JD Vance joined liberal Twitter knockoff Bluesky. Things went off the rails REALLY fast.
Vice President JD Vance is not exactly a shrinking violet. The Marine veteran who rose from relative poverty to become second in command of the world's greatest nation has a habit of seeking out fruitful confrontation.
At the Munich Security Conference in February, for instance, Vance told European officials to their faces that they were stepping toward tyranny and turning their backs on the values they once shared in common with the United States. Just weeks later, he bashed the U.K.'s censorship regime with leftist British Prime Minister Keir Starmer seated right next to him in the Oval Office.
While he has long participated in fiery exchanges with Democratic lawmakers and other antagonists, both in person and on Elon Musk's X, Vance evidently wanted to bring the conversation to leftists on their own turf.
The vice president created an account Wednesday on the liberal Twitter knockoff Bluesky. Things went off the rails pretty quickly.
Vance kicked off his Bluesky residency by writing, "Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you."
'I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.'
Accompanying his initial post was a screenshot of the Supreme Court's majority decision in United States v. Skrmetti, in which the court upheld Tennessee's ban on sex-change genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors — clearly a touchy subject for the Bluesky crowd.
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Vance highlighted a portion of the decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, "There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the 'wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.'"
Roberts noted further in the excerpt, "Contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs, there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children. Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts' view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves."
Vance added in a follow-up message, "To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called 'experts' have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth."
"I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids," continued Vance. "What do you think?"
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Regardless of whether Vance's intention was to troll the netizens of Bluesky, the result was the same.
Apoplectic leftists immediately piled into the comments various smears and accusations. Many threatened to report Vance in hopes of getting him banned for some perceived offense or another.
The attacks were, however, interrupted roughly 12 minutes after Vance's first post when the platform suspended him, according to Axios reporter Marc Caputo.
Leftists looking to vent were confronted with a message that read, "Not found. Account has been suspended."
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Despite the appearance that Vance's account may have been suspended because of his politics or perhaps because he shared a court ruling that struck at the heart of the sex-change regime, Bluesky claimed in a statement obtained by Forbes, "Vice President Vance's account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past."
"The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity," continued the statement. "We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky."
As of Thursday morning, Vance's initial posts were buried in negative comments, although he had netted over 7,500 followers. According to the user tracker Clearsky, he had been blocked by over 81,000 users at the time of publication.
Blaze News reached out to the vice president's office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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“I don’t know how much Taylor Lorenz had to do behind the scenes to make this possible for her,” Gonzales says, recalling Lorenz’s claim that after doxxing Libs of TikTok, she became a target of right-wing harassment.
In a very teary interview on MSNBC following the doxxing, Lorenz told America in between bouts of blubbering that she received death threats and even contemplated suicide.
Stu Burguiere doesn’t feel so bad for her.
“I mean, here’s the thing; this is a crazy thing that people don’t understand,” Stu comments. “You don’t have to go on Twitter.”
“A lot of things are said on Twitter — terrible things — all the time. And you don’t ever have to know they occur,” he adds.
Stu notes that people go to war and see much, much worse things, but says Lorenz's reaction is a sign of the times.
“She’s like a composite of the downfall of our society, ... a person who would cry and be so disturbed, contemplates suicide over a couple of tweets.”
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