# JD Vance Discussion Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 19, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892 "2024-08-19T00:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/381 "2024-09-07T19:17:55Z")
I just want to know if he can dance. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/382 "2024-09-07T19:32:11Z")
> As the child of an abusive marriage, JD Vance can kiss my entire ass. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/383 "2024-09-07T21:36:34Z")
The latter probably has to do with the yelling about Pokemon thing (too lazy to find link). ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/384 "2024-09-08T00:47:59Z")
CouchBoy was [in La Jolla](https://www.tmz.com/2024/09/07/jd-vance-swimming-shirt-la-jolla-hotel/). It was warm. He jumped in the pool [![](https://imagez.tmz.com/image/e2/4by3/2024/09/07/e2b7a4752d464f6e81c1823272b54a08_md.jpg) ](https://imagez.tmz.com/image/e2/4by3/2024/09/07/e2b7a4752d464f6e81c1823272b54a08_md.jpg) wearing his shirt? Is he afraid that someone might see his nipples? Or, worse, _lack thereof?_ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/385 "2024-09-08T00:52:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > CouchBoy was [in La Jolla](https://www.tmz.com/2024/09/07/jd-vance-swimming-shirt-la-jolla-hotel/). Fuck La Jolla. La Jolla Country Day (Tucker Carlson’s alma mater) was my high school’s quiz bowl rival and they were all ringers, I swear it. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/386 "2024-09-08T00:54:34Z")
but, it was where the home base for Ken Kesey and “Furthur” was ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/387 "2024-09-08T00:59:50Z")
It’s also where Mitt Romney and his car elevator live. And at least one of the Waltons. Go to PB instead. It has a roller coaster and bumper cars. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/388 "2024-09-08T01:28:05Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Has anyone read the book Hillbilly Elegy? I read it. At first I was relieved that he was fighting the pat answers to generational poverty like, “Get a job.” But at the end of the book, he seemed to essentially be speaking in pat platitudes, i.e., “get a job.” It’s been a while since I read it, but I don’t recall him saying anything about leaving the law practice that hired him so he could become a venture capitalist. I suppose that would have wrecked the “Just an American Dreamer, working hard to reach his goals” narrative if he’d confessed he jumped ship almost immediately to rake in filthy lucre. It should have been called _Hillbilly Opportunist_. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I was forced to watch the movie (don’t ask) and the movie came across as Vance wanting everyone to know how awesome he was for risking his law career to help out his loser family. I started to watch the movie, but it was Hallmark Movie awful, so I didn’t get very far. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/389 "2024-09-08T01:30:50Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I started to watch the movie, but it was Hallmark Movie awful, so I didn’t get very far. Didn’t read the book so we decided to watch the movie to see what this guy is about, and you nailed it. We watched 20’ish minutes and couldn’t take any more. The 6.7 it gets on IMDB is 100% bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/390 "2024-09-08T01:50:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fuck La Jolla. Hmmm…I wouldn’t call them fighting words, but as native La Jollan (born at the original Scripps Clinic and lived on the edge of La Jolla Canyon for many years) I must express a certain amount of umbrage to that remark. > [@eschereal](#): > > He jumped in the pool wearing his shirt? Hey, I wear a rash guard when I go swimming as sun protection (dermatologist recommended, as I have a history of skin cancer). JD may or may not have the same issue, who knows? (But go ahead and make fun of him, I don’t mind 😄) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/391 "2024-09-08T02:11:45Z")
When I take another look at that picture of CouchBoy in the pool, I see that he has a look of concentration on his face that tells me, I do not want to go in that pool. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/392 "2024-09-08T02:41:35Z")
Okay, that’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/393 "2024-09-08T03:06:36Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > JD may or may not have the same issue, who knows? Maybe. But I’m betting it’s because he doesn’t want anyone posting a photo of his shirtless torso. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/394 "2024-09-08T03:13:06Z")
Maybe a politically incorrect tattoo? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/395 "2024-09-08T15:41:28Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I started to watch the movie, but it was Hallmark Movie awful, so I didn’t get very far. I hope Opie doesn’t read this, I’m sure he put his whole heart into it. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/396 "2024-09-08T18:18:27Z")
Yeah, it wasn’t up to his usual work. I’m sure Paw would forgive him, but now that Vance is running for Veep, I’m not sure he’ll forgive himself. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/397 "2024-09-08T18:32:37Z")
Ron Howard has publicly declared that he will not vote for Trump, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/398 "2024-09-08T22:54:07Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Maybe a politically incorrect tattoo? Oh dear. So the press is the enemy, professors are the enemy. And I guess he admires Nixon. The group applauds. > ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/399 "2024-09-09T00:49:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > CouchBoy in the pool, He probably kept his shirt on so his flabby torso would stay hidden. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892/400 "2024-09-09T00:52:42Z")
People are saying he’s a nevernude with torso issues. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-discussion-thread/1005892.md?page=21)