Turns Out JD Vance Doesn’t Know What a War Crime Is

I am beginning to believe we are not being led by the Very Best People. From Politico:

But amid the cocktail-hour din, [Scott] Bessent lashed out at [Bill] Pulte in an expletive-laden diatribe. The Treasury secretary had heard from several people that the Federal Housing Finance Agency director had been badmouthing him to Trump, a person close to him said. He wasn’t about to engage in chit-chat as if nothing was amiss. “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.”

And Bessent is supposed to be the calm hand at the wheel of this big ship of fools. (Politico seems to buy this malarkey still. After breaking the news of the near-brawl, it ran a beat-sweetener about Bessent later in the day.) Still, three fcks in two sentences is a Lee Elia caliber tantrum, boozed up or not. And then there's this clown. From NPR:

Wright: The hype is climate alarmism, and it's a hundred percent. Calling climate change a crisis is just to say, I'm not going to look at the science. I'm not going to look at the economics. I'm just going to run with the politics.

Or, you can look at the people in Tuvalu as their country becomes a lagoon. But Energy Secretary Chris Wright saves his best stuff for social media.

Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing.

It is now part of the job of the Secretary of Energy to pretend he doesn't know how storage batteries work. Let's check in on the second-in-command who, alas, was sick the day they taught war crimes at Yale Law. From Politico:

Vice President JD Vance defended using America’s military for “killing cartel members” that bring drugs into the United States on Saturday, dismissing a critic who asserted a recent airstrike on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs was a war crime. “Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.”

U.S. Department of Defense: the $883 billion drug squad. And, of course, the fish is stupid from the head down. From The 19th:

“They said, ‘Crime’s down 87 percent.’ I said, no, no, no—it’s more than 87 percent, virtually nothing. And much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime. See? So now I can’t claim 100 percent but we are. We are a safe city."

Yes, police make domestic violence arrests just to make you look bad. "Nothing but the best people," is just not funny any more.