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#Vance sits somewhere in between these two tendencies
—at 37, he’s a 🔸venture capitalist who is young enough to be exposed to the dissident online currents.But he’s also 🔸shaped by the most deeply traditionalist thinking of the American right.
He is friends with #Yarvin,
whom he openly cites as a political influence,
and with #Dreher,
who was there when Vance was baptized into the Catholic Church in 2019.I’d been writing about #militias and right-wing stirrings in the #rural #West for years,
but I didn’t really understand how this alchemy worked until I first met him last July.I’d gone back to Ohio to see my uncle, who was dying of cancer.
Vance and I both grew up around Cincinnati,
immersed in a culture of
white rural migrants who had come from coalfields and farm towns
to look for work in the cities of the Midwest.We had met as a kind of experiment
—I was going to be in town anyway,
and because my uncle was sick,
I was thinking a lot about the place and what it meant to me.On a whim, I asked an editor at a conservative magazine if I could write something from the perspective of a skeptical leftist.
Vance suggested that we meet at a diner where my dad had often taken me as a kid.
He was barely registering in the polls at the time.
Vance believes that a
🔹well-educated and culturally liberal American elite
has greatly benefited from globalization,
the financialization of our economy,
and the growing power of big tech.This has led an
🔹Ivy League intellectual and management class
—a quasi-aristocracy he calls
“the regime”
—to adopt a set of economic and cultural interests that directly oppose those of people in places like Middletown, Ohio, where he grew up.In the Vancian view, this class has no stake in what people on the New Right often call the “real economy”
—the farm and factory jobs that once sustained middle-class life in Middle America.This is a fundamental difference between New Right figures like Vance and the Reaganite right-wingers of their parents’ generation.
To Vance—and he’s said this—culture war is class warfare.
Vance recently told an interviewer, “I gotta be honest with you,
🔸I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine,” 🔸
a flick at the fact that he thinks the American-led global order is as much about enriching defense contractors and think-tank types as it is about defending America’s interests.“I do care about the fact that in my community right now
the leading cause of death among 18- to 45-year-olds
is Mexican fentanyl.”His criticisms of big tech as “enemies of Western civilization”
often get lost in the run of Republican outrage over Trump being kicked off Twitter and Facebook,
though they go much deeper than this.Vance believes that the regime has sold an illusive story that consumer gadgets and social media are constantly making our lives better,
even as wages stagnate and technology feeds an epidemic of depression.
#Yarvin #Thielverse #Cruz #Josh #Hawley #Masters #Vance #Rod #Dreher #Walter #Kirn #worldview #dystopian #hell #Peter #Thiel #NatCon #Thielbucks #Vance #Blake #Masters #Thiel #Foundation #New #Right #Curtis #Yarvin #incels #Josh #Hammer #Michael #Anton #Chris #Arnade #Sohrab #Ahmari #Compact #libertine #left #libertarian #right #kook
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JD Vance has endorsed Bernie Moreno.
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This isn’t about J.D. #Vance hanging out with pro-Russian fascist podcasters who gleefully platform Holocaust deniers,
-- although that’s definitely a thing.And it’s not specifically about the libertarian/authoritarian #Peter #Thiel techbro creepers who basically created J.D. in a lab, without whom he’d literally be nothing.
-- But both of those things are related to these things.This is about the #Christian #nationalists who find themselves in J.D. Vance’s orbit, and he in theirs
— people who are literally prayer-gasming themselves right now at the idea of having one of their own freaks a heartbeat away from the presidency.To start off with, did y’all hear about the town hall Vance just did with #Lance #Wallnau, one of the most #dangerous “Seven Mountains” Christian Nationalist #Dominionists in the country?
Lance Wallnau is perhaps the foremost figure in what’s called the #New #Apostolic #Reformation movement, which teaches that Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven “mountains” of American life
— family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.There is no room for democracy in this movement,
it’s authoritarian,
and it craves a dictator.Wallnau is fucking bonkers.
His movement is fucking bonkers.Wallnau believes people on the left are literal #demons,
that Kamala Harris has a “Jezebel Spirit,” and so much more.Oh, and of course, Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation believe Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus,
a pagan emperor being used by God to bring forth his kingdom on earth.Ayup. So it’s not surprising that Wallnau and his movement are deeply entwined with the “Stop the Steal” movement,
which did what it did on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.Wallnau has been doing something called the #Courage #Tour.
