What the hell happened to JD Vance?

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Anonymous wrote:What's with his obsession with people who don't have children??

Like so many of the leading lights of the GOP, he hates women and think they should be in the home having babies (some exceptions apply; see Usha Vance), but it just comes off as creepy obsession.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s Trump’s Sarah Palin.

Palin was not as much a drag on McCain as Vance is for Trump, so Vance is worse.

True. She had a lot of fans at first until it was revealed that she knew nothing about governance or any national or international issues at all. "I can see Russia from my house." She had few statements on the record, no books or interviews.

To be fair, Palin never said that but Tina Fey did.

It was Palin

https://www.newsweek.com/palin-revives-see-russia-alaska-comment-1696388

But at least she didn't f a couch

She said from Alaska. Tina Fey as Palin said from her house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JD Vance is a fraud. He is to Appalachia what Olive Garden is to Italy.

Indeed. He is a fraud. And that's really what he should be attacked for, but since NY Times, NBC News, CNN, Bill Gates, et al. are responsible for blowing up his fictitious book, that'll never happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's with his obsession with people who don't have children??

My guess is he's a closet gay Republican who hates women. He is clearly a very angry and disturbed man beneath his Trump sycophant patina.

[Anonymous]

Did everyone read the WaPo article about Usha? I had assumed she was a Fed Soc type at YLS but apparently not — she’s been basically apolitical, which is pretty damn unusual at YLS.
I feel a little bad for her after reading it. Seems like they were really a love match and she is just in a “stand by your man” prison. They article compares them to the Clintons as a YLS power couple — he is a little like Bill in that he had a sad childhood that left him with a major hole in his heart that he needs to fill with time in the spotlight, positive attention from the crowds, etc. My guess is that she has expressed reservations as he’s moved into MAGA land but they’ve fallen on deaf ears and she is not willing to jeopardize her marriage over her principals. So she’s probably rationalized it all to herself in some hyper intellectual way (ah, YLS, I do not miss those hyper intellectual political theory arguments!)

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Anonymous wrote:What's with his obsession with people who don't have children??

My guess is he's a closet gay Republican who hates women. He is clearly a very angry and disturbed man beneath his Trump sycophant patina.

I don’t think gay (maybe bi?). I think he genuinely loves his wife and kids. And it doesn’t sound like he had issues with women at law school. But I think he has a yawning hole in his heart that overrides anything else. Like an addict but his addiction is his desperate need to prove himself worthy and he’s gojng to rationalize getting on any train that gets him there and double down on any argument that will expedite that. (It’s a classic problem of debaters and lawyers — that they over-exaggerate a point because they don’t know how to modulate the argument or see shades of grey).

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Anonymous wrote:What's with his obsession with people who don't have children??

Like so many of the leading lights of the GOP, he hates women and think they should be in the home having babies (some exceptions apply; see Usha Vance), but it just comes off as creepy obsession.

He also derides working moms (moms with professional careers outside the home) but his very own wife, Usha, has had a high-powered career as an attorney. She only stepped down from her position at a law firm when JD Vance was confirmed as VP.

Interestingly, Usha clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts before taking a role at the law firm. The Vance’s are very well connected - hardly Washington “outsiders”.

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Anonymous wrote:Did everyone read the WaPo article about Usha? I had assumed she was a Fed Soc type at YLS but apparently not — she’s been basically apolitical, which is pretty damn unusual at YLS.
I feel a little bad for her after reading it. Seems like they were really a love match and she is just in a “stand by your man” prison. They article compares them to the Clintons as a YLS power couple — he is a little like Bill in that he had a sad childhood that left him with a major hole in his heart that he needs to fill with time in the spotlight, positive attention from the crowds, etc. My guess is that she has expressed reservations as he’s moved into MAGA land but they’ve fallen on deaf ears and she is not willing to jeopardize her marriage over her principals. So she’s probably rationalized it all to herself in some hyper intellectual way (ah, YLS, I do not miss those hyper intellectual political theory arguments!)

She’s MAGA. 100%. Don’t let the Ivy pedigree fool you. She clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts who are all-in on dismantling any shred of women’s rights, democratic institutions, and a lot of the other stuff that is required for something like Project 2025 to take hold.

She did not just fall from a coconut tree ….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's with his obsession with people who don't have children??

Like so many of the leading lights of the GOP, he hates women and think they should be in the home having babies (some exceptions apply; see Usha Vance), but it just comes off as creepy obsession.

He also derides working moms (moms with professional careers outside the home) but his very own wife, Usha, has had a high-powered career as an attorney. She only stepped down from her position at a law firm when JD Vance was confirmed as VP.

