his entire career has been built on the ruthless exploitation of anyone near him, his mother and grandmother mean nothing to him, his wife and kids mean nothing to him, his community means nothing to him, they're just piles of flesh and bone that he can use as stepstones to reach his ambitions

Vance's soul is owned by Peter Thiel.

They are all stage props in the JD Vance play directed and funded by Peter Thiel and David Sacks.

He’s like if you took Aaron Burr and then locked him in a room and forced him to read 4chan for 8 straight years while only having a diet of Doritos and Mountain Dew

and he’s being rewarded at every step

A person to whom his running mate can relate.

My mother was somehow shocked when I said "If Trump wins and he ordered Vance to put his own wife and kids in the camps as a show of loyalty Vance would beg for the privilege of throwing the gas chamber switch himself", and maybe she should be because it *is* shocking, but I truly believe it.

Mostly the women, though. He *hates* women & frantically sucks up to any man he thinks might give him attention / power. This puts him in total alignment w/men like Thiel or Ackman, which is why he's running as Trump's undercard & not just a mid-level McKinsey minion any more.

and while i don't think he's necessarily going to be, like, acting president if trump wins, i do think he will do absolutely everything he can to remain at the apex of power for the rest of his life, and he's a pretty young guy

Cynicism and shamelessness is the formula for conmen

Vance is what you get when you manage to refine sociopathy to a pharmaceutically pure state.