J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane
The made-for-TV moment was so weird that it could have been a page taken right out of the script of political TV show “Veep”.
Here's an AP source if you prefer not to click the daily beast.
“I just wanted to check out my future plane... I also wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why she refuse to answer questions from the media,” Vance said, jabbing at Harris.
W E I R D GUY
It’s not unheard of during a general election campaign for opposing candidates to cross paths as they travel, especially given the compressed map that limits much of the campaign activity to a relative few states that will determine the Electoral College winner.
But also, what exactly is the AP doing here? The Trump campaign purposefully scheduled JD Vance to follow Harris to all these places after she released her schedule. They're not just "crossing paths as they travel," he's literally following her
PS What is Trump even doing this week? Is Vance campaigning alone now?
Trump is too old to keep up with Kamala's schedule. And he hates the photos of the same venue really full for Kamala and half full for him, so he's avoiding the comparison like he's avoiding the debate. He hates being seen to lose. He's the world's sorest loser.
That poor guy...why schedule the scrub newbie to go on stage after the major blowout headliner? Must be Vance's punishment for sucking. Gonna be fun when Kamala starts posting up the comparison of each event he follows to hers. HAHAHAHA
and yeah, I get trump's "strategy", but he is using checkers in a chess game and expecting the same plays to work.
Uncreative, boring, poorly thought out. Weird ancient strats in a modern battlefield. Weak.
Vance, continuing his jocular jabbing, said he’d be more than willing to debate Harris on Aug. 13 “if she’d like to do a debate with me.” That was a matchup scheduled before Biden stepped down, meaning it would have put Vance and Harris on the same stage as vice presidential rivals.
Actually, I think it would be good to change the standard routine of having the VP candidates debate each other, to having them debate the opposing presidential candidates. Then we’d get to see the top-ticket candidates debate two opponents each, instead of just each other.
Much better source without a bullshit headline. Thank you.
Vance, continuing his jocular jabbing
Is that some new type of sectional I’ve never heard of?
You keep him the hell away from my new Ashley Jocular.
🙏
Thanks.
While the daily beast is a fun read, it’s hard to make out where they exaggerate and dramatify things
Does...he realize she's the current Vice President and that's an Air Force plane? Dude rolls up on it like he's about to do a panty raid.
Or does he realize it, and just have that little respect for the office he's running for and its current occupant?
Please let him find out how quickly he can placed on a no fly list.
Dude doesn't realize that most of his toe jam comes from his socks, this is a completely fabricated individual with zero understanding of the real world
Doesn't he get a secret service detail since he's VP candidate? I image some pretty easy, but unusual, phone calls were made
What the fuck is wrong with that guy
I've said it before I'll say it again. Of all the Republican weirdness in recent years, I truly don't understand why they seem to have made a conscious decision to become the biggest-asshole-in-the-room party.
In recent years? brother they’ve been the “biggest asshole in the room” party since at least Nixon; they just have to keep outdoing themselves
It used to be that those guys were on the fringes of the party. Nixon was a crook, but he established the EPA and OSHA. That was just a normal thing for a Republican to do in the 1970s.
The GOP is a big tent party, and so they've always had room for the extreme right wing. These days, the tent is getting smaller, and unless you're an out-and-out fascist you're not really welcome. Unfortunately, half the country feels a stronger tie to that party than to their country, so they're squeezing into that smaller tent.
Because it works. Acting like a childish bully still gets the adoration from the “peaked in high school” MAGA voter base.
peaked in high school
Seriously an all too common overlap on the venn diagram. I might also add receiving public assistance. Yet they vote for the party trying to limit or stop that assistance 🤦♂️
They represent people that are also actively trying to be the biggest assholes in the room
“Of all the Republican weirdness in recent years, I truly don't understand why they seem to have made a conscious decision to become the biggest-asshole-in-the-room party.”
Recent? They’ve been doing this shtick since at least Newt Gingrich in the 90s.
