boy is it weird that no one in the fucking media was asking JD Vance about him sounding like a supervillain in 2022 they were too fucking busy rolling oranges to him - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

sharonk.bsky.social • 92 days ago

boy is it weird that no one in the fucking media was asking JD Vance about him sounding like a supervillain in 2022

they were too fucking busy rolling oranges to him

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mattferrel.bsky.social•67 days ago

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convolver.bsky.social•55 days ago

“We are in a late republican period. We're going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there,“ I remark, as I whip up the boys into a mob to go pull down that smug elitist Cicero’s house.

duerpress.com•67 days ago

So I get the feeling that Vance's "soulless dystopia" = "nation that follows the rule of law instead of letting straight white Christian males do whatever they want to do."

grumpyburr.bsky.social•42 days ago

caesar? you mean the roman politician who made himself a dictator against the senate and was famously stabbed to death like 40 times over it? wow someone never fucking studied history. But if that's what he wants who are we to deny him his dream?

lessdismalsci.bsky.social•92 days ago

The VP elect you say?

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lessdismalsci.bsky.social•92 days ago

Sorry, sorry, I’m trying to delete it.

kristinwhite.bsky.social•18 hours ago

He looks like Michael McDonald went through a mild transporter accident. He vaguely reminds one of handsome people while clearly possessing none of the juice of a real one. Despite his ozempic.

danang.bsky.social•92 days ago

I know Michael Bluth would have the perfect comeback to this

screwedluna.bsky.social•92 days ago

who gonna tell her

jackwaltimore.bsky.social•67 days ago

"The fucking media" is an odd way to phrase "Tim Walz"

There was one uncontrolled setting where this could happen, and it was squandered on a 90-minute handjob.

sailbarque.bsky.social•67 days ago

I agree Walz should have attacked - I don't think 90 minutes would have been consequential, though.

jackwaltimore.bsky.social•67 days ago

I know we say that about everything now, but a guy who had been crucified as a freak got to look presidential for 90 minutes thanks to the guy who normally couldn't shut up about what a freak he is.

Vance in that debate is legitimately one of the highlights of the Trump campaign.

hoptimusprime.bsky.social•2 days ago

darkly amusing to watch a legacy media journo today defend the hands-off approach their billionaire owner has taken, then literal minutes an associate editor of said paper resigns because its EIC killed a story about said billionaire owner

thryse.com•67 days ago

This is a man who converted to Catholicism as an adult because he thinks the pope is illegitimate

thedenature.bsky.social•55 days ago

“The pope is antichrist” is something you expect to hear from the wildest Protestant firebreather, yet it ended up being a foundational belief for adult Catholic converts.

thryse.com•55 days ago

𝘴𝘦𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦

thryse.com•55 days ago

…at least as they and some other Catholic extremist weirdos see it

jamellebouie.net•67 days ago

no better illustration of the clubbiness of national media than the extent to which vance got a pass on being an open fascist because he is friendly and charming in a green room or on a panel

ritterteufeltod.bsky.social•67 days ago

I mean he is also basically a creation of the reactionary centrist commentariat who talked up his memoir after hyping up his mentor Amy Chua.

mithos343.bsky.social•67 days ago

Chua is a real connector to all the worst people it seems

ritterteufeltod.bsky.social•67 days ago

Low key arch villain of our times.

travisatkins.bsky.social•2 days ago

yeah, she connected her pedophile predator husband with college-age victims to target.

wrongbottom.bsky.social•67 days ago

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lukemeister.bsky.social•2 days ago

Friendly? Charming?

matthewpb.bsky.social•55 days ago

That bus also “nobody who wrote a book could be evil”

jackwaltimore.bsky.social•67 days ago

It really didn't help when he got to be friendly and charming to the entire United States, with someone supposedly trying to accomplish the opposite standing next to him.

thedenature.bsky.social•2 days ago

He Rolled the Orange!

