JD Vance called 'phony' by hometown residents
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Published 2024-07-20
J.D. Vance has exaggerated the depravity of where grew up leading some to feel like "he's appropriating a poverty that doesn't belong to him", says The Times's Will Pavia.
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All Comments (21)
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Words have consequences and if he thinks people are buying into this bs after deleting how many of his I hate Trump posts ? and as we find out more about his grooming and cultivation by his financial backer and his hold his nose rise from obscurity to one of a possible president ! ?
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Trump needs the money JD Vance will bring from his owners Peter Thiel and Melon then Trump's diet catches up with him and they got themselves the president
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Sold his soul to the devil
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What economic reforms?! Giving tax cuts to billionaires and tax rises to working and middle class Americans? 😂
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A phony Republican? Surely not!
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Yes he is ! He is where he is due to the fact that he had a relative who had a stable job with union benefits who had him living there. Now hes trying to tear down that life for others. Then somehow he was lucky enough to have a rich benefactor - guess he is NOT self made. 🙄
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Vance just doesn't get it. Pulling yourself up by your boot straps relies on luck as much as anything else.
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Pull yourself up by your bootstraps... or by having your venture capitalist friend call in favors to get you a job or two... I guess the later is the true American way these days...
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When you make it big, especially in the GOP, you forget about the small guy, not because you always want to but because you form new alliances and allegiances. Republican governed states remain the poorest in the country.
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Vance is a political opportunist making hay while the sun shines on him , which it more than does at the moment in the States.
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He grew up in a town outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. HIs family's annual household income was $100,000. The family deteriorated due to domestic violence, profligate spending beyond their means, and his mother's drug addiction fueled by stealing drugs from her patients. HIs grandmother may have come up from hard scrabble rural poverty, but he didn't.
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0:44 did you mean "halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton"? Because Ohio is the state.
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0:49 What? Cincinnati is a city within the state of Ohio, so Middletown cannot be “between Cincinnati and Ohio.” It’s about 20 or 30 northwest of Cincinnati, and about 20 to 30 mile southwest of Dayton.
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J D Vance - highly flexible morality. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
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An opportunist who only cares about wealth and power.
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noo, a member of the party of integrity and ethics and law and order being less than upstanding? tell it ain't so
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I agree that he’s phony, but Times Radio is, too.
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People in his hometown are jealous of his success. Here is a guy that escaped poverty, despite numerous adversities in his life, to go to a successful Ivy league university and become a lawyer and now VP nominated. If he had stayed there and remained poor, uneducated, had been addicted to drugs/ alcohol, they would have loved him.
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Class warfare in America? Say it aint so.
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His book reinforced stereotypes. His abrupt change on Trump fits the transactional nature of MAGA.
