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The public got a peek into the inner workings of the Trump campaign last week, when the independent journalist Ken Klippenstein did what major news outlets refused to: he published the opposition research dossier on JD Vance’s electoral vulnerabilities that was written by the Trump campaign in the lead-up to the VP announcement.
The dossier, which was obtained in a hack thought to have been perpetrated by Iranian state interests, would have been compiled by Donald Trump’s camp as part of a routine vetting process as the Republican campaign surveilled possible VP picks and assessed their strengths and weaknesses.
It is thorough: at 271 pages, it contains a robust and factual accounting of the vice-presidential candidate’s public statements and associations going back years.
As such, it offers a unique perspective into how the Trump campaign views the race – and how they understand the controversial man who is now in their No 2 spot.
But the document, a litany of everything the Trump camp thinks is wrong with Vance, is maybe most revealing for what it omits: there is almost nothing about his comments on women, and nothing at all about his extensive, repeated and impassioned hatred for childless women, including the “cat ladies” comment that has been Vance’s stickiest scandal and perhaps his greatest contribution to the campaign thus far.
The comments that provoked the ire of thousands of women – including no less influential a figure than Taylor Swift – and turned the race partly into a referendum on the purpose and value of women’s lives were nowhere to be found in the document.
Instead, the dossier was largely focused on comments by Vance that make him vulnerable with an audience of one: that is, his past negative statements about Trump.
The mainstream news organizations that declined to publish this hacked document justified this decision by saying that much of the information was not newsworthy.
If this is their standard, it seems to be a new one: in 2016, when Russian-backed hackers obtained emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign, one of the disclosures included risotto cooking tips from campaign chair John Podesta. (He says that adding the liquid slowly helps the rice become creamier, in case you’re interested.)
But the Vance dossier is newsworthy, though not because of what it reveals about Vance. What the document says about Vance himself is largely a matter of public record.
What is newsworthy, instead, is what the document exposes about the Trump campaign’s priorities.
The dossier concerns many worries that Vance is not conservative enough. It also seems preoccupied with how the Ohio senator has wounded Trump’s ego.
The absence of Vance’s extreme gender views from the document suggests that the Trump campaign did not understand his comments on women to even be controversial: they don’t seem to have thought that it would come up……..
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The dossier, which was obtained in a hack thought to have been perpetrated by Iranian state interests, would have been compiled by Donald Trump’s camp as part of a routine vetting process as the Republican campaign surveilled possible VP picks and assessed their strengths and weaknesses.
It is thorough: at 271 pages, it contains a robust and factual accounting of the vice-presidential candidate’s public statements and associations going back years.
As such, it offers a unique perspective into how the Trump campaign views the race – and how they understand the controversial man who is now in their No 2 spot.
But the document, a litany of everything the Trump camp thinks is wrong with Vance, is maybe most revealing for what it omits: there is almost nothing about his comments on women, and nothing at all about his extensive, repeated and impassioned hatred for childless women, including the “cat ladies” comment that has been Vance’s stickiest scandal and perhaps his greatest contribution to the campaign thus far.
The comments that provoked the ire of thousands of women – including no less influential a figure than Taylor Swift – and turned the race partly into a referendum on the purpose and value of women’s lives were nowhere to be found in the document.
Instead, the dossier was largely focused on comments by Vance that make him vulnerable with an audience of one: that is, his past negative statements about Trump.
The mainstream news organizations that declined to publish this hacked document justified this decision by saying that much of the information was not newsworthy.
If this is their standard, it seems to be a new one: in 2016, when Russian-backed hackers obtained emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign, one of the disclosures included risotto cooking tips from campaign chair John Podesta. (He says that adding the liquid slowly helps the rice become creamier, in case you’re interested.)
But the Vance dossier is newsworthy, though not because of what it reveals about Vance. What the document says about Vance himself is largely a matter of public record.
What is newsworthy, instead, is what the document exposes about the Trump campaign’s priorities.
The dossier concerns many worries that Vance is not conservative enough. It also seems preoccupied with how the Ohio senator has wounded Trump’s ego.
The absence of Vance’s extreme gender views from the document suggests that the Trump campaign did not understand his comments on women to even be controversial: they don’t seem to have thought that it would come up……..
