What the hell happened to JD Vance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

ETTD

[Anonymous]

He tried to pretend he was no longer white trash to sell books. But, he is the epitome of white trash encouraging women to stay with abusers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

Bingo. Huge money literally curated this man. And I honestly think he was groomed from high school. He hypes up his service. His service was desk duty. He never saw combat. How many white trash teenage males avoid combat at 18 during a hot war — unless they’re connected.

[Anonymous]

He studied political science at Ohio State. How many poor white trash kids eager to get out of alleged poverty are studying political science? The smart ones study engineering or business. Guy is a lifelong weasel conniver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He tried to pretend he was no longer white trash to sell books. But, he is the epitome of white trash encouraging women to stay with abusers.

There is truly little that is more trashy than encouraging someone to stay with their abuser.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The GOP is pandering to their new " base" , which is uneducated and unemployed/ under- employed and typically divorced white men. As we all know, in the last few years the life expectancy rate of working class white men is actually declining for the 1st time in USA history.

Clearly, this is a voting block of the USA that has PROBLEMS. Socio-Economic problems severe and long standing enough that their life expectancy is falling. ENTER the GOP

I say that the "pandering" to these uneducated and under/unemployed white men because IF the GOP truly wanted to INCREASE the chance that a Woman would want to marry such a man and have his baby ( rather than opt for divorce and/or abortion to pursue better prospects on her own), what the GOP COULD DO to actually help their voter base is:

* Nationalize Health Car, which would give businesses back 30% of their employer costs and allow them the margins to raise these men's wages
* Bring American manufacturing back to USA so these uneducated men can get their higher earning union jobs back
* Pass mandatory $15/hr min wage ( many of these UNDER employed men work a double shift 7a-3/ 3-11pm) for about $7/hr because minimum wage is soooo low ( of course no woman wants to marry or have a baby with a GROWN man who only earns $7/hr

* fully paid 12 month maternity leave for every pregnant woman in America- you know, like most developed countries offer

Those are REAL policies the GOP COULD TAKE to help its base . Trying to force the women of this social class to have a baby will only compound their poverty. It also won't work. Women will always find a way out, which is why all this GOP talk to ban abortion is just poor public policy that won't deliver what these men want: good paying jobs and a family

Well said.

+2. Former Ohioan who watches my friends and family from a distance and wonder what the actual eff is happening to them. They voting in ways that is against their interests in every single way possible.

Turns out that being a hateful pos is more important to them than actual best interest

LBJ was not wrong when he said: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Women, LGBTQIA+, different races, immigrants, different religious people… the primary signifier of GOP voters is that they want to lord over someone else and beyond that they don’t care how little they have or how much is taken from them.

That's one of my favorite quotes. More recent survey research bears it out

[Anonymous]

He has always been like this. It was clear he was a hack when his BS book came out years ago and everyone fawned all over his lying book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

Hey guess what you can read a book and still not want the person to be elected into office, idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

Hey guess what you can read a book and still not want the person to be elected into office, idiot

If you read that fake memoir and couldn't tell it was almost entirely fabricated bootstrap crap (likely ghost written by a team of right wing think tank dorks with poll-tested chapters) I have a bridge to sell you. It's funny how Trump was quick to claim Ben Carson's memoir was full of fake nonsense but he's mum on the dopey white guy's even more exaggerated life story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

I don't know anyone in real life who cared about that book. It was inorganically astroturfed by neocons and neolibs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP is pandering to their new " base" , which is uneducated and unemployed/ under- employed and typically divorced white men. As we all know, in the last few years the life expectancy rate of working class white men is actually declining for the 1st time in USA history.

Clearly, this is a voting block of the USA that has PROBLEMS. Socio-Economic problems severe and long standing enough that their life expectancy is falling. ENTER the GOP

I say that the "pandering" to these uneducated and under/unemployed white men because IF the GOP truly wanted to INCREASE the chance that a Woman would want to marry such a man and have his baby ( rather than opt for divorce and/or abortion to pursue better prospects on her own), what the GOP COULD DO to actually help their voter base is:

* Nationalize Health Car, which would give businesses back 30% of their employer costs and allow them the margins to raise these men's wages
* Bring American manufacturing back to USA so these uneducated men can get their higher earning union jobs back
* Pass mandatory $15/hr min wage ( many of these UNDER employed men work a double shift 7a-3/ 3-11pm) for about $7/hr because minimum wage is soooo low ( of course no woman wants to marry or have a baby with a GROWN man who only earns $7/hr

* fully paid 12 month maternity leave for every pregnant woman in America- you know, like most developed countries offer

Those are REAL policies the GOP COULD TAKE to help its base . Trying to force the women of this social class to have a baby will only compound their poverty. It also won't work. Women will always find a way out, which is why all this GOP talk to ban abortion is just poor public policy that won't deliver what these men want: good paying jobs and a family

Well said.

+2. Former Ohioan who watches my friends and family from a distance and wonder what the actual eff is happening to them. They voting in ways that is against their interests in every single way possible.

Turns out that being a hateful pos is more important to them than actual best interest

LBJ was not wrong when he said: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Women, LGBTQIA+, different races, immigrants, different religious people… the primary signifier of GOP voters is that they want to lord over someone else and beyond that they don’t care how little they have or how much is taken from them.

The GQP in a nutshell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

He was never a hero. He just had an interesting story. He is bought and paid for by Peter Thiel, a billionaire resident of New Zealand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

I don't know anyone in real life who cared about that book. It was inorganically astroturfed by neocons and neolibs.

+1 The same people who spent all of 2017 and 2018 talking to Obama—>Trump voters in rural diners loved this book and have an outsized influence on our political discourse. They also spent two years writing takes about the diner guys while completely missing what was coming in 2018.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How quickly Vance went from hero when he wrote the book to a campaign thief, a spouse beater, and a racist.

I’ve got whiplash

He was never a hero. He was promoted by elitists as a Trojan horse to appeal to the rubes. It has worked so far. He’s the Republican Senate nominee.

And here comes the revisionist history

I don't know anyone in real life who cared about that book. It was inorganically astroturfed by neocons and neolibs.

+1 The same people who spent all of 2017 and 2018 talking to Obama—>Trump voters in rural diners loved this book and have an outsized influence on our political discourse. They also spent two years writing takes about the diner guys while completely missing what was coming in 2018.

His tale wasn’t really that unique. He was born to a family who had assets (and a mom who was a nurse-it’s not like he was poor from Appalachia.) they just lost it due to drug use and bad choices