Unearthed Photo: Teen JD Vance Poses With 3 Girls at Urinals
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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.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    239·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
      6·
      4 months ago

      I totally agree with you about right wing hypocrisy and bigotry, I just don’t think this will serve as a good example of it. Being transphobic wouldn’t preclude him, or anyone that could be swayed to vote for him, from thinking that gender bending (mocking trans people) comedy is funny… not all performances are endorsements. Things like minstrel shows and blackface were also considered funny at a point in time and it’s not because anyone involved thought blacks were people or deserving of equal rights.

      • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        They know all of this, but the only thing that matters is making the opposition look bad. The narrative is the only thing that matters, and reality or context are mere inconveniences. It’s a politics thing. Annoying if you want the truth, but unfortunately effective in a popularity contest like the US elections.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      I mean sure. But if anyone sees their pleas as anything other than a smoke screen, I don’t think we are in the same game. I have no way of taking them as anything other than just gaslighting.