On 7/20/2024 2:26 PM, Skeeter-Shit Jack-Off Shit-4-Braincell, convicted child
molester and another fucking do-nothing, lied:

> In article <E1VmO.140475$sE%9.9431@fx14.iad>,
> mike.am.surreal@earthlink.nut says...
>>
>> 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.
>
> It's whatever I say it is.

Nope. "Manly" is not an adverb, ever. It's an adjective, and it's an adjective
that is *never* applied to you.

Vance did not "admit" to anything. Most importantly, he did not admit to being a
fraudulent "hillbilly," which is what he is.