Weird isn’t necessarily a bad thing. BBQ chicken pizza is weird. Portland it’s strange Aubrey Plaza it’s strange U opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics were strange in the best, most French way imaginable.
But JD Vance is just… strange. And not in a good way.
Strange enough that Senator Chuck Schumer thinks Vance is one of the best things Donald Trump has ever done. For the Democratsis it.
Strange enough that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says people are “a little upset” by Vance, even though they’re “not scared.”
Strange enough that after Trump complained about all the money he had spent fighting President Joe Biden before Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala HarrisTrump may now have to complain about how much it will cost rreplace all that Trump/Vance merchandise when he gets rid of it its very poor choice.
As Schumer said Sunday on “Face the Nation,” Vance is an “unbelievably bad choice.”
“I bet President Trump is sitting there, scratching his head, and wondering, ‘Why did I pick this guy?'” the Senate majority leader said. “The choice may be one of the best things he’s ever done for Democrats.”
But the word that keeps coming up, over and over, in Vance’s descriptions is just “weird.” Because he’s weird. In the plastic-y, inauthentic way that only someone who did a massive flip-flop on Trump to advance their political ambitions they can achieve.
As Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear points out, Vance may be the only real human being who claims to have an “origin story.”
“Batman has an origin story,” Beshear said. “Fictional characters have an origin story. Real people have childhoods. That’s how convenient their story is.”
The Harris campaign has an email that is even more blunt, linking to a story Vance’s strange search for dolphin porn. But more importantly, that email also focuses on Vance outlining a conspiracy theory that includes abortion, racism, and anti-Semitism.
Vance: Well, look, here’s the situation, let’s say Roe v. Wade it’s overturned, Ohio bans abortion in 2022, let’s say 2024, and then, you know, every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to disproportionately charge black women to get abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity. … If it happens, do you need a federal response to prevent it from happening because it’s really scary? And you know, I’m pretty nice about it actually.
As the campaign email indicates, there is definitely something disturbing here. And it’s Vance.
strangeness it became a topic in the countryside. As Democratic strategist Tim Hogan points out, “weird” doesn’t mean a knock on people who are quirky or different.
“It perfectly describes the restlessness that people feel,” Hogan said. “This is how people who don’t live and breathe politics every day react to hearing the Republican vice presidential candidate denigrate people without children.”
by Vance long-standing obsession with “cat women” it’s strange But all right-wing extremist natalism is just one of Vance’s strange views which include opposition to abortion even in cases of rape and incest, raise taxes on people who have no children, give more votes to people with childrenand do illegal no fault divorce.
And then there are the rumors about Vance’s attraction to sofas.
As Vox specifies, “JD Vance didn’t have sex with a couch. But it’s still very strange.” The idea that Vance is bipartisan isn’t true, Vox said, starting with an online post that went viral and spawned a thousand memes. However, “the couch joke was only one of three things Vance was known for in his first 10 days as VP, and the only one that hasn’t been verified as true.”
Vance’s public appearances haven’t exactly laid bare his weirdness. For example, there was the moment he claimed Democrats were calling him a racist because he drank Diet Mountain Dew — a joke so awkward that Vance’s hometown Republican audience was left to stare at the guy who wants to be a heartbeat from the presidency.
Since his addition, Vance it was a welcome drag for the Trump campaign. In a week when Trump himself was is desperately trying to get back into the media spotlight lost with the entry of the dynamic Harris, his choice for vice president was constantly mentioned on social media and in the news … for being such an incredible dud.
However, maybe Trump shouldn’t start redoing all those signs, mugs and t-shirts. Maybe he can just find someone else named “Vance” and do a quick swap. U most famous person with the last name Vance is apparently prolific fantasy and science fiction author Jack Vance, who has written a series of novels about a far-future land where science and magic coexist. It’s a lot less weird than the cat lady type. Also, Jack Vance died in 2013, so at least he won’t be making painful jokes about soft drinks.
Vance is weird. Bad strange. And this it runs in the political family.
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