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Marycat2021's avatar

Why are they so afraid? Living in a country founded on the idea that diverse peoples can live together, learn from each other and built something extraordinary terrifies them. They're afraid of people with dark skin, different beliefs, many languages and music and art and food, but people also share many things, such as love for their families, a desire to see their children happy and successful, and a willingness to work hard.

BTW, JD Vance is one of the most loathsome people in America, a hypocritical, misogynist bigot who is as big an embarrassment as Donald Trump.

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Kitty Johnson's avatar

WHAT LUCK!!

"I grew up living next door to an Elvis impersonator"

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Ill-Advised's avatar

JD Vance, the president HOAs across the nation yearn for. Because we all want to live like the people with the most fear and the least imagination and a total focus on what other people think, which must be controlled at all times.

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Marycat2021's avatar

Well said.

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larry gassan's avatar

JD was marking time while thinking of Erika Kirks lissome fecund body in shiny pleather pants.

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boo radley's avatar

I also cannot imagine the FUCKING CHUTZPAH of this man to not only say this to a (racist) immigrant but to have a wife whose PARENTS were immigrants and whose parents' nation is, by and large, THE stereotype of "20 people to a house"- I only ran into this as an adult and I've never heard it of any other group, although now I've been in Oz for decades, I 100% understand why *anyone* might come to the US and be like "goddamn this house is huge, there's enough room here for the entire Packers team, staff and crew!"

I seriously don't understand how he can look his children in the eye. But, of course, they're DIFFERENT.

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Marycat2021's avatar

Vance is the petty despot in his house. He obviously doesn't give a dead rat's ass about what his wife and kids think of him.

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boo radley's avatar

Yeah, he's gonna be shocked when his wife leaves and his kids hate him.

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boo radley's avatar

My grandmama of sainted memory did not grow up with pasta. PASTA. So yeah, fuck allll these "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" folks- they can live a pasta-less existence as they deserve.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. You pretty much said it all. And if I had my druthers, they'd have to quit entirely using "Judeo-Christian" because only the Xian part counts. Sure, they "love" Israel because their fucked up interpretation of the book so few of them have bothered to read indicates a huge part of their future depends on that specific place, but IIRC it *also* requires that all of us Jews have to be living there or gathered there or some such twaddle. Well, if Israel ever returns to being a democracy, we shall visit, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Shady Dunce the Couchfucker (first of his name) isn't 1/50th as smart as he thinks, or would like us to think. Such a fraud.

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Levi-za's avatar

If you like the flavor of unsalted saltine crackers pasted thickly with human shit, you might be a Republican. Otherwise, you might be American. Fuck these Nazis.

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underwriter505's avatar

The Boers (later called Afrikaaners) who appropriated South Africa were not Germans/ They were mostly Dutch. It was the Dutch East India Company's desire for a way-station that led the Company to send send a representative to the area who essentially built Capetown (as a fort) and basically started it all. Do I need to add they were pro-slavery? Or that their occupation started in the 17th century? And at one time they actually paid a tribe for land?

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Will's avatar

Vance. Consummate schlemiel.

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Marycat2021's avatar

And a putz.

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Timberjack's avatar

"“It is totally reasonable and acceptable,” he continued, “for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with.'"

I agree with him in the sense that I would love to not ever live within 8,000 miles of a MAGA. Seriously. If there was a real possibility of starting a new country and completely excluding these fucking jerks, I’d be so behind it. Hell, I’ll help them leave.

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Timberjack's avatar

That hug from Erika Kirk was something. Imagine being attracted to men like these.

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larry gassan's avatar

Game recognizes game.

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ERISunveiled's avatar

Wait wait wait. Was the first reaction to the Sydney S. jeans ad conservatives claiming a victory; or online leftists going full Qanon claiming there were )))messages((( hidden in it?

Remember how they made a big deal of her initials being SS?

I only remember the Right reacting to the Left's initial reaction—i also remember conservatives, for once, having the correct reaction, and those people needed to touch grass, roll around in it, and shove some up their ass.

If there was something I missed please correct my ignorance. Otherwise…

As far as them reclaiming the R word, they might as well take credit for no one giving a shit about cultural appropriation anymore. So 2017.

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zeusspeaks's avatar

There was no "left" reaction. Just some non-descript, unimportant trolls that made some comments that rightwing nutjobs assigned to something they think is the "left". The monolithic left that doesn't exist.

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ERISunveiled's avatar

I said online leftists. But to your point online leftists are nondescript unimportant trolls

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zeusspeaks's avatar

I called them nondescript unimportant trolls, not leftists, that’s the moniker rightwing trolls assigned them. In other words, a strawman.

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zeusspeaks's avatar

well, great, but the "left" moniker was attributable to fascist trolls and other morons so I didn't refer to them as leftists-just "nondescript unimportant trolls" as there is no evidence that the trolls were leftists.

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ERISunveiled's avatar

'leftist troll' is redundant . revise your argument

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zeusspeaks's avatar

No. You need to learn to read and then you can revise your "argument". Geez.

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ERISunveiled's avatar

Omg I had to go back to the OP to see wtf we're talking about.

And your big issue was that there was no "left" reaction to the SS jeans ad—which is obvious bullshit—and is what I should've said in the first place instead of trying to be snarky.

So make your next reply epic because I will not be responding to it

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beb's avatar

JD Vance has the charisma of a cockroach. He's chances of winning the 20228 Republican nomination will be slim to none as Cruz, Abbott, Paxton, Noem, Youngkin and god knows who else will also be running. Every one of them of them as terrible as Vance but more personable.

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Timberjack's avatar

Don’t forget Junior. That coke addict definitely wants the job.

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KHolbekistan's avatar

Miranda Divine is an arsehole PoS. Glad she’s fucked off from Australia, but sad she’s found a bolthole anywhere else. A one way ticket to Mars would be preferable.

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