Democratic Progressive Club of Lee County

01/10/2026

BREAKING: The National Catholic Reporter shreds J.D. Vance for his smear attacks on ICE victim Renée Good in a blistering new opinion, stating that his "twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes" and is a "moral stain" on Catholicism.

Our fake Catholic vice president just got slapped around by a real believer...

"There is no evidence that Good was in any way involved in domestic terrorism. Video evidence seems to entirely contradict Trump's explanation of the situation. The ICE officer does not appear to have been injured and is seen casually walking away after the shooting," writes NCR's Digital Editor John Grosso in a piece entitled "Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good."

Grosso points out that while Vance rushed to "justify the shooting" and "blame Good for her own death" he has at "no point" expressed "any remorse, prayers or condolences regarding Good and her loved ones."

"Instead, Vance continued his storm of social media posts the morning after the shooting — this time leaning into divisive, tribalistic language to demonize Democrats," he adds.

Grosso then cites some of Vance's words directly, including his frankly vile claim that while a "tragedy," the shooting was the fault of Goode and those who criticize immigration enforcement.

"As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God," writes Grosso. "Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins."

"Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power."

"The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart."

Grosso's observation that Vance's supposed Catholic fake is little more than a "political prop" is spot on. Like so many so-called Christians who have embraced MAGA fascism, he sees faith not as something to be genuinely felt and lived out, but as an aesthetic flourish. Cynical opportunists like him love the self-righteousness that the "Christian" label affords them, but they abhor the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. They fetishize crusader armor, cruelty, and the might makes right ethos.

While it's impossible to know what Vance believes in his heart of hearts, he's not conducting himself like someone who believes that he will one day be judged by a just God.

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01/18/2025

The Tea Party motto, that resulted in the "co nothing" congress reemerges as a MAGA party theme = Our Way Or No Way https://6abc.com/post/house-speaker-mike-johnson-suggests-conditions-needed-federal-aid-los-angeles-wildfire-victims/15797835/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH4tOVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQeDekvZkRmixNP3EpetRNfVMAIRPwhiN6jg_mY3CO8Xy80p9r1aRZeJSQ_aem_oSKRa2Dw-LZ5OkoDSlu4SA

Johnson also said he believes both state and local LA leaders had been derelict in their duty.

12/25/2024

10/31/2024

A second Trump presidency poses unacceptable risk according to economist, his former staff members nad conservative republicans.

If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for Kamala Harris

10/28/2024

Con-Old Trump will continue the path of started in his administration making our nation a 3rd world dictatorship with a large inventory weapons of mass destruction.

10/27/2024

Before Jeff Bezos ownership the goal of the Post was to print the truth.

10/26/2024

Little surprise that newspaper circulation is declining as owners restrict free speech from their editorial boards. LA Times owner joins Jeff Bezos in limiting free speech from the editorial board.

The L.A. Times owner's decision not to endorse in the 2024 presidential race prompts three editorial board members to resign and readers to cancel subscriptions.

10/26/2024

Freedom of Speech - "The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should pe*****te the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them."
Thomas Jefferson

10/26/2024

Washington Post owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos prevents exhibits his support of an oligarchy/modern fascism Putin style government by preventing the paper from publishing an endorsement for Kamala Harris to become our president.

Multibillionaire Jeff Bezos alone made the decision to block The Washington Post, the newspaper he owns, from endorsing a presidential candidate. The Daily Beast has learned that even Will Lewis, Bezos’ hand-picked publisher, fought Bezos “tooth and nail” to prevent him squelching the prepared...

10/24/2024

This is surfacing much later in the campaign than I suspected. Over 1/3 of all nations have had female leaders. Women have proven themselves as corporate leaders, congressional representative, senators, governors, vice president, and virtually every other elected office. It is time to break through the glass ceiling Hillary Clinton shattered and elect the most competent leader of the 2 major candidates, “Turns out the ol’ 1950’s, barefoot-’n’-pregnant-in-the-kitchen, ‘no woman can tell me what to do’ attitudes about women are remarkably 2024. Here’s the Washington Post article that the quote was taken from; many other pieces in the media express reticence to a woman prez.”-KA
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