Asked about Haitians immigrants legally working and living in the United States through Temporary Protected Status, Vance criticized the Biden administration for granting that status to Haitians, asserting that the government had “illegally” given them that protection and saying that he would still refer to them as “illegal aliens” anyway.
Not only are they here legally, but most of them have nothing to do with Biden. The parole program for Haitians goes back to the Reagan era.
What an asshole.
He's Peter Thiel's hayseed house monkey, happy to be a walking, talking exhibit of wrongness for an isolated billionaire, confirming his worst prejudices of everyone else.
Really, an ideal Republican.
I'm of the opinion that Vance's Hillbilly Elegy was largely the result of editors at Harper. Nothing in his writing today suggests felicity of prose or even a sense for narrative. I suspect he wrote a basic chronology and it was sweetened in the editorial process.
And what about his stint as a VC? Where are the stories about what he did? Any stories. Looks like he got a sinecure at Mithril Capital Management (Thiel's shop) where he as massively compensated for doing very little. What made him, a guy with a JD from Yale, particularly good at investing. He sure as hell isn't a quant.
And his success in politics was getting elected to the Senate, by winning the GOP primary with $15 million from Thiel.
He's synthetic. Someone on Twitter wrote that Vance went to Yale to get polished, went to Silicon Valley to get rich, and returned to Ohio to acquire power.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.kentuckytotheworld.org/blog/netflixs-hillbilly-elegy-is-a-flop-the-book-is-why&ved=2ahUKEwiCqvj_zc-IAxUkDHkGHbqPOXYQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3OVy3zFlf0x81QHi62XRMZ
I think you're in the right track.
The more he is in the spotlight, the more obvious it is that he just isn't that bright.
How long before he starts claiming that the descendants of enslaved Africans in the US are also "illegal" immigrants, because they didn't come to America the same way his ancestors did?
He thinks being a bigot is a political winner, so he's not going to be bothered with the truth.
Trump had to work hard to find a running mate as vile as himself.
I think he's even more vile than Trump. Which in itself is quite the feat.
Perhaps but he doesn’t command as much undying love or loyalty from the Republican Cult, nor does he seem to have access to foreigners willing to bankroll his every move. JD Vance will hopefully not be on all our tongues and minds for the next quarter century, as Trump has been for the last one.
I hope not. I find him even more repulsive than Trump.
I agree that he is more vile, if perhaps not as grating as Trump. The way I see them, if allowed to, Trump would order his enemies to be executed but would always ask someone else to do it for him. Vance on the other, would be giddy to do so himself.
If they were to make a politicians yearbook, he'd have the "Most likely to be a serial killer" comment next to his picture.
He definitely has the look. I get a weird vibe looking at him. A there's definitely something not right with this guy vibe.
Not only that, but I could easily see him literally tossing his Indian wife and children to a white nationalist lynch mob before November while shouting "Poison in our blood!" Of course, Drumpf would do the same for a buck and a half, so the race for most vile pretty much remains a toss-up as well.
I'd go with most likely to be killed in Vietnam by his own troops.
Amen. Its amazing but true; because Trump is so stupid and psychologically damaged that there is a bottom (admittedly low) for how much hate he can deserve. JD Vance somehow manages to dig below that floor, because he has the brains to know better but chooses to be worse.
Uh huh. These two clowns messaging to the same folks who think Usha and Melania are both illegals -- that Melania was wrongfully granted a work visa and illegally given citizenship for marrying a citizen, and Usha is an illegal anchor baby.
Can these two idiots be more idiotic than feeding the fire that is the mob of racists that end up targeting their own wives? We have a tie in the Worst Husbands of the Year award.
When their wives become too much political baggage or just too old to be perceived as fuckable anymore, Trump and Vance will dump them.
Trump doesn’t care what happens to Melania. His new wife will adore him the way he wishes Melania did.
Before they got married I'm sure Melania looked at him lovingly. She had to. After, not so much.
I can only judge by the photos I've seen, but I am trying to imagine Melania looking at anyone lovingly, and I'm just not getting it.
Look at the photos of her looking at Justin Trudeau. There's a reason Trump hates him with such intensity, both she and Ivanka looked at Trudeau the way Trump has always fantasized they would look at him.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/08/melania-trump-justin-trudeau-g7
Look at Trump the past few years. The one woman who has spent the most time next to him is Alina Habba, and now he seems to have switched to Laura Loomer. If Melania were to leave in hiding tomorrow Trump wouldn't notice that she has left.
Trump has and will always be more idiotic. You'd think Vance as a Yale graduate would know better. Apparently not. Maybe it's his inner hillbilly expressing itself?
"You'd think Vance as a Yale graduate would know better."
Why? In humans, the traits of high intelligence and good judgement are unlinked.
I stand corrected.
There we go. Sanewashing again
Once uttered, a Republican lie only grows in size and scope, it never dies. This is Vances version of Trumps election fraud lie.
Vance has already said he will lie in service to his political agenda. Anyone who takes any statement from him as “true” is a fool.
Please be aware that it will be PRESIDENT VANCE should Mr Trump be elected and die from whatever reason while in office.
This is a grave, grave danger...please remember this.
I think he's surpassed Trump as the reason to vote for Harris/Walz.
A grave, grave danger (sic - intended pun?) particularly for Trump. It is a power play by the vile Peter Thiel. He probably has an assassin already booked.
It would be a testament to Il Duce's stupidity if JD's "childless cat lady" and Haitians eating pets BS are significant factor's in their hopeful loss in November. Any normal campaign would recognize the potential damage and would have tried to cleaned it up already. Trump is simply incapable of admitting he is wrong about anything.
I'm continually amazed that Kevin keeps posting this stuff as if anyone would find it the least bit surprising. They're just flooding the zone with shit and Kevin bites on it every time. They've been doing it forever and it's as if he's never seen it before. Is our bloggers learning?
According to some commentators here, this is only speech, and it's free.
It is indeed only speech -- it tiptoes up to incitement to violence but not quite all the way -- and it is indeed free.
What its defenders often maintain, though, is that as such it should be free from criticism. That because it is "free speech," ANY rebuttal or criticism -- of ANY mind, ranging from the most erudite and polite to the crudest and most insulting -- is somehow UNFAIR. That is, they think "free" speech means speech with no consequences whatsoever.
They are children. Emotionally, they are ... somewhere between 6 and 10? (I'm sure I'm being unfair to many well-adjusted 6-to-10-year-olds) Because what they're really complaining about is nothing so sophisticated as what comprises protected speech under the First Amendment but rather that they just HATE it when other people say NO to them cuz NOBODY SHOULD SAY NO TO THEM!!!!
See also their leader, who validates and exemplifies this behavior with almost every breath.
Is Vance the most disgusting person to be a major party nominee since the Civil War era?
Trump was, but I think Vance is even worse because he knows what he is doing
He passed the number one VP vetting criteria- He will never (ever!) certify an electoral count that the GOP loses.
Empire of Embarrassment: A Visual Timeline of Donald J. Trump’s Lawsuits, Scandals, and Disgraces,
https://lawsuit.org/donald-trump-scandals/
This has always been the case for the rabid Trump supporters and those who feel illegal immigrants are our number one problem (these are not seperate groups).
When they say 'illegal immigrant' they have always really meant 'brown immigrant'. When they scream about 'immigrants' they really mean 'all brown people in America'.
Literally everyone he is speaking to will nod their head in agreement. For them, there is literally no difference in an 'illegal immigrant' and a 'legal Hatian immigrant'. They are all bad others.
this whole thread is a gas!