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Posted on 02/09/2026 11:37:03 AM PST by thegagline
In an age of rage, it is often difficult to stand out in the mob as so many pander to the perpetually irate. However, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie has found a way to win the race to the bottom. In a posting on Bluesky, Bouie mocked the account of the addiction of the mother of Vice President J.D. Vance, saying that she should have sold her son for drugs.
Bouie used Bluesky (the digital safe zone for the viewpoint intolerant on the left) to post one of the most reprehensible attacks on Vance. Bouie wrote that “this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway.” That is hardly notable on today’s rage scale. However, he then decided to joke about the painful addiction history of Beverly Aikins against her son: “No wonder his mom tried to sell him for Percocets. [I] can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this.’
Vance wrote a celebrated bestseller, “Hillbilly Elegy,” about his difficult childhood with a mother who became addicted to pain medication and eventually found herself stealing drugs from her patients. It was a tragic account of how addiction tore their family apart, but also a tale of redemption: “I knew that a mother could love her son despite the grip of addiction. I knew that my family loved me, even when they struggled to take care of themselves.”
In April of last year, Vance celebrated his mother’s decade of sobriety. As I discuss in my new book “Rage and the Republic,” a common element to past radical movements has been the dehumanization of political opponents. In calling others “Gestapo,” “fascists,” and “Nazis,” you achieve a certain license to say and do things that you would ordinarily never say or do. By stripping them of any humanity or right to empathy, you are free to discard the limitations of decency and civility.
Rage is itself a type of drug. It is addictive and, while they never admit it, they like it. Bouie shows the lack of self-awareness in his hateful posts, objecting that “this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway.” It is the ultimate example of transference; a self-description ascribed to those you hate. On his New York Times bio, Bouie insists that “I come from a left-leaning, social democratic perspective, but I strive for honesty, fairness and good faith in my writing.” He adds that “I abide by the same rigorous ethical standards as all Times journalists.” If using Vance’s tragic childhood and his mother’s addiction is an example of the “fairness and good faith” of the New York Times, it is a chilling prospect. In his book, Vance observes that the children of broken and impoverished homes often give up hope, as he did: “Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”
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He’s got those communist eyes.
Bet they pay him well.
That is truly irony!
I’ve met “intellectuals” that look at everyone else the way this fellow does. They know they’re better than you in every way that’s important. Everyone else is just at a lower level of sentient development than they are. I’m sure he’d make an excellent Central Planner for Wakanda.
When it comes to saying nasty things about conservatives or white people, nothing is off limits.
It was a mistake giving men the franchise.
Obviously,his necktie needs to be a lot tighter!
Hows about selling Jamelle Bouie to some Third World dictator?
Oh, yeah, he wouldn’t fetch a sou, because HE ISN’T WORTH ANYTHING!
Never mind...
He’s lucky his mother didn’t abort him🤣
Sounds like an opinion a Jamelle from Blowski would have.
Does he know who his father is? Doubt it.
This New York Times columnist’s MOTHER should have aborted this idiot! SHAME on her!
Truly this man is warped and hateful. Do people like him give any thought to what they spit out? I think they do not.
Sold him? So Democrats are back to wanting to sell people
Someone who needs to be deported to France?
Oh, gee, look… another angry Negro, who thinks he’s Malcolm X…
How cute
Any relation to BaBa?
This is classism at its finest, purest form. There are movies made where the rich villain laughs at evicting a poor mother from her house, or sees a homeless person freezing on the street in the winter. Those villains are fictional characters whose cruelty and callousness is played up for dramatic effect. Jamelle Bouie (which, as an aside, is the perfect name for a fictional elitist villain) is the living embodiment of a rich, elitist, cartoon villain. So are most of the NYT columnists but most of them aren’t stupid enough to publicly say want Bouie said.
Jamelle Bouie-WORDS. He’s paid for his WORDS!
LOL! Bouie does exactly that, and that is exactly the problem. These people will be consumed by their own hate.
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