WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025
...from Red America's messaging persons: Has anyone ever changed as much as JD Vance weirdly has?
We're speaking about the two Vances:
The thoughtful, humorous JD Vance who published Hillbilly Elegy in 2016, then sat for a series of high-profile interviews in support of the widely praised memoir.
The JD Vance who exists today—the JD Vance of the ugly "the Haitians are eating Ohio's pets" claim of the 2024 campaign.
How did the first person turn into the second? At Mediaite, Colby Hall offers the latest dope about that second person:
JD Vance’s Warning About Trump ‘Death Bed’ Misinformation Was… Misinformation
Vice President JD Vance just pulled off a very 2025 trick: warning about fake news by making some up.
Following a few days of bizarre and baseless rumors—primarily from far left social media trolls and influencers—about President Donald Trump’s health, Vance logged onto X and wrote:
“If the media you consumed told you that Donald Trump was on his death bed because he didn’t do a press conference for 3 days, imagine what else they’re lying to you about.”
It’s a neat line. Punchy. Timely. But also false. No credible outlet—not The New York Times, not CNN, not Fox, not even the most fringe clickbait—reported Trump was on his death bed. The story existed only in rumor mills and the viral, self-feeding algorithms of social media, mainly on the cesspool that X has become...
And so on from there.
In fairness, the new Vance can hide behind the ambiguity of the slick and useful term, "the media." But today, at the age of (just turned) 41, is there any bogus claim this once genial fellow isn't ready to peddle?
This week, we're searching the early stories of Joyce, focusing on the theme of societal "paralysis" and metaphorical death. Among the messaging agents of Red America, there's little sign of any "paralysis" at the present time.
In our view, those messaging agents are characterized by their apparent inability to regulate their anger and their endless sense of grievance. Paralysis isn't them! As an example of what we mean, consider what happened last night, when Suzanne Scott pried the lid off the can at 10 p.m. (7 p.m. out on the coast) and Greg Gutfeld came slithering out.
He was supported by four flyweight guests. There was little sign of "paralysis."
If you're willing to watch this angry, dimwitted child, you can see him pursue his favorite targets and themes in his opening two or three minutes of jokes:
Themes of opening jokes: September 2, 2025
Favorite target Greta Thunberg has an unsightly haircut.
Favorite target Rosie O'Donnell allegedly has herpes—and she got it from a toilet seat!
Favorite target Rashida Tlaib has an unsightly mustache.
Little "paralysis" is evident in the behaviors of this emotionally crippled child. (He turns 61 next week.) Needless to say, favorite target Jerry Nadler also turned up in a set of jokes which featured the standard perspective:
GUTFELD (9/2/25): Representative Jerry Nadler announced he is retiring after 34 years in Congress.
AUDIENCE: [Cheering, applause]
GUTFELD: He is citing a need for change, referring to his trousers.
I'm not going to say he ruins a lot of pants, but his dry cleaner did kill himself.
But if I know Nadler, we haven't heard the last from him.
[Sounds of a flushing toilet]
That's the first time we've used sound effects in a joke, and I think it went really well.
Judged by any recognizable standard, something is wrong in this strange fellow's head. The paralysis starts when Blue America's timorous elites agree that they should refuse to report or discuss his behavior.
Other favorite targets were soon hit in Gutfeld's "issue monologue." That included favorite target Taylor Swift, who is typically derided on this prehuman, braindead show because she's "just a 5."
For the record, the little guy opened his program with a favorite unsupported rumor about favorite target Ilhan Omar. For PolitiFact's fact-check of the tired old rumor, just click this. For the Snopes fact-check (rating: Unfounded), you can just click here.
Very little paralysis holds this nutcase back. Paralysis enters the world of our dying society's failing discourse when Blue America's timorous tribunes all agree that his braindead, destructive behavior must, at all costs, be ignored.
He starts with poop, slides downhill from there. We do advise you to pity the child, but he and his nitwit "cable news" guests make it quite hard to do that.
Suzanne Scott pries the lid off the can. This stupid, sad garbage slides out.
ReplyDelete"It’s a neat line. Punchy. Timely. But also false."
It's not false at all, as "the media you consumed" obviously includes social media.
What one can, and should, conclude from this episode, is that mediaite.com is a lying website, fake news. But everyone who's not an idiot or a Democrat (but I repeat myself) already knows it.
What was reported incorrectly? I don't get the complaint.
DeleteMy guess is that you may be consuming too much social media.
DeleteI consume too much fentanyl.
