The Morning Briefing: JD Vance Keeps Groin-Kicking Dem Sacred Cows
Stephen Kruiser | 2:20 AM on February 21, 2025
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Those of us who were supporting Donald Trump's return to the presidency during the 2024 campaign would have been OK with anyone he chose to be his running mate. Well, any of the ones who were in the mix, anyway. Some wild card choice out of left field might have caused an enthusiasm hiccup or two. We weren't worried about it though, Trump was the main attraction and the Veep pick wasn't going to make or break his chances in the election.
When he chose JD Vance, I thought it was a solid pick. What he's turned out to be is like a bonus gift with purchase that is worth far more than what was expected.
Vance has given the Trump 47 team a very dynamic duo at the top. Even if everyone else in the administration were milquetoast layabouts, President Trump and Vice President Vance would be steamrolling the Democrats. As I've written before, it's an unheard of luxury for the Republicans to have two media savvy men atop the Executive Branch. Both have a gift for kneecapping the bearers of false narratives.
Trump and Vance effectively counter the prevaricating messaging of the Democrats by pointing out that they're lying, and then by articulating a clear, truthful message that resonates with the American people. That's where all of their combined pre-politics experience in with the media is useful.
It's also a huge plus that Vance is fully invested in Trump's transformational vision for the United States of America. That vision's success is predicated upon undoing the almost critical damage that the Dems have been inflicting on this country for too long. Vice President Vance delivered a message to young men in attendance at CPAC (I don't miss it) regarding the anti-male fever on the Left, which Sarah wrote about here. Here are some of the VP's remarks:
My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive. The cultural message...wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men, and as young women. And we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that
That makes me want to go brew up an extra batch of toxic masculinity.
For far too long, the Republican party has elected people who were more worried about upsetting the editorial board at The New York Times than they were about failing the people who voted for them. President Trump has assembled a team full of people who don't suffer from that problem. The anti-Romneys, if you will.
Vice President Vance is particularly adept at effortlessly triggering the Dems and all they hold dear. He quickly made it to legendary GOP Veep status when he verbally ran over CBS's Margaret Brennan while she was carrying water for the open borders lunatics. His CPAC remarks took direct aim at the Rainbow Mafia and the shrieking fourth-wave feminist hordes.
I can't wait to see who he goes after next. I vote for the Climate Church cultists.
It's stunning to think that we're only a little more than a month into the Trump 47 era. There's just so much good stuff happening every day. Last evening, I got a text out of the blue from a conservative friend who wanted to let me know that she's "not tired of winning."
That's a fun thing to not be tired of.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Good morning, digital neighbors! It’s a draggy Friday morning—I think this is going to be a multi-cup-of-coffee morning. While coffee does not fix everything, it does get you out of first gear in your morning routine. Rather than tire all of us with loads of words this morning, I leave you with another coffee meme. Have a great Friday, and caffeinate as needed throughout the day!
XIII
The Proud Minister
One day there came into the Garden a man in torn clothes badly bruised and cut, who said to the Lover, “In the name of the Beloved I demand your help.”
So the Lover and the Disciple let him in and dressed his wounds and prepared the best of the vegetables from the Garden for him to eat. When his wounds had been dressed and he had eaten and rested the Lover asked him how he had fallen into this plight, to which the man replied, “I was Minister of the Beloved in a city near this place, where I preached His gospel and expounded His doctrine to the people. I pointed out to them how their sins had made them wholly hateful to the Beloved and how therefore they were utterly beyond the range of His love and He would condemn them to eternal torments, whereon some fell into despair and wept bitterly but many were angry. One day the magistrates called me before them and begged me to leave the city and preach elsewhere for they said I had made many people so angry and desperate that they feared there might be a riot and they might not be able to protect me but that I might suffer some injury. I, however, very zealous for the Beloved and believing that the magistrates only feared that their own sins might be proclaimed, preached the more vehemently, denounced the magistrates and made it abundantly clear that the whole wicked city was foredoomed to eternal punishment by the just provision of the Beloved. Whereon a mob, stirred up no doubt by the corrupt and venal magistrates, fell upon me with sticks and stones, nearly killing me and driving me out of the city in the state in which I came to you.”
“My friend,” said the Lover, “this was not a good deed of yours, for besides denying the unfathomable compassion of the Beloved, you have by your obstinacy caused these people to commit a grievous sin, and this cannot be pleasing to the Beloved, that through you who profess to be His minister the people should become worse. Surely you remember that He Himself said, ‘If they persecute you in one city flee to another.’”
Therefore the man was very angry, and cursing the Lover, said, “I see that I have had a very false report of you and I do not believe that you are a servant of the Beloved at all. When I came to you so injured for the Beloved’s sake you set before me only herbs and fruits although the garden is full of birds which you could have killed to make me a worthy meal. I shall proclaim everywhere that you are no true servant of the Beloved but a mere falterer who dares not suffer in the cause of the Beloved. Be sure that you are foreordained to eternal torments who suffer nothing here.”
For the man was so blinded by his own pride that he could not perceive the scars on the hands and feet and the brows of the Lover nor how the cloth beneath the armpits of his tunic was dyed with a red dye. So he went out of the Garden cursing and shouting.
But the Lover looked sad and said, “A man like this does much harm to the cause of the Beloved, for by thus speaking falsely about the Beloved he may bring men to fear Him but none to love Him, and by love alone can any man approach the Beloved.”
