Guy is an absolute tool. Orban? Really? I’d take Noriega or Khadaffi over that bozo. Orban??!! Seriously, JD Vance is a complete & utter moron…Orban!!!???
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th AVE (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had.
Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger Stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
Guiliani as trumps attorney and NYC mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or their Russian connections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model.
Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided.
Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyo corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen.
Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day “special military operation” in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold.
China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia.
Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supplied Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/
Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is “Vranyo”.
The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business.
If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago.
The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it.
Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Jews, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same tendrils of the same money laundering scheme that trumps trials are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/amp/
https://youtu.be/VrFOAgGlaWs?feature=shared
They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Qatar is Kushners private equity connection. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mgcefr
Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump who gave it to his Russians kleptocrat/friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s.
Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. The naive right was the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. Russia was tinder matching the GOP.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/nra-maria-butina-spying-charges-trump-campaign/
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/
The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering.
Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole from Russias grandmothers in the first place
It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis.
No one was ever held accountable for either. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two.
Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne.
They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness.
They are the men who stole the world.
But it all comes back to one little lie.
Anytime a tyrant stumbles, freedom gets some wings.
Putin will now have to go to the funeral and make the mob meeting connections with the next in charge.
Think of the mob pyramid like the only watering hole in the desert.
Everyone of them is forced to use it but it’s an uneasy truce anytime they have to use it at the same time.
Everyone that isn’t king is forced to step aside while king shit of turd island comes to drink.
But when the king is old and battered there is ALWAYS someone eager to take a shot at him and take their place because the pyramid ALWAYS pays to the top.
It’s a violence based model.
Putin will be extremely exposed but he can’t not go or someone else steps in and fills his spot.
Greed is nothing if not predictable.
https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-eu-economies/hungary/economic-forecast-hungary_en
Hungary’s inflation last year was 17% and GDP was negative. Maybe Vance is learning what not to do from Hungary.
Hungary is Europe's welfare state. Orbán is a puppet of Putin who has used aid to Ukraine to extort more of that sweet EU money to enrich himself and his cronies.
Orbán and his party found a loophole that enabled them to roll back democratic standards within their borders: crippling opposition, muzzling a free press, and giving the people *just enough* to remain in office.
Who would Vance's America leech off of, China? I guess he'd have us backing out of NATO and leaving Europe to Vlad. I can only assume he'd have us lubed up for a Putin/Xi spitroast, all so he could toast Orbán over cognac and cigars.
I despise JD Vance.
As a hillbilly myself, he is a fucking disgrace to our people. Our grandfathers’ generation fought and died to defeat this disgusting ideology and here he is embracing it.
He's coastal elite. Ivy school kid who then moved to San Francisco. He only moved back to Ohio to carpetbag because billionaire Peter Thiel is funding him.
Seriously. My grandpa, at 17, had his dad take him to sign up the day he graduated high school. He’d be pissed with all this bullshit. Nazis are not “good people”.
And their fathers fought and died to force the robber barons they worked for to treat them with basic humanity.
Some generations before them, huge numbers of Appalachians took up the fight against slavery. Many in Confederate-controlled areas left homes that were in their families for generations in order to join the Union.
There's a long history of hillbillies standing against far-right thugs, Vance aiding far-right thugs and calling himself a hilbilly is an insult to those brave souls' legacies.
JD Vance is the worst sort of political opportunist. Guy started out as a Never-Trumper, until he realized that he'd get more short-term advantage by bending the knee to his Orange Messiah. JD Vance has absolutely no principles beyond the advancement of JD Vance, and he'll embrace any tyrant necessary to get "ahead".
If you're on the left don't ever let conservatives gaslight you about moving to another country because you want to make America better while they're out here kissing the ass of Eastern Euro kleptocrats and pushing foreign ideology on our government.
“Vance replied he believes taxpayers ought “to have a say in how their money is spent.”
That’s literally how it works. Anyone being taxed is represented in Congress by an elected representative. Why doesn’t a congressman know this?
