Unearthed photo: Teen JD Vance poses with 3 girls at urinals
Unearthed photo: Teen JD Vance poses with 3 girls at urinals
A resurfaced yearbook photo shows the GOP vice presidential nominee next to three girls pretending to use the urinals in his high school’s bathroom.
JD Vance, no fan of gender-neutral bathrooms, was photographed in his high school yearbook next to three girls posing in front of urinals in a bathroom during his senior year.
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?
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"
When the people trying to criminalize crossdressing are caught crossdressing, we should make sure everyone knows.
Did you read the piece? Although they claimed they were chastising him for "hypocrisy", they never pointed out that cross-dressing is, in fact, ok -- and the salacious way they treated it made it clear that the author thought him cross-dressing was scandalous.
Hahahaha perfect
this shit just keeps getting better and better
“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.
no you get a life
I'm no fan of Vance, but I'm really struggling to see why this photo matters.
Wow man, just waking up from a coma?
Anyway, the last decade or so, Republicans have been extremely critical of transgender people, insisting that mixing sexes in the bathroom is criminally negligent, and deserves criminal charges or "self-defense".
J.D. Vance is a Republican politician who is currently running for Vice President. His running mate is fiercely anti-LGBT, as are most of his closest peers in Washington. He has been photographed in drag, and with women in the men's bathroom.
This illustrates hypocrisy, and a lack of claimed values.
If you would like to learn more about right-wing bigotry and hypocrisy, I suggest removing your head from your ass and opening your eyes.
So JD Vance has proven to be one of the most hypocritical people in politics, which is a lot to say, like saying he is the one of the people with most guns in Texas or something like that.
This pic, and others like it, are basically checking ALL boxes on the stuff he seemed to be OK with before but now denounces because he is a weird hypocrite.
His hypocrisy between what he’s done and what he says.
I dunno man, downvote me or whatever, but this really feels like it's reaching? This is literally just him fucking around as a kid in high school. Who cares?
He's a piece of shit no doubt, but hate him for the stupid shit he's saying and doing now and recently. Not for some random photo of him from over 20 years ago.
This really isn't that, though. These women aren't using a men's room, they're posing for a photo. They certainly aren't trans men using a men's room, as is their damn right should they wanna.
It's high schoolers being silly.
Vance is a deplorable man with deplorable ideologies but this doesn't demonstrate any hypocrisy.
This kind of "gotcha" is uncritical, unserious, and looks desperate.
"So one day you're posing with girls in the boys bathroom and 22 years later you're against it. WHICH IS IT VANCE???"
I guess it's just another Phone-it-in-Friday.
Edit: Shit I'm tired. Forgot what damn day it was.
It shows he's changed: he's no longer cool, man.
Thank the gods they didn't have the internet in my younger days. Still, fuck that guy.
If anything it's just a bit.. weird....
He's pushing for laws that make what you see in that pic a crime.
I tend to agree and give a ton of leeway to stupid, offensive stuff from years past that people have evolved from. We all said and did stupid stuff that we regret. However, this isn't offensive, and that's to highlight that Vance either A. regressed in his values from being normal to being weirdly pro-hyper-traditional gender roles or B. has no true beliefs and is just saying what he says because he thinks it wins him votes.
Not everything has to "matter".
Also, Lemmy is not the target audience that these revelations are meant for.
Because he's purportedly a man of family values and that includes strict gender lines.
I came here to say this. I'm not a fan but who fucking cares about this shit? It just seems petty and desperate.
It’s just plain weird
Careful i said something similar about the 'yep' comment from 2020 and i got some aggressive replies on here. (Apparently im an enlightened centralist or something haha) I agree with you though theres so much worse out there on this weird fella
It's like Trump and the Koi fish feeding nonsense. Or Obama and Tan Suits. Just weird shit to fixate on
Why did this matter? At all?
For normal people? It doesn't matter in the slightest.
For MAGA? Who knows. Probably something something trans ruining society
I am very glad this community seems to feel the same. I was on a reddit post earlier and everyone was acting like this is some sort of damning evidence...it looks like a high school yearbook photo that doesn't matter at all. I thought I was taking crazy pills.
Ironic because well known fact Vance always sits to pee
Yeah who cares
Are we a week away from a picture of him in blackface?
I just about guarantee such a picture exists somewhere.
Party with Trudeau?
JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on
These were his early years, where he was only experimenting with dry humping ottomans.
Whoa! Too far
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
18-year-old JD Hamel
The HAM
The three other girls in the picture were the president, treasurer, and secretary, according to the outlet.
Are they trying to bait 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.
He's so classy, no wonder Yale wanted him.
I’m convinced at this point that these so called elite institutions are fertile grounds for most of the rich sociopaths that are root cause of majority of current problems
And the entry requirements are mostly money.
Bruh, this 'journalist' is fucking struggling with the point of his work.
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.
Paywall.
Every minute Vance is spouting dumb shit rather than policy is a good minute for Harris-Walz.
He's a big ol' boy
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