J.D. Vance Got Punched In The Face

Respectfully, of course.

We just witnessed a rare moment in America’s media landscape, and it’s one we ought to think about. This weekend, George Stephanopoulos welcomed J.D. Vance (if that’s what he’s calling himself this week) to the airwaves.

Vance (as some know him), a man for whom fidelity to the truth is as gossamer-thin as the veil between the living and the dead on Samhain, has been trying on a new character lately. It’s the latest in a long series of personality transplants, behavioral grafts, and political LARPing.

Vance watches (and probably smells) Trump rotting from the inside out, knowing the Three Ds - Donnie, Demenetia, and Depends - have him on an inside track for the Presidency, even before 2028. He sees the coming death not only of Trump, but of the MAGA movement’s focus on Trump alone. This is them moment to show them he can be the same kind of churlish, transgressive bully, with more intellectual polish.

My bitchy image selection via @nostromocore on Instagram.

Vance (if that’s his real name) understands that the seeds he sows today are the predicates for his 2028 presidential run. Every single thing Vance does, right down to his morning constitutional, should be viewed as part of that plan. He’ll have to take out the Trump children, and other MAGA aspirants for the Fecal Throne, and he’s trying to be the visible face of this White House to a point it’s as obvious as it is embarrassing.

Peter Thiel, Vance’s mentor and the current heartthrob leading San Francisco’s new hit show AntiChrist Superstar may have put Vance where he is, but Vance knows he’ll need to keep the lower-orders in the MAGA influencer class on his side in the coming years as Trump’s decline spirals down to its inevitable, rancid end.

So, it should have surprised no one when Vance appeared on Stephanopoulos’s show splooging the audience with the usual MAGA slurry of lies, absurdities, hollow denials, and necromantic Sumerian incantations.

What was surprising was that George Stephanopoulos was having none of J.D. Vance’s bullshit.