The murder of the slaying of the homicide of parody
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This is, I assure you, a very real tweet sent out by the Vice President of the United States:
Is there a fancy German term for when a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question for precisely the opposite reason that the speaker suggests that it is?
In addition to being farcical on its own merits, there’s the additional problem that “we never saw the letter” is not compatible with the message being sent by the J.D.’s boss:
VANCE: They never showed us the letter TRUMP: We told them the letter is a fake
[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Jul 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The larger problem is that there’s zero chance that Rupert fuckin’ Murdoch would allow this story to run if it wasn’t absolutely rock solid, and I’m not sure that Julian Assange has a secret cache of risotto recipes that will immediately bury the story. I don’t think “have you heard Uncle Joe Brandon is old” is gonna do it either:
Begin the thawing of Hillary Clinton’s email server.