Ultra-MAGA
Republican
extremist
J.D. Vance
is a member
of the U.S.
Senate from
Ohio. He
assumed
office on
January 3,
2023. His
current term
ends on
January 3,
2029. On
July 15,
2024, Donald
Trump
announced
Vance as his
vice
presidential
running
mate. Vance
entered
politics in
July 2021,
when he
announced he
would run
for U.S.
Senate to
replace
retiring
Sen. Rob
Portman (R).
Vance
defeated Tim
Ryan (D) in
the November
9, 2022,
general
election,
winning 53%
to 46.9%.
"A Haitian
organization in Ohio
filed criminal
charges against
former President
Trump and
running mate Sen.
JD Vance
(R-Ohio) on Tuesday,
alleging the pair
has caused harm by
spreading baseless
smears about Haitian
immigrants." [ . . .
] "Trump and Vance
have continuously
amplified a false
online conspiracy
theory about Haitian
immigrants eating
pets in Springfield,
Ohio, elevating an
internet rumor to
the national stage."
[ . . . ] "The head
of Haitian Bridge
Alliance brought
charges on behalf of
the organization
Tuesday in Clark
County Municipal
Court under an Ohio
statute that allows
private citizens to
file criminal
charges."
"Ohio Sen. JD
Vance doesn’t
care that his racist
lies about Haitian
immigrants are
endangering his own
constituents—he’s
going to keep
telling them anyway.
That was his message
to supporters at a
rally in North
Carolina on
Wednesday when he
complained about the
media describing the
Haitian immigrants
in Springfield as
legal—which they
are."
Sep. 18, 2024
JD Vance Says He's Creating Stories About Springfield Pet Eaters To Draw Attention To Issue
"America’s
ideological
split
over gun
control
has
spilled
over
into the
presidential
campaign
after
JD Vance,
the
Republican
vice-presidential
nominee,
voiced
regret
that
school
shootings
had
“become
a fact
of life”
in the
US." [ .
. . ]
"Asked
about
the
Georgia
shooting
while
speaking
at a
campaign
rally in
Phoenix,
Arizona,
on
Thursday
evening,
Vance
said: “I
don’t
like
this. I
don’t
like to
admit
this. I
don’t
like
that
this is
a fact
of life.
But if
you are
a psycho
and you
want to
make
headlines,
you
realize
that our
schools
are soft
targets.”"
"The
Trump
campaign
traded
its
usual
anti-LGBTQ
church
venue
for
another
this
week,
when
JD Vance,
candidate
for vice
president,
held a
student
event in
Mesa,
Arizona.
Vance
spoke
before
supporters
at
Generation
Church
as part
of
far-right
voter
outreach
group
Turning
Point
Action’s
“Chase
the
Vote”
campaign.
He was
welcomed
to the
chapel
by
pastor
Ryan
Visconti,
a US
Army
veteran
with a
history
of
homophobic
and
misogynistic
beliefs
that
mirror
Vance’s."
[ . . .
]
"Visconti
has a
vitriolic
attitude
towards
the
LGBTQ
community,
and has
built
that
into his
church
teachings.
Generation
Church
denies
the
existence
of
transgender
people,
and only
recognizes
marriages
between
men and
women.
Visconti
has
openly
stated
that
same-sex
couples
should
not
exist,
and
discourages
people
from
associating
in any
way with
members
of the
LGBTQ
community."
"Not long after
coming to Washington
last year as the
junior Senator from
Ohio, Donald Trump’s
pick for vice
president, J.D.
Vance (R),
embarked on a
year-long effort to
hold up State
Department
ambassadorial
nominations based on
his objections to
their “woke” and
pro-LGBTQ+ policy
views. In April last
year, Vance sent a
questionnaire to
over 30 U.S. State
Department
ambassador nominees
forcing them to
explain in detail
their views around
issues including
diversity, equity
and inclusion
measures at
embassies,
gender-neutral
bathrooms, Pride
flag displays and
gender-affirming
care for State
Department
employees."
