JD Vance says we need a 'chill pill' and a sense of humor
Source: Cleveland.com
WAUSAU, Wisc. -- Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance says we all need to just chill and take a joke.
Vance, Donald Trumps running mate for vice president, told a rally in Wausau that the uproar over jokes made during a Trump rally Sunday at Madison Square Gardan in New York was overblown.
I think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. Im so over it, Vance said.
Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/open/2024/10/jd-vance-says-we-need-a-chill-pill-and-a-sense-of-humor-jd-vance-in-the-news.html
What else is there to say?
quakerboy
(14,891 posts)walkingman
(11,011 posts)Tweedy
(1,284 posts)and while he is doing that he should stop covering his neighbors loveseat.
Nictuku
(4,669 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,339 posts)Blue Owl
(59,376 posts)lastlib
(28,431 posts)
This one would do nicely.
twodogsbarking
(19,061 posts)wtf is a telephone pole?
lastlib
(28,431 posts)Maybe the show stole it, IDK.
Simeon Salus
(1,643 posts)Kaplan was a standup comic who went blue and got away with it.
The original concept was up your hole with (something that rhymes).
For example, "Up your ass with Mobil gas and happy motoring!" (parodying an old Mobil ad jingle)
At Kaplan's school, the idea was the bigger the object up the orifice, the funnier the joke. In the case of Arnold Korshak, they talked about objects like the Chrysler building and the Louisiana Purchase.
Simeon Salus
(1,643 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,251 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)If there is a group of Americans who have no sense of humor it is conservatives. And wouldnt it have been great if trumps lunatics had taken chill pills on 6 Jan 2021?
Trump, your running mate really sucks at covering for you. Fire him. I hear Steve Bannon is available. Hes more fucking insane then you.
pat_k
(13,534 posts)They only know how to punch down.
Remember the failed attempt at a FOX News Daily Show back in 2007? An article discussing that failure pointed out that satire
This is why historically, satire has been a tool of the powerless and the marginalized. We mock world leaders, governments, and oppressive traditions not only because its amusing, but because its a way of calling out corruption and incompetence among those who have the most control over our lives.
...satire entails a considerable power imbalance between speaker and target and usually comes from the bottom up. This is why, as Jezebel writer Lindy West points out, at company parties its the boss whos roasted, not the custodian. For people in positions of power to mock their subordinates isnt funny, its tasteless.
pat_k
(13,534 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)pat_k
(13,534 posts)His "humor" is that of a bully in the playground calling an underdog names and laughing his ass off at his own disgusting "wit."
mwooldri
(10,824 posts)Though I would probably get a visit from Secret Service if I suggested Shady Vance participated in the Fish Slap Dance. He with the little fish. Me with the huge one. That's how I feel though.
But I'm a lumberjack and I'm Ok ...
magicarpet
(19,008 posts)Here hold my beer, while I do something pathetically racist. Then we can all have a good laugh.
sakabatou
(46,204 posts)What was said during TFG's ego-fest was awful.
Wild blueberry
(8,344 posts)Comedy is deftly and humorously poking fun at the rich and powerful. It punches up.
Think of George Carlin. Intelligent and funny. Or Jimmy Kimmel asking Drumpf at the Academy Awards, "Isn't it past your jail time?"
So-called "jokes" that are cruel, mean, and hit down at the weak and vulnerable are not comedy. Or humor.
They are cruelty.
Hey JDivan, it's not "getting offended at every little thing," it's being a kind and decent person and helping others.
We all do better when we all do better.
Klarkashton
(5,360 posts)Took.
Dear_Prudence
(1,181 posts)Are his wife and "her" children supposed to laugh off race-based insults and bullying? He is a slime ball.
sinkingfeeling
(57,887 posts)Clouds Passing
(8,100 posts)Figarosmom
(12,591 posts)Are out in droves. They'll learn one way or another to take us seriously.
SupportSanity
(1,587 posts)MAGAs are all Captain Blighs from "Mutiny on the Bounty".
Remember, those on the receiving end of insults and hate are the problem. Get over it.
Response to SupportSanity (Reply #21)
jfz9580m This message was self-deleted by its author.
DBoon
(25,082 posts)In the "good old days" you so admire, your statements would result in a fist to your face
appleannie1
(5,461 posts)Wednesdays
(22,877 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,061 posts)Basso8vb
(1,230 posts)SupportSanity
(1,587 posts)And then a seig heil!!!
Just like his heroes, the Nazis.
Mollyann
(157 posts)At least I think that was his name said something to the effect that if rape was inevitable, you should lay back and enjoy it. That was when he was running for governor against Ann Richards. They are nuts.
area51
(12,723 posts)Dulcinea
(10,201 posts)Every time he opens his yap I dislike him more. I can't wait for him to go back to the obscurity he deserves.
"Offended at every little thing?" I wonder how Hillbilly Vanilli would react if someone talked trash about his family? Oh wait...
