You can’t call JD Vance “weird”

[SLD]

But it’s not too hard to show it!

 

[Shadowy Man]

Teenager poses for funny photo. Yawn.

 

[Elixir]

Teenager poses for funny photo. Yawn.

Still … it’s a little, uh …
Kids these days, I guess.
/codger

 

[ideologyhunter]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

 

[SLD]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

There are no known pics of my fuck ups. But there are witnesses. . . .

 

[ZiprHead]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Could be worse. I performed in black face portraying the Slave Jim in a performance of Tom Sawyer when I was still quite young. Did the whole "massa' and everything.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Could be worse. I performed in black face portraying the Slave Jim in a performance of Tom Sawyer when I was still quite young. Did the whole "massa' and everything.

And????? You could be Trump's veep when he ditches Vance.

 

[SLD]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Could be worse. I performed in black face portraying the Slave Jim in a performance of Tom Sawyer when I was still quite young. Did the whole "massa' and everything.

And????? You could be Trump's veep when he ditches Vance.

Yeah. I mean at least you’re not weird!

 

[ZiprHead]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Could be worse. I performed in black face portraying the Slave Jim in a performance of Tom Sawyer when I was still quite young. Did the whole "massa' and everything.

And????? You could be Trump's veep when he ditches Vance.

Sorry. I felt totally humiliated by it and the audience laughed when I came on stage.

 

[SLD]

Still not weird.

 

[southernhybrid]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Could be worse. I performed in black face portraying the Slave Jim in a performance of Tom Sawyer when I was still quite young. Did the whole "massa' and everything.

Don't feel too bad. I grew up in New Jersey, a state that worships or did worship Columbus and I played a part in a play when I was in 5th grade, that insisted Columbus discovered America. That was in the late 50s, so what did we know? A lot of things that weren't considered uh hmmm. politically incorrect or ahhhh racist or simply wrong now, were perfectly acceptable back then. What did we know? Anyway, I don't even remember the part that I played but my 5th grade teacher insisted I had outstanding dramatic and musical ability. I guess that makes me a drama queen, so maybe I could have run for office, but luckily now I'm too old, so no worries.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Vance’s prom photo:

 

[SLD]

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

 

[thebeave]

View attachment 47286

Still not weird.

No Proof Trump Supporters Carried Jars of Fake Vance Semen at Rallies

While the photos did not appear to be manipulated, Snopes identified several red flags suggesting they may have been part of a hoax. However, we could not arrive at a true or false determination based on the available, inconclusive evidence.

On Aug. 17, 2024, images allegedly showing Trump supporters holding medical specimen jars labeled "JD Vance Full Family Kit" and filled with fake semen spread online. The photos generated several uncritical headlines accepting as fact the premise that this was a genuine political gesture.

 

[Swammerdami]

We've so many Trump threads, I thought it best to bump a Vance thread for news about our Vice President.

Vice President JD Vance, in a rare public appearance, told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that America’s “cultural message” tells young men they should “suppress every masculine urge” and become “androgynous idiots.” His comments on Thursday were well-received at the far-right conference, but more widely, were quickly denounced, as critics urged him to revisit his own remarks and his own societal and religious beliefs.

“I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge,” the Ohio Republican said, to cheers (video below). “You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.”

“And I think that my, my message to young men is, don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you’re competitive.”

READ MORE: ‘Cowardice’: GOP Faces Backlash After Report Suggests Death Threat May Have Swayed Vote

Vance went on to claim that “our cultural message is, I think, that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same.”

“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we’re gonna help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”

Fred Wellman is a graduate of West Point and the Harvard Kennedy School, an Army veteran of 22 years who served four combat tours, and is now a political consultant and the host of the podcast “On Democracy.”

“Nobody thinks that,” Wellman wrote, responding to Vance’s remarks. “We just don’t want our young men to rape women. This isn’t hard. This guy is such a f— incel.”

“This guy is too much of a chicken to stand up publicly to a guy who he privately described as a ‘moral disaster’ or to defend his own wife’s honor from a punk kid who said we should ‘normalize Indian hate.’ Obsequious, snivelling, Vancely cowardice ain’t masculinity,” decried U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL).

Appearing to mock the vice president, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill asked, “Who told men they can’t have beer with their friends? What I miss?”

Self-described former “Republican flack” and conservative Christian, Kristy Campbell, appearing to denigrate President Trump’s attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week, noted, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to lecture on masculinity at CPAC – which was launched in 1974 with an incredible speech by future president Ronald Reagan about freedom and America’s role in the world – when you just capitulated to Russia.”

Award-winning author Jennifer Erin Valent blasted Vance, saying, “What he’s really aiming at isn’t the ability to exercise true masculine strength but rather the ability to be a jerk without accountability. And since he brought God into it, I advise him to take a walk through the gospels and see how his brand of manhood measures up to Christ’s.”

“These guys aren’t reviving masculinity, they’re reviving being a dick. There’s a difference,” wrote Justin Kanew, a writer, producer, and political activist who appeared on the 15th and 18th seasons of “The Amazing Race.” Kanew runs the progressive platform The Tennessee Holler.

“For somebody who supposedly is so smart, JD Vance really says some stupid things,” blasted CNN political commentator Maria Cardona. “No, our culture does not tell young men that they cannot be masculine. But hopefully they are getting the message that that masculinity has to come with decency, compassion, generosity, and confidence that you can be all these things and that actually define real confident manhood. Real men don’t have to go around proving that they are real men.”

Emmy-nominated writer and comedian Mike Drucker asked, “is masculinity when you never stop fucking whining about everything? that seems to be the vance demo.”

