
Vice President JD Vance took time out of his busy day to annihilate a left-wing troll on social media who was trying to recast a video from the Bud Light transgender debacle as “violent rhetoric” from the right.
The debate over rhetoric leading to political violence has been raging since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Many on the left are trying to deflect blame onto the right.
One random troll got the attention of the vice president when he brought up a video from celebrity Kid Rock.
In the video, Kid Rock shoots at cases of Bud Light after its doomed marketing agreement with a transgender-identifying influencer.
“This is how MAGA responded after Bud Lite had the audacity to feature a trans influencer in their ads. So spare us your bulls**t about violent rhetoric from the left, [JD Vance],” wrote the user who claimed to be a liberal U.S. Marine veteran.
Vance fired right back.
“I call upon all of our supporters to stop the violence against innocent beer cans,” he responded.
“And I call upon all left wing radicals to stop inciting violence against innocent people,” Vance added.
Others pounced on the exchange to fill out Vance’s argument.
“He shot cans. Not people. That’s the difference, dips**t,” activist Matt Van Swol replied.
“F**king moron doesn’t know the difference between shooting beer cans and people,” another detractor replied.
“The right uses beer cans for target practice. The left uses people they disagree with. We are not the same. Carry on,” one response reads.
“Yes, using an inanimate object for target practice is THE EXACT SAME THING as shooting a father to death in front of his family. You miserable moron,” another response reads.
“You can pry these empty beer cans out of my cold, dead hands,” another user joked.
“This led to so much uncalled for violence against beer cans. I saw one guy crush one with his foot. I’m still a mess from watching it. This has to stop,” another jokester added.
Vance’s response perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of the left’s argument.
Shooting inanimate beer cans is not violence against people.
The distinction should be obvious to anyone with basic reasoning skills.
Yet liberals continue to make these ridiculous false equivalences.
The left’s desperation to deflect from actual political violence is transparent.
Charlie Kirk was murdered by a left-wing extremist recently.
That’s real violence, not shooting beer cans at a target range.
The troll’s attempt to equate the two shows intellectual dishonesty.
Kid Rock’s video was a peaceful protest against corporate wokeness.
He exercised his Second Amendment rights on his own property.
No people were harmed or threatened in any way.
Contrast that with the assassination of Kirk in front of students.
Or the attack on the ICE facility in Dallas by an anti-ICE extremist.
Or the countless other acts of left-wing political violence.
The left uses actual weapons against actual people they disagree with politically.
Conservatives use beer cans for target practice to make a point.
These are not remotely comparable actions.
Vance’s sarcastic response about “innocent beer cans” drove home this point brilliantly.
His follow-up about left-wing radicals inciting violence against innocent people cut to the heart of the matter.
The social media pile-on that followed showed widespread agreement with Vance’s position.
Even jokes about crushing beer cans highlighted the absurdity of the original comparison.
This exchange reveals how desperate the left has become.
They cannot defend their side’s actual violence.
So they try to create false equivalences with peaceful conservative protests.
The strategy is transparent and pathetic.
Americans can see the difference between shooting beer cans and shooting people.
No amount of liberal gaslighting will change that basic reality.
Vance’s willingness to engage and demolish these bad-faith arguments serves an important purpose.
It exposes the left’s rhetorical games for what they are.
The vice president won’t let them rewrite history or redefine violence.
His response set the record straight with humor and devastating logic.