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.
Going from that to running mate means he's clearly a bootlicker and Trump's all about that. If Trump could fill both Pres and VP positions at once he would.
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.
I am fucking foaming at the mouth with this shit. Every study, every test, and nearly every fucking holy book shows and says, help the poor. It is worth your while. Their very own messiah was built off of helping the poor and going against norms. Its so incredibly asinine.
This needs to be FRONT AND CENTER at the VP debate. Trump did this shit with his bullshit fake assistant crap, and this guy did it through this bullshit.
Many states have multiple universities named after them, so you can have university of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania state university.
Ohio state used to be " the ohio mechanical and agricultural school" when they were founded. They changed their name to "the Ohio state university" when they became a university. They were competing with "Ohio university" to be the main big state school, so the tried to emphasize it with "the" prounced with the long e (thee). It's become a bit of a meme since then. No one really cares but it's a funny thing for them to embrace and everyone else to make fun of.
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. "
God had the opportunity to end this in the funniest way possible back when Trump got COVID. Our mistake is in assuming Trump is the Pharaoh and not the Plague.
Pro-P2025 is an understatement. My man practically wrote the damned thing. People write him off as a simple grifter and climber, but this man's hate is pure.
Except he was a never Trumper back in 2016. It’s going to be fun to play back those quotes.
I'm years past thinking anyone voting R cares about (or maybe even perceives) hypocrisy in the slightest if it comes from someone with R next to their name.
He doesn't have the tiniest shred of decency like Pence did and will be riding Trump's dick the whole way, so very unlikely he'll have to worry about the noose...from Trump's supporters, anyway.
