The Vice President Does Not Matter
Talking about the vice presidential candidates, real and hypothetical, is meaningless theater that distracts from real issues
My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams, First Vice President of the United States
Despite the current feigned obsession over the Republican vice presidential nominee and who Kamala Harris, who I will continue to remind people is not the Democratic Party nominee at this time and does not have to be, may choose as her Democratic vice presidential candidate, the vice presidential candidates, and even the vice presidents themselves, are completely irrelevant. The corporate media knows this, but needs to make a spectacle out of the situation every four years to keep up the appearance of importance of the presidential elections and to get eyeballs on their advertising, of course.
Take Vice President Kamala Harris and the current controversy over her status as the “border czar” of the Biden regime. What goes unsaid in all of this insanity is that there is no position of border czar at all. In that respect, Vice President Harris is not and was not the “border czar” for the Biden regime, because no such objective, definable position has ever existed in the United States government. However, “border czar” is merely a shorthand title for the point-person for a regime in matters generally relating to the border of the United States with Mexico, which is what Vice President Harris was appointed as directly and publicly by President Joe Biden. The reason that Vice President Harris is currently running away from the fact that she was the “border czar,” with the help of the corporate media who are re-writing their own history as reported by Matt Taibbi at Racket News, is because it is a no-win position designed to take heat away from the president and put it onto the “border czar” for political purposes, and she herself did a remarkably poor job as “border czar” even correcting for the fact that nobody could possibly succeed.
If the vice president were an important figure, then you would not put them in the position of “border czar” so that they can be the fall-guy for the regime’s failure to do anything productive about the border in the first place. Take another example in Mike Pence, who was Donald Trump’s vice president. What do you remember Mike Pence for from his vice presidency off the top of your head? The only answer is that he certified the results of the 2020 presidential election where Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. That is the first and only time that Pence was relevant in his position as vice president in the Trump regime.
Which brings us to the current Republican vice presidential nominee under Donald Trump, Senator J.D. Vance and his disparaging comments about childless politicians in the United States. From CNN, one of the leaders in the charge of making Vance look as bad as possible in an effort to help the Harris campaign:
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous “childless cat lady” remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “childless sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”
In November 2020, Vance said on a conservative podcast that childless Americans, especially those in the country’s “leadership class,” were “more sociopathic” than those with children and made the country “less mentally stable.” Vance added that the “most deranged” and “most psychotic” commentators on Twitter – now known as X - were typically childless.
The only logical response to these comments from Vance is, who cares? Agree with him or don’t agree with him, we know that Trump’s vice president is a figure of no consequence because we had four years of Mike Pence as vice president having no influence and no power over the Trump regime. Why would you assume that Vance would be in a different position from Pence when it goes against experience and what we know of Trump’s personality and management style? The only reason is to attempt to make the Trump campaign look bad to voters.
Now it may be said that the vice president is merely a single heartbeat away from the presidency itself, which is true. Waiting for the president to die is the most important and almost only function of the vice president today. In the case of Donald Trump and to an even lesser extent Kamala Harris, this does not strike anyone as being particularly probable, however. Yes, you have hypocrites now pointing out that Donald Trump is an old man, but these are, in 100% of cases, the same people who roughly five minutes ago were telling you that you had to vote for President Biden because, despite your lying eyes, he is of completely sound mind and body, and no he almost definitely did not poop his pants on live television. That is, right before they threw him away like yesterday’s trash. But nobody actually believes that J.D. Vance would succeed Donald Trump in such a manner, much less that Kamala Harris’s candidate would succeed her, so it is hardly worth mentioning.
John Adams lamented the pointlessness of the vice presidency, but it has actually only grown less consequential since his time. Adams, as vice president, acted in his role as president of the Senate, which vice presidents today rarely do, and he gained the position of vice president by coming in second to George Washington in the presidential elections. Vice presidents today are merely chosen by the nominees of their parties for political reasons. So the corporate media will continue to say that Vance’s comments hurt the Trump campaign that he’s a meaningless part of, and hype whichever “white guy” Kamala Harris chooses to run with, I think choosing another woman would get her more interesting coverage, personally, but it’s all theater. Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president, and he’s said far more offensive things than Vance’s nonsense about childless politicians and nobody cares. Kamala Harris is not the Democratic nominee, but her vice presidential candidate, should they assume office, will be as irrelevant to her hypothetical regime as she has been to the Biden regime. Maybe she’ll name them “border czar.”