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Ticket of absolute idiots.

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[–] [email protected] 253 points 2 months ago

it hurt itself in its confusion!

[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He says as the running mate of a billionaire celebrity that’s trying to influence people.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't you mean, "billionaire" celebrity?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, he hosted on Celebrity Apprentice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Didn't make him a celebrity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He said Trump wasn't either a billionaire, celebrity, or both., could be any one of the options really. Someone should ask him to clarify so he can stick his foot in his mouth again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well we know he’s not a billionaire, and we know he’s a celebrity

[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sen. J.D. Vance knows Americans can't be influenced by a billionaire celebrity with little interest in the day-to-day problems they face.

But a pretend billionaire who was mildly famous as a joke decades ago?

That's JD's pick?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

No no Trump's not influencing them, he's ruling them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or maybe he means the space billionaire who sends rape threats to another billionaire 20 years younger than him?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So he'll stop cashing those checks from Peter Thiel then?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago

BWAHAHAHAHA

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

Maybe this is his way of saying Trump is broke?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Take that Leon

[–] gravitas_deficiency 33 points 2 months ago

Heterosectional says what?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

JD Vance is a Zack Galifianakis character.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

He's leaving money on the table here

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair Trump isn't a billionaire

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which one? The Elongated one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Irony, thy name is Vance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Only when he says it.

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

Well. Technically. They artificially inflated the value of truth social or whatever that ticker is.

He’s got enough shares it could fall to 1 dollar and he’d still make bank.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Vance needs to get a nice sofa in a secluded spot and let this whole thing blow over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can VPs drop out even if they want to? I don’t think you can after a certain date. You can do a Shermanesque declaration and resign but the office would still be yours if you ran, declared you were dropping out, then won

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure you can say “fuck this place” at any stage of the game.

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

I assume that since the deadline has past for some states, Vance has to be on the ballot, even if he drops out. Trump has to carry him to term (pun intended). For example, RFK Jr. dropped out, but will still be on the ballot.

If these terrible people are elected and do not take the oath of office, then presumably the 25th amendment takes effect, and a new VP is appointed by the president, or the VP elect ascends to President if the presidency is vacant.

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

Vance and a sofa. He'd be the one to blow first.

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

Hopefully at least the sofa wears protection. Don't want stains.

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

Scotchgard FTW.

I wonder if Vance has shares in 3M. Seems like given his predilections, that would be a smart idea. But being smart clearly isn't one of his strengths.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I love that photo. He has a face that says "I can feel some of my neurons trying to connect together, but they keep missing so I don't know what they're saying."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would not want to be on the bad side of Taylor Swift. She holds grudges and puts in the work to obliterate people in her way. She has the money and following to make a real difference.

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

Do you have examples of this or is it just hyperbole?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Her post has sent over 300k people to vote.gov within 24 hours. Does that work for you?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not really, that’s not a grudge. I was hoping for example not related to the election.

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

I thought you were looking for examples of her having lots of following and money, which seemed like a strange thing to have to prove.

For grudges, I think her rule is that she doesn’t hold one, “per se”, and rises above it. I do remember an incident with somebody (want to say Kanye) at an awards show and the way in which I remember her handling it was to let her class and fans speak out for her without having to use her mouth to cut someone down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The OP claimed she “obliterates” people she holds grudges against. I’d never heard any stories about her like that and still haven’t. Didn’t know if I missed something, I don’t follow career.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The guy who owned the rights to her first six albums was being a bully and asshole to her, so she has been re-recording all of those albums one by one from scratch and telling her fans to buy those instead so he won’t profit off her work. She’s done like 4 already.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

To be fair. Trump may not actually be a billionaire on paper, only thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

His comment insists upon itself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ignoring reality has always been a risky business.

But what can one expect from someone who is dumb enough to make himself Trumps personal scapegoat?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

common jorkin dapeanus vance l

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Very “not the onion”.

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

"I fucked those couches" [gestures towards couches]

-J.D. Couch-Fucker

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

Hey, weirdo from middletown, you barely won as a republican in Ohio fuck off

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