Git 'em, Olaf

Germany's chancellor claps back after Shillbilly attempts a scolding

When Vice President Shillbilly up and shit the bed in public at the Munich Security Conference, there was an audible gasp in the room. From the New York Times:

Vice President JD Vance’s defense of a divisive far-right political party in Germany was the latest jarring example of his willingness to embrace a provocative political issue and showed how hard-line immigration policy has emerged as the thread tightly knitting together a global patchwork of populist movements.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wasn’t having any. You can see his measured response above.

I have to say, as a long-time non-fan of James Donald David David Donald Bowman Vance, that every time he opens his mouth wide enough to stick a foot in I get a little shiver. It’s not pleasure, per se, but more of a celebration that when I took an early and vivid dislike to the man’s (lack of) character, I was both right and righteous in doing so.

Get a load of this Munich gem from Shillbilly:

To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election.

Is any one else thinking about alternative facts? Because I am.

I take comfort that “alternative facts” will appear in all the more important Kellyanne Conway obituaries.

You can watch the entirety of Vance’s remarks here, but you don’t have to linger long to know this plea for “free speech” is hypocrisy on the hoof coming from the No. 2 guy of the party of book bans. That Shillbilly presents himself as any kind of protector is most likely not a permanent gig. Wait a moment. He’ll flip-flop and come out against “free speech” any minute now, especially if he’s promised a juicy gig or a cookie for doing so.

It is now my stated goal to make sure the word “cookie” makes it into JD Vance’s obituary.

And though this is hardly the meat of the matter, someone should tell the ever-awkward Vance that his jokes are not funny — or even jokes, really. Comparing environmentalist Greta Thurnberg to the pasty-faced-coup-launching-finger-sniffing-weird-AF Elon Musk makes zero sense. To any one. Thurnberg advocates for the environment. Musk steals data and destroys federal departments that we actually need. Musk is not scolding any one, dip shit. He’s couping. Big difference.

The Anti-Defamation weighed in and called Vance’s comments “deeply concerning.” That Shillbilly met with the leader of the far-right German party in question should tell you all the rest of what you need to know. I promise, if this faux hillbilly had grown up in my real-hillbilly home town, he’d have been stuffed into a locker and left there.

You’re welcome, ‘Murica.