That fucking donut JD Vance strikes again:

Over the weekend, Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance was a featured speaker at a conference, the Courage Tour, hosted by radical preacher Lance Wallnau. In a September 19 appearance on “FlashPoint,” Wallnau said that he was shown by God that “Kamala Harris was the one the devil was going to use to push through the White House.” According to Wallnau, he had a “vision from the Lord” that a Harris presidency is “how the devil intends to bring in the destruction of this country.” Wallnau said the Courage Tour, with stops in key swing states, is an effort by God to stop Harris and the devil.”

What year is it: 1924 or 2024? In 1924, Al Smith’s first run for the Democratic presidential nomination caused a meltdown in the Bible Belt. He was a Catholic who opposed prohibition, which made him a wet in the discourse of the time when his opponents were the ones who were really all wet.

The Lance Wallnaus of that era claimed that Smith would install the Pope in a spare room at the White House from which he would reign supreme. In 2024, many Catholics are aligned with the sort of people who hated them 100 years before. JD Vance is such a Catholic. In fact, he’s the worst kind: a convert who buys into the worst aspects of Catholicism and rejects its more enlightened side.

I must be doing a bad job keeping up with Christian nationalists. I’d never heard of Lance Wallnau until reading the Popular Information piece about that fucking donut JD Vance’s appearance on the so-called Courage Tour. A misnomer for anything or anyone who has chugged down the MAGA Kool-Aid. Insert obligatory image by Michael F:

As a devout atheist, if such a thing is possible, I think that belief in Satan is even weirder than believing in a Sky God. Who believes in hellfire and damnation in the 21st Century? Surely not the Insult Comedian. He has, however, dragged our political system straight to hell.

I have no idea exactly what, if anything, that fucking donut JD Vance believes in. He’s an opportunist who has gone from comparing Trump to Hitler to full-blown MAGA maggot. Vance does have one core belief: some call it misogyny, others call it sexism, Tim Walz calls it just plain weird. Yeah, you right Coach.

The featured image sums up JD Vance’s world view. It’s Satan Exulting Over Eve by William Blake. Blake was a painter and poet who lived from 1757-1827. In Blake’s day, people believed in the devil. They took the whole Garden of Eden nonsense literally: the snake, the apple, the banishment from paradise. Why anyone believes that nasty fairy tale nearly 200 years after Blake’s passing is beyond me, but they do and that fucking donut JD Vance is pandering to them.

Does JD believe in Satan? Beats the hell outta me but Donald Trump is a reasonable facsimile thereof. It’s unclear if Vance sees Trump as anything but a means to an end. Sounds demonic to me.

The Veep debate is tonight. That fucking donut JD Vance is bound to do better than the Kaiser of Chaos. He’ll try and lie his way through the joint appearance. CBS News has washed its hands of fact checking Vance, which will encourage him to throw shit against the wall, blow smoke, and deny the worst aspects of MAGA Republicanism. Tim Walz has his hands full.

A note about nicknames for the GOP Veep candidate. Charlie Pierce calls him J Divan Vance. Josh Marshall calls him Johnny Donuts. I test drove J Donut Vance but landed on that fucking donut JD Vance because several friends told me it made them laugh. It’s an unusual nickname but Vance is an unusual guy. He’s an unusual guy who should never be one heartbeat away from the presidency.

The last word goes to Chris Isaak: