Not the best source, but I can’t post the image alone.

Here’s the image to save you a click on Newsweek.

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    I mean, it’s not a good look given what he’s trying to become… but isn’t he just dressing up as a wrestler whose story has a Soviet background?

    This looks like a costume party and he and his friends are dressing up as wrestlers. It’s like someone dressing up as The Iron Sheik.

    There are worse things to go after him.

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      Republicans seem to like russians now in any case - which is so bizarre for anyone who remembers the “Better Dead than Red” tshirts etc that were all over during the last decade-ish of the cold war.

      In any case, I don’t think the 15 people who were happy about the Vance VP pick nor the frothing cult members who would still vote for Trump if his VP pick was Satan himself really care even if it were something more damning than a costume.

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      True. Just doesn’t seem like a well vetted candidate to me.

      Additionally, it’s just such a low effort, lazy costume if that is what he’s going for.

      It makes me wonder what pushed him to choose this character for his costume, surely there are better, more recognizable choices that could have been made? Unless he wants to be like late stage Soviet Russia.

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        True. Just doesn’t seem like a well vetted candidate to me.

        If there’s anything we’ve been able to determine this last decade or so… it’s that vetting political candidates simply isn’t something that’s done anymore. The fact this shit is discovered by random people on Twitter instead of from the political parties doing actual research is ridiculous. apparently Opposition Research is just non-existent now.

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        It seems right in line with his beliefs. It seems that he’ll bend his ideology to whatever makes him the most heinous. He’s a living foil.

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      There are worse things to go after him.

      And if someone eventually reports on it the audience is already primed to doubt that reporting thanks to stories like this. I’m not saying it’s a vast right wing media conspiracy, but it’s what one would look like.

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    It’s insane how this guy got picked without even the most rudimentary vetting.

    Of course it’s completely in keeping with everything else Trump does, but man.

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      “Hmm…called Trump America’s Hitler… sounds like he knows what we’re going for here. Put him on the shortlist.”

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      I’ve heard rumors that Vance is just there so Penis Thiel would donate more money to Trump’s campaign.

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    I’ve always kinda taken Dave Chappelles take on vice president’s. “Here’s my Vp. You can assassinate me, but if you do - you get them.”

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    I’m not defending JD Vance, famous couch fucker, but I have a Soviet hockey jersey because my friend’s little brother got hyper-nationalist for awhile and kept calling me a communist. So, I leaned into it just to fuck with him.

    I also have an Arvydas Sabonis throwback jersey. If you can’t handle that, don’t come to my neighborhood court. Game recognize game regardless of political systems.

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    It appears that he is at a costume party. I don’t believe he wore the shirt because he actually is a communist.

    I heard someone mention that they never seen him laugh that wasn’t at someone else’s expense. I can imagine a guy like that buying this shirt to joke, “look guys! I’m a communist liberal” (Democrats are communist joke)

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    STOP THIS SHIT!!

    JD makes Trump a weaker candidate, STOP TRYING TO MAKE HIM DUMP VANCE!

    Stupid media always gotta fuck up a good thing lol

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      Vance makes him a weaker candidate for sure, but emphasizing how bad he is makes trump weaker too. Not pushing on how awful Vance is only benefits trump, there’s no point bashing Vance after the election which is in just 4 months. They’ve already been confirmed as the GOP candidates as of the GOP convention so it’s a lot more work for them to drop Vance already (a lot of things need to happen both to national agencies and every individual state, plus another GOP convention to approve a new vp). If they try to drop him, it will leave them very busy and scrambling to get a new person late in the game. Bash on Vance as much as possible, trump is stuck with him.

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        I thought about this. Trumpet dgaf about rules. If he did, we wouldn’t be facing the threat of the end of democracy as we know it. On one hand, sure, changing out this shitheel for another shitheel could open him up to attacks from his own side about being “weak like Biden” or flip-flopping or whatever. But nothing will penetrate his cult’s fog, a replacement with less obvious baggage could help, and again, he dgaf about the rules.

        His ONLY concern is shutting down all the cases against him, and staying out of prison.

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          not weak like Biden. first of all he’s not running against Biden, second of all why would democrats attack Biden to call him weak‽ no, just deal weak, period. so many of his former staff speaks against him. so many are in prisons and he denounces them. he tried to have his former VP pick hanged. now he picks a new VP nominee and changes his mind in less than a month? he can’t make any good decisions. his staff agrees, his VP picks agree, and he agrees.

          looking weak is poison to fascists.

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            I don’t disagree, but yet he has done all of those things and still roughly 50% of the electorate looks at him and says: “yeah, this is still the guy to run the country.”

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    I wear old campaign shirts for candidates I didn’t vote for. Like this is dumb ass hell and I think Vance is a giant sack of shit who is a certifiable love seat lover.

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    They are going to start printing this pattern on the rally diapers, aren’t they?