Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard has taken a swipe at JD Vance, suggesting that Donald Trump’s Republican running mate has “changed” since he first met him.
Earlier this year, Vance was selected to be Trump’s possible vice president in the 2024 US presidential election race – but before his political career, he was known for being the author of memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which was later adapted into a Netflix film of the same name.
Since being announced as Trump’s running mate, Vance has been criticised for comments that saw him refer to women, such as Trump’s presidential rival Kamala Harris, as “childless cat ladies”. This prompted swift backlash and accusations of sexism, with Vance claiming the remarks were made in “sarcasm”.
Oh I didn’t buy his book I just read it.
And I’m here to tell people that it’s not worth their time or money. And I bring this up probably to the same 60 people every time just in case someone new happens to see it.
I, however, don’t entirely agree on not watching Fox News. I certainly wouldn’t make it a habit of watching it but their coverage of the DNC was actually pretty enlightening. I was at a local pizza place the pizza is great but the family are of course staunch Republicans. We were stuck in the last booth in the place and I thought oh great I’m going to just have to deal with this s*** until the kids get their fill of pizza. But I occasionally looked up and found that they really had nothing. They bitched and complained about a bunch of stuff that was kind of nitpicky but for all the negative they wanted to sell they didn’t have anything meaningful to say about it. And that said a lot more than the actual CNN coverage of it.
I read a few pages. It was pretty awfully written.
Yeah, there were numerous instances where I had to read for context to understand what they were getting at.