"Donald
Trump’s vice
presidential pick
left his Venmo
account public, and
it shows close ties
to many on the far
right, including one
of the people behind
Project 2025."
"The leader of the
right-wing think
tank behind Project
2025 reportedly
couldn’t be happier
that
Donald Trump
picked Senator
J.D. Vance as
his running mate
Monday. Kevin
Roberts, president
of the Heritage
Foundation, which
penned the lengthy
blueprint for a
potential far-right
Trump takeover and
draconian
dismantling of the
administrative
state, was speaking
to reporters when
the announcement was
made. New York Times
reporter Nick
Corasaniti described
Roberts’s live
reaction to hearing
that Vance had been
tapped. “He reacted
to the news ‘with a
broad smile on my
face’ and said that
‘privately, we were
really rooting for
him,’” Corasaniti
wrote in a post on X
(formerly Twitter)."
"You don’t proclaim
a new era of unity
and civility by
placing one of
America’s leading
fans of Hungarian
authoritarian
strongman Viktor
Orbán a heartbeat
from the
presidency."
"just as
Trump has a
history of taking
positions that align
with those of
Russian autocrat
Vladimir Putin,
Vance’s critics
say the Ohio
senator’s words
about Ukraine must
be music to Putin’s
ears. This year,
Vance has taken to
the New York Times,
the Senate floor and
even flown to Munich
to blast American
policy toward
Ukraine. He’s voted
against support for
the beleaguered
country. And he’s
called for immediate
negotiations to end
the war."
"Vance’s
new identity as the
MAGA militant has
existed alongside —
and, at times,
served to obscure —
another influential
role that Vance has
taken on in
Washington. In
certain conservative
circles, Vance has
emerged as the
standard-bearer of
the a loose movement
of young, edgy and
elite conservatives
trying to take the
ideological
revolution that
began under
Trump —
including his overt
embrace of
nationalism, his
hard-line stance on
immigration, his
vocal opposition of
U.S. involvement in
foreign conflicts
like Ukraine and his
overt skepticism
toward certain
liberal democratic
principles — in an
even more radical
direction. Unlike
Trump’s more
conventional
Republican
followers, Vance’s
New Right cohort see
Trump as merely the
first step in a
broader
populist-nationalist
revolution that is
already reshaping
the American right —
and, if they get
their way, that will
soon reshape America
as a whole."
"In a contentious
interview with ABC
News "This Week"
anchor George
Stephanopoulos,
Vance -- a
onetime Trump critic
-- also doubled down
on his views of the
2020 election,
saying the results
shouldn't have been
immediately
certified, and he
went on to suggest
Trump should ignore
"illegitimate" U.S.
Supreme Court
rulings."
"Bestselling-author-turned-GOP-clown
J.D.
Vance
has once
again
made a
complete
ass of
himself
in yet
another
desperate
attempt
at
appealing
to
Republican
primary
voters
in Ohio.
Yesterday,
the
37-year-old
bigot
shared a
tweet by
Rep.
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
about
trans,
two-spirit,
and
non-binary
people,
along
with the
caption:
“I’m
sorry
but what
the hell
is
two-spirit?
Would
love if
progressives
just
stopped
inventing
words.”"
"Sen. JD Vance
of Ohio, who earlier
this year joined
other Republicans in
speculating that a
Nashville mass
shooter's trans
identity may have
played a role in the
violence, said he
had observed a "push
and pull with these
culture war
battles." He
referenced another
recent Gallup poll
showing that more
Americans have begun
to identify as
socially
conservative,
suggesting that the
nature of trans
issues had changed
the way Americans
think about LGBTQ+
issues writ large.
"Most Americans, I
think, don't really
care about same-sex
marriage," said
Vance. "They're
probably a little
bit more skeptical
of say, giving
hormonal therapies
to 13-year-old
kids." (If they are
skeptical, it's only
of a particular sort
of therapy:
Thousands of
children receive
hormone treatment
for hypothyroidism,
delayed puberty, and
even "short stature"
each year.)"
