JD Vance spent 4 years as a PR Flack for the Marines in an air conditioned office in the Green Zone. While that definitely makes him a veteran? It doesn't really entitle him to assume the mantle of someone who stormed Mosul or some shit. If you were to read Hillbilly Elegy, you would read 300-odd pages of "here's some lies about my past" with occasional breaks to vomit pablum about low-information voters. The two are completely disconnected from each other other than the fact that both touch reality in very few points. JD Vance believes whatever it is expedient to believe. He believed whatever was necessary to attract the Eye of Thielron, then believed whatever was necessary to proxy Thiel's ideas to popular regard, then believed whatever was necessary to win election, and will now believe whatever is necessary to increase his stature. Ross Douchehat putting forth a "what J. D. Vance Believes" piece is so cynically en pointe for 2024 New York Times that it reads like parody news from Cyberpunk 2077. Do not for a minute think that anything in this article reflects reality in any way shape or form. The subject knows it, the interviewer knows it, the editorial board knows it. JD Vance has never not shit on liberals, despite his book largely being about liberals accepting him and helping him out and providing him with protection and food. There isn't even a calculation to JD Vance's lying - he knows he can say whatever the fuck he wants and the chinstrokers of the center-left will go "he grew up in Appalachia therefore we must listen."The people on the left, I would say, whose politics I’m open to — it’s the Bernie Bros.