There's an expression on the right, "You don't hate the media enough."
And it's true. Even after all the nonsense that the media has pushed over the years in their never-ending quest to try to sink President Donald Trump and his supporters, they're still at it. Even after it has cost them bad ratings and the trust of the American people.
But this tweet from a leftist media organ really takes the cake for just a complete failure of reality. It has a picture of Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance, identifying Vance as "Ivy Educated Venture Capitalist" and Trump as "Ivy Educated Real Estate Developer."
Right-wing populism usually consists of men who were born to immense privilege and went to elite schools railing against people who are, in fact, many times less powerful and influential than they are. https://t.co/XIhmb6RjLo
— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) December 30, 2024
Right-wing populism usually consists of men who were born to immense privilege and went to elite schools railing against people who are, in fact, many times less powerful and influential than they are.
Now, of course, this tweet is highly ridiculous because anyone who has paid an ounce of attention to JD Vance knows that he was not at all "born to immense privilege" — that, indeed, he faced great hardship as a child, with a mother who was an addict. He joined the military, worked for everything he has, and achieved great things by the sweat of his brow. Indeed, he is the personification of what we talk about when we talk about the American Dream — that ability to be anything, no matter your circumstances. He's the very opposite of what the tweet is saying. There's even a book (and a movie) out there that could have told them about all this, if they looked.
This deserves a side eye.
— Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) December 31, 2024
The Community Note decimates them.
This post requires additional context: JD Vance was raised in a low income household by grandparents and attended a rural public school
Why would anyone trust any media outlet that can't even get those basic facts right? What are facts when you're trying to push a narrative?
Meanwhile, they, of course, don't talk about all the Democrats who went to Ivy League schools, like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, for example.
It's also wrong because Trump and Vance are advocating for the concerns of the less powerful and influential who Democrats/elites have ignored for so long — hence the "populism" — when it comes to the interests of the American people on such issues as border security and the economy. The elite Democrats told us the border was secure and that the issues with it and inflation were due to everything but their own policies.
As our Jim Thompson noted:
With only 2 days left in 2024 @curaffairs comes from behind, with the dumbest post of the year with:
— Jim Thompson (@JimmySportToons) December 31, 2024
"JD Vance was born to 'immense privilege' " https://t.co/Q1krusppi8
And given all the stupid that the left continuously posts, that's saying something.
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