Weird because he seems really fucking dumb.

It’s so egregious that I wonder if it’s in part out of intense self-loathing

His quotes always sound insufferably smug.

A Resting-contempt face .

Omg, yes.

Or he knows who his backers are. I mean, c'mon. Who brought him to the White House? It's a very dangerous political game here that's been going on for years now. Grooming this guy & successfully putting him in this place is beyond (their) wildest dreams of strategy.

What has he actually accomplished that supports his thinking that he “the smartest person in every room”. And please don’t say he wrote a book. I believe his wife wrote it.

The disastrous thing, for both him and the rest of us, is that he clearly goes to work every day thinking he’s totally pulled one over on Donald Trump.

I just imagine him sprinkling ever-more white powder from a box marked "POISON!" into Trump's daily Diet Cokes only to belatedly realize it's cholesterol medication.

what about musk?

I thought the "dumb presidents" line was in a snarky summary... but nope.

It's especially galling, considering how wrong he often is.

My dude has mastered being annoying as fuck and leaning into it “ironically”

He has spent a lot of time with musk and trump, so it's clear where some of that reinforcement is coming from. Not to mention Rubio.... Man, is he actually one of the smartest people in the white house right now? That's fucking horrifying.

Head to head match up of JD and that guy named Rafael who doesn't want others to use their preferred names? It's a tough race, to a photo finish, I suspect.

His horrid book was all about saying he was smarter than everyone else. He is hated by the people he shat upon in that book.

Seriously. I've known several contenders, but he takes the cake.

But he's not a good faker or actor.

At least this clip will be his mission accomplished moment.

This is the perfect example of DEI for college admissions.

The worst part is any person with any sort of life experience can easily see through his BS facade. And anyone with anyone with any sort of education can easily dismantle him.

He doesn't need to fool everyone Jamelle, just the fools who voted for war, the top 1% and loss of healthcare.

Terry Moran commands you to resign

But it’s laced with a hint of “pick me” desperation, which makes it even more insulting to Americans.

A charged word like “dumb” is telling.

But #magats hate that ... At least according to why Dems lost the 'working man' vote. Total BS. The 'working man' is uneducated and mad bc he got left behind by greed and corporate agendas who outsourced his job. So now he's #racist, still dumb and still very #unemployed. Congratulations.

💯💯💯

Elon would win but he’s too high all the time to pull this level of smug dipshit off, he needs to hold on to his own jacket so he won’t fly away.

He's just too needy and awkward--well, Vance is awkward but it's a slightly different flavor somehow. Vance's awkwardness comes from having strangled anything authentic in him long ago, I'd venture. Elon, between nature and nurture, is basically an alien.

anyway with Elon "please love me" is always in there which is frankly disconcerting, especially since he doesn't actually believe the people he needs to love him exist, as such. Vance is just this walking sneer at this point.

He said something a while back, paraphrasing, about people with an IQ of 120 who think it's 140, and I've never heard anyone tell on themselves so badly.

"But all my buddies at Mensa think I'm hilarious."

he gets it from his handler, Thiel

Given who he works for and with, he may be right most of the time.

Ohio exceptionalism s/

Trump has the emotional intelligence of a 13 year old and Vance has the conceit of a 13 year old.

Trump's more like 6 going on 2. Vance is a 13 year old edgelord. Elon is the pathetic Peter Pan who needs the 13 year old edgelord to worship him.

the worst I Debated energy

The saddest guy at the NCA hotel bar

I lettered in forensics in high school, and I want to stuff him in a locker.

Gandhi would want to stuff him in a locker

It's possible that Gandhi WOULD stuff him in a locker.

His hubris is off the charts.

Imagine how his in-laws (nannies) suffer.

I'm not sure why he's not wearing a fedora.

Real Spiro Agnew energy.

A smarmy smug a-hole he is.

And it is the most undeserved!

He’s NPD. I can see it a mile away.

And it is so tiring…can we lose him over their gulf of america as we don’t know where it is???

And he and DimWit Donny have the least reason to.

Your affinity for him grows with every appearance.

Not to mention the "I am the savior you gave been waiting for" vibe.

I bet his wife is smarter.

Worse than Peterson?

Yes! He's a walking wedgie begging to happen. Swirlie, even.

Made him such a star on the campaign trail

and zero ability to get anyone else to think so. For someone who got through the schools he did, I'd say it was 100% AI enabled

Omg.... He's so wet behind his ears. He simply can't comprehend we all are supposed to survive cohesively. Respecting each other without coercion. Let people be who they are and respect that. It's obvious he never traveled and his wife can easily manipulate him...

He speaks with an ego accent

He's got a level of statesmanship that is truly rare

Depending on the amount of time he's spending around the President, there may be some truth to it

He is worse than the most condescending, contemptuous person I met in law school.

