J.D. Vance is slick . . . too slick. From Thomas Zaja at unz.com:
12 Reasons to Still Not Trust Shady Vance
After a confident and competent few months of settling into his undeserved role, JD Vance is the golden boy with the silver tongue who’s got one foot in the White House. Like a cuckoo chick whose masterful mimicry has managed to hoodwink the top feeders of Republican politics, Vance’s cool demeanor and folksy overtures have finally endeared him to the Republican base. Donald Trump may be the favorite to win the election but the female vote remains his biggest liability – something Vance’s appointment did nothing to alleviate. Should he win, conservatives will have to endure four years of unease at the thought of an ex Never-Trumper being in the slipstream of the oldest, most shot-at American president. This piece will outline 12 reasons why it was a mistake to select JD Vance.
#1 The weirdness
From trimming his eyelashes to being unsure of his sexuality, this is a sort of weirdness that borders DSM territory but is fortuitously allayed by his ability to speak well. In his own words, he is “plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures” which could mean anything. In his book, Hillbilly Elegy, he refers to his grandparents as “terminators,” but do not confuse this with his anti-abortion fundamentalism, which he upholds even in cases of rape. That’ll win over women and moderates.
#2 The token sentimentality
Hillbilly Elegy (2016) is an unremarkable book that brings absolutely nothing new to the discussion of rural whites in Appalachia. The book was a commercial success thanks to Vance’s Yale and Silicon Valley connections, while its catchy title quickly made it the flavor of the season – synchronizing well with the launch of Trump’s white working-class movement. There’s a bit of Jerry Springer mixed in with some Fifty Shades of Rust, but it’s mostly a sob story regarding the family dysfunction that Vance was a victim of. Economic excuses really don’t work to explain why Vance never had a father figure, nor can big pharma be blamed for why his mother abused heroin. To be fair, Vance is realistic in his eventual conclusion that the plight of poor hillbillies is largely self-inflicted, though this also seemingly parlays into a grand personal humble-brag – that JD succeeded against all the odds because JD is just that much better than his kin. There’s also a soft bigotry at play, because Vance does not hold other groups to the same standard of self-responsibility as he does rural whites – a fact that likely led Robert Kuttner’s characterization of him as “Charles Murray with a shit-eating grin.”
Das Innernets has his get the COV-LARP experimental gene therapy depopulation shot tweet before it was Xcreta, not as bad as melty face RAT Mika Brzezinski but not too far off.
I don’t like Silicon transhuman AI uber alles world or green eggs and ham.
Thiel can run for office as himself.
I still have the enemedia maggots saying the Purebloods are the problem with Anderson Pooper and other verminous Bolsheviks on teevee.
JDV does know how to trigger the Long March comrades but does he inspire such strong emotions as Emmanuel Trumpstein and the 10 years hate?