J.D. Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) launches an exploratory committee for Ohio US Senate seat

[JoanofArgh]

He’s a total RWNJ. It’s only being reported by National Review and Fox News. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/j-d-vance-launches-exploratory-committee-for-ohio-u-s-senate-seat-report/ Isn’t Tim Ryan running for that seat or am I wrong?

[zaj]

1. It's been widely reported for months. Peter Thiel is...

... funding him.

[JoanofArgh]

3. Ugh.

[True Blue American]

6. You stole my Word!

[JoanofArgh]

4. He actually got around to launching an "exploratory committee "

I guess. I’ll just take it that he’s running.

[zaj]

2. And yes re: Tim Ryan

[Withywindle]

5. People actually FROM Appalachia have been calling him out as a poser and fraud for YEARS

He's always been a poser and a fake and a close friend of upscale academic racists like Charles Murray.

But it's so hard to get people to listen to us, because he played into the narrative of what both Republicans AND snobby urban liberals want to believe about Appalachia. They don't want to hear about the leftist labor history here, or the Black and Native people here, or the LGBTQ+ people here or the environmental fights.

Flush Hillbilly Elegy down the toilet.

Here are some actually GOOD books about Appalachia:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JN23TW7/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.amazon.com/Appalachian-Reckoning-Region-Responds-Hillbilly-ebook/dp/B07NBJ6PL2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LU48L4ZVCOQP&dchild=1&keywords=appalachian+reckoning&qid=1620897650&s=digital-text&sprefix=appalachian+r%2Cdigital-text%2C153&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MOYT65K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XFRQ4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

[True Blue American]

7. JD'S

Book was about his dysfunctional family in Middletown.

I am here to say there were hundreds of thousands just like them who moved from the South that are nothing like his family!

As one man said,” That book and movie make us all sound like a bunch of ignorant hillbillies who voted for Trump!”

[hlthe2b]

9. Truth doesn't sell, I am afraid. And THAT is why stereotypes persist, doing great damage.

[Boydog]

10. Where are you from in Appalachia

[Withywindle]

14. Southwest Virginia

The part of VA that's due SOUTH of WV, not east of it.

[JoanofArgh]

11. I'm a bookworm but I never bought his book when

everyone was lauding him for it. Then the truth started coming out about him. He doesn’t try to hide it anymore on Twitter. He’s horrible.

[StarfishSaver]

12. And yet a lot of progressives promoted him as part of the

"we need to understand these people because we need them on our side" delusion.

[JoanofArgh]

15. Don't get me started on the group of people promoting him.

They're like the MAGAs of the left.

[hlthe2b]

8. Well, that's an appropriate name for his campaign, anyway.

[AlRay]

13. I hate this right-wing asshole and con man. Just another elitist Republican who hates poor people.

Gross!