This is great. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on the White Dudes For Trump zoom: ‘Afterward, of course, there's another Zoom that I invite you all to called "Couches Against Trump," better known as CATs’ pic.twitter.com/yZyd7VWgV4
Back when Trump first picked JD Vance, I wrote that the did it at the behest of Tucker Carlson and his sons Uday and Qusay which seems to have been the case. He was also taken with Vance’s zealous defenses of him on Fox News and the fact that he’s got a truly nasty approach to politics which is right up his alley. But I think he was also discombobulated by the assassination attempt which frightened him far more than anyone’s let on.
The decision has been a total disaster. The unmarried cat ladies insult has been revealed to have been a standard line from him for years as well as dozens of other bizarre statements. His political shape-shifting from Trump hater to ult worshiper was so precipitous he seems to have had some kind of interplanetary personality transplant. And then there is the “couch” thing which is one of the most hilarious memes to ever hit the political internet. No politician can recover from that.
Trump is having to try to clean up after his VP which is not good, especially since nobody does clean-up worse than he does. He just says “he likes families” as if that explains anything, As the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson told Thor Benson at Public Notice:
Thor Benson
Vance has tried to present himself as a country boy even though he’s a venture capitalist and had his Senate seat bought for him by tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Rick Wilson
JD Vance telling to sell himself as just a working class fella from the sticks is some weapons-grade horseshit. He’s been part of the meritocracy since he could escape from the suburbs. Peter Thiel funded his venture capital firm, which didn’t succeed, but he funded it. He’s a guy who’s much more at home in Silicon Valley and Aspen than the suburbs of Ohio.
He had a couple of billionaire sugar daddies, and they made him what he is. He’s a long way from stealing catalytic converters to support an oxycontin habit.
Thor Benson
Some people have compared him to Ron DeSantis…
Rick Wilson
I did. I think I was the first. I said “I think the D in JD Vance stands for DeSantis.”
As was the case with DeSantis, there was this idea that Vance was some kind of conservative star when he doesn’t appear ready for the big stage.
Rick Wilson
I think it’s quite obvious this is not a guy who is as ready for primetime as they would like to imagine. Look, politics is a hard business. Nobody gets a pass once they’re actually in the arena. Nobody just gets voted in. You have to perform. He has not, so far, delivered a performance that has knocked people over.
Does he have it in him? I don’t think he does. I haven’t seen it yet. I’m always ready to see people grow and change, and some do. I look at some people who got to their first big national debate and almost blew the whole thing. In 2000, George W. Bush in his first debate — Al Gore whipped his ass all over the stage. I was there. I don’t think JD Vance has that level of comeback in him, judging by the last few days.
He’s such a terrible politician he even brought up couches on the stump last night.
Vance: I would call my wife up here to speak but then I think I’d have to sleep on the couch pic.twitter.com/149BDw2EZY
