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[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 121 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hey look! It's Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence, and his weirdo side kick, couch fucker. You may better know him as the guy that talked shit about Dementia Don, referring to him as Hitler for one fine example.

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Don’t forget pedophile!

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trump needs a legit supervillain name, so his side kick couch fucker doesn't feel left out.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

Fanta Menace?

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

Pageant Predator?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

He's a villain, all right, just not a super one.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 102 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

LOL. At first, I was like "ugh, please don't editorialize the post title" but then I clicked the link.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

biasbot rates it a HIGH credibility source too LOL

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just goes to show you can be spicy and credible at the same time.

Also, I don't think the headlines are typically factored into credibility ratings (I could be wrong on that, though). Otherwise, no media outlet would have a shred of it. I guess that's just being realistic to the click-bait world we live in.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 78 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A lot of people are saying they’re banging each other

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They definitely had a threesome with a couch.

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Are people still talking about JD Vance having sex with a couch? We need to put to bed the idea of JD Vance having sex with a couch. It’s not appropriate for people to think of Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance having sex with a couch. JD Vance has gone on record to deny that he has had bare skin contact with a couch within the last 5 years. It’s absurd that JD Vance was banned from a Cleveland area IKEA after making sweet, passionate love to a KIVIK Sofa Chaise.

Once again, there is no evidence of JD Vance having sex with a couch. You need to stop calling JD Vance a couchfucker.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

☝️ This, but unironically.

Because the bigger issue is the dolphin fetish!

[–] memfree@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Look, I don't know if JD Vance had sex with a couch. I don't even know if JD Vance had sex with couch cushions. But yes, I've heard that JD Vance did not WRITE that he had sex with a couch in his book. I don't know if JD Vance wrote he had sex with a couch somewhere else, though.

John Oliver called Vance's staff to ask and they hung up on Oliver, which was reported as 'not a "no"', so I had been thinking, 'ya know? maybe that JD Vance guy really is a couchfucker, who knows?' But here you're saying he's denied it? Or partially denied it? Well I don't know what to think now, but I guess it is safer to presume JD Vance having sex with a couch is probably more legend than fact. Certainly, JD Vance having sex with a couch isn't something you'd want to discuss in polite society or political debate because we've no proof and a possible denial.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I want to take a moment to talk about the idiocy of hanging up on Jon Oliver.

If Jon Oliver calls you to ask a question, you need to answer. Hanging up on Jon Oliver asking if you've fucked a couch makes me think you actually have fucked a couch.

Before, I was in it for the memes, but that really does make me think he's fucked a couch.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I love how repeating that JD Vance is a couch fucker over and over, makes it that much more likely that it'll be picked up by AI search, and repeated as fact. Especially in articles like this.

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[–] Laereht@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I promise I'll never say that jd vance violated a couch in a fit of reckless lust ever again.

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[–] tiamats_wrath@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not just a couch, probably some weird sectional with a chaise on one side and maybe a recliner on the other meant for a more “cinematic” experience.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're saying Vance was....

In it for the chaise.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That is sofa king funny

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A couch they named Ivanka

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[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are they? It’s a good question.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

One's not a child or pornstar and the other isn't a couch. Probably not happening.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been the foremost practitioner of the "call them weird" campaign strategy, but Harris has deployed it as well. It resonates with normal people, who just want to live their lives and keep the government out of their underwear and have Thanksgiving dinner without their weird uncle starting some weird fight about some weird Fox News talking head who is still obsessed about finishing fifth in a college swim meet many years ago.

Nailed it

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 34 points 1 month ago

An old pitiful weird man with his couch loving friend. What a bunch of weirdos

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Donnie Poopypants and JD Couchfucker. Name a more iconic duo.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That was a great and well written article. Amusing and informative. You should read it if you haven't.

And no, I would absolutely not want Trump at the dinner table, it would be exhausting, and I wouldn't want Vance at the dinner table, he's just too unhinged. If Kamala Harris came to dinner I think we'd all have a good time. I think she'd be good company.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm really liking this strategy of calling them weird as hell

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

Gross rape advocates.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no problem spreading fake rumours about JD Vance the couch fucker.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The new guy at the factory put too much stuffing in the couch Vance bought; made it too thiccc. The factory guy wasn't experienced yet at his job unlike that couch once Vance bought it.

(It's been awhile since I have seen such a positive thread on Lemmy.)

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 month ago

That was a good editorial. Worth more than an up vote. Thanks for sharing

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

"i'm thrilled to have vance as my VP" LOL

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I hate that these guys are giving weirdos a bad name. There's nothing wrong with being weird, it's HOW you're weird that matters, and they are for all the wrong reasons.

[–] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

It's so funny how upset it makes the free speech absolutist, 'lol triggering leftist snowflakes, fuck your feelings' types.

It's the online equivalent of going to sit next to someone on the bus and then pausing to look them up and down, grimace and side eye someone else like 'are you seeing this shit?' and sitting somewhere else.

It genuinely seems to hurt their feelings and that makes me happier than it should. I think it's the schadenfreude for those who spend their lives saying horrible, hurtful things about minorities and the vulnerable actually experiencing even 5% of the feeling.

Really warms the cockles.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 month ago

Ew no. Looking at things like that could damage your eyesight.

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[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ramsalami: "Now that my boy is losing, we really need to knock off all the dumb insults and focus on policy."

[–] classic@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm ootl about where the 'weird' phenomenon started last week

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Basically, Minnesota governor Tim Walz started using it a while back, and people loosely affiliated with the Harris campaign realized how powerful it was after the couch memes took off.

[–] classic@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I appreciate the extra context!

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

It's in the article. Started on Xitter by the Gov. of Minnesota.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Sad old man and his sex doll?

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Republicans are such a sensitive, prideful group, that this really may demotivate them. Instead of arguing with your uncle on the topic, simply responding, "trump and Vance are really weird" is going to have them feel shame and really demotivate them.

They love to trigger the libs and get them all riled up, saying "really? Those weirdos, okay" is amazing

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