfortunately he is also a very bad conman, unlike Donald Trump. Nor is the Trump team ready to take him in hand and try and get him out of his mistakes . I think this is because the Trump team does not have any mechanism to detect and correct mistakes made by a candidate, be it Trump or Vance.

So when the statements made by Vance about “Single Cat Ladies” came out all he could do is double down. He didn’t even try and use the classic Trump move of saying it was all “fake” and he never said it. Nor was he able to deal with the false story about immigrants in Springfield. Nor did he come to the defense of a town in the state he is the Senator for. No, all he could do is talk about how bad the immigrant situation is. Not even drawing a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. No, all Vance seems to be able to do is try and be more forcefully angry about the “State of the Nation” than Trump. An I will give him this he does sound a lot more angry than Trump.

An finally I wish to talk about his delivery, how he sounds. Even when he gets angry he is almost monotone, there is very little change in volume or intonation. He actually makes Trump sound good. An now I will say one thing he does do well.

He stays on topic and he doesn’t ramble. He does speak in whole complete sentences that do tie together in some fashion. Not that what he says makes much sense but it is not just words strung together. I will give him that.

I can’t wait to watch the V.P. Debate when he goes up against Couch Walz.

And Now For Something Different

General, Law, Philosophy, Politics,
SCOTUS 2024

I thought I’d take some time to discuss some of the problems that Trump and his SCOTUS will be facing in the years to come. These issues wouldn’t really matter except for the political myths in this country. Things like the law treats everyone the same and no-one is above or beyond the reach of the law. Basically our belief in fair play.

This “Presidential Immunity” is definitely something the average man is not going to like once he becomes aware of it. It smells to much like King Charles I defense “the King can do no Wrong” for my taste. But beyond that the right is going to have a problem with how to deal with it if Harris wins come November. Just imagine what a “liberal” can do if they have total immunity for “Official” Presidential acts? What I’d first see being done is coming up with a very very limited definition of “Official Acts”. The problem they face is that someday, when a “Conservative” is elected they will not want to limit his/her actions. This is a classic problem fact by Authoritarians; you want to give the Autocrat as much unlimited power when they will do what you want and limit the power as much as possible when you think they will do things you don’t want.

So eventually SCOTUS is going to face having to either take what ever definition of “Official Acts” a lower court comes up with or develop one of their own. Neither options is very palatable to this court. They face the traditional issue of having several different, and maybe quite different, definitions to select from. None of them very palatable. If so, then they face the problem selecting one or coming up with their own. Which leaves them with the problem of taking the heat for what they rule. An given just how much a “Hot Button” issue Presidential Immunity” threatens to become I think they will be loath to do it.

One thing that could happen is they could put things off till a few more new Justices are added to the court. This could really work well if the people selected are not on the renowned Heritage Foundation Judges list. Then the court could do several things, including reversing the ruling completely. They can also hope that the proposed idea of a constitutional amendment to remove the immunity comes to pass.

This last is what I hope for and I’ve lost faith in the good since of any of the people put forth if the Heritage Foundation approves of them.