And sweet, kind, caring, moderate J.D. Vance was a special guest on that Courage Tour last weekend in Pennsylvania,
though he was careful not to appear with Wallnau, and did his best to make the event seem as innocuous as possible.As it happens, Stephanie McCrummen published an article in The Atlantic this week called
“The Christian Radicals Are Coming,”
which is all about the tour’s stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.Half Pentecostal tent revival, half voter registration and mobilization event, the thousands who attended were treated to several days of the kind of radicalizing, violent rhetoric you usually hear in documentaries about, well, radicalized movements that turn violent.
Wallnau told congregants about a scene from Gladiator featuring its main character Maximus, and asked the crowd if they were ready to be “activated in your Maximus anointing.”
He told attendees he suspected they were “nobodies on earth who are somebodies in the spirit.” That’ll make ‘em feel special.
Another speaker, a weirdo author named #Bill #Federer, who seems to think he’s a historian, told them they were “important people,” and that “God has chosen you” for this moment in history.
He cited a quote from Peter Thiel
— hi, gay libertarian techbro Peter Thiel!
— which said that “The political slogan of the antichrist is ‘peace and safety.’ ”(Which is funny because isn’t that what all Trump’s Nazi scaremongering about being women’s protector is?)
Federer, jumping the shark completely, told the crowd that
“Someday, you’re going to be dead” and in Heaven
— specifically in Moses’s living room,
some kind of celestial onesie party, I guess
— and Moses will tell stories of all the hot shit he did and David will talk about that one time he fucked up Goliath,and then everybody will look at the MAGA Christians and ask them what they did.
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Vance to talk at tour hosted by ‘prophet’ who thinks Harris practices witchcraft
JD #Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist #Lance #Wallnau,
who has claimed Kamala Harris practices #witchcraft and has written that the US is headed toward #bloody internal #conflict.The campaign announced earlier this week that the Republican vice-presidential candidate will participate in a “town hall” as part of the #Courage #tour, a traveling pro-Trump tent revival, during a stop in #Monroeville, #Pennsylvania.
Wallnau, who hosts the tour and broadcasts its speakers on his online show
– drawing hundreds in-person and sometimes tens of thousands virtually
– is a proponent of the “#seven #mountains” #mandate, which commands Christians to seek leadership in seven key areas of society
– the church, the education system, the family, the media, the arts, business and government.He is also a leader in the #New #Apostolic #Reformation (NAR), a movement that features modern-day #apostles and has taken hold in particular in non-denominational #charismatic churches that embrace faith healing and believe that the Holy Spirit can speak directly through believers in the form of speaking in tongues and prophesy.
These religious spaces often also practice “deliverance ministry” and “spiritual warfare” to cleanse people of demonic entities.
Karrie Gaspard-Hogewood, a scholar whose research focuses on such groups, noted that NAR-aligned practitioners engage in a unique form of “#spiritual #warfare”
– fighting malign forces in not only individuals who are believed to be inhabited by a malign entity, but also entire geographic areas.“Spiritual warfare is the belief that a demon has taken up residence and is controlling anything from a large geographic space to a culture, to the White House or the supreme court,” said Gaspard-Hogewood.
Extremism researchers worry that spiritual warfare, which is by definition waged in the supernatural realm, could become dangerous if interpreted excessively literally.
On January 6, spiritual warriors affiliated with the #Jericho #March rallied at the Capitol to protest against the election results, engaging in a form of spiritual warfare on the National Mall.
Wallnau, who himself prophesied that Trump would win the 2016 election and rejected the outcome when he didn’t win again in 2020, doubled down on his position at a stop of the Courage tour in Wisconsin.
“January 6 was not an insurrection
– it was an election fraud intervention!” Wallnau exclaimed to the roaring crowd.Wallnau has also written in his book, "God’s Chaos Candidate: Donald J Trump and the American Unraveling", that he believes the United States is headed toward a potentially bloody clash
– a “fiery trial” that will come “both to believers and nations”.In his book, in which he also claims to have met with Trump on multiple occasions, Wallnau writes that the US is entering a “crucible”, which will involve “a ‘conflict’ of ideologies, often arms, to determine a victor in the power clash”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/vance-lance-wallnau-event?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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#Vance tells Dems to "turn down the hateful rhetoric." #Oblivious #GOPHypocrisy #Projection
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‘We’re all sitting ducks’ without more substantial gun control, Georgia senator says
The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are killed or wounded.
A mass murder is one in which four or more victims are killed.J D #Vance “talks about hardening our schools and making them secure
– well the reality is this is happening in spas, in shopping malls”, Senator Raphael #Warnock said on CNN.💥“It’s happening in houses of worship, in medical clinics.
🆘“What are we going to do? Make the whole country into a fort?”He told NBC:
⚠️“We’re all sitting ducks. And any country that allows this to continue without putting forward just common sense safety measures is a country that has – in a tragic way – lost its way.”Warnock alluded to an April 2023 Fox News poll which reaffirmed that ✅the vast majority of Americans favored strengthening gun safety laws.
