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No, really, Republicans are getting weirder (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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The GOP needs to convince voters that Donald Trump and JD Vance are regular guys, and, manifestly, they are not.

It would be strange for Democrats to attack the Republican presidential ticket for being “weird” if it weren’t true. But those men are getting weirder by the day.

Former president Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), is off to a wobbly start. A Harris 2024 campaign email sent on Friday was headlined, “JD Vance Is a Creep (Who Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide).” The statement continued, “JD Vance is weird. Voters know it – Vance is the most unpopular VP pick in decades.”

It was bad enough when footage resurfaced of a 2021 interview in which Vance called Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.” Things got worse last week when Vance offered a non-apology, blaming “people” for “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”

Uh, okay, but that doesn’t help at all. The substance — which Vance said he stands by — is asserting that adults without children do not deserve an equal say in the nation’s affairs. Another unearthed clip of Vance showed him arguing that parents, when they vote, should be able to cast an extra ballot for each child in their family who is under voting age. He didn’t take that back, either, going only so far as to claim it was a “thought experiment” and not a firm policy position.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 149 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's quite easy to explain. Republicans have retreated into their own media bubble, where they can mold their own reality based on "alternative facts". Their end goal is to project their reality onto the world and give it substance. In this bubble world, Donald Trump is the Alpha Male, and JD Vance is the everyman who speaks for the people.

Outside this bubble, though, Trump is a narcissist and criminal, and JD Vance is severely out of touch. The only way to penetrate this bubble is to shove the truth through it until it pops. Sometimes, calling things as they are doesn't get through the bubble, because it immediately puts people on the defensive about their choices. But call them weird? They might agree something a little weird is going on, and that might be just the opening to stick the truth in there.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 77 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (24 children)

I think this is why the Republicans seem weirdly upset by this line of attack. Call them fascists, they don't bat an eye. It's too complicated for their base to comprehend anyway, even if the would have had a problem with it. But call them out for being weird, and suddenly their base might stop for a moment and actually think: "Yeah, writing about fucking a sofa in your memoirs is a bit odd, isn't it?"

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 months ago

Trump supporters just have small minds; it's why they have been conned by trump to begin with. Concepts such as "liberty" and "civil rights" are too complex to explain and champion to them. Instead they understand only primitive things, like "weird" and "ugly".

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Don't you think he looks tired?"

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

One of my favorite things to watch is to see Jordan Klepper or someone from TYT doing their man on the street thing and asking some of the more radical elements some rather basic, but pointed, questions.

These people are a product of that bubble you reference and you get to see the bubble popped in real time, although I don't think they are fully aware of what is happening.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 61 points 3 months ago (3 children)

parents, when they vote, should be able to cast an extra ballot for each child in their family who is under voting age

And so it was that Vance was elected to the newly established office of Emperor by his own sole vote, after having symbolically adopted all of America’s unborn children. When asked for comment, he was quoted as saying ”Leave your couches unwrapped at the roadside, DC, I’m coming.”

[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

JD is about to invoke the right of prima nocta on every couch in every living room across America.

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’ve had it up to here with people saying JD Vance had sex with a couch. How many times do I have to say there’s no evidence JD Vance had sex with a couch before people stop saying JD Vance had sex with a couch? Liberals must be pretty desperate to make up that JD Vance had sex with a couch. The story that on March 17, 2011 JD Vance was banned from a Cleveland area IKEA after so thoroughly deflowering a KIVIK Sofa Chaise that it had to be removed as a biohazard due to the various fluids in and around it, causing the night manager to not only quit but need intensive therapy is beyond the pale. Who would believe this? There is sworn. court. testimony. that JD Vance has not made bare skin contact with a couch within the past 5 years. That’s a fact. Look it up. The idea that this is because JD Vance cannot contain his overwhelming sexual urges in the presence of soft furniture is reckless conjecture. Calling JD Vance a couchfucker is slander and you need to take it back.

The Left™ will do anything to avoid talking about the real issues in this campaign, like the fact that Kamala Harris laughs sometimes.

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[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago (4 children)

They're all just sofa king peculiar.

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[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Trump is really weird. Here's his shark story from June that he was regularly telling.

“I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery’s now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ “By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that? Lot of sharks. I watched some guys justifying it today: ‘Well they weren’t really that angry, they bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were not hungry but they misunderstood who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said, ‘There’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming.’ No, really got decimated, and other people, too, a lot of shark attacks. “So I said, ‘There’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards, or here. Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking? Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?’ Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. “He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water.’ But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that, we’re going to end it for boats, we’re going to end it for trucks.”

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

At this point the Navy is just going to tell him they took the batteries off the ships and do nothing. (Yes this is related to his tour of the new aircraft carrier where he didn't understand the technology so he tried to order the Navy to rip it out and replace it with the old tech. Which would have effectively scrapped the 10 Billion dollar ship.)

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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are not only weird, they are perverted creeps who obsess over children's genitals.

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Donald Trump is a weird old man and shouldn't be running for president. He should drop out

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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He didn’t take that back, either, going only so far as to claim it was a “thought experiment” and not a firm policy position.

Ah, the old "I was just running my mouth" defense.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So let's just imagine they pass a law where people get an extra vote for their kid, which parent gets the vote? Or does each parent get an extra? Because that wouldn't make sense. Not that any of it did in the first place

[–] Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No no, only the husband will get to cast the vote for his children. No accounting for non-traditional relationships, because JD doesn't count them.

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[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

The father gets the vote, because why would we let the women vote anymore?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

To be honest, they've always been this fucking weird. They just felt they had to hide it.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

There's no way anybody's ear, especially at that age, healed that fucking fast without any scab or scar. It takes me two weeks just to get rid of a paper cut.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So you don't think the spray tan teeth whitening scalp reduction diaper baby healed naturally?

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