It all started with a tweet about a couch. Within hours of Donald Trump announcing the Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate in the presidential race, a rather lurid accusation cropped up on social media.
The user of a since-deleted X account wrote last month, “can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).”
The fake page citation from Vance’s bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy lent credibility to what turned out to be a baseless claim, as detailed in a now-removed fact check from the Associated Press. Soon, the internet was awash in memes mocking Vance’s relationship with various pieces of furniture. “I did not have sectional relations,” one X user joked, paraphrasing Bill Clinton’s infamous quote about his extramarital affair. Another user added: “Who hasn’t been excited by the thrill of the chaise?”
Even Kamala Harris’s newly launched presidential campaign appeared to get in on the fun, tweeting: “JD Vance does not couch his hatred for women.”
Nothing would be funnier if the Internet destroyed Vance’s career over a shit post.
The piece of shit known as JD Vance deserves it.
If you can be destroyed by an internet meme then your career must’ve been sofa king bad
They literally have built their entire careers on baseless claims that even their followers know are BS, they just chose to believe because they just want to echo their hatred. All of their shit is baseless and they scream it from the rooftops until it sticks. It’s just a shit post in a different form. Their entire campaign is a baseless shitpost.
So fuck it, JD Vance fucks couches and it’s fucking WIERD. Let it destroy him. Finally we are fighting fire with fire.
I hope the Democrats win, but I have to point out that someone being discredited by rumors or misinformation is not suddenly ok just because it’s your side that benefits from it
someone being discredited by rumors or misinformation is not suddenly ok just because it’s your side that benefits from it
I agree, but this rumor is so absurd that anyone who actually believes it is a fucking moron. It’s a meme joke that should be no more effective than “let’s go Brandon”. If it’s actually costing him support then he’s relying on absolute idiots to support him.
Wait so the couch fucking thing was bullshit? It’s just so… specific. Talk about an impressive shitpost.
We can only really say for sure that he didn’t write about it in his book. But have we checked everything he ever wrote?
It was always bs, but people on the Internet like spreading lies. I saw some politician go on MSNBC and she brought it up too. It’s embarrassing if she believed it and spread it.
If Trump kicks Vance off the ticket, I’d be interested to see who at this point would be willing to throw in with him. You have to think that list is even shorter now than it was a month ago
Yeah, dropping this VP after a such a short time, and trying to have his previous one killed, makes you wonder who would want the job.
There’s plenty of people that want the job. Try to have his previous one killed? When did this happen? You have a source?
There were gallows and chanting of “hang Mike pence’ when he decided to follow his station’s duty and not allow theft of a rightful election. There’s multiple pieces of footage from 1/6/21 that shows this.
There’s plenty of crazy for him to pick from. Vance was probably the least crazy of the crazy.
I’m from central KY and my wife’s from Appalachia. I think the entire region would have a massive week long party titled “FUCK JD VANCE FOREVER” if this happened. He’s one of the most hated people around here. You even bring up his name and you can see people’s heart rates and fury and anger go up even before the ranting begins.
He wrote a whole book telling big city people that all of their prejudices against Appalachia and the people who live there are 100% correct.
Yeah he basically wrote a book full of a bunch of lies in which he shits all over kentucky, but also the entire appalachian region with just a whole truckload of baseless claims and completely made up “stories” of his upbringing that never happened. It’s all lies. Like @eestileib said, it just preyed on the prejudice big city people all over the country had about this region, having never actually been here at all. They think of Appalachia and think no shoes, inbred hillbillies who can’t even speak and don’t have running water. Vance wrote a NY TIMES BESTSELLER (how on earth did they approve that) that just made up a bunch of lies confirming all those prejudices. In reality Appalachia is one of the most unique, gorgeous, creative, wonderful places on earth. Of course it has its problems, but Vance would never write something about how beautiful and wonderful something is. He’d much rather write something that tears down and belittles people he knows nothing about.
As I said: he’s probably the #1 most hated human around this region.
Beyond anything else, I think we can agree that’s a heck of a headline. British press style is extremely annoying, but every now and then something clicks and makes you wonder if it’s all worthy (it isn’t).
I strongly recommend the book The Truth by Terry Pratchett. He does a send up of the press in general and there are so many puns. Like this gem:
Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Ankh-Morpork’s most enterprisingly unsuccessful businessman, peered at William over the top of his portable sausage-cooking tray. Snowflakes hissed in the congealing fat.
William sighed. ‘You’re out late, Mr Dibbler,’ he said politely.
‘Ah, Mr Word. Times is hard in the hot sausage trade,’ said Dibbler.
‘Can’t make both ends meat, eh?’ said William. He couldn’t have stopped himself for a hundred dollars and a shipload of figs.
