'We're normal guys': J.D. Vance tells reporters not to label Trump ticket as 'weird'

lol This is almost as good as getting him to say out loud that he's never had sexual relations with any living room furniture.

He came a little closer to that saying a bit ago that his campaign is not "going to talk about couches"
- Less talk, more cushion
Yeah this is basically the same as when a pushy dude tells a woman “I’m a nice guy”

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You do not want to get into a normal-off with Walz, but I sure hope Mr Vance keeps trying.
- Oh shit, a normal-off!
- Please, let it happen. Nothing says "I'm weird" like doing a normal off with someone who doesn't care.
- I saw a snippet of an interview he was in. The interviewer asked him "What was the last thing you did out in public by yourself?".
  Walz thought for a moment and said "I went to Menards and bought an air filter for my furnace."
"I'm rubber, you're glue" as an election strategy is... Well, it's weird.
No u
-JD Vance
Pretty much everyone I've ever met is weirder than Tim Walz. And Trump/Vance is weirder still! Lol They will not win this one (election)...
Vance must be practicing stringing words together in a stroke-inducing order, a very important skill for a GOP ticket member, no doubt.

Yup. Perfectly normal to joke about molesting a woman in a department store.

... You do realize who that "woman" is, right?
- Of course.
  That's what makes it even worse though: the joke is that Rudy isn't really "molestable", but the old freak goes for it anyway.
  And the pièce de résistance is, of course, that he was found to have sexually assaulted at least one woman in a department store.
- That doesn't change anything.
I mean, who hasn't done that or owned their own country club?

"we're very normal guys"

definitely something that "normal guys" need to clarify.

We totally believe you.

Hello yes, I am normal man, do you like skateboards?

Nothing more normal than urgently trying to prove you're normal

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- JD is probably also having some discussion with his wife like
  Honey! Why'd you sign up for all these gawd damned furniture magazines! Don't you know people are talking! How do we get rid of these! THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO DESTROY ME! STOP LAUGHING!
Hahahahahaha! This is what's making me laugh so hard about this whole weird campaign.
"NO NO We're not weird! See?"
Does something weird anyway.
It's great that this very simple campaign about calling them something as basic as "weird" is shaming them so fucking much.
- It's because it gets at a core aspect of their identity. They want so badly to turn back the clock to an imaginary perfect 1950's (or 1850's), and since that's how they think the world ought to be, they behave and live like it is that way. They want doing that to be normal, and it is... but only within the context of their imaginary reality.
  Calling out how weird they are makes that reality fall apart. It makes them see actual reality, with all its complications and messiness, and in that context... they're fucking grade-A weirdos.
- There was research done on people who tend to support authoritarians, and one of the big commonalities was the need to see their authoritarianism as normal, as something that most people support and that it's only a vocal minority that oppose it. This "weird" narrative is proving to be so effective, I think, because it's shattering that image.
  There are, I think 2 ways to counter being called weird:
  Lean into it
  Be normal and mock those calling you weird
  They can't do number 1 because so much of their rhetoric depends on people believing their positions are popular.
  They can't do 2 because they've fallen into the same media silo as their constituents, and are so insular that they've detached from what most people see as normal.
  So instead, they've chosen to stand there and say "no, I'm not weird, I'm normal" which is not something someone normal does.
  In the same way that publicly announcing "No, I did not fuck that couch" doesn't lead people to think "oh, this guy doesn't fuck couches"

"Weird" would have been such a nothing insult if they didn't get so weirdly upset by it

It's very telling about the republican party. Being truthfully called authoritarian, against democracy, etc. doesn't bother them, but being called "weird" does. It shows how much more they value conformity more than anything else
- Thank you for that insight!
Obviously this isn't even the gloves-off, no-holds bar attack line that some pundits want Dems to use and that others think it is. It's just a true statement. That's why they are flipping out, because they can't shake it.
- They're also learning real quick that they're the minority.
You can’t disparage fascists by telling them they are racist or misogynist. They like it.
But when you call the weird? It hurts, why?
Because they think they are the norm, “everyone” thinks like them. Saying they’re weird - as they are - reinforces the fact that they are outside the norm.

"We're normal guys!" says two of the least-normal weirdos in the country

Yeah whatever Couch Fucker.

That's Vladimir Futon to you, sir.
- Ooooh that's nice. Did you make this? Can i have this?
I just want someone to slow shout that at one of his rallies.
He’s just talking all you hear is “COOOOUUUUCCCCHHHH FUUUUUCCKKKKKKEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR”

Super. normal.

