!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"ae10e343-bd2f-469e-922e-cc48caf52d3b"}).render("673ed9ace4b0045528dbece4");});Vice President-elect JD Vance tweeted — and then deleted — a message with so many spectacular self-owns that it is worth taking a moment to dissect what he did.On Tuesday, Vance posted a message on X, formerly known as Twitter, defending his recent absences from the Senate. He’s still an Ohio Republican senator, but he and a handful of other Republican senators haven’t been showing up for Senate votes in the lame duck. Their absences are frustrating some in their party as Democrats are confirming lots of President Joe Biden’s judges without much resistance from Republicans.