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If you were forced to eat at a restaurant with JD Vance, what would you say to him? (Original Post) geekboy009 Aug 2024 OP
I wouldn't say much griffi94 Aug 2024 #1
And the cat(s) on the couch. jeffreyi Aug 2024 #40
Who died and made you the arbiter of all that is insightful in the world? tetedur Aug 2024 #2
"Here, take this pill with your food." Ron Green Aug 2024 #3
Why are you always so angry, so hateful, so vengeful? getagrip_already Aug 2024 #4
I would throw my drink in his face and walk out obamanut2012 Aug 2024 #5
Excuse me... PXR-5 Aug 2024 #6
+1...make sure to leave him with the check though. nt Shermann Aug 2024 #56
What's your favorite upholstery fabric? Ocelot II Aug 2024 #7
My cat, that I brought with me, would like a tall glass of catnip. Jrose Aug 2024 #8
VOTE BLUE ! chouchou Aug 2024 #9
Kiss my ass Chakaconcarne Aug 2024 #10
Lost my appetite. Goodbye. Jerk. FullySupportDems Aug 2024 #11
"Waitress! There's a fly in my soup and now the hillbilly wants one!" Hugin Aug 2024 #12
What did the great American Hannibal Lecter say before eating his victims? Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #13
"WTF is the 'early couch special'?" nt Carlitos Brigante Aug 2024 #14
Hmm DeepWinter Aug 2024 #15
Well, to further the fantasy... OldBaldy1701E Aug 2024 #16
I would leave... 2naSalit Aug 2024 #17
"Shut up and eat". Think. Again. Aug 2024 #18
Fuck any good couches lately, Flipper? Aviation Pro Aug 2024 #19
Why the fuck do you push a white nationalist agenda whilst being married to a woman of colour/having children of colour? Celerity Aug 2024 #20
I'm gonna eat a big pasta meal so that PCIntern Aug 2024 #21
"I would not eat that if I were you. That's cat meat." ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2024 #22
Forced to eat? 🤢 Dear_Prudence Aug 2024 #23
Unless I were forced to sit at his table and eat, I wouldn't say anything to him. ** misanthrope Aug 2024 #24
I wouldn't eat. I'd spend most of my time reading my phone haele Aug 2024 #25
"Try the pufferfish." Efilroft Sul Aug 2024 #26
I would say please don't say anything, I don't want Emile Aug 2024 #27
Eat shit Nazi-boy,.. that is all that's on the menu for you. magicarpet Aug 2024 #28
Easy claudette Aug 2024 #29
Taste my food before I eat it, JD Beastly Boy Aug 2024 #30
Some Obvious Questions. Babywhale Aug 2024 #31
I would say GaYellowDawg Aug 2024 #32
I would ask him about his handlers mahina Aug 2024 #33
What's it like being on the Titanic? dem4decades Aug 2024 #34
I'd say, "Can you take this plate? I'm done with it." ificandream Aug 2024 #35
I wouldn't say anything to him. I go to a restaurant to eat comradebillyboy Aug 2024 #36
Shut up Rebl2 Aug 2024 #37
Ask him if he ever reread his book. Freethinker65 Aug 2024 #38
Nothing Kaleva Aug 2024 #39
Waiter, can you find me a table for one? milestogo Aug 2024 #41
"Here, try some honey on that biscuit" (while emptying tube of superglue). nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2024 #42
CHECK PLEASE!!! winstars Aug 2024 #43
"Nice chairs, aren't they?" -misanthroptimist Aug 2024 #44
"Just Shut Up, Man" ProfessorGAC Aug 2024 #45
"Can we sit at a table and not a booth?" JuJuChen Aug 2024 #46
love it geekboy009 Aug 2024 #49
Do you like your possum fried or cooked in wine? no_hypocrisy Aug 2024 #47
I would ignore the hell out of his Secret Service-protected ass Hekate Aug 2024 #48
"Grade school across the street; are you allowed to be here?" Torchlight Aug 2024 #50
"Go away." RandySF Aug 2024 #51
Did you ever read or had the New Testament read to you? BlueKota Aug 2024 #52
He's following his lard and savior just fine Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #73
Where do you actually live in Ohio? maxsolomon Aug 2024 #53
I'd say Bundbuster Aug 2024 #54
make sure yuo get separate checks nt msongs Aug 2024 #55
stop talking The Wizard Aug 2024 #57
"I hear this place has a first-rate shit sandwich. Why not give it a try?" (nt) Paladin Aug 2024 #58
" As a lifelong Ohioan, Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #59
"Thank you for paying for my meal..." DBoon Aug 2024 #60
You know Figarosmom Aug 2024 #61
Message from an Unhuman: pat_k Aug 2024 #62
Just press "record" and let him rant. WestMichRad Aug 2024 #63
So which couch is more attractive - leather, zebra, or floral? Initech Aug 2024 #64
Please don't eat in front of me LeftInTX Aug 2024 #65
Which hospital would you prefer? pecosbob Aug 2024 #66
🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 a kennedy Aug 2024 #67
MEOW!!!!! Xolodno Aug 2024 #68
"there's no way I'm sitting here onethatcares Aug 2024 #69
Go ahead. Bantamfancier Aug 2024 #70
lives are of equal value.. no matter the number of cats owned or babies birthed. BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2024 #71
If this was a real opportunity... WarGamer Aug 2024 #72

