JD Vance keeps managing to say all the wrong things

I wonder how “normal” JD would think bodily autonomy was if he suddenly lost his?

Someone will have to take one for the team and breed JD Vance
- I guarantee you Vance would fucking love mpreg hentai.
- you go get a speculum, I'll grab the turkey baster.
"castrate all couch fuckers"

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

Sounds a pretty weird thing to do, so it must be true
JD Vance puts mustard on his pizza, pass it on
- JD Vance washes his hands after showering pass it on
- JD Vance puts foreigner Dijon mustard on his pizza, pass it on.
- Then eats it with a fork and knife, pass it on
JD Vance uses bleach on colored fabrics pass it on
JD Vance uses a metal flipper when making eggs in a Teflon nonstick pan then immediately cleans it with cold running water in the pan straight from the stovetop because he enjoys the sizzle pass it on

Been saying forever, abortion is a car that dog don't want to catch. What a disaster for the GOP.

Look, the man had to deflect such a question, right? But if Vance, and by extent the Republican leadership, had the courage of their convictions, the answer is a no-brainer.

"No. I think they are far more concerned with preventing the murder of innocent children, which is not a right, no matter how you slice it."

So, uh, is that message not resonating with women voters? Backing up the truck at this late date?

If the GOP gave even a tiny shit about the murder of innocent children, we'd have reasonable gun laws.
I'd imagine accusing millions of women as "murderers", and then expecting their vote, probably also doesn't really net much benefit to a campaign.
It really is that car huh.
- Come to find out people really like bodily autonomy.

Conservatives are no longer conserving the rate of change to human and social values traditional to the United States.

Under Trump they have become fully reactionary against anything outside of their wealth and privilege bubble.

So what Harris has done has pointed out that the GOP are not "normal" because their values are really really really far outside the norm.

Harris flipped it. Because it is true. And she is a better politician than Trump. Poor Vance, not having an ideological raft to believe in, can only say reactionary things.

Don't buy their propaganda. They didn't become this under Trump. They have always been the protectors of wealth and privelige. You can trace that history right back to the birth of Conservativism in post-revolution France. This is just the latest incarnation.
I highly, highly recommend Corey Robin's book The Reactionary Mind. He breaks down the whole history of Conservativism in a very accessible manner, and shows how every incarnation of the movement has ultimately been about one thing and one thing only; preventing the enfranchisement of the disenfranchised.
- Yeah.. let's talk about Trickle Down economics if you want to see pre Trump examples of the same agenda.

I think it’s finally happening. The strength of GOP was a uniform set of supporters whereas dems were more like a coalition.
Turns out it’s easier to unite people against a common enemy than based on a shared belief and goal.
Well, like the dog that finally caught the car, they finally are implementing actual policy they stand for, and that might be what fractures their base.

Almost immediately after Vance got the nod, I hit on a description for the way he appeared to me. At the time, it was necessarily based on very little info, so mostly I posted it because I liked the imagery - I admittedly wasn't sure how accurate it really was.

Imagine that life is a roleplaying game, and in every interaction, one chooses from a set of possible responses.

And imagine that each response is labeled, so there's the kind response or the neutral response or the angry response or whatever.

It's as if, in every situation, J.D. Vance chooses the asshole response.

It's actually sort of surprising to me how accurate that has proven to be. .

Vance is an NPC with his assholery level set to very high.
- God he's just Nazeem.
  "Do you get to the Yale campus very often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't."
“I’m playing an evil character!”
No you’re not, your character is just a dick.
Or it can be like mass effect and you choose the option that just says "no thanks" but you're character is a massive cunt for no reason at all and is like "no fucking thanks you asshole. I'm gonna kill you and wear your face as a mask." And you're just left wondering where the hell that came from lol
- One of my problems with Mass Effect, tbh. The breaking point though was when in Mass Effect 2 you're forced to work for fascists
Also like Fable, he makes a lot of tall promises he has no intention of keeping.

I just don’t get it. These are questions designed to get him to just answer with sections of his stump speech. How is he this bad at it? All he has to do is say the thing someone else wrote and he has said hundreds of times.