Interestingly, Usha clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts before taking a role at the law firm. The Vance’s are very well connected - hardly Washington “outsiders”.

I think these connections with these powerful Catholics are why he converted to Catholicism, aligning himself further with the insider-y, powerful Catholics.

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Anonymous wrote:Did everyone read the WaPo article about Usha? I had assumed she was a Fed Soc type at YLS but apparently not — she’s been basically apolitical, which is pretty damn unusual at YLS.
I feel a little bad for her after reading it. Seems like they were really a love match and she is just in a “stand by your man” prison. They article compares them to the Clintons as a YLS power couple — he is a little like Bill in that he had a sad childhood that left him with a major hole in his heart that he needs to fill with time in the spotlight, positive attention from the crowds, etc. My guess is that she has expressed reservations as he’s moved into MAGA land but they’ve fallen on deaf ears and she is not willing to jeopardize her marriage over her principals. So she’s probably rationalized it all to herself in some hyper intellectual way (ah, YLS, I do not miss those hyper intellectual political theory arguments!)

She’s MAGA. 100%. Don’t let the Ivy pedigree fool you. She clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts who are all-in on dismantling any shred of women’s rights, democratic institutions, and a lot of the other stuff that is required for something like Project 2025 to take hold.

She did not just fall from a coconut tree ….

I'd say more Conservative Inc. than MAGA. Look up how these elbowy ruthless striver right wing female law students were getting favored clerkships from gatekeepers like professor Chua and her husband. Then Chua and her husband just happen to set Usha and JD (James/Jimmy back then) to date and Amy gets him a book deal. Money and status obsessed right wing grifters from the get-go.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with his obsession with people who don't have children??

Like so many of the leading lights of the GOP, he hates women and think they should be in the home having babies (some exceptions apply; see Usha Vance), but it just comes off as creepy obsession.

He also derides working moms (moms with professional careers outside the home) but his very own wife, Usha, has had a high-powered career as an attorney. She only stepped down from her position at a law firm when JD Vance was confirmed as VP.

Interestingly, Usha clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts before taking a role at the law firm. The Vance’s are very well connected - hardly Washington “outsiders”.

I think these connections with these powerful Catholics are why he converted to Catholicism, aligning himself further with the insider-y, powerful Catholics.

He didn't convert to anything, he's an atheist sociopath. The wife and kids are not Catholic either, which teases out how bullsh*t his fake conversion was.

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Anonymous wrote:Did everyone read the WaPo article about Usha? I had assumed she was a Fed Soc type at YLS but apparently not — she’s been basically apolitical, which is pretty damn unusual at YLS.
I feel a little bad for her after reading it. Seems like they were really a love match and she is just in a “stand by your man” prison. They article compares them to the Clintons as a YLS power couple — he is a little like Bill in that he had a sad childhood that left him with a major hole in his heart that he needs to fill with time in the spotlight, positive attention from the crowds, etc. My guess is that she has expressed reservations as he’s moved into MAGA land but they’ve fallen on deaf ears and she is not willing to jeopardize her marriage over her principals. So she’s probably rationalized it all to herself in some hyper intellectual way (ah, YLS, I do not miss those hyper intellectual political theory arguments!)

She’s MAGA. 100%. Don’t let the Ivy pedigree fool you. She clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts who are all-in on dismantling any shred of women’s rights, democratic institutions, and a lot of the other stuff that is required for something like Project 2025 to take hold.

She did not just fall from a coconut tree ….

I went to Yale law so I’m certainly not fooled by the pedigree. But we all knew who the right wingers were — they loved making their position known. The interviewee classmates say she did not identify this way in law school and it seems she wasn’t even a member of Fed Soc which is like the bare minimum for the right wingers. I wonder if she fell in with Chua for other reasons (maybe small group prof or something?) and then Chua steered her to all this. Chua and Jed def see/saw themselves as king makers and would seek out students they thought they could propel onwards. As it happens, chuas best connect was with Kavanaigh. Each of the profs have their own connections on the fed jud so who you end up clerking for is pretty tightly related to which prof you can get to mentor you. I agree it’s all super gross. But my point was that I had assumed she was the standard YLS fed soc conservative, and it seems like this was not the case.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear single people...

Isn't that already how it works? People without kids aren't eligible for the child tax credit.

That's a credit. He is calling for an entire separate tax system based on whether or not you have kids, and with your marginal tax rate determined accordingly.

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The JD Vance Remorse Parade

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/07/27/the-jd-vance-remorse-parade-00171512?cid=hptb_primary_0

[Anonymous]

JD Vance is crashing and burning... everyone sees right through him to the fraud that he is.