Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/30/jd-vance-goes-viral-as-new-tiktok-music-meme-im-a-never-trump-guy-video.html
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Excellent! Anything which mocks the utter 180-turn political hypocrisy everywhere in the trump pile o’ $#@!
from Rachel Maddow last evening – obvious money fueled trump total reversals on: tiktok, bitcoin, budlite, electric vehicles …
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Creep-a-leak.
Good choice for the beat.
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I love this.
And I would love to hear Vance forced to explain what changed between then and now.
Was Trump an unexpectedly good president? Really? Really?
How so?
The one thing he could point to, I guess, is that Trump managed to appoint Supreme Court Justices that overturned women’s right to health care and made the president above the law, but neither of those are going to be super popular among voters.
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I wouldn’t touch that couch even if I were wearing a hazmat suit. Who the hell knows what the orange menace has done on it…along with various visitors.
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Ug, that couch looks too soft and uncomfortable, kind of like his ethics and most of his opinions
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Every time that guy has input on interior design it looks like something a coked-up Las Vegas casino decorator would have thrown togeter back in the 70s. Which I guess isn’t far off the mark.
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As it turned out, this familiar yet unfamiliar apartment—a familiar style to me by then, but in an unlikely location—belonged to Donald Trump, who by then was running for president. This was the penthouse of the potential leader of the free world. The design work, I have since learned, was started by the late Angelo Donghia, a decorator better known for a chic Manhattan look. But the substantive current design had been done by one Henry Conversano, who designed extensively—and perhaps unsurprisingly—for casinos. No matter how you looked at it, the main thing this apartment said was, “I am tremendously rich and unthinkably powerful.” This was the visual language of public, not private, space. It was the language of the Eastern European and Middle Eastern nouveau riche.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877/
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LOL. LMAO. I only wish there was audio of Vance calling Trump “America’s Hitler” (and all the similar things he said).
Vance is a bit of an enigma to me, because just a few years ago he said things, both publicly and privately, that were reasonable, and now he’s in full frothing loon mode, seemingly even in private. And the thing is, I don’t think it’s just that he’s a moral bankrupt opportunist, I think he might also have gotten a full dose of the old conservative brainworms in between then, and his views have changed, to some degree. Either way, it doesn’t say good things about him.
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Is that what it was trying to say?
I sometimes reflect on how the James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger—a cartoonishly over-the-top character whose single defining trait is an all-encompassing love of gold—had an infinitely more tasteful and less gold-themed abode than Donald Trump.
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Fun video, but a word of caution from Ohio: this line of attack didn’t work on him here in 2022. I can’t find the ad I have in mind, but I’m sure it was during the primary—from Bernie Moronic or Club for Growth or something—with video clips of JD saying these things, the Hitler stuff and more. Tim Ryan actually had the key in the general: he not only outright called JD an ass-kisser, he used video of Trump calling JD an ass-kisser. Trump doesn’t care what anyone calls him as long they ultimately tuck in, humiliate themselves and, you know, smooch booty.
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He’s just another mediocre white dude who’d sell his own mother to climb up the ladder of power…
I don’t think there is much else behind this, other than a naked desire for power. He’s a less capable Littlefinger.
This isn’t a state-wide election, but a nation-wide one.
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That’s because Ken Adam didn’t have any experience of working for real supervillains.
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I assumed that was all it was, to begin with, but reading about his life, and how his persona/political/religious views seem to be completely malleable, changing entirely depending on context (e.g. going from atheist in college to extreme conservative Catholic after working for Thiel), there seems to be more to it. It’s like he has no sense of self, no actual beliefs, and he’s eager to sell out who he is, and become whatever person is most likely to fit in for a given context. It’s like he has this extreme authoritarian need to conform that also guides him.
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Disagree… I think the desire for power can and does explain it all… Maybe I’m just a bit bored with the endless speculation about awful white dudes who seem to find themselves in powerful positions… who cares, honestly, about them, and who they REALLY are… what really matters, to me at least, is what they’re doing and would happily do to the rest of us in their hunger to be on top. I care much more about the effects of their actions, whatever their “true” reasons are, than I do about them.
Maybe this is WHO he is. 
occam’s razor and all that.
Again, the drive for power does explain that…
I don’t know why there needs to be a more elaborate explanation for it than that, honestly?
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It may be more specific than that:
In “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 memoir that made JD Vance a celebrity, he described constantly remaking his childhood self to fit the rotating cast of father figures his unsound mother brought into their lives. … Vance’s yearning for a father is a constant theme in the book, as is his willingness to rationalize the flaws of the men he looks up to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/opinion/jd-vance-changeability.html
Imagine adopting ■■■■■ as a father figure – after seeing how he treats his actual children!
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Doesn’t mean he’s not entirely about naked self-interest… I really don’t understand why we’re tying ourselves up in knots, when the easiest (and most likely) explanation is that he says whatever he needs to say to get ahead.
Is there some reason why that most likely explanation isn’t good enough? Like, is there some reason that there needs to be some deep-seated psychological reason for his actions? Plenty of people willingly sway with the wind to get ahead. It’s a common feature of social life in a capitalist system, after all.
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If memes can drive dems to vote, I’m all for it. Stat after stat shows that the more people vote, the more dems win. Repubs only win when they restrict voting.
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