• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    I’m old enough to remember the damage caused to Bush Sr.'s reelection campaign in 1992 when Dan Quayle criticized the portrayal of a fictional single mother on the TV show “Murphy Brown.” JD Vance takes this line of attack on single and/or childless women to a whole new depth because he’s going after real people, not TV characters. This will not end well for him.

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      Yeah, I too remember that one. Why was Vance even chosen? For all his issues at least Pence could make an occasional good sound byte.

      Booed at Hamilton: “That’s the sound of Democracy.” Indeed it is. And he did the ethical thing when it counted most.

      Pence was there to bring the evangelical vote. What’s this guy got?

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          Are you in need of a good therapist or is that a Vance quote?

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              Oh sure, he’s terrible. I named the only 2 things he did right.

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                Oh yeah, I’m just trying to dig at them both, as Pence has nothing but a veneer of civility, and Vance doesn’t even have that

                Though I suppose when it comes time to choose a couch…

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        I think Vance was supposed to appeal to the youth, since he’s literally half Trump’s age.

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          He looks like a 30 something incel who stumbled from the basement into a suit. It is a demographic, so, there’s that I guess. Only now, instead of his mom taking him to the doctor and answering all the doctor’s questions for him, now his wife does it.

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        He knows nothing of either. The Waltons were actually, like, decent and caring people best they could be. People who say they wanna go back to the Waltons mean a time where they ruled over the poor everybodies and any hospitality or dogoodery was only ever highly discretionary on their part

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    You know you crossed the line when you attack someone and the exes pipe up to say you’re wrong.

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    Considering that it is more and more normal for millennials and genZ to be childless by choice, this is a huge voter demographic he just shit on.

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      Also those with fertility issues and step-families. It’s an… interesting play for the younger ticket.