I just read this insightful little mini-essay (the first section of a long hodgepodge of stuff). It’s a direct comparison between Vance and Walz, so it could go in either thread. I flipped a coin.
Money quote is the conclusion.
This explains all the ways the Right is trying to attack Walz (“but don’t you feel weak and insecure and pathetic about ‘X,’ the way I believe you’re supposed to?”) and why those attacks are bouncing off.
Today, Vance engaged in the timeless Philadelphia campaign ritual of Going To Pat’s And Ordering a Cheesesteak, ostensibly to prove that he is a regular guy and not at all weird.
He asked for Swiss cheese and got mad when they said no.
I read somewhere this was an attempted mocking callback to John Kerry making that mistake for real. But of course Vance is a thousand slugs in a human suit so the joke didn’t play.
Weird.
I can’t help but wonder what the next thing Vance is going to do to “prove his regular guy cred?”
Maybe he’ll go to Chicago and order a hot dog with ketchup?
I’m thinking he takes the stage with a self-trained phrenologist who assures us that his cranial ridges are indicative of high fertility and unblemished Caucasoid ancestry.
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.
He and Harrison Butker can go bowling, and for beers.
And what was even the point? Were any of us talking about his sperm before this? At least with the weirdos wearing the Trump Diapers, that was a reaction to people saying Trump wore diapers. But this? They just randomly decided that Vance Super Sperm was the flex of the day?
Yes, this encapsulates my feelings exactly. I tried to express it in an earlier post, but this makes the point much better.
I can’t stand the guy but that…is not what happens in the video. He actually says he does not like Swiss cheese and he does not get angry. Where are you getting that from?
From an earlier version of the Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Nonetheless, it’s still a clear example of JD Vance not being able to act normal for ten seconds. His job was to walk up to the counter, say “whiz wit”, then take a bite and pretend to like it. Instead we get him trying to score points off of a forgotten episode from twenty years ago, and whatever this expression is;
The thing is, even if he is horrified by cheez whiz, he could still have asked for American or Provolone without it being a big deal. And OK, he’s never lived in Philadelphia, so maybe he didn’t know that, but his campaign should have someone local who does know and could advise him.
adding my confusion. What’s the point of carrying around JD’s sperm?
To dispose of it tout suite? I just don’t get any of this shit. I mean, those look like cheap oyster shooters (gah).
One of the biggest problems with JD Vance is the frequent (if not always universal) truth that you can usually tell a person’s intelligence from their expressions and general appearance. JD Vance is an almost cartoonish caricature of a dumbass.
Which he is. Which is also why he appealed to the Orange Felon.
Jaysus. No dinner for me tonight.
Gross(double Gah!)
:runs screaming from the thread:
I’m not going to waste too much energy on this but did anyone watch the video? He is perfectly nice to the food service workers, they laugh about Swiss cheese together and when they tell Vance they make it with cheez whiz he asks for one with cheez whiz and so does his companion. It’s a nothingsteak.
But if it prevents us from talking about Vance’s semen…