The incompetence would be easier to believe it was intentional.

I heard Donald Jr picked him out
- Apparently it was Don Jr. and Steve Bannon who were really pushing him.

Pray tell...what are these "normal" things you think suburban women worry about? I suppose it is abnormal on a global scale for them (us) to have to worry about it because it's a non-issue in actually civilized countries.

You know, the usual stuff. Cross-dressing men at libraries, "military age" migrant caravans headed towards our southern border, and how high the taxes are for the top bracket. Totally normal concerns that directly affect average Americans in this day and age.
- Worried about that one time and illegal immigrant killed someone 4 states away but ignoring the murder rates in their own town
  Not wanting her tax dollars to go to some mythical welfare queen but is perfectly fine with it being funneled to incentives and bailouts for big businesses
  Thinking non-english speaking illegal immigrants are coming for her job as an RN/admin assistant/realtor but not at all concerned the people who do her yard don't speak English
Really, who thinks about sex anyway?

JD Vance political career will be over if Trump doesn't win.

At this point I'm thinking he's actually a double agent.
He's secretly a democrat and sacrificing himself to ensure Trump doesn't make it.
- I think it's worse. I think he represents a large minority of people who agree with him and just don't say it aloud. He's on the ticket in hopes of trump dying in office so they can push this hyper-religious and ridiculous agenda.
  Their only mistake was not realizing how unpalatable their ideas are to the rest of the country. If they understood that, they'd have sent a better liar.
- It would be significant.

weird

I would love to thank him for the continued damage he's causing to the republicunt agenda. Every time him or dementia don speak it's driving more and more people away from them. It's wonderful

And by normal things, he means weird things.

Ingraham is a ghoul and Vance is an inexplicably married incel.

Together, they combine to create! Asshole-Person

I'm a little drunk rn. So just in case anyone else is wondering, the name of the fonts used in that post is Source Code. I like it a lot. Also, fuck Fox News and JD Vance.

Check out Anonymous Pro. Same spacing between words and distinguishable letters (I fuckin hate Il1 or 0Oo) but a bit smaller kerning (space between letters). https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro It's intended for programmers, just like Source Code.
- https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans?tab=readme-ov-file
  https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
I am also slightly buzzed and I thought it says sunburned woman instead of suburban woman. I was thinking what the fuck does that have to do with anything?

He’s a fucking asshole

You're a VP candidate. Normal things get handled by the city. Does he think CEOs worry about printer paper too?

Totally normal thing to say, nothing weird here folks!

Vance really looks like Rush Limbaugh with a beard. And I mean a real beard, not the kind Rush had: a trophy wife with a 10-year prenup to disguise his pedophilia.

🎶all the wrong things🎶

JD Vance: I am in favor of all family planning services being banned, because 🎶 surprises let you know He cares! 🎵

Yes, this is a "normal" response from a "normal" person, who thinks everyone is as "normal" as them

Regressives gonna try to regress.

Agreed! Killing Children, which is what Republicans see Abortion as, is NO BIG DEAL!

This putz wrote an acclaimed book that got turned into an acclaimed movie? I have to ask did the script writer or Ron Howard change a lot of dialogue and stuff to make it a normal movie? Maybe, he had a really good editor that was like, "Dude, this is some misogynist shit, take it out"

I blocked like 10 communities that post US politics non stop. All with the same core message, some dont even have politics in their name. This one is called "Microblog Memes", why do you all post the same us politics slob in here. And further, why does the machine think its worthwhile to spam lemmy of all places with this shit.

Our presidential election is coming up this fall and we are on the ledge of losing our democracy depending on the outcome. It's kinda on our minds quite a bit.
- no offence or anything, this is not some democracy superhero vs evil dictator doomsday show off. Its a bunch of political candidates up for election with different policies. Its really misleading and unhealthy to assume your world is doomed if the candidate you support is not going to win. Same as it is believing that if your candidate wins you somehow managed to accomplish a heroic deed. The hardened polarization of the 2 camps in the USA gets worse and worse each cycle.
We are on the verge of a theocratic dictatorship
Kind of important