Five New Vibes #1, by Adam Lehrer
What I'm vibing with this week, good and bad
1. JD VANCE
Vance is going to get heat from basically everyone now that we know the 39-year-old politician and Hillbilly Elegy author is going to be the Don’s Vice President. Conservatards will complain that he wrote negatively about Trump in 2016 and is amenable to the “Bernie bros.” Liberals will have a field day with the fact that he is openly inspired by our very own cub-culture, with follows on X that include Bronze Age Pervert and Aimee Terese. His Israeli photo-op with the requisite hand-on-wall pose will most certainly haunt him in some corners. More or less, however, I’m happy with the pick. JD’s journey from Bernie bro delusion to Trump realist loyalism very much mirrors mine and so many others I consider to be compatriots. Picking him over say, Marco Rubio, is Trump signaling to his own subculture that, this go about, he’s staying loyal to us and not to the party establishment. Plus, who isn’t warmed by the fact that JD won over the Donald with “those beautiful blue eyes?” So undeniably Trump to be besotted with his VP’s eyes, don’t you think?
2. 90 Day Fiancé Another Day in Paradise
I’ve attempted to write about the blisteringly cruel reality universe of 90 Day Fiancé for years with my definitive take, but every time I try to do so the show keeps upping the ante on its depravity. Another Day in Paradise follows lovestruck Americans venturing to visit their online lovers in foreign countries, like the show always does, but in these cases all the locales are gorgeous paradises.
The show’s characters: