J.D. Vance accuses Jeff Bezos of funding BLM so they'd burn down Main St businesses

[muriel_volestrangler]

Via Charlie Pierce:

J.D. Vance Is Selling Trumpism Without the Crazy—Well, Some of the Crazy

Jeff Bezos [is] one of the largest funders of the Black Lives Matter movement, to the tune of millions of dollars. Now who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed? Who wants to see their competitors unable to deliver goods and services to people so they get it delivered in the Amazon box? Jeff Bezos. There is a direct connection between woke capital and the plunder that’s happening in our society today. The people who are invested in destroying America via our corporate class are also getting rich from it. This is an important piece of the puzzle to understand.

“Woke capital” are Vance’s personal conjuring words. Get used to them. You’re going to be hearing them a lot over the next five years, because it’s the way Vance, and Josh Hawley, and Tom Cotton, and the rest of the Next Generation Trumpers are going to pitch us Trumpism without the crazy.

Well, without most of the crazy, anyhow.

The Ford Foundation has $14 billion in assets under management. Their leadership is serving on many of our corporate boards, and of course the corporate boards of some of our biggest companies are serving as the leadership of the Ford Foundation. They’re investing in are Critical Race Theory, they’re investing in the racial division all across our country, and they’re invested in all of the progressive social causes of the moment. They are one of the biggest investors in the Black Lives Matter movement that destroyed many of our towns and cities last summer.
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Harvard University’s $120 billion endowment is ammunition for our enemies, and we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re going to lose.
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It may not be as bad as it was in the 1860s, but we’re all going through a fiery trial. The people in this room are the people who are going to be at the vanguard of the conservative movement that actually fights back against our enemies instead of just taking it. Because if our enemies are using guns and bazookas, we damn well better fight back with more than wet noodles. We need to use the same means if we’re actually going to win this fight. And I’m not in this to lose, I’m in this to win.

[JHB]

1. Well, it there's one thing reminicient of the 1860s, it is...

...the conservatives of the day working themselves into a civil war frenzy by breathing and re-breathing nothing but their own flatulence.

[uponit7771]

3. +1, built off of lies

[hatrack]

2. Fuck, that guy's stupid . . . .

Oh, and he's polling at 4% in the Ohio Senate race.

[Chainfire]

4. Brilliant move Jeff!

I would have never thought of that.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Vance is clearly trying to set himself up as the "more clever and cunning" version of

Chump, that many of us have talked about for quite a while now.

[11 Bravo]

7. I have some novelty rubber dogshit that's also more clever and cunning than Trump.

[Midnight Writer]

6. So I guess he's in favor of eliminating Dark Money and taxing the hell out of these obscene fortunes