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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No, they’re not gonna talk about couches at all!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ok, what should we talk about instead? Epstein's lists? Project 2025? Whether "I own the place" is a good reason to waltz in to a room that was supposed to give young girls privacy for changing? How much one should expect to pay to silence a porn star? Why regular Trump supporters should think he gives a single fuck about them when so many of the ones he selected to be a part of his administration ended up in prison when he could have pardoned them? Why he keeps bragging about passing a test that included tough questions like "identify this common object" and "what is your name?"? Whether he thinks his secret service agents gave the shooter some free shots deliberately because they secretly can't stand him either and intend to push the idea of reasonable doubt as far as Trump himself does?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If they're trying to sweep this under the rug, I do not wanna know what JD Vance did to that rug...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

WHY ARE YOU DODGING THE QUESTION?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Weird strategy this is the kind of thing you really want to get a head into er ahead of.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Denial, can we ask Matt Gaetz which stage of grief this is?

The best part is everyone except the right wing idiots knows it's just a joke, but they are getting so upset over it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

The pig fucker strategy happened by accident for the Democrats. Thanks goodness for the tik tokr that started that. When Walz cracked that joke in his first speech as VP candidate it clearly upset Vance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

QUICK! Don't think of a couch!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Streisand'd the narrative wonderfully

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Sounds like it just did

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

They could have memed it to hell and back with stuff like "I did not have a sexual relationship with that furniture mr. Clinton" or "only inanimate thing im horny for is democracy" but they had to go full serious damage control mode. Like, if they told us there are no aliens invading and put soldiers in the streets we would look out for ufos. What did they think they were going to gain by that kind of response? Completely detached from the ether, they are.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

From the article:

That's spurred criticism from the right that — even if the meme is tongue-in-cheek — Democrats are spreading baseless lies about one of their political opponents.

Because the Republicans would never stoop to such a low!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What happens in the couch, stays in the couch. But hey, loveseats got that name for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

JD Vance’s local furniture store got that standing order for quarterly couch delivery for the very same reason!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Don't worry, we'll talk about it for you

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow. Their silence on couches is deafening. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE?!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's nobody's business but the Turks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Little Birdhouse in my soul

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's an older code but it checks out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

A lot of people are talking about couches and other sexy furniture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

They don't kiss and tell! /wink

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I don't blame them. You don't want Vance to lose his concentration and start fantasizing about couches.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hmm curious why would Trump campaign hide this info from the voters?? Did Vance really fuck the couches and the internet just guessed right????

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i think he's statistically likely to have fucked a couch and is panicked that someone found out somehow

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He wrote about it in his own book. With his own words. I'm down with whatever you wanna do man, but you wrote about on a book and then try to hide it? I'm gonna laugh at you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He didn't. Somebody lied and claimed he did. That's where this whole thing started. It has no basis in actual reality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

It's true, it's on pages 179-81

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

How would you know? Is not like anybody's actually read that book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Especially coming from the party of "we want to control every aspect of your private life". They want to judge people's sex life? Well, we're going to make fun of theirs.

Otherwise what happens between a man and his couch would otherwise be none of my business (unless I'm offered to sit on said couch, then I would really like to some warning).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Technically, they’re talking about it!

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