We’ve had McNamara and Rumsfeld, but unfortunately we won’t get to see Errol Morris gaze down the brain-gullet of JD Vance, who never seems completely comfortable lying in the most casual, confident but also glaringly incoherent ways.  His verbal molestations stand ready for the history books of portentious historical prevarication.  Let’s take one quote from a recent CBS primetime interview:

JD Vance wrote:

Well,Tony, I would say that in some ways we have won decisively [the war on Iran], but the Iranians, the enemy gets a vote here.  And they’ve responded in certain ways.

“Certain ways”, such as …. not losing decisively, exactly.  Oh, who knew that “the enemy” in a given war has some kind of say in its outcome?  The noive.  It’s only NOT a total victory if you bother to ask the savages we attacked, who haven’t the manners to surrender when properly slapped.  “Decisively” is not a word that I believe Jimmy Dave does not understand.  There are no “some ways” in decisive outcomes.

The problem, of course, is that there is a reason why Vance is so comfortable being transparently untrustworthy on prime time broadcast TV.  No one that Vance has any concern about whatsoever, either calling out his bullshit or calling out the more sincere malice he represents, is watching prime time broadcast TV anymore, and he suspects that among those who still do are a lot dumber than anyone who can figure out a VPN or else they simply don’t care anymore about any pretense of integrity. 

For the rest of us, well Tony, there it is in simple language.  JD Vance is a fraud, and a dangerous one if anyone were to start taking him seriously.  (Not a minor point - much of our problems today stem from too many people refusing to take Trump seriously, until it was too late.)  Those using Vance as a punchline for his dithering chances to run in ‘28 are missing the very current crimes which no one seems to be holding Vance, or anyone, accountable for.