I grew up in East Tennessee...with actual hillbillies and rednecks. JD Vance is a fake and an asshole.

His book was garbage.

This piece captures the essence of many of my thoughts about Vance.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/
J. D. Vance Changes the Subject | Gabriel Winant

Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening.

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@noplasticshower Yeah I can always tell who wants to use what they think is the aesthetic, but they've never been anywhere near actual poverty and have no clue what it really looks like.

@noplasticshower

It's funny how someone who took every advantage of a liberal education now wants to make life so much worse for those people he claims are his roots.

@noplasticshower anyone who wants a real one, read Hand To Mouth by Tirado
@noplasticshower All I can say is that I SOOOO voted against him as Senator.
@MizFidd I am not at all surprised to learn that!