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submitted 3 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Just about every time J.D. Vance — the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in American history — opens his mouth, he ignites a firestorm of criticism and likely shaves another point off the Republican presidential ticket’s polling numbers.

On Sunday, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Vance admitted that he and Donald Trump made up a baseless and racist story about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.

Ironically, Vance’s attempt to point out imagined “suffering” has led to actual suffering by his own constituents.

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 72 points 3 days ago

You can't resign from a job you don't have!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago

He can resign from society like Howard Hughes. I wish he would.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And then write Harry Potter style books about himself!

  • President Trump and Roger Stone
  • President Trump and the Chamberpot of Secret Documents
  • President Trump and the Prisoner of Financial Scams
  • President Trump and Everyone's Fired
  • President Trump and the Order of the Hamberder
  • President Trump and the Half-Baked Concept of a Plan
  • President Trump and the Deathly Hollow Promise
[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 points 3 days ago

I commend your commitment to the gag!

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Thanks! Now that I've got a fan base to disappoint, it's time say something disturbingly sexist or transphobic.

Girls have a button and boys have a pole. Wicked touching takes its toll.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This is ridiculous. How do you not already have Holywood breaking down your doors for film rights Σ(゚∀゚ノ)ノ

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Or just save his toenail clippings in jars like Hughes. Whatever. Just go into Mar-a-Lago and never come out of his room again.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

I thought he saved his urine in jars

Then again, I guess you can save multiple things in jars

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

for that he would need to have some kind of a honor code :/

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 6 points 3 days ago

Maybe we can reinstitute societal shunning?

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

We tried to.
Called it cancelling.

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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