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JD Vance's mocking joke to troops flops as he's met with silence
JD Vance, the troops, and the thinness of grievanceThe setting mattersVice President JD Vance spoke at Naval Air Station Oceana to mark 250 years of the American military. That is an institutional stage, not a campaign stop. He used it to try to work a joke about Joe Biden’s stumbles into the room, as if military commemoration were a safe place to rehearse partisan resentment.The crowd gave him nothing. That silence is the point. When a vice president reaches for cheap ridicule in a formal setting and the room refuses to carry it, the performance collapses on contact with reality.Power…
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