The JD Vance couch jokes didn't carry with them the ominous threat of violence against Ikea employees. - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 180 days ago

The JD Vance couch jokes didn't carry with them the ominous threat of violence against Ikea employees.

Reposted from Anthony L. Fisher

The JD Vance couch joke and inflammatory racist lies are totally the same thing

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jar60.bsky.social•180 days ago

ryhio.bsky.social•180 days ago

They never seem to grasp the concept of punching down. Almost like they’re being deliberately obtuse.

victoryrenfrew.bsky.social•180 days ago

Jimmy Bowman is a fascist who is best friends with some canadian conservative party members. (Schmatzis)

There are photos and stories of some of them engaging in sexual abuse of very young guys.

He's been friends with them for decades and was bestman for one.

bananapantz.bsky.social•180 days ago

And the only generalization / stereotyping etc it contained was against a non-existent category of people.

joegordon.bsky.social•180 days ago

Hey we agree samesies https://bsky.app/profile/joegordon.bsky.social/post/3l3sqnuzpd623

coyoteblue.bsky.social•180 days ago

The couch jokes were punching up at a single, privileged target: JD Vance himself. The immigrants eating pets "joke" not only punches down at a minority group, but it's colored by overt racism and the threat of violence. They're not equivalent in the least.

bryangarner.bsky.social•180 days ago

JD Couch joke was from Joe Schmoe and went viral.

JD Haiti joke is an elitist punching down.

pophouse.bsky.social•180 days ago

courtneymilan.com•180 days ago

Yup, and one of those was made up by some internet rando as an obvious joke and the other one was said by the actual VP nominee for a major party.

dystopos.bsky.social•180 days ago

In fairness, VP nominee Walz referenced the couch story. …Not in a way that would incite violent pogroms against the ottomanerotic sofaphile community tho.

courtneymilan.com•180 days ago

Nah. A wink to a story everyone agrees is fake as a joke is not the same thing as someone telling a fake story as obviously true.

courtneymilan.com•180 days ago

You want to make these the same, you need to show me Walz saying that JD Vance fucks couches using a lubed glove between the cushions.

dystopos.bsky.social•180 days ago

I am not trying to make them the same. I’m just suggesting that the status of the speaker isn’t the most pronounced distinction.

riffle.bsky.social•180 days ago

It's the distinction between punching up and punching down.

courtneymilan.com•180 days ago

At no point did Tim Walz repeat a false story.

JD Vance did.

feralrobots.bsky.social•180 days ago

thing is, you could get that joke if you'd never heard the couch story - it just parsed as Vance being lazy/fearful, rather than perverted/weird. (That made it even funnier for me.)

courtneymilan.com•180 days ago

Exactly. If you did know about the story, you’d get the in joke. If you didn’t know the story you wouldn’t be furiously googling to figure out what he was talking about, because it was just a wink.

dystopos.bsky.social•180 days ago

I understand that.

feralrobots.bsky.social•180 days ago

Yeh I'm just appreciating the layers on delivery. Something there even for the naive.

ghostyspook.bsky.social•180 days ago

He said the word couch in a normal use he didn’t say ‘Vance fucks couches’ be serious

rodhillen.com•180 days ago

And honestly Vance's repeated remarks dehumanizing Haitians don't sound to me like they're meant to be a joke at all.

tkdcoach.bsky.social•180 days ago

Since MAGA can’t exist without its lies, beat them or join them are the only options.

So this guy is all wet and I’d like his receipt for calling them out when it was just their mean lies (none of which were only jokes).

#BothSidesNow

drewofalltrades.bsky.social•180 days ago

Thank god he doesn’t live in Georgia, where one of the major places to get a couch is Badcock Furniture.

leviathancross27.bsky.social•180 days ago

He literally wrote a book in which he talked about using furniture and a rubber glove to masturbate as a teenager. Calling him a #couchfucker isn't "made up".

These people are beyond weird.

beegeesmith.bsky.social•180 days ago

I mean … you know that didn’t happen, right? (It was made up as a joke that took a life of its own).

leviathancross27.bsky.social•180 days ago

No, I don't know that, nor do I honestly care. Given the sheer number of lies that Trump, Vance and the rest of MAGA spout every single day, I'm not at all concerned with the accuracy of just how extensive his furniture fetish really is.

I will call him a #couchfucker until the day I die.

mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social•180 days ago

it's true, look it up

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3kz7epfmqc22p

2xaught7.bsky.social•180 days ago

Guess he presumes that people regularly fornicate with couches but don’t regularly eat cats.

fitforpurpose.bsky.social•180 days ago

Also, in the first couple of days of couchfest most big accounts making jokes were at pains to say they knew Vance hadn’t fucked a couch. Just that he really did seem to be a plausible couch fucker.

mattsteinglass.bsky.social•180 days ago

People also didn’t actually think they were true

tripsnek.com•180 days ago

Nor did the audience have a history of shooting up pizza joints to demand to see the dungeon underneath

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•180 days ago

Oh, the occasionally normie did. Or pretended to. But definitely far fewer than the number of racists who'll cheerfully believe and and all vile pet-eating rumors.

wrongbottom.bsky.social•180 days ago

And the right wing retort was that Walz was guzzling horse semen.

carlgt1.bsky.social•180 days ago

Are they pivoting to “VP candidate spreading racist lies about immigrants” was “just a joke”? All because the racist lies are not sticking outside of the insane base?

norbizness.bsky.social•180 days ago

Take THAT guy I've never heard of through several laborious attempts to get your take into my field of vision

chetsucks.com•180 days ago

The dems could have done nothing but praise jd Vance and Vance still would have posted this and someone still would blame the dems for this.

This is what gamergate taught us, you can’t appease so don’t try.

panrec.bsky.social•180 days ago

So you might as well just keep calling Weird JD a couch fucker and move on with your day.

lizardky.bsky.social•180 days ago

Yes, making an obvious joke (that no one believed was factual) about a Yale-educated wealthy author and politician is *exactly* the same as spreading a racist lie about refugees which many people do believe is factual.

These people ain’t right.

rubenbolling.bsky.social•180 days ago

The child trafficking in the pizza place basement was so hilarious a guy attacked one with a machine gun.

whistlingbatter.bsky.social•180 days ago

he wants to make Springfield a Sundown Town, while serving a Sundowning President

beegeesmith.bsky.social•180 days ago

Yeah people always laugh about people killing pets. That’s why Fatal Attraction is as funny as American Pie.

beegeesmith.bsky.social•180 days ago

Suddenly realized I lost all non-GenXers on this thread.

ancientloggie.bsky.social•180 days ago

Boomer and I’m tracking

elnordon.bsky.social•180 days ago

It should though - someone needs to pay for parading a sexy couch named” BÅRSLÖV” around my children

nick.goede.cc•180 days ago

And, I know this is hard for them to understand, weren’t racist as fuck.

siropsalot.bsky.social•180 days ago

This is Stolen Valor from Wayfair employees

polyparadigm.bsky.social•180 days ago

We also don’t have a history of freaking out over what regional trends in upholstery might mean for our own political economy & sending the Marines to impose order

smullins3000.bsky.social•180 days ago

It's Reason magazine, Jake...

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