I hate swearing, but this is the silliest take on the Vance choice.
Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
What is a piker in the US? In Australia it is someone who ditches you when you have made plans to catch up 😂
Someone needs to go on a three month patrol aboard a US nuclear powered fast attack submarine in the North Atlantic. We’ve perfected swearing to an exquisite language all its own. The best, smartest, most loyal group of young men anywhere, but filthy to the core.
In American slang it meant something small in comparison to someone else in reference to an item or characteristic.
Haven’t seen the full biography on this man, except: “Birzer graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1990.[1] He earned a PhD from Indiana University Bloomington in 1998. He is a history professor and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College, the author of five books and the co-founder of The Imaginative Conservative.”
My guess is he’s never been outside of academia. We’ve just witnessed a tectonic shift in the Conservative Party becoming a party for the common man and woman, especially with this VP choice. That has to rankle even an Catholic Conservative Academic..I think it was a Freudian Slip.
Kind of like a slip of a swear.
“Incapable of being civilized in conversation”? IIRC Vance went to Yale and spent some years circulating among the “elites”. I think one of Vance’s biggest assets is that he’s lived among both the struggling working class that loves Trump and the “edumacated” class that despises him.
In American slang it meant something small in comparison to someone else in reference to an item or characteristic.
Gotcha thank you.
LQC: 100%! I think I may safely say that the Marines are on a par with the submariners in that regard.
All the griping about the VP choice really makes me think of the proverbial “children in the marketplace”: we played you a dirge and you did not mourn; we piped for you, and you did not dance. I saw criticism from one group that Vance is not anti-Israel enough to be taken seriously. They’ve already given up! Anything short of Childe Harold spells doom for humanity (apparently).
What I’ve seen so far of the reaction of Conservative, Inc. to this selection (and they are all sputtering and bloviating like this guy) tells me it was the right choice. They can’t accept that, as David WS points out, there has been a tectonic shift on the political Right, and they’re not part of it. So much the better, as far as I’m concerned.
When has he ever met Vance in meatspace?
Birzer teaches at Hillsdale College. Checking the campus newspaper and the institutional site, I do not find any indication J.D. Vance has ever visited the Hillsdale campus.
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/time-remove-pro-life-movement-politics
Birzer strikes me as an advocate of terminal ineffectuality.
I like Birzer and would really like less vulgarity (despite my own formidable chops in that department) but this white-gloved gentility is just silly.
I believe Birzer wrote a book defending Andrew Jackson. If I understand correctly, Jackson could cuss a blue streak.
Talk about letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I’m assuming this gentleman also spent Trump’s first term complaining about mean tweets. Sheesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKXS5hCTr04
Don,
I wonder who taught that bird to talk like that?
By the Eternal Phillip, tis a mystery!
Clinton wrote, “Talk about letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Right now that’s philosopher Dr. Edward Feser on Twitter (now called “X”).
A former Marine swears??
SHOCKER!
Completely agree, that cursing vulgarizes communication and really dehumanizes both the speaker and the hearer. I can’t imagine Our Lord cursing. My dear wife was accustomed to growing up in a home and a tough childhood where cursing was common; and to have to convince her that cursing didn’t “elevate” either of us took a while. So, out of respect to her I would not curse. (When I am out in the workshop alone in the back and I’m fighting with the tools, that is an exception.) She has come around to the concept and embraced it also.
But that said, I’ve never been uncomfortable around people from tough backgrounds who curse. It’s not for me to impose my views on them. Hopefully, we all by refraining from cursing, can influence others.
But I can’t imagine judging other people just because they use curse words.