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turbinetree

(24,710 posts)
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 11:51 PM Feb 2022

'Human garbage': J.D. Vance blasted for saying he's 'sick' of being told to care about Ukrainian suf

By John Wright- Commentary
Published February 26, 2022

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Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance came under fire Saturday after saying he's "sick" of being told to care about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"I've gotten a lot of flak in the last week because I had the audacity to suggest that before our leaders obsess over a Ukrainian and Russian border 6,000 miles away, maybe they ought to guarantee the sovereignty of their own country and their own border first," Vance said during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando. "I’m sick of being told that we have to care more about people 6,000 miles away than we do people like my mom."

Vance's mother, Bev, was a central character in his Hillbilly Elegy book, which documented her struggles with drug addiction.

https://www.rawstory.com/j/

Hey Vance you standing on a stage and speaking to a bunch of people that have no principles makes this event more ridiculous than ever....6,000 miles a way this is what happened ......do you understand what happened ....

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'Human garbage': J.D. Vance blasted for saying he's 'sick' of being told to care about Ukrainian suf (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2022 OP
Hey, J.D., Maybe Your Mom Should Have Just Said NO smb Feb 2022 #1
Ha! BigmanPigman Feb 2022 #7
No one is telling you what to think. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2022 #2
Aren't there a lot of Ukrainian immigrants in parts of Ohio? Vogon_Glory Feb 2022 #3
JD Vance Turbineguy Feb 2022 #4
Seems to me that we are big enough to care for both. TreasonousBastard Feb 2022 #5
Isolationists' Elegy (by Mark Fiore) JHB Feb 2022 #6

smb

(3,473 posts)
1. Hey, J.D., Maybe Your Mom Should Have Just Said NO
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 11:57 PM
Feb 2022

(oh, and she shouldn't have started doing drugs, either)

Vogon_Glory

(9,127 posts)
3. Aren't there a lot of Ukrainian immigrants in parts of Ohio?
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 11:58 PM
Feb 2022

Not to mention non-Russian ex-Soviet Bloc immigrants with less-than-fond memories of being oppressed by Moscow?

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