MAGA!

[EarlG]

[question everything]

1. Really. It was determined to not be true so why propagate it here?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/

[WarGamer]

2. everyone knows it's untrue... but it's funny

[EarlG]

3. Because it's funny

YMMV of course.

[highplainsdem]

20. I was very against DUers trying to spread this story as if it's true, but as long as everyone knows it was

made up as a joke and DUers aren't repeating the lie that Vance wrote about it in Hillbilly Elegy, it can't hurt our credibility the way trying to claim it's true would.

And that internet search Vance did IS fact, and MeidasTouch is having more fun with that:

Link to tweet

MeidasTouch
@MeidasTouch

oh no

[GoneOffShore]

5. As I posted yesterday - Read 'Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail' by Hunter S. Thompson

Here's a little excerpt -

“This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas.

“The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.

“Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitchh deny it.”

[question everything]

8. Thank you. I just think that on DU we pride ourselves on being truthful, we are even invited

to alert on “smears” and now we do it?

Or are the “smears” only when aimed at Democrats?

[EarlG]

9. To be fair, neither you nor I know for sure whether JD Vance actually fucked his couch

Personally I think he should make a statement either confirming or denying this sordid tale, because he needs to clear this up for the American people once and for all. If he doesn't deny it, I'll just have to assume it's true.

Also, if he does deny it, he's definitely lying.

[True Dough]

28. Earl, you know

those couch cushions were made for pushin'!

[louslobbs]

36. Or whether the couch popped a spring and

Gave it to him????

[GoneOffShore]

10. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We take the 'high road', and that presents a good target for getting shot at.

[question everything]

25. They can do the same to our candidates, you know, and we will not have the justification of "high road."

[Keepthesoulalive]

33. Where have you been?

Obama s birth certificate, Hillary is deathly ill, Kamala is an antisemite and we could probably write a book with the lies. Vance is a phony and he is free game, he deserves this and more and I’m glad to see folks giving it to him.

[StarryNite]

6. Are you saying we should couch it?

[getagrip_already]

11. Fwiw, snopes has lost credibility as a fact checker...

They are very right leaning.

I dont give them much credence.

Though this story is fake, i dont cite snopes as a source.

[lastlib]

19. Hell, Colbert did a monologue piece on it last night!

It was hysterical! Kinda "It's not true, but we're gonna ridicule him for it like it is anyway." No reason we can't do the same here. Elsewhere, probly not so much.

[TomSlick]

37. Vance needs to go on TV and deny ever f'king a couch.

Surely, if the story wasn't true, he would loudly deny it - right?

It sucks to have to deny a salacious story but them's the breaks.

[republianmushroom]

4. It is getting him "press".

[gab13by13]

7. Yeah, I don't believe it,

Vance would have raw dogged the couch.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Couchfluffing puts the love into the love seat.

At least that's what we call it around our sofa when kids are listening.

[MineralMan]

13. Laughing one's ass off at Vance is a valid action.

Period!

To steal lyrics from Spinal Tap,

"The deeper the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"

[AnotherMother4Peace]

14. It's true unless proven otherwise (refer to trump/Obama/birth certificate/lies/innuendo/"just asking"/"I heard"/etc.)

This may or may not be true - I don't care. It's funny, and bugs the shit out of the repugs.

I would tell them to read their bible. An eye for an eye is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure.

If they can't take it then they shouldn't dish it out.

And besides I heard that the sofa might be from Mexico, and here illegally.
.

[Elessar Zappa]

18. Reminds me of a Lyndon Johnson story.

Johnson told a campaign manager to start a rumor that his opponent fucks pigs. The campaign manager said nobody would believe it so why say it? Johnson replied “to make the fucker deny it”.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Vance's couch memes make me smile

Link to tweet

[BrianTheEVGuy]

16. Funny how they hate it when it is done to them...

... Suddenly they love Snopes and other fact checkers who debunk baloney when it is about THEIR guy.

[Sky Jewels]

22. There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube on this one, though.

"JD Vance" will forevermore be a synonym for "Couch Fucker."

[BrianTheEVGuy]

24. And I'm here for it NT

😉

[Sky Jewels]

30. Same!

BTW, Welcome to DU!

[BrianTheEVGuy]

32. Thanks!

I'm a returnee. Last time I was here, Rush Limbaugh was facing prosecution for drug use and nobody could imagine things being much worse than Dubya (who looks like FDR compared to Trump).

[southmost]

17. more cushion for the pushin

🤢

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. If it's not true, then why not Just Deny it Vance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_v._Eiland-Hall

Beck v. Eiland-Hall was a case filed in 2009 before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency. It was filed by political commentator Glenn Beck against Isaac Eiland-Hall, concerning the website "GlennBeckRapedAndMurdered­AYoungGirlIn1990.com". Eiland-Hall created the site as a parody to express the view that Beck's commentary style challenged his guests to prove a negative. The site's name was based on a joke first used by comedian Gilbert Gottfried at the 2008 Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, in which Gottfried jokingly implored listeners to disregard the (non-existent) rumor that Saget had raped and murdered a girl in 1990. Online posters began an Internet meme comparing Gottfried's joke with Beck's style of debate, by requesting Beck disprove he had committed the act in question. Eiland-Hall launched his website on September 1, 2009.

[sheshe2]

23. Move over couch, we have Dolphins now. 😱😆

Link to tweet

JD Vance ridiculed after dolphin-based social media post backfires

The Ohio senator was mocked on his own social media post because of a picture that he shared which showed a dolphin apparently attempting to mate with a woman.

"Maybe the internet was a mistake," Vance posted Saturday with the picture, which was captioned with: "Woman gets violated by a dolphin and enjoys it."

The problem, according to the commenters, is that the words "woman" and "dolphin" were highlighted in the image, suggesting that whoever took the screenshot apparently searched for those exact terms.

https://www.alternet.org/news-politics/vance-dolphins/

😆😆😆

[highplainsdem]

26. Did you see my reply 20, sheshe?

[sheshe2]

27. I did now🤣🤣🤣🤣😁

[Initech]

29. Guess that's why they call it a "love seat"!

Hey o! OK... I'll show myself out!

[blogslug]

31. Love means never having to say you're a sofa 🤡

sorry, sorry. i'm trying to delete this

[Keepthesoulalive]

34. Please don't

[Rubyshoo]

35. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Dont you dare delete it.