We need to be laughing at JD Vance's stunt, not fearing it.

[onenote]

A number of commenters here have reacted with alarm to JD Vance's silly airport stunt, going so far as suggesting that VP Harris should get a restraining order or that her security detail needs to be called on the carpet for letting Vance walk towards her plane. But that is exactly the wrong reaction. The right reaction is to laugh at his stunt, call it silly, belittle him for it. Reacting as if he is a real threat only gives him, and the Trumpists what they want -- a sense that we are afraid of them. The reason that calling the "weird" is so effective is that it strips them of their power. It is the classic way of disarming a bully.

So let's chill out on treating Trump and Vance as actual physical threats to our ticket and laugh at their stunts and name-calling.

[33taw]

1. He is like a 7 year old cheating off the smart kids paper. Can't they create their own campaign plan.

[Brainfodder]

2. Laughing at all this pathetic and sometimes pandering BS for votes.

Dumb and Dumber and not sure which is Dumber?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. THEY will not be able to handle being MOCKED!

So MOCK them at every opportunity while mentioning the danger of such stunts.

[yardwork]

4. Agreed. Same with his pathetic accusations against Walz.

We need to maintain the offensive and not allow them to scare us, the voters.

Harris and Walz are not scared.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. Yeah, a lot of the press is just plain dumb.

JD Vance is a jock-sniffer.

He's not great leader. He flew a desk in the military. He's accomplished nothing.

Huis ONLY glory is reflected glory. This airplane stunt was the equivalent of a dude in a baseball hat posing at home plate and he wants you to believe he's in the Big Leagues. Well, he's not. And we all know it.... except for some breathless "journalists."

[Ocelot II]

6. Absolutely. Vance is trying to do basically what TFG did

at the debate with Hillary - follow her around, trying to look menacing. Vance, in his lame incel way, is trying to do something like that, a kind of transcontinental stalking: "See, I'm here, right behind you, staking out my territory." But it's not menacing at all (she has plenty of protection; he was never going to get near her or AF2, not that he would have done anything except maybe piss on the landing gear), it's just juvenile and stupid. Keep laughing at him; he'll look more and more ridiculous at each stop on his stalking tour.

[Freethinker65]

7. Yep. Let JD waste Trump campaign money and time. Perhaps next time he can wear a chicken suit (to call Kamala a chicken)

You know if Trump thought that was a great idea, JD would gladly do it.

[servermsh]

8. I agree

Trump has been absent. Vance gets tiny crowds. This is a hilarious and sad attempt to get on TV.

[EYESORE 9001]

9. I certainly don't fear him or this faux macho posturing

Both of them have SS protection.

Even if he were to roll up in Madame President’s face suddenly, he’d be lucky to get off with being wrestled to the ground. He may get more coverage of that event than he wants. Lunging at a woman like a billy goat wouldn’t look weird, would it, Shadypants?

[Lonestarblue]

10. Vance the little boy trying to intimidate the big, bad Kamala. He's a joke.

[Emile]

11. It was weird behavior. LOL

[Srkdqltr]

12. He did what a bully does.

[ret5hd]

13. Maybe the security detail should be...

supplied with cans of ScotchGard, to be deployed if Vance decides to molest any of the upholstered fixtures in the plane.

[Diamond_Dog]

14. Vance is an irrelevant pissant trying to pretend he is big and important.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Women being stalked and harassed is not funny.

It is creepy and scary.

[diehardblue]

17. It is not funny, especially when dealing with a person with no intelligent filter.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yes Vance has no boundaries and no filter.

He expresses hatred and animosity towards women.
He is displaying intimidating comments and behavior.

If a risk assessment was done, Vance raises red flags of concern.

[GoCubsGo]

16. It's way more pitiful than it is funny.

They're pulling out all of the old poo that they've been flinging for decade. The creepy stalking of the female candidate. The swiftboating. The birtherism. The selective anti-Semitism. The cries of "Socialism!!!! Errmehggghhrrrddd!!! Socialism!!!!" They're even dragging out more Hunter Biden allegations, even though he's irrelevant at this point. They're hoping that if they fling it again, it will stick this time. It would be funny, if it wasn't so gross and pathetic.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

18. He wanted to get a look at that upholstery.

[Liberal In Texas]

19. And what's with this line, "She needs to get out of the basement with the teleprompters..."

Does he think she has a basement that seats 30 to 80 thousand people?

[Talitha]

20. Dump is sending Vance to piss on our campaign - marking their territory, so to speak.

Weak attempt, though. They're just dribbling on their own shoes.

[2 Meow Momma]

22. You're right. I think some have PTSD from the Kerry swiftboating.

It was such a shock when that stuck.