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)
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When you add to the violent equation Vance's claim that the creation of the pet-eating story was for the express purpose of helping the city of Springfield overcome the huge costs of the "Haitian infestation," it becomes even deeper bullshit! The city has now inherited the costs of building evacuations, more public safety personnel, loss of revenue from public events, etc., AND the psychological trauma to all the residents!! So, Vance is destroying the city and his constituents he purports to be fighting for!! Gee, if I truthfully claim Vance must be stopped, will I get a visit from the Secret Service because my rhetoric threatened the life of a VP candidate? No, but he has certainly threatened his opponents as well as his constituents!! 🤬
Drum this AM on Routh:
" Ryan Wesley Routh didn't "support progressive causes" unless Rothman considers being pro-Ukraine progressive. Aside from that, he was apparently in favor of Obama's Iran deal and distraught by Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan. He voted for Trump in 2016, Tulsi Gabbard in 2020, and supported Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley in 2024. This is hardly the portrait of a radicalized progressive."
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