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J.D. Vance Spends Weird, Low-Energy Speech Praising Diet Mountain Dew (newrepublic.com)

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J.D. Vance’s weird, anti-woke punchline fell flat at his own sleepy speaking event on Monday.

Vance held a rally at his former high school in Middletown, Ohio, where hundreds gathered to hear the missives of Donald Trump’s newly-minted vice presidential candidate. But, even as a hometown hero, the Ohio senator suffered some brutally awkward moments.

“It is the weirdest thing to me: Democrats say that it is racist to believe—well, they say it’s racist to do anything,” said Vance. “I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today. I’m sure they’re probably gonna call that racist, too.” Around the room there were some scattered laughs.

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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Worst VP pick since Palin. He presents as your smartass alt right troll cousin that you think about skipping Thanksgiving to avoid, and his only real appeal is speaking out against the "elites," who were all inconveniently in the list of his personal contacts that were accessible to the public because the RNC forgot to set his Venmo to private while "vetting" their VP pick.

It's a clown show. The MAGA camp thought they had it in the bag for a few weeks and made some incredibly stupid, sloppy decisions.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 20 points 4 months ago

I wonder if all the other options actually had backbones? I know the one supreme deciding factor for Trump's pick: "will you do as I say and deny the results of the election and anything else I ask you to do that isn't above board?"

I think there might be more pences out there than we think so Vance might have been one of a few on a short list that filled that criteria. Plus I'm sure Trump liked the look of him.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Reporting was saying that Trump didn't like Vance and Trump's sons had to convince him.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Interesting. The only reason I'd have to not believe that is that it involves Trump listening to his children lol

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

😂

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

There's also the factor that Trump's cultists wanted to hang his last VP, and Trump was okay with that.

[-] itsgoodtobeawake@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I hadn't heard that venmo story, gotta love the self owns, here it is: https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/

[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

It's a clown show. The MAGA camp thought they had it in the bag for a few weeks and made some incredibly stupid, sloppy decisions.

You say that like MAGA and stupid, sloppy decisions don't go hand in hand.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Anyone publicly known to be supporting Trump is by definition stupid or sloppy.

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