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LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(13,292 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:43 PM Oct 2024

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 Trump’s 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. I’m so over it,” Vance said.





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JD Vance says we need a 'chill pill' and a sense of humor (Original Post) LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2024 OP
What a wierdo quakerboy Oct 2024 #1
There is nothing funny about this election. This election will show what kind of nation we really are. walkingman Oct 2024 #2
Me thinks Mr. Vance should take his own advice Tweedy Oct 2024 #3
They are going to need one in 7 days Nictuku Oct 2024 #4
My thought exactly. Heh. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Oct 2024 #38
Go fuck a donut, JayDee Blue Owl Oct 2024 #5
or a cactus. lastlib Oct 2024 #14
When we were children my brother would say "up your hole with a telephone pole". Kids today, twodogsbarking Oct 2024 #25
(I think that was from "Welcome Back, Kotter"--IIRC...) lastlib Oct 2024 #47
It's part of Gabriel Kaplan's act, that's true. Simeon Salus Oct 2024 #57
Found it on youtube Simeon Salus Oct 2024 #58
I heard "Up your nose with a rubber hose" n/t TexasBushwhacker Oct 2024 #89
WE? Is he talking to trumps base? BOSSHOG Oct 2024 #6
They are certainly clueless when it comes to satire pat_k Oct 2024 #11
Deleted dup pat_k Oct 2024 #12
But Shady Wanks doesn't like couch jokes! . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2024 #7
This from a man who has no sense of humor. pat_k Oct 2024 #8
I think his sense of humour is pining for the fjords mwooldri Oct 2024 #9
... and a good old Nazi boy slap on the back. magicarpet Oct 2024 #10
A joke is supposed to be funny. sakabatou Oct 2024 #13
Here's what I have to say Wild blueberry Oct 2024 #15
He needs a chill pill. The kind that Hermann Goering Klarkashton Oct 2024 #16
Pity Vance's family. Dear_Prudence Oct 2024 #17
I'll tell him the same after TSF loses bigly. sinkingfeeling Oct 2024 #18
Says a guy with no real sense of humor Clouds Passing Oct 2024 #19
That is exsctly why women Figarosmom Oct 2024 #20
The beatings will continue until morale improves. SupportSanity Oct 2024 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Oct 2024 #28
Your crude insuts against entire classes of Americans are detestable DBoon Oct 2024 #22
He needs to learn, some things are never funny and insults are insults no matter how you sugar coat them. appleannie1 Oct 2024 #23
Yeah, YOU'RE the ones with the problem, never them. Wednesdays Oct 2024 #24
He is so loyal. A good boy. He is second in line, right? Hmmm. twodogsbarking Oct 2024 #26
Good advice for when he's rotting in prison. Basso8vb Oct 2024 #27
I think of Vance saying that but with a German accent.... SupportSanity Oct 2024 #29
Clayton Williams Mollyann Oct 2024 #30
I remember that. n/t area51 Oct 2024 #63
I'm so over JD Vance. Dulcinea Oct 2024 #31
racism and sexism isn't funny vance. JohnSJ Oct 2024 #32
There's a name for this : schrodinger's douchebag central scrutinizer Oct 2024 #33
Vance's next life-story book SomedayKindaLove Oct 2024 #34
especially when he gets offended over being labeled "weird" Skittles Oct 2024 #37
Maybe he needs to teach his own snowflakes slightlv Oct 2024 #35
YOU have nothing to "get over" because YOU are a FUCKING FASCIST Skittles Oct 2024 #36
Well, isn't that special, coming from a man who... JohnQFunk Oct 2024 #39
He needs a lobotomy BlueKota Oct 2024 #40
You couldn't find a bigger horse's ass Marthe48 Oct 2024 #41
You're too sensitive Ursus Arctos Oct 2024 #42
What an utter out of touch miscreant. True sociopath, just like Orange Julius. Evolve Dammit Oct 2024 #43
Women are dying in parking lots because of republicans and that's what he says? wolfie001 Oct 2024 #44
The Repubs were so mad about being called deplorables back in the 2016 election Milesfanboy Oct 2024 #45
So, we should just ignore your open racism? Sorry, but nope. PatrickforB Oct 2024 #46
try the deep freeze eyeliner man mahina Oct 2024 #48
Vance, Point Me To The Punch Line DallasNE Oct 2024 #49
Let's see if a two by four will chill him LiberalFighter Oct 2024 #50
Good idea. Haggard Celine Oct 2024 #77
Like he has a good sense of humour. applegrove Oct 2024 #51
JD, you would find it humorous if the racist jokes were aimed at your wife and children? keithbvadu2 Oct 2024 #52
Go fuck yourself Aviation Pro Oct 2024 #53
deleted bad taste Jacson6 Oct 2024 #54
Vance needs a conscience and an ability to align with people who are not white male douche bags. efhmc Oct 2024 #55
He should take a chill pill when we call him a weird fascist Jack Valentino Oct 2024 #56
So, everybody else needs to chill and learn to take a joke. Collimator Oct 2024 #59
GFY, Choadboi. ..nt ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2024 #60
Hey Vance, how about you take a "shut the fuck up" pill. patphil Oct 2024 #61
I guess that means we can point The Wizard Oct 2024 #62
ThomasMann quote applies? ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2024 #65
There is funny humor and there is nasty humor. Aussie105 Oct 2024 #64
"Conservative Values" Across-the-Desk Oct 2024 #66
If you want a laugh,JD ,just look in the mirror. BattleRow Oct 2024 #67
Except jd....you're the one causing everyone to freak out...and you and your crazy ppl have NO sense of humor! PortTack Oct 2024 #68
Can't read a room Picaro Oct 2024 #69
Getting "offended at every little thing" is what Republicans do!!!! Grins Oct 2024 #70
Couch fucker says what? nt GoYouPackersGo Oct 2024 #71
GOP needs to field 1st Class candidates, instead of dredging the bottom of the swamp. NCjack Oct 2024 #72
My cat would like a word... LilyBelle Oct 2024 #73
Maybe they could make jokes about themselves instead of others. Self deprecation can be appealing. 33taw Oct 2024 #74
Little JDV Godot51 Oct 2024 #75
This is the way bullies speak. madaboutharry Oct 2024 #76
Dear fellow Ohioans... Hope22 Oct 2024 #78
Name a Republican with a sense of humor. Old Crank Oct 2024 #79
Puerto Ricans don't forgive or forget, and they're not interested in truthisfreedom Oct 2024 #80
the couchfucker who purposely manufactures convenient lies now want us to chill because Javaman Oct 2024 #81
Quintessential Abuser Language purr-rat beauty Oct 2024 #82
So if I say J D Vance's first sexual encounter was with his mother, he should just get over it? Ray Bruns Oct 2024 #83
Hey, Vance! PJMcK Oct 2024 #84
Republicans have no sense of humor YoshidaYui Oct 2024 #85
Most people want to save the world...we just disagree on how. Then there are people like J.D. and Donald. pecosbob Oct 2024 #86
I AM SO SICK OF YOU. NOBODY LIKES YOU! GO AWAY!!! CTyankee Oct 2024 #87
The verdict is in. Aussie105 Oct 2024 #88
That misogynist a** can go play with his couch. nt TBF Oct 2024 #90