The thing is, I was alive and an adult then, and I knew otherwise OK people who were single issue voters who therefore voted republican. I may have disagreed with them on a thing or three, but we could get along OK. It either wasn't as pervasive, or somehow didn't hit my sphere. (And I was living in the south at the time)
Now - everyone who I know is a republican is just a raging confrontational asshole.
So the party with a history of inciting vigilante violence storms a VPs airplane and isn't shot dead by secret service.
Is there an issue with the secret service actually doing their job, or do they just give Republicans a pass?
So the party with a history of inciting vigilante violence storms a VPs airplane and isn’t shot dead by secret service.
They probably view Vance less as a threat and more as an awkward and socially oblivious guy
That’s pretty weird.
Yes, very weird.
He's lying. He didn't go on that plane to see her. The weirdo was going to take a look to see if her plane had any couches. He was feeling a little frisky.
He really wanted a seat in the Mile High club
JD Vance is the only guy who can join the mile high club without leaving his seat.
They should spray the furniture down in case he had his way with anything. Also check for bugs because I wouldn't put it past those jackasses to try and spy on the VP.
They should treat it exactly as if the Kremlin had sent agents in.
When you said "check for [spy] bugs," I first thought you meant literal insecty bugs, and that made plenty of rational sense to me, because who wouldn't come back with even more potent insecticide to douse those couches, maybe some Super-Potent Fabric-Penetrable Bug Annihilator, one formulated for Previously Penetrated Couches, in order to kill the very particular kinds of creepy crawly bugs that JD seems like he carries around on his creepy crawly body.
You know, I've been thinking ... There's gotta be another layer of complexity in all that projection vectored through his hating on "childless cat ladies" nonsense, other than the obvious "I'm scared of happily independent women" business.
Fleas. I'm thinking he has fleas. JD Vance has fleas. You know, because something, something, cats.
Bed bugs would also make sense. Him fucking furniture and all. Bed bugs are, after all, the herpes of the craft couch-coitus world.
Its amazing to see how fast and far the democratic party managed an absolute loss around into a nearly absolute win. Same for Trump and co conspirators, about a mo th ago they were on for an absolute win and now he's continuously cutting the tree branch he's sitting on...
Just do not be mistaken though. I fully expect Harris to win with a land slide but that matters not. Various states WILL sabotage the election z refuse to respect the democratic votes from the people, and just send Republicans as winners for that state. Trump too will try another coup, and I think it's not unfair to expect that coup to be bigger and more violent than the January 6 coup. Come to think of it, it's insane that trump still hasn't been convicted for that one.
Vote like your life depends on it. When you've solved that problem, then you get to dealing with Donnie's second go at an attempted coup. One thing at a time.
"You solve the first problem. Then you solve the next. And the next. And if you solve enough problems then you get to go home." - Mark Watney.
Absolutely
Trump too will try another coup, and I think it's not unfair to expect that coup
Of course he will try.
One of the differences this time is that he doesn't have the power to delay the deployment of defensive resources.
And nobody is dismissing it as impotent bluster this time.
Yeah but what he does have now is a shit loaf of people who now have the jobs of the people who stopped falsifying election results on the state level last time. Most of then either moved on or relented under the pressure of threats. John Oliver had a nice piece about it some two years back
It's gratifying to see President Biden quoted in an interview saying that he doesn't think that The Biggest Loser will concede peacefully. It may be his job to order a former President detained for national security reasons, probably at Guantanamo Bay, so he's inaccessible to the insurgent mob trying to free him.
Vance, continuing his jocular jabbing, said he’d be more than willing to debate Harris on Aug. 13 “if she’d like to do a debate with me.” That was a matchup scheduled before Biden stepped down, meaning it would have put Vance and Harris on the same stage as vice presidential rivals.
Not that I think she should, but she would slap him down so hard. She's a former district attorney. He... co-wrote a book which was full of lies.
I still can’t believe Walz slipped the couch reference in there at the announcement. It felt so amazing to have one of those “I can’t believe this is real life politics” moments but in a good/fun way. Greatest VP pick of all time!
