J. D. Vance has cosponsored 24 GOP attempts to gut Biden administration consumer protections, from air quality standards to cracking down on junk fees. His voting record offers a glimpse of what's to come under a potential second Trump administration.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    13·
    8 months ago

    Amazing how these guys come right out and tell their people “we want you to be cheated out of your money” and those people lap it up.

  • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    If only he listened more to Mamaw, he might not be so fucking weird

    “I’ll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I’m going to hell.”

    When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as “Mamaw” — she replied bluntly: “Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?”

    When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.

    “JD, do you want to suck dicks?” she said, according to the book.

    The young Vance, apparently “flabbergasted,” said: “Of course not!”

    “Then you’re not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay,” she replied. “God would still love you.”

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 months ago

    The trucking industry has also been fighting the Environmental Protection Agency’s new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks — another rule that Vance and his colleagues tried to kill.

    You would think someone who wants people to have more children would want to preserve the environment and improve it. But I am sure people like this somehow want to believe that they will be immune to the negative consequences of such decision making. The environment impacts us all, you can’t live in an enclosure safe from the detrimental effects of a hostile or unlivable planet.

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      He’s a fucking Catholic. Guarantee he doesn’t even believe in human caused climate change (at least as far as the character JD Vance is concerned, who knows what the person playing Peter Thiel’s sock puppet actually thinks)

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Oh he doesn’t want the children to actually be healthy or prosper, just bring them into the world.