In the post at 9 a.m today, Joyce Vance included a photo of a T-shirt of Trump and Vance, billed as “the Outlaw and the Hillbilly.” Now, that’s clever marketing!

An Outlaw is often an admirable figure in westerns. He’s a folk hero. He’s the guy who goes up against the Establishment. He’s the Sundance Kid, he’s Robin Hood, he’s the handsome guy who gets the girl, he’s a lot of characters who live on the fringes of society and stand up for the little guy.
This is not Donald Trump. He is reverse Robin Hood. He steals from the poor and fattens the bank accounts of the rich. He doesn’t defend the helpless damsel, he sexually asssults her, then laughs about it and defames her. He does not stand outside society on its fringes, he owns the biggest, gaudiest mansion and installs solid gold toilet seats. Far from being handsome and buff, he is an obese old man with thinning hair and sagging jowls. He is a coward who dodged the draft five times yet pretends to be a tough guy.
As for J.D. Vance, he was once a hillbilly but that was long, long ago. Now he plays a hillbilly. He is a graduate of Yale Law School who made millions of dollars in the financial sector, where his patron was Peter Thiel, the woman-hating billionaire.
Not an Outlaw! Just a womanizing convicted felon who is a superb liar, braggart, and bully.
Not a Hillbilly! Just another far-cat who attached himself to super-rich patrons.
Trump passed one piece of legislation in his first term: a big tax cut for his billionaire buddies, corporations, and himself.
We know what his priorities are. Ego. Money. Power. Control.
He’s already forgotten about the people who voted for him. They can’t do anything for him any more. He won’t lower the price of food or gasoline or home insurance. He might take away their Social Security or Medicaid. He might cut programs they rely on.
He will take care of the people rich enough to belong to Mar-a-Lago.

In one of his rallies Trump said he didn’t care about the followers present, he just wanted their vote. A rare mount of honest reflection ignored by a clueless citizenry.
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Trump is a mafia boss type thug. Through clever marketing he has created the persona of an independent thinker that will shake up a corrupt system. Those easily led see him as a “plain talking” man of the people instead of the coddled, selfish New York elitist that he is. Too many working people did not take the time to scratch beneath his curated “man of the people” image. While our system of government is not perfect, the most corrupt part of it will be Trump and his plundering billionaire bros that will start to vandalize the commons starting on January 20th.
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This is a fine piece of analysis and writing, Diane! Thank you for sharing it!
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That dumpster is a felon and a rapist…period!
Thank you for this post, Diane.
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Jabba the Trump and Salacious D. Viance
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Senator Robert Byrd could play Forked Deer on the fiddle. JD Vance wouldn’t know a giddd d le tune if it was played in his ear.
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fiddle tune.
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It’s all kayfabe. All of it. Pro wrestling explains Trumpism (with Linda McMahon to be in charge of education).
From Wikipedia:
It’s speculated that the etymology is a pig Latin derivative of “be fake”.
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It is curious how these “cons”, (McMahon’s, David Pecker, Mr. Pillow Guy to name a few) all rallied around Trump
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Linda McMahon became a billionaire selling kayfabe.
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Criminal and a hypocrite. Good combination of role models. Idiots, besides.
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