We're just normal everyday billionaire fascists. I don't get it... We're just your run of the mill, woman and minority oppressing, gender obsessed, ownership class regular joes!
You'd find us on line with you to get seated at Atelier Crenn, or Masa. We're just like you!
Wacky demented grandpa vibes.
Ah... I well... normal for Maga....

Vance faulted Walz for not kissing his wife at a recent rally.

In the meantime, Melania hasn't shown up for months, and almost none of his family could be bothered to show up at his trial. Meanwhile, Mr Emhoff and Mrs Walz are right there with their spouses the entire way. [Also, I don't recall seeing anything with Vance and his wife on the campaign trail, but I wish cba to even try to look.]

I don’t recall seeing anything with Vance and his wife on the campaign trail
Maybe she's upset about the couch and all
- Rumor has it that every hotel room that Vance has used on the campaign trail has had a couch in it. Coincidence or "hoes in every area code"?
- When she's upset with him, she makes him sleep with her.
She's been there at least a couple of times that I've seen. I know this because there were articles about how Republicans immediately started being racist toward her and their kids.

Stalking someone around the country and trying to enter her personal vehicle to confront her about her behavior - totally normal. Women everywhere find that entirely not creepy and aren't at all worried around that guy.

I’m not familiar with this story. Who’s involved?
- Vance is doing a tour where he follows Harris around to the same cities where she has rallies. Most recently he was doing a press stunt on the tarmac trying to approach her plane. (Presumably so he could sniff her panties)
I thought JD was into his sister? He is also into his daughter? What a weird guy.
- Trump's the one who said he wanted to fuck his daughter.

This doesn't look normal to me: https://imgur.com/gallery/trump-making-fun-of-disabled-reporter-oT41FYI

These two weirdos are the farthest thing from normal I have ever seen running for president and vice president.

Couch fucking weirdo, and there's no way Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies isn't a really weird guy. I mean look at him, he's orange and that hair!?!?!?!?! Those comments about his own daughter? Weird.

Bit weird he has to specify that..

It reminds me of all the posts making fun of Ted Cruz saying things like "I too and a regular earth human who consumes the flesh of animals."

I picture tears in his eyes and his voice breaking as he says this.

While he's throwing a Seig Heil, maybe.

"We're just normal men. We're just innocent men."

Kind of a weird thing to say
Now listen here... send more in. Good ones as well, you'd like that.

Nothing says 'normal' more than having to constantly tell people you're normal...

Ah yes, “We’re totally normal!”

The rallying cry of totally normal dudes everywhere because everyone knows how hard normal dudes have to work to prove they’re normal dudes…

Fucken weirdos 🤣

Interesting how much Vance seems to be in charge of the messaging right now. I don't remember Pence being this outspoken on the trail. Maybe I'm misremembering. Most VP candidates let the person at the head of the ticket take charge, which only makes sense. Normally, that'd be doubly the case when your boss is Trump; it's hard to get that guy to shut the fuck up.

At a guess, Trump is still stewing about not running against the person he planned to run against and doesn't know what to do. Meanwhile, Vance can do as he wants. What Vance wants is a bunch of stupid shit that's only dragging the campaign down, but he does it nonetheless.

Trump's handlers still have him in no-talking-timeout after the black journalists thing.
Meanwhile, Vance can do as he wants.
Normally I would assume Trump would be pissed about anything that takes attention away from him or is negative towards him. That's all he focuses on.
So I also assume that either Vance's stuff is filled with sucking up to Trump (and I'm not going to watch/read all his stuff to find out), or that he's pissing Trump off by getting so much attention of his own.

Sounds like something a weirdo would say.

Shady Vance is about to learn about the Streisand Effect

All normal guys talk about sucking dicks with Mamaw. If only he had actually listened to her

"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I'm going to hell."

When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as "Mamaw" — she replied bluntly: "Don't be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you're gay?"

When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.

"JD, do you want to suck dicks?" she said, according to the book.

The young Vance, apparently "flabbergasted," said: "Of course not!"

"Then you're not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay," she replied. "God would still love you."

This is either a story about a guy fooling himself and lying to grandma, or a story about a guy who accepts his subjective narrative as truth despite objective evidence to the contrary; too bad meemaw doesn't know about policy or jurisprudence, only dicks.