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  1. ‘Vance 2028’ buzz grows as US vice president campaigns in Ohio

    LIMA, Oct 11 — The message was clear as US Vice President JD Vance shook hands in his…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #AirForceTwo #hillbillyelegy #JamesDavidVance #jdvance #limaohio #Trumpdeputy #vance #vicepresident #VivekRamaswamy #VP
    europesays.com/3303061/

  2. JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith, ‘Communion’, coming out later this spring

    United StatesAP Vice President JD Vance has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #Communion:FindingMyWayBacktoFaith #Harper #HarperCollins #hillbillyelegy #JamesDavidVance #jdvance #StorytimewiththeSecondLady #USCatholics #UshaVance #vance #vicepresident #VP
    europesays.com/2887803/

  3. Andy Beshear criticized JD Vance’s Appalachian claim, said voters deserve better | Ukraine news

    A sharp exchange in Ohio intensified mounting tensions between two rising 2028 contenders, leaving voters to reassess claims…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #AndyBeshear #andybeshearjdvanceappalachianrootshillbillyelegyohiopolitics #appalachianroots #hillbillyelegy #JamesDavidVance #jdvance #News #ohiopolitics #vance #vicepresident #VP
    europesays.com/2864960/

  4. JD Vance’s Memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Used for Drug Scheme: Ohio Man Sentenced in Bizarre Prison Smuggling Case

    Austin Siebert, a 30-year-old man from Maumee, Ohio, has finally been sentenced to more than 11 years in…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #drugsmuggling #hillbillyelegy #JamesDavidVance #jdvance #JDVanceMemoir #ohio #OhioPrison #vance #vicepresident #VP
    europesays.com/2594194/

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    #HillbillyElegy #MemePolitics #Election2024 #trump

  6. For the record, I generally don't support #bookbans. I think people should read J. D. #Vance 's #HillbillyElegy and discover for themselves how it provides a skewed view of #Appalachia and think about how far he has strayed from the more commonsense person he used to be. But there's a part of me that's smiling to hear that is book is being "reviewed" alongside so-called "DEI" books by the DoD school system. As I tell my friends, "Karma's a bigger b!tch than I am." pen.org/julianne-moore-freckle

  7. Nochwas Originelles:

    Wer anderen eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein - oder so ähnlich ...

    JD Vance's Buch Hillbilly Elegy steht jetzt auf einer Liste von Büchern, die überprüft und möglicherweise verboten werden sollen, laut PEN America.

    pen.org/julianne-moore-freckle

    #vance #hillbillyelegy #ban

  8. "The narrator of #HillbillyElegy doesn’t sound like someone who’s intending to run for office – otherwise, presumably, #Vance would have cut all those sentences about the laziness of poor white people and added some about being called to public service. [..] The billionaire investor #PeterThiel [..] doesn’t appear in the book, though he’s listed in the acknowledgments."

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/de

    #JDVance #2024election #USpol #USpolitics #GOP #NewRight #bootstrapism #PoorBashing #Trump

    #books

  9. See our latest post on Donald Trump and JD Vance. This is another installment in our Democracy and Peril series. #DonaldTrump #JDVance #HillBillyElegy

    historianspeaks.org/f/trump-vs

  10. "#Vance’s willingness to radically revise and overwrite the lessons of his life story is by now a well-documented reflex; what’s more pivotal to his odyssey through public life is the voyeuristic liberal fascination with the tale of heroic uplift he spun in his reputation-making memoir."

    #ChrisLehmann : How the Liberal #Media Gave Us #JDVance

    thenation.com/article/politics
    #2024election #USpol #USpolitics #USmedia #bootstrapism #PoorBashing #Appalachia #poverty #prolowashing #HillbillyElegy #books

  11. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Director Ron Howard Is ‘Concerned’ About Trump-Vance Rhetoric: ‘We Gotta Get Out and Vote — for Whomever, but Be Thoughtful’
    #Variety #News #Eden #Hillbillyelegy #RonHoward #VarietyTIFFStudio

    variety.com/2024/film/news/hil

  12. 👀And though #Vance’s journey from rural #poverty to #SiliconValley to the halls of #Congress ought to make him an adept code-switcher—a scene in the movie version of his memoir #HillbillyElegy finds him studying the right way to say the word syrup—it seems as if he’s lost the ability to #hear how he #sounds to people #outside it all. How can you put yourself in an #audience’s shoes when your #politics is rooted in a radical #rejection of #empathy itself?

    Em see rup.

    slate.com/culture/2024/08/jd-v

  13. "So eager were critics and pundits to find an apologist for the White working class who was not blatantly racist that they overlooked #Vance’s fatuousness, his willingness to play up his hokeyness for the benefit of his liberal audience and the ultimate banality of his message."