walkingman

(10,870 posts)
2. There is nothing funny about this election. This election will show what kind of nation we really are.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:44 PM
Oct 2024

Tweedy

(1,284 posts)
3. Me thinks Mr. Vance should take his own advice
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:44 PM
Oct 2024

and while he is doing that he should stop covering his neighbor’s loveseat.

twodogsbarking

(18,802 posts)
25. When we were children my brother would say "up your hole with a telephone pole". Kids today,
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:26 PM
Oct 2024

wtf is a telephone pole?

Simeon Salus

(1,638 posts)
57. It's part of Gabriel Kaplan's act, that's true.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 09:36 PM
Oct 2024

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.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
6. WE? Is he talking to trumps base?
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:49 PM
Oct 2024

If there is a group of Americans who have no sense of humor it is conservatives. And wouldn’t 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. He’s more fucking insane then you.

pat_k

(13,393 posts)
11. They are certainly clueless when it comes to satire
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:56 PM
Oct 2024

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

...should offer a critique of persons, places, institutions, and/or ideas that pose some threat to society. In a sense, it weaponizes humor in an effort to draw attention to a problem.

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 it’s amusing, but because it’s 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 it’s the boss who’s roasted, not the custodian. For people in positions of power to mock their subordinates isn’t funny, it’s tasteless.


pat_k

(13,393 posts)
8. This from a man who has no sense of humor.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:52 PM
Oct 2024

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

(10,818 posts)
9. I think his sense of humour is pining for the fjords
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:53 PM
Oct 2024

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

(18,525 posts)
10. ... and a good old Nazi boy slap on the back.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:54 PM
Oct 2024

Here hold my beer, while I do something pathetically racist. Then we can all have a good laugh.

Wild blueberry

(8,298 posts)
15. Here's what I have to say
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:00 PM
Oct 2024

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.

Dear_Prudence

(1,173 posts)
17. Pity Vance's family.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:06 PM
Oct 2024

Are his wife and "her" children supposed to laugh off race-based insults and bullying? He is a slime ball.

