Guardian headline: "Sofa so bad for JD Vance as Trump's VP pick faces swirling speculation"

[Ramsey Barner]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/jd-vance-critics-trump-vp

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page for visibility

I live the Guardian

[dem4decades]

2. I saw an "ad" for J D Jelly, a sexual aid to help with cushion pushing.

It was pretty funny.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Attempts to contact the sofa for comment were unsuccessful. nt

[dalton99a]

4. .

Since joining the Senate last year, Vance has become one of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress and embraced the former president’s agenda on everything from foreign policy to election denialism. In one illuminating interview with CNN in May, Vance suggested pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses should face criminal charges.

“So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?” asked the CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.

“Exactly,” Vance said.

Collins replied, “I’m just checking because you did help raise money for people who did so on January 6.”

[yardwork]

9. A rare and welcome pushback by the press. Kudos to Kaitlin Collins.

In fact, it might make an interesting feature story to explore how the Republican reaction to Jan 6 may have helped create a permission state for subsequent violent protests.

The media portrays everything as left vs. right but maybe the real compare and contrast is authoritarianism vs. liberalism. "Liberals" are people who tolerate and even celebrate different points of view. I'm seeing a strong authoritarian approach in many supposedly "progressive" causes lately.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Sofa, so good, for democracy.

Who knew couchhumping was a thing?

[Shermann]

7. This is so junior high. I recall this same rumor got started about a kid on the bus, and it lingered for months! nt

[Kid Berwyn]

8. It really is. But, it's effective.

“I am not a couchhumper.”

Let them worry about how the press will cover it.

Payback’s a love seat.

[yardwork]

10. Sooner or later somebody on our side was going to start using these techniques.

Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and all his descendants, the Bush-Cheney crime family, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, they've all used juvenile unfair made-up attacks to win elections. It goes back at least as far as making shit up about Al Gore, swiftboating John Kerry (and other wounded veterans), pretending that Hillary was deathly ill, etc.

It took 25+ years but finally, some anonymous guy on the internet created a totally unfair, false meme against the Republican VP candidate. It's working beautifully and I'm here for every minute of it. More, please.

[central scrutinizer]

11. Swiftcouching!

[RidinWithHarris]

15. While I normally favor taking the high road, if junior high humor helps save democracy...

…I’m not going to get too upset about it.

If most American voters were mature, rational, and free from racism and hate, Harris, Biden, or even the most mediocre Democrat you could find would be polling at least 20 points over Trump.

We’ve got to work with the voters we have.

[Bundbuster]

14. Sofa, so bad for couch cushions

[John Shaft]

6. I fucking love it

his megalomaniacal ego will NEVER allow him to admit fault or own up to being wrong, so he can't switch gears and swap dude out.

[Dulcinea]

12. That's part of it.

I also think the big money donors picked JV Dance Couch Molester. Dolt 45 can't dump him even if he wants to.

[milestogo]

13. Amazing headline