He clearly looked like he wasn't told anything before that press briefing

Purest "my father founded this car dealership" energy I've seen.

Narcissism of the silver-tongued subtype.

Please put him in a cage match with Aaron Rodgers

And it brings out the worst reaction from people listening to him, you can just feel your face going into the yuck expression

He hangs w Peter Thiel & Curtis Yarvin…of course he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room when they’re not in it. They’re the only ones smarter than whatever his name is today. He believes because it makes him superior too! & rich. Forever.

It will be his downfall, thankfully. No one’s a Vance FAN. He’s not winning in 2028. Basically, he’s undeniably just a d*ck. Feel sorry for his kids.

Good description of what I've always felt about him, but couldn't articulate well

Well it's hard to top Trump but he is doing his best.

While clearly being a dolt.

With half the charm of an ingrown hair.

Yes he's incredibly smug and condescending

He really does. Zero self awareness, too.

Hard to say when Aaron Rodgers exists, but 1 and 1a.

Imagine being married to that.

If the Dunning-Kruger effect had twins they would be Vance and Musk.

he acts like me when i was 14 (derogatory)

Dumbasses love to call others dumb.

and he's stupid compared to tucker carlson

How did such an off-putting man make it in politics? Thiel has awful taste in proxies

Thiel, like most very rich people, had a scorching case of affluenza. He's got absolutely no idea how other humans think and he's been brain-damaged by how people treat him because he's rich. Vance is very bad at many things, but he's a world-class sycophant.

Vance got taken under the wing of Amy Chua at Yale Law School and by many accounts, she convinced him his [DEI admit] story was a bootstraps story worth publishing.

Yeah, my centrist relative was swayed by that book, as were others. Maybe he's a more appealing writer than speaker

let's talk about Vance bankrupting american farms on purpose so he can sell off the land to rich foreign investors bsky.app/profile/redl...

JD Vance just living up to what he told Time Magazine 11/3/2016: “Trump’s biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people and he encourages the worst in people.” time.com/4556065/jd-v...

Agreed, now imagine the deep levels of insecurity and self-hatred that is driving it.

He talks like a dumb persons idea of a smart person.

He's the type of person who thinks the joke is funnier when they have to explain it because nobody laughed.

Have you ever worked with someone who came in with all the confidence in the world and zero experience then try to explain to you a subject in which you're actually knowledgeable? Yeah, that's what this man sounds like.

It is "I am the smartest person in every room and I talk with the voice of the people", which adds this special layer of smug.

I think he is literally Damien. Every time he talks, all I see are bad special-effects flames at the back of his dead eyes, like pretty much any 1970s satanic possession horror flick.

It comes from his experience of being the smartest guy in weird fascist chatrooms mostly full of 11th graders.

well. *thinking* he was the smartest guy in those weird fascist chatrooms, anyway.

Those forums are filled with contempt for the intelligence and education of others where everyone backslaps each other about how clever they are compared to social liberals. Because they're so obviously correct, their opponents are just playthings to be mocked and tormented with irony.

Vance is so obviously in deep with that world, and he adopts that register. He is well-educated and well-spoken, so the dripping contempt he has while he insults your intelligence with his disingenuous and specious arguments feels more obnoxious.

It's worse. Elon's more a creature of pure online. Vance has been hobnobbing with the real power for some time now; a chunk of online weirdos like Yarvin but also all the finance bros, the Ivy League secret society whatever...and since he was a kid he's thought he was too good for his surroundings

It seems like Vance's whole motivation is to shit downwards. Vance is still seething over being shut out by the elite who didn't respond to his book. In the end he knows Mee-Maw rhymes with Hee-Haw, and he just can't accept that his book sucks, so his insecurity continues to fuel him.

Like Miller and his erstwhile wife, he's a climber. And yes, SEETHING with rage. just slopping over with contempt, it's startling actually. remember the campaign trail? what a hooting dickhole he came off at every stop? god I can't believe these freaks won, again, still.

He went to an Ivy League and became a wealthy investor. I’m not exactly sure what he’s aggrieved about

He benefited from the Ivy Leagues giving preference to veterans in admissions

Same thing Elon Musk is aggrieved about: 'respectable' parts of society think hes a loser, despite his success

Musk's sad/mad because he can't buy real friends, or people who laugh at his jokes. Trump's mad because he has all the money but the elite he grew up admiring in NY and Hollywood circles despise him. Vance...class insecurity but also there's something truly bent there.

Because they are losers. Success isn’t a cure for asshole.

