(07-15-2024, 04:46 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Just reading through some of his stuff and this is some bull crap.

In a 2021 speech to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Vance blamed "the childless left" for America's woes. He praised conservative Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán for encouraging married couples to have children and said that parents should "have a bigger say in how democracy functions" than non-parents.

Being a parent isn't a prerequisite to being a productive member of society.

Yeah I don't know enough about him, but the pick doesn't do anything for me on hearing the news. It doesn't change anything for me either though.  I think RFK Jr would have been the exciting pick.  I'm not saying that's the right pick and I wasn't rooting for anyone in particular, but having a mixed ticket would have certainly been newsworthy.  Politics is a team sport though, so gotta play ball sometimes.

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