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Linda Weide's avatar

Concepts of a plan includes decimating the Department of Education and putting regular education under Department of Labor, and Special Education under Health and Human Services, which also won't exist anymore, since it will be the newly created Department of Life. It will be concerned with making sure that domestically and internationally we prevent abortions, keep track of them, and generally elevate an egg (but not a sperm) to status not given adult women. However, men won't get away Scott free. No, if they give birth to children out of wedlock, they are going to have to take some Christian Nationalist idea of parenting class, and have an app on their phones that automatically pays child support. May seem like a great idea, but I don't trust Project 2025 great ideas at all. Family is going to be defined as a man and a woman married together with children. The religion you have to have to get funding is Christian. They would like to do less for people, and have charity groups with strings attached do more. By strings I mean religious strings. Behave and believe our way or no way you get anything. Medicare and Medicaid will be privatized as far as I can see, and I consider any privatization a chance for Trump and his friends to grift. Will it be the Saudi Medicare plan, vs. the Turkish medicare plan, vs. the Kremlin's medicare plan, or Musk Medicare. I want none of what they are selling, concepts or not. There is a plan it is ugly and decimates the services from birth to death of every American who is not the truly wealthy.

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Leu2500's avatar

One thing to point out about Vance’s ‘young people shouldn’t subsidize senior’s health insurance costs’

Many young people will want to have families. Pregnancy is a higher risk condition (& I think some insurers considered it a pre-existing condition), & that will be priced into insurance rates. So unless they have an incel-only category, I doubt the savings will be as much as Vance implies.

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Becky Daiss's avatar

I’m starting to think that JD Vance doesn’t care if his ticket wins or loses. It’s possible that Vance has no greater ambition than to ride the coat tales of a cadre of filthy rich would be autocrats. The thing is, Vance is not stupid. So, he is either a calculated liar or he is as nuts as Trump. I think it more likely that he is one of those types who are content with the proximity to power and the riches and perks that come with satisfying the big bosses. The type that is completely amoral and will do whatever it takes to be in their good graces, no matter how much he has to debase himself (and his family). He can continue to sponge off their power and live large no matter what happens with the election. He’s set either way.

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Ann22's avatar

I think he may be more dangerous than Trump. Assuming he has $$ backing from the wealthy WCN and MAGA folks involved in Project 2025 and Heritage, and I assume that because he wrote the preface to Roberts book on P2025.

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Timothy Fifer's avatar

It really seems as though, at times, the MAGA ticket is actually trying to divide the American public by their “policies” but in self-defeating ways. Can you imagine how voters with pre-existing conditions would react to their premiums for healthcare skyrocketing while those for healthier subscribers stay the same or even decrease? That would eventually cost them support but in the meantime……

Also, it’s puzzling that a man who is obviously in the top 1%, if not the top 1/2% can say those in the middle class may have to “sacrifice a little bit” in our economy while he and the rest of the 1%’ers continue to live the good life. Another way to divide America voters. Just keep them coming JDV, you’re doing a great job. Don’t know how the choice between tickets can get any clearer. I just hope couch fuck keeps shooting himself and orange turd in their collective feet. AND Please keep pointing that out to the American voter, Stephen.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

"he fundamentally misunderstands Trumpism, which is about making other people suffer" Sums it up.

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Richard Brody's avatar

These two clowns even dress alike. And check the photo on n this edition: Apparently Don Jr. didn’t get the message!

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Elizabeth Behnke's avatar

Vance is one of those fools that thinks because he is a white guy with an Ivy League “edumacation” he knows it all. What a nit wit. Harvard and Yale should be ashamed of what their politician graduates are doing - Vance, Cruz, Hawley. All the same man.

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M. Apodaca's avatar

Can we just say that what Vance wants is what ACA was designed to stop?

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