Peter Thiel’s fake-Appalachian messenger boy is Trump’s choice for vice president

I’m not saying that Vance speciously blaming Democrats for Saturday’s Republican-on-Republican violence is the reason he got tabbed for the ticket, but it certainly didn’t hurt. (By the way, anybody know why Trump isn’t just using the same running mate again? Worthy of investigation!) And it certainly reflects the cynical, Trumpian demagoguery he will bring to his new platform.

I’ll repeat what I said when it first became apparent that Vance was a serious candidate to be the vice presidential nominee:

Should be be named to the ticket I’m sure some pundits will once again try to assure themselves that the “real” Vance is the one who acted like an anti-Trump moderate when he was trying to shill his awful book and get mainstream media gigs. As always, 1)never assume that the persona a liar and grifter has when he’s pandering to you is the “real” one, and 2)he has been full MAGA in the Senate and would be in any other office, so what he “really” thinks is also beside the point.

Any pundit or reporter who takes this as a sign of “moderation” should have their driver’s license taken away, although given how many fell for his ludicrous schtick in the first place I’m not very optimistic.

But those Ivy Leaguers gave him the side-eye for not recognizing a salad fork!

Here’s a story we need to hear a lot more about from Democrats in both paid and earned media:

J.D. Vance, the author and venture capitalist running for the GOP nomination for a Senate seat from Ohio, this week defended the Texas abortion law and argued against the need for exceptions for rape and incest in such restrictive statutes, downplaying such circumstances as “inconvenient.”

When asked during a local interview whether abortion laws should include exceptions for rape and incest, Vance, a Republican, said he thinks “two wrong don’t make a right.”

“It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society,” Vance told Spectrum News in Columbus on Wednesday.