JD Vance Goes Full Brownshirt And Says Government Should Punish "Woke" Companies

[applegrove]

BY JASON EASLEY at PoliticusUSA

JD Vance Goes Full Brownshirt And Says Government Should Punish “Woke” Companies

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/10/01/jd-vance-goes-full-brownshirt-and-says-government-should-punish-woke-companies.html

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Ohio US Senate candidate JD Vance suggested that the government should punish companies and endowments that are on the “wrong side” of the culture war.

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Vance said, “Unless you are willing to make these people feel economic pain, there’s no serious way to fight back against it. Google, Apple, Delta, they’re not going to stop beating up on Georgia for passing common-sense voter integrity measures just because we complain about it. Harvard University Endowment has a zero percent tax rate. Maybe it’s time to tax the endowment? Seize the endowment, actually penalize these endowments for being on the wrong side of some of these culture war issues.”

JD Vance Is Suggesting Authoritarianism

Vance wants to punish companies and seize the endowments of universities that hold a different point of view than he does on culture war issues.

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[applegrove]

1. They are losing.

[bluewater]

2. Good lord.

[gulliver]

3. The enlightened should disavow the label "woke," not just stop using it

I notice the term "woke" is now seldom used in a positive sense. It's become a synonym for moralistic. It needs to be dropped, along with the idea it conveys, that some are asleep. Not only should it be dropped, but it should be disavowed. Otherwise, it will be used as a label against Dem causes. The Trumpie nutball-led party will use it to force an identity on us we don't want or deserve, effectively as moralistic prigs.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. This fool

Gets WAY too much media coverage of his completely whacko ideas and beliefs.

[applegrove]

6. They think they can flip the educated by making the middle class

disappear and being poor, hell. The narcissist niallists assume educated with money will want to follow them there. The educated are not interested in living in that always corrupt Hellscape. Bet they don't enjoy corrupt denial of service attacks on their computer networks either. That is just a taste of what life for them will be like in an autocracy. Not good for anyone.

[Grokenstein]

5. "How It Was Going" vs "How It's Going Now"

Then: "Get woke, go broke! Hurf hurf durf! Get woke, go broke! Hurf hurf durf! Get woke..."

Now: "They won't go broke until Big Gubbermint, which I now advocate all of a sudden, steps in and takes their money away for disagreeing with me! I cannot anticipate a situation in which this could be a bad thing!"

[Diamond_Dog]

7. +100

[oasis]

8. Vance, the self-anointed King of Hillbillydom.

[maxrandb]

9. He is right about one thing

"Unless you are willing to make these people feel economic pain, there's no serious way to fight back against it"

My difference is in that I want the American people to cause the economic pain, NOT the power of the state.

After citizens united, the only option to get dark money and corporate money to STOP funding Nazis, is to boycott the ever loving piss out of them.

We could start with all the wealthy and corporations that advertise on Hate Radio stations. We could at least start letter writing and phone call campaigns to all those pro and college football programs that have their games broadcast on stations that give us nothing but Zombie Rush and Hannity.

The corporate "pledge" to stop donating to politicians that support white supremacist, and racist voter disenfranchisement legislation, lasted about 2 seconds.

The rich bastards that gave us Donnie Dipshit and other authoritarian Retrumplicans won't stop unless they feel economic pain

[struggle4progress]

10. ... what should we call J. D. Vance, the self-described hillbilly turned Marine

turned Ivy League law-school graduate turned venture capitalist turned Senate candidate? Words fail. His perfidy to his own people in Ohio is too big to allow him to escape with the label of “opportunist”...

... the word that enters my mind is an anatomical reference beginning with the letter a ...

Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown. His attempts at authenticity are so grating because they are so blatantly artificial. His recent tweets, for example, attempting to ingratiate himself with rural Ohioans by slagging New York City were embarrassingly amateurish ...

... Vance has not only repudiated his earlier views on Trump, but has done so with ruthless cynicism ...

... what makes Vance so awful is that he knows better. His intentional distancing from his earlier views shows that he is fully cognizant of what a gigantic fraud he’s become ...

The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance
By Tom Nichols
JULY 14, 2021