Member-only story

JD VANCE MAKES A HELL OF A CLEOPATRA

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
3 min readAug 13, 2024

It just keeps getting weirder, doesn’t it? Now the fellow who can’t sleep at night over fears of predatory drag queens joining the cat people in controlling America, turns out to enjoy a good drag performance of his own!

JD Vance’s former classmates at Yale Law School have been circulating this photo of the future Senator and Republican VP nominee. He looks rather pleased with his outfit, as he should have been.

Thanks to some very diligent and public-spirited Yale Law School alumni, America learned that in between his fake Hillbilly era and his stint as an investment banker in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, JD Vance was quite the card when it came to drag performances. You’d never know he enjoyed crossdressing and displaying his feminine side so publicly, but then again, every day we learn some startling new facts about the weirdest person to ever run for Vice President, even weirder than Sarah Palin.

There is nothing at all wrong with drag shows, a long-established art form, and there is certainly nothing bad to be said about drag queens, transgender people, crossdressers, or anyone else of any gender.

That’s not how JD Vance sees it these days, now that any of his current drag numbers, if he still performs, would be in private.

Remember Twitter before Musk X’d it? Here’s what JD/Cleo tweeted in 2022, when he advocated for a bill discriminating against the LBGTQ+ community:

“I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the

--

--

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

No responses yet