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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,060 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 03:20 PM Jul 1

Does J.D. Vance Hate his Family?

There's something deeply disturbed about J.D. Vance. It's an ugly self-loathing sickness that is both specific to Vance and a generalized Trump world disease found in the damaged freaks and weirdos trying to destroy America.

It's difficult to imagine a more universal human trait than a biological need to defend your family. But something broken inside J.D. Vance drives him to attack, not protect, his own family.

In his short political career, Vance has defined himself with a xenophobic fever. Like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, he sees immigrants as a threat, not the cornerstone of what makes America more than a place on the map with a flag. In his RNC Convention acceptance speech, as he often does, Vance adopted a classic "blood and soil" definition of what it means to be an American. "America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation."

As is typical of Vance, he is trying to mainstream deeply radical ideas by wrapping them in an "aw shucks, I'm just a hillbilly from Appalachia" common-sense wrapper. "When I proposed to my wife, we were in law school, and I said, ‘Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt, and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in Eastern Kentucky. … Now that cemetery plot in Eastern Kentucky is near my family's ancestral home. And like a lot of people, we came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin."

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/does-jd-vance-hate-his-family

Yet if you read Hillbilly Elegy, you'd know he throw his blood relations under the bus.

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Does J.D. Vance Hate his Family? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 1 OP
He has no feelings WhiteTara Jul 1 #1
Both Trump and Vance have wives who are immigrants. viva la Jul 1 #2
Mrs Vance was born in San Diego unc70 Jul 1 #3
Okay. So she's the birthright baby. viva la Jul 1 #4
USHA Vance Skittles Jul 1 #5
I think he hates himself. Dulcinea Jul 2 #6

viva la

(4,184 posts)
2. Both Trump and Vance have wives who are immigrants.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 03:37 PM
Jul 1

And children who are "birthright citizens".

They don't care. They know it won't affect them because they're rich and powerful. They don't care about anyone else.

Dulcinea

(8,774 posts)
6. I think he hates himself.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jul 2

A few years ago, he was a fairly mainstream conservative who described Trump as "America's Hitler." But most likely after seeing the power he could have, he became a full-fledged Trumpketeer. Everyone knows his past; he wrote about it. It's obvious that he has a host of mommy & daddy issues. The Fascist Felon zeroed in on that & played JD like a Stradivarius. Now JD's a wholly owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel & Donald Trump.

If he can't love himself, he probably can't love anyone else either. Maybe he hates what he's become. Who knows?

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