Just about every time J.D. Vance — the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in American history — opens his mouth, he ignites a firestorm of criticism and likely shaves another point off the Republican presidential ticket’s polling numbers.
On Sunday, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Vance admitted that he and Donald Trump made up a baseless and racist story about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.
Ironically, Vance’s attempt to point out imagined “suffering” has led to actual suffering by his own constituents.
If they both made it up, why aren’t there calls for both to resign?
You can’t resign from a job you don’t have!
He can resign from society like Howard Hughes. I wish he would.
for that he would need to have some kind of a honor code :/
Maybe we can reinstitute societal shunning?
And then write Harry Potter style books about himself!
- President Trump and Roger Stone
- President Trump and the Chamberpot of Secret Documents
- President Trump and the Prisoner of Financial Scams
- President Trump and Everyone’s Fired
- President Trump and the Order of the Hamberder
- President Trump and the Half-Baked Concept of a Plan
- President Trump and the Deathly Hollow Promise
Because only one of them is actively serving as a US Senator for Ohio, the state in which the supposed migrant pet eating crisis is taking place. The other doesn’t have a job to resign from.
Ohhhhh, that makes sense. It would probably help if I read the article, but I hate giving these people clicks. I thought the headline was talking about resigning from running for VP.
Well they technically didn’t make it up. They are repeating the words from a Neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe who were marching through Springfield with Swastika flags.
Could actually be worse than just making it up.
Instead of being a dumbass that’s a bit racist, he’s a mouthpiece for Nazi propaganda. That’s a whole lot worse than making it up.
I was reading about those Blood Tribe assholes, they are a Nazi gang that moved into the area about a year ago specifically to stir up hatred in the community.
A conservative king can lie as he pleases it would seem, but apparently their VPs are expendable.
We already learned that in the aftermath of Jan 6th.
My question is why do these people continue lining up to serve said “king”?
Maybe that’s why they ended up with Vance as the pick? A relative newcomer who’d risk getting sacrificed to become a more hosehold name? I can certainly imagine others looking on at the at end of Pence’s tenure and choosing to avoid the position.
If anything, I’d imagine they picked Vance because he was willing and eager to do whatever it takes to win.
There were a number of other choices lined up too: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vp-pick-2024-candidates-odds.html
I’ll bet he also made up the story about not fucking a couch.
Why are we giving Trump an excuse to drop his failure of a running mate?
Right? I say let them keep the anchor offboard the sinking ship. Vance has been an embarrassment from the beginning and it’s funny to see them take his Ls.
I thought the calls were for Vance to resign from the the Ohio Senator position.
What a day…
Resigning requires feeling shame for your actions. Vance has absolutely no shame.
Keep in mind that his private communications have leaked. He talked about what a monster Trump is for making immigrants feel unwelcome and unsafe.
Vance is not like Trump. Trump was raised to be a monster and not intelligent enough to question anything. Vance, OTOH, is smart enough to know better. He chose to be this person. He willingly, voluntarily sold his soul to the MAGA devil. That’s why looking at him and listening to him makes people’s skin crawl. There was a person in there once who was forcibly evicted in favor of a monster.
When confronted with his assertion that he created a story, Vance — after a long pause of on-air silence — backpedaled, saying he “created the American media focusing on it,” and continued to insist that the story came from “first-hand accounts,” which has been proven false.
Where is this video? I really want to see his facial expression during this long pause
Didn’t he write a book about his life growing up, and the suffering of the American people near him? And then leverage that into a political career?
Wonder how much bullshit was in there, too. (If you haven’t, the answer is “pretty much most of it”.)
