No, don’t you all see? He’s actually so genius that we mere mortals can’t comprehend his brilliance, as attested to by his multiple friends who are totally real English professors who exist and spend time with him, and are definitely not fictitious people he just made up on the spot to try to strengthen an obviously bullshit argument. Well, no, you wouldn’t have heard them, because they, um, teach at a different school, but the important part is that they are intelligent enough to see the clever underlying structure of his wide ranging and definitely intellectually brilliant speeches, and the rest of apparently aren’t.
That’s great for the workers, but… is Boeing as a company just too far gone anyways? Even a gesture like this doesn’t seem like it could reverse the spiral they’ve fallen into…
Brazenly assassinating whistleblowers, a notorious focus on moneymaking over public safety, rushing production in order to meet deadlines, self-certifications that are being found not to be up to industry standards, quality rejection by NASA, more whistleblowers citing safety violations on the new 777 that are so severe that it might be more cost-effective to just scrap all the planes than to totally disassemble them to fix the issues, and a complete exodus of talented workers who can pass on essential technical knowledge because driving them away was necessary in order to make all the Speed Over Safety stuff feasible…
I certainly don’t envy anyone who’s been tasked with saving the rotten zombie husk of Boeing that’s shambling along only by the momentum it accrued while it was alive.
Not a word from IAM in this article. No mention of pension or medical terms. I’ll believe it when mechanics vote for it. This article is one sided garbage.
Well Florida is now sending police to check up on ballot signatories. So there is a record of people filling out the ballot, who knows if they register what you voted. But I’d say yes.
“I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer,” he told the crowd. “He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’”
Nobody’s ever asked that question before because it’s a stupid fucking question, not because you’re a genius you dumb fucking prick. The person you asked is trying to let you down easy.
The author gets to the crux near the end. Trump supporters don’t come to speeches for policy, they come for performance art. That’s what they expect from their leaders, because that’s what they’re trained to expect.
Between American entertainment trying to blur the lines between fantasy/ reality, and 24 hour news networks making everything a big deal the public at large has atrophied critical thinking skills.
During Vance’s 2022 campaign for US Senate, Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee, said the charity was a front for Vance’s political ambitions. Ryan pointed to reports that the organization paid a Vance political adviser and conducted public opinion polling, while its efforts to address addiction failed. Vance denied the characterization.[62][63][c] Our Ohio Renewal’s tax filings showed that in its first year, it spent more (over $63,000) on “management services” provided by its executive director Jai Chabria, who also served as Vance’s top political adviser, than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse.[67][57]
It’s possible that he never discussed any of that with Howard when they were planning the movie. Vance wasn’t heavily involved in the process, he didn’t write the screenplay or produce it. They probably just had a few discussions about how the book should be translated into film, as a courtesy. And Vance at that time was very anti-Trump, so if they did discuss politics in passing that might have colored Howard’s views on him. None of that means Howard is “full of shit”.
I haven’t read the book or seen the film, so I can’t speak to anything specific on the adaptation, but according the the review linked in the article Howard did little to change the overall message, so he deserves criticism on that point.
My point is simply he has documented political ambitions going back as far as 2016, and acting like Ron Howard couldn’t have been aware of that by 2019 is absurd.
“No, not now,” he said when asked if he’ll ever run for office. “I think that I need to live in the state for a while and get to know these problems a little better before actually doing something like that. Never say never, but it’s certainly not something I am thinking about over the short-term.”
“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Friday,” said Jai Chabria, an adviser to Vance who joined him in Washington this week for meetings with those encouraging his candidacy.
“The amount of support for J.D. Vance is incredible,” Chabria told BuzzFeed News. “People are starting to realize he has the best message to beat [Democratic incumbent] Sherrod Brown. J.D. is giving serious consideration toward this, because there are very serious people asking him to run.”
Oh wait, who was Jai Chabria again?
Our Ohio Renewal’s tax filings showed that in its first year, it spent more (over $63,000) on “management services” provided by its executive director Jai Chabria, who also served as Vance’s top political adviser, than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse.
