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Why wasn't he wearing a suit? Does he even own a suit? Very disrespectful. Has he even once ever said thank you to Greenland?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. JD Vance is like the dog that finally actually caught the car. He never wanted to be in politics in the first place. He's not good at it. He's a terrible negotiator and a worse diplomat. He couldn't find Greenland on a map, with color coded stickers and a giant neon arrow pointing directly at it. He's as stupid as he is vile, and his wife is so over his bullshit she's barely hiding her disdain behind a Reagan era Stepford haircut and enough 8:00 mimosas to tranquilize a giraffe.
But, despite all odds, somehow JD is here now, in a role he is utterly unsuited to, doing things he hates doing, with absolutely none of the skill set required to even approach a level of "barely competent" at doing it.
He caught the car. And now he has no idea what the fuck to do with it.
@Lana Does he think he has a beer?
@einfachnurRoland 
same thought. His expression like "uh, did I already say 'hold my beer?'"@Lana
@Lana Orientalism.
@Lana and wtf, is he wearing daddy’s coat?
@Lana In many ways, Trump was also a dog that caught the car. And yet here we are… 
@deivudesu JD Vance is exactly like Trump, but minus the charisma.
@Lana Hmn… Tough (and fraught) to make predictions at this stage… But I think it's fairly established that he was handpicked as the more pliable/predictable version of Trump by his fascist oligarch masters…
He is undeniably not as terminally moronic as Trump (low bar), but indeed has the charisma of a 10-day old roadkill.
But I am not convinced "charisma" is that tangible a metric: Trump objectively had a very narrow and limited appeal, but still managed to build a personality cult out of it.
@deivudesu you don't become leader of a cult without charisma. It's a required component. Vance has none. No, that's not true. Vance has negative charisma. He lacks charisma so hard, he owes the universe charisma.
@Lana I have the faint feeling (and nothing else to back it up), that charisma as we knew it, is not as relevant in that field as it used to be: the number of people who will ever get to see a version of either of them that's not been heavily filtered and distorted, is fairly tiny compared to the vast majority who will only get the carefully-massaged (/outright made-up) content bites…
@Lana But even setting that aside, looking at the crowded field of semi-successful dictators and fascist leaders, I'm not sure I would call the vast majority of them "charismatic"… (they drew crowds, but that usually had a lot more to do with a movement they were the figurehead and/or enforcer of, than a natural personal appeal)
@deivudesu I mean, you can say that, but it doesn't make it true. Talk to anyone who has been in a cult. From David Koresh to L.Ron Hubbard. Every single cult stems from a leader with charisma. It is historically the single most defining trait of a cult.
@Lana Sorry, I should have been more specific: I was talking about *authoritarian leaders* (/dictators etc), not cult leaders. Sure: plenty of overlap, but also a very different way to build up their following.
And while Trump's following is cultish, it is no more cultish than all these other successful dictators before him.
So while Koresh, Hubbard or Jones might have been charismatic, I'd argue Hitler, Pol Pot or Stalin are a lot less clear cut (to say nothing of 2nd gen like Assad)
@deivudesu strongly disagree with the hot take that Trump is not a cult leader.
@Lana I guess we'll just have to disagree 
To be clear: his following *obviously* has plenty of cultish traits.
But so did the following of practically every other successful populist leaders of the past… There is still quite a few major differences between a "cult" in the strict sense, and a populist movement with a cult of personality.
I don't think marking this difference is a particularly hot take, but
@deivudesu yeah we're not pretending that Joe Biden is the master ringleader of a cult. GTFO with that horseshit. Muted for a week.
Farah 
@Lana @deivudesu Trump and JD Vance is one of those rare matched pairs made in heaven
@Lana Maybe he'll get run over yes?
@Lana he caught the car because the driver stopped, put it in park, put on the e brake, got out and walked away leaving it next to his dog house... and to be fair, none of the 3 that are the top office there have any business there... none of them have the experience, knowledge, skills, charisma, or brain power to do the job they've been handed by the massive amounts of people who just wanted to openly discriminate against POC and LGBTQIA+ without facing reprecations... an aging generation on its way out that remembers "the old days" when "things were better, because people were hired based on merit not on inclusivity programs" (a lie they keep telling themselves, because the bulk of the ones that believe it are cishet white males that have been rejected for a job for not being qualified and instead of told they werent qualified, they were told that the company went with someone who was a better fit... causing resentment at the person instead of the business.. think George Carlin said it best "a lot of these people go most of their lives without hearing those character building words ' You're a loser bobby' "
Steve @Lana That’s a 10/10 rant there!
@Lana And I am going to point this out at every opportunity: he continually looks like he really has to poop.
@Lana The parka looks like a loaner.
@Lana I think that he’s not good at it is the point. He’s the version of diplomacy they want, just sneering and performing at being shitty to heads of state they want to break ties with.
All he ever wanted was the authority to be able to claim to be the winning side of an argument by threatening escalation to violence. His arguments have no merit, only menace.
@Lana
Not a hot take, but an accurate one.
Reply = endorsement
@Lana Talking of Stepford Wives, have you seen 'Whitehouse Press Barbie's husband? Was she picked for being tolerant of old people? She doesn't seem very tolerant of anyone else.
@woo I mean, the real, actual answer is she was picked because she's a right wing Twitter troll. Make of that what you will.
@Lana I checked I hadn't misremembered. She's 27. Her husband is 32 years older. They have definitely broken a rule this time https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/f2/dating_pools.png
@Lana
You're not wrong. It should be noted, however, that the lack of a suit may well have been an intentional sign of disrespect. A way of saying to Greenland, "We're Americans. We do what we want."
@Lana
How to look like a toddler out on a winter stroll whilst holding on to daddy's hand but daddy's forgotten to switch off his cloaking device.
I wished they had arrested him and deported him to a place he doesn't know
@Christo_459 GREENLAND YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO DO THE FUNNIEST THING
@Lana JDV seems not being familiar with geography. Nobody told him, that’s cold there.
"I got to admit I just don't get Greenland really, not a sofa in sight" - a cold hearted man on the worst trip of his life
@Lana he is so funny wearing a coat for -20C. while he is wearing ordinary trousers
@randomized @Lana So much potential.
All right! Who the hell airbrushed out the can of Coors in JD's right hand?
very sadly no hungry polarbear in reach when you need one...
@Lana That expression: “Please, sir. May I have a glass of water?”
@Lana He tries to mimic Muskies arm raise gesture. Even that fails
Get me an air guitar…. Another option
@Lana and he wore a hat while eating in the mess- against military rules!
@Lana
Again, constantly seems to be measuring things with his hands...
"I was told, that Greenland was green." (Mystified when people around him laugh, just goes with it.)
@Lana
Vance brags about his penis length again.