Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, dumped $10 million into a SuperPAC backing “Hillbilly Elegy” author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, who may run for retiring Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) seat.
A hillbilly from Ohio politickin’ in DC. Would that be a first?
Fine by me if the nincompoops don’t want the vaccine passport. Just think how easy it’ll be to get seats on mass transit, like airplanes, if roughly a third of the population that flies doesn’t get one.
Me? As soon as I can get my shot(s), I’ll be happy to sign up. I need to get back to the farm and a two day drive both ways is less attractive (I’ve done it twice, since moving to Wisconsin).
These whiny little crybabies need to get plopped in a play pen. They aren’t mature enough to be out in public.
How interested are union voters in idiotic pseudo-culture war?
Former Ohio Republican Party Chair Jane Timken, another Republican in the race so far, has been Trumpifying herself too, seemingly jockeying with Mandel for the former president’s endorsement. Recently, she demanded that Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) resign for voting to impeach Trump just a month after saying he must have had a “rational reason” to vote yes and calling him a “very good person.”
It’s not her call for Gonzalez to resign that’s the Trumpifying part. It’s her yo-yo-ing back and forth that’s the real mark that she’s a Trumper–a trail blazed by Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, et., etc., etc.
Vance, also a Trump supporter, has been making recent appearances on Tucker Carlson Tonight and tweeting about Dr. Seuss and the southern border, putting himself in line with current GOP priorities.
So this guy thinks he can put up fist emojis in different colors and that means he’s speaking for everyone.
Is this the hillbilly who hates hillbillies?
Oh, great. Now we get to talk about Hillbilly Elegy again, just in time for the movie.
Fascinating parts of that book. But the way Vance uses his childhood and grandmother to leap to the idea that the solution to our problems is to go to church and vote Republican is nutty, disconnected from his actual lived experience. And now we learn that Vance is a Trump supporter?! What a maroon.
The very same.
The Supreme Court made buying Senate seats legal. The Biden-Harris SCOTUS-to-be must throw out this “precedent” (of which ACB is exhibit A that Federalists don’t care about it at all). And a Democratic Congress must create public financing of campaigns, including spending limits. Extreme wealth and voter suppression is putting us on the road to becoming a banana republic.
Thiel is one of the detestable lights in the Trump orbit and Vance is a Trojan horse. But the story writes itself, utterly predictable.
Meanwhile, the Missouri GQP is in disarray…
I’ll see your Thiel, and raise you one Bezos!
Thiel is supposed to be a libertarian. Let’s call him a HL, a hubristic libertarian. Throwing his wealth around to accomplish what, exactly?
If Vance does join the race, he won’t be the only one aiming to mold himself in the former president’s image.
Dear god! WTF??? Just one was one too many!
So spending a coupla summers @ memaw and pepaw’s get you to the senate now?
good luck.
You really don’t want to pull the threads on the vance sweater
Thomas Frank needs to write another book: What’s The Matter With Ohio? Apparently, some people didn’t understand Kansas was a metaphor.
Why not? Expose him naked, and then people will see he wears no clothes, like that famous Emperor.
A billionaire and a venture capitalist trying to buy a seat in the US Senate. Sounds pretty Trumpy to me.
