As the ticket mate to the lying, delusional and hate-filled Malignant Loser, his mini-me JD "Junior Demagogue" Vance has an important job: to try to clean up after him. Not only has he not been good at that job, he's succeeded in making matters worse for his cult leader. Amanda Marcotte, writing today in Salon.com, explains:
"The term 'sanewashing' was coined to describe the bad habit of journalists who rewrite Trump's rambling nonsense into sentences that make sense, but for Vance, it's a full-time job. When Trump insisted that Vice President Kamala Harris 'happened to turn Black,' Vance went on clean-up duty, saying it 'was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon.' It was a lie — Harris has always identified as Black — but it was coherent. When Trump mocked Congressional Medal of Honor recipients because they're 'either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets—or they’re dead,' Vance insisted he only saw 'a guy who loves our veterans and who honors our veterans. ' [snip]
...despite Vance's mastery of noun-verb agreement, he's not doing great at making Trump seem less weird. That's because Vance is quite weird himself, especially about cats, a previously unremarkable popular species of pet. First, there were all the clips of him ranting about 'childless cat ladies,' which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., memorably called the 'incel platform.' Now he's pivoted to lying, repeatedly, about Haitian immigrants in his state of Ohio, falsely accusing them of eating cats. Vance even admitted it's a lie on national television, telling CNN's Dana Bash, 'If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do.'" (our emphasis)
Right on cue, he's trying to "create stories" that Vice President Harris and Dems are at fault for the recent assassination attempts on the Malignant Loser for calling out his toxic policies and language. It's a howler to think that the Malignant Loser avoids violent and bigoted language. As Joe Scarborough noted this morning, Vance is gaslighting his cult leader's behavior and rhetoric and expecting us to swallow it. It's a sign of how desperate they are not only to grift off of the assassination attempt but to flip the script by claiming the attempted attacks are caused by Dem rhetoric.
(photo: The pooper and the scooper)
