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JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

He really thought he was doing something there. What a weird fool.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He heard about the couches on the plane....

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

The guy wants to join the mile high club

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ugh. Sun-bleached, bad-built, butch-body couch. Not nearly enough curves and contours. How's a fella supposed to get into that? It'll have to go.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of JD Vance masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

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

Obviously next time you're on the train you should start furiously masturbating without the pictures of couches, it'll go much better for you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There's a CRT TV, how old is this.

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

Pretty sure it's the previous model which is now a museum exhibit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They teaching CRT to TVs?

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

At least tree fiddy.

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

(JDV) I can only get so erect.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry Vance, mile high club requires sex with a person

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

You mean I don't have a real individual membership?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Союз нерушимый

республик свободных...

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

I can't read that, but if it's a communism joke,. I meant that the plane is government property it doesn't belong to the person inside.

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

Сплотила навеки Великая Рус

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

He was using his combat skills he learnt as a public relations specialist.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

America being the worldwide laughingstock when it comes to politics has lost it's charm. The last few years Idiocracy has become the better alternative.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The only people that think this are people obsessed with American media.

David Cameron has some association with a pig.

Modi has said some bizarre things about being a demigod.

Macron lectured a kid for saying "How's it going Manu?" instead of "How's to going, Mr. President"

Germany has a long history of very dumb policies, not unique to any specific politician. Such as banning protestors from chanting in any language other than English or German.

And many other things. Politics have dumb things and dumb people everywhere*- it's not uniquely American. American politics are just the most widely publicized internationally.

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

Australia has Engadine McDonald's and its former Prime Minister

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I remember the German politician who had scat fetish/toilet fetish content posted by himself all over the internet

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1189710-german-politicians-video-of-licking-public-toilets-goes-viral

Of course the party he's in is the FDP (libertarians)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're not libertarians, just neoliberals

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

They are libertarian for the most part. The person who responded to you seems to be an (American) libertarian himself so perhaps he's just trying to distance his ideology from this.

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

according to wikipedia's sources it's more liberalism. it's just that neolib policies have quite a bit in common with libertarianism, since the latter is kinda a radical variant.

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

From what I can see, yes. Libertarians are much more radical

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

why was he not gun down by security?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

presumably his entourage of secret service people were in contact with Kamala's entourage of secret service people, and they were at no point worried of any threat of physical harm.

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

They are waiting for closer to the election 👍

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