Astute piece again--you never miss. If a person can no longer Tweet, will his sound still be heard in the country? Definitely, and maybe more dangerously. The "hillbilly" Vance must have learned from Trump. Get the degree from an Ivy League School, run for office, and declare that you're just part of the common folk. Don't they all go to Penn or Yale? Don't some, like Vance, make a hefty killing with book sales about the people they left behind? Vance claims he lifted himself up by his boot straps. How willing is he to lend a hand to help those without boots?
I thought I'd heard that name before-JD Vance. The author of a supposed 'real-life' semi-autobiographical book that I've never read because it reminds me too much of another author, Carolyn Chute who wrote a similar tome, "The Beans of Egypt Maine" back when. I haven't read his like I didn't read hers because they both are constructs of critics who think they write the truth about poor people. The funny thing is that they're both very much Republicans-she formed a militia and was never heard of again once she became famous. Vance, being male, will probably go onto just being a pain in the ass but a dangerous one.
Oh honey, no one should be that cynical on St.Patrick’s Day. Obama really really was a community organizer, something that those of us who read and understood Alinsky readily recognized years ago. And I hate J.D. Vance and his patronizing-wanna-be-a-yuppie-faux-Appalachin-trash.
Astute piece again--you never miss. If a person can no longer Tweet, will his sound still be heard in the country? Definitely, and maybe more dangerously. The "hillbilly" Vance must have learned from Trump. Get the degree from an Ivy League School, run for office, and declare that you're just part of the common folk. Don't they all go to Penn or Yale? Don't some, like Vance, make a hefty killing with book sales about the people they left behind? Vance claims he lifted himself up by his boot straps. How willing is he to lend a hand to help those without boots?
J.D. Vance is as “hillbilly” as Robert DiNiro is gangsta.
I thought I'd heard that name before-JD Vance. The author of a supposed 'real-life' semi-autobiographical book that I've never read because it reminds me too much of another author, Carolyn Chute who wrote a similar tome, "The Beans of Egypt Maine" back when. I haven't read his like I didn't read hers because they both are constructs of critics who think they write the truth about poor people. The funny thing is that they're both very much Republicans-she formed a militia and was never heard of again once she became famous. Vance, being male, will probably go onto just being a pain in the ass but a dangerous one.
Excellent. Thanks.
Oh honey, no one should be that cynical on St.Patrick’s Day. Obama really really was a community organizer, something that those of us who read and understood Alinsky readily recognized years ago. And I hate J.D. Vance and his patronizing-wanna-be-a-yuppie-faux-Appalachin-trash.
Wrong. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/us/politics/07community.html