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'We're normal guys': J.D. Vance tells reporters not to label Trump ticket as 'weird'
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Nothing says 'normal' more than having to constantly tell people you're normal...
Objectively weird.
Wait a second.. why does this look familiar?
That’s like how people who have to say that they hold the authority do not carry the authority.
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.
Yeah I mean if there’s a room full of weirdos, I guess any one of them might feel “normal”
What a weird thing to say. Creepy motherfucker...
Sorry, Mr. JD "Couch" Vance, you don't get to pick your own nickname.
We're just a couple of normal guys having a normal time with a couple of extremely normal couches. Nothing to see here folks...
Well that’s weird…
Just your regular neighborhood creeps.
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.
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.
Trump's handlers still have him in no-talking-timeout after the black journalists thing.
Yeah. We all regularly try to start an insurrection.
I guess for people like him, and his followers, they would consider that normal
"Weird" would have been such a nothing insult if they didn't get so weirdly upset by it
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.
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.
To paraphrase Tywin Lannister: Anyone who must say "I am normal" is not normal.
If you don't ask yourself that every stop often, you end up fucking couches tho
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.
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