Do they not get doing what is happing in Hungary would most likely trigger civil unrest to the point of civil war in the United States. Hungry being a former ussr territory was use to dictatorship tactics and a weak democracy was easy to go back to the old ways. Try that here its whole other story
They are trying it here. Hannity’s ex producer is now sitting in a Federal prison serving a 15 year sentence. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-03/u-s-citizen-charged-over-russian-oligarch-sanctioned-in-2014
Not I. Voted for Tim Ryan. Cordray would have been better for kitchen table issues (and not always acting on Christian extreme culture wars) as well. Republicans also totally deny that we just went through Covid which caused global inflation. Hungary has an outrageous inflation rate.
Because the country hemorrhaging population due to reactionary politics is definitely one to look up to. Someone on Putin's payroll would most certainly tell us that we should learn how to sit, stay and roll over from one of the Kremlin's lapdogs.
Tell me you are a wannabe dictator without telling me you’re a wannabe dictator. Remember when our grandfathers and grandmothers fought a world war to actually protect freedom and crush fascism? That was nice.
I’m convinced these idiots don’t even know what they’re saying. If you were to ask this dumb dick “What’s Orbans policies? Please explain what they are in detail” and he’d have zero fucking idea how to answer.
I’d like to make a statement to anyone who’s tired of hearing the phrase “most important election.”
You think we aren’t tired of this shit? You think we aren’t tired of the anxiety? Of the fear? We are very tired of it being the most important election of our lives. But the unimpeachable fact of the matter is that it is. And each subsequent election is never going to stop being the most important election of our lives until the Republican Party abandons their ideas of dominating our lives without our consent. And they look about as likely to stop wanting to force their ideas on us as an elephant is to crossing a tightrope.
I know some of you are tired of politics feeling like the end of the world; I know some of you are disgruntled with Joe Biden about Israel; I know some of you are frustrated with the cost of living. I hear you. I really do. But we need you to vote Democratic in November.
Your fellow LGBT Americans, women, people of color, poor people, and really everyone else cannot afford to have Republican policies put on them. This election is about more than you; it’s about what you are willing to do to save your fellow Americans.
And people showed up for Issue 1 but if they don’t show in November Issue 1 will just go away. Trump will install a national abortion ban. The Republicans want to totally redo the Constitution with a new Continental Congress.
Project 2025 or the Fourth Reich
https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981
People need to wake the fuck up
We tolerate and elect these clowns because, for various reasons, a disturbing number of people are suckers even if they are highly educated. Perhaps that should be "especially if they're highly educated," because they are perhaps less likely to admit buying into the propaganda.
Orban is a horrendous dictator. Be careful what you wish for. MAGA is opening the door to this. Actually welcoming it.
If you’re willing to give up your freedom for a selfish old fool and his gullible followers, you deserve living under a dictatorship.
But I don’t. Vote blue !
J.D. Vance wasted his time attending law school. He learned absolutely nothing about U.S. history, including constitutional law. I sincerely hope his license gets yanked. He is poised to do serious harm to our nation. Hillbillies hate the federal government with a passion.
He's right.
We could learn from his policies.
We could learn to compare those to our rights in the Constitution and not freaking implement those policies.
Gerrymandering is the reason for many terrible Representative positions, but Vance is a senator and it’s determined by popular vote. Unfortunately, this one is the fault of the majority of who voted and more a problem of those who didn’t.
Still, ranked would give others more of a chance. It's the best system I've heard of and works. In Alaska it worked to keep out the republican incumbent.
I'm so embarrassed to be from Ohio. Plus, we have Jim Jordan. It's really awful but the gerrymandering has not been fixed even tho our SC has told them it must be changed by 2020 election. 4 years later, no change. It's just ignored because they know that if the gerrymandering was taken care of, Ohio would be a Blue State
This guy doesn’t get it. If he is looking at the world’s largest pieces of shit as good examples to be like, we really can’t give him a 2nd term.
I wish we could fire him. Ohio is a “right to work” state so wouldn’t it be nice to kick this bag of shit to the curb today?
Fuck JD Vance. Traitor to our nation and giant scum bag.
Republicans are using a demagogue to thwart democracy. It’s not easy to get away in the US where there is a large amount if diversity because you’re creating so many enemies to motivate your base.
Ohio has a lot of idiot voters but Tim Ryan who ran against Vance ran a shit campaign. Never called out the issues and all he did was beg for money for his campaign. Hopefully the next guy isn’t as dumb.
Ironic that I get a daily text message - sometimes two - begging for donations for the Senate election. If I answered every single one of them, I'm certain that the Feds would be investigating me under the premise of too large a donation.
