Like many of you, I spend a lot of time texting back and forth with friends.
Many of those text chains are now inundated with pictures of JD Vance.
Maybe youve seen them.
JD Vance as a nuclear explosion in an Akira comic panel.© Image via Discord.
There are new ones every day.
Often, he says pwease.
Im obsessed with these pictures.
©Meme via X.com.
I have dozens saved on my phone and hard drive.
Early Vice Presidential memes emphasized Vances smokey eyes and chubby cheeks.
Of the two strains, the chubby Vance is now dominant.
©Image via Discord.
For months now, Ive seen pictures of Vance circulating that inflate him.
He looks like a Cabbage Patch Doll thats been left in the sun.
His ever-expanding body and meme-form reminds me of the 4chan-driven meme magic of 2016.
© Image via X.com.
What became of Pepe in the end?
His creator won some lawsuits and got into NFTs.
He died as a meme, mostly, and transformed intoGroyper.
©Image via Discord.
Pepe was often, but not always, ironically racist.
Vances current memetic form resembles that of the Groyper, but somehow less human.
Groyper stares at the viewer with a little smile and a twinkle in his eyes.
©Image via Discord.
Chubby Vances huge eyes empty of everything but malice.
A strange thing about the bloated Vance memes is that they cut across the nations fraught cultural divide.
Ive seen Vances bloated form shared by Nazis, conservatives, and liberals.
© Image via Discord.
Vice Presidents often fill a unique role in an administration as a jester.
Dan Quayle misspelled potato during an elementary school spelling bee andnever lived it down.
Whats happening to Vance is no different, but it does seem more intense.
Hes been a public figure and the object of ridicule for more than a decade.
A parody excerpt of his memoirHillbilly Elegyled to the Associated Press reporting on a rumor that hedfucked a couch.
Something about us wanted that to be true so badly that the mainstream press reported on it.
The memes, somehow, reflect an essential truth about Vance.
And yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self, the meme reads.
This is the heart of it.
I imagine the Vice Presidents soul is putrid, a barren and vile thing.
The memes show me a small fiction that speaks to a deeper truth.
Vance, who is extremely online, says hes seen the memes.
He told a reporter for The Blaze thathe thinks its a very funny trend.
Im not laughing with him.
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