chickpea7.bsky.social•67 days ago

Tell it to your boss

snufkinlib.bsky.social•67 days ago

Easier to charm than a donut shop

mhairiforrest.bsky.social•67 days ago

Same with Mike Johnson. He lies every time he's in public, frequently slandering other political figures, yet he's called a "nice guy". Lying in a polite, soft voice while blushing as you do it, is still some evil sh1t.

areidross.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, I had an article spiked by @liberalcurrents.com about caesarism/bonapartism in the far right during the presidential elections last year.

they also rejected a piece looking at the history of left-liberal solidarity going back to the 200th anni of the visit by Lafayette and Robert Owen.

areidross.bsky.social•2 days ago

granted, I'm straight bad at writing, but I (at least) thought those would have been important rallying points for a pivotal electoral campaign. wtv, I failed I guess lol.

jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com•2 days ago

I don't think any of our editors have ever been in a green room or on a panel, possibly on account of our having been a very obscure publication until after the election

areidross.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't understand what that means, sorry. Do u mean a green room like waiting to go on a TV show? I'm just a humble geographer from Houston, Texas, I don't know what green rooms have to do with spiked articles

jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com•2 days ago

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areidross.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't understand how your editors not being on a panel or in a greenroom speaks to my response. a tongue-in-cheek jab at me, perhaps? the issue that I was raising is that even sites like LC passed on an important moment to clarify/define the stakes. bigger problem than just the mainstream. but wtv

rntropy.bsky.social•67 days ago

IME, one of the greatest failures of American elites is their propensity for favoring and giving power, opportunity, and voice to people they like personally, regardless of competence level, worldview, etc. You see this a lot in media, but also in corporate America

john-hancock.bsky.social•67 days ago

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benalpers.bsky.social•67 days ago

Also: a cis, het, white, Christian man, from the midwest and educated in an Ivy League
law school (or maybe that's all just what the national media thinks of as "friendly and charming").

jmsantiago.bsky.social•67 days ago

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chathamharrison.bsky.social•92 days ago

Is it just me, or is that last paragraph just a very tedious & elliptical way of saying "better fascism than communism"?

eggs-and-dice.bsky.social•42 days ago

I think that's basically what he's trying to say, while disregarding of course that Democrats aren't remotely communist. Its them believing their own boogeyman, or, in this case, maybe not believing it but having to lean into it to justify the awful shit you're advocating for.

wanderlib.bsky.social•92 days ago

It's pretty much a coy wink that he's down for fascism, and prefers it to liberalism.

Not communism/socialism, liberalism.

chathamharrison.bsky.social•92 days ago

An irrelevant distinction, I fear

wanderlib.bsky.social•92 days ago

To Vance, perhaps.

But I think it's worth fighting the fascists on their odd little word games.

maxp94.bsky.social•92 days ago

I think nothing should be off the table to stop these people and as the years go on I think most liberals are going to agree with me

asiegel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Believing myself reasonably informed, rather shocked that #CurtisYarvin was a total unknown to me prior to @maddow.msnbc.com last evening. This lunatic is someone #JDVance cited/cites by name which explains (too) much.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

asiegel.bsky.social•42 days ago

PS: Likely that the Vanity Fair article well covered Yarvin('s influence) but, well, firewalled then and now ...

bigworker.bsky.social•55 days ago

It's so weird when conservatives talk about "late republican periods" or Weimar when they are obviously eager to play the Caesar or Hitler role.

grabarr.bsky.social•2 days ago

This ideology these guys want and are trying to create isn't appealing. There is zero benefit to the majority of people. The only beneficiaries of this utopian dictatorship individualism non state crap are rich people. I'm confused on why anyone would want this.

baileymcc.bsky.social•92 days ago

Pretty effectively explains why he stepped into prop up Hegseth

jben1990.bsky.social•67 days ago

How much of this BS does Vance actually believe, though?

Not that him cynically pandering to it would be much better, all things considered.