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)central scrutinizer
(12,655 posts)A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.
SomedayKindaLove
(1,194 posts)The spiritual journey of how a white suburban male got so over a little thing like bigotry.
Skittles
(172,243 posts)slightlv
(7,862 posts)how to get on with their own lives and not interfere or take offense at the way anybody else lives his own!
Besides, jokes are funny. There is nothing funny about demoralizing and demeaning anybody else. When you do that, you simply show the world who YOU are. Maybe that's why there's not a lot of comedians in the republican world...
Skittles
(172,243 posts)UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JohnQFunk
(495 posts)
needs a conscience and a soul.

BlueKota
(5,443 posts)Marthe48
(23,294 posts)even if you looked real hard.
Ursus Arctos
(69 posts)"I was just joking" and "You're too sensitive" are go-to phrases of gaslighting abusers.
Evolve Dammit
(21,803 posts)wolfie001
(7,841 posts)What a f6cking clueless a-hole.
Milesfanboy
(7 posts)And they won't stop talking about it, even today. So put a chill pill in that and have a sense of humor, J.D., or just STFU.
PatrickforB
(15,477 posts)This is not about a bunch of woke lib-ruls getting their little feelings hurt. It isn't.
It is about common decency. About actually HAVING a moral compass. About tolerance. About respect for other human beings. About compassion and empathy. It is about a United States of America. It is about perfecting the republic.
It is about everything you forgot when you allowed Peter Thiel to become your handler. Or should we say puppet master.
mahina
(20,687 posts)DallasNE
(8,018 posts)All jokes have a punchline by definition. In case you need a reminder Vance, here is the definition of a joke. Remember the details.
"A joke is a short humorous piece of oral literature in which the funniness culminates in the final sentence, called the punchline
"
When the comment fails on merit, i.e., lacks a punchline, it cannot possibly be a joke.
So, Vance, you are well educated having graduated from Yale. Calling these vile comments a joke makes you a liar because you know better than what you are claiming. Clean up your act!
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,869 posts)I would like to lock the bastard up in a Porta potty.
applegrove
(132,660 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,668 posts)And the couch you rode, Flipper.
Jacson6
(2,090 posts)deleted
efhmc
(16,837 posts)Pretty sure this is never going to happen.
Jack Valentino
(5,156 posts)Collimator
(2,135 posts)Except Donald Trump who gets his knickers in a twist when Colbert or Kimmel of SNL target him for humor, which in Trump's assessment are "not funny".
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)patphil
(9,145 posts)I'm so over your BS.
The Wizard
(13,802 posts)at MAGAts and laugh.
I subscribe to the Mel Brooks method. You take down a tyrant with ridicule.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)The Devil, that proud spirit, cannot stand to be mocked.
Aussie105
(8,060 posts)Nasty humor involves insulting and denigrating others.
GOP's hate and victimisation talk is NOT humor.
But Vance won't know, or acknowledge, what type of humor he is engaged in.
I suppose some Germans pre WW2 thought Hitler was funny too?
Across-the-Desk
(536 posts)No problem.. JD is just letting us all know that racist one liners are just 'funny jokes' according to his "Conservative Values"
BattleRow
(2,607 posts)PortTack
(35,820 posts)Picaro
(2,403 posts)JD Vance is like a faux human.
Everything he says is like an off key note.
Grins
(9,484 posts)What doesnt offend Reich-wingers??? They find offense and moral outrage over the damn color of M&Ms, fer Christs sake.
GoYouPackersGo
(233 posts)NCjack
(10,297 posts)LilyBelle
(60 posts)Apparently Vance needs to be buried in litter.
33taw
(3,353 posts)Godot51
(800 posts)Oh, a "chill pill" like those his mother was addicted to?
What a sensitive "man".
Humor is a specific weak point of most dedicated conservatives. It's only funny if it happens to someone else or if someone else gets hurt, ridiculed or parodied.
madaboutharry
(42,034 posts)They discount and dismiss the harm their cruelty causes.
Hope22
(4,817 posts)When this nightmare is over can we impeach / remove this monster from office. He has never spoken for the people. A stain on humanity!
Old Crank
(7,168 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,537 posts)Your repuke drug offerings, JD.
Javaman
(65,910 posts)the repukes are being attacked? fuck off snowflake
purr-rat beauty
(1,317 posts)ahhhh.....it's just a joke at your expense!
Ray Bruns
(6,551 posts)PJMcK
(25,071 posts)Heres a joke for you I find hysterical.
Knock, knock.
Whos there?
J.D. Vance.
Fuck off!
Pure comedy gold, in my opinion.
YoshidaYui
(45,538 posts)They just don't. its hard to be funny when you just hate everyone.
pecosbob
(8,435 posts)We need to start throwing those that would row in the wrong direction out of the life-raft.
CTyankee
(68,317 posts)Aussie105
(8,060 posts)J.D. failed his audition as a standup comedian.
Hopefully he will also fail his audition for VP.