I started writing these posts a long time ago, and I've been waiting all this time for the Republican Party to hit bottom. Periodically, I have to admit that the pit seems to be bottomless. I thought that, surely, Donald Trump must be it, but then came J.D. Vance.
You can't say the Republicans aren't creative. Now that Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, the Republicans have now invented a new qualification for a president--a woman president, at least--she must have borne biological children. Kamala (aka Momala) Harris is merely a stepmother, and that won't do.
Why? No reason? Did they just pull this new qualification out of their asses? Maybe, but judging by their accelerating drift towards fascism (see Project 2025), I'm thinking that they think an American woman is not whole until she has borne children for the Fatherland. Blonde children, preferably. Well, I don't think Kamala could have accomplished that magic trick. Nor can Usha Vance, I'm betting. Nor can J.D.'s couch cushions. If enough women didn't already know that Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate them, I think J.D. Vance may have communicated that message even more clearly.
Republicans have become aggressively odious, and it has to be because they want to deflect public attention from their own sins. Some of the loudest people in the party are the ones who are in no position to throw stones. The jacketless pedophile-enabler in the House is one of the most vocal slanderers. Then there's the vaping public groin-grabber. The Republican voters are not sending us their best people.
