avatar
Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social

it's cool to say this when the average founder would be like "holy shit you fucking idiots have no idea what the constitution was designed to prevent"

That means having a government that vigorously defends the basic qualities of sovereignty—that secures the border from foreign invasion; that protects its citizens and their enterprises against unfair foreign tax schemes; that erects tariff walls and similar barriers to protect its people’s industry; that avoids needlessly entangling them in prolonged, distant wars. It also means preserving the basic legal privileges of citizenship—things like voting, including in state and local elections, or access to public benefits like certain state-run healthcare programs—for citizens. When states start handing these out to illegal aliens, they cheapen the very meaning of citizenship. And a nation that refuses to make that distinction won’t stay a nation for very long. I’d also say that citizenship in the 21st century necessarily means building. America is not just an idea. We’re a particular place, with a particular people, and a particular set of beliefs and way of life. Our ancestors realized that to carve a successful nation from a new land meant creating new, tangible things. New homes, new towns, new infrastructure to tame a wild continent. That attitude enabled us to build the world’s greatest cities, its tallest skyscrapers, the most impressive dams and canals.
aug 10, 2025, 3:43 pm • 413 25

Replies

avatar
Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social

His ignorance & whitewashed mansplaining of history is just so cultishly transparent Coming from the elitist who faked his "impoverished" background, flipped from "never-Drumpf" to his ballwasher, & most recently spent taxpayer money to fill a lake so he & his family could kayak, this is pathetic

aug 10, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social

HS. This is simplistic anathema to our understanding of nation. And people will slurp it up.

aug 10, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
avatar
Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social

There is no real positive vision, just resentment.

aug 10, 2025, 3:51 pm • 166 1 • view
avatar
The woman version of Mr PB but don't write it like that @wh0sthatd0g.bsky.social

There's a vision of a white ethnostate, if you read between the lines

aug 10, 2025, 6:48 pm • 3 0 • view
avatar
Jared Friedman🇺🇦 @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social

And projection of same on others.

aug 10, 2025, 4:02 pm • 56 0 • view
avatar
Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social

Vance is trying to have his cake and eat it too. Either brown people in the Third World are actually social conservatives and Mamdani is out of touch, or they're radical left nutjobs who can't wait to commit voter fraud for Democrats. They can't be both!

aug 10, 2025, 5:46 pm • 63 1 • view
avatar
Jared Friedman🇺🇦 @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social

Ah, but they must be, because Vance's first principle is that he must be seen as a deep thinker by this particular group of powerful, bigoted morons, and the rest follows.

aug 10, 2025, 5:49 pm • 20 0 • view
avatar
gthonks.bsky.social @gthonks.bsky.social

Would’ve positioned himself as a lib if his Netflix movie didn’t get panned

aug 10, 2025, 5:51 pm • 14 0 • view
avatar
Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social

His book was already "White Economic Anxiety, the Novel", he's been on the white nationalist trajectory his whole life

aug 10, 2025, 5:57 pm • 20 2 • view
avatar
triften.bsky.social @triften.bsky.social

It's standard fascist double think. Immigrants are somehow both a drain on social services and hard working enough to steal your job.

aug 10, 2025, 7:28 pm • 8 1 • view
avatar
Snootacamund @snootacamund.bsky.social

Exactly what you’d expect to hear from a speaker at $2,500/plate dinner held at a golf club that’s only open to members of a gated SoCal community though.

aug 10, 2025, 5:20 pm • 7 0 • view
avatar
Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social

“Tame a wild continent”: JFC A heartbeat away from the Presidency, folks

aug 10, 2025, 8:47 pm • 5 0 • view
avatar
Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social

Pretty sure there's been periods where a non-citizen voting in elections was seen as a positive civic involvement that made it easier for them to become citizens.

aug 10, 2025, 11:05 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
Gauchohaulic @gauchohaulic.bsky.social

“We're a particular place, with a particular people” He should just say “blood and soil” and save us from wasting our time from having to read his racist dreck.

aug 10, 2025, 4:17 pm • 18 0 • view
avatar
Baker🇺🇦🌻 @bakerblue.bsky.social

Just a simple message for difficult times..and a simple people.

aug 10, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
avatar
Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social

Plus the founders were grabbing new immigrants with both hands as fast as they could cram them into the place. Speculation on western land was like THE income plan for half the founders and many of the new states. They wanted everyone they could get to come settle in the US.

aug 10, 2025, 10:09 pm • 8 1 • view
avatar
Joel @storywonker.bsky.social

"Avoids needlessly tangling them in distant wars" says the guy who spent years' worth of interceptor production for... well, honestly I'm not sure why

aug 10, 2025, 5:48 pm • 19 2 • view
avatar
Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social

“A Republic, if you [stupid motherfuckers] can keep it.”

aug 10, 2025, 9:55 pm • 6 0 • view
avatar
refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social

“a particular people”? WTAF?

aug 10, 2025, 4:50 pm • 6 0 • view
avatar
windsor.urbanist @plotsky.bsky.social

You know I would love to see any America isolationist ever recognize that the Barbary Wars were a thing

aug 10, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 1 • view
avatar
Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social

guy living over a century before the first universal health care program: obviously this document needs to prevent non-citizens from accessing universal healthcare

aug 10, 2025, 4:10 pm • 88 3 • view