Even His Surrogates Are Idiots

This is the second part of Vivek’s weird make more babies screed. High on his list of policy solutions to the baby shortage is drilling and fracking (that what they call it these days?) and ending the regulatory state. Also if we solve our “national identity crisis” the babies… pic.twitter.com/V4WIGNLPpU

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 30, 2024

"Fix the economy”? What the fuck is wrong with it (aside from the brute inequality it rests on. We live happily in Omelas, but that’s not what he means). Point to one economic indicator showing the economy needs to be “fixed.” Inflation?  How would you fix that? Raise interest rates until economic activity freezes? Force low wage workers to go back to pre-COVID wages so we can exploit them as savagely as we once did?

Drill and frack? What part of America net exporting oil and gas and controlling the world market is reality you refuse to acknowledge? I’m sure that refusal/ignorance is great for campaigning, but for governing, it sucks.

“Dumb occupational licensing laws”? What, barbers shouldn’t meet basic sanitary standards? That’s why people aren’t making enough babies? Because barbers have to be licensed?

And the fertility crisis is biological, you ignorant shit. It is for the people who want to have children, and can’t. People who don’t want to have children don’t have a crisis. For people who do, the visible crisis is due to healthcare that gives them hope, hope they wouldn’t have without it. That’s not a crisis, it’s a cause for celebration.

Unless you mean the “crisis” is connected to the “Great Replacement” theory. Given you’re a Republican, you probably do. In which case you’re just another racist shit.