{"id":92836,"date":"2024-07-21T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92836"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:28:18","slug":"a-jd-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/07\/21\/a-jd-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A JD By Any Other Name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cAll of my gay friends were like, \u2018Honey, I saw your text messages.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThat\u2019s it?!\u2019&nbsp; They go, \u2018Oh my God, if people hacked into <\/em>Grindr<em><br \/>\nand put Grindr chats public, none of us would have jobs anymore.\u201d <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Armie Hammer <\/strong>tells <strong>Bill Maher <\/strong>reactions to his so-called scandalous texts.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis begs the question \u2013 what does it take to become one of Armie\u2019s gay friends?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Being in Europe, you get a very different view of American politics.&nbsp; Everyone I\u2019ve talked to was worried that <strong>Joe Biden <\/strong>would drop out of the election \u2013 which is ultimately what has happened.&nbsp; Of course, these were the same people who applauded <strong><em>QEII <\/em><\/strong>for not resigning, who elected a hooker to the Italian Parliament, and approved of a French president who showed up places with his wife and mistress.&nbsp; Be that as it may, I decided to take a look at <strong>J.D. Vance<\/strong>.&nbsp; I was intrigued when I heard that his birth name was <strong>James Donald Bowman<\/strong>.&nbsp; I assumed that\u2019s where \u201cJD\u201d came from.&nbsp; While Bowman was his birth father, his mother\u2019s third husband was <strong>Hamel <\/strong>\u2013 and while in college, JD used that as his last name.&nbsp; Fine.&nbsp; At some point, he fell out with Mr. Hamel, and came up with Vance \u2013 which I mistakenly believed was an homage to <strong>Vivian<\/strong>!&nbsp; Turns out \u201cVance\u201d is his mother\u2019s mother\u2019s maiden name.&nbsp; In fact, his maternal grandparents were strongly involved in his upbringing.&nbsp; \u201cFinally, the same name as the family to which I belonged,\u201d which sounds kinda sweet.&nbsp; Plus, really, what do I care?&nbsp; It\u2019s his business.&nbsp; Except he\u2019s not quite so accepting when it comes to other people changing their name.&nbsp; In fact, he\u2019s been vocally opposed to transgender people changing their name.&nbsp; In fact, he\u2019s against most trans rights, women\u2019s rights, gay rights, reproductive rights, and any gun control.&nbsp; He\u2019s also been known to call <strong>Donald Trump <\/strong>\u201c<strong>Hitler<\/strong>\u201d in private.&nbsp; So, I guess he\u2019s not all bad!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll of my gay friends were like, \u2018Honey, I saw your text messages.&nbsp; That\u2019s it?!\u2019&nbsp; They go, \u2018Oh my God, if people hacked into Grindr and put Grindr chats public, none of us would have jobs anymore.\u201d &nbsp; \u2013 Armie Hammer tells Bill Maher reactions to his so-called scandalous texts.&nbsp; This begs the question \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92857,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92836\/revisions\/92857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}