    #BeccaRothfeld on how #JDVance gulled liberals about #Appalachia with #HillbillyElegy, and on his Faustian bargain with Trumpism

    washingtonpost.com/books/2024/
    #USpol #USpolitics #bootstrapism #PoorBashing #poverty #books

  14. This episode argues that #HillbillyElegy was popular among the elite establishment cause his argument is mostly that it's their own damn fault. "These deplorables can't be helped by the govt and now one of their own admits it. Tell everyone, cut the programs and our taxes."

    And #JDVance also paints himself as desperate for a father figure. A kid who became whoever mom's new boyfriend would like to spend time with. One could see how #Trump is just the next guy in line.

    know-your-enemy-1682b684.simpl

  15. Remember that slimy, racist, sexist, LGBTI-hating GOP senator, Rick Santorum? And, how activist Dan Savage, coined a neologism is his honour that's become what people first think of when they hear Santorum's name? The phenomenon was known as "Santorum's Google problem".
    That was all the way back in 2003, and the Internet wasn't quite what it was compared with today.

    Today, there are billions more people on the Internet, Google has a monopoly on online search, memes travel far and wide at the speed of light, and information in our news-cycle is amplified and accelerated by AI.

    If you're searching for delight in this 2024 election circus, J.D. Vance has cemented his place in people's minds for all of history as the Couch Fucker.

    #USPol #Santorum #RickSantorum #CouchFucker #Vance #JDVance #HillbillyElegy

  16. I'm wondering what the origin is of that hoax with masturbating with his couch. It wasn't in , could someone have written it with a LLM? They generally don't enjoy writing about sex because they're programmed with filters, so I'm doubtful. Maybe it was stolen from a YA book by (not knocking her, I love her, but that's something she's occasionally written about in YA). Or probably some dumb horny male wrote it. I'd just like to know the origins if we can. Haha.

  17. I know we're all gushing over Harris' pick of VP, not that other guy, but I read #HillbillyElegy by #JDVance. Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed it, not because I think Vance is a great guy with great ideas (anyone who'd associate with Trump has clearly lost touch with reality, if they ever had it), but because it's a perfectly enjoyable story with insights into the minds and problems of a certain subset of American society (not necessarily insights Vance himself would agree with).

  18. @maxellxlii90 @chopaganda
    Pretty sure the couch is just a metaphor for "cousin" #HillbillyElegy

  19. I just watched #HillbillyElegy on #Netflix, and I'm a little confused. All this guy's major problems would have literally been solved by better access to healthcare and education, so why did he become a #MAGA Republican?

    Even in the picture he painted of himself, #JDVance was kind of a POS. I don't get it. 🤷‍♂️

  20. Excellent piece about #JDVance, #MentalHealth, #Eugenics, and the Pocahontas Fuel Company.

    "Of his own mental health, he says he tried counseling once but 'it was just too weird.' . . . . One of the most sadly ironic aspects of Vance’s book, and by default Howard’s film, is the link between the mental health crises that impact his family and the eugenics movement that Vance hints at favoring."

    salon.com/2024/07/20/jd-vances

    #JDVance
    #HillbillyElegy

  21. #JDVance's view of #Appalachia has been widely criticized, especially by people who live there. Such portrayals have a long history, from Protestant missionaries looking to "uplift" the region to strengthen white superiority after the Civil War, to promoters of Shenandoah National Park, who argued that the residents were so deprived that removal was the only option. They, like Vance, used Appalachia for their own purposes.

    time.com/6999981/j-d-vance-app

    #USPol #HillbillyElegy

  22. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Viewership Jumps 1,000% After J.D. Vance Named Trump’s Vice President Pick, Hitting 164,000 Views
    #Variety #News #Hillbillyelegy #Luminate

    variety.com/2024/tv/news/hillb

  23. Trump's vice-presidential pick is J.D. Vance, the venture capitalist and Ohio senator who came to fame with his "Hillbilly Elegy" memoir in 2016. While the autobiography was a national bestseller, it was criticized by some Appalachians who said it generalized excessively, leaned on harmful stereotypes, relied on circular logic and more. Here's @Salon Jared Yates Sexton's 2017 piece about the book. "The message is loud and clear: Help is on the way, but only to those who 'deserve' it," he writes. "And how does one deserve it? By working hard. And the only metric to show that one has worked sufficiently hard enough is to look at their income, at how successful they are, because, in Vance’s and the Republicans' America, the only one to blame if you’re not wealthy is yourself."

    flip.it/wj.I11

    #JDVance #USPolitics #HillbillyElegy #Books

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