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Yeahhhh american values out the window.
as an Appalachian, let me say this:
i hate jd vance. i hate everything about him. i hate the way that he walk, the way that he talk, the way that he dress. i even hate when he says "hillbilly". some shit just cringeworthy, it ain't even gotta be deep i guess.
this dude profits on my people's pain and claims to be of us when he could not more clearly be an Outsider. like… if he knew even the first thing about Appalachia, which he doesn't, because there has been a century long effort to erase our history for us, and he grew up far from us and had no chance of ever learning the truth, he'd know a Jewish Ukrainian is an embodiment of multiple aspects of our shared cultural roots.
like. this dude is bullying his cousin because the thing that forced his ancestors off their homeland in europe is paying him money. this greedy fucking bastard is selling out his own people and his cousins for a paltry sum. to reiterate: he claims us, but he is not of us. the way he talks about us is hurtful, and the way he speaks to our closest international cousins is straight up bullshit. dude is straight up evil and doesn't even show the savvy to be good at being evil
I don’t know why JD Vance is talking. He has absolutely no authority or power as the vice president . And since he clearly has no idea what he’s talking about it’s better for everyone if he just shuts the fuck up .
My two cents
this is who he is. he speaks out of turn. he does not speak honestly. he does not tell stories that connect him to culture, only stories that divorce him of it. he does not self deprecate. why doesn't he do any of this? because he is not of us. he doesn't act like us. he acts like hurtful hollywood stereotypes of who we are is who we are. his understanding of what appalachia is comes less from Union Maid, Solidarity Forever, The Pines, bell hooks, and Nikki Giovanni and more from beverly hillbillies and the andy griffith show (and he doesn't understand that the andy griffith show came from another era and acts as a snapshot of how we were perceived at one time, it's a packaging of our suffering for some petty cash, not a fucking documentary)
As Quillll says, its because he's a bully, a malignant, manipulative narcissist.
But also, another element is the way that fascists don't ever let up on 'campaigning', ie, demagoguery.
Remember how it was very strange that Trump was basically campaigning for himself, pretty much for the entirety of Biden's term?
American Presidential political campaign seasons are notorious for being horrendously long compared to actual functioning democracies, where its often no longer than 2 months.
EDIT (I somehow accidentally a sentence): //
Even for longer US campaigns... its historically more like 6 to 9 months. Not... 3 to 4 years.
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Well, the traditional role a VP plays in a US Presidential campaign is to be a sort of attack dog, someone who is a bit more cutting, blunt, rude or direct in terms of expressing the President's platform, countering its critics.
So, when you go from neocon to full fascist, you're explicitly campaigning all the time, even while in office.
Vance's job is to be a 24/7, professional gaslighting bully. Its why they picked him.
His job is to be the perpetually offended and offensive 'best friend' of the leader of a Mean Girls style clique of entitled, bratty popular girls in high school.
I saw a video saying we should miss name him like that Benedict comeback meme because it would really annoy him. So I’ve started calling him dumb names that rhyme: Just wear Pants or Jingle Dance
refusing to name these people genuinely helps stripping them of the power of constant mental presence, which they benefit from
Genocide, slavery, patriarchy, etc? They seem to be doing fine.