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[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 153 points 2 months ago (3 children)

JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

He weedwhacks in shorts and sandles.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago

I saw the bastard press the spatula down on burgers he was grilling.

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unelectable

And I thought him masturbating dolphins after dosing both the dolphin and himself with LSD was weird enough.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This would unironically raise my opinion of him

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On July 31, Trump dismissed suggestions that JD Vance was a bad choice, telling the National Association of Black Journalists that vice presidential picks have "virtually no impact" on elections.

Then why are Republicans bothering to attack Tim Walz?

[–] don@lemm.ee 54 points 2 months ago

Republicans are synonymous with hypocrisy.

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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

To play devil's advocate in defense of the Vance pick, I don't think Trump needs any assistance in courting boomers. He's managed to appeal to the generation's racist tendencies and "I got mine" attitudes to great success. Vance is to try and attract the young dudebro vote with a discount Andrew Tate. So far he seems like the incel messiah, so maybe it's even working, but obv in all normal circles being such a giant incel is weird af.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He’s not an incel. He “loves” his wife despite her race!

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Her tradwife scores were so high that she beat all other ~~couches~~ competitors even after losing points for her inferior bloodline.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, but did Trump really need any help locking up that vote? It's not like they were going to flock over to Democrats anytime soon. He's just doubling down on demographics that were already going for him anyways. He needed a stable Pence figure that could convince "on the fence" voters that there was still going to be an adult in the room, or just somebody who is anti-Israel or supports Palestine, that probably would've caused the most chaos among Democrats. They'd disagree on everything else, but hey, this person is against genocide in Israel, let's vote for them.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Can you be an incel if you have children...?

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 15 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I know the term is involuntary celibate, but the "movement" has kinda moved onto any men who believe that a woman is obligated to fuck them. That crowd has picked up on a heavy pro-natal message, and Vance's disparaging comments about women who don't have kids plays well there. He might have had sex, but he's trying to offer those losers a world where they're on top of the power structure.

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[–] warbond@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Incel isn't on your tax returns, Incel comes from the heart

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Millennial here, we don’t like him either. I’m really concerned for the couches my children will have to grow up with.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

certainly no more reaching between the cushions for change.

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[–] nobody158@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why is he so puffy? He always looks like he is wearing one of those silicon masks.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s a little known fact, but Vance is actually heterosectional.

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[–] yemmly@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a guy who’s puffy from too much drinkin’ I can confirm that it looks like too much drinkin

[–] yemmly@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same. I’m quitting tomorrow.

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Those Silicon Valley Michelin Star restaurants aren’t going to visit themselves. Someone’s got to keep those sommeliers employed.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Are boomers the ones that had plastic foils over their couches?

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think when JD uses one, it's called a sophylactic.

It keeps the couch from getting… sticky.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"But Recliner babe, I'm allergic to sophylastic ..."

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That was more a thing of the Boomers parent's, the Greatest Generation. At least in the PNW of the US. Fads happened in waves before the internet, so YMMV.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They lived through the Depression when they couldn't afford a new couch, so they learned to protect the one they had

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Can confirm. My grandma had a sealed couch that would protect it from stains and the like. Scum like Vance would slide right off.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That doesn't make sense - how else do you get little couches if the momma couch can't be fucked?

But yes, you are correct about that, but I try to PSA that its not the great financial & economical depression that caused such behaviour - that behaviour is the default, the normal, what humans always did.

Its only the extreme profit driven consumerism that followed that that indoctrinated us into the 'buy new completely discard the old, dont think about it, it was always like this, since the dawn of time' ... a price generations are now beginning to pay.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They just foresaw Vance's arrival, and were trying to protect the virtue of their innocent couches from him.

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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I request he stop coming to Michigan? This week marks the 3rd time since becoming Trump's choice. We don't want him here.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Someone should suggest he campaign in Miami. I hear he loves the Dolphins.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

The couch cleanliness demographic

[–] Sunroc@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

What is a con man without the confidence?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't let's ignore the searing hatred us gen xers have for this living example of retrograde evolution.

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What am embarrassment to Yale. His classmates must be mortified.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What am embarrassment to Yale.

Nah. He's very standard Ivy League material.

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[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Is this... is this a problem for President Drink Bleach?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Probably because at least some boomers were educated enough (in their schools as well as hearing it straight from their parents) about the dangers of fascism.

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