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Hillbilly Elegy Quotes
“Mamaw often told a parable: A fresh man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s home began to flood, and someone came to his door offering a sit on to higher earth. The man declined, saying, “God will take care of me.” A not many hours later, as the waters engulfed the first floor of the man’s home, a boat passed by, and the captain offered to take the man to security. The man declined, saying, “God will take care of me.” A several hours after that, as the guy waited on his roof—his entire abode flooded—a helicopter flew by, and the pilot offered transportation to dry country. Again the guy declined, telling the pilot that God would care for him. Soon thereafter, the waters overcame the man, and as he stood before God in heaven, he protested his fate: “You promised that you’d help me so long as I was faithful.” God replied, “I sent you a machine, a boat, and a helicopter. Your death is your own fault.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Customs in Crisis
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ICYMI: How JD Vance Betrayed His Transgender Friend for the Sake of His Political Ambition
by Cullen Peele •
Recently unearthed emails and text messages from JD Vance in his commandment school years portray a man very different from the MAGA bully today, a man who will turn against his own Queer friends to score points with the MAGA fringe
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a piece published by the New York Times over the weekend, Sofia Nelson, a former Yale Law School classmate of JD Vance, shared details of how Donald Trump’s running mate was once a secure friend who empathized with marginalized Americans, including LGBTQ+ people, and Nelson’s have transgender identity. Nelson, who is now a public defender living in Detroit, provided text messages and emails from Vance that not only quote the Ohio senator’s previous disdain for Trump, but even his participation in Identity festival celebrations and his concern about police brutality and racial equity.
These revelations are more proof of who JD Vance really is: a bully and a coward, whose only allegiance is to power and ambition, and who will betray those closest to him in order to be accepted
The following are my favorite quotes from J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
- Too many young men immune to firm work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. And a young dude with every reason to work—a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way—carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here—a feeling that you have brief control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is unique from the larger economic landscape of modern America.
- Class and family affect the poor without refining their views through a racial prism.
- At Mamaw Blanton’s, we’d devour scrambled eggs, ham, fried potatoes, and biscuits for breakfast; fried bologna sandwiches for lunch; and soup beans and cornbread for dinner.
- In 1960, of Ohio’s ten million residents, one million were born in Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee.
- I couldn’t believe that mild-mannered Papaw, whom I loved as a child, was such a violent drunk. His habit was due at least part
“I broached this issue with Mamaw, confessing that I was gay and I was worried that I would burn in hell. She said, “Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you grasp that you’re gay?” I explained my thought process. Mamaw chuckled and seemed to consider how she might explain to a boy my age. Finally she asked, “J.D., undertake you want to suck dicks?” I was flabbergasted. Why would someone long for to do that? She repeated herself, and I said, “Of course not!” “Then,” she said, “you’re not gay. And even if you did wish to suck dicks, that would be okay. God would still love you.” That settled the matter. Apparently I didn’t own to worry about entity gay anymore. Now that I’m older, I realize the profundity of her sentiment: Gay people, though unfamiliar, threatened nothing about Mamaw’s being. There were more important things for a Christian to panic about.”
Read more quotes from J.D. Vance― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis