Vance tells Americans not to ‘gripe about all the little things’ as prices soar
Vance tells Sean Hannity that Democratic ‘arsonists’ will reverse Trump’s successes even as he admits his own administration needs more time
JD Vance laid out the Trump administration’s best case for a Republican victory in the midterm elections on Thursday, returning to his role as the White House’s great communicator. But instead of empathizing with Americans’ economic pains and fears about the future, the vice president leaned into fear-mongering about Democrats.
Vance spoke with Fox’s Sean Hannity in an interview that aired Thursday, and leaned into the administration’s successes at driving illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border to 50-year lows as he made the case for the GOP.
As he spoke about the supposed priorities of hypothetical Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, however, Vance claimed that his opponents wanted to block Republicans from ever winning elections again and “transform” America, citing such issues as acceptance of transgender Americans.
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It's pretty stunning how during the campaign they were like, "OMGWTF eggs cost a dollar more! Fucking revolution now!" And now they're like, "Fuck you wimps for complaining about five dollar gas, you ungrateful little shits."
How big is the kid fucking and treason?
Apparently pretty popular in conservative circles
What an irredeemable piece of shit. Let them eat cake indeed. Fuck this guy.
I'm convinced that they have cuntishness contests.
Or at least cuntiness training weekends.
They must be very confident in their plans to retain power.
I've had that same feeling and it's quite scary
I've been saying this. The fix is in. Republicans have a hundred year Fourth Reich.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin
These idiots really believe they have power. Can't wait for the tipping point.
"Any sacrifice for Dear Leader is worth it!"
Why does Vance have a voice? He should be attending book clubs and funerals in his role as VP. Is he griping about us complaining about his useless, no good, degenerate boss?
The whole US republican party just seems to be auditions for who will lead maga after trump shits his bed for the last time.
lets not gripe and kick all of them out and jail them no pardons allowed in fact lets remove that power completely.
I guess I'll just eat cake
So basically what the reds are trying to do to the Democrats very literally right now?
Exactly. Statements like that give them the rationalization to do anything they want, because they're just leveling the playing field after Democratic cheating, even if there's no evidence of Democratic cheating.
It's either okay to cheat or not okay. You can't "the other guy did it" and expect to be taken seriously. In the real world at least. In fantasy land amerikkka, it's just par for the course.
The sociopaths have made thier Vision Board, now they just wait for The Secret effect to kick in.
I wouldn't mind Republican never having power again
The “you, not me” attack being normalized will be the downfall of civilization.
People who value the truth and experience empathy and instinctively do critical thinking cannot tolerate life under these conditions indefinitely.
Everything will break down.
Critical thinkers are a very small minority.
I’m not sure how to respond to that other than to say I hope it’s not true.
The White House’s great communicator? Lol.
That's what gets me about kicking trump to the curb after January or whatever so he can serve two terms after.
I don't think this chucklefuck could win one election let alone two.
"look I know groceries and gas are expensive right now, and that's affecting 99% of you poors negatively. But you can fuck off, poors. If Democrats get into power we will have to accept trans people, which affects none of you negatively. Surely you can understand why you must starve."
You know what? If I was very generous and very naive, I might just buy this narrative.
But here's the thing: his boss promised to lower prices from day one, and that was one of the many hard promises he made that even the most mentally incompetent MAGAt knows full well were flat-out lies by now - if they needed convincing before the election.
Fool me once...
Fool me twice… you cant get fooled again.
That was the dumb fascism era. We're at the pedophile fascism stage now.
And we still kept the dumb!
We promoted it. Two term dumb is viewed as much more prestigious than just one term dumb.
you still have the dumb and they were already know kid rapists back then
W can die in a fire but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t rather listen to audio of all the stupid shit he ever said on repeat for a year than hear another sentence come out of trumps stupid fucking face again
Dubya was supposed to be the dumbest president ever. Trump is so much worse, and happened so quickly after W’s term. It’s a bit shocking until you realize who actually wields the levers of power in American government: the rich/corporations. They control it all, including for whom we get to “vote” in the first place. POTUS being a useful idiot is quite beneficial for them.
At least dubya’s stupid was kinda funny and he did much more entertaining shit, the shoe dodge is something even at my most vitriolic I can’t take away from him. That shit was hilarious
lol yeah dude the shoe throwing incident will forever be hilarious. and you’ve gotta hand it to Dubya, at least he was spry enough to see it coming and duck out of the way in time.
Think how dumb the next president will be!
They keep getting stupider. Maybe with the exception of Poppy Bush. Ronnie Raygun was a dipshit, too. Then W was dumber. And donnie is dumber than that.
Bush Senior was a dim bulb too. There are tapes of Nixon ranting about his brainlessness. Very loyal to the party though.
the dipshit may be a stupid motha' but he's got some not-so-stupid, and even more greedy, power hungry, and evil people whispering in his ear, dangling the big mac, and pulling strings when needed, to achieve their goals.
That's putting a LOT of confidence in them that they haven't earned
If the MAGA crowd critically evaluated his promises he never would have been President, certainly not a second time.
more time behind bars!
"needs more time" to complete the total fascist takeover of the government, complete the upward transfer of wealth leaving the masses with nothing but debt, complete the establishment of the surveillance state, finish shredding of what remains of any rights people have.....
What is especially stupid is that in a lot of cases, it is rather hard to point at something an admin has done to raise the cost of everything and make an honest case for that. Though Republicans and reactionary centrists will do it all the time for Democrats.
In the case of this administration they seem to be doing everything possible to do that and it's working.
Forgive me, but I'm just gonna be vulgar for a moment. My partner and I are well off. I don't usually like to mention it, but I will in this context. We were discussing our ability to absorb the price increases pretty easily and how we feel not a shred of compassion for the maga shitheads who experience financial precarity because of how they voted. Fuck 'em.
On the other hand, I feel bad for their children who didn't choose to have groceries become less accessible, their education shat upon, and the same with every other way those kids get hurt by their stupid parents' bad politics.
And that's saying nothing of all the good people who didn't invite this upon themselves and tried to prevent it from happening but suffer just the same. I hope for the least harm to be visited upon people who didn't do this to themselves. And the most for those that cheered for it. (I normally only want good things for people, but I take this moment to give in to my anger a bit.)
The only price increase that I can't absorb is computing right now. I bought a server when I started college after the military, expecting to be on some kind of refresh cycle; ECC DDR5 is unobtanium for me on my pay. Hard drives are also so expensive I have to put NAS plans on hold.
Yeah, you shouldn't worry about the little things like food, shelter, transportation, and healthcare. We have bigger issues to tackle as a nation, like one trans kid being on a highschool sports team; you know, the big "purpose of government" stuff.
Their white Christian nationalist "utopia" is more important to them than pesky things like people eating, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, etc.
He's Thiel's boy, after all.
Gotta work on that Network State or whatever the fuck dipshits like Curtis Yarvin and The Sovereign Individual kooks say...hey, there is nothing elitist about any of this stuff, though!
Fuck the Endarkenment and all its touts
We've got arches to build, and wars to lose, and that shit's expensive. Americans should just be less selfish.
"JD Vance, Vice President to President Trump, man who incessantly gripes about every minor slight, real or imagined, tells americans to not gripe about legitimate issues"
Oh, just go fuck yourself, you pedophile traitor.
Oh noes not FREEDOM anything but that
Rich tell poor to suck it up. This ain't news, it's the way of life for the world ever since factories were invented.
*looks at feudalism*
How strict are we on the Lemmy.world instance in terms of what we can say?
Because I'm gonna express what I'm thinking in one way or another, it's just a matter of how bluntly I can say it on a regular basis.
I think it is against policy and morally wrong to suggest Vance should choose to staple his scrote to a wooden structure and self immolate, if that's what your asking.
Like, because that would be too lenient of a punishment? Is that why? Should we amp it up a bit then?
Gaslight
Obstruct
Projection
It really is the same thing every time with these corrupt losers, isn't is? Yes, it's everyone else obsessed with trans people and what's in their pants, not Republicans. It's certainly not Conservatives persecuting immigrants and LGBTQ folks, instead of addressing actual issues. Couldn't be the Grand Old Party chasing AI dollars by building environment-destroying data centers to suck up all our water and personal info. How could it have been Republicans that started a pointless war and drove up prices on gas and food for everyone!? Who's actually focused on the "little things" of culture war bullshit while workers suffer??
Meanwhile, the President is obsessed with vanity projects like ballrooms, arches, and national monuments, while illegally enriching himself and his billionaire friends... The corruption is on full display with these incompetent fools.
You know. The little things. Like gas prices. Grocery prices. Housing prices. Trump is a pedophile. Trump is named more in the Epstein files than god in the bible. Trump is a rapist. Trump is a convicted felon. Kash is down with beastiality. Vance is a drunken moron. You know, just the little things.
Trump is named more in the Epstein files than Epstein.
Dead school children, Depleted munitions, weakened defenses in European positions, destroyed military logistics, suicidal sailors stuck at sea, yada yada
It certainly feels like we’re treated as peasants like they are in those movies where the king and royalty just treat everyone beneath them like shit. We’re just rabble to be mocked, fodder for the peerage’s disposal. Except you know, unlike real life, in the movie the bad guys get it in the end.
He's RIGHT! It's a SMALL Price to Pay!
-People with KAMALA = HIGH PRICES signs in Their Yard!
