How Incredibly Low Can You Go?

This today isn’t going to be very long, or even very substantive.  But it’s just something that occurred to me that I thought worth noting.  It was a comment that “JD Vance” made on Twitter.
 
Or more accurately, yet another comment that “JD Vance” had made on Twitter.  And it wasn’t current, perhaps a few days old.  It wasn’t even especially outlandish by his standards, though in fairness that isn’t saying much, since it was sick and pathetic by normal human standards. But just “JD Vance” being “JD Vance” (which by itself is hard to decipher since he’s really James Donald Bowman, changed to James David Hamel, changed to James David Vance, changed to J.D. Vance, changed to “JD Vance”).  Just one of his smears defending the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.  Days after one of his smears defending the murder of Renee Good.
 
Whenever “JD Vance” makes one of his sick and pathetic comments on Twitter (or, to save typing and be just as accurate, “one of his comments on Twitter”), I rarely try to contradict it.  Instead, I just reply –
 
“This below was written by the same guy who said that immigrants in Ohio were stealing pet dogs and cats and then eating them, even though he was told by local officials it wasn’t true.”
 
Sometimes, if I’m the mood for typing a bit more, I’ll add – “And they guy who said that houses cost so high because illegal immigrants buy them which raises the price.”
 
That’s just who “JD Vance” is.  Whoever he is.
 
The guy who went into a doughnut shop for a campaign video to try to make him look more “relatable” (or at least human) and couldn’t even manage buying doughnuts for his staff.  Not just making painfully uncomfortable small talk (“Hey…Okay…how long you worked here?...Okay…Okay”), but being so unable to know what mix of doughnuts to buy just gave up and dismissively told the counter employees, “Whatever makes sense.”
 
And I’d take that “JD Vance” over the unrelentingly racist, cruel, hate-filled, obnoxious Trump lapdog he’s become, almost likely he’s trying to outdo the master to show how a fine student he’s been.  In most ways, he’s not as bad, because Trump is that way down to the core of his being.  But in some ways, “JD Vance” is actually worse because he’s so empty -- a Bowman/Hamel/Vance without any core, personal values other than hate -- that he’s spouting words so crass and vicious, not because he believes the meaning of what he’s saying, but because he knows he supposed to be crass and vicious.  And hurtful, divisive and racist.  Whatever the words mean.
 
It’s sort of stunning.  I truly can’t think of a thing I’ve read and heard from “JD Vance” that wasn’t repugnant, smarmy, racist or intended to be divisive.  I have to assume he has said things that weren't disdainful, but I just don’t recall when I've seen or heard it.  No, wait, that’s not true.  The other day he posted a nice note to his wife on their anniversary.  Though all I could think when I saw it was that, if she wasn’t his wife, he’d probably want her deported.  But because it was their anniversary, I didn’t reply that.  It was my anniversary gift to them.  And was my core sense of decency -- something that “JD Vance” (Bowman/Hamel) wouldn’t have understood.
 
During the 2024 campaign, a poll was taken on the likeability of the four candidates.  Not shockingly, “JD Vance” finished a distant fourth.  The shock was that he registered at all.  Most human cyphers don’t.
 
And for all this, that’s what drove me to the thought which got me to write about all this.  Because when I was pondering his latest, unrelenting harmful, racist, pathetic statement (all the more so for being from a U.S. vice president ), I harkened back to an old statement he made, long-before he was Trump's running mate -- a statement that had been unearthed during the race which showed to many his utter emptiness and pure hypocrisy.  It was when he had written that Trump was “America’s Hitler.”  And then signed up to be his campaign partner.
 
And what occurred to me, when thinking of this is that we may have had it all wrong.  Not that “JD Vance” was saying it critically…but rather, in praise.  A goal for him to aspire to.  And that’s why he joined up. 
 
And why he has been be trying to prove himself worthy of the epithet ever since.