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[–] muxika@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At JD's every couch is a love seat.

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The plastic on the furniture is for your protection.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Hmm polyester and fabric

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

"...though you've had more people on you than my couch"
"Are you calling me a slut?"
"No, I'm just unlikeable."

[–] Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"You smell like my ~~cou~~chas lounge."

[–] Curmuffin@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

She went to J. and she got the D.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Fast moving leather upholstery coming in HOT.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hence the leather pants.

“I wanna be between your cushions.”

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wow! That is moving fast. She is luring him in with her black leather pants. She loves power. He loves upholstery. He can't resist. GOP perversion/hypocrisy at its finest.

[–] Curmuffin@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

I'd have thought that Vance liked a bit more "cushion for the pushin'" than that. Guess he'll take what he can get. Which in this case is Charlie Kirk's professional widow.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Correction, her upholstered black leather cooch.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So, he has to dump the brown wife, win full custody of his Christian kids, and marry the white widow all by early 2027?

I'm sure they can do that. We all know evangelicals don't give a fuck about any of this.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

Those kids are not pure enough for his constituents. He will deliberately lose custody and then whine ahout how the system is biased against fathers.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Public opinion is irrelevant. There's not gonna be legitimate elections again, and the oligarchs control the media the 99% consume.

Only 50% of Americans blame R's for the shutdown ffs. Wake up! The US is collapsing under the weight of its own corruption.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid."

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[–] Ancalagon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vance will deport his wife and kids as an example to be led by.

He'll talk about how it's a sacrifice that needs to be made and how it's actually beneficial for them. He's actually the victim of the success of making America great again. But it's a sacrifice he is willing to make.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"No one will ever replace my husband," she told the crowd. "But I do see some similarities of my husband in JD— in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that's why I am so blessed to be able to introduce him tonight."

Her husband's been dead five minutes and he's married. Gross.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

The hug, I could maybe understand, but that comment is either weird or performative. I'm leaning towards the latter, given her husband's background as a performative mouthpiece for the right. She seems like she's basically giving her and her dead husband's endorsement to this administration. They can't help themselves from jerking each other off in front of everyone. "It's ok that we act like this because we're doing it together." and "the left is trying to break us apart, if we don't stick together while we act terrible then we'll all be alone again."

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are disappearing people illegally. Who gives a single flying fuck about the interpersonal relationships of these two ghouls? The only relationship they should have is with the other inmates in federal prison.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

I don't really give a shit about the East Wing either, but whatever catches people's attention and turns public attention against these losers is useful.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"No one will ever replace my husband, but..."

-words uttered by no faithful widow, ever.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

He's dead, she can move on whenever she wants...

He, on the other hand, is still married and needs to at least have the balls to divorce his wife before he moves on her.

She's garbage but, in this situation, he's entirely responsible for his actions.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I dunno, seems like a stretch to me. This particular drama probably says more about our touch-averse culture, or starvation for constant political drama.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 8 points 1 month ago

In isolation perhaps, though I'd consider the whole thing in poor taste regardless. The circumstances and timing doesn't exactly help however.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Projection is our favorite pass time

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, did someone say Epstein files? 🤔🫩🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Here's a more appropriate take.

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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Yeah, because that is how you hug a significant other. Weird shit going on behind the scene at a republican gathering.

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The hand on the back of his head for a hug? ...yuck.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Motherfuckers are trying to make Goebbels into Malcom X.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 month ago

Jds wife knows how much he loves pleather

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] 4grams@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

oh please, this is the republican version of an arranged marriage.

Here’s my conspiracy brain take. With turnips rapidly declining health, they know they need the next puppet to take his place. J.V. dunce is all they’ve got but his wife will never be accepted by the cult. So, this kirk shit happens and all of the sudden they have an already cult approved stepford wife, complete with a perfect sympathy story for cover (‘he was helping me with my grief and it just happened like it was meant to be from god!’).

If any of this happens, it just feels too cooked up, a desperate throw of the dice. But, I think the magats are just the right kind of stupid and evil for it to work.

This is all just insane ramblings of a bored nerd.

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Go deeper conspiracy brain, Erika is actually a sexpionage handler positioning to be first lady.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

He has the hots for his Horst Wessel's wife.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My brain is insisting that this was a perfectly innocent embrace. The alternative is to imagine JD banging her and that just not a mental picture I am willing to endure.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago

"Fuck me like one of your french cushions "

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I thought they were outraged by people disrespecting Charlie. And now his widow is disrespecting him like this not even 2 months later.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

JD & Erika sitting in a tree

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

First comes love

Then comes m̶a̶r̶r̶i̶a̶g̶e̶ JD divorces his brown wife & starts paying her child support

Then comes ̶a̶ ̶b̶a̶b̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶b̶y̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶r̶i̶a̶g̶e̶ Do whatever you want, JD & Erika. You're g̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ corrupt adults.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

“You’ll convert to Catholicism for me, won’t you?”

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 5 points 1 month ago

Of course we already knew that these people were utter failures as human beings and walking advertisements for the benefits of early abortion, but it's still unnerving to witness the abyssal depths they willfully sink to.

Then again, I suppose it's only to be expected from a bunch of bottom feeders.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They fucking.

🤢

[–] 1141kizzie@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

maybe they killed him for this or maybe it is one sider move by Erika

[–] HuskerNation@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago

She has being flotus in her cross hairs for sure

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