getagrip_already

(17,802 posts)
4. Why are you always so angry, so hateful, so vengeful?
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:05 AM
Aug 2024

This is apparently nothing new. It goes back at least to your college days.

So what is eating you alive?

Hugin

(37,848 posts)
12. "Waitress! There's a fly in my soup and now the hillbilly wants one!"
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:10 AM
Aug 2024

“For God’s sake, man! Have some decency! Chew with your mouth shut!”

* slip the waitress an extra $20 and wink * “ I’ll have mine to go. You had better lock the window in the men’s room. This one’s a jumper.”

Kid Berwyn

(24,395 posts)
13. What did the great American Hannibal Lecter say before eating his victims?
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:10 AM
Aug 2024

[In my best flaky spoiled brat Donald Trump temper tantrum impersonation voice:]

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

Then I'd LOLOL.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,142 posts)
16. Well, to further the fantasy...
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:12 AM
Aug 2024

Let's say it is at a place like Fuddrucker's, or Portillo's or another such place where they call out your name when your food is ready. I would make sure to have my order for 'Mr. Couch' and take my sweet time going up to the counter. Some of the places like this are rather aggressive when it comes to getting the orders 'out the window', so they will say it over and over.

2naSalit

(102,791 posts)
17. I would leave...
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:15 AM
Aug 2024

While saying as I walk past him,

"Man, that tr**p stench is nauseating!"

Celerity

(54,407 posts)
20. Why the fuck do you push a white nationalist agenda whilst being married to a woman of colour/having children of colour?
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:21 AM
Aug 2024

PCIntern

(28,366 posts)
21. I'm gonna eat a big pasta meal so that
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:22 AM
Aug 2024

When I throw up on your shoes, it’ll be easier on my esophagus.

Dear_Prudence

(1,172 posts)
23. Forced to eat? 🤢
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:23 AM
Aug 2024

I remember the last time my dad forced one of us as kids to eat a dish we didn't like. My little brother ate the beans and then lost the beans all over the dinner table. So, no words from me, just involuntary 🤮 as I passed JD's table while trying to escape a forced encounter.

haele

(15,399 posts)
25. I wouldn't eat. I'd spend most of my time reading my phone
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:26 AM
Aug 2024

The only thing I'd ask him is "as a practicing, devout Catholic, which level of Dante's Hell does he expect to go to, or is he delusional enough to think he's going to end up in Limbo?"
Because he sure as hell isn't speaking or acting like a devout Catholic. He's acting like a Cafeteria Casual Christian, making deals with the God he supposedly believes in and ignoring the established rules of that God if he doesn't think it matters or benefits him.
The logical nature of Blasphemy is not simply taking God's name in vain.
Blasphemy is claiming you know the will of God and interpret it solely for your benefit, forcing others to obey you in God's name. Blasphemy is claiming you speak for God.

Haele

magicarpet

(18,509 posts)
28. Eat shit Nazi-boy,.. that is all that's on the menu for you.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:29 AM
Aug 2024

Waiter,... separate checks please.

Bye-bye.

 

Babywhale

(13 posts)
31. Some Obvious Questions.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:37 AM
Aug 2024

A : Pass the salt?
B: You've got the check,right?
C: You looked kind of hot in drag.Do you still do that?

GaYellowDawg

(5,101 posts)
32. I would say
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:38 AM
Aug 2024

1. Your book was terrible and does not reflect Appalachia. While you may have summered with your "mamaw, " you obviously didn't live the experience. You're a dilettante. Your book was a self-congratulatory paean that trashed an entire people whose community you only really lived on the edges of.

2. You talked about how proud you were to have an Ivy League education and that your "mamaw" helped you get it. When you went to Yale Law School, you'd had a tour with the Marines and an undergraduate degree from OSU. You were a grown-ass man and shouldn't have had to sponge off of your grandmother to go to law school. Shameful if you ask me. I thought Republicans had their own bootstraps.