The leaked dossier on JD Vance is revealing in all the things it doesn’t say | Moira Donegan
The 271-page file overlooks almost everything that average voters, especially women, might find distasteful about Vance
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Donald Trump’s running mate has hit on a new strategy to defend the GOP’s oft-criticized health-care record: talk about his own family’s experience.
“Members of my family actually got private health insurance, at least, for the first time … under Donald Trump’s leadership,” Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said at this month’s vice-presidential debate, repeating a line he has used on the stump.
Vance added that his family members switched off Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income Americans, while Trump was in office between 2017 and 2021.
Vance was referring to his mother, who purchased private health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace run by Ohio after she overcame substance-abuse challenges, became financially stable and subsequently made too much money to remain on Medicaid, a campaign spokesman told The Washington Post.
Vance also was invoking a cousin in Florida who obtained private insurance for the first time through the state’s marketplace, spokesman William Martin said.
“Donald Trump could have destroyed the program,” Vance said at his debate with Sen. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) “Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans had access to affordable care.”
But to many health policy experts, Vance’s story reveals something else: the benefits of “Obamacare,” even to its critics, and the audacity of Trump’s attempts to take credit for the work of President Barack Obama and Democrats, who crafted and defended the Affordable Care Act at great political cost.
After Democrats enacted the law in 2010, Republicans spent the next seven years vowing to overturn it, culminating in a Trump-led repeal effort that fell one vote short.
“If any Vance family members transitioned to the marketplace because they earned out of Medicaid, they should be grateful that Trump and Republicans in Congress failed to repeal and replace the marketplace with an alternative that would have provided far less affordable coverage,” Andrew Sprung, an independent health analyst who has been tracking Vance’s policy proposals, wrote in an email.
Daniel Skinner, an Ohio University health professor who has been critical of Vance, called the senator’s comments on the Affordable Care Act “a delicate if disingenuous dance.”
“I think Vance’s debate tactic with the Affordable Care Act was brilliant subterfuge,” Skinner added in a text message.
“Vance knows that the ACA is now pretty popular, despite a good portion of Trump’s MAGA base insisting that he get behind repealing it again.”
Obama himself waded in Thursday night, criticizing Vance for “the nerve to say Donald Trump salvaged the Affordable Care Act.”…….
“Members of my family actually got private health insurance, at least, for the first time … under Donald Trump’s leadership,” Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said at this month’s vice-presidential debate, repeating a line he has used on the stump.
Vance added that his family members switched off Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income Americans, while Trump was in office between 2017 and 2021.
Vance was referring to his mother, who purchased private health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace run by Ohio after she overcame substance-abuse challenges, became financially stable and subsequently made too much money to remain on Medicaid, a campaign spokesman told The Washington Post.
Vance also was invoking a cousin in Florida who obtained private insurance for the first time through the state’s marketplace, spokesman William Martin said.
“Donald Trump could have destroyed the program,” Vance said at his debate with Sen. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) “Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans had access to affordable care.”
But to many health policy experts, Vance’s story reveals something else: the benefits of “Obamacare,” even to its critics, and the audacity of Trump’s attempts to take credit for the work of President Barack Obama and Democrats, who crafted and defended the Affordable Care Act at great political cost.
After Democrats enacted the law in 2010, Republicans spent the next seven years vowing to overturn it, culminating in a Trump-led repeal effort that fell one vote short.
“If any Vance family members transitioned to the marketplace because they earned out of Medicaid, they should be grateful that Trump and Republicans in Congress failed to repeal and replace the marketplace with an alternative that would have provided far less affordable coverage,” Andrew Sprung, an independent health analyst who has been tracking Vance’s policy proposals, wrote in an email.
Daniel Skinner, an Ohio University health professor who has been critical of Vance, called the senator’s comments on the Affordable Care Act “a delicate if disingenuous dance.”
“I think Vance’s debate tactic with the Affordable Care Act was brilliant subterfuge,” Skinner added in a text message.
“Vance knows that the ACA is now pretty popular, despite a good portion of Trump’s MAGA base insisting that he get behind repealing it again.”
Obama himself waded in Thursday night, criticizing Vance for “the nerve to say Donald Trump salvaged the Affordable Care Act.”…….
