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[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 133 points 4 months ago
[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago
[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 24 points 4 months ago

JD-Wan has taught you well.

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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 4 months ago

I feel dirty saying good things about Sarah Palin, but she was brought on to fire up the base and did just that. Vance has managed to alienate the base. I don’t think the incels even like him at this point.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 55 points 4 months ago

Yeah people forget how long people looked favorably at Palin. The response to Vance meanwhile was an immediate and visceral "no thank you"

[-] Vittelius@feddit.org 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Of course the incels don't like him. He argues that childless people should pay higher taxes. How did anyone think that would go over with the "never even had sex" constituency?

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 18 points 4 months ago

I think the incel crowd generally want to strip women of their rights because they see women's liberty as a main reason they can't get laid.

So, I'd imagine the childless cat women thing could hit with them because they'd be like "yeah, women should stop being so up-tight and have my babies!"

Or something like that.

[-] Bennettiquette@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

yeah, single women with no kids are childless cat ladies, but single men with no kids are just victims of the uncompromising selfishness of childless cat ladies. sounds about right.

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[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

He can see useless postmenopausal women from his house.

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

Brilliant response!

[-] SauceBossSmokin@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago

"I can see Russia from my couch!" - JD Vance

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Jr. was high AF when he talked dad into this shlub.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 months ago

I’m sure Peter Thiel had some input, too.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

or just high as fuck. cocaine is a hell of a drug

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[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 38 points 4 months ago

Sarah Palin was like a dog that peed on themselves because they're an idiot. Vance is like a dog that bites their owner because they're an idiot. Sure, Palin was dumb, but Vance is a real threat to all Americans.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Don't tell Kristi Noem. I bet she still keeps her favorite gravel pit in great condition, just in case.

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[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Palin was a joke because John McCain was at the top of the ticket.

If it was she was second to Trump and being groomed by the Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025, she would be scary too.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 33 points 4 months ago

But since then, he has faced a rash of bad headlines about his past comments calling Harris a "childless cat lady," his past support for a national abortion ban and even a baseless internet rumor about having sex with a couch.

It may be baseless, but it's quite plausible because he is just so...uh...the way he is. Trump, Vance, and RFK are all kinda weird. Hugging and kissing the flag, playing with dead things, etc etc.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Baseless? I thought "people are saying" was an acceptable level of fact checking. Donald certainly agrees with me.

I think it has to be "all the best people".

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Palin was a joke. Vance is, frankly, scary.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Moreso if you are a couch.

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[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago

Considering that Vance's biggest accomplishment so far is writing a best-selling book, in which he cosplays as a poor person while trashing rural Americans, this about checks out.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 16 points 4 months ago

Do you think he wrote that book though?

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Palin was at-least somewhat entertaining in her madness.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 27 points 4 months ago

She also came across as ditzy, not creepily malicious.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Vance 100% knows what he’s doing. He accepted that he had to sell his soul to become a successful politician.

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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Palin alienated anyone vaguely in the middle, but on the other hand she had at least some particular support that she brought distinct from McCain (basically Tea Party folks that were not particularly excited by establishment republican nor McCain).

Vance doesn't have any particular support, he only gets indirect support for people who are "republican no matter what" or "MAGA all the way", but those people were already covered by Trump. Even in his own state his margin of victory was much slimmer than the other republicans that swept Ohio in 2022, and Ohio's not even a state considered to be a risk to Trump's campaign.

He was just a tremendously bad choice with no strategic benefit. The VP pick should somehow provide some coverage for demographics not hit by the presidential candidate, and Trump instead went with someone with very limited popularity that is a strict subset of people already supporting Trump.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

After seeing what the cultists were going to do to Pence, and that Trump was going to allow it, no one else was interested in being his VP. The only option was a bootlicker.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

And there's not going to be any porn parody about couchfucker

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Have you tried JD Revanced? It’s much better than the original.

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Wait did we just find an exception to rule 34? I never thought I'd see the day...

[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

You damn well know someone out there has drawn Vance absolutely raw dogging a leather couch and there's nothing you can do about it.

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago

He's so spineless it's baffling that they thought this would be a good choice?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Trump thought that he'd appeal to hillbillies and poor Midwesterners. Clearly he didn't read Hilbilly Elegy beyond the title.

If he did, he would have learned that, much like Clarence Thomas with black people, Vance paints all poor people in Ohio and Kentucky as lazy welfare recipients who should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps* and work harder 🙄

*which was originally an expression for doing something literally impossible, as pulling on your own bootstraps would make you fall down.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

More unpopular or less popular?

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

I think there's a fun bit of linguistics there. If you say more unpopular it implies that both are unpopular and one is even more so. If you say less popular, it implies that they are both popular, but one is to a lesser degree.

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[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago
[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

This type of deep, academic discussion is why I joined Lemmy.

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[-] norimee@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

His greatest accomplishment.

It was not an easy feat, but he prevailed.

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

So you're saying he's less non-unpopular

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tech Oligarchs Test Tube Hillbilly

Common guys! It's funny!

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

fyi it's "come on", but that's a common mistake.

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[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Imagine fucking a couch and then being popular…

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