When someone does something repugnant or slimy, I often wonder: Who hurt you?
With JD Vance, I've found myself thinking, "Bless his heart. He's just being Trump's bitch. I wonder who hurt him. Was he bullied much as a kid?"
I've read Hillbilly Elegy, but I don't remember much in it. Below are a few places where he mentions being bullied:
"When I was younger, I was the new kid in town. And as I quickly learned, the new kid always gets bullied." (Chapter 1)
"At school, I was constantly picked on, and I couldn’t understand why. My classmates would make fun of my clothes, the way I talked, and the way my mom acted." (Chapter 2)
"I was a poor kid with a messy home life, and I became the target of constant teasing, and that made me even more ashamed of where I came from." (Chapter 3)
"It’s hard to be proud of yourself when every kid in your class has more than you, and the people who tease you are just one reminder of your social status." (Chapter 4)
"Even though I was in a new place, I was still the same poor kid who got made fun of for his family’s problems. I couldn't escape the way other people saw me." (Chapter 5)
"I was in college, but still carrying the weight of being a kid who got picked on, a kid who was always made to feel inferior." (Chapter 6)
"The kids at school made it clear that my mom’s problems were my problems. They teased me about her addiction, laughed when she’d come to school in a state of chaos. I couldn’t escape it." (Chapter 7)
"When I went to college, I didn’t just feel like a fish out of water; I felt like I was going to drown. I had been bullied so much that I started to believe I wasn’t good enough to be there." (Chapter 8)
Get the idea? Every chapter, Vance paints himself as the victim. So he was bullied and bullied for years, and it has affected him deeply, maybe for life...
But does the person bullied become a bully himself? There seems to be a certain amount of logic to that, right? It feels good to swing back and be the one to hit about being hit all those years.
People who knew Vance as a kid claim that he was the bully:
A woman named Serenity recalled: "I can't stand JD Vance. I grew up with him, I knew him personally. He was a bully when he was a kid. Very mean, very rude. Just being a bully as a child. He used to kick me in the shins all the time, and then I know that my ex-husband was also bullied by him in high school, so it's like very much the same Trump mentality of bullying. I think he has that as well. Maybe that's why they get along so well."
https://www.citybeat.com/news/shes-voting-against-her-childhood-bully-jd-vance-18468268
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Vance's childhood was not a happy one -- full of trauma and violence. I'm willing to believe that he was bullied, and no, it wouldn't surprise me if that -- along with a lack of a father and everything he survived -- turned him into a bully, and a broken adult.
I'm thinking about all this because of his typically stupid, inappropriate responses -- telling Zelensky to wear a tie, telling Denmark that their treatment of Greenland sucks, etc.
And now today, he "doubled-down," as they say, on a mistake that will likely cost a man his life. This man, a father with legal protection to be in the United States, was "accidently" sent back to his home country, El Salvador, and the mega prison where we're now claiming to send all the "worst of the worst." (Sent without evidence, although FoxNEWS assures us that they're all rapists and murderers, and pedophiles -- just take the Government's word for it, because hey, all the deported guys have that gang tattoo, so yeah).
Vance's reaction to a father deported by mistake to the El Salvadoran mega prison: "Why are you so concerned with gang members and not their victims?"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vance-doubles-down-after-trump-admin-admits-error-sending-man-salvadoran-prison
This man is either dumb or stupid. Maybe both.
Or maybe he's broken and he has decided to make Trump the father he never had. Maybe he's tired of people bullying him, and he has found security hiding behind the biggest, most powerful bully the world has seen in a long, long time.
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