J.D. Vance's audacious attack. He demands Kamala Harris show gratitude to white male power.

Yesterday at a campaign stop in Ohio, J.D. Vance said that Kamala Harris shouldn't lead America because she's not grateful for it.

Vance told his nearly all white crowd, you know what I see?

I want to take bets here, want to start a betting pool just in this auditorium.

If you want to lead this country, you should feel grateful for it,

a sense of gratitude.

I never hear that gratitude come through

when I listen to Kamala Harris.

The white mythos of America, of course,

is that our nation was built and run for most of its history by white people

mostly white men just like the white men who ran apartheid South Africa when three

of the most prominent American immigrant billionaires who today support Trump and Vance were born and or grew up there.

For the record, one of Harris's standard stump speeches has for years been about how her parents

were both immigrants and discovered in America a land of opportunity

that let her rise to the position she's held. She's damn grateful for America.

But apparently she's not sufficiently grateful to the white men who Vance believes created that opportunity for Harris and her family.

When Vance says, grateful, what he apparently really means is deferential.

In other words, she's not sufficiently humble in the face of

white wealth and power. Instead of gratefully deferring to the white men who are born to rule,

she's a pretender to the role of president and usurper of the power and privilege

that should never be in the hands of a woman, particularly a woman of color.

This is after all the JD Vance who along with eight other Republican senators, including Ted Cruz, wrote to H.D. Vance, who, along with eight other Republican senators,

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