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

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Link, please

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

So the broligarch-funded shillbilly isn't polling at all well. Who among us could have possibly guessed choosing your VP based on what Putin-fluffer Tucker Carlson, your eldest failson, and three Apartheid-era villians wasn't the most stable genius of ideas?

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@Meyerweb @trabern OMFG I am SO glad I read that without coffee or other beverage at my lips! That would have been the biggest mess ever.
@jimv @Meyerweb @trabern Yeah, I'mma need a link for that if it's published somewhere. It's genius.
@Meyerweb stealing. No regrets.
@Meyerweb Spotted in the wild: a portmantwosie.
@Meyerweb am good but that's levels over my wittiest knicknames. to be honest, am totally jellie, LOL

@Meyerweb Ba-hahahaha! That could stick.

Folks, let's make #shillbilly trend!

#Vance #JDVance #Harris #KamalaHarris #Trump #Politics

@sshann @Meyerweb @artemis
Also, "Herr Bowman" has a nice, GFY ring to it. Bowman being Vance's real surname, and "Herr" -- well, we're pretty sure people can figure that one out

@Meyerweb I think UK journalist (and hero) Carole Cadwalladr gets credit for 'broligarch' at least

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/20/tech-broligarchs-court-trump-vance-elon-musk-peter-thiel

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support

The Guardian

@z3z @Meyerweb

I did a search. No DDG results yet for “broligarch-funded shillbilly”

But "broligarch, yes -->>

"Neither broligarchy nor broligarch appear in any traditionally published media outlets until July 2024, but the word existed in social media & the alternative press, especially Twitter/X for many years before that. The first example of the word that I can find is on Twitter from 7 December 2009…

"The word makes into the Urbandictionary on 22 May 2011…"

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/broligarchy

broligarchy — Wordorigins.org

21 July 2024 Slang terms often exist for years before the general public takes notice of them. Broligarchy and broligarch are examples of this. The words are a play on bro + oligarchy . And a broligarchy is small group of men who control a situation or political power structure. It differs f

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Hucksterberry Finn? Is that anything?
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High Fog Index. "Grifter" works just fine.

"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

…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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Tane Piper (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Has anyone ever seen JD Vance and Rich Evans in the same room together? #usPol

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@Meyerweb @glennf A new TV series this fall. “The Broliarch Shillbillies” with Thiel as Mr. Drysdale, JD as Uncle Jed and Trump as Jethro
@Meyerweb It turns out that the shillbilly has been promoted beyond his level of competence. and is a pathetic speaker.
@Meyerweb Calling JD Vance #Shillbilly is definitely more clever than "Couchfucker McGuyliner," which I'd seen a few times!
@Meyerweb I've also heard him referred to Shady Vance.
@Meyerweb I am adopting this phrase, absolutely legendary stuff!

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That does it.

My next band name is Broligarch Shillbillies.