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TLO's avatar

It's astounding how stupid people become when they take their slobbering knee to The Great Orange One. A respected author who educated us and advocated for some of the most impoverished people suddenly becomes a slathering bulldog for the man who cares nothing about the holler where said author hails from. Nor anybody from any impoverished background. What in the world are they teaching at those Ivy League schools these days?? Shysterism 101 – 401? JD Vance, please, please, go join Tucker on his island in Maine and barricade yourselves there. Take The Great Orange One with you.

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suzc's avatar

I read the book and was appalled at what I saw as his lack of self awareness and empathy. I didn't think.it merited the hype. He has always seemed the entitled grifter type to me but maybe im.being unfair.

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TLO's avatar

No, you're not wrong. He is tone deaf and self aggrandizing. I'm referring in my comment to the perception that the general population has of the book. I didn't bother watching the movie after having read it. He obviously has no interest in bettering any conditions of the people back in the holler that he made millions off of.

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suzc's avatar

Exactly! Thanks. What an ungrateful little boy he has always been! (I do wish the "elites" of the various professions would get out of their bubbles more and thus be more discerning about such things; I couldn't figure out why they thought him wonderful. It is his peers thrill with him that rubs off on the general population I think -- not unlike has happened to the GOP.)

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Christopher Wood's avatar

With Vance it is all about his long-road strategy.

He could easily win his Senate run two or three more times considering the mental acuity of the Buckeye state.

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TLO's avatar

Are you implying that in his third or fourth term he may actually become a proponent for all of the less fortunate and impoverished?! What's he waiting for, Trump to eat a few too many big macs?! :)

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Christopher Wood's avatar

TLO,

Did not mean to imply that the dique would ever come back to any sense of being the "caring dude" offering hillybilly-wokeness in his book.

He may be waiting for the Insurrectionist-In-Chief's pulmonary system to blow up.

But...he has no charisma...just another Madger the Badger, Bobo Bobert, Beavis/Butthead Gaetz with a law degree.

Probably not as Dictator-oriented as the Caudillo de DeSantistan, but he does like power without the opulence required by Senora Caudillo.

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