"In the first debate
of Ohio’s U.S.
Senate race, U.S.
Rep. Tim Ryan,
D-Ohio, said
Republican
challenger J.D.
Vance holds a
"very extreme
position" against
abortion."
"J.D.
Vance, a
candidate for U.S.
Senate in Ohio who
was able to obtain
the Republican
presidential
nomination thanks in
part to backing from
gay conservative
entrepreneur Peter
Thiel,
signaled on Tuesday
he’d vote against
legislation pending
before Congress
seeking to codify
same-sex marriage
into law.
Vance made the
comments during a
debate with
Democratic nominee
Tim Ryan, with whom
he’s locked in a
closely watched race
that may decide
control of the
Senate, after being
asked about the
Respect for Marriage
Act. “I’ve come out
against this bill
and I don’t think
it’s actually about
gay marriage or
same-sex marriage or
same-sex equality,”
Vance said. “Look,
gay marriage is the
law of the land of
this country and I’m
not trying to do
anything to change
that.”"
"When asked earlier
this week to explain
comments that some
have labeled
anti-woman or
anti-LGBTQ, Vance
stressed the
importance of
encouraging family
stability. “If you
look at childhood
trauma, the effect
it has on kids
growing up, if you
look at the effect
that our
skyrocketing family
instability rate has
on our crime and a
child’s happiness,
you’ve got to talk
about this stuff,"
Vance said. When it
comes to abortion,
Vance said he's
"pro-life" and he
said he thinks
legalized abortion
has been predicated
on a lie."
"JD
Vance said
people need to be
more willing to stay
in unhappy marriages
for the sake of
their kids—and
seemed to suggest
that in some cases,
“even violent”
marriages should
continue."
"Before Republican
JD Vance
began targeting
universities as the
enemy of the
conservative
movement, the Donald
Trump-endorsed U.S.
Senate candidate in
Ohio leveraged a
network of higher
education
institutions across
the country to
promote his book —
and he made money
doing it. In the two
years after the 2016
release of
“Hillbilly Elegy,”
his bestselling
memoir of growing up
in Appalachia, Vance
visited at least 18
universities to give
graduation speeches,
lectures or
political talks. For
those visits, Vance
was paid more than
$70,000, according
to records provided
to The Associated
Press by the
colleges."
"But an unearthed
Facebook message
from 2016 shows just
how shameless
Vance’s pivot
from Trump skeptic
to sycophant has
truly been. On
Monday, Democratic
Georgia state Rep.
Josh McLaurin,
Vance's old college
roommate, tweeted
what he said was a
message he received
from Vance, who
expressed concern
that Trump might be
“America’s Hitler.”
“I go back and forth
between thinking
Trump might be a
cynical asshole like
Nixon who wouldn’t
be that bad (and
might even prove
useful) or that he
might be America’s
Hitler,” Vance
wrote, according to
McLaurin's tweet.
“How’s that for
discouraging?” Vance
previously used
words like “idiot,”
“noxious” and
“reprehensible” to
describe Trump
— but that was
before he sought the
former president's
endorsement. He’s
since deleted his
tweets criticizing
Trump and said he
regrets speaking ill
of him. "
"J.D.
Vance wants you
to know that only
one invasion should
overwhelmingly
preoccupy your
attention right now.
It’s not the
invasion of Ukraine,
where war crimes are
mounting and we’re
seeing horrifying
imagery of murdered
civilians littering
the streets."
"Facts
First:
Vance’s
claims
are
false.
Every
alleged
Capitol
rioter
who is
being
held in
jail to
await
trial
has been
charged
with a
crime.
Moreover,
every
one of
the
dozens
of
defendants
listed
on the
very
donations
page
Vance
was
promoting
has been
charged
with a
crime.
More
than 90
minutes
after
his
false
tweets,
Vance
appeared
to
implicitly
concede
that he
wasn’t
correct
to claim
that
dozens
of
Capitol
riot
prisoners
“haven’t
even
been
charged
with a
crime” –
posting
a new
tweet
that
read,
“*convicted
(not
charged).”
