My favorite part of the awkward Vance donut shop video was when he correctly said, “The zoo has come to town.” Yeah, and you’re the feces-throwing monkey.
I think his team hates him.
Thinking on this video more, it almost has the awkward and dry humor of a show like The Office. Except this was real people interacting, not a scripted show.
I watched the donut shop video. I think we are making too much of it. Vance tried to be ‘folksy’ I suppose.
The workers there just didn’t know or care who he is. Just doing their jobs.
The really weird part is, “I don’t want to be on film.” “Oh, okay, I’ll just keep on trying to talk to you, then.”
I mean, take a hint, Vance.
As soon as someone says, “I don’t want to be on camera”, anybody with a half a brain and common courtesy would just stop filming, buy the damn donuts and try their luck elsewhere.
At the end of the clip I saw, one of the workers was giving the background of how the store got its start. Vance had no interest. He was disinterestedly saying uh huh and okay in the way that sounds like he’s just waiting for the other person to finish talking. He’s missing the political gene which enables politicians to seem interested in regular people regardless of how interested they actually are. I didn’t get the sense that anyone in the store–employees or his staff–actually liked Vance or were interested in him at all. They were basically doing the same thing he was. They were all engaged in a perfunctory manner to get through the moment and move on to the next thing.
Comedy scene: Vance goes from disrupting small businesses to kissing babies, with disastrous results.
We’re not the ones who released that dud of a video. Why would they release that? What does it show that would make someone want to vote for the ticket with Vance on it?
When Obama first visited Ottawa after being elected, he dropped by a local bakery in the Byward Market (close to Parliament), and bought one type of fancy cookie. That store is still marketing it as the “Obama Cookie”.
I dig this line.
J.D, would make Michael Scott cringe!
No doubt he’d say the same thing he said about Andy:
I don’t understand how someone can have so little self-awareness.
Of course, we expect that from service people who probably aren’t making much over minimum wage. JD Vance, the sullen teenage employee of Vice Presidential Candidates!
Yes. Failure by the advance team to line up a store that would be excited by having a vice-presidential candidate appear, followed by failure by the media team in releasing the video.
Because it is fake. It came from a single account that is clearly fake.
Hmmm… who else did that? I think a certain attorney did a news conference at a landscaping company or something.
That hairstyle reminds me of Ratliff.
I found this cartoon on the web, and the subject is pretty appropriate, too:
Also if the person in the video says they didn’t want to be filmed and you said, “It’s ok just cut her out of everything”, then you fucking cut her out, or blur her face. You don’t know why she doesn’t want to be filmed, maybe she’s just shy, maybe she doesn’t want to be used as a tool to elect a dictator, but it also could be that she is hiding from an abusive ex and doesn’t want her face going viral and telling him where she’s working. Regardless of the reasons you should honor them rather than just unilaterally deciding its ok to ignore them.
Totally! It has shades of the whole “Four Seasons Landscaping” fiasco.
Thank you @BigT . Looks like I’m going to start following Skepchick.