Vance was born in Middletown Ohio. He never was a hillbilly or an appalachian. So it can always get worse. It would be an insult to veneers to call his projected identity a thin veneer. I don’t think it’s substantial enough to even be a laquer.
The dude is trading on stories told to him by his parents and grandparents when he was a wee little ottoman fucker. Passing it off as if it was his accomplishment.
“When we spoke around the time that I knew him, he was not involved in politics or claimed to be particularly interested. So that was then.”
I have a hard time believing that. Filmed in June 2019, and Vance was elected November 2022, I simply don’t buy that he 180’d that hard just a year or two later. Perhaps Vance did not talk about campaign plans on set, but without question his narrow bigoted views would’ve been made clear. Ultimately, I too am surprised and disappointed, but in Ron Howard for making a movie about this ass.
RFK also 180d from never wanting to go into politics to helping the Trump campaign. It’s almost like there’s something about the Republican party that draws in money-hungry grifters…
Vance actually had really good ideas until he went Trump.
He’s always been a far-right reactionary with paleoconservative views.
He just drifted from the corporate insider Mitt Romney track to the populist outsider Ron DeSantis track as he watched Trump’s brand take over the party.
If you consider taxing the rich. Unions and attacking companies as far right then sure. He’s always been far right. It sounds like you’ve never read about Vance and that’s why you don’t see the radical change from who he was to supporting Trump.
Have you even picked up a copy of the original book? He’s a staunch and unapologetic drug warrior in that book. He is openly contemptuous of unions. And his “solution” to poverty is just to go to college.
These are classic conservative policy planks endorsed by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
His mentor says hillbilly elegy was written to propel him into politics. So I find it hard to believe he wasn’t interested when that was the reason for the book
Look into Vance a bit deeper. He’s no hillbilly. Nor Appalachian. He was born in Middletown Ohio. He went to Yale. He’s latched on to experiences only heard about in stories from his family. Pretending it was something he did. He’s the lowest kind of low.
The thing that f****** got me is he was all read this book and you’ll understand why we respond the way we do. And you go through the entire book waiting for the other shoe to drop or the first shoe to drop.
It goes right from business drying up in Appalachia and drugs moving in, to him trying to scare the s*** out of the poor to hate the foreigners while taking their money and giving it to the corporations who don’t give two f**** about the people.
It’s out front in a local Barnes and Noble in the SF Bay Area.
His grift worked, I think. So many people on the left want to understand the right, that they reward bad behavior and put themselves in positions to be tugged right.
It’s okay to simply reject the book without reading it (or buying it). But here we are. And it’s okay to not watch Fox News and reject their rhetoric without watching it.
And I’m here to tell people that it’s not worth their time or money. And I bring this up probably to the same 60 people every time just in case someone new happens to see it.
I, however, don’t entirely agree on not watching Fox News. I certainly wouldn’t make it a habit of watching it but their coverage of the DNC was actually pretty enlightening. I was at a local pizza place the pizza is great but the family are of course staunch Republicans. We were stuck in the last booth in the place and I thought oh great I’m going to just have to deal with this s*** until the kids get their fill of pizza. But I occasionally looked up and found that they really had nothing. They bitched and complained about a bunch of stuff that was kind of nitpicky but for all the negative they wanted to sell they didn’t have anything meaningful to say about it. And that said a lot more than the actual CNN coverage of it.
It’s is possible to understand the right and not be pulled right.
The people who are pulled, are pulled because they have something in them that resonated with the right’s hate filled ideology.
The ideology isn’t that compelling and the right wing voters are not victims. They are all active participants in the spread of hated.
They see themselves as victims, their ideology is based in their own imagined victimhood. It is foolish to actually except their victimhood, that is their ideology tugging on you.
This is progressive thinking and highly commendable - especially given that labor unions have leverage.
I’m reminded of Nelson Mandela who said, “To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
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