✅And he said Congress took an encouraging first step toward treating such public support as a mandate when it enacted bipartisan legislation that expanded background checks for the youngest gun buyers while funding mental health and violence intervention programs.🆘But what was the first major federal firearms safety bill to pass Congress in nearly three decades was “clearly not enough”, Warnock said,
noting how the US continues recording a number of mass shootings that is disproportionate at the global level.❇️ Warnock said polls show most in the US overwhelmingly support universal background checks.
❇️ Furthermore, Warnock said that large numbers of Americans support banning general access to assault-style rifles and semi-automatic firearms.❌Yet federal lawmakers have not been able to get enough votes to clear procedural hurdles preventing Congress from meaningfully consider either issue.
Warnock on Sunday blamed that reality on congressmembers who
– out of ambition or fear
– accept financial support from the wealthy gun industry.#🔥“We are at an impasse because there are people in … politics … who are doing the bidding of the #corporatist #gun #lobby even as they line their pockets with the blood of our children,” Warnock said.
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"JD #Vance Blames Staff for #Disastrous Doughnut-Shop Visit"
Couldn't be because this guy is a total #jackwagon, could it?
NAH.
Must be "The Staff"
"Now someone just needs to explain to him that people typically don’t like it when leaders blame their mistakes on underlings. And it’s a particularly dumb move when those staffers are all that stand between you and another embarrassing viral video."
Now there's some Real #Republican Leadership qualities, that one.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jd-vance-blames-staff-viral-donut-shop-visit.html
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how good is this #VanceVP #dancingqueen adaptation 😲 :clapping: :thisisfinefire: #MarshFamily #ABBA
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Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links
A senior aide to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance, once worked for a far-right political consultancy that touts its capacity for “#clandestine #actions” and has links to a network of extremist groups and think tanks, the Guardian can reveal.
#Parker #Magid was recently appointed as Vance’s press secretary
His employment history links Vance and his circle to elements of the extremist right far outside the mainstream of American politics.
Vance’s staffer links him to 🔸Beck & Stone🔸 (B&S) and its subsidiary political consultancy 🔸Knight Takes Rook🔸 ( #KTR ).
The brand consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right #Claremont #Institute,
the serial Arizona political candidate #Blake #Masters and the
“#counter-#revolutionary” magazine IM–1776.B&S was founded in 2014, according to statements by its founders, #Andrew #Beck and #Austin #Stone. Initial company filings in Florida date from April 2015. Its current Florida filings give an address that is a UPS store in New York City.
Beck, also 🔸a Claremont co-founder🔸, is closely involved with the ♦️Society for American Civic Renewal♦️ ( #SACR ), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge that has been the subject of extensive previous reporting in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/jd-vance-far-right-aide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Hosting this fall’s Rockbridge gathering so soon after the election risked turning the summit into a wake.
It was the opposite.
Even before the event officially began, Ms. #Wiles was in Las Vegas,
headlining an outdoor Saturday dinner at a steakhouse for about 30 Rockbridge donors and friends.Around the jubilant open bars and music-filled ballrooms, attendees openly traded notes on what Trump administration roles they might get
and debated whether Mr. #Musk was the world’s most powerful person.“Generally everyone at Rockbridge was very happy that technologists and politicians are working together directly again
and not openly hostile toward each other,”
said #John #Coogan, the co-founder of Soylent who attended.“It’s no longer a question of whether technology will drive the future, but how we guide its impact.
So it makes sense that tech billionaires and the political elite are partying together.”Mr. #Vance did not attend, a rare absence and a disappointment to some loyalists.
But his victory made Rockbridge suddenly a hot ticket and spurred some last-minute sign-ups.
After sometimes letting prospective members attend for just $5,000, Rockbridge raised the minimum cost to $25,000
(although some people said privately that they had been able to get in for less).The cost of Rockbridge membership ranges from $100,000 to be a “limited partner”
to $1,000,000 for a “principal partner,”
according to a prospectus seen by The Times.That money goes toward the eight vehicles that Rockbridge steers,
including four dark-money 501(c)(4) organizations,
two super PACs,
a donor-advised 501(c)(3) fund for nonprofit activity
and the Rockbridge Network umbrella organization,
an L.L.C. Mr. Buskirk’s main super PAC, "Turnout for America", has raised at least $25 million this year.These eight Rockbridge groups have primarily run get-out-the-vote operations.
One, called "Faithful in Action", claims to have 160,000 members
and organizes small churches with field teams twice a week.The group has no public presence.