3. Speaking of "mamaw," you really should stop using that word. Coming from someone with an Appalachian accent, it sounds genuine. Coming from you, it sounds contrived. It's pronounced "mamAW" with a hard "W," not "mam-ahh."

4. How do you live with yourself? You are willing to do anything and say anything in service of Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. Are you able to taste the food, or is all the shit you've eaten getting in the way? You know what you're saying is wrong when you say it. It's easy to see in your eyes. Doesn't it haunt you? Don't you know your kids are going to see these videos and know you for what you are? Are you as utterly amoral as Donald Trump? Do you want to raise kids that are as utterly amoral as his?

5. Stop talking. Shut the fuck up. I don't want to hear another self-justifying word from you.

mahina

(20,645 posts)
33. I would ask him about his handlers
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:40 AM
Aug 2024

And talk about Rachel Maddow’s podcasts Prequel and Ultra.

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I would talk anout the American apologists for Malmedy, where during WWII in Dec 1944 captive US soldiers were viciously murdered, and then Americans of his bent supported the Nazis that did it.
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Warning, it is hard on the nerves. Trigger warning.

I would tell him we see him. We will not let them take us back.

ificandream

(11,837 posts)
35. I'd say, "Can you take this plate? I'm done with it."
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:49 AM
Aug 2024

(Note: The question didn't say he'd be eating at the restaurant. Just that he'd be there.)

comradebillyboy

(10,955 posts)
36. I wouldn't say anything to him. I go to a restaurant to eat
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:50 AM
Aug 2024

not to harass other customers or make a scene.

Rebl2

(17,740 posts)
37. Shut up
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:52 AM
Aug 2024

sit there like a good little boy and eat your meal and no back talking young man!

Freethinker65

(11,203 posts)
38. Ask him if he ever reread his book.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:52 AM
Aug 2024

Ask him about how he was so easily manipulated by the right (I believe he included a lot of it in his book and that is why I found it such a frustrating read). Ask him if he can remember a time when he was truly happy and not filled with hate.

Pretty sure he would agree with everything I said, but then return to agreeing with everything his bankrollers and think tank buddies say.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
48. I would ignore the hell out of his Secret Service-protected ass
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 12:40 PM
Aug 2024

With the exception of a dirty look

BlueKota

(5,345 posts)
52. Did you ever read or had the New Testament read to you?
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 02:53 PM
Aug 2024

Were the things that, Jesus Christ, the man you profess to follow, preached like forgiveness and love, just too woke for you? If your answer is yes, are you sure, you're being honest with yourself and the public about actually being a Christian?

 

Zoomie1986

(1,213 posts)
73. He's following his lard and savior just fine
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 08:56 PM
Aug 2024

Maybe you're the one who needs to read all of what he said and did. Start with that classic MAGA act of that lard and savior assaulting the money lenders for offending him.

Nearly every Christian I've encountered not only bragged about him doing that, but thought attacking those moneylenders was a good and proper thing to do. So much for meek and mild and turning the other cheek.

And that's not the only instance of horrible behavior from him.

But yeah, keep propping up that fantasy that there is no relation between the behavior of hateful, violent people who follow a person who committed a hateful violent act like that.

Diamond_Dog

(40,575 posts)
59. " As a lifelong Ohioan,
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 03:11 PM
Aug 2024

you haven taken shaming Ohio to new heights. Why don’t you move down to Mar a Lago permanently so you can kiss Donny’s fat ass every day. That’s all you seem interested in doing.”

DBoon

(24,983 posts)
60. "Thank you for paying for my meal..."
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 03:14 PM
Aug 2024

"... If you don't mind, I will order a bottle of the most expensive wine here"

pat_k

(13,373 posts)
62. Message from an Unhuman:
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 03:37 PM
Aug 2024

Hello, I'm one of 50 to 75 million American Unhumans you and your hero Posobeic would like to see terrorized or murdered in your Christian Nationalist take over of the United States. I have one message for you: You will soon be history and a cautionary tale to future generations of how we must remain forever vigilant against all who threaten the true American values represented in our declaration of independence and constitution.
.

WestMichRad

(3,254 posts)
63. Just press "record" and let him rant.
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 04:29 PM
Aug 2024

Maybe an occasional question about women’s rights to keep him stirred up.
What’s the over/under on how many times he shoves his foot in his mouth?

WarGamer

(18,613 posts)
72. If this was a real opportunity...
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 06:41 PM
Aug 2024

I'd ask him how he went from USMC to meeting Peter Thiel, becoming a Venture Capitalist and ending up in GOP politics.

His book reads like a BIO of a Democratic politician...

(for those that don't know... the book ends before that stage of his life)

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