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Nope. I don't believe much of any of them say.
Other than the election was “stollen”.
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Yeah democrat, it was.
No, it wasn’t. 60+ court cases say otherwise. Mike “buy my pillow to support my coke habit” Lindell has never presented the information he claims shows the fraud and lost a court case over it. So, Republican, despite your fevered dreams and, what was it, oh, yeah, your butthurt, it wasn’t “stollen”. Your false god bleated it was and you, like a good butthurt whiner, grasped onto the lie because you needed to do so in order to justify your support for Trump.
No, you’re a just a moron and a mark.
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Man you Russian trolls got a late start this election cycle.
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I live in Texas, leftist. Born in Arkansas, but don't let that stop you from lying.
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Sure you do comrade.
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For what it’s worth
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JD Vance’s favorite Magic: The Gathering card as a 13-year-old boy in Middleton, Ohio might tell us more about Vance the 40-year-old possible vice president of the United States than he realizes.
A clawed metal hand, beckoning for sacrifices. A necromantic monstrosity hunched in the darkness, white teeth showing through its skull. A terrible pact, and an ominous warning: "He craves only one commodity."
This is the infamous trading card known as "Yawgmoth’s Bargain", part of the popular collectible card game. Released in 1999, it has long since been banned from most forms of competitive Magic due to its ability to not just ensure a win, but also entirely take over a game to the point where nothing is fun anymore
Vance, Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, revealed this August that he’d been something of a hobbyist sorcerer in his teenage years.
“The big problem with transitioning from being a 13-year-old who likes Magic: The Gathering to being a 15-year-old who likes Magic: The Gathering is that 15-year-old girls do not like Magic: The Gathering,” the freshman Ohio senator told Semafor. “So I dropped it like a bad habit.”
He named Yawgmoth’s Bargain as his “embarrassing” favorite deck, meaning the collection of cards he played with, named for the most infamous one. Magic: The Gathering players tell The Independent that it makes sense Vance would pick that one.
"At the time, it was probably the most powerful deck you could play," one Magic player at a San Francisco game night tells The Independent. "I infer from that that he’s ruthless and wants to win at all costs."……….
Some noted the philosophical implications of a black mana themed deck – the type you’d build around Yawgmoth’s Bargain – which is traditionally associated with "greed, ambition, dominance, wickedness, the dead and undead, vampires, demons, blood magic".
Kunce argues that there is a thematic resonance for his fellow former Marine as well. "The idea of it is a deal with the devil, right? You’re selling your soul for power. And it’s very fitting for the man whose favorite card it is,” he said. “It’s power at any cost, and that seems to be what he’s into."…….
www.independent.co.uk
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JD Vance’s favorite Magic: The Gathering card as a 13-year-old boy in Middleton, Ohio might tell us more about Vance the 40-year-old possible vice president of the United States than he realizes.
A clawed metal hand, beckoning for sacrifices. A necromantic monstrosity hunched in the darkness, white teeth showing through its skull. A terrible pact, and an ominous warning: "He craves only one commodity."
This is the infamous trading card known as "Yawgmoth’s Bargain", part of the popular collectible card game. Released in 1999, it has long since been banned from most forms of competitive Magic due to its ability to not just ensure a win, but also entirely take over a game to the point where nothing is fun anymore
Vance, Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, revealed this August that he’d been something of a hobbyist sorcerer in his teenage years.
“The big problem with transitioning from being a 13-year-old who likes Magic: The Gathering to being a 15-year-old who likes Magic: The Gathering is that 15-year-old girls do not like Magic: The Gathering,” the freshman Ohio senator told Semafor. “So I dropped it like a bad habit.”
He named Yawgmoth’s Bargain as his “embarrassing” favorite deck, meaning the collection of cards he played with, named for the most infamous one. Magic: The Gathering players tell The Independent that it makes sense Vance would pick that one.
"At the time, it was probably the most powerful deck you could play," one Magic player at a San Francisco game night tells The Independent. "I infer from that that he’s ruthless and wants to win at all costs."……….
Some noted the philosophical implications of a black mana themed deck – the type you’d build around Yawgmoth’s Bargain – which is traditionally associated with "greed, ambition, dominance, wickedness, the dead and undead, vampires, demons, blood magic".
