JD Vance’s Name Change Is Just One More Fight Against Menstruation (This Time It’s His Own)
From JD Vance has been announced as Donald Trumphis running mate earlier this month, the United States tried to separate really strange things in his past from the fake ones and find out the level of his opposition to women’s rights. From the emergence of podcasts where he was very specific about his hopes for a nationwide abortion ban. his argument that strict medical privacy regulations could make it difficult for law enforcement to track people seeking abortions, he was clearly quite concerned about other people’s periods. However, he seems to have been less fussy when it came to his own. In terms of punctuation. Although he published his 2016 memoir, The ballad of the mountain people, Under the name “JD Vance,” some social media users have discovered a Blogspot Website where “J.D. Hamel” writes about his time in the military and at Yale Law School.
The writer is a little more in touch with pop culture. He even expressed some affection for 2004. Zach Braff movie Garden State, focuses on a group of childless adults trying to survive in a harsh world. “I can’t watch Garden State because the New Jersey landscape is so similar to Ohio, the music is so relevant to my life right now, and the story of a guy coming home, realizing that home isn’t what it used to be, etc. makes me want to cry,” he wrote before his deployment to Iraq. “His comment about realizing that the place he grew up in isn’t really home anymore, and his theory that people settle down because when you lose your home, you want to build a new one really resonated with me right now, and I’m sure some of you do too.”
This week, a Vance spokesman said AP that JD Hamel, the blogger, is actually Vance. The confirmation came in a post that tracked the changes that have been made to Vance’s name since he was born on August 2, 1984. “Over the course of 39 years, Vance’s middle name and last name have all changed in one way or another,” the post noted, through divorce, adoption, and spelling changes.
Vance was born James Donald Bowman, after his biological father, Donald Bowman, who was separated from Vance’s mother. Beverly when he was young. When Beverly later remarried, Vance was adopted by his stepfather and became James David Hamel; this is the name he kept throughout his early adulthood. He was called JD, before and after the name change, but when he enlisted in the Marine Corps, he was officially known as Corporal James D. Hamel. Then, in 2013, around the time he was admitted to the bar, he decided to change his last name to Vance. In The ballad of the mountain people, He noted that he chose the name in honor of Bonnie Blanton Vance, the grandmother who helped raise him. (In recent campaign speeches, Vance has spoken fondly of his “Mamaw” and her huge arsenal.)
The AP’s rereading of the changes also solves another remaining mystery about the potential vice president’s name for the punctuation we know. For years, we knew him as “J.D. Vance,” but he recently reverted to “J.D.”, without the period, on his Senate website and press releases. A campaign spokesperson confirmed that Vance preferred the more streamlined version. So, no period for JD.
The punctuation change coincided with the airing of some of Vance’s earlier, privately expressed comments. A former Yale Law classmate, Sofia Nelson, provided a series of email exchanges they had with Vance starting about a decade ago. New York Times. Nelson, who is transgender, maintained a friendship with Vance as his political views shifted from calling Trump a “disaster” to supporting Trump (“If he would tone down his racism, I would actually become his biggest supporter,” Vance writes), and from someone who was relatively respectful of his friend’s identity to someone who believed that “the cultural progressivism of the left is making it harder for ordinary people to live their lives.”
Unlike some of its previous name changes, which were the result of family circumstances and emotional resonance, this latest one may be down to simplicity. Call it a Silicon Valley rebranding of an outdated logo, a new JD for a new era.
