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.
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."
Huh???
“Mamaw was furious that it might ‘drive down property values.’”
“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.