This exchange is my personal nightmare

What a strategy

I'm in awe Vance went with "the real threat to democracy is censorship" followed by "I'm proud to have the RFK Jr endorsement"

I am walking directly to my local bar the minute this is over lol

Right. Debating is a weird, specific skill set and Vance has the bag of tricks. He might even have been a net benefit if he could manage to stay off podcasts!

There's a nearby possible world where he has a 20 year Big Law career and then wins a senate seat as a guy who's good at debates even if he's a little awkward in person. (Many such cases) Instead he's a giant unlikeable weirdo

Vance is such a fascinating character because he's a reasonably adept debate performer and plausibly could have had a decent career if he hadn't sold his soul and needs to parrot the most insane, idiotic, and evil talking points imaginable

This is the stupidest possible outcome, and therefore must necessarily occur per Birch's Law (the universe exists to vex me, personally, by making the stupidest possible thing happen while I can only watch it happening)

In between making jokes about how the horny breaks people's brains, we do talk about the future of the republican party if it can't stop nominating deranged losing candidates