{"id":27588,"date":"2025-06-21T08:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27588"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:08:46","slug":"jose-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27588","title":{"rendered":"Jose Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Vice President visited L.A., and of course immediately blamed the Democrats for his own administration&#8217;s attempts to turn peaceful protests into a clash with the military. He made sure to place special blame on &#8220;Jose Padilla&#8221; &#8212; which was apparently his name for U.S. Senator Alex Padilla &#8212; who was met with violence for having dared to ask a reasonable question of Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel must feel bad about the millions of dollars he has spent propping up Vance&#8217;s political career. All that money cannot, in fact, give the Veepacheep more functional brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that from now on we simply refer to Thing 2 in the White House as &#8220;Jose Vance&#8221;. That will help remind us of our V.P.&#8217;s weirdly fractured relationship to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Vice President visited L.A., and of course immediately blamed the Democrats for his own administration&#8217;s attempts to turn peaceful protests into a clash with the military. He made sure to place special blame on &#8220;Jose Padilla&#8221; &#8212; which was apparently his name for U.S. Senator Alex Padilla &#8212; who was met with violence for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jose Vance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}