Will Shillbilly Elegy be canceled?

The bar for getting taken aback by how bizarre something is in American politics has now been set up at around the Oort Cloud, but even so, the branding of Peter Thiel’s own personal Waylon Smithers as the Populist Tribune of the Victims of the Plutocracy has got to be right up there.

Delightfully, there are now many sighs and whispers emitting from the Trump campaign that regrets they have a few about picking Vance as Trump’s VP, given that he’s a charisma-destroying dork who not very long ago was telling the world that his own current personal lord and savior Donald Trump was a serial sexual assaulter, smearing his victims with post hoc lies:

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault, even suggesting in one TV segment that in a “he said, she said” situation Trump was less credible than one of his accusers.

Vance appeared on a MSNBC segment in October 2016 on Trump’s alleged sexual misconduct in which an interview with Jessica Leeds, a former salesperson who accused  Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her during a flight in the 1970s, was played. Vance said it was hard to believe Trump’s denials over Leeds.

“At a fundamental level, this is sort of a ‘he said, she said,’ right? And at the end of the day, do you believe Donald Trump, who always tells the truth? Just kidding,” said Vance sarcastically. “Or do you believe that woman on that tape?” he said, referring to Leeds.

This is the kind of hard-hitting investigative journalism known as “googling JD Vance,” but apparently LOL nothing matters, until things start to go south and they they do matter, again.

It still boggles my mind that the only reason this overfed long-haired leaping gnome became the star of a Hollywood movie, and then slithered within sniffing distance of the goddamned presidency of the United States, is because he wrote a “research paper” in law school, that Amy Will Pimp My Own Daughters For Clerkships Chua thought could be workshopped into a book that could be transformed into a viable commercial entity, as Don Kirshner used to say.