J.D. Vance calls the Rittenhouse trial “child abuse masquerading as justice”
A man sells his soul
J.D. Vance could have been somebody. But he has decided to be just one more cookie-cutter, Trump acolyte. Who, embracing the policy-free political philosophy of put-downs, invective, and whining, that was Trump’s creed, now has to say the most outrageous stuff to stand out from the crowd. The crowd, in this case, being the contenders for the retiring Rob Portman's Ohio Senate.
Last night he latched onto the current, conservative cause célèbre — that Kyle Rittenhouse is a martyr, not a murderer - and took it one ludicrous step further. He offered Tucker Carlson his opinion on the Rittenhouse trial,
“I think that it’s not a trial, it is child abuse masquerading as justice in this country!”
Adding, “I think it suggests that justice in this country is no longer about equal justice under Law. It’s all political.”
And claiming the trial is just a “bunch of power-hungry leftists who have decided they are going to use our criminal justice system as a weapon against the people.”
What would Vance suggest? That the killer of two men be sent to his room without dinner? Or should he be given a ticker-tape parade? To conservatives, if you are a white guy with a gun, you are golden. Especially, if the people you kill were protesting the death of a Black man murdered by the police.
But it looks as if conservatives will get their wish. The odds are now on Rittenhouse getting off with the killings and other crimes. The only thing abused in the trial is justice. The judge seems to be doing everything he can to aid the defense. There is an old joke about a battered boxer returning to his corner between rounds. His trainer tells him not to worry as his opponent has not laid a glove on him. To which the boxer replies, “in that case, keep your eye on the referee because someone is hitting me.”
JD Vance was not always a mindless orange-ass kisser. After graduating from Yale Law school, he joined Mithril Capital, the venture capital firm founded by billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel. Today, Thiel is almost single-handedly funding a pro-Vance super PAC, contributing $10 million when it launched this spring. Which is now not looking like a good investment. Vance also wrote the best-seller Hillbilly Elegy. And made more money when he sold the movie-rights
In 2016, he said of Trump, “My god what an idiot”. He called him “reprehensible.” Saying, "I never liked him", and, “I can’t vote for Trump, I can’t stomach the guy, I think he is noxious”. And he publicly confessed that he did not cast a vote for him in the 2016 election. A clear-eyed, straight shooter with an independent streak.
Now that stand-up guy is gone.
When Vance decided to run for the Senate, all of that went out of the window. He deleted his old anti-Trump tweets and made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. And he now sounds just as insane as every other Republican candidate. But Vance has a problem. The leading candidate for the GOP nomination is Josh Mandel. And Mandel is the sort of miserable shit that the Trump base finds irresistible. It is hard to imagine how you would out crazy that expedient bigot. To give you an idea, Brent Larkin, the dean of Ohio political writers, described Mandel as a “bottom feeder” of “unsurpassed intellectual dishonesty for whom “no gutter is too deep, no shot too cheap”.
Vance is not doing well in his attempt. He trails Mandel badly in the polls. And now he has blown off participating in the next two debates. His reason is a scheduling conflict. It is an inexplicable move for a trailing candidate, who should take every opportunity to knife his opponent on TV. And what conflicting events could be more important than that?
Vance is also a week behind in filing his campaign finance information. And that is after the campaign gaining a 90-day extension. He knows finance, so what is he hiding?
Vance’s comments on the Rittenhouse trial are just more of the same since he went to the dark side. When Alec Baldwin accidentally killed the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, he asked Jack Dorsey to “let Trump back on” Twitter, because “we need Alec Baldwin tweets.” In his Twitter bio, Vance calls himself “Christian, husband, dad” and yet he so lacks empathy that he cannot appreciate how callous this message is to Hutchins' husband and young son. And his Christianity is of the conservative evangelical kind.
However, we should not be surprised. He was trying to appeal to a man whose son, Donald Jr, used the tragedy to sell $27.99 T-shirts on his website with the message “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people”. Which further solidified mini-me's reputation as a half-witted, no-class ass.
JD Vance is going to lose his race. His opponents are well-financed and having a field day with his caustic comments on Trump. Ironically, this writer has thrown away his reputation to try and win over people who do not read. If he were a good Christian, he would have paid heed to Mark 8:36 “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”