butcher
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I’m half way through the JD Vance episode, which made perfect listening for Halloween. I was struggling to get through it purely for the fact it’s frightening these people are at the top of government. He comes across worse than Trump. Strongly held opinions and beliefs with seemingly little evidence.
Oh Vance is way worse than Trump but not for this reason, he doesn’t have any strongly held opinions or beliefs, literally everything is either convenient or tactical. His position on Trump himself makes that pretty obvious but it goes through everything.
The saddest and most disturbing thing I think is his mum. She’s a recovering drug addict whose addiction has been almost entirely to prescription drugs, starting out with vicodin which she was given for headaches despite being an alcoholic, she’s an absolutely textbook prescription opioid addict along with 2 million other americans (and 1 in 6 of all US drug deaths). Vance is perfectly aware of all of that and for a while was a pretty strong campaigning voice on the real causes of the opioid crisis. Then, I don’t think anyone knows exactly when, something shifted and his fake Our Ohio Renewal charity ended up paying a Purdue Pharmaceuticals exec whose speciality was <downplaying> prescription addiction, while of course he raised about $250000 in donations and used it as a political springboard while doing nothing toward’s the charities aims.
But anyway, fast forward to today and he’s repeatedly blamed immigrants for her addiction and literally had her at campaign events and used her to demand border controls.