It’s funny, seeing a Don Lemon podcast with Joy Reid as a guest.
Two people who got booted from their respective network jobs, Lemon in 2023 and Reid earlier in 2025. They both now have podcasts, and Lemon is doing street interviews to get attention.
Joy Reid spoke about how smart she and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson are. She said Jackson was more qualified than Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and snarked maybe that was “affirmative action” [for Barrett to be confirmed] for conservatives who were “mediocre” compared to Jackson. Then she went off a cliff on how Vice President JD Vance may have gotten into Yale because he was an “Appalachian white.”
JOY REID: “JD Vance got into Yale because they were tired of just letting in white men from New York … from all the elite schools. They wanted an Appalachian white. That’s how that man got into Yale, I promise you … That’s also affirmative action and DEI.” pic.twitter.com/E69jgcotJx
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) September 24, 2025
“Maybe the way that JD Vance got into Yale is because they were tired of just letting in white men from New York … from all the elite schools. They wanted an Appalachian white. That’s how that man got into Yale, I promise you. Same thing with Ron DeSantis…Maybe that’s also affirmative action and DEI.”
Joy must have missed how Jackson couldn’t answer the question about the definition of “woman” went during her nomination hearing, because she wasn’t a “biologist.” She might also want to check out Justice Barrett’s stinging rebuke of Jackson’s reasoning in her dissent on nationwide injunctions earlier this year.
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She must have missed that Vance was a Marine who served in Iraq. He also graduated summa cum laude in two years from Ohio State University. I think it’s safe to say he earned his way into Yale Law School. Add to that Vance later writing a famous book and becoming a senator and VP by age 40, and I think that’s far from mediocre. That’s called merit.
This is what happens when you try to put everyone in a racial box – you come up with things like “Appalachian white.”
In that rant about what DEI is and who it includes, Reid mentions Asians. And perhaps she missed how being Asian was actually counted against some students applying to college, and how unfair that is.
But JD Vance is not just a good VP – he also has a sense of humor. He could have demolished her comment by stating his background. However, he opted for a funnier option, with a refresher on the meme craze about him earlier in 2025. He used one that showed surprised eyes.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 24, 2025
Sometimes, the best way to deal with the ridiculousness of the left is to show just how ridiculous they are.
People loved it, and, of course, then, it inspired a resurgence of Vance memes.
— Josh Boehm (@BaronBoehm) September 24, 2025
We’re getting a full day’s worth of JD memes today on our timeline, aren’t we 🤣 pic.twitter.com/BWOyKJMsCd
— ✭ (@NYC_Cowsheep) September 24, 2025
— Yashi Phougat (@YashiPhougat) September 24, 2025
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