Sunday, June 22, 2025

Senator: Vance 'Petty and Unserious'

Sen. Alex Padilla snapped back at Vice President JD Vance Saturday, calling the vice president "petty and unserious" after Vance referred to the senator as "Jose" during a press conference in Los Angeles the previous evening.

Posted by Corky at 11:30 AM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

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"He knows my name," Padilla told MSNBC Saturday morning.

"Look, sadly it's just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. He's the vice president of the United States. You'd think he'd take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously."

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"I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question, but unfortunately I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn't the theater," Vance said, deriding Padilla's handcuffing at Noem's briefing the prior week as "pure political theater.

Vance's press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk, said that the vice president misspoke and "must have mixed up two people who have broken the law.""

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"California Democrats were having none of it.

"JD Vance served with Alex Padilla in the United States Senate," Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a post on X. "Calling him Jose Padilla' is not an accident."

Padilla also addressed his former Senate colleague-turned vice president directly in a post to X, flipping Vance's jab about "political theater" back at him.

"You know my name, @JDVance," the California senator wrote. "If you want to talk about political theater, let's start with the thousands of troops that your administration is using as props in Los Angeles."

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OH, it's true... this is all fun and games theatre to Trump's Gestapo Gang; another spin-off TV production from Trump's first TV series.

And it werks because the Cultists can't tell reality from TV; there is no longer any objective facts or truth for them... there's only Truth Social.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-21 04:58 PM

Padilla should've responded, "Anybody could've made that mistake...even James Donald Bowman."

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-21 05:03 PM

#2 lol

aka 'how badly do you want to be called, 'JD'?'.

(It's like 'JC', only different!)

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-21 05:21 PM

Maybe DJ Vance would be funnier.

#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-21 05:33 PM

JV Dunce

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-21 06:28 PM

Alejandro Padilla

closer to Jose than to Alex. Why does new names to cloak ancestry?
Santos and Lupe Padilla: "We weel name heem Alex! Thees way no one weel know hee es mehicano!"

#6 | Posted by twinkhunter at 2025-06-22 12:35 PM

Why does every -ew PM need a new name?
"Oy veh, I'm not Polish! No! I am chosen of -od!"

#7 | Posted by twinkhunter at 2025-06-22 12:37 PM

Okay, that Fatima of the Seven Veils eyeshadowing Whatshisname flashes around: kohl or tattoo?
It may have worked on Fatima, but it makes Whosis look like someone who has to show his I.D. a lot.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-22 04:17 PM

VD Prance

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-22 07:35 PM

Trunkhumper is a ------- ------.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-22 07:36 PM

Meth is a helluva drug. Just ask Mr. Bowman's mom ...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-22 10:29 PM

VP Vance was wrong, so very wrong, in his appellation of Sen Padilla.

Of course, that leads me to ask, why does VP Vance seem to want to actively reduce the gravitas of the Office of the Vice President of the United States?


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-22 10:35 PM

the gravitas of the Office of the Vice President of the United States?

Who was it that called it "not worth a bucket of warm piss", or something like that?

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-22 10:45 PM

JD Vance: "We are not at war with Iran. We are at war with Iran's nuclear program." Link: abcnews.go.com

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-23 06:17 AM

Surprised no one's thought of calling him Jefferson Davis Vance yet.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-06-23 07:18 AM

#15: You just did. Perfect.

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-23 07:32 AM

I think Vance like the rest of the country was simply asking who is Padilla? Has the guy actually done anything other than create a scene to get some publicity?

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-23 11:58 AM

did the poor little pansy get his feelings
hurt because the bad mam forgot this nobodies name ?

poor thing...BUT I DID FIND THIS>....

DISCOVERED CLIP AT END OF PADILLAS " Speech "
" AND CUT... AND SCENE...
.
" .was that okay mr. Spielberg ?.

..thanks senator that's got Oscar written all over it..... this afternoon we'll continue with recording end of. " The notebook" and finish tonight with last 5 of " love story "

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-23 03:38 PM

I think Vance like the rest of the country was simply asking who is Padilla? Has the guy actually done anything other than create a scene to get some publicity?

#17 | Posted by fishpaw

Who was vance before trump picked him?

Just a peter theil puppet who liked ------- his couch and thought trump reminded him of hitler.

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-06-23 05:35 PM

..thanks senator that's got Oscar written all over it..... this afternoon we'll continue with recording end of. " The notebook" and finish tonight with last 5 of " love story "

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan

How many posters of trump's fake assassination attempt do you have on the wall by your bed?

#20 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-06-23 05:36 PM

#6
Your ignorance should be embarrassing for you.
But, there's that ignorance thang.

#21 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-24 06:20 AM

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