When they go low, we go and point out the fact that they probably fucked a couch.
Also, unfortunately the fact that they want raped children to carry the resulting baby to term. And then assure that nobody in that conversation, besides them, has health insurance.
“I want to talk to people who have no interest in talking to me, so I’m going to hang out by their vehicle for a while,” said definitely not creepy and stalkerish JD Vance.
So you're telling me the Secret Service learned nothing from a couple of weeks ago.
My guess is that they combined security envelopes to prevent mistakes happening from bad communication and overlapping containment.
The planes were on the same tarmac, which was probably locked down tight- though as one of the protected persons he had access.
I find it funny this limp chode thinks he’d do better debating Harris over Walz.
Proverbially speaking, Walz would feed him through a wood chipper. Harris would feed him through a wood chipper feeding a mulch spreader and then set the field on fire just to be sure.
‘Course, he could be trying to take one for the team. You know, keep her away from the pedophile rapist.
I know the article says:
J.D. Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2
But I can't be the only one picturing a Naruto run.
Almost as awkward as his conversation with Mamaw. If only he would've learned from 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."
It's funny that those people are always on about how gay representation will lead to kids becoming gay, but here it's literally one of them trying to shame others, and literally threatening hell who leads to that kid's questioning.
J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Weird Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane
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Couch raid!
How do the secret service decide who to put to the ground if it had become tense? By rank?
They definitely have a color chart, they're cops too.
Pretty sure sitting VP out ranks all but sitting president
Whoever is being aggressive. If it's just words they do nothing, if someone tries something physical they are stopped.
Lol, weird.
Weird little brother energy.
He was just checking out the upholstery situation on Air Force 2.
Couch connoisseur
JD Vance has an obsession with Indian women.
Lots of people do.
Why do you think there are so many Indian people?
I must admit, I am a bit high right now, but I tittered heartily at your lighthearted turnabout, and then my mind, well, now it's blown, because I now must ask... Does any particular ethnicity or racial identity have a statistically significantly higher birth rate than any and all other identity groups simply because, and with all other factors controlled for, they find themselves and people like them just so irresistibly sexy that they can't help but have the sexy sex with each other, and because they are both so damn sexy they can't even right now, and "we're having sex can't you see" and ask you to come back later to ask your weird sex questions???
Any particular one? ... Anyone?
JD Vance has an obsession with Indian women couches.
JD Vance: "Look at the bolsters on that mahogany beauty!"
Fucking weirdo
Missed a golden opportunity to close the door and have the pilot fly them all to some backwater airport in Alaska, then see if they can find their own way back home.
They will easily be able to navigate based off of the Russian landmarks visible on the horizon.
If nothing else Harris is kicking their asses on social media. Although tbf they almost write the script themselves.
What a weird and cringe motherfucker.
Vance told a Philadelphia rally on Tuesday that he would “absolutely” want to debate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, if given the chance.
I hope you bring some lube because you're gonna need it.
I expect Walz to just be like:
Probably thinking that’s the closest he’ll ever get to it.
Weirdcore
Misleading headline @jeffw@lemmy.world, try to use better sources than the daily beast.
No one here is in danger of slipping to the right-wing. 🙄
What is inaccurate about the headline?
Jd is a moron, but he didn’t storm anything. Get better sources. This was covered elsewhere.
From the thesaurus:
bizarre
adjective as in strange, wild
Strongest matches
This plane needs a "No couches are left unattended in this vehicle" sticker.
Fascists trying to play dirty once again.
Why does he do things like that?
"dont mind us, we're just being totally normal over here"
He lay claim he went to complain about harros hit we all know how nice those couches are on that plane...
Dude. Get that concussion checked.
Yeah, auto correct on phone can suck at times
Trained eye liner wearing monkey follows orders with absurd publicity stunts, showing exactly what sort of performative clown show you'd get if they're elected, instead of actual policies and governance.
I heard Vance tried to storm the plane because he had inside information about coverups at Boeing.
Like a couch cover?
12ft is back!?