Here in Ohio they're now running whataboutism ads against the Dem candidate for Governor. The whole ad is someone in 2028 complaining about not being able to afford groceries because of the the candidate, Amy Acton's, tax hikes.
THAT is the whole ad
"...the little things..."
Damn we got Diesel No. 2 before Mambo No. 6
Side pieces were a sign of a past prosporous age. Angela, Pamela, Sandra, Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Jessica, and Angela again, sorry, y’all are cursed to a life of monogamy.
Vote the fucking MAGA weasels out of office. Release the damn Epstein Files and end the stupid war against Iran.
Vance can suck a shitty but hair
Vance can smoke a fat bowl of shitty butt hair.
He is shitty pubehair-bowl bongwater anthropomorphized.
May a shitty butt hair be stuck in his throat hourly.
Ah, the old "nation of whiners" trope. Always a solid midterm closing argument.
from the fetid mouth of one of the whiniest of whiners
Don’t worry, Elon just got back his job.
Little things like the escalating costs of food, clothing & shelter, the basic necessities of life, those little things?
None of you in this thread get it. Did any of you even say thank you?
We should make him thank his firing squad.
Wait, isn't this the guy who couldn't gripe about the little things well, and screwed it up?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-eggs-kamala-harris-b2617527.html
Yes, yes it is.
like pedophilia?
What about all the big things? Things like the fact that Trump is a pedophile?
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Though GK Chesterton was himself a conservative and a bit of a tool, once again he's the man for the quote. Vance and his handlers fear the bill for their crimes. I have little faith they'll pay it, but they're desperate to prevent that risk entirely.
Americans dying of a thousand paper cuts.
JD: "Quit whining. They're just tiny cuts. You haven't even said thank you for the paper. No, you can't have a bandaid."
Love it. Keep saying this dumb shit JD.
Like his and his boss's dicks?
He's gonna wish we left it at griping.
Trouble is, almost zero of those successes are for the benefit of the public, and almmost all only benefit Trump and his class.
Things have changed...
https://politicaldictionary.com/words/chicken-in-every-pot/
"Can't argue with the little things. It's the little things that make up life" - Hank Scorpio, 1996
I bleach the sky Every night Loaded on wrong And further from right Spinning around Two howling moons 'Cause they're always there Whatever I do
The river is loaded I've been there today Took it some questions She does me again I'd die in your arms If you were dead too Here comes a lie We will always be true
Going up When coming down Scratch away
It's the little things that kill Tearing at my brains again The little things that kill It's the little things that kill Tearing at my brains again The little things that kill
Bigger you give Bigger you get We're boss at denial But best at forget Cupboard is empty We really need food Summer is winter And you always knew
Going up When coming down Scratch away
It's the little things that kill Tearing at my brains again The little things that kill It's the little things that kill Tearing at my brains again The little things that kill
I touch your mouth My will is food Addicted to love I'm addicted to bullshit I kill you once I kill you again We're starving and crude Welcome my friends to
The little things that kill Tearing at my brains again The little things that kill It's the little things that kill Tearing at my brains again The little things that kill
When was the last time that JD Vance went hungry because he couldn't afford food?
Is that what his wife told him?
Cool. Now if the Murc's Law Media would just take up things like this and endlessly repeat them.
What "JD" here is doing is deeply tone-deaf, for real. The moral scolds of the Murc's Law Media kept getting the vapors anytime anyone even thought to be associated with the Biden administration would point out the good aspects of the economy in 2024...I guess we'll see if the tone police talk about the Republicans nearly as much as they did for Democrats.
"Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. This is supposed to be a happy occasion!"
It's for the greater good!
He speaks so presidentially.
The problem is is both sides suck the dick of israel and they don't care about us. They don't want any of the reforms that society's demanding. They want to keep their 10 houses and five cars and practically free healthcare. They don't ever want to go to work and they don't want to step down. They are completely useless to the American people, they laugh in our faces. They piss on us, we are nothing but the catch basin of a urinal to these people. Pay us more we give you less and whatever we give you we give most of it to our pet projects and donors. That's who's in office right now. We're not winning if Jeffries and Schumer take the reins again. If the same weasel just with a different shirt on. I can almost absolutely guarantee you trump turd will not get thrown out of office and it's just going to be a bunch of pocket lining and platitudes for the next two years while they try to get a president in there to just rinse repeat the Biden bullshit.
"The problem is both sides..."
You lost me right there. ICE buildup, attack greenland/canada/cuba, insult all allies, destroy tourism, attack iran, choke ukraine aid, implement tarriffs, install conservative judges for lifetime terms.
Those are one sided.
This is why we also fight to primary in the actual progressive candidates and oust the establishment neo-liberals. Mamdani was a sign that progress can be made.
You can't really do the same for the Republican party.
Liberals will have a easy time earning their incremental change through republican primaries when we are a one party state. Its totally possible! Why else would they give progressives that advice?