Oh look, Goodreads had to actually block reviews of his book because they were being dive-bombed with left-wing trolls leaving fake negative reviews. No doubt the troll on this thread was one of them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/goodreads-blocks-reviews-of-hillbilly-elegy-by-jd-vance-trumps-vp-pick-heres-why/ar-BB1qaeTZ

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perfectly distills what an inorganic empty suit creep VP Palantir is:

Just watched “Hillbilly Elegy” a movie about some nobody who is now likely going to be vice president. They used an A-list director and cast for what amounted to a boring and campy Lifetime movie. It’s hard to imagine this film was made for commercial purposes.

The budget is estimated at $45 million. $45 million to make a boring movie about some guy nobody’s heard of… …who then less than a year after the release of the film announced he’s running for senate and now, just 3 years after that, is Trump’s VP.

It’s also worth mentioning that the movie is based on JD Vance’s book by the same name. A book that nobody cared about and only had mediocre sales. That is, until the New York Times out of left field wrote an extensive review of the book launching it into best seller territory.

But that’s not all, the New York Times featured multiple articles and interviews with J.D. Vance to discuss his book and his story. They’ve even invited him to contribute to articles as a writer. Yes, that New York Times.

I guess good things happen when you’ve got friends like Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, American Enterprise Institute, The Manhattan Institute, The Hoover Institution, etc.

Why did this dork's boring ass memoir get a $45m movie deal?

Because it was a compelling story for millions of people.

I thought his wife is a natural born American (born in California)? Why does he calling her a South Asian immigrant?

"I'm married to a South Asian immigrant. One of the great gifts of India to the world is ghee."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vance is refusing to debate Harris?

Oh I read that a source close to both of them says they had a "brief and respectful" phone call yesterday - she called him to congratulate him Monday but left a voicemail and he returned her call Tuesday to talk.

+1
He hasn't refused to debate her at all. They haven't set the dates yet. But also, I think the Trump campaign is waiting to see whether Biden/Harris will actually be the candidates in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:Perfectly distills what an inorganic empty suit creep VP Palantir is:

Just watched “Hillbilly Elegy” a movie about some nobody who is now likely going to be vice president. They used an A-list director and cast for what amounted to a boring and campy Lifetime movie. It’s hard to imagine this film was made for commercial purposes.

The budget is estimated at $45 million. $45 million to make a boring movie about some guy nobody’s heard of… …who then less than a year after the release of the film announced he’s running for senate and now, just 3 years after that, is Trump’s VP.

It’s also worth mentioning that the movie is based on JD Vance’s book by the same name. A book that nobody cared about and only had mediocre sales. That is, until the New York Times out of left field wrote an extensive review of the book launching it into best seller territory.

But that’s not all, the New York Times featured multiple articles and interviews with J.D. Vance to discuss his book and his story. They’ve even invited him to contribute to articles as a writer. Yes, that New York Times.

I guess good things happen when you’ve got friends like Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, American Enterprise Institute, The Manhattan Institute, The Hoover Institution, etc.

Why did this dork's boring ass memoir get a $45m movie deal?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is bonkers. Who cares who his wife is? Who cares what he said about Trump in 2016? Every Republican was saying that stuff about Trump until he won. What matters now is what he says now. And now he is another Trumper who brings nothing to the ticket except youth. And honestly, that's not a huge selling point when his policies and his rhetoric are as gross as Trump's himself.

Oh come on. It is noteworthy that a candidate's running mate once called said candidate "maybe America's Hitler." I agree his wife's race doesn't matter, kids' names don't matter, whether he grew up in Cincinnati or Cleveland doesn't matter but you're being willfully dumb if you think people aren't going to discuss past comments on his now boss.

Sure, I expect the Democrats to just run ads of his quotes about Trump, and I think they should. But he's not the only one who said things like that about Trump and then changed tune when Trump won. Trump would have very few people to choose from in his party if he had to nix everyone who spoke against him the first time around.

Anonymous wrote:Vance is refusing to debate Harris?

Why would he agree to a debate? It can only hurt the Trump-Vance ticket at this point.

From Facebook:

Vance took Tim Scott’s “black job.”

Lolz

Anonymous wrote:Vance is refusing to debate Harris?

Oh I read that a source close to both of them says they had a "brief and respectful" phone call yesterday - she called him to congratulate him Monday but left a voicemail and he returned her call Tuesday to talk.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is bonkers. Who cares who his wife is? Who cares what he said about Trump in 2016? Every Republican was saying that stuff about Trump until he won. What matters now is what he says now. And now he is another Trumper who brings nothing to the ticket except youth. And honestly, that's not a huge selling point when his policies and his rhetoric are as gross as Trump's himself.

Oh come on. It is noteworthy that a candidate's running mate once called said candidate "maybe America's Hitler." I agree his wife's race doesn't matter, kids' names don't matter, whether he grew up in Cincinnati or Cleveland doesn't matter but you're being willfully dumb if you think people aren't going to discuss past comments on his now boss.

Vance is refusing to debate Harris?

This thread is bonkers. Who cares who his wife is? Who cares what he said about Trump in 2016? Every Republican was saying that stuff about Trump until he won. What matters now is what he says now. And now he is another Trumper who brings nothing to the ticket except youth. And honestly, that's not a huge selling point when his policies and his rhetoric are as gross as Trump's himself.

J.D. Vance caught on video telling far-right group that he agrees with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Vance admits to being a troll!

WORD SALAD⬇️
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance once gave a strange defense of disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones during an event held by a shadowy dark money–backed, secretive conservative Teneo Network funded by billionaire Leonard Leo who is the co-chairman of the Federalist Society. Vance joined the network in 2018, years before he would run for office.

During a speech at Teneo’s 2021 Retreat, Vance tried to explain his defense of Jones, the right-wing podcaster who insisted that the Sandy Hook massacre of children was a hoax.

In front of the audience, Vance tried to defend himself, saying he was “just trolling,” before walking back his denial to insist “that doesn’t mean what I said is in any way untrue.”

Vance explained that it was important to “have a little fun when you might end up as a political prisoner in your own country. It’s OK to troll when you make and speak fundamental truths. But, look, I do think what I said was correct. If you listen to Alex Jones every day, you would believe that a transnational financial elite controls things in our country, that they hate our society, and oh, by the way, a lot of them are probably sex perverts too.”

“A lot of the things that are ultimately gonna get revealed as truths are gonna be advocated originally by crazy people. It doesn’t mean you have to be best friends with them,” Vance said, adding that conservatives should stand up for nonconventional people.

Vance has a pretty solid track record of ignoring the more heinous things his buddies say. In 2022, the soon-to-be senator gave a friendly 90-minute interview with right-wing activist Jack Murphy, who had once claimed that “feminists need rape.”
Let’s see him walk back saying Trump is “America’s Hitler.” Which makes him Hitler’s VP

https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-d-vance-caught-video-202454683.html?

From RCP:

The Post checks up on the Vances’ Del Ray neighbors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/07/16/jd-vance-alexandria-home/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3e5c6e1%2F6697ea2c5548d0083d7ae918%2F596bc2b7ae7e8a44e7dcaab7%2F11%2F55%2F6697ea2c5548d0083d7ae918