"Trump makes people I care about afraid — I find him reprehensible" — JD Vance's tweet resurfaces after 8 years

[anon61221983]

None, I bet. He cares more about power than he does about having a moral center. He saw an opportunity to find himself in a more powerful position in society, and he took it.

@gracchus

Thiel helped him get rich, and now he and his techbro buddies fed Vance’s insatiable ambition by securing him a slot on the 2024 Republican ticket (and perhaps the top slot on the 2028 one).

@chenille

Why do people keep imagining Republicans would need blackmail to abandon their principles, versus only pretending to have them in the first place? It assumes a lot of facts not in evidence.

@ClutchLinkey

The whole “blackmail” hypothesis is just giving these shitheads an excuse, like, “they’d surely do the right thing, but they’re being forced to be evil, against their will, poor things.

@michaelditullio

Why was staying Republican more important than his once held beliefs?

There are no real core of his beliefs, except power and enriching himself. Not sure why anyone would think otherwise.