“Vacuous” Is Not A Term To Throw About

In 2016 R. primary, Hugh Hewitt asked Donald Trump a question about nuclear triad. Below is the exchange.

But Hugh is voting for Trump because he is more substantive and Harris is "vacuous."

Hewitt: "What's your priority among our nuclear triad?"

Trump: "Well, first of all, I… https://t.co/4qVx1yZUaO

— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 28, 2024

Hewitt: "What's your priority among our nuclear triad?" 

Trump: "Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible; who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important. And one of the things that I'm frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you're going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important. 

"But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out -- if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can't just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn't care. It was hand-to-hand combat. 

"The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he's saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear -- nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That's in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now. 

Hewitt: "Of the three legs of the triad, though, do you have a priority? I want to go to Senator Rubio after that and ask him." 

Trump: "I think -- I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me." 

Hewitt: "Senator Rubio, do you have a response?"

I’ll be fair; here’s the text of Hewitt’s tweet:

Since Joe Biden’s abdication, @VP Harris has given 6 interviews: To Dana Bash, Brian Taff, Stephanie “Chiquibaby” Himonidis, a panel of NABJ members —Eugene Daniels, Tonya Mosley and Gerren Keith Gaynor— Oprah, and Stephanie Ruhle. 

The most often used term to describe the VP’s interviews is “vacuous.” The Oxford Dictionary defines “vacuous” as “having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.” Be your own judge of her capacity to think and lead, but it seems clear that voting for the VP (and voting is underway in many states) is to will the decline and indeed the eclipse of the U.S. as a superpower and master of its own destiny. Some people want that. Others are ignorant of the stakes. 

We know that former President Trump intends the U.S. to thrive and that his policies will return the country to its pre-Covid economic growth and military strength. I don’t know how anyone who (1) isn’t counting on a job in the Harris administration or (2) having “access” to that list of 3,000 San Francisco leftists who will make up Team Harris or (3) who isn’t themselves “vacuous,” votes for Harris. Even the voters who loathe the former president must understand that four years of a Harris presidency means the country lurches into the chaos that defines the streets of San Francisco and the economic ruin of the businesses adjacent to such policies. 

Finally, as Trump’s first term unfolded, the world’s evil men became very hesitant to kill or even threaten harm to Americans. Trump was himself a deterrent to the most brutal regimes. Harris will be a bright green light to the worst of the worst. 

Vote accordingly.

And the likely inspiration for all this:

See if you can remember how Trump didn't know what the nuclear triad was when you asked him that, you slit-eyed gaslighting fascist

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 28, 2024

Point made.