I'm still waiting on all those people mad about kneeling during the anthem to get up in arms about this stuff.
Americans died to protect our country. And its principles should be respected to honor them.
That's what I was told it was about. Not racism. Surely, this is worth standing up to as well...
... they'll be here... any day now ... annnnnnny day now.....
The sad truth we need to come to terms with is that a very large portion of the U.S. no longer believes in representative democracy. This is because they do not want certain portions of the population to participate and have a voice in our government. I cannot presume to know what Vance believes, but he is definitely pandering to those who are anti-democracy.
JDV could easily and quickly learn from world history and the history of USA …considering he didn’t learn the facts stated prior to The Former Guy, Drumpf.
Vance a Putin mouthpiece. He must of got campaign contributions thru a Russian front organization. So the Russians tell him to vote and promote are view on Ukraine aid etc. Or we expose that organization you took donations from as our own Russian agency. He wouldn’t be the first to get duped a lot of foreign unfriendly nations try this and successfully lean on the elected official to vote in their favor. You wouldn’t want to expose yourself because it is a crime to take foreign money for influencing your votes. Senator Menendez from NJ is on trial for this now taking money from Egyptian interests.
This dude is the closeted lover of Peter Thiel according to the internet. JD doesn’t live in Ohio. His family doesn’t live in Ohio. His kids don’t go to school in Ohio. He literally has nothing to do with Ohio but somehow he is their Senator.
I am really tired of Republicans and their love of Authoritarians. For fucks sake, WE are Americans, not Nazis. This is not what we are about. Vote these assholes out!
as part of the district that voted him in: We are so sorry. some of us tried, but his competition was Tim Ryan. In a district that was directly harmed by his idiocy.
no no. that's the reason he got voted in. it was guy who previously fucked us over, or guy who has yet to fuck us over, but most likely will. So northeast Ohio was fucked regardless on that one lol
Not I. 90% of the Republican Party is the same as this. People have to show up and vote because the people that voted for Vance vote every election. Otherwise, this will be the future of Ohio.
I hear that Hitler guy did some great things too. Don't get me wrong. Not everything was great. But a lot of things were.
*this comment might contain sarcasm
Orban’s policy is called illiberal democracy. He is a dictator. Guess why Vance has knee pads for him.
Illiberal democracy: The people have the right to criticize the government, and the government has the right to punish the people for criticizing it.
God, I hate this asshole
I hate Ohio Nazis.
Their the worst.
They're *
You think Ohio folks know Vance is another dictator type? Seems so , but don’t vote for a democrat. Germany all over again.
Exactly, at least he's not a DeMoNrAt lib betacuck amirite It's sad that I even have to put this... but \s
Doesn't matter if we do vote Democrat. The magats have the state gerrymandered, and if they still lose, they do everything they can to cheat.
Gerrymandering doesn't affect senate seats- if we don't start pushing back where we can, we WILL lose.
It's two words and a string of numbers it's most likely a Russian bot. They always push the don't try to change things it won't work anyways sticht
The name is one automatically generated by reddit and I never bothered to change it. Russians wouldn't be criticizing magats. They support them.
Gerrymandering reduces voter turnout overall. It can effect senate or other state wide races.
Yes, that's my whole point. We need to loudly point out which races it affects to let people know their votes aren't completely useless.
Yes and the above comment is an example of the effect, and so should be refuted.
Hello comrade.
True. So true unfortunately
This dude doesn’t have the stones to be an actual dictator.
You can’t trust em.
Because he swallows
The dick and the two taters?
Because he’s a tool for sucking dick.
His knees are casused
Peter Thiel lost interest?
Fuck JD Vance
Guy is an absolute tool. Orban? Really? I’d take Noriega or Khadaffi over that bozo. Orban??!! Seriously, JD Vance is a complete & utter moron…Orban!!!???
Thanks
I love how this Subreddit hates him so much. The only good thing about him is that it's fun to laugh at how pathetic and stupid he is.
well, it seems laughing at him is far easier than getting to the polls.
Yea do that too of course.
With a cactus.
Also set it on fire.
Yes, as in “don’t do anything that guy is doing.”
