Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)Ā said a lot of wild thingsĀ during his Sunday morning media blitz. But one of his comments has received far less attention than the others: Vance described a federal program that hasĀ distributedĀ nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discrimination as ā€œdisgraceful,ā€ suggesting that it is racist against white people.

And now, the head of the largest group of Black farmers across the country is condemning Vanceā€™s assertions.

ā€œHe owes us an apology,ā€Ā John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were ā€œdisgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nationā€™s Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.ā€

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    Given that they were closer to the Sunday happening in roughly 3-7 hours from now than the Sunday in question, I think itā€™d have been handy to say ā€œlast Sundayā€. Yes, that is the obvious conclusion, but when talking about the trump campaign itā€™s better to be clear because the most bizarre story or quote has a pretty good chance of being true.

    A ā€œfairly standard sequenceā€ would be to have written it last Monday, but apparently the head of the NBFA replied only . . . what, Friday the 16th? It doesnā€™t say. It says he ā€œtold meā€, and thatā€™s it.

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      If you donā€™t understand that an article written on Friday, which refers to an event on ā€œSundayā€ without any additional qualifiers, is always going to be referring to the most recent Sunday and not the futureā€¦ Then I donā€™t know what to tell you, this isnā€™t rocket science.

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        I thought they may have meant Friday. Or any of the other five days since. Yā€™know, a Sunday barnstorm of Meet the Twaddle is customary, but - what, do they tape it a day ahead? Why would they write an article so late about it?

        You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday. And for whatever reason, probably in large part because I make efforts to avoid that 1950ā€™s excruciatingly overwrought political theatre brought to us by the makers of Parliament cigarettes, I didnā€™t see anything else about his predictably awful interviews.

        Sorry to bother you.

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          You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday.

          Holy shit dude. For the last time, the article is about the founder of the National Black Farmer Associationā€™s comments regarding what JD Vance said. Thatā€™s why it was written on Friday. Vanceā€™s comments were from Sunday. Then the NBFAā€™s founder spoke out about it days later. I literally cannot dumb this down for you any more than I already have.