This cat meme account is officially bullying JD Vance all the way to court
It's PURRRRLEY satisfying!
Mark
In the past, the office of the Vice President was a highly respected—if sometimes gently mocked—feature of American politics. That was before JD Vance came on the scene. Now, bullying the deeply unloveable VP has basically become our patriotic duty.
First, Vance’s actual childhood bully started trolling him. Then Tr*mp himself jumped on the bandwagon by implying that he doesn’t have much hope for a Vance 2028 run (for once, we agree on something!). This week, even Vance’s future neighbors in his new town of Middleburg, Virginia are ripping the VP to shreds.
All in good fun, of course! Except that currently, one of Vance’s biggest ops—a cat meme account that exists to troll the living hell out of the despised VP—is out for blood, and we love to see it.
Meet Amanda McGonigle, who took the art of trolling to its highest artistic level when she started her Instagram account @catsonacouch simply for the purpose of mocking Vance—and gaining way more followers than he ever could (by about a million!)
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She accomplished that mission in record time. Now, she’s suing Vance with the help of the historic friend of the gays, the ACLU.
Here’s what happened: in May, Vance did an official speaking engagement in Bangor, Maine. The event was promoted through official government channels, and anyone could sign up to attend. McGonigle signed up and stood in line to hear Vance speak. She was pulled out of line by the Secret Service, who simply said “we know where you stand.”
The problem? They can’t actually do this, according to the law.
As it turns out, when you promote an event through the official office of the President—which Vance did, using his Vice Presidential seal and everything—you can’t turn someone away simply because they hold different views than you do.
If this were a personal event, it would be different. But since Vance is an official representative of the government, what his Secret Service detail did was technically illegal. So now in addition to being owned by a meme account dedicated to trolling him, he’s going to have to lose (or settle) a lawsuit with his bully as well.
“I was denied entry to an official Vice Presidential event,” McGonigle explains in a recent video, “simply because I referred to JD Vance as a sentient jar of mayonnaise on the internet.”
If that ain’t covered by the consitution, I don’t know what is! It’s called free speech!
At this point, JD Vance has become the King of FAFO. He keeps stepping in it, and the implications of his supremely misguided decisions—from the infamous Situation Room Epstein brainstorming session to talking back to the Pope—are doing him zero favors with his dwindling fan base. Oh, and let’s not forget that in an attempt to bury his new book Communion and uplift a legendary Black queer writer, readers have pushed bell hooks’ Communion back into the best-seller list.
Don’t you just love karma?
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