Rockbridge groups have also produced documentaries that investigate prosecutors pursuing cases against Mr. Trump.
Rockbridge, according to the prospectus, has since 2020 “underwritten” polling “that has been made available for free to allied media organizations.”
And the group has helped pay for
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JD #Vance is MORE #UNpopular than ... ...
... Sarah #Palin ???
How is that even possible?
Keep up the good work, there sparky. Maybe Sarah has some cute outfits that can help boost JD's appeal?
That should go over great with the evangelicals.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/tim-walz-popular-jd-vance/story?id=112841577
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@SamUpstate @tomiahonen As someone on @bulwarkonline said, #Vance is the #DeSantis of the Sarah #Palin world.
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"JD #Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases #Trump"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/politics/jd-vance-trump-vp.htmlThe #NYTimes (@nytimes) doesn't understand what "confounds" means. Dems are not "confounded" by Vance's rhetoric. They understand it, answer it, denounce it, refute it, ridicule it.
By contrast. Trump and Vance are confounded by #Harris and #Walz. They're floundering for an effective line of attack.
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@barney
#Vance's running mate disparaged the heroic service of John #McCain ("only a hero b/c he was captured"), called KIA's "Losers & Suckers", asked Gen Milley at Normandy, "I don't get it. What was in it for THEM?" and claimed he had a "bone spur" to get out of serving in #Vietnam while he now goes around bragging about what an "amazing athlete" he was in HS & College.Vance himself never actually saw combat.
Vance is the LAST person to be questioning someone's military service. 😡
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A Who’s Who at Peter Thiel’s Trump Party: Zuckerberg, Adelson and More - The party symbolized the euphoria of the tech industry on the cusp of the Trump presidenc... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-party-peter-thiel-zuckerberg-vance.html #presidentialelectionof2024 #palihapitiyachamath #zuckerbergmarke #calacanisjason #trumpdonaldjjr #adelsonmiriam #altmansamuelh #inaugurations #thielpetera #vancejd
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Vance falsely asserted that mass deportation will be “really good for our workers” when in reality it’ll lower wages and cost jobs of US-born workers, economist say.
Past mass deportation efforts made similar false promises to US-born workers👇🏽 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/03/opinion/trump-deportation-policy-economy/ #VPDebate
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So many good political cartoons about #Vance losing the #VPDebate…
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To the nativists, this may be a betrayal in policy terms.
But for the broader Trumpian approach to politics,
-- blaming Americans instead of scapegoating immigrants gives away the whole game.Look at JD #Vance:
he catapulted himself to fame in 2016 through Hillbilly Elegy,
-- where he wrote the following about the white working class in rural Ohio:“What goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south is about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible.
It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”
Vance has dropped that line of argument in recent years
and replaced it with attacking immigrants,
-- like those in Springfield, Ohio.💥It’s a reflection of Trump’s entire project from day one:
he sells a world in which the country’s (and your) problems are the fault of immigrants,
the “enemy within”
— whoever.🔥The tech oligarch position on this dramatically undermines that in a rhetorical sense,
and reveals the extent to which they are out of step with the people whose votes they just harvested.(2/2)
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A two-year-old social media post written by J.D. #Vance resurfaced on Wednesday, and it's not helping his campaign for vice president
During his candidacy for the Senate in 2022, the Ohio lawmaker appeared on the right-wing "Real America's Voice" Network,
where he discussed his stance on Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression.He said: "I think it’s ridiculous that we are focused on this border in Ukraine. I got to be honest with you,
🌟I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other🌟."At the time, former NBC News commentator and retired Army General Barry McCaffrey replied to a clip of Vance's interview via X (formerly Twitter), writing:
"JD Vance is a #shameful person unsuitable for public office. His comments are those of a #stooge for Russian aggression."Vance shot back at McCaffrey, saying:
"Your entire time in military leadership we won zero wars. You drank fine wine at bulls—t security conferences while thousands of working class kids died on the battlefield.
Oh, by the way, how much do you stand to gain financially from a war with Russia, Barry?"New York Times columnist David French also slammed Vance, writing:
💥"He’s talking about a guy with three Purple Hearts, two silver stars, and who commanded 24th ID in Desert Storm, leading the attack that led to one of the most decisive military victories in American history. 💥
This is such a sad and shameful attack on an honorable man."As the senator's post resurfaced on Wednesday,
conservative lawyer George Conway commented:
"I hadn’t seen this before, but🔥 I think this settles it.
