JD Vance may be a one-man tsunami of evil and misery on our world, but nobody can deny he’s played the political game like a grandmaster.
Back in 2016, Vance dubbed Trump a possible “America’s Hitler”. He went to dismiss Trump as “cultural heroin”, said “I find him reprehensible”, called him “a moral disaster”, an “idiot”, and a “total fraud”.
Ordinarily, that would have ruled Vance out from getting even a sniff of power under President Trump. Fortunately for Vance, Trump has an insatiable appetite for flattery that Vance gradually became all too happy to accommodate. Now, after an epic campaign of brown-nosing, Vance is just one cheeseburger-induced heart attack away from the presidency.
And, frankly, it sounds like JD and Usha are already picking out their Oval Office furniture. Speaking to USA Today, Vance talked up his own capabilities, saying he’s ready and waiting to step up “If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens”:
UNITED STATES: JD Vance says Trump is going to 'serve out the remainder of his term', but if 'God forbid, there is a terrible tragedy' he cannot think of 'better on the job training' than what he has received in the past 200 days. pic.twitter.com/rJTNMIbOZC
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) August 28, 2025
Vance went on to ominously repeat that “Yes, terrible tragedies happen”, but explained he now has “on-the-job training” after the last 200 days.
“Incredible energy”
It’s worth underlining that elsewhere Vance was at pains to emphasize that Trump is not only currently physically fit, he’s practically superhuman:
“He’s got incredible energy, and while most of the people who work around the President of the United States are younger than he is, I think we find that he actually is the last person who goes to sleep, he’s the last person making phone calls at night, and he’s the first person who wakes up and the first person making phone calls in the morning.”
Sure, he is buddy. Whoa, oops, you got a little in your beard there. Here’s a napkin to clean yourself up after that butt-diving expedition!
Even so, Trump is a 79-year-old man who doesn’t exercise (golf doesn’t count) and consumes junk food like it’s going out of style. Vance would be a fool if he weren’t quietly preparing to assume the presidency and subtly making some background moves to shore up his political power base.
If and when Trump pops his clogs, his opponents and the rest of the world will get at most 12 hours to crack open the champagne and party before the dawning reality sinks in that we’re in for X years of President Vance.
Perhaps the one silver lining of Trump is that he’s too chaotic to zero in on a single political project at any one time. But Vance? The United States may see a seismic shift from Chaotic Evil to Lawful Evil. Who can say which is worse?
