Retiring Guy's Digest: JD Vance: On the wrong side of everything

Monday, April 13, 2026

JD Vance: On the wrong side of everything

The look on Viktor Orban's face. It's as if he's thinking, what am I doing standing next to this schmuck!

Photo and comment below: Facebook

Headline: Daily Beast, 4/13/2026

Jeff Helfgott posts:

Viktor Orbán passed a law labeling gay people as pedophiles. He banned Budapest Pride and made it a criminal offense to attend with €500 fines organizers facing prison time. And when people showed up anyway, he let police use facial recognition to hunt them down at the parade.

This week J.D. Vance flew to Hungary to campaign for him. He stood next to him on camera and called him "a role model for the continent."

Then he looked right into the cameras and said: "I'm here to help."

J.D. Vance flew across the ocean for a man who legally erased trans and nonbinary people from his country's own constitution. Who froze €17 billion in EU funds over corruption violations. Who spent 16 years packing courts, strangling the press, and gerrymandering maps to keep himself in power.

Putin's closest ally inside the European Union. And the person JD Vance couldn't wait to get a photo with.

Millions of Hungarians stood in lines for hours to say they've had enough.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'schmuck' as in a stupid, foolish, or unlikable person, occurred in 1892.

Other coinages from the same year include:

also-ran
benchwarmer
folie à deux
malfunction
masochistic
misbrand
nonrefillable
nonpurposive
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