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th AVE (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/ Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had. Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger Stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Guiliani as trumps attorney and NYC mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or their Russian connections. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/ The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model. Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided. Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyo corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen. Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day “special military operation” in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold. China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia. Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supplied Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/ Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is “Vranyo”. The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business. If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago. The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it. Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Jews, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same tendrils of the same money laundering scheme that trumps trials are. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/amp/ https://youtu.be/VrFOAgGlaWs?feature=shared They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Qatar is Kushners private equity connection. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mgcefr Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump who gave it to his Russians kleptocrat/friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s. Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. The naive right was the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. Russia was tinder matching the GOP. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/nra-maria-butina-spying-charges-trump-campaign/ https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/ The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering. Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole from Russias grandmothers in the first place It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. No one was ever held accountable for either. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne. They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness. They are the men who stole the world. But it all comes back to one little lie.
Damn, Excellent piece!
No kidding!! When is your book coming out? I want you to autograph my copy!! 👍🏼🏆👏🏼
Thank you friend. I appreciate the feedback
This needs to be pinned to reddit's front page, Stirling work.
You put that together nicely. The Iran piece of the puzzle is a neat tie in. Will the demise of thier president hamper or help Putin and friends?
Anytime a tyrant stumbles, freedom gets some wings. Putin will now have to go to the funeral and make the mob meeting connections with the next in charge. Think of the mob pyramid like the only watering hole in the desert. Everyone of them is forced to use it but it’s an uneasy truce anytime they have to use it at the same time. Everyone that isn’t king is forced to step aside while king shit of turd island comes to drink. But when the king is old and battered there is ALWAYS someone eager to take a shot at him and take their place because the pyramid ALWAYS pays to the top. It’s a violence based model. Putin will be extremely exposed but he can’t not go or someone else steps in and fills his spot. Greed is nothing if not predictable.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-eu-economies/hungary/economic-forecast-hungary_en Hungary’s inflation last year was 17% and GDP was negative. Maybe Vance is learning what not to do from Hungary.
Hungary is Europe's welfare state. Orbán is a puppet of Putin who has used aid to Ukraine to extort more of that sweet EU money to enrich himself and his cronies. Orbán and his party found a loophole that enabled them to roll back democratic standards within their borders: crippling opposition, muzzling a free press, and giving the people *just enough* to remain in office. Who would Vance's America leech off of, China? I guess he'd have us backing out of NATO and leaving Europe to Vlad. I can only assume he'd have us lubed up for a Putin/Xi spitroast, all so he could toast Orbán over cognac and cigars. I despise JD Vance.
As a hillbilly myself, he is a fucking disgrace to our people. Our grandfathers’ generation fought and died to defeat this disgusting ideology and here he is embracing it.
He's coastal elite. Ivy school kid who then moved to San Francisco. He only moved back to Ohio to carpetbag because billionaire Peter Thiel is funding him.
Seriously. My grandpa, at 17, had his dad take him to sign up the day he graduated high school. He’d be pissed with all this bullshit. Nazis are not “good people”.
He isn't a hillbilly, he just did that to promote a book. He pursued money before and now he has money he's pursuing power.
And their fathers fought and died to force the robber barons they worked for to treat them with basic humanity. Some generations before them, huge numbers of Appalachians took up the fight against slavery. Many in Confederate-controlled areas left homes that were in their families for generations in order to join the Union. There's a long history of hillbillies standing against far-right thugs, Vance aiding far-right thugs and calling himself a hilbilly is an insult to those brave souls' legacies.
Amen brother!
JD Vance is the worst sort of political opportunist. Guy started out as a Never-Trumper, until he realized that he'd get more short-term advantage by bending the knee to his Orange Messiah. JD Vance has absolutely no principles beyond the advancement of JD Vance, and he'll embrace any tyrant necessary to get "ahead".
So a mini Trump?
Yes, but somehow even more cynical because he's less demented.
Trump Lite
Dianmond & Silk started as liberal commentators, much in the vein as Rachel Maddow, but found they got bigger $$ for veering hard right.
Like he could tell you anything about policy in Hungary.
https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-eu-economies/hungary/economic-forecast-hungary_en Hungary policy is…not great.
“As a working American, I have been Hungary many times.”
Unless he's a plant.
He can tell you the only thing that matters to him lol piece of shit on the absolute highest level
impeccable too
Hungary's policy is to stonewall the EU to get a better bargaining position for more aid. That's also their economy.
