It’s official: TrumpleThinSkin has sent JD Vance to fraud jail. As payback for Vance’s remarks that the Republican collapse during the Midterms was because of Iran, the Orange Puffaroon today pulled Vance out of negotiations with Iran, saying on his True Sociopath insane asylum posting site: “We don’t need a deal with Iran.”
He continued: “Those days have long since passed. I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.”1
Ouch.
I wonder how JD will seek comfort during these trying times. Perhaps he’ll turn to Erika Kirk, who endorsed him for President some time ago. I can’t remember when she did that — sometimes this stuff is just all such a blur to me, but maybe during this romantic interlude?
You might recall that TrumpleThinSkin said he agreed with JD Vance when Vance did his first post-mortem on the election that, along with other disasters for Republicans, turned Texas blue.
No, the Midterm Elections Did Not Kill Identity Politics
The mainstream media has unsurprisingly cast the Midterm Elections results, which left the Republican Party gasping for air, as the last gasp of identity politics.
Vance was being kind, of course, by focusing on Iran and not Trump’s relentless insanity, when he wrote:2
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics,3 told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting.
Did JD see one week into the future when he wrote the last line? Because the Grifter’s first reaction was to say he agreed with JD (while saying he’d do it again — IT being his war of choice in Iran). A week later, no surprise, the mad clown lowers the boom.
In case JD is not aware of what gaslighting is, this is Gaslighting 101. It will be taught in universities someday, and all the material will come out of the predator-in-chief’s mouth.
It was only a matter of time before JD would receive his punishment.
This comes on the heels of an earlier report today that Vance had expressed hope that he’d secure a one-on-one meeting with Iran negotiators. Per the New York Times:4
In a letter sent from Mr. Vance via Qatari mediators to Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and former commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the vice president suggested that American and Iranian officials meet soon, adding that he would lead the talks for the United States.
Almost before that letter was done careening through Iran’s postal system (since, as TrumpleBullshitter tells the story, Iran’s internet is broken because Kegsbreath has pounded it to pieces), the Orange Malignancy of Mar-a-Lago pulled the plug.
I can sort of imagine Natalie hitting his elbow with hers in the Great Puffaroon Bedroom last night saying, “Did you see this, daddy? He’s trying to end the war now!! Can’t you stop this?”
In last weekend’s “60 Minutes” interview, Trump told Ross Douthat, who has made a living gaslighting New York Times readers himself, that he was no longer worried about Iran nukes.
He’s gone full Taco on this, so it’s impossible to guess what he’ll do next, although a massive storm of expensive American missiles, draining what is left of U.S. supplies, seems likely.
This is called being sidelined. Another possible descriptor: Having the rug pulled out from under you. Another: Getting thrown under the bus. There are others.
Good luck on your presidential run, JD. My unsolicited advice: Avoid direct contact with people. Nobody likes you.
Notes
Converting Texas into a Blue state in one night is an accomplishment that no other Republican president could have pulled off.5
Vance should run for president on that incredible feat alone, and try to discover ways he contributed to this amazing political miracle. Invent them if he must. It’s the Republican way.
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Footnotes
Broadwater, Luke. “Trump Says He’s Pulling Vance Off Iran Talks to Focus on Fraud Campaign.” nytimes. The New York Times, November 12, 2026.
🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/us/politics/trump-vance-iran-fraud.html. 🎁
The ultimate in small sample sizes
New York Times, ibid
This is not to take away from the amazing work of a lot of hard-working Democrats in Texas, who, ever since Beto O’Rourke lost a close election to Ted Cruz, have been working their tails off to build a Get Out the Vote (GOTV) machine.