GOP vice presidential nominee shocks CNN interviewer

Just about every time J.D. Vance — the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in American history — opens his mouth, he ignites a firestorm of criticism and likely shaves another point off the Republican presidential ticket’s polling numbers.

On Sunday, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Vance admitted that he and Donald Trump made up a baseless and racist story about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.

Ironically, Vance’s attempt to point out imagined “suffering” has led to actual suffering by his own constituents.

  • wildcardology@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    I didn’t know Vance until he was picked as running mate. My list of people with punchable face keeps getting longer.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

      Right? I say let them keep the anchor offboard the sinking ship. Vance has been an embarrassment from the beginning and it’s funny to see them take his Ls.

  • JWBananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    He thinks it’s okay to make up harmful stories because the late night comedians won’t leave the couch thing alone. What a maroon.

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
    261·
    2 months ago

    Nah let him cook (himself). If they swap him for someone else things might actually go better for Trump.

    • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 months ago

      Resign from the senate.

      Rather than just going back to that job after the campaign.

      This campaign is literally zero cost for him as it stands. He’s a senator and will continue being a senator if he loses.

      He should be forced to resign for things he’s done and admitted doing publicly.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    Kind of want this limp dick idiot to stick around. The more damage he does the funnier and better it is for all of the sane(ish) people in our country.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    35·
    2 months ago

    I wonder if this is just damage control for Trump? JD is pure slime, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he is just being thrown under the bus on this one, since it seems to be sticking as the dumbest part of the debate.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      16·
      2 months ago

      Vance posted the lie days before Trump lost his damn mind in the debate.

      It might have been both of them, but Vance was way out front of it.

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    2 months ago

    Any lawyers calling the schools parents and trying to to get a class action civil suit against them? I think all the families having to suffer because of the admitted lies, should be a good payout for some lawyers willing to do the leg work.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Didn’t he write a book about his life growing up, and the suffering of the American people near him? And then leverage that into a political career?

    Wonder how much bullshit was in there, too. (If you haven’t, the answer is “pretty much most of it”.)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 months ago

      Not near him. In Appalachia, where he did not grow up.

      He also used a ton of insulting stereotypes about Appalachians.

      I read it as soon as it came out, even before it had become just a huge book, because I was raised really close to where his grandparents are from. And as soon as I read it, my antenna’s going up all over the place, because we’re not even three or four pages in and he’s already generalizing. For instance, there’s a scene where he talks about his uncles, who are these drunks who fight everybody and they beat their wives, and then he calls them the embodiment of the Appalachian man. Well, as an Appalachian man, that’s deeply troubling to me, because that doesn’t embody Appalachian masculinity as I know it. It does embody the stereotypes of Appalachian masculinity over the last 150 years of media. And that’s sort of what I mean. It just sort of presses the buttons that are already there and made people feel really satisfied, in that it’s sort of like, “Oh, well, I knew this all along, and now somebody is solidifying it for me.”

      https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/06/jd-vance-book-dangerous-00030374

      (That’s from an academic who studies Appalachian culture, incidentally)

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Interesting read, thanks.

        I’ve grown cynical and assume any hard luck life “memoir” is bullshit and propaganda for whatever political slant the author wants to use other people (or at least the socially accepted stereotype of) to try to justify so I skipped reading it.

        Sounds like I didn’t miss much.

        • Facebones@reddthat.com
          2·
          2 months ago

          Pretty much nail on the head here. Its basically “something something bootstraps: the novelization”

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    118·
    2 months ago

    Republican VP candidates are raping Ohio’s children.

    Oh that’s made up? Doesn’t matter because it brings attention to a very important issue.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      171·
      2 months ago

      Republican politicians and voters are conspiring to harm innocent people by making up false rumours about them being dangerous, inciting violence against them.

      “Oh, okay, but I don’t care. As long as the right people are hurt!”

       

      This is a large part of why I don’t feel emotionally connect to the concept of being a member of humanity.

      • Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        This is a large part of why I don’t feel emotionally connect to the concept of being a member of humanity.

        You are, they aren’t.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
    122·
    2 months ago

    God this article is annoying to read.

    What did Vance actually say ?

    Did he say something analogous to “I admit that I created the pet-eating story about immigrants” ? Who knows?

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      2 months ago

      “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do”

      i haven’t seen the full interview but that’s probably all there is to it

    • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m not saying it’s as annoying to read as some ‘dance around the issue’ ‘articles’ from ‘the other side’, but the need to inject a truckload of related bagage into every sentence just devalues the entire effort.

      Like, yes Kevin, we know this is bad. We know it doesn’t spark joy in the hearts of Haitian children. But just act like you’re half a journalist and give us a clear cut of the cold dry facts. Wrap up your emotional shit in a closing paragraph if it helps you convince yourself

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Resigning requires feeling shame for your actions. Vance has absolutely no shame.

    Keep in mind that his private communications have leaked. He talked about what a monster Trump is for making immigrants feel unwelcome and unsafe.

    Vance is not like Trump. Trump was raised to be a monster and not intelligent enough to question anything. Vance, OTOH, is smart enough to know better. He chose to be this person. He willingly, voluntarily sold his soul to the MAGA devil. That’s why looking at him and listening to him makes people’s skin crawl. There was a person in there once who was forcibly evicted in favor of a monster.