If he’s a big, tough man, then I’m the queen of the world. Neither one is true nor ever will be true. This posturing only serves to make him look foolish and the inept, bumbling idiot he truly is. Maybe he’s trying to prove he’s the successor to MAGA. It’s not going to work. No one can wear the next crown of MAGA. It’s all based on Trump, and *no one* is Trump, his sons included. With thanks to Raw Story:
Vice President JD Vance was torched after he boasted online Monday about having endured a 90-minute training session with Navy SEALs, which journalist Edith Olmsted described as a “recent cosplaying adventure” in an op-ed published Tuesday in The New Republic. “It’s not entirely clear what prompted Vance’s recent cosplaying adventure. Perhaps it has something to do with his recent presidential endorsement from Erika Kirk, a closely-held friend of the vice president,” Olmsted wrote. “Or maybe it has something to do with his slipping poll numbers… In order to claim the full support of MAGA, it seems Vance may have decided it’s time to prove himself more than a sniveling debate kid.”
Smackdown! “Cosplay adventure. Sniveling debate kid.” Ahahahahahaha. Well said. She had the correct reaction. He did it just for show, to hopefully improve his image, and It Did Not Work. How is this going to improve his chances with MAGA anyhow? He doesn’t have any charisma, and Trump does, albeit Trump’s is the wrong kind of charisma. But JD has the charisma of wet toilet paper, and manly man pictures are not going to help that. They’re just pictures.
Vance apparently took to social media immediately after he’d completed his training session alongside Navy SEALs at Base Coronado in California, pledging to “post some photos when I get them.” While his promise to “post some photos” was met with ridicule by online critics, Vance made good on his pledge and later shared seven photos of himself jogging, carrying a heavy log, and climbing an obstacle course cargo net. The following day, on Tuesday, Vance even poked fun at himself, reposting the photo of himself carrying a heavy log, albeit edited to replace his face with the popular meme version of the vice president, a fatter version of himself with long, curly hair. “Fixed it,” Vance wrote in a social media post on X Tuesday, alongside the edited photo of himself.
Alrighty then! When did JD get a sense of humor? He certainly hasn’t had one before. Maybe a brain cell back in the dark, dusty corners of his mind woke up and decided to have some fun before Christmas. Who knows? But we can be sure it won’t last long at all. Then it will go back to sleep, and Vance will revert to being the asshole we love to hate. Having a sense of humor and poking fun at himself is not going to last very long at all.
For Olmsted, however, no amount of training with elite military units would help Vance achieve what she suspected was his goal, that being to “win over [the] manosphere.” “No, JD Vance will not be our first ‘Chad’ president,” Olmsted wrote. While Vance is currently leading among potential GOP presidential frontrunners for 2028, less than 47% of Republican voters had Vance as their first choice, a significant drop from the 54.6% who picked Vance in September, according to a recent survey.
Manosphere and JD Vance do not need to be in the United States, let alone in the same sentence. He’ll revert to being obsequious to Trump and MAGA. His change of heart never lasted. It’s not going to do so again. But for a few moments, we can see that JD has a sense of humor and can poke fun at himself. It’s the small things that count. We don’t have much else to smile about these days.
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He’s a fictional product that has a hidden use-by-date stamped on his political existence, that requires a special form of O2 from you know who’s rapidly depleting store.
I’ve never believed that a “manly man” is necessarily either big or tough necessarily. He could be, of course, but that’s not the point. To me, a manly man is one who is responsible.
What he’s doing is posting what the interwebz call “thirst traps” for the manosphere as part of the GOP’s True Alpha Male reality show hoping he’ll get voted president instead of voted off the island.
About that Erika Kirk endorsement: I’m with those betting Vance will dump his eugenically incorrect current wife for her. If that happens it won’t be mere drama (that’s too banal for this reality show), it’ll be absolute melodrama.