But
Vance
did not
delete
either
that
false
initial
tweet or
the
false
subsequent
tweet
claiming
the
prisoners
have
been
“accused
of
nothing,”
and he
did not
explicitly
say that
he had
been
wrong."
"Vance
slammed
the
media,
saying
they had
“slandered
and lied
about”
Rittenhouse.
“And
instead
of
rewarding
him,”
said
Vance,
“Instead
of
saying
you
know,
‘Isn’t
good
that a
17-year-old
kid who
was
raised
by a
single
mother
made
good
decisions
and
decided
to be a
positive
force in
his
community?’
they
slandered
and lied
about
him.
They
treated
basic
manly
virtue
as White
supremacy.”
He
continued,
“It’s
not just
about
Kyle
Rittenhouse.
It’s
about,
what
kind of
young
men do
we want
to raise
in our
communities?
What
kind of
virtue
do we
want our
leaders
to
promote?
Certainly
not the
people
who are
burning
Kenosha,
Wisconsin
now.
We wanna
promote
the
types of
virtues
that
exist in
Kyle
Rittenhouse.”"
"Candidate
Vance opined
that: “Obesity is a
far more serious
public health crisis
than Covid,”
and sardonically
asked, “Should we
mandate that no one
be allow to eat
fried chicken?” He
parroted the
insanity of
right-wing
Republicans that
COVID “is not the
only bad thing” and
“people don’t trust
(life-saving)
vaccines because our
public health
authorities are
understood,
reasonably, to be
political hacks who
don’t know what
they’re doing.”
Besides, he added,
brushing over
600,000 dead
Americans, “what
about basic bodily
liberty?”"
"In
advance
of
announcing
his run
for
Senate,
Hillbilly
Elegy
author
turned
venture
capitalist
J.D.
Vance
deleted
dozens
of old
tweets
blasting
former
President
Donald
Trump.
But
Vance,
who is
warring
with
fellow
Ohio
Republicans
for the
MAGA
vote,
forgot
to scrub
one
Twitter
element
of his
anti-Trump
past:
his
“likes.”
Vance’s
Twitter
likes,
which
were
still
visible
as of
Monday
afternoon,
include
two
tweets
supporting
Hillary
Clinton’s
2016
candidacy,
a post
implying
Trump
supporters
are
antisemitic,
and
multiple
tweets
indicting
Trump’s
character.
One
tweet
even
accuses
then-candidate
Trump of
sexual
assault,
and
another
calls
him
“psychologically
disturbed.”
He also
liked
two
tweets
mocking
Melania
Trump.
Most of
the
controversial
Twitter
likes
came
around
the time
of the
leaked
“Access
Hollywood”
tape in
early
October
2016,
where
Trump
was
caught
on
microphone
saying
he could
grab
women by
their
genitals
with
impunity
because,
“When
you’re a
star,
they let
you do
it.”"
"The Senate
candidate didn’t
just flip-flop on
supporting
Trump. Vance
embraced the
politics of anger
and grievance and
victimhood that made
him loathe Trump in
the first place."
"What do we call a
man who turns on
everything he once
claimed to believe?
For a practitioner
of petty and
self-serving
duplicity, we use
“sellout” or
“backstabber.”
(Sometimes we impugn
the animal kingdom
and call him a rat,
a skunk, or a
weasel.) For grand
betrayals of
weightier
loyalties—country
and faith—we invoke
the more solemn
terms of “traitor”
or “apostate.” But
what should we call
J. D. Vance,
the self-described
hillbilly turned
Marine turned Ivy
League law-school
graduate turned
venture capitalist
turned Senate
candidate? Words
fail. His perfidy to
his own people in
Ohio is too big to
allow him to escape
with the label of
“opportunist,” and
yet the shabbiness
and absurdity of his
Senate campaign is
too small to brand
him a defector or a
heretic."