It's worked well for him. When you see people (any color/gender) suddenly flip from Democrat to Republican, it's because they realize they're sending their schtick to an audience that doesn't buy it* & they need a new audience that will be more receptive. * Establishment Dems excepted; see Cuomo, A

But “JD” do you “empathize” with the millions who are “exhausted” with you?

This country seems to specialize in high functioning idiots however.

He says that while he kisses trumps ass. 😂😂😂😂

His wife actually seems smart. I cant believe she can stand him

Not how a person typically responds to white supremecist attacks on their wife. I mean, if they’re not white supremecists too

And the best at handling football trophies.

Hell of a thing for an affirmative action admission to Yale. Vance didn't get in because he was smart. He got in because of geographic set asides from the Ivies.

I'm imagining Vance deciding he'll wear the Trumpist mask "for now" as a means of gaining access to power, and then when he thinks it's time, he discovers the mask has fused to him and is now his real face.

He’d pimp his beloved grandmother if it advanced his career

He truly does. He's an arrogant asshole. 💯💯💯👍👍👍🎯🎯🎯

If white privilege were a disease.

Actually, I work with someone who might be worse.

Walking example of Dunning-Kruger.

A couple tongue baths from Amy Chua and Peter Thiel and this overeager mediocrity from the Ohio ‘burbs thinks he’s the next fucking Metternich.

“Oh, you think you’re smarter, Tam?” Fuck no I don’t, but I’m not on the Sunday morning talking head shows confidently bragging to everyone that I am. Whoever gave JD Vance his shamectomy has a lot for which they need to answer.

(Do I think I could take JD Vance in a spelling bee? I dunno. I’d risk as much as a Jackson on myself. But I don’t think I’m the smartest kid in the room, either.)

*looks around our shared online community for the last 25 years* Smartest kid in that room IMHO.

there are a lot of smartest kids in the room. the problem for them is that there are also a lot of rooms. the other part is: there are other qualities than "smart," even assuming we all agree what counts as "smart." Compassionate, say; or warm. Ethical. Even "fun to be around."

very true considering he's only the smartest person in the room if he's alone in a room with trump.

Or looking in a mirror while applying his eyeliner.

Well when JD is in a room with Donald...

The biggest lie is "I empathize".

Vance: Let me explain it to you like you're 5. Us: Oh, not necessary. I have a Masters. Here's a question for you, though. Vance: When a bomb loves a country very, very much... Sidebar: it is very upsetting hearing my name come out of that face.

There was certainly no shortage of people stroking his ego in the past but I can’t imagine being in the same room as that face

Couldn’t agree more with you! Never seen that before in politics

ted cruz comes close. I believe that in maga world, any person who is not a magat has been reduced to non-human in their minds. The contempt follows naturally. #MassSociopathy

A patronizing POS. He's a narcissist like his boss. 🤮

He does. Has no one been able to demonstrate just how incorrect he is? Or is he just totally in self-aware? Most media won’t try to go toe to toe with him, but we need to.

That is what ignorant people do when they know they are not intelligent but are good at faking it!

He is s truly insufferable. I have to mute him the way I do with trump. I am just too old to listen to this sh** anymore.

It has to be borderline sociopathy if not outright sociopathy. The man is such an opportunistic, parasitic chameleon that he has no idea who or what he is anymore other than a vessel to seek power because he "deserves" it.

Yet he aligned himself with a very dangerous crowd of racist who would skin his wife and kids alive because they are brown. How does he not see that he's put his family in mortal danger? The republicans are killing white democrats for politics alone, what does he think they will do to POC?

Some real Dunning-Kruger shit

Absolutely agree. His comments are extremely offensive.

Apparently he's too dumb to realize that 2017-2020 is within the last 25 years.

💯 Unparalleled arrogance + ignorance

Being white and a man does that to some people.

Imposter syndrome seeping through

What a jackass. Endless wars and looting of the America people

Like Newt Gingrich or Paul Ryan. Junior Varsity Vance is completely insufferable.

Can we put him in the ring with Ted Cruz?

He's probably one of those people who in conversation almost never look at you when you're speaking. I've notice that to be a trait of the highly arrogant.

It's his most online-Right characteristic: the need to not just lie, but to make it clear that he's lying so that you know how "clever" he's being.

I have met many Vances in my life. He is the laziest guy in college, who never reads assignments, dominates the conversation with irrelevant and uninformed blathering, and then leaves the room with the reinforced belief that he is brilliant. That people can see thru his bs never occurs to him.

Amen

Both he and Hegseth carry the qualities of those try-hard guys you know. It’s hard to pinpoint but they trigger a sense memory. We already know them. Unlikeable is a kind word for it.

And is somehow appallingly stupid at the same time. He’s not done one thing in his public career that has suggested anything to me besides having a massive chip on his shoulder and naked ambition for getting what he thinks he’s owed by virtue of his existence.