Kunce argues that there is a thematic resonance for his fellow former Marine as well. "The idea of it is a deal with the devil, right? You’re selling your soul for power. And it’s very fitting for the man whose favorite card it is,” he said. “It’s power at any cost, and that seems to be what he’s into."…….
Magic the Gathering fans explain why JD Vance’s favorite deck reflects badly on him
Donald Trump’s running mate recently revealed his teenage penchant for the popular trading card game – and his ‘embarassing’ favourite deck
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Is your tendency to claim everybody is lying a rationalization for your support of a Trump and Republicans, who can't ever speak truthfully about anything.
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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.
“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper middle-class White parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your White privilege.”
“That’s the social signifier. The only one that’s available in the hyper-woke mindset is if you become gender nonbinary,” the Ohio senator added.
Studies have found that because of the discrimination, harassment and lack of support they generally experience in earlier grades, students who identify as transgender would be a lot less likely to have access to higher education in general, let alone an Ivy League school that is difficult to get into, compared with those people who identify with the gender that matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Describing a friend as a “gay Reagan Democrat” who rejects the ideology of progressive politicians, Vance said he believes that the Trump-Vance ticket may earn what he described as the “normal gay guy vote.”
“Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because, again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” Vance said.............
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“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper middle-class White parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your White privilege.”
“That’s the social signifier. The only one that’s available in the hyper-woke mindset is if you become gender nonbinary,” the Ohio senator added.
Studies have found that because of the discrimination, harassment and lack of support they generally experience in earlier grades, students who identify as transgender would be a lot less likely to have access to higher education in general, let alone an Ivy League school that is difficult to get into, compared with those people who identify with the gender that matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Describing a friend as a “gay Reagan Democrat” who rejects the ideology of progressive politicians, Vance said he believes that the Trump-Vance ticket may earn what he described as the “normal gay guy vote.”
“Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because, again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” Vance said.............
Vance suggests upper- and middle-class kids ‘become trans’ for college admissions, says Trump may earn ‘normal gay guy vote’ | CNN Politics
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.
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I'd like to hear what the "normal gay guys" on this site think about Vance's comments. I'd also like to hear what the "abnormal gay guys" think about Vance's comments.Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.
“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper middle-class White parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your White privilege.”
“That’s the social signifier. The only one that’s available in the hyper-woke mindset is if you become gender nonbinary,” the Ohio senator added.
Studies have found that because of the discrimination, harassment and lack of support they generally experience in earlier grades, students who identify as transgender would be a lot less likely to have access to higher education in general, let alone an Ivy League school that is difficult to get into, compared with those people who identify with the gender that matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Describing a friend as a “gay Reagan Democrat” who rejects the ideology of progressive politicians, Vance said he believes that the Trump-Vance ticket may earn what he described as the “normal gay guy vote.”
“Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because, again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” Vance said.............
Vance suggests upper- and middle-class kids ‘become trans’ for college admissions, says Trump may earn ‘normal gay guy vote’ | CNN Politics
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.
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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.
“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper middle-class White parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your White privilege.”
“That’s the social signifier. The only one that’s available in the hyper-woke mindset is if you become gender nonbinary,” the Ohio senator added.
Studies have found that because of the discrimination, harassment and lack of support they generally experience in earlier grades, students who identify as transgender would be a lot less likely to have access to higher education in general, let alone an Ivy League school that is difficult to get into, compared with those people who identify with the gender that matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Describing a friend as a “gay Reagan Democrat” who rejects the ideology of progressive politicians, Vance said he believes that the Trump-Vance ticket may earn what he described as the “normal gay guy vote.”
“Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because, again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” Vance said.............
Vance suggests upper- and middle-class kids ‘become trans’ for college admissions, says Trump may earn ‘normal gay guy vote’ | CNN Politics
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.
This is the dumbest shirt. The reference is just so telling. The vast majority of middle class and upper-middle class kids of any race have no chance of getting into Harvard or Yale. They constantly rehash garbage arguments. People like Vance used to claim people would pretend to be black or a minority to get into Harvard or Yale. It's always Harvard or Yale.
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My son is still waiting for his Transgender scholarship to Yale.
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proving he really is a tool.
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