Vance is an
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Vance appearance at far-right Christian revival tour may have broken tax and election laws https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/19/2277709/-Vance-appearance-at-far-right-Christian-revival-tour-may-have-broken-tax-and-election-laws
#VanceForPrison #JDVance #NapoleonBonacouch #Ohio #GOPExtremist #GOPTraitor #GOPLiar #GOP #VoteBlue #WhiteCollarElegy #PutinsVP #Project2025 #CouchFucker #JVCouch
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Vance doesn't say where patients will get care if Planned Parenthood is defunded
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4930869-jd-vance-planned-parenthood/#JDVance #Abortion #NapoleonBonacouch #Ohio #GOPExtremist #GOPTraitor #GOPLiar #GOP #VoteBlueForWomen #WhiteCollarElegy #PutinsVP #Project2025 #CouchFucker #JVCouch
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Vance doesn't like having lies called out...
‘Nitpicking Everything’: JD Vance Fumes as ABC News Host Calls Out Bogus Claims About Colorado City
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-fumes-as-abc-news-host-calls-out-bogus-claims-about-colorado-city#JDVance #NapoleonBonacouch #Ohio #GOPExtremist #GOPTraitor #GOPLiar #GOP #VoteBlue #WhiteCollarElegy #PutinsVP #Project2025 #CouchFucker #JVCouch
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JD #Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated #Tax and #Election Laws, Experts Say
—#Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the #Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in #political campaigns.
#News #Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #JDVance #ChristianRight #FarRight #Law #Trump #Nonprofit
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Republican vice-presidential nominee JD #Vance’s appearance at a far-right Christian #revival #tour last month
💥may have broken tax and election laws, experts say.On Sept. 28, Vance held an official campaign event in Monroeville, Pennsylvania,
in partnership with the
"Courage Tour",
a series of swing-state rallies hosted by a pro-Trump Christian influencer that combine prayer, public speakers,
👉tutorials on how to become a poll worker and get-out-the-vote programming.#Ziklag, a secretive organization of wealthy Christians, funds the Courage Tour,
according to previously unreported documents obtained by ProPublica and Documented.🔥A private donor video produced by Ziklag said the group intended to spend $700,000 in 2024 to mobilize Christian voters by funding
“targeted rallies in swing states”
led by #Lance #Wallnau, the pro-Trump influencer.Even before the Vance event, ProPublica previously reported that tax experts believed Ziklag’s 2024 ❌election-related efforts could be in violation of tax law.
The Vance event, they said, raised even more red flags about whether a 🆘 tax-exempt charity had improperly benefited the Trump-Vance campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vance-ziklag-courage-tour-christian-right-tax-election-laws
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"Vance verweet Zelensky een gebrek aan respect voor de Amerikanen, waarna Zelenksy hem vroeg "of hij al in Oekraïne was geweest". De Amerikaanse vicepresident antwoordde "dat hij erover gelezen had en het gezien had".
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Het gesprek eindigde met Trump die concludeerde "dat dit goede televisie zal opleveren."Deze foto zegt genoeg.
#FuckTrump #Trump #Vance #GOP #maffia #mobsters #Zelensky #Oekraine #Ukraine #politiek #politics #FuckUSA
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Vance: “Democracy will not survive if [the false concerns we’ve made people believe] are deemed invalid or even worse not worth being considered.” #fixedit
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How Trump’s Running Mate J.D. Vance is Connected to Silicon Valley - Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connectio... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html #vicepresidentsandvicepresidency(us) #republicannationalconvention #presidentialelectionof2024 #trumpdonaldj #sacksdavido #thielpetera #vancejd
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Per The New Yorker:
THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF J. D. #VANCE
When he joined #Trumps ticket, Usha left her job at a prestigious law firm. At this year’s Republican National Convention, Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants, sat next to Trump as her husband said that “America is not just an idea” but a people bound by a “shared history”. “I’m not sure what #deal J.D. made with #Usha a person close to the couple told me. “But it had to be something, because they make every decision together.”
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Per The New Yorker:
THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF J. D. #VANCE
When he joined #Trumps ticket, Usha left her job at a prestigious law firm. At this year’s Republican National Convention, Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants, sat next to Trump as her husband said that “America is not just an idea” but a people bound by a “shared history”. “I’m not sure what #deal J.D. made with #Usha a person close to the couple told me. “But it had to be something, because they make every decision together.”
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Per The New Yorker:
THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF J. D. #VANCE
When he joined #Trumps ticket, Usha left her job at a prestigious law firm. At this year’s Republican National Convention, Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants, sat next to Trump as her husband said that “America is not just an idea” but a people bound by a “shared history”. “I’m not sure what #deal J.D. made with #Usha a person close to the couple told me. “But it had to be something, because they make every decision together.”