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Everyone's talking about Palantir, the new AI Warfare technology that Trump is planning to deploy

against American citizens.

But not enough people know about J.D. Vance's long history with Palantir's founder, Peter Thiel,

who all but placed J.D. Vance in the White House. In case that wasn't the end of the world,

as we know it, Ukraine decided to launch a massive attack against Russia right before peace talks resumed,

and trans people are still riding the gay rights movement all the way to your kids' classrooms.

All that coming up today on Candace. Welcome back. Welcome back, guys.

Last week, Candice put me on to J.D. Vance's name-changing, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it ever since.

Because I knew that J.D. Vance had some sketchy history and some dark forces behind his

political rise, but I didn't know how much I didn't know. So let's start today by diving into

the history of our smooth-talking vice president from the most humble of beginnings. Because if you didn't know,

J.D. Vance was not born J.D. and not born Vance. In fact, he's changed his first, middle,

and last names more than once. He was born James Donald Bowman in Ohio in 1984. Following

his mother's divorce from his father, his name was changed to James David Hamill.

Donald becoming David allowed him to keep his nickname as JD,

and his last name became Hamill after his mother's third husband's name.

After his mother divorced again, he changed his last name to Vance.

By then, he was serving as a U.S. Marine.

Worth noting, though, that although he rightly called out Tim Wals for stolen valor during the

presidential campaign, Vance didn't exactly serve in combat either. He was in the press corps

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