https://www.independent.co.uk/us/jd-vance-trump-running-mate-appalachia-b2580079.html
I cannot tell if the author of the above piece is trans or just very very very ugly. I found an article referring to Skylar Baker-Jordan as a he, and it wasn't from a chud site, but ??????
Journoids are in shambles and clinging desperately to "he blamed Biden for saying to put Trump in the bullseye hours before so he should be disqualified" 
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JD Vance sounds like a shitty used car salesmens name
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He's famous from writing a book about being Appalachian trailer trash
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Dramatards, who has read it and has insights? !bookworms
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I read it. It's very boring about how le heckin tough life is as a white trash while at the very same time being extra boring by being a stealth self help books with quotes like how the rich aren't successful because of nepo and inherited wealth but because they follow some sigma male grindset.
But it does contain some dark satire like where it attacks right wingers by suggesting "right wingers say big government causes problems even though none of the effects of big government have ever reached the trailer trash mongoloids, benefits or harm. And yet that riles up a lot of white trash precisely because they are white trash. Trashoids can't take responsibility of their actions so they make a demon out of anyone perceived to be different from them to project. The coastern elites and liberals. The Ivy Leaguers. The immigrants. The intellectuals etc. The Conservatives tap this again and again, whenever needed"
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So he's just redneck Thomas Sowell? Cause that's basically Sowell's whole deal but with black people - "you're failing because you cling to a failing culture, look how differently to you successful people behave." Even the last bit there sounds like Sowell talking to blacks about the Dems - "they don't give a frick about you and you're too stupid to even see it."
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Exactly. With just one difference. Sowell didn't become a leader of the ghetto BIPOCs he was disparaging towards just because he knew they were fricking stupid. Although I think Vance becoming the VP is just proving his own book right, which is a chad thing to do
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One could only dream of that world
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I think the Vance pick is more for attracting suburban voters than rural (although I'm sure Trumps campaign will try to earn more rural voters as well). He is well educated and speaks more cogently about issues.
The fact is, Trump will do very well with rural and white working class voters again. Biden bragged about his supposed connection with WWC voters but he only improved Hillary's margins by 2-3% and generally did worse in terms of "net" votes in rural areas (due to high turnout).
The 2020 election was won by getting better margins in suburban areas and maximizing youth and minority turnout. The Trump campaign is betting low enthusiasm for Biden will lead to lower turnout on those groups. Combating inflation and crime is their pitch to suburbanoids.
The Democrats' best hope is their well-funded election machine in swing states that uses mail-in ballots and many other measures to maximize turnout and convince suburban voters to switch. In states where they don't have a electoral machine (Florida, Ohio, Iowa), they've been struggling mightily
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All the other VP candidates would have done this better, especially moderates like Burgum or Youngkin. Vance has ties with actual white nationalists, which the Democrats will hammer nonstop. He performed 11 points below other Republicans in 2022. Vance only hurts the campaign.
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I think Haley and Youngkin would've attracted more suburban voters, but Trump doesn't trust them (or they would've declined anyway).
I disagree with calling Vance's senate race a underperformance. State races are a bit different than nationalized races. Much more likely to be partisan
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He's the most obvious power hungry politician of all time lol. His wife is your average liberal and this neighbor went to Yale (obvious DEI beneficiary with his "rural background") plus his mentor is that Asian woman who wrote the tiger mom book. Not to mention he correctly had this to say about Trump and the Republican Party:
Honestly he is a gigachad and Republicans prove themselves once again to be the most r-slurred and gullible people alive.
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Interesting, thanks
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Never read it but im Appalachian trailer trash
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You first need to learn how to read
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I liked the book. I heard the movie was fricking awful. The book has a bunch of good wise old people sayings and tough strong women
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I only watched the film, it was ok, nothing special, nothing terrible.
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I read this review, it was informative: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/ab74uz/hillbilly_elegy_the_culture_of_white_american/
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If I'm not interested in reading his book why would I read all that
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I have
so i skimmed it
Tldr book is basically "rednecks will blame obama instead of fixing their own shit, he prob exaggerated at parts but end of day its prob mostly true"
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I actually read it and found it very relatable as I grew up in public housing with deadbeat parents. The actual story of growing up was the most interesting as he describes his own families origin and you can trace back what family frickups lead to his own youth sucking.
He didn't really go further about his time in the military, college or work though, I stopped about more than halfway through since it started devolving to nothing special, around the part he starts talking a lot about his wife.
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I did years ago, before he became a politician. I remembered liking it but I can't remember much about it
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Wait this isn't the
guy? I was wondering why he wasn't a ginger anymore, makes sense.
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No different people
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"all hillbillies look same"
lmao
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Holy shit I knew his name sounded familiar. I listened to the audiobook of it. It was very good, I had no idea he was a famous person I just liked the idea of the story
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Wow the class r-slur liked it? What a surprise
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Keep yourself safe cute twink
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Kyskyskyskyskys
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Oops you accidentally downmarseyd from your alt too
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Lmfaooo seethe harder
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The book was good, too.
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it really was
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But they didn't even live on a trailer, mew-maw owned a house and she raised him. His mom was a drug addicted whore I guess that's the trailer trash part.
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He succeeded based on help from the government (military teaching him to clean his room) and handouts from guilty liberals (Yale affirmative action for rural rslurs and 1st gen college) so now he naturally hates those things.
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The thing is he definitely doesn't actually hate it. He's genuinely smart from his comments on trump. This guy is a politician through and through
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Always makes me think of J.D. Power. Do car manufacturers still use those stupid awards in their ads?
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He's perfect.
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Sounds like a baseball player.
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