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Eric A. Meyer Jul 24, 2024

I just saw J D Vance called a “broligarch-funded shillbilly” and I can only wish I could write half so well ☠️

Oliver Schafeld Jul 24, 2024

"Broligarch-funded Shillbilly" — nice. 🤭

Oddly, Perplexity attributes the term to Chris Christie, but cannot provide a link, nor could I find one for the full term with search engines.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/who-coined-the-term-broligarch-K0JwrjfTQLW7caaTnPKhPA

I did find a "Shillbilly Elegy" cartoon.

https://politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/286901?__cf_chl_tk=dkX_HMerENedvAR1koQz3ztHgJjqiFiZ0BRvsNXZ5O0-1721804154-0.0.1.1-3753

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Oliver Schafeld

…Google.com gave a result, pointing at a merely 6 hours old posting on Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@ri.woche/post/C9yS50BycwE

Thumbs up, +1 😊

riwoche རེ་ཡོ་ཆེ་ (@ri.woche) on Threads

It seems the broligarch-funded shillbilly isn't polling at all well. Trump was such a stable genius to choose him based on recommendations by his eldest failson and his Putin-loving friend Tucker Carlson, plus of course the Apartheid-era villains who ponied up cash for their puppet:

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