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The GOP needs to convince voters that Donald Trump and JD Vance are regular guys, and, manifestly, they are not.

It would be strange for Democrats to attack the Republican presidential ticket for being “weird” if it weren’t true. But those men are getting weirder by the day.

Former president Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), is off to a wobbly start. A Harris 2024 campaign email sent on Friday was headlined, “JD Vance Is a Creep (Who Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide).” The statement continued, “JD Vance is weird. Voters know it – Vance is the most unpopular VP pick in decades.”

It was bad enough when footage resurfaced of a 2021 interview in which Vance called Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.” Things got worse last week when Vance offered a non-apology, blaming “people” for “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”

Uh, okay, but that doesn’t help at all. The substance — which Vance said he stands by — is asserting that adults without children do not deserve an equal say  in the nation’s affairs. Another unearthed clip of Vance showed him arguing that parents, when they vote, should be able to cast an extra ballot for each child in their family who is under voting age. He didn’t take that back, either, going only so far as to claim it was a “thought experiment” and not a firm policy position.

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[–] Myxomatosis 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

JD is about to invoke the right of prima nocta on every couch in every living room across America.

[–] MermaidsGarden 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ve had it up to here with people saying JD Vance had sex with a couch. How many times do I have to say there’s no evidence JD Vance had sex with a couch before people stop saying JD Vance had sex with a couch? Liberals must be pretty desperate to make up that JD Vance had sex with a couch. The story that on March 17, 2011 JD Vance was banned from a Cleveland area IKEA after so thoroughly deflowering a KIVIK Sofa Chaise that it had to be removed as a biohazard due to the various fluids in and around it, causing the night manager to not only quit but need intensive therapy is beyond the pale. Who would believe this? There is sworn. court. testimony. that JD Vance has not made bare skin contact with a couch within the past 5 years. That’s a fact. Look it up. The idea that this is because JD Vance cannot contain his overwhelming sexual urges in the presence of soft furniture is reckless conjecture. Calling JD Vance a couchfucker is slander and you need to take it back.

The Left™ will do anything to avoid talking about the real issues in this campaign, like the fact that Kamala Harris laughs sometimes.

[–] Machinist 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait. So did he actually fuck a couch for real? Pretty sure the other one fucked/molested his daughter. I wouldn't be surprised, I'm just genuinely curious, keep seeing this and am not sure where it comes from.

[–] andshit 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is a made up "fact" by someone on twitter: that JD Vance wrote about fucking a couch in his book, Hillbilly Elegy. Some people retweeted it without checking the sources, and it just continued on from there.

Source is knowyourmeme lol: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jd-vance-couch-cushion-story-hoax

[–] Machinist 2 points 3 months ago

Ahh. Thank you! I like it. It's like Santorum: the frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal material formed on the base of the penis during anal sex between men.