On 7/20/2024 1:18 PM, Skeeter-Shit Jack-Off Shit-4-Braincell, convicted child
molester and another fucking do-nothing, lied:

> In article <v7h2as$3lp2j$5@dont-email.me>, X@Y.com says...
>>
>> The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance
>>
>> Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has
>> become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.
>>
>>
>> What do we call a man who turns on everything he once claimed to believe?
>> For a practitioner of petty and self-serving duplicity, we use ?sellout? or
>> ?backstabber.? (Sometimes we impugn the animal kingdom and call him a rat,
>> a skunk, or a weasel.) For grand betrayals of weightier loyalties?country
>> and faith?we invoke the more solemn terms of ?traitor? or ?apostate.?
>>
>> But what should we call J. D. Vance, the self-described hillbilly turned
>> Marine turned Ivy League law-school graduate turned venture capitalist
>> turned Senate candidate? Words fail. His perfidy to his own people in Ohio
>> is too big to allow him to escape with the label of ?opportunist,? and yet
>> the shabbiness and absurdity of his Senate campaign is too small to brand
>> him a defector or a heretic.
>>
>> My friend Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District
>> of New York, tried to describe Vance recently and came up with ?pathetic
>> loser poser fake jerk,? but that is a lot of words. To distill the essence
>> of Vance as a public figure, the word that enters my mind is an anatomical
>> reference beginning with the letter a.
>>
>> I do not use that word lightly or comfortably. I am, in the formal sense, a
>> man of letters. I have been an officer of instruction at several
>> institutions of higher education (and I remind you here that I do not
>> represent any of them and speak only for myself). I would not advise my
>> students to use the term.
>>
>> But the word is apt when I consider Vance?s silly and yet detestable moral
>> collapse. Some people back in Vance?s home region of Appalachia thought his
>> memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was hollow and inaccurate, but for a time, other
>> people?including me?were intrigued by his writing and public speaking.
>> Vance lived as a child in a steel town in Ohio and spent his summers in the
>> hills of eastern Kentucky, while I grew up amid the rotting factories of
>> New England, solidly in the working class but not poor. I welcomed his
>> willingness to cast a critical eye on his (and my) people, especially after
>> years of conservative hand-wringing focused solely on the dysfunction of
>> minority communities.
>>
>> Vance gained early support in the political center, particularly among
>> conservatives. The American working poor, no matter where they are, do in
>> fact need civic representatives from the center-right, people who can talk
>> candidly about the limits of government and who can make a moral case for
>> tough love and personal responsibility, but one based on a sense of shared
>> experience, common values, and genuine compassion. Someone like Vance could
>> be that candidate.
>>
>> Cassie Chambers Armstrong: ?Hillbilly Elegy? doesn?t reflect the Appalachia
>> I know
>>
>> Someone like Vance, perhaps, but as we now know, not Vance himself. Not so
>> long ago, he talked about the self-defeating bias against education among
>> poor whites. He acknowledged the self-destructive habits of some of the
>> people he grew up around. Vance wrote, in this very magazine, that Donald
>> Trump ?is cultural heroin??a powerful charge from someone who hails from
>> the epicenter of the opioid epidemic?and provided a ?quick high? that could
>> not fix what ails the country. All of that vanished once Vance decided he
>> wanted to go to Washington?and after the Trump supporter Peter Thiel
>> dropped $10 million into a political action committee.
>>
>> Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has
>> become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown. His attempts at
>> authenticity are so grating because they are so blatantly artificial. His
>> recent tweets, for example, attempting to ingratiate himself with rural
>> Ohioans by slagging New York City were embarrassingly amateurish; we can
>> only wonder which social-media consultant thought them up. ?Serious
>> question,? Vance tweeted. ?I have to go to New York soon and I?m trying to
>> figure out where to stay. I have heard it?s disgusting and violent there.
>> But is it like Walking Dead Season 1 or Season 4??
>>
>> When the Republican commentator Liz Mair called him on this inane fear-
>> mongering, he responded that ?these people??which is everyone but him, one
>> assumes?have no sense of humor about what he claimed was only a joke.
>>
>> Again, this is why a certain word immediately springs to mind.
