Greetings From Gilead!!
Commander J.D. Vance will be your rapist! Blessed Day!!
Hey, Ladies!! If you’re planning on voting Republican in November and don’t want to have kids, you might want to avoid having sex altogether. If J.D. Vance becomes your next Senator from Ohio, even THINKING about getting an abortion will be criminalized- much less getting one. Vance is going all in on a national abortion ban, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or saving the mother's life.
Vance is a forced birth zealot who considers rape an “inconvenience.” And, being a White Conservative Christian heterosexual, who would know better, eh?
When Lindsey Graham announced his 15-week abortion ban, Democratic Senate nominee Tim Ryan didn’t hesitate linking the grotesque proposal to his Republican opponent, J.D. Vance.
Ryan declared in a fundraising email Tuesday:
“Extremists in the Senate are capitalizing on the disastrous Dobbs decision to take away women’s reproductive freedom and codify the biggest act of government overreach of our lifetime. This latest attack on women’s freedom is exactly what J.D. Vance wanted, and exactly why Ohioans won’t let him anywhere near the Senate.”
Remember when Republicans declared themselves the party of “small government” and said they wanted to get government off the backs of Americans? Yeah? How’s that working out for you? I’d wager not so well at the moment, but if you’re a Trumper, you’re probably so deep in denial that you think I’m an alien from Planet Reebok.
Still, you have to love Vance’s not-at-all-sociopathic take on abortion:
Let's say Roe v. Wade is overruled. Ohio bans abortion in 2022 — let's say 2024. Then every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California. Of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity ... If that happens, do you need some federal response to prevent it from happening because it's really creepy? I'm pretty sympathetic to that, actually. Hopefully we get to a point where Ohio bans abortion and California and the Soroses of the world respect it.
Statements like this make me wonder- does being an asshole come naturally to Vance, or did he have to go to graduate school to learn that vital Republican skill?
I’m leaning toward him being born with a natural talent for being an asshole, and it seems clear that being on the campaign trail has only helped him perfect it. His lack of self-awareness and penchant for hypocrisy would make him an obvious choice as a Commander in Margaret Atwood’s Gilead.
Vance is more interested in scaring Trump Republicans than in telling Ohioans what he’d do to make the Buckeye State and America better. Of course, that might be because he has no positive ideas to improve anything. He does, however, excel at finding ways to scare the mental and moral Lilliputians who show up at Trump rallies for the obligatory Two-Minute Hate.
Vance thinks it’s “creepy” that Californians and his anti-semitic bogeyman would help their fellow citizens trapped within an oppressive right-wing government. Republicans might lure desperate people onto a plane and fly them to another state as a sick prank, but Democrats genuinely want to alleviate undue suffering.
The scumbag further plays into anti-semitic tropes when he suggests a Jewish billionaire is somehow encouraging Black women to have abortions, as part of some nefarious racial genocide. Vance has cast Soros as the sinister coachman in Pinocchio, who tricks kids into visiting an amusement park of the damned, but instead of turning into donkeys for the salt mines, the women receive quality health care.
Black women do disproprotionately have abortions but no one should imagine that Vance gives a damn about Black women. He callously disregards the fact that without access to safe abortions, Black women will face greater rates of maternal mortality. He certainly doesn’t support any policies that would address the issues that impact their choices.
A study from the Black Girls Equity Alliance showed that “Black youth, low-income youth, and youth from single-parent households were less likely to get formal sex ed.” Black youth are also more likely to receive “ineffective and stigmatizing” abstinence-only education.
Reliable access to contraception, such as birth control and condoms, reduces the rate at which women have unplanned pregnancies and seek abortions. But Republicans want to follow up their forced-birth laws with contraception bans. This is because, psychologically speaking, they are soulless monsters.
Vance wants an America in which few understand where babies come from, much less have access to any form of contraception. As a result, the only meaningful role available to women will be that of incubators of the next generations of obedient Christian soldiers.
Referring to J.D. Vance as a soulless monster would seem an understatement. What he’s expecting, if he can’t turn the entire nation into something resembling Gilead, is that Ohio will come to resemble the fictional dystopian rogue republic and that the rest of America will respect it.
Vance’s demand that California “respect” whatever a fascist-controlled Ohio inflicts on its citizens is very Handmaid’s Tale, as June was captured while fleeing to Canada, but we don’t need to reference dystopian fiction when we have actual American history. Presumably when he was at Yale, Vance learned about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying Black people who’d escaped bondage. So much for Confederate apologists' supposed “states’ right” defense of the Civil War. The Southern states needed and demanded federal assistance in maintaining slavery, just as forced birthers need and demand federal assistance with their abortion bans. Otherwise, people will travel to states where they are legally treated as people.
The Fugitive Slave Act’s sinister objective was clear: No state in the US could offer enslaved people freedom or peace. In practice, there were no free states, a horrifying reality that the Supreme Court would reinforce in its 1857 Dred Scott ruling. That’s the America J.D. Vance wants to make great again, and it’s why he can go straight to hell.
J.D. Vance isn’t an outlier when it comes to today’s GOP. He’s part of the Republican mainstream. Suppose the GOP succeeds in seizing the majority in the House and Senate. In that case, life (and politics) in America will look very different, particularly if Donald Trump becomes President again in 2024.
I’m not trying to be alarmist. Such a scenario isn’t fantastical in any sense. However, Americans need to understand what could happen with a Republican in the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress.
And J.D. Vance would love nothing more than to be part of the red wave that dismantles the America we’ve known for the past 246 years.
Praise be! And you thought The Handmaid’s Tale was just a book. It turns out that Margaret Atwood unknowingly wrote a manual to end American democracy.
