Reply to What the hell happened to JD Vance?

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "What the hell happened to JD Vance? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened?  Nothing.  He's someone who jumps from career to career.  He never stays at anything long.  He doesn't get good at anything before he's off ot he next deal.

He graduated high school, joined the Marines for 4 years.  Came back and with the GI bill, did college for 2.5 years, then went to law school for 4 years.  He came out, clerked for a year, went to a law firm and practiced law for less than 2 years.  Then he jumped ship to follow Thiel as a venture capitalist apprentice.  But he worked for or started 4 firms in 5 years, never staying longer than a year or two at any venture.  The only venture he backed for the entire 5 years, AppHarvest went backrupt just after he bailed and jumped ship.  He was a critical part of the what made the company go bankrupt.  Then he was picked by Trump to run for the Senate and less than 2 years into that gig, he's now running for VP.

He has only stayed long enough at any given gig to know that he isn't very good at it.  And then he jumps ship before anyone else finds out he is no good at what he does.  He's like a version of the guy from Catch Me If You Can, Frank, Abagnale.

My guess for why he's done the 180 about-face on Trump and been consumed by die-hard conservative views is that he knows that Trump is going senile and he wants to be the one to inherit the MAGA Conspiracy Cartel.  He's trying to sell himself as the heir apparent to the Q-Anons, MAGA, Neo Nazis, White Supremacists, AntiSemites, HandMaiden's Tale, Christian Fundamentalist Basket of Deplorables.  This is Trump's last hurrah and Vance wants to become the figurehead of the movement.  [/quote]

You gloss over his connections to intel, billionaire neocons, neocon think tanks, Amy and Jed, Axelrod, CNN, his boring fictionalized memoir when he hadn’t done a damn thing in life, NYTimes pumping the book, and a $40M Netflix movie. [b]His placement in public relations in the marines[/b] was itself intel adjacent if not intel cover. He’s a Manchurian created in a lab.[/quote]

I would really, really, really like to know the back story on this.  Is he just the luckiest son-of-a-gun in history, to get a plush desk job as an enlisted guy straight out of HS during war time?  Everyone I know that enlisted like this got sent right into fighting.  Unless someone in basic trainign said "uh, we can't send this guy to the front..." I just DO NOT understand how he got that position.  Why don't they save that sh-t for people that have already done a deployment or two, or someone with a short-term disability or pregnancy?  This really upends everything I thought I knew about the military.
[/quote]

I’m curious about that too.  At the very least though, he would have had to take a vocational aptitude test.  It’s not out of the question to imagine that someone who was later able to have the test scores to make Yale Law School a realistic option — could have met the criteria for a cushy desk job a few years earlier.  The real question would be determining whether he really was the best person for the job.    It also might reflect what he was bad at as well as what he was good at.  Another person might have been a good or even better fit for the job — but also had stellar skills in other areas, that then led to a whole different set of jobs compared to Vance.  I’m not actually convinced that Vance’s path was this straightforward — just suggesting one way that it could have happened.  [/quote]

You’re assuming an awful lot. He has never revealed his test scores, honors, or school records. Zero evidence he got into Yale with 99 percentile scores and a perfect 4.0 GPA from OSU.

We don’t even know his senior class rank from his dipshit public high school in Ohio.[/quote]

I am assuming a bit. I’m not assuming “99 percentile scores and a perfect 4.0 GPA” — so those numbers are all on you.

I am assuming good enough LSAT scores and grades to suggest to admissions that he could do the work at YLS, coupled with being a DEI admit based on his military background and being from a geographically underrepresented state, possibly with a compelling backstory.

I’m also guessing— rather than assuming— that someone capable of getting scores and grades high enough to suggest that he would be successful at YLS would also have had scores on the high side relative to his fellow enlisted peers at the time.  I don’t know anything about his grades, scores, or class rank. I also don’t know these details for his fellow enlisted peers.   I do know that the vast majority of people who enlist in the Marines don’t end up graduating from YLS — so that suggests higher than average aptitude of some sort, in addition to other relevant variables.

Other stories and paths that account for his cushy job are, of course, also possible. 
[/quote]

Unconnected white guy YLS applicants need a 99 percentile LSAT score and 4.0 undergrad GPA to even get someone in admissions to look at their app. He not only got in, he bragged he got a full ride. But then he later claimed he had 150k in student loans. Guy is a compulsive liar. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics