politics

I can’t shake this feeling that we are just totally fucked.

So, the GOP is running with two white men again? We'll, color me surprised...

Well, I, for one, appreciate that he's wearing clothes every time I've seen his picture.

I can't believe we have a fucking candidate whose name's "JD." It's like he's the kid brother on some 90s sitcom. Blergh.

Though in 30 years we'll have all the Braydens and Jaydens and Haydens getting elected.

I started reading up on him and apparently he said this:

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful), or that he’s America’s Hitler.

That fact that he thinks Trump could be Hitler and is still prepared to get behind him for his own gain tells me all I need to know about the principles of the man.

At least Trump isn't going through the facade of 'draining the swamp' again. He's letting the swamp rats in through the front door.

Ah, he chose the most MAGA of the frontrunners, huh? Unsurprising.

He's an Ivy League educated social climber who hobnobbed with Peter Theil and lawmakers before he got famous writing a book where he cosplayed as a poor person so he could tell rich people exactly what they want to hear about poor people

From a quick glance at my résumé, you might think me an older, female version of Vance. I was born in Appalachia in the 1960s and grew up in the small city of Newark, Ohio. When I was 9, my parents divorced. My mom became a single mother of four, with only a high school education and little work experience. Life was tough; the five of us lived on $6,000 a year.

Like Vance, I attended Ohio State University on scholarship, working nights and weekends. I graduated at the top of my class and, again like Vance, attended Yale Law School on a financial-need scholarship. Today, I represent people who’ve been fired illegally from their jobs. And now that I’m running for Congress in Northeast Ohio, I speak often with folks who are trying hard but not making much money.

A self-described conservative, Vance largely concludes that his family and peers are trapped in poverty due to their own poor choices and negative attitudes. But I take great exception when he makes statements such as: “We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don’t need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy. . . . Thrift is inimical to our being.”

Who is this “we” of whom he speaks? Vance’s statements don’t describe the family in which I grew up, and they don’t describe the families I meet who are struggling to make it in America today. I know that my family lived on $6,000 per year because as children, we sat down with pen and paper to help find a way for us to live on that amount. My mom couldn’t even qualify for a credit card, much less live on credit. She bought our clothes at discount stores.

Thrift was not inimical to our being; it was the very essence of our being.

With lines like “We choose not to work when we should be looking for jobs,” Vance’s sweeping stereotypes are shark bait for conservative policymakers. They feed into the mythology that the undeserving poor make bad choices and are to blame for their own poverty, so taxpayer money should not be wasted on programs to help lift people out of poverty. Now these inaccurate and dangerous generalizations have been made required college reading.

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He's the guy who, when asked about abortion ban exceptions for rape and increase, said "Two wrongs don't make a right."

From the NYT : "Shortly after J.D. Vance’s selection was announced, his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, was pounded by a strong storm with hail the size of golf balls that cleared parks and splash pads as people fled for cover. "

TLDR: He is pro-January 6th insurrection, pro-Project 2025, wants to overthrow the current government, basically as Trumptard as they get.

Trump wants a loyal guy.

Is he responsible for the shooting? He once told a friend that Trump was America's Hitler

He's a kiss ass. JD Vance has used every public speaking opportunity to suck Trump's dick very publicly.

I think you mean "Trump's VP pick is also a naked authoritarian."

Harris is going to eat him alive in the VP debate.