There was a fake story that he wrote about humping a couch in his book, Hillbilly Elegy.
It’s been completely debunked, but people still talk about it because it’s funny.
Theres more to it. AP published a fact check titled something like “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch”.
Later they took this down because they were unable confirm he did not have sex with a couch, only that he did not say so in his book.
As you can guess, this added a lot of fuel to the fire.
It’s because JD vance is a fucking weirdo. I didn’t like pushing false stories about people, but he’s just such a smarmy motherfucker it fits so well. He is a detestable person with detestable views.
No. It’s clearly a stupid thing to do. Being detached from the complex truth of things is 90% of the problem with mankind, as far as politics go. I thought there was substance behind these jokes but it’s all made up.
I’m sure there’s plenty of real things to underscore what a massive duche Trump VP is. Making things up about him, or anybody else, should be illegal (and it is) for good reasons.
It’s not at all that. It’s to reflect what the republicans have done for years now. But this story is funny and obviously fake so it’s even more funny when you can see it actually getting under the skin of vance and other republicans. That’s why it gets repeated so often. I understand this and I’m not even America
Edit: too -> to (autocorrect)
To* reflect?
So it’s not that it’s wrong it was all about envying them and finally we can engage in the same behaviour too?
Trump never had a mandate from heaven, primarily because heaven does not exists and if it did exist it wouldn’t grant any kind of mandate since the point is to let stuff go any which way and then judge souls after death.
The couch is a metaphor for American political discourse. JD, the crude white “Everyman” that has been rawdogging it a la Gingrich for the past several decades. This went over your head?
I’d suggest reading this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jd-vance-couch-cushion-story-hoax
TL:DR Some Twitter user posted a made up story about JD Vance having sexual with a couch, “which led to news publications uncritically repeating the hoax story as fact.”
It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Essentially AP fact checked it and instead of saying “Hillbilly Eulegy doesn’t contain a story about Vance getting freaky with a couch” they used the headline “Vance never had relations with a couch”
That’s not something anyone could actually know for sure though, and they were called on it… and had to retract it…
Which of course lead to people wondering why it was retracted, and it kinda snowballed. I don’t think anybody seriously believes it, but as the story goes, there’s no evidence he DIDN’T fuck a couch lol
He pumps his dirty little dangler between the cushions.
Didn’t Vance respond with something like “I’ve never had sex to completion with a couch” - or was that bullshit?
