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Joy Reid: The Vice President Has Too Much Time On His Hands

In this guest column excerpt, journalist Joy Reid tells JD Vance to "Tweet less and govern more, James David; you are wasting our time and tax money."

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Oct 03, 2025
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Editor’s note: In lieu of Clapback Mailbag, we’re running an excerpt from Friend of ContrabandCamp and journalist Joy-Ann Reid, who had time to clap back at Vice President JD Vance. Instead of working to end the Republican shutdown, Vance decided to tweet that Reid should be grateful for her life in America.

[UPDATED] I learned of JD Vance’s dis track on…

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Joy-Ann Reid
The ReidOut host, book writer and documentary producer. Author of the upcoming book Medgar and Myrlie and co-director of the upcoming film: The Conspiracy to Kill Medgar Evers.
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