Instead, you will see images of J.D. Vance’s face, artificially stretched, bloated, and reddened, Photoshopped onto a Minion — or the Kevin James meme, or Butter Pants from Shrek, or the Las Vegas Sphere.

The beauty of social media’s algorithmic culture is that engagement of any kind often begets more of that content in one’s feed. Every time Vance clicks on a picture of himself, even out of disgust, it’ll catalyze the system to show him even more. (It’s a special kind of torture we’ve built, isn’t it?)

28—MITCHELL, S.D. — Senate Majority Leader John Thune, reacting Friday afternoon ... Vice President JD Vance defended Trump's relationship with Putin before accusing Zelenskyy of being ungrateful.