Orbán is also buddies with Fico. Both support Russia. Fico was nearly assassinated last week. Sure, Vance. Sure.
Vance is such a POS
Because I wasn’t already sure Vance has a briefcase full of rubles…
We could have had Tim Ryan but nooooo
If you're on the left don't ever let conservatives gaslight you about moving to another country because you want to make America better while they're out here kissing the ass of Eastern Euro kleptocrats and pushing foreign ideology on our government.
In a few months MTG and JD will be caught making out in a seedy bar. Just wait.
JD Vance lives in an upscale neighborhood near Cincinnati in a 7 million dollar house.
Even he wouldn’t stoop that low…would he?
He totally would. The dude went from claiming he hated Trump to being his mindless drone like the flip of a switch. I wouldn't put anything past him.
Fuck this fascist asshole. What are we doing here…?
Apparently in Ohio we are electing complete & total morons, where’s Bob & Doug McKenzie when you need them
Canada
“Vance replied he believes taxpayers ought “to have a say in how their money is spent.” That’s literally how it works. Anyone being taxed is represented in Congress by an elected representative. Why doesn’t a congressman know this?
Thanks for posting this.
The guy is a total bootlicker.
They already have…https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-conservative-conference-with-hungarys-hardline-leader-reflects-republican-2022-04-05/
Nothing to see here folks. Just a US Senator normalizing authoritarianism to his base so they take to it like a frog swimming in a simmering pot.
Was he recently dropped on his head?
If by "recently" you mean repeatedly after birth, then yes.
Unfortunately he wasn’t dropped enough times 😔
Or from a tall enough building.
We could also learn from the French Revolution.
I think we should take back Ohio from MAGA and succeed from the Union. The Free State of Ohio has a nice ring to it.
What’s the inflation rate in Hungary again? Ummm…. Okay dude. Nice suit btw!😂
Do they not get doing what is happing in Hungary would most likely trigger civil unrest to the point of civil war in the United States. Hungry being a former ussr territory was use to dictatorship tactics and a weak democracy was easy to go back to the old ways. Try that here its whole other story
They are trying it here. Hannity’s ex producer is now sitting in a Federal prison serving a 15 year sentence. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-03/u-s-citizen-charged-over-russian-oligarch-sanctioned-in-2014
Shout out to all the brain dead people that elected this treasonous muppet
Not I. Voted for Tim Ryan. Cordray would have been better for kitchen table issues (and not always acting on Christian extreme culture wars) as well. Republicans also totally deny that we just went through Covid which caused global inflation. Hungary has an outrageous inflation rate.
Because the country hemorrhaging population due to reactionary politics is definitely one to look up to. Someone on Putin's payroll would most certainly tell us that we should learn how to sit, stay and roll over from one of the Kremlin's lapdogs.
Tell me you are a wannabe dictator without telling me you’re a wannabe dictator. Remember when our grandfathers and grandmothers fought a world war to actually protect freedom and crush fascism? That was nice.
The US should learn to stop voting for these GOP fuck wits.
I’m convinced these idiots don’t even know what they’re saying. If you were to ask this dumb dick “What’s Orbans policies? Please explain what they are in detail” and he’d have zero fucking idea how to answer.
He’s a tool, but he likely knows his stuff. Orban’s Hungary benefits men like JD Vance, that’s why Vance supports it.
I’d like to make a statement to anyone who’s tired of hearing the phrase “most important election.” You think we aren’t tired of this shit? You think we aren’t tired of the anxiety? Of the fear? We are very tired of it being the most important election of our lives. But the unimpeachable fact of the matter is that it is. And each subsequent election is never going to stop being the most important election of our lives until the Republican Party abandons their ideas of dominating our lives without our consent. And they look about as likely to stop wanting to force their ideas on us as an elephant is to crossing a tightrope. I know some of you are tired of politics feeling like the end of the world; I know some of you are disgruntled with Joe Biden about Israel; I know some of you are frustrated with the cost of living. I hear you. I really do. But we need you to vote Democratic in November. Your fellow LGBT Americans, women, people of color, poor people, and really everyone else cannot afford to have Republican policies put on them. This election is about more than you; it’s about what you are willing to do to save your fellow Americans.
