It doesn't matter what the IRS says and to be honest, I'm not sure why the IRS continues to publish these regs.
The Supreme Court has weighed in and said that non-profits have a constitutional right to engage in issue advocacy, which is what "vote pro-life" is considered. This is basically Citizens United and Wisconsin Right To Life.
JD Vance and Joe Rogan interview (#2221). Full transcript. Read or listen: "What is it like running for Vice President of the United States? How crazy is this experience?..."
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Vance discussing the East Palestine Train Derailment: "We couldn't get Biden-Harris. We couldn't even get some of my colleagues in the United States Senate to give a shit."
President Biden to visit East Palestine, Ohio in February One year ago, on February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals
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Vance: I've had Covid 5 times, but was sickest by far after I took a Covid Vaccine. "the fact that we're not even allowed to talk about the fact"
Vance: "I mean, obviously, like, there are corporations that we're more pro certain businesses, and we tend to be more anti certain businesses. Can anybody really in 2024 say that Apple, which employs thousands of slaves in Shenzhen, is Apple's interest is America's interest? Like, I just don't. That's ridiculous."
Vance: "I mean, obviously, like, there are corporations that we're more pro certain businesses, and we tend to be more anti certain businesses. Can anybody really in 2024 say that Apple, which employs thousands of slaves in Shenzhen, is Apple's interest is America's interest? Like, I just don't. That's ridiculous."
JD Vance and Joe Rogan interview (#2221). Full transcript. Read or listen: "What is it like running for Vice President of the United States? How crazy is this experience?..."
turboscribe.ai
Vance discussing the East Palestine Train Derailment: "We couldn't get Biden-Harris. We couldn't even get some of my colleagues in the United States Senate to give a shit."
President Biden to visit East Palestine, Ohio in February One year ago, on February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals
www.whitehouse.gov
Vance: I've had Covid 5 times, but was sickest by far after I took a Covid Vaccine. "the fact that we're not even allowed to talk about the fact"
Vance: "I mean, obviously, like, there are corporations that we're more pro certain businesses, and we tend to be more anti certain businesses. Can anybody really in 2024 say that Apple, which employs thousands of slaves in Shenzhen, is Apple's interest is America's interest? Like, I just don't. That's ridiculous."
Opening Statement
Rogan: "What is it like running for Vice President of the United States?"
Vance: "It's pretty weird, it's pretty weird. You know"
"it's it's definitely weird to just not be anonymous at all anymore."
On attempted Trump assassin:
"Well, there was a lot of weird stuff to it. One of them is that his where he lived was professionally scrubbed. So he got there.
There was no silverware. There's no silverware."
"Man, it is weird. The only time we don't get a manifesto is when they're trans."
On Trans:
"I had some, you know, weird ideas. I dressed weird for a couple of years or something."
"You have, to your point, you know, hair in weird places that won't go away. You have voice changes that won't go away. We are experimenting on tens of thousands of American children."
"It's a cult and it's a religion. There is this weird thing with the woke stuff where when you see this, and I feel bad when, like, comedians in particular do it. I'm sure you've seen this."
On substitute meats:
"Right. It's very weird, man. It's sneaky. That stuff is garbage, highly processed garbage. I'm married to an Indian-American. They make very good vegetarian food. I'm not proud of this, but I'll tell you—was, you know what crescent rolls are? Those, like, Pillsbury yeast rolls.
So I rolled out a flat thing of crescent rolls.I put raw broccoli on top of it.I sprinkled ranch dressing, and I stuck them in the oven for 45 minutes.
That was it?And that was disgusting.And that was my vegetarian pizza that I made."
On FDA approved drugs:
"And I always wonder, like, you get so many of these weird side effects in the advertisements. How do they actually work?"
"(Big Pharma does) weird psychotic things with Native American tribes.
On Covid:
"As i understood it that a bat had gotten a weird coronavirus and had like fallen into a guy's soup at a wet (market)."
"When we're all locked in our houses in the summer of 2020 i think that did weird things psychologically to everybody agree and i think that a lot of people rebelled against it "
On Abortion:
"It is really weird about this whole debate where you know thank God to be clear this is not true of the gross majority of our pro-choice citizens but you do sometimes see people like they'll go on tick tock and they'll celebrate having an abortion"
"Extreme weirdos the tiktok people it's like everything right where and I try you know this is something that is dangerous about social media is the danger of social media with me is not to me that I live in my own echo chamber and just have views reinforced the danger is that I'm only exposed to the crazy people on the other side right who make me make it easier for me to adopt my own worldview because I'm saying oh it's just people celebrating when in reality you know like you said most American women even those who are pro-choice are not celebrating this thing"
On Separation of Church & State
Rogan: "Worst case scenario is a state adopts Sharia law"
Vance: "That starts getting real weird. Stuff like that starts getting real weird and when you have people that are openly saying our goal is, and they've talked about this in Toronto, activists have said our goal is to outbreed everyone who is not Muslim and vote it out and put Sharia law in place."
Referring to Apple:
"It is kind of weird that one of the wokest companies, if you thought about, like, woke companies and, like, super progressive and, like, on the right side of everything, Apple. Apple's, like, one of the best ones"
Vance is getting in some weird/insulting social media spats about religious doctrine … the VP doesn’t have much to do, so not complaining he is wasting time or anything. But sort of unusual for the VP to use his account to question a person’s IQ for making an argument the VP disagrees with.
Actually no. This misses the entire point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37).
After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?" In response, Jesus tells the story of a Jewish man who has been beaten by robbers and is lying by the side of the road. The man is helped not by those closest to him (a "priest" and a "Levite," who pass him by), but rather by a Samaritan. At the time, Jews and Samaritans would have considered one another enemies.
So Jesus's fundamental message is that *everyone* is your neighbor, and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you. It's specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other. They are all our "neighbors."
In fact, Jesus was often critical of those who would put family first. When Jesus' own family came from Nazareth to Capernaum to "seize" him, he was told that his mother and brothers were waiting outside a house in which he was preaching. Jesus said, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”... Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Mt 12:46-50). For Jesus, ties to the Father were more important than family ties. And responsibilities to family clearly took second place to the demands of discipleship.
But Jesus's deeper point in the Parable of the Good Samaritan can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we consider to be the "stranger."
Vance is getting in some weird/insulting social media spats about religious doctrine … the VP doesn’t have much to do, so not complaining he is wasting time or anything. But sort of unusual for the VP to use his account to question a person’s IQ for making an argument the VP disagrees with.
Interesting. My friend knows Rory Stewart well. She rented a place from him when she first lived in London working for Amazon, before she bought her own place.
My wife is a faithful listener to his podcast, which has rather refreshing deep political conversations from opposite sides of the spectrum.
I believe he was one of the few anti-Brexit Tories.
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