>>
>> Worse, Vance has not only repudiated his earlier views on Trump, but has
>> done so with ruthless cynicism, embracing the former president and his
>> madness while winking at the media with a What can you do? shrug about the
>> stupidity of Ohio?s voters. ?If I actually care about these people and the
>> things I say I care about,? he told Time, ?I need to just suck it up and
>> support him.?
>>
>> Well. One can only imagine their gratitude now that Vance the wealthy
>> venture capitalist has deigned to accept Trump as his political savior.
>>
>> Read: Ohio is now fully Trumpified
>>
>> These incidents are not isolated missteps. The writer Tim Miller recently
>> noted in The Bulwark that within the space of a week, Vance not only
>> tweeted his performative fear of New York, but also ?defended a Nazi from
>> being kicked off of twitter ? shared a thread defending election fraud
>> conspiracies ? fantastically claimed Google was ?hiding? his website? and
>> ?mocked reporters for saying they were traumatized by the Capitol riot.?
>>
>> Vance?s rhetoric is even worse than Miller?s description. For example,
>> Vance minimized Nick Fuentes, the leader of a white-nationalist group, by
>> referring to him merely as ?a giant troll? who should not have been kicked
>> off Twitter by one of the ?tech companies? that want to ?control what we?re
>> allowed to say in our own country.? And, more recently, he ventured onto
>> the former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka?s crackpot videocast to claim that
>> the ?Democrat? Party?a usage common among educated right-wingers trying for
>> working-class cred??is a party of childless people? who therefore do not
>> value the future.
>>
>> Vance has struck back at his many critics across the political spectrum by
>> referring to them all as ?degenerate liberals,? which is exactly the kind
>> of thing a smarmy and pretentious asshole would say.
>>
>> I apologize. I had hoped to avoid the word, but nothing else will do.
>>
>> In fairness, Vance is hardly the most offensive Republican out there. He is
>> no Louie Gohmert, the Republican congressman from Texas, or Marsha
>> Blackburn, the senior Republican senator from Tennessee, people who create
>> an electrostatic field of stupidity around themselves when they speak. Nor
>> is he even the most craven candidate in Ohio; his primary rival Josh Mandel
>> recently filmed himself burning a surgical mask in the name of freedom. The
>> Republican Party is chock-full of such performative buffoons.
>>
>> But what makes Vance so awful is that he knows better. His intentional
>> distancing from his earlier views shows that he is fully cognizant of what
>> a gigantic fraud he?s become.
>>
>> I suspect that Vance is also reading his own press, which would explain why
>> a young man who attained early fame is convinced that he can jump right to
>> national office. Take, for example, the Trump-friendly columnist Henry
>> Olsen of The Washington Post, who wrote that Vance scares America?s elites
>> because ?he hasn?t surrendered his mind to polls or to the donor class in
>> an effort to fit in.?
>>
>> But following the polls and capering to a jig played by rich donors is
>> exactly what Vance is doing. His gooberish tweets, his recent declaration
>> that the most important issue for Ohio is securing the southern border, his
>> multimillion-dollar support from ?ordinary folks? like Thiel?these all show
>> that Vance is as mossy a creature as the swamp ever produced.
>>
>> This hypocrisy makes him indistinguishable from other figures in American
>> politics, such as Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, who are products of
>> privilege and elite education and who now pretend to be tribunes of the
>> Forgotten People. (Vance, predictably enough, has recently expressed his
>> admiration for both.)
>>
>> Vance, so far, is less of a hazard to American democracy than aspiring
>> authoritarians like Cotton or Hawley. Nor does he seem to have developed
>> the full dedication to being a soulless careerist like Elise Stefanik, the
>> Republican congresswoman from New York. Mostly, he?s just a ? well, you
>> know.
>>
>> Instead of a candidate who?s willing to speak hard truths to his people,
>> Ohioans now have a native son who has returned to weaponize their
>> resentment and cultural dysfunctions. His ambition is fueled by the money
>> of others who would never deign to live in the Midwest. And like other
>> populist charlatans, he has convinced himself that he should be anointed to
>> lead the rubes out of their misery.
>
> He admitted he was wrong and manly [sic] admitted to it.

He admitted nothing. "Manly" is not an adverb, ever. It is only an adjective.