DeleteSomerby is alarmed by F&F garnering 3.5M viewers. Jimmy Kimmel has 20M subscribers watching him skewer the orange turd 4 nights a week.
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration's import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as "much worse than the Great Recession."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reuters.com/business/us-manufacturing-contracts-sixth-straight-month-amid-tariff-drag-2025-09-02/
So riddle me this: How are Trump's tariffs "creating American jobs" if manufacturing contracts for six straight months?
DeleteBecause we are 'manufacturing' crypto at an unprecedented rate.
DeleteParticularly, midsize manufacturing companies, like the one where I work now and worked before will be heavily impacted. In my previous company, we actually manufactured our hardware in the US. However, parts were sourced from various places, mostly overseas. This is how modern manufacturing works. Not that the orange twit in the White House would know anything.
DeleteAnyone bothered by the fact that we murdered about 11 people on a boat off the coast of Venezuela because they were allegedly drug smugglers?
ReplyDeleteWithout a trial, a hearing, a whiff of confirmation from any non-Tulsi Gabbard source?
Is there any reason now not to call Trump a murderer?
It bothers me. I don't even think they were committing any crime. Possessing drugs in international waters - is that a crime?
DeleteOf course, if they had landed and smuggled drugs into the US, the government wouldn't have had the right to kill them without due process. But I guess the high seas is now the new Wild West.
But, of course, this is all pedantry. The law is clear: The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.
DeleteOr, in Catch-22 terms, "They can do anything you can't stop them from doing."
DeleteThe fascists were just testing the waters, so to speak. Our military will soon be blowing up cartel 'suspects' in any shithole country they please.
DeleteIn 2021 alone, over 107,000 Americans died of overdoses—the highest total ever recorded. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are overwhelmingly responsible for this catastrophic loss of life.
DeleteYou criticize sinking this boat. Do you have a better suggestion of how to stop all these drug-related deaths?
What Trump did is against the law.
DeleteMaybe if the DEA hadn't been reassigned to rounding up scary brown children, they could have arrested these supposed smugglers. But where's the bloodthirsty thrill in that?
DeleteYes! I just read about that. At least the NY Times put the terrorists in quotes.
Delete"Do you have a better suggestion of how to stop all these drug-related deaths?"
DeleteI hope you can agree there is no single suggestion that will stop all these drug-related deaths.
But let me ask: is it that these people were Venezuelan? Is that why they deserved to die? Suppose they had been, say, Irish? Would you still support their murder?
You criticize sinking this boat. Do you have a better suggestion of how to stop all these drug-related deaths?
DeleteI am quite certain that killing people without a trial will not accomplish that goal.
We have a criminal regime running the country, so I expect more killings.
Ilya and Hector - I appreciate your responses. But I'm sorry that you don't have better strategies to suggest.
DeleteHector - I have no interest in the nationalities of these presumed drug smugglers. I didn't know that they were Venezuelans, and I don't care. Nor do I care that Russian and North Korean troops invading Ukraine are whites and Asians. They should be defeated, period.
Serious question: Is DC social life worsened or improved due to Trump's actions? Trump asserts that more people are dining out because of greater safety. Some Trump opponents assert that people are going out less because they're intimidated by the Guardsmen and their weapons. Does anyone know a reliable source that tells what's really happening?
ReplyDeleteDC residents do not want Trump’s police state/military occupation.
DeleteThe idea that people in Washington would avoid dining out because of the fear of being robbed, or worse, is only palatable to an old man who fears that his Hispanic landscapers want to rape him.
DeleteDistrict of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital have had their orders extended through December, a National Guard official said.
ReplyDeleteThe main purpose of the extension is to ensure that any D.C. Guard members out on the streets of Washington will continue to have uninterrupted benefits and pay for a mission that seems likely to persist for months, the official said.
Why doesn't the Guard just find about a dozen people they think are drug dealers and murder them?
DeleteYes, blow them up with high-powered bombs so the videos look cool.
Delete"Donald Trump just released a snuff film — produced by the U.S. military, posted online by Trump..."
Delete"This video is the same genre as the gruesome videos once circulated by ISIS — except this time it comes with the full stamp of the United States government."
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/trump-just-released-a-snuff-film
https://www.facebook.com/fanny.farts.7
ReplyDeleteEvidently if you comment here in the late night you risk being "fanny burped" on.
DeleteJD Vance’s book may have been witty and charming but it was full of lies about both Appalachia and Vance’s own life. These were described in articles at the time. That suggests Vance has not chamged but is the same opportunist and liar he has always been. That Somerby doesn’t know this is on him, not Blue America.
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