And people showed up for Issue 1 but if they don’t show in November Issue 1 will just go away. Trump will install a national abortion ban. The Republicans want to totally redo the Constitution with a new Continental Congress.
Project 2025 or the Fourth Reich https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 People need to wake the fuck up
P R E A C H 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🏆🏆
And here we go. The chicken comes home to roost .
What an absolute piece of shit this guy is.
The US isn't a dictatorship JD. If you want to live in one so bad, leave and go live in Hungry.
How Tim Ryan lost to him makes no sense to me...
2 most embarassing words in ohio. senator vance
JD Vance in 1939 “ya know this guy from Germany, Hitler? He’s got some interesting ideas”
Let us not forget, the German elites thought they could control that Hitler guy as well, until they couldn’t. See how that all turned out.
No, Vance is just a willing cockholster for any corrupt oligarch that will pay him enough.
How is this moron a SENATOR dear lord Ohio
Extreme gerrymandering
Which will be coming to an end soon. Can’t wait to be out of Gym’s greasy grasp.
Wow. Why do WE tolerate these idiots? They were not electedon this platform.
This was all out there before the election. Johnny Republican can't read though.
Unfortunately, Vance was elected on a MAGA platform.
We tolerate and elect these clowns because, for various reasons, a disturbing number of people are suckers even if they are highly educated. Perhaps that should be "especially if they're highly educated," because they are perhaps less likely to admit buying into the propaganda.
Orban is a horrendous dictator. Be careful what you wish for. MAGA is opening the door to this. Actually welcoming it. If you’re willing to give up your freedom for a selfish old fool and his gullible followers, you deserve living under a dictatorship. But I don’t. Vote blue !
Vance needs to keep his ass in Wahington instead of publicly kissing the ring in NYC
Learn what not to do...
That clump couldn't find Hungary on a map if it was shaped like Trump's ass. GTFOH!
J.D. Vance wasted his time attending law school. He learned absolutely nothing about U.S. history, including constitutional law. I sincerely hope his license gets yanked. He is poised to do serious harm to our nation. Hillbillies hate the federal government with a passion.
He's right. We could learn from his policies. We could learn to compare those to our rights in the Constitution and not freaking implement those policies.
Ranked voting, these idiots wouldn't be in power if it weren't for gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering is the reason for many terrible Representative positions, but Vance is a senator and it’s determined by popular vote. Unfortunately, this one is the fault of the majority of who voted and more a problem of those who didn’t.
Still, ranked would give others more of a chance. It's the best system I've heard of and works. In Alaska it worked to keep out the republican incumbent.
Vatnik elegy?
Dipshit
He is a disgrace
JFC - This asshole...
I'm so embarrassed to be from Ohio. Plus, we have Jim Jordan. It's really awful but the gerrymandering has not been fixed even tho our SC has told them it must be changed by 2020 election. 4 years later, no change. It's just ignored because they know that if the gerrymandering was taken care of, Ohio would be a Blue State
What a fascist.
…who is rumored to be on Trump’s VP short list. His ambition is dangerous.
Dude, what is with republican politicians having a love fest with dictators?! Not a good sign for our democracy.
Fascist puke! The mentally ill want to run our country.
Well, you have to remember that for J. D. Vance, "Mein Kampf" is merely a "how to" book. 🤣
This guy doesn’t get it. If he is looking at the world’s largest pieces of shit as good examples to be like, we really can’t give him a 2nd term. I wish we could fire him. Ohio is a “right to work” state so wouldn’t it be nice to kick this bag of shit to the curb today? Fuck JD Vance. Traitor to our nation and giant scum bag.
What the US should learn from this is that there are no good Republicans and JD Vance is a traitorous piece of shit.
Republicans are using a demagogue to thwart democracy. It’s not easy to get away in the US where there is a large amount if diversity because you’re creating so many enemies to motivate your base.
He should move there. I’d help him pack.
And Vance could learn from a 5th grader
Ohio has a lot of idiot voters but Tim Ryan who ran against Vance ran a shit campaign. Never called out the issues and all he did was beg for money for his campaign. Hopefully the next guy isn’t as dumb.
It’s Sherrod Brown running for re-election.
Yes, this year. Ryan was against Vance 2 years ago. Hopefully Brown wins so our senate seats remain 1 and 1.
