J.D. Vance: Just How Bad a Politician Is He? Anatomy of a Failing Campaign: 'Hillbilly Has Been?'

[appalachiablue]

- J.D. Vance, populist fraud, plutocrat, Ohio.
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- Daily Kos, March 19, 2022. - Ed.

Conservatives believe the ‘American Dream’ of prosperity and social ascension is available to any American born into poverty. But the statistics show that American society has less inter-economic class mobility than most supposedly class-bound European societies. Americans born poor are more likely to die broke than poor Swedes or Germans. How do we know? The World Economic Forum ranked social mobility in 82 countries on its Global Social Mobility Index. The United States was 27th. Behind most first-world countries.

But despite the odds against living a Horatio Alger, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” life, there are some from the wrong side of the tracks who grasp the brass ring. One such striver is J.D. Vance, who described his journey in the best-selling memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’. After high school in Middletown OH, he enlisted in the Marines and served in Iraq. He then attended Ohio State University, graduating summa cum laude. And he finished his academic career with a JD from Yale Law. At Yale, Amy Chua, a law professor and famed as the ‘Tiger Mom,' convinced Vance to write Hillbilly Elegy. After law school, Vance made money by making money for Peter Thiel’s venture capital concern, Mithril Capital.

He returned to Ohio, where he continued to make money. He also set out to address the drug scourge gutting rural Appalachia. He decided to run for the US Senate to replace the retiring Rob Portman. That is when it started to go wrong. In 2016, when he was still his own man with an appreciation for the truth, he made some observations about Trump during that shvantz’s pres. campaign. He said, "I'm a Never Trump guy," & "I never liked him." He also tweeted, “My god what an idiot”. Called Trump “reprehensible.” Said, “I can’t vote for Trump, I can’t stomach the guy, I think he is noxious”. He then dropped the hammer, “as someone who doesn’t like Trump I might have to hold my nose & vote for Hillary Clinton”. But change soon came when Vance decided to run for the Senate - & looked to secure the endorsement of the noxious, reprehensible idiot.

He walked back his Trump criticisms & crawled down to Mar a Lago begging for absolution. To no avail. Trump withheld his imprimatur. And Vance is currently polling in 3rd place behind the Steven Miller impersonator, Josh Mandel, & Ohio businessman Mike Gibbons. When it comes to politics, Vance seems to have a death wish - or the worst political radar in the business. In response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he told the armchair warrior Steve Bannon, on his podcast ‘War Room’, that “I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” He was trying to focus attention on the Southern border & stopping the tide of fentanyl shipments. But in his clumsy attempt, he sounded like a heartless bastard. As too many religious folks do. - More + Comments,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/19/2086797/-Just-how-bad-a-politician-is-JD-Vance-The-anatomy-of-a-failing-campaign
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- 'Who Does J.D. Vance Think He’s Fooling?' The New Republic, May 27, 2021. Ed. I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.

There’s an arresting scene in J.D. Vance’s moving 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, in which Vance, a 2nd-year student at Yale Law School, attends a dinner hosted by the white-shoe law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, in what he describes as the most expensive restaurant in which he’s ever eaten. Vance is stricken with social anxiety when asked whether he’d prefer the Sauvignon Blanc or the Chardonnay, the sparkling water or the tap. After sitting down to a place setting with 9 bewildering utensils, he makes a beeline for the men’s room to phone his girlfriend (& future wife), Usha, for advice. “Go from outside to inside,” she explains, “& don’t use the same utensil for separate dishes.”
Vance evoked powerfully the sense that his hardscrabble upbringing in Ohio’s Rust Belt & Kentucky’s Appalachian hollows had left him without the social capital necessary to move up in the world. But move up he did, with the help of powerful mentors (Amy “Tiger Mom” Chua, David Frum) & an adaptability that may have surprised even him...
https://newrepublic.com/article/162548/jd-vance-populist-fraud-ohio

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Of course, the christofascists believe that if you are poor and don't bootstrap yourself to riches..

well you are supposed to starve along with your kids. Starving is just the divine punishment for being lazy.

Hence the revulsion they have for welfare. Interferes with your god given right to starve to death and frustrates god's righteous vengeance.

[appalachiablue]

2. The true ideology and horror, but his ignorant and

well off supporters may not understand, or care about the real agenda. We'll find out. Fraud, opportunist and hypocrite.

[Beartracks]

6. And they'll work to reduce the availability of bootstraps.

[airmid]

3. Bootstraps...what a joke. I grew up in Middletown Ohio. I knew his mother in my

wild youth days. His family grew up in one of the better neighborhoods in Middletown and his grandfather worked at Armco Steel, a prime job for that era. His book and the movie adapted from it left a lot of people in that town disgusted by his portrayal of their home.

[appalachiablue]

4. That is very interesting to hear, smacks of con. I can believe

some Middletown folks were scalded. But the movie wasn't as bad IMO as what I'd read about the fraud book. Released soon after Trump's election, the MSM immediately ate up the book. JD was the new media darling and 'Appalachian expert' on CNN as I recall. On the portrayal of good for nothing poor white trash poor who use any govt. money they receive for drugs, steaks and big color TVs, Joe M. may have assisted.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Hopefully they will remember that

and he’ll tank at election time.

Thanks for sharing your real experience.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. This person was a mediocre author and a lousy politician

[Skittles]

8. he is a piece of shit

yup

[Skittles]

9. fuck that piece of shit

seriously, FUCK HIM

he is DISGUSTING