Just got even uglier for JD Vance
I was talking to someone recently about friendships lost. I imagine many, if not most of you, have had, somewhere in time, a lost friendship, and that is never a fun thing to have happen. Friends are the people we share our souls with. We laugh with our friends, smile with them, and sometimes cry with them, knowing that we can always be ourselves because our friends will love us no matter what.
It is a shame when they — when they don’t. Broken friendships are dried-up roses that are unlikely to ever bloom again; their sweet fragrances, quietly vanishing. Sofia Nelson experienced the sadness of losing a friend. She appeared on CNN to tell Erin Burnett about it.
Nelson, a transgender Lawyer out of Michigan was once close — very close — to JD Vance. She shared emails she and Vance had exchanged. Those emails show a firm friendship, portraying Vance as a man who deeply cared about Sofia. When she had her transgender surgery, he was supportive. He got her baked goods afterward. He even wrote about her in “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Yes, all was good between them until it wasn’t. Until he turned on her. Their friendship ended when Vance chose to back legislation that would ban Gender-affirming care. It was a blow to Sofia. Her friend had reimagined himself, becoming someone very different than whom he once was.
In the wake of that interview, the bad news has not stopped for Vance. On Tuesday, unearthed comments came to light of Vance calling some Democrats “childless sociopaths.” You see, that childless cat lady comment we’ve all been discussing wasn’t the ONLY time Vance disrespected women. Of course, it isn’t, and it is good for the Harris team to make us aware of this.
This is because there is usually, with misogynists ( which I believe Vance to be), a PATTERN of behavior. It looks like the Harris team found it. The profile of Vance that has been built shows a person with remarkably few convictions. Indeed, it shows a man void of set opinions, it would seem, not from politics but from LIFE itself. unable to form independent opinions on much of anything.
Vance’s remarks have hurt many people emotionally. I can’t imagine the courage it must have taken for his former friend to come forward, and I tip my hat to her. One thing is sure, I feel. JD Vance will NEVER EVER be able to run for President in the future. These stories, this writer feels, have barely scratched the surface.
Sometimes friendships end, as do political careers. For this writer, who has loathed Vance for years, it’s nice to know I was right. But I’d have so rather been wrong. Yes, I would much rather have been incorrect. Because with the real Vance being exposed, so too comes fresh pain — pain caused by a chameleon, a mirage, a human being whose beliefs can vanish in a minute — depending on who’s pulling his strings.