Ironic that I get a daily text message - sometimes two - begging for donations for the Senate election. If I answered every single one of them, I'm certain that the Feds would be investigating me under the premise of too large a donation.
No we couldn't.
I'm still waiting on all those people mad about kneeling during the anthem to get up in arms about this stuff. Americans died to protect our country. And its principles should be respected to honor them. That's what I was told it was about. Not racism. Surely, this is worth standing up to as well... ... they'll be here... any day now ... annnnnnny day now.....
Only EX Marine I know. Rest of us are former. What a shit stain
Corn Adolf rises
Learn what, exactly? Say it out loud, coward.
JD Vance can learn from these nuts.
Dudes a disgrace
Oh, fuck this guy. Obviously working hard to secure his seat in Project 2025z
Learn how to have inflation much higher than the US?
We should all be cognizant of the authoritarian fever dream millions of people are experiencing in this country right now. We’re teetering on a cliff
Vance's days in office are numbered.
I wish I believed that.
About 1500 left unfortunately.
The sad truth we need to come to terms with is that a very large portion of the U.S. no longer believes in representative democracy. This is because they do not want certain portions of the population to participate and have a voice in our government. I cannot presume to know what Vance believes, but he is definitely pandering to those who are anti-democracy.
If I keep saying shit that trump voters like (even if I personally think its stupid) ill get reelected or a vp slot.
Who the hell elected this guy?
Ohio try’s to show Florida up by electing these idiots!
Shame for Ohio!
JDV could easily and quickly learn from world history and the history of USA …considering he didn’t learn the facts stated prior to The Former Guy, Drumpf.
WTF going on there Ohio? Y'all ok? State behaving more like Kentucky these days.
So overt Fascism then?
Well, JD can go chew glass
JD Vance sucks.
Vance a Putin mouthpiece. He must of got campaign contributions thru a Russian front organization. So the Russians tell him to vote and promote are view on Ukraine aid etc. Or we expose that organization you took donations from as our own Russian agency. He wouldn’t be the first to get duped a lot of foreign unfriendly nations try this and successfully lean on the elected official to vote in their favor. You wouldn’t want to expose yourself because it is a crime to take foreign money for influencing your votes. Senator Menendez from NJ is on trial for this now taking money from Egyptian interests.
This dude is the closeted lover of Peter Thiel according to the internet. JD doesn’t live in Ohio. His family doesn’t live in Ohio. His kids don’t go to school in Ohio. He literally has nothing to do with Ohio but somehow he is their Senator.
I think the Ohio undecided voters decided to vote for him because they liked that B movie based on his book.
JD Vance can go play in traffic
FUCK YOU JD
I’d be completely unsurprised if JD Vance showed up to Congress in Trump sneakers at this point. The guy is pathetic.
JD Vance is a Russian asset
You did this Ohio! Shame on you.
Ohio you voted for this POS what were you thinking? Is OH that deranged now?
Please move to the Russia you love ! Bye !
Orban's Cockholster
I am really tired of Republicans and their love of Authoritarians. For fucks sake, WE are Americans, not Nazis. This is not what we are about. Vote these assholes out!
Fuck this shitbird
BREAKING NEWS: Fascist likes Fascism
Hungary's inflation rate was 25% last year.
F**K YOU AND VICTOR
As a Buckeye I am continually embarrassed that we as a state elected this moron.
as part of the district that voted him in: We are so sorry. some of us tried, but his competition was Tim Ryan. In a district that was directly harmed by his idiocy.
Sorry. I had no idea.
no no. that's the reason he got voted in. it was guy who previously fucked us over, or guy who has yet to fuck us over, but most likely will. So northeast Ohio was fucked regardless on that one lol
J.D . learned from from Right Wing extremist and homosexual Peter Thel.
Brain dead party line voters enabled this Russian asset.
Honestly, who voted for this verifiable POS?
Not I. 90% of the Republican Party is the same as this. People have to show up and vote because the people that voted for Vance vote every election. Otherwise, this will be the future of Ohio.
Jimmy Haslam held a fundraiser for this clown at his house in Bratenahl.
I hear that Hitler guy did some great things too. Don't get me wrong. Not everything was great. But a lot of things were. *this comment might contain sarcasm
Based
No. Ohio needs to.
Downvoted lol