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JD Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane

JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin.

JD Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Planehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-awkwardly-retreats-from-confronting-kamala-harris-on-air-force-2-after-realizing-she-wasnt-aroundOpen linkView original on kbin.melroy.org
proudblondreply
lemmy.world

Even if that phrase hadn’t been used ad nauseum already, this would be the right time to use it. This is truly a WTF move.

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feddit.nl

It's all about projecting strength, especially towards women, bonus points if they're not white.

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The entirety of conservative politics is narcissists trying to convince morons they embody strength and power...

A weaklings idea of strength.

A peasants idea of wealth.

A losers idea of a playboy.

An idiots idea of a genius.

A cowards idea of a hero.

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Potatisenreply
lemmy.world

What is it with Americans and just ruining catch phrases?

It's cool and funny sometimes, not every fucking time.

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weird to see a bunch of younglin's biting the onion localized entirely within this community

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bstixreply
feddit.dk

Remember, there are two kinds of Americans.

  • Democrats: Weed
  • Republicans: Amphetamine or cocaine (depending on income)

You now understand everything about American politics.

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catbumreply
lemmy.world

Waaait... I am on Adderall for ADHD but also enjoy an herby comedown at the end of the day. So what does that make me? A filthy centrist?! What is this dichotomous drug-fueled political identity crisis I'm experiencing?!?!

^/s^

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catbumreply
lemmy.world

Yup, I sure do! (Does this help me figure out what I am?!?)

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bstixreply
feddit.dk

You are what they call a "swing state".

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sh.itjust.works

you can't get shot for storming the VPs plane?

they just let you on it?

for all the innocuous things you can get shot for, storming the vice President's plane seems like one you would get shot for.

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Infynisreply
midwest.social

Presumably, he also has secret service protection, so they knew he was coming. Hilarious they decided not to just tell him she wasn't there

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Oh, got it, thanks.

Not telling him is super funny.

Like the agents around him just giving each other knowing glances every now and then, inwardly giggling at how funny it's going to be when he rushes into an empty plane.

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Having flown out of the airport in question, it only has one gate, it's pretty tiny. Their planes were probably parked literally right next to each other, so it wasn't exactly out of his way

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you can’t get shot for storming the VPs plane? they just let you on it?

When you're that rich they let you do it

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lemmy.world

Unlike normal commercial or charter planes, AF1 and AF2 have couches.

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Geek_Kingreply
lemmy.world

It's too bad JD Vance won't be joining the Couch Mile High Club on Air Force 2.

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Pretty sure it's the previous model which is now a museum exhibit.

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Socsareply
sh.itjust.works

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of JD Vance masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

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Obviously next time you're on the train you should start furiously masturbating without the pictures of couches, it'll go much better for you.

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Ugh. Sun-bleached, bad-built, butch-body couch. Not nearly enough curves and contours. How's a fella supposed to get into that? It'll have to go.

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lemmy.zip

This might be the first time I have ever truly been glad that Veep ended 5 years ago. Because the writers would just be paralyzed by all of this stupidity.

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lemmy.world

America being the worldwide laughingstock when it comes to politics has lost it's charm. The last few years Idiocracy has become the better alternative.

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aidanreply
lemmy.world

The only people that think this are people obsessed with American media.

David Cameron has some association with a pig.

Modi has said some bizarre things about being a demigod.

Macron lectured a kid for saying "How's it going Manu?" instead of "How's to going, Mr. President"

Germany has a long history of very dumb policies, not unique to any specific politician. Such as banning protestors from chanting in any language other than English or German.

And many other things. Politics have dumb things and dumb people everywhere*- it's not uniquely American. American politics are just the most widely publicized internationally.

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aidanreply
lemmy.world

They're not libertarians, just neoliberals

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From what I can see, yes. Libertarians are much more radical

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supergirlreply
programming.dev

They are libertarian for the most part. The person who responded to you seems to be an (American) libertarian himself so perhaps he's just trying to distance his ideology from this.

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according to wikipedia's sources it's more liberalism. it's just that neolib policies have quite a bit in common with libertarianism, since the latter is kinda a radical variant.

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presumably his entourage of secret service people were in contact with Kamala's entourage of secret service people, and they were at no point worried of any threat of physical harm.

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In the 1980’s both sides would have laughed about this. But that was before everyone was slamming each other.

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SPRUNTreply
lemmy.world

People were slamming each other all the time in the 80's. It's one of the reasons AIDS hit so hard.

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If anything that's what's missing in American politics these days, a little across the aisle fornication. Turn the House back into the sex den it was in the 80s! Make America Fuck Again!

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classicreply
fedia.io

It's the social media era. This is an organic extension of trolling, yt/IG/tik tok videos, etc...

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LesserAbereply
lemmy.world

It's content, it's eyeballs. People devoting thought cycles to him. Like we're doing now, reading an article about it, talking about it. Probably still a net loss in terms of public opinion, but for his supporters they probably think it's bad ass.

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lemm.ee

I think Bert kreisher, if he was on SNL, would be a great couch fucking JD Vance.

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foggyreply
lemmy.world

Only because kreishers complete inability to be funny would further twist the knife on vances awkwardness.

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But he has no shirt. It's so funny because all the other comedians wear shirts.

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Hupfreply
feddit.org

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mrcleanupreply
lemmy.world

I can't read that, but if it's a communism joke,. I meant that the plane is government property it doesn't belong to the person inside.

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