David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, remarked, “Is the message young American men need to hear: ‘keep drinking beer with your friends and telling jokes that might offend people’? That doesn’t make you a ‘bad person,’ but there’s something broken in a culture that thinks that’s the most important message to give kids.”

The article came with a link to a much more frightening David Badash article. I'll excerpt it in one of the Trump threads.

 

[Politesse]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Yeah, I should probably avoid running as a Democrat. In my hick hometown, we had this nonsensical tradition called Western Heritage day where all the youths dressed up as Cowboys or Indians and ran around being hooligans. My natural preference was to take the side of the Indians, I would argue with good intentions, but there are consequently a great many photos of young me in very offensive cultural-appropriation-ware.

 

[Politesse]

We've so many Trump threads, I thought it best to bump a Vance thread for news about our Vice President.

Vice President JD Vance, in a rare public appearance, told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that America’s “cultural message” tells young men they should “suppress every masculine urge” and become “androgynous idiots.” His comments on Thursday were well-received at the far-right conference, but more widely, were quickly denounced, as critics urged him to revisit his own remarks and his own societal and religious beliefs.

“I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge,” the Ohio Republican said, to cheers (video below). “You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.”

“And I think that my, my message to young men is, don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you’re competitive.”

READ MORE: ‘Cowardice’: GOP Faces Backlash After Report Suggests Death Threat May Have Swayed Vote

Vance went on to claim that “our cultural message is, I think, that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same.”

“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we’re gonna help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”

Fred Wellman is a graduate of West Point and the Harvard Kennedy School, an Army veteran of 22 years who served four combat tours, and is now a political consultant and the host of the podcast “On Democracy.”

“Nobody thinks that,” Wellman wrote, responding to Vance’s remarks. “We just don’t want our young men to rape women. This isn’t hard. This guy is such a f— incel.”

“This guy is too much of a chicken to stand up publicly to a guy who he privately described as a ‘moral disaster’ or to defend his own wife’s honor from a punk kid who said we should ‘normalize Indian hate.’ Obsequious, snivelling, Vancely cowardice ain’t masculinity,” decried U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL).

Appearing to mock the vice president, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill asked, “Who told men they can’t have beer with their friends? What I miss?”

Self-described former “Republican flack” and conservative Christian, Kristy Campbell, appearing to denigrate President Trump’s attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week, noted, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to lecture on masculinity at CPAC – which was launched in 1974 with an incredible speech by future president Ronald Reagan about freedom and America’s role in the world – when you just capitulated to Russia.”

Award-winning author Jennifer Erin Valent blasted Vance, saying, “What he’s really aiming at isn’t the ability to exercise true masculine strength but rather the ability to be a jerk without accountability. And since he brought God into it, I advise him to take a walk through the gospels and see how his brand of manhood measures up to Christ’s.”

“These guys aren’t reviving masculinity, they’re reviving being a dick. There’s a difference,” wrote Justin Kanew, a writer, producer, and political activist who appeared on the 15th and 18th seasons of “The Amazing Race.” Kanew runs the progressive platform The Tennessee Holler.

“For somebody who supposedly is so smart, JD Vance really says some stupid things,” blasted CNN political commentator Maria Cardona. “No, our culture does not tell young men that they cannot be masculine. But hopefully they are getting the message that that masculinity has to come with decency, compassion, generosity, and confidence that you can be all these things and that actually define real confident manhood. Real men don’t have to go around proving that they are real men.”

Emmy-nominated writer and comedian Mike Drucker asked, “is masculinity when you never stop fucking whining about everything? that seems to be the vance demo.”

David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, remarked, “Is the message young American men need to hear: ‘keep drinking beer with your friends and telling jokes that might offend people’? That doesn’t make you a ‘bad person,’ but there’s something broken in a culture that thinks that’s the most important message to give kids.”

The article came with a link to a much more frightening David Badash article. I'll excerpt it in one of the Trump threads.

The idea that JD Vance is going go lead anyone to a more realized masculinity is baffling to me.

 

[thebeave]

Um. I better not run for office, ever. There's a pic of me as a teenager at summer camp, same theme, and just as bad. (Come to think of it, there were two thin trees growing side by side on the camp road that everyone called the Fuck Tree, because one was bent over close to the other, with vines suggesting arms in a mutual embrace. And I posed for a pic, in between the two halves of the Fuck Tree.)
I will never be your President, readers. And I had a kickass plan to beat inflation.
Damn that Fuck Tree.

Yeah, I should probably avoid running as a Democrat. In my hick hometown, we had this nonsensical tradition called Western Heritage day where all the youths dressed up as Cowboys or Indians and ran around being hooligans. My natural preference was to take the side of the Indians, I would argue with good intentions, but there are consequently a great many photos of young me in very offensive cultural-appropriation-ware.

In my hick hometown, we had a tradition in my elementary school (around 5th and/or 6th grade) called "Slave Day". I've forgotten some of the details, but I remember students were classified as either a slave or a master. Not sure how that was decided, though. The "slaves" had to wear their clothing inside out to identify them and take orders from their masters. I don't recall that it got into serious bullying...it was mostly stuff like telling the slaves to "sharpen all my pencils" or "eat my nasty vegetables" at the school lunch. I don't recall if it was a staff sanctioned event, but on the other hand, they didn't go out of their way to shut it down.

 

[Politesse]

Okay that is definitely worse.

Not that slavery wasn't a major part of the actual history of the town, but oddly enough they never brought that up at Heritage Day...