US vice-president, at Washington’s Union Station with Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth, defends use of troops in area with less crime

  • piskertariot@lemmy.world
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    Hot Take: If someone was calling you a couch-fucker, would you care? You’ve never fucked a couch. Some guy on the internet said that one time, and the rest of the Libs latched on. Whatever, rolls right off.

    Now, if instead you called him a rapist supporter, or pedophile adjacent, it might carry some weight. The couch-fucker thing doesn’t phase him, because it’s childish and likely untrue. Lets change the discourse.

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      I care more about what it does to his support. Couch fucker highlights that there’s something really off about him. Meanwhile his supporters don’t care if he supports rapists and pedophiles or they wouldn’t be Republicans. Just call him both

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      Yes. I would care. I’m a piece of shit conservative who lives and dies by optics. I’m trying to be president. The moment I’m seen as just a silly little couch fucker I will be ripped apart by the mob.

      That’s why me and my fellow conservatives are so obviously unaffected. We think about how others will perceive us. We think about it and then we do a little dance so others know we’re above it all.

      Even if I don’t care I can’t afford to let people think I do. Trump may be a successful child rapist but this is still a country full of people who will drop you for… seeming excited, or looking silly in a tank, or denying you are a crook.

      (I imagined I was Vance. Normal people wouldn’t care. A maga vice president is not like your coworkers and neighbors though.)

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            “If you have 1 Nazi and 9 other supporters sitting at the table together, how many Nazis do you have? 10”

            It’s frankly the same way here. If you support a pedophile rapist, frankly you’re just as bad. Just because “74 million” people supported him doesn’t diminish that fact.

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              I mean, if you’re looking for an insult for a specific person and it applies to 74 million other people, maybe it’s not the rare insult it should be.