Unearthed photo: Teen JD Vance poses with 3 girls at urinals

I'm no fan of Vance, but I'm really struggling to see why this photo matters.

Are we a week away from a picture of him in blackface?

I went to a summer camp in the 80s and 90s and we had this big event where the camp was separated into groups and each given a country. There were a ton of events, but some of the events were writing a song about the country and then another where you would act out some spirit event for the country. Always points for being dressed up with "traditional" clothing from the country.

It was a wretched hive of cultural appropriation and stereotypes. The song I remember the most is about how everyone was starving in Ethiopia. I saw some pictures of us all dressed and man oh man, if I were running for office those would be incredibly embarrassing.

Know what I know now, I realize how wrong the whole thing was and doesn't represent me at all 30 years later. In fact I even stand against these things now.

One could easily look at these and claim im some massive hypocrite. But the reality is that I was a dumb teen having fun and now I've grown up.

On some level, I feel bad for people who think we should hold shit that happened as a teenager against us...like were you not out having fun being an impetous dumbass? Is these nothing you did as a teenager that you wouldn't do now or think is wrong?

“Kamala Harris created inflation that’s crushing American families, caused a historic crisis at our southern border, and allowed deadly fentanyl to flood into communities across our country, (complete bullshit) and this is what the media is worried about,” a spokesperson for Vance told The Daily Beast in a statement when asked about the photo.

“A goofy high school yearbook from over 20 years ago? Get a life,” the spokesperson concluded (I actually 100% agree with this.)

This is just fucking stupid. There are half a billion more important things to discuss, we don't need this kind of stupidity in the national conversation.

Why did this matter? At all?

JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on

Weird photo.

I mean I don't care about the bathroom stuff, he's just weird.

who cares about this? I mean if it's something he's still into yeah but teenagers will take lots of photos that are not to be taken seriously

The three other girls in the picture were the president, treasurer, and secretary, according to the outlet.

Are they trying to bait him??!! 😂

He's so classy, no wonder Yale wanted him.

This is high school stuff. Humorous for the yearbook, not a big deal even with his current position on trans people. I'm far more concerned about him being supportive of book writers on fascist movements. As Obama has said in the past, stay focused. We don't need to make things more than they are when there's bad stuff readily available to attack.

Hahahaha perfect

Seeing this picture of JD Vance made it all make sense.

The suits, the apparent eyeliner, the sudden radical changes of viewpoint, the book, the sucking up to fascists as long as they will keep paying his bills and tell him he’s acceptable. All of it. It just kind of all clicked into focus.

No hate for people who were big and awkward in high school. It’s all good, and you don’t have to grow up into the modern monstrosity that is Vance just because this is where you started. He’s actually clearly smarter than a lot of the people in that orbit. He should know better; that’s one of the things that made it all weird and hard to understand. I’m just saying that seeing where he started makes it make sense all the little incongruities about where he ended up, as of now.

18-year-old JD Hamel

The HAM

Paywall.

Bruh, this 'journalist' is fucking struggling with the point of his work.

He's a big ol' boy

If only there were tampons in that bathroom, then it would be less weird.

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Every minute Vance is spouting dumb shit rather than policy is a good minute for Harris-Walz.

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Ghod, I hope "Occupy Democrats" doesn't run with this. They made a big deal out of Josh Hawley's cross-dressing photos, and I was like "no, that's one thing that should be totally fine"