When asked about Donald Trump’s dumpster fire of a Q&A at the conference of Black journalists today, JD Vance’s first reaction was, “I thought it was hysterical,” because we all saw how many people on stage, in the audience, and later in news outlets were laughing their butts off. Har har. Vance must crack up reading Project 2025, which is hysterical, in the other sense of the word meaning maniacal and deranged.
The fake hillbilly butthole said the media was “overreacting”—only because a presidential candidate dropped a lot of racist tropes about “being late” and incompetent, called the questioners “nasty” and “rude,” and then turned his bigoted piehole on VP Harris, first getting into a linguistic spat over “DEI” and then questioning her Blackness: “she made a turn. And she became a Black person.” Vance explained that away by saying Trump was just “point[ing] out the fundamental chameleon-like nature of Kamala Harris." Sure, that’s what it was, just like Boy George singing “Kamala Chameleon.”
Then Vance turned to substance:
“He actually goes into hostile audiences, he answers tough questions, he pushes back against them, but he actually answers them.”
No, no, no! He did not “push back against” tough questions. He pushed down, like he always does. He bitched, he played victim (“You invited me on under false pretense”), he lied about his record, and he attacked, avoided, and accused from the beginning. The first question he did not answer, after Rachel Scott recited a list of Trump’s racist comments, was, “[W]hy should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?” He did not answer that, Vance! He had an opportunity to score points, but instead he pivoted to attacking the question as “horrible” and of course “nasty,” but at no time did he answer why Black voters should trust him—he demonstrated the opposite.
I supposed he thought he was answering the question by saying he’s been the best president for Blacks since Abraham Lincoln, a bullshit lie he’s been saying for years. Naturally, he ignored a followup asking if he was really better than LBJ, who signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act—policies Trump’s Supreme Court has been gutting.
Oh JD, one question he did answer was whether the VP selection really mattered:
I think this is well documented historically, the vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact. No impact.
Ouch! There’s a vote of confidence, Mr. No Impact. Trump’s wrong again: In this election the VP selection will have an impact, just not the one Trump expected, and Vance’s comments tonight illustrate why. Hysterical, eh, JD?
