Vance: "Our leaders used my book to try to look down on their fellow citizens, rather than maybe learn something about their fellow citizens."
Vance is a senator. He currently has ZERO BILLS that would help the poor. He has several that would help the gun lobby and the rich.
No wonder Trump like him.
He is a liar and a conman.
Vance some years ago: "I had seen, in Haiti, a level of poverty I never knew existed."
Huh.
I thought he knew poverty? Or was that another part of his sham story?
In the Marines he discovered he was gifted at PR. If you listen to him it shows: everything is couched (albeit poorly when you realize it’s all PR). I’ve seen really good PR folks. They are magic.
Vance? Not so much. He’s like a bad stage magician, revealing doves that died whilst hidden in his coat.
“During the troubles, Jimmy flew J.D. and his older, half-sister out for an extended vacation on the West Coast.”
Napa valley, known for its Hillbillies.
It’s interesting that JD’s book is about six summers as a kid, rather than the reality of his life which was, in comparison to my own, actually upper middle class.
Mine was lower middle class. I thought beans and cornbread was normal, not “poor people food.”
I believed everyone was like me, more or less.
Huh???
“Mamaw was furious that it might ‘drive down property values.’”
Re Vance: He was born and brought up in Middletown, Ohio, a small city on the road to Dayton. His mother was also born in these suburban Ohio flats. "The guy is from north of Cincinnati," says Rob Lalka, a Tulane University business professor who has researched Vance's life for his recent book, The Venture Alchemists. "There are no hills, much less hillbillies."