JD Vance Ignores Pope Leo's Plea for Politicians to Stop Being As*holes Online
War crimes, gas chamber “jokes” and online outrage collide with Pope Leo XIV’s plea: log off and love harder.
In the Trump-era swirl of online rage, few figures embrace the chaos quite like JD Vance.
The Republican vice president has turned social media into his personal battleground — cheering on extrajudicial violence one day and downplaying Holocaust “jokes” the next.
Just weeks ago, Vance openly defended a deadly U.S. airstrike on a Venezuelan boat suspecte…
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