So, when did he live in a small rural town, before or after he went to Yale?
What it tells me, if we weren't already aware, is that the man is a shameless opportunist, content to change his views as often as his underwear if it helps further his own selfish interests. Remind you of anyone? Let's not forget, this is the same man who described Trump as "America's Hitler" in the not too distant past but who has since had a miraculous change of heart to become the orange man baby's running mate! Regardless, if great swathes of the American people are willing to swallow the constant lies and deception, they'll get the administration they deserve.I’m reading JD Vance’s book.
It’s really hard to square the fact that this really well written and insightful personal account of life in small town blue collar rural America and the social and industrial history of these areas was written by the same person who’s come out with the sort of crazy reactionary shit he’s come out with as a politician.
I can only conclude that he’s clearly intelligent enough to know that what he says is a load of nonsense and he’s just playing to an audience.
Very odd, and a real shame.
There were a lot of people who were fairly reasonable before MAGA (and more widely social media) came along.He grew up in the Ohio rust belt, mostly raised by his grandparents as his mother was a drug abuser.
I hope you don’t think I’m somehow defending his current politics.
My whole post was making the point that his book (which came out in 2016) is hard to reconcile with the MAGA nutter we now see before us.
Hillbilly Elegy isn’t really about him, it’s about the breakdown of the wider social fabric of poor working class rural America.
What it tells me, if weren't already aware, is that the man is a shameless opportunist, content to change his views as often as his underwear if it helps further his own selfish interests. Remind you of anyone? Let's not forget, this is the same man who described Trump as "America's Hitler" in the not too distant past but who has since had a miraculous change of heart to become the orange man baby's running mate! Regardless, if great swathes of the American people are willing to swallow the constant lies and deception, they'll get the administration they deserve.
There were a lot of people who were fairly reasonable before MAGA (and more widely social media) came along.
There were a lot of people who were fairly reasonable before MAGA (and more widely social media) came along.
We've come a long way from this:
I agree that’s what he’s become yeah.
Sad to see, as someone with obvious real life experience and intellect could have gone on to try and make a positive impact rather than go down the road he’s now on.
Similar trajectory to Liz Truss. A lib dem in student politics and addressed their conference.I’m reading JD Vance’s book.
It’s really hard to square the fact that this really well written and insightful personal account of life in small town blue collar rural America and the social and industrial history of these areas was written by the same person who’s come out with the sort of crazy reactionary shit he’s come out with as a politician.
I can only conclude that he’s clearly intelligent enough to know that what he says is a load of nonsense and he’s just playing to an audience.
Very odd, and a real shame.
Similar trajectory to Liz Truss. A lib dem in student politics and addressed their conference.
Moves to tory camp to increase chances of election and a career.
Then losses mind and goes fiscally rogue. An absolute disaster which has clearly traumatised her. She is dead behind the eyes.
I see Vance on a similar journey. He has that disconnected look about him.
I was on about Thomas (the second tweet)Clarence (AKA Mr Ginni Thomas) is probably up there to be fair, being blatantly compromised (bribed) and for failing to recuse himself from any Jan 6 hearing where his wife may have been implicated.
Gorsuch is just a bit more sneaky about it. The whole "if a President does it as part of their official duties, it's not a crime" schtick might come back and bite him on the arse though if Biden just decides to ram through Supreme Court reforms before leaving office.