The Trump campaign finally acknowledged the baseless meme alleging that Sen. JD Vance once had sex with a couch.
    • aaron@lemm.eeEnglish
      53·
      4 months ago

      I agree. It seems like something you’d deny outright. It raises questions about whether or not Trump is a couch-fucker, or if MAGA republicans endorse couch-fucking. Is this their political agenda? To fuck my couch? Or your couch? Are they recruiting my furniture into their couch-fucking culture? There are a lot of questions here.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        10·
        4 months ago

        1. this their political agenda? To fuck my couch? Or your couch? Are they recruiting my furniture into their couch-fucking culture? There are a lot of questions here.

        Given how they taped maxi pads to their ears or wore diapers, id absolutely believe they’d fuck couches to prove their dedication to the GOP. Republicans are nothing if not performative.

        1. It raises questions about whether or not Trump is a couch-fucker

        I’d rather him fuck couches than be a rapist, but here we are.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    121·
    4 months ago

    This was just a silly joke that got WAY out of hand. The author isn’t even trying to claim it’s real. Getting defensive and angry is the worst possible way to respond - therefore, I hope they keep doing it.

  • aturtlesdream@lemmy.world
    67·
    4 months ago

    Apparently, the only way to get under their skin is to sink down to their level a bit. It’s funny how much attention some of this stuff actually got. They are just so weird!

    • SGforce@lemmy.ca
      51·
      4 months ago

      It’s not even close to sinking to their level. This shit is harmless. That makes it especially hilarious to see them blow a gasket over something so lame. Trump wants to take his ball and go home.

      • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        4 months ago

        No, convicted felon, and genuinely weird creepy Donald Trump, will take your ball and go home.

        • Pringles@lemm.ee
          5·
          4 months ago

          That reminds me of a story of some business man who was playing at one of Trumps golf courses with his 12 year old son. Trump was right behind them and because he went with a golf cart he caught up with them. Now they had seen Trumps shot go in the bushes somewhere. You mark your golf balls so you know whose ball it is. Trump, undeterred, drove up with his golf cart, decided the best placed ball, the 12 yo kids, was his and continued playing with it to the absolute bafflement of the father and son.

          Now this story is from way before he decided to go into politics, but already showed exactly what kind of person he is.

        • draneceusrex@lemmy.world
          15·
          4 months ago

          Like someone sleeping their way to the top of the presidential ticket? We’ve been dealing with their bullshit rhetoric for years so much we are all but immune to it. The magat snowflakes can go fuck themselves if they can’t take some in turn now.

            • draneceusrex@lemmy.world
              7·
              4 months ago

              Hey, I wish “They go low, we go high” worked but 2016 proved that isn’t the world we live in. Even then, joking that Vance fucked a couch, which is a super fantastical claim which most people will at worse laugh at, is in a different league than claiming the VPotUS got there on her knees, especially when misogynistic magats will instantly believe it is true.

              • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                1·
                4 months ago

                Hey, I wish “They go low, we go high” worked but 2016 proved that isn’t the world we live in.

                There’s a difference in boldly criticizing and just lying.

                Even then, joking that Vance fucked a couch, which is a super fantastical claim which most people will at worse laugh at,

                You say that but it’s easily believed as something a teenager could’ve done. Also right after the last time I had this silly argument I corrected someone on here who thanked me because they literally believed it happened.

                is in a different league than claiming the VPotUS got there on her knees, especially when misogynistic magats will instantly believe it is true.

                Of course it is. “They’re worse” isn’t really an argument. Just an excuse.

            • Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 months ago

              This is totally harmless and a total tounge in cheek reference to the only talking points MAGA can come up with. MTG says Democrats are pedophiles on the floor of congress, lefties are saying JD fucks couches on Twitter. There’s apples and oranges but this is oranges and pine cones and also helps lighten the mood overall which helps voter engagement and turnout.

              But most importantly, fuck em.

              • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 months ago

                It was never true, not even partially. I don’t want to measure how decent I am by the shittiest benchmark conceivable, i.e. MTG. Also btw this is based on a tweet that is believable and cites page numbers. Plenty of teenagers have done things weirder than fuck couches.

                • Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  4 months ago

                  You missed the entire point of what I said. The “lowest” the left went is an obvious joke, which is the oranges. MTG calling dems pedophiles is the fucking pine cones. They are NOT similar, at all. It is not something that can br used to measure a god damned thing. Don’t be obtuse because you have a bad take on an issue, it’s a bad look.

                  And anyone who thinks someone would write about fucking couches in a grift book to Bible thumper is a fucking idiot. That is not believable.

    • PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      4 months ago

      It looks kind of pathetic. These dudes have real policy positions and behavior to attack and instead of anything substantive we get couches and weird.

      If you’re trying to reach voters already with you, then it’ll be effective for that maybe, but it only tells other voters you think they’re imbeciles. Which is prolly accurate.

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
        15·
        4 months ago

        The talk about them being weird wasn’t devorced from policy. It was first brought up when talking about how republican leaders are weird for wanting book bans and abortion related policies

        The media latched on to the word “weird” because it was unusual, but if you look at when Walz using it, it’s still largely being used in discussions of their horrible plans and actions

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        but it only tells other voters you think they’re imbeciles. Which is prolly accurate.

        They’re trying to reach republican voters, of course they’re going to assume their target audience is a bunch of imbeciles who don’t care about policy. Because we have decades of evidence that they are a bunch of imbeciles who don’t care about policy.

        You gotta meet your audience where they are, and we already know where the republican electorate is.

  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    53·
    4 months ago

    C’mon Vance, don’t be a La-Z-Boy, answer the questions about your sectionality

  • Minarble@aussie.zone
    38·
    4 months ago

    That’s because Flipper Vance is getting too much attention with all this couch action.

    Anyday now Trump will crack and announce that he had lots of couches back in his day more than anyone and when your rich they let you do it to their couches with tears in their eyes saying thank you sir. Big strong men with big strong couches. Some of them were on the younger side to be sure but they liked the couches as much as I did.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      I want this to happen to so bad. This is peak “life is absurd” moment.

      A US candidate for President gets so upset that their VP is hogging all the news about a shit post about fucking a couch.

      • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
        9·
        4 months ago

        Could happen. He’s been spiraling so hard after Biden stepped aside that he posted a fanfic the other night, in which Biden triumphantly storms the DNC and reclaims the nomination that was “stolen” from him.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Now I’m hearing The Narrator talking about how Stanley JD Vance went down the hallway to the break room and found several couches laying there, waiting. But for whom were they waiting? JD’s heart skipped a beat at the thought that they had been waiting for him, and when he saw the way those lustful couches looked at him, he knew it was his lucky day.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      My “Not Going To Talk About Couch Fucking” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions which I believe were answered succinctly by that shirt.

  • SoleInvictus
    34·
    4 months ago

    From the article:

    That’s spurred criticism from the right that — even if the meme is tongue-in-cheek — Democrats are spreading baseless lies about one of their political opponents.

    Because the Republicans would never stoop to such a low!

  • ZhaoYadang@lemmy.world
    32·
    4 months ago

    “Not going to talk about couches”? Oh yes you are. You’ve been hoisted by your own petard, and you’re gonna stay up there till we decide to take you down (we won’t, you deserve it).