It’s True. The GOP Literally Has “Sybil” For A Vice Presidential Candidate

For those of you who may be wondering, GOP Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s given birth name is James Donald Bowman. He was adopted. When his mother erased the name of his father, Donald Bowman from the files, the adoption process erased his name from the files. The only official name on file is James Donald Hamel, presumably his adopted name. In April of 2013 the young man legally changed his last name from Hamel to Vance, supposedly in honor of his grandmother. This information comes courtesy of an AP report available on Google.

Dear God, what a lineal history. I’m not here to ridicule, nor to be sarcastic. Most people never change their names. In fact, I’m heartbroken for the boy. Most people never change their names. But from what I understand, if a mother chooses to erase the father’s name from the birth record, it is not unusual fror the adoption process to substitute the name of the adoptive family to spare the child from discovering the painful history of their early past.

But it makes Vance emotionally a witches brew of contradictions. For instance, I noticed that Vance didn’t legally change his name until 2013, when he was a senior at Yale. Oddly enough this was about the same time that his autobiographical book Hillbilly Elegy came out. Since the name of the author on the book is JD Vance, I can only assume that he changed his name legally before publication.

But this raises a simple question about Hillbilly Elegy. *Full Disclosure* I have not personally read Hillbilly Elegy. But from what I understand, it is a heart wrenching tale of poverty, abuse and deprivation. But given Vance’s available lineage, how much of his tale took place as a Bowman, and how much, if any as a Hamel?

Whatever the combination, if any, one thing we have empirical data on. The mental and emotional characteristics of a child are predominately formed in the first 16 years of life. And we also know that historically, in poor white, rural environments, the male opinion of women hasn’t changed since King Arthur ruled the Round Table. Women are chattel property. They’re there to bear children, keep the house clean, and put dinner on the table. And the penalty for non compliance can be severe. And nobody else will care.

Which, when you think about it, goes a long way towards explaining Vance’s rather extreme right wing political views regarding women and children. Look, from where I’m sitting, JD Vance pulled himself up by the bootstraps when he didn’t even have a goddamned pair of boots, and he deserves all the credit in the world. But to paraphrase an old saying, You can take the boy out of the hillbilly, but you can’t take the hillbilly out of the boy. And Vance was, is, and always will be that hillbilly.

Which explains his absurd and Neanderthal positions on women, children, and reproductive rights. Vance grew up in that atmosphere, it is ingrained, and nothing that has happened to him in his life since he improved himself has given him any reason to change his mind. And while he has moderated his public utterances to be more genteel, his opinions are what they are.

Which is fane and dindy fine and dandy if you’re a soulless venture capitalist robber baron, it’s a definite shortcoming when you’re running for political office, especially on a nationwide ticket.

The first thing a politician learns is how to take personal feelings and opinions that may be unpalatable for the general population, and lock those away in the closet and instead bring out socially and acceptable opinions and bromides. Vance has never had to do that. In what public speaking he has experience in, it’s likely in situations with other venture capitalist robber barons who likely secretly share his views.

When you see JD Vance on the campaign trail, what you see Vance unfiltered. Because that’s all that JD Vance knows how to be. And being as egotistical as Traitor Tot, Vance’s automatic response to critics of his Piltdown Man views of women and families is that they can go and f*ck themselves. Because Vance is not a political creature, he never learned how to walk back a f*ck up in a follow up interview. See Vance’s incomprehensible word salad when asked to walk back his comment about cat ladies.

This is what happens when imbeciles like Traitor Tot don’t bother to properly vet Vice Presidential candidates. While nothing in Vance’s childhood history may not have raised any red flags, might in fact have been inspirational, any serious in person vetting of Vance, including probing him on his personal opinions of sensitive topics, would have proven in five minutes that Vance is an old school redneck hillbilly, and completely incapable of moderating his views and opinions to meet the political climate. But El Pendejo ex President was dead sure he had a lock on the election, and wanted Vance around to run up the low class rural vote to make it a blowout. Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. 

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

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