SupportSanity

(1,582 posts)
21. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:20 PM
Oct 2024

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)

DBoon

(24,993 posts)
22. Your crude insuts against entire classes of Americans are detestable
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:20 PM
Oct 2024

In the "good old days" you so admire, your statements would result in a fist to your face

appleannie1

(5,457 posts)
23. He needs to learn, some things are never funny and insults are insults no matter how you sugar coat them.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:23 PM
Oct 2024

SupportSanity

(1,582 posts)
29. I think of Vance saying that but with a German accent....
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:35 PM
Oct 2024

And then a seig heil!!!

Just like his heroes, the Nazis.

Mollyann

(155 posts)
30. Clayton Williams
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:37 PM
Oct 2024

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.

Dulcinea

(10,102 posts)
31. I'm so over JD Vance.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:37 PM
Oct 2024

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...

central scrutinizer

(12,654 posts)
33. There's a name for this : schrodinger's douchebag
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:43 PM
Oct 2024
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%2527s_douchebag

A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.

SomedayKindaLove

(1,183 posts)
34. Vance's next life-story book
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:44 PM
Oct 2024

The spiritual journey of how a white suburban male got “so over” a “little thing” like bigotry.

slightlv

(7,790 posts)
35. Maybe he needs to teach his own snowflakes
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:46 PM
Oct 2024

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...

Ursus Arctos

(69 posts)
42. You're too sensitive
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:56 PM
Oct 2024

"I was just joking" and "You're too sensitive" are go-to phrases of gaslighting abusers.

wolfie001

(7,686 posts)
44. Women are dying in parking lots because of republicans and that's what he says?
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:58 PM
Oct 2024

What a f6cking clueless a-hole.

Milesfanboy

(7 posts)
45. The Repubs were so mad about being called deplorables back in the 2016 election
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 07:01 PM
Oct 2024

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

(15,427 posts)
46. So, we should just ignore your open racism? Sorry, but nope.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 07:17 PM
Oct 2024

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.

DallasNE

(8,009 posts)
49. Vance, Point Me To The Punch Line
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:38 PM
Oct 2024

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!

efhmc

(16,679 posts)
55. Vance needs a conscience and an ability to align with people who are not white male douche bags.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 09:23 PM
Oct 2024

Pretty sure this is never going to happen.

Collimator

(2,123 posts)
59. So, everybody else needs to chill and learn to take a joke.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 09:46 PM
Oct 2024

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".

The Wizard

(13,741 posts)
62. I guess that means we can point
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:23 PM
Oct 2024

at MAGAts and laugh.
I subscribe to the Mel Brooks method. You take down a tyrant with ridicule.

Aussie105

(7,929 posts)
64. There is funny humor and there is nasty humor.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:33 PM
Oct 2024

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

(533 posts)
66. "Conservative Values"
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:48 PM
Oct 2024

No problem.. JD is just letting us all know that racist one liners are just 'funny jokes' according to his "Conservative Values"

PortTack

(35,820 posts)
68. Except jd....you're the one causing everyone to freak out...and you and your crazy ppl have NO sense of humor!
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:52 PM
Oct 2024

Grins

(9,459 posts)
70. Getting "offended at every little thing" is what Republicans do!!!!
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:59 PM
Oct 2024

What doesn’t offend Reich-wingers??? They find offense and moral outrage over the damn color of M&M’s, fer’ Christ’s sake.

Godot51

(784 posts)
75. Little JDV
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 03:51 AM
Oct 2024

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.

Hope22

(4,751 posts)
78. Dear fellow Ohioans...
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:37 AM
Oct 2024

When this nightmare is over can we impeach / remove this monster from office. He has never spoken for the people. A stain on humanity!

Javaman

(65,723 posts)
81. the couchfucker who purposely manufactures convenient lies now want us to chill because
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:43 AM
Oct 2024

the repukes are being attacked? fuck off snowflake

PJMcK

(25,050 posts)
84. Hey, Vance!
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:58 AM
Oct 2024

Here’s a joke for you I find hysterical.

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
J.D. Vance.
Fuck off!

Pure comedy gold, in my opinion.

YoshidaYui

(45,430 posts)
85. Republicans have no sense of humor
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 08:57 AM
Oct 2024

They just don't. its hard to be funny when you just hate everyone.

pecosbob

(8,392 posts)
86. Most people want to save the world...we just disagree on how. Then there are people like J.D. and Donald.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 03:58 PM
Oct 2024

We need to start throwing those that would row in the wrong direction out of the life-raft.

Aussie105

(7,929 posts)
88. The verdict is in.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 05:55 PM
Oct 2024

J.D. failed his audition as a standup comedian.

Hopefully he will also fail his audition for VP.

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