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Unearthed photo: Teen JD Vance poses with 3 girls at urinals

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

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.

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I'm no fan of Vance, but I'm really struggling to see why this photo matters.
- He supports criminalising people of the 'wrong' gender using the wrong bathroom.
  
  That really isn't what's happening in the photo, as I've said in more detail elsewhere in the thread, and pretending that's what's being depicted makes the attack look foolish and desperate.
- His hypocrisy between what he’s done and what he says.
  
  I dunno man, downvote me or whatever, but this really feels like it's reaching? This is literally just him fucking around as a kid in high school. Who cares?
  
  He's a piece of shit no doubt, but hate him for the stupid shit he's saying and doing now and recently. Not for some random photo of him from over 20 years ago.
  
  This really isn't that, though. These women aren't using a men's room, they're posing for a photo. They certainly aren't trans men using a men's room, as is their damn right should they wanna.
  
  It's high schoolers being silly.
  
  Vance is a deplorable man with deplorable ideologies but this doesn't demonstrate any hypocrisy.
  
  This kind of "gotcha" is uncritical, unserious, and looks desperate.
  
  "So one day you're posing with girls in the boys bathroom and 22 years later you're against it. WHICH IS IT VANCE???"
  
  I guess it's just another Phone-it-in-Friday.
  
  Edit: Shit I'm tired. Forgot what damn day it was.
- It shows he's changed: he's no longer cool, man.
- He's pushing for laws that make what you see in that pic a crime.
  
  This is a picture in a High School yearbook.
  
  It's not a picture of trans people exercising their rights to use a bathroom that fits their gender.
  
  It's ridiculous to make those things equivalent and say it demonstrates some hypocrisy makes the author look foolish and desperate.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- If anything it's just a bit.. weird....
- Because he's purportedly a man of family values and that includes strict gender lines.
- I tend to agree and give a ton of leeway to stupid, offensive stuff from years past that people have evolved from. We all said and did stupid stuff that we regret. However, this isn't offensive, and that's to highlight that Vance either A. regressed in his values from being normal to being weirdly pro-hyper-traditional gender roles or B. has no true beliefs and is just saying what he says because he thinks it wins him votes.
- Thank the gods they didn't have the internet in my younger days. Still, fuck that guy.
- So JD Vance has proven to be one of the most hypocritical people in politics, which is a lot to say, like saying he is the one of the people with most guns in Texas or something like that.
  
  This pic, and others like it, are basically checking ALL boxes on the stuff he seemed to be OK with before but now denounces because he is a weird hypocrite.
  
  Now all we need is for those who support people like him to care about their leaders being exposed as hypocrites, but they've proven over and over that they don't, so this kind of story has zero impact on them.
- Not everything has to "matter".
  
  Also, Lemmy is not the target audience that these revelations are meant for.
- Careful i said something similar about the 'yep' comment from 2020 and i got some aggressive replies on here. (Apparently im an enlightened centralist or something haha) I agree with you though theres so much worse out there on this weird fella
  
  I'm a fan of the semi-newish tactic of making the RNC look like hypocritical weirdos. It's effective and there's plenty of material to work with. These kind of reaches look desperate and that's really not the position the DNC is fighting from nor needs to.
- It’s just plain weird
- I came here to say this. I'm not a fan but who fucking cares about this shit? It just seems petty and desperate.
Are we a week away from a picture of him in blackface?
- I just about guarantee such a picture exists somewhere.
- and about 17-21 days from legitimate gay sex
- That may get him more votes
~~“Kamala Harris created inflation that’s crushing American families, caused a historic crisis at our southern border, and allowed deadly fentanyl to flood into communities across our country,~~ (complete bullshit) and this is what the media is worried about,” a spokesperson for Vance told The Daily Beast in a statement when asked about the photo.

“A goofy high school yearbook from over 20 years ago? Get a life,” the spokesperson concluded (I actually 100% agree with this.)

This is just fucking stupid. There are half a billion more important things to discuss, we don't need this kind of stupidity in the national conversation.
- no you get a life
JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on
- These were his early years, where he was only experimenting with dry humping ottomans.
- Whoa! Too far
- Jorkin Depeanus Vance uses sugar substitute in his sweat tea. Pass it on
Why did this matter? At all?
- For normal people? It doesn't matter in the slightest.
  
  For MAGA? Who knows. Probably something something trans ruining society
- I am very glad this community seems to feel the same. I was on a reddit post earlier and everyone was acting like this is some sort of damning evidence...it looks like a high school yearbook photo that doesn't matter at all. I thought I was taking crazy pills.
- Ironic because well known fact Vance always sits to pee
- Yeah who cares
Weird photo.

I mean I don't care about the bathroom stuff, he's just weird.
who cares about this? I mean if it's something he's still into yeah but teenagers will take lots of photos that are not to be taken seriously
The three other girls in the picture were the president, treasurer, and secretary, according to the outlet.

Are they trying to bait him??!! 😂
He's so classy, no wonder Yale wanted him.
- I’m convinced at this point that these so called elite institutions are fertile grounds for most of the rich sociopaths that are root cause of majority of current problems
  
  And the entry requirements are mostly money.
This is high school stuff. Humorous for the yearbook, not a big deal even with his current position on trans people. I'm far more concerned about him being supportive of book writers on fascist movements. As Obama has said in the past, stay focused. We don't need to make things more than they are when there's bad stuff readily available to attack.
Seeing this picture of JD Vance made it all make sense.

The suits, the apparent eyeliner, the sudden radical changes of viewpoint, the book, the sucking up to fascists as long as they will keep paying his bills and tell him he’s acceptable. All of it. It just kind of all clicked into focus.

No hate for people who were big and awkward in high school. It’s all good, and you don’t have to grow up into the modern monstrosity that is Vance just because this is where you started. He’s actually clearly smarter than a lot of the people in that orbit. He should know better; that’s one of the things that made it all weird and hard to understand. I’m just saying that seeing where he started makes it make sense all the little incongruities about where he ended up, as of now.
Hahahaha perfect
- this shit just keeps getting better and better
Ghod, I hope "Occupy Democrats" doesn't run with this. They made a big deal out of Josh Hawley's cross-dressing photos, and I was like "no, that's one thing that should be totally fine"
- When the people trying to criminalize crossdressing are caught crossdressing, we should make sure everyone knows.
  
  Did you read the piece? Although they claimed they were chastising him for "hypocrisy", they never pointed out that cross-dressing is, in fact, ok -- and the salacious way they treated it made it clear that the author thought him cross-dressing was scandalous.
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Bruh, this 'journalist' is fucking struggling with the point of his work.
Paywall.
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If only there were tampons in that bathroom, then it would be less weird.

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