I have a trivial question about J. D. Vance
A couple of days ago I looked up J. D. Vance’s height online, and it said he was 5’7″. I was thinking that he and Trump would look rather Mutt-and-Jeffish next to each other. Then last night I was watching clips of the convention, and Vance looked plenty tall to me – not just next to Trump, but next to Trump’s sons and just about everybody else.
So, what’s the scoop? Is he actually tall? What’s this 5’7″ business?
I saw a photo of both of them and Vance looked taller than Trump.
Imdb Biography gives his height as 6′ 2″, I had seen the 5′ 7″ elsewhere and thought he appeared taller than 5’7″.
Caroline Glick isn’t tall, surely, but Vance looks a foot taller round about: https://x.com/CarolineGlick/status/1812938679498735636?t=ax3NLQ79CJlDEd_3f5sxlQ&s=19
OldTexan:
That’s quite a discrepancy. From the photos, I’d say 6’2″ seems about right.
Official story is that Vance is 5’9″
I wonder if Vance has had plastic surgeries, especially his eyes, he looks a bit like Kenny Rogers
Photos at the convention make me think the 6’2″ estimate is the correct range. He didn’t look short standing with the Trump progeny.
Seems like some fake news is being proliferated. Of course in a more fair world, a VP candidate’s height should matter a wit. But human’s naturally prefer their leaders tall.
I saw the two together in this video from the convention. I doubt he is standing on a box so the 5-9 is probably an error or propaganda.
Well my link won’t work but it is a video of Trump at the convention.
I really have no idea who he is other than common man, war veteran and good American.
If all goes right could be a fantastic MAGA leader
Trump and Vance were ‘of similar height.’
I never realized that dick Cheney was a bit of a runt. Putin too, never realized that about him either.
Vance is the first major party candidate for president or vice president to have a beard in over a century.
Benjamin Harrison was the last president to have a full beard and he served in the 1890s.
Of course the real question is not “how tall does he stand?”
But “does he stand on constitutional principles?”
So far the answer seems to be Yes!
I’m shocked, shocked that there is wrong information on the internet. Where are my winnings?
}}} But humans naturally prefer their leaders tall.
They particularly prefer them to be taller than The Other Guys.
😀
}}} I’m shocked, shocked that there is wrong information on the internet. Where are my winnings?
I’ve done an internet search, and it says they are in the mail. 😛
Tall enough to serve in the USMC.
Skip –
He has an autobiography – Hillbilly Elegy. I’m reading it right now, and think it’s a good read. The focus is as much his life as it is the hillbilly culture that he grew up in, and the effect it has on those caught up in it.
I suspect that a lot of parallels can be drawn with the inner-city black culture.
Junior:
In Bonekemper’s “The Myth of the Lost Cause”, about the way Dixiecrats manipulated the Civil War narrative, there’s a quote about how bad emancipation would be for slaves deprived of the benevolent, civilizing hands of their white masters.
It reads very well as a description of Democrat-run inner cities. Hmm….
[I can’t cite it correctly, because I listened to the Audible edition. *sigh” I’m going to have buy the Kindle edition, or even, Horrors! the dead tree.]