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J.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults”
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Vance faced an onslaught of bad press, as many commentators—including Harris’ step-daughter, Taylor Swift fans, Democratic officials, actor Jennifer Aniston, and several conservative women pundits—decried his comment.
My reading comprehension must be pretty bad because for a second it sounded like Taylor Swift was Kamala Harris' step daughter.
I'm a childless adult. I'm such a terrible person. I worship the devil and I kill people. What are you gonna do about it? My cats are literally tiny Satans.
Actually, they fucking rock. Best kitties in the world.
Fellow childless adult here. Partner and I want kids, but we can't bear to bring a person into this world where the climate is fucked, reaganomics has ruined the middle class, and restrictive reproductive healthcare laws make pregnancy a huge risk.
JD Vance wants to bitch about childless adults, but he and his ilk are causing us to abstain from having kids.
He's really proud that he found a woman who will let him raw dog
What is wrong with the MAGA goobers? Is this really the hill they want to die on?
They want Gileon
This couch fucker needs to resign.
No no, he needs to stay in. He needs to keep saying this shit and driving everyone away from voting Trump. Since JD Vance is a narcissistic, power hungry couch fucker, he won't leave Trump's campaign willingly which is exactly what we need.
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That is pretty funny, actually. It's such an old-timey insult. He is basically calling them spinsters. I can't imagine this will catch on.
Maybe tax the rich, so normal people can afford children.
Why on Earth does he think this is a good strategy?
Wow, he really wants to go with the "childless" thing, huh? Should go over swimmingly with Millenials and Gen Z that can't afford to have children anymore.
He just wants Millennials to be the happy and proud parent Trump is of his children- Ivanka, Don Jr., Derek, Barron, and he doesn't have any other daughters.
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What a neckbeard
I interpret this as "he wants even more bad press, this time from pissed-off journalists".
Living in sin.... No attachments, just these journalists and their sexy spouses - their Lazy Boys and their Ashleys.
Unlike him and his wife, Couchela.
You know what else is childless? All the couches he's been humping. What a hypocrite. Sheesh.
I dunno, I've seen some chairs and loveseats that look too much like their couches to be a coincidence. We might need to get Maury involved here.
Hell yeah JD!!! That's my boy! Keep giving us this motivational locker room talk, you're the gift that keeps on giving! Keep cooking (yourself) King. You're kinda mainlining the LGBTQ stuff to the point that it's stale, maybe alienate some minorities next go round, that'd be SICK
With all his focus of who does and doesn’t have kids, I feel like there’s a good “precious bodily fluids” joke to be made here.
I hear he left a lot of precious bodily fluids in his couch.
🎶 every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good. Every sperm is needed, in your neighborhood. 🎶
This guy is hilarious! He's gonna drop a solid gaffe bomb soon enough and Drumph won't know what to do.
Also Appalachians are rising up to shit in his face
He may get dropped, I think.
We're in move, counter-move territory after Biden dropped out and everything coalesced behind Harris.
I don't know, if Trump drops him, that looks a lot worse for Trump than it did Biden dropping out for Harris. There haven't been months and months and months of people on both sides saying Biden is unfit for another term.
You may be right. Where I am is this:
- Trump NEEDS to win (for his own purposes)
- Vance has a lot of connections to Project 2025
- Project 2025 may doom Trump's run
If the race starts to separate, Trump is not loyal. He just requires it of others. And he's been rather successful with persuading others to view his treatment as unfair.
Edit: formatting
I'm trying to imagine what would even register as a gaffe at this point, discernable from the cosmic background dumpster-fire of Trump's campaign
The only people against circular reasoning are those it doesn't work for.
it's not a random thing to demonize people for the simple choice to not have kids. corporate greedlords have been shitting their pants over the declining birthrate because less kids means less money for them. no matter who's paying to raise a kid--parents or taxpayers--that money isn't spent on kids that don't exist, and every industry suffers for it: food, medical, gas, clothing--everything
so if you already felt bad about not having kids, the goal is to make you hate yourself even more, and make having kids an even higher priority in your life. it seems like it should be about more than money, but for republicans it's absolutely not.
corporate greedlords have been shitting their pants over the declining birthrate
Imma need a source on that one. But yeah, a shrinking tax base and aging population is bad mojo.
i don't know about "scientific" studies about coporate panic, but there's plenty of ink spilt
https://convergencemag.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-the-lower-birth-rate/
But with stable or falling populations, economic stagnation, such as that which afflicted Japan for a decade, limits opportunities to profit. And establishment think tanks worry about how to fund Social Security without taxing the rich.
LOL
https://medium.com/@julian.frazier.phd/boomers-panic-as-birth-rates-continue-to-decline-2f2bd1fabcae
https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/population-panic-low-birth-rates-fdi/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/05/21/can-the-rich-world-escape-its-baby-crisis
they use words like crisis, panic, catastrophe, etc. -- it's all to scare people into thinking the world is going to implode unless everyone starts furiously having babies. the world isn't going to implode from fewer babies. profits will go down. that's it.
edit: also-- "shrinking tax base"--fuck that. tax the fucking rich
Print photos of different couches and mail them to any or all of these locations:
https://www.vance.senate.gov/office-locations/
Don’t forget to add little love notes. e.g., “Thinking of you 💋”
Okay I’m super out of the loop, where did the couchfucker thing come from?
There was a Twitter post claiming he wrote in his book that he fucked couch cushions as a younger lad. It is (as far as we know) not true, however it caught like wildfire and is now a certified dank meme
This really smacks of "bloodlines."
While he's just an adultless child
He wants to ensure that all children have children. His type is couches, dolphins, and little girls.
His type is couches, dolphins, and little girls.
That's unfair of you to say. The first one is confirmed to be a hoax.
No it's not. So far, no one has been able to disprove that Vance fucked a couch.
A technicality, it was actually a love seat.
But he admitted it. He even went on the "Sectional Healing" podcast. His favorite type of couch to fuck is a chaise btw