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Vance is a big phat phony in the vein of Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham. Even credulous MAGA smells a rat. Everybody else suspects he’s a Wall st. mole to soothe the minds of the ownership class.

No matter how you look at it, Vance is another bad deal brought to you by Donald Trump.

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And his book is mostly bullshit

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People talk about hard work all the time in places like Middletown. You can walk through a town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than twenty hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.

According to him, rural people can’t find work because they’re lazy.

Oh, he also talks about punching his stepdad who “wasn’t a violent man”. I expect it’s just political grandstanding to show he was a tough kid.

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Like he’s right that Middletown is a shithole. But it’s a location devastated by collapse of the rust belt. It’s basically a suburb of a suburb of fucking dayton. The people of Middletown aren’t lazy, they’re desperate and they’re tired.

I don’t know how he managed to become a senator here, he clearly fucking hates Ohioans.

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I’ve seen lots of poor criticism of Vance but your concise little comment actually hit the nail on the head.

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