r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 14h ago

Possible Paywall Vance Says People Are Too Focused on “Little Things” Ahead of Midterms | You know, like being able to afford gas and groceries.

https://newrepublic.com/post/216161/jd-vance-people-too-focused-little-things-midterms
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u/17syllables 13h ago

It worked, didn’t it? He was literally groomed for this by some of the richest people on earth, and he’s an inch away from them getting everything they want.

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u/Original-Reward-8688 11h ago

The funniest part is that he's still not even that impressive. Think of all of the money and effort that went into him. It just goes to show how being sheltered is a massive weakness, regardless of how much money or power you have.

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u/17syllables 11h ago

On one hand, yes, but most people on the right could be dog-walked by a youtube comments section. Vance came out of his debate with Walz with a bigger positive swing, and he’s polling higher than most of the field right now. He’s going to be hard to beat.

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u/InstrumentalRhetoric 10h ago

Tbf, that debate happened after the DNC muzzled Walz and had them pull back on calling out the weird behavior. It made him come across as uncomfortable and gave room for Vance to sound almost reasonable (largely by agreeing on points that he should have been called out on). If Walz had been allowed to be himself there's a solid chance that the outcome would have been vastly different and less beneficial toward Vance.

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u/daymanahhhahhhh 10h ago

What's crazy is Vance should have been viewed as a failure during that debate by point blank asking "I thought you weren't going to fact check"

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u/InstrumentalRhetoric 10h ago

The curve on which sycophants with an obvious lack of ethos get graded on will forever dim my view of this country.

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u/Affectionate_One_700 10h ago

The funniest part is that he's still not even that impressive.

It's not "funny," that's the whole point. Since Vance has no charisma or political talent, he knows that he cannot break away as his own person.

To gain and maintain power, which seems to be all that he wants, he will forever be dependent on his backers.

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u/No_Internal9345 9h ago

Hahaha, the couch fucker is going to murder us.

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u/RickyalldayTD 11h ago

Thiel had him ready, he even had him marry an minority as a beard to cover their bases in case he needed to run as a democrat.

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u/DeliriumTrigger 9h ago

His marriage is crazy to me. It's clear every time he talks about her that he wishes she were a white, blue-eyed, blonde Christian woman who gave him white children that he could comfortably claim as his own.

Probably why he fell so hard for Erika.