His actual positions

Ok, kind of lame at this late date, considering how old Trump is, that there is no thread about the man himself and his actual policy positions. Mostly stpuid gotcha shit.

So, let's take a look,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance

"Born in Middletown, Ohio, Vance served in the Marine Corps and attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2009. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2013.[5] He came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which describes his upbringing in the Rust Belt, poverty, drug addiction, and Appalachian culture."


Marine good. Addiction? Dear God a fucking addict? BORING.


"During his time in the Senate, Vance has been described as a neoreactionary,[7] national conservative,[8] and a right-wing populist"

Mmm, encouraging.


"He supports a 15-week abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest, or threats to the health of the mother, and opposes same-sex marriage, though he has said he does not want to reopen the debate.[13] He is in favor of banning pornography.[14] Vance has been considered a maverick from Republican orthodoxy on economics, supporting raises to the minimum wage, unionization, tariffs, antitrust policy, and has opposed American military aid to Ukraine"

Mmm, not bad, not bad.


"ance's childhood was marked by poverty and abuse, and his mother struggled with drug addiction."

Oh, good, HE'S not the fucking addict.

"In 2016, Harper published Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. It was a finalist for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize[39] and winner of the 2017 Audie Award for Nonfiction. The New York Times called it "one of the six best books to help understand Trump's win".[6] The Washington Post called him the "voice of the Rust Belt",[40] while The New Republic criticized him as "liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer" and the "false prophet of blue America."[41] Economist William Easterly, a West Virginia native, criticized the book, writing, "Sloppy analysis of collections of people—coastal elites, flyover America, Muslims, immigrants, people without college degrees, you name it—has become routine. And it's killing our politics."


Interesting. Maybe I will read that book. At least check out the sample chapters.


"Vance has argued that American liberals falsely claim to preserve an apolitical civil service that in reality is used to punish right-wing figures, stating that: "The thing that I kept thinking about liberalism in 2019 and 2020 is that these guys have all read Carl Schmitt – there's no law, there's just power.""

Clearly on the money there. Good, good.


"Vance opposes the Respect for Marriage Act,[100][101] which recognized same-sex marriage at the federal level. He said "I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don't think the gay marriage issue is alive right now. I'm not one of these guys who's looking to try to take people's families and rip them apart."[102]

Vance proposed a bill that would make gender-affirming care for minors a federal felony and block taxpayer funds from being used for it, saying "Under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to perform these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children.""


Seems reasonable.

"J. D. Vance has argued that failing to secure the southern border of the United States has fuelled the country's ongoing opioid epidemic by enabling illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the country, "orphaning an entire generation of kids."[104] He is a critic of mass immigration, claiming that it drives down wages for working-class Americans, increased house prices, and increased strain on social security.[105] He has criticised mass immigration and the outsourcing of the United States' defense-industrial base as "epic failures of the political class to serve our own citizens."[106] He opposes granting legal amnesty to illegal immigrants in the United States and argued that illegal immigration is used by corporations as a source of cheap labour to undercut the domestic American labor market"



Clearly right. Clearly. Only a fool could argue with any of that.


SKimmed the rest.


Sounds like a good conservative VP choice, and a man who could take over in case Trump dies while in office.

Not the one I really wanted, but good enough.

I approve.

What do you think? Disccuss.