JD Vance takes ‘Worst VP pick EVER!’ crown from Sarah Palin, and gets less likable every day

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JD Vance takes ‘Worst VP pick EVER!’ crown from Sarah Palin, and gets less likable every day

That’s it, folks, I’m calling it: Let it be known, in September of the year 2024, that JD Vance ‒ aka “The Bearded Weird” ‒ is officially the

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in all of U.S. history.

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, please turn in your crown. Vance will accept it while saying something unfunny that makes normal people feel uncomfortable. It’s kind of his thing.

With a

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of “previous podcast appearances” in which he

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and with ongoing

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, Vance has proved himself almost staggeringly unlikable.

He’s the guy nobody wants to get stuck next to at the office party. Or at the bar. Or in the grocery store line. Or anywhere, really.

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*********** vice presidential nominee JD Vance campaigns on Aug. 15, 2024, in New Kensington, Pa.

JD Vance is proving himself uniquely awful at being a VP candidate

Oozing whatever is the opposite of charisma, Vance has been

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, excoriated for past comments about

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and mercilessly dragged online for video of a painfully

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He is, it’s worth remembering, *********** presidential nominee Donald Trump’s VP pick only because Trump’s previous vice president,

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. Vance is a replacement-Pence, which is the saddest thing a person can be.

In terms of favorability, Vance has little

I, and I suspect many other Americans, would usually feel empathy for a person so flabbergastingly awkward. But there’s an empathy-eviscerating meanness at the core of Vance’s character. So here we are.

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so far underwater that he needs scuba gear, with 44.4% of people having an unfavorable opinion of him and only 33.9% approving.

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Former President Donald Trump, who dodged an ************** attempt on July 13, 2024, celebrates after accepting the *********** presidential nomination five days later in Milwaukee with former first lady Melania Trump and *********** vice presidential nominee JD Vance.

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has his favorability at -12%.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has an impressive +11% favorability rating

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, and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is at +3%.

Will Trump and Harris debate? Donald Trump’s 10 very specific demands for a debate with Kamala Harris, probably.

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-25% favorability. Hopefully part of that comes from Americans annoyed at him for forcing them to be exposed to Vance in the first place.

Beating out Sarah Palin as ‘worst VP pick ever’ is a real achievement

That Vance has somehow out-Palin-ed Sarah Palin is nothing short of remarkable.

For those fortunate enough to have forgotten or never heard of her, Palin was … a lot. *********** presidential candidate John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008. She quickly turned Americans off with her mean and fact-averse version of folksiness and revealed herself as little more than a reality television contestant in search of a low-rated show.

Running neck-and-neck with Palin in the “Ooof, that was a bad VP pick” category is

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, who was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate. His exciting-as-a-jar-of-generic-mayonnaise personality added zero value to the ticket that eventually lost to Trump.

That was then, and this is now. I imagine Kaine and Palin will soon meet at a neutral Applebee’s to hoist a ***** in celebration of Vance’s pitifulness.

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: “We applied our current favorability polling average formula to old polls of six freshly minted VP picks from the past 20 years … and none of them ever had an average net favorability rating as low as Vance’s.”

Vance has weird views about women, and that’s not helping him

One reason for that might be all the incomprehensibly weird things Vance said in the recent past when he apparently spent most of his time appearing on podcasts.

Over the weekend,

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for a ************* group called “America Moment.” In it, Vance said women who opt to focus on their careers rather than having children are choosing “a path to misery.”

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At a campaign rally for Democratic presidential running mates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Eau Claire, Wis., on Aug. 7, 2024.

At one point, he presents his version of the perspective of such a woman, saying: “OK, clearly, this value set has made me a ********** person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological ******* when it was possible. … But I’m really better than these other people. What I’m going to do is project my, like, ******* and gender sensitivities on the rest of them … even though the way that I think has made me a ********** person, I just need to make more people think like that.”

That’s a fairly ******-able thing to say. And it demonstrates Vance’s unique skill of sounding smug, sexist, faux intellectual, lonely, tragic and ***** all at once.

The GOP’s problem with women: You’re not imagining it. Republicans have been weird about women for years.

Vance could apologize for the ***** things he has said … but no

He has been asked if he’d like to apologize for offensive past comments, but he won’t. Admitting any form of wrongdoing in Trump’s MAGA universe is strictly forbidden.

Last Thursday, the never-hilarious

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along with these words: “I have gotten ahold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview.” The video was of 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant Caite Upton struggling painfully to answer a question during the competition.

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*********** vice presidential nominee JD Vance campaigns in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 20, 2024.

That moment haunted Upton and led her to have suicidal thoughts. So … you know … not funny.

When

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to Upton, Capt. Smooth said: “I’m not going to apologize for posting a joke.”

You’re a joke, Mr. Vance. And, fittingly, an unfunny one.

Don’t worry. JD Vance has only begun to annoy us!

Palin and Kaine had cringe-inducing moments, but they were nothing compared with Vance’s ongoing streak of insufferableness. He’s every office’s “one guy nobody likes.” He’s a shining example of Trump’s inability to make smart decisions. He is best forgotten.

And it’s only the beginning of September.

Lord knows how many other podcast clips are out there.

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