JD Vance says we need a 'chill pill' and a sense of humor

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

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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What else is there to say?

[quakerboy]

1. What a wierdo

[walkingman]

2. There is nothing funny about this election. This election will show what kind of nation we really are.

[Tweedy]

3. Me thinks Mr. Vance should take his own advice

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

[Nictuku]

4. They are going to need one in 7 days

[OldBaldy1701E]

38. My thought exactly. Heh. (n/t)

[Blue Owl]

5. Go fuck a donut, JayDee

[lastlib]

14. or a cactus.

This one would do nicely.

[twodogsbarking]

25. When we were children my brother would say "up your hole with a telephone pole". Kids today,

wtf is a telephone pole?

[lastlib]

47. (I think that was from "Welcome Back, Kotter"--IIRC...)

Maybe the show stole it, IDK.

[Simeon Salus]

57. It's part of Gabriel Kaplan's act, that's true.

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]

58. Found it on youtube

?

[TexasBushwhacker]

89. I heard "Up your nose with a rubber hose" n/t

[BOSSHOG]

6. WE? Is he talking to trumps base?

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]

11. They are certainly clueless when it comes to satire

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]

12. Deleted dup

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. But Shady Wanks doesn't like couch jokes! . . . . nt

[pat_k]

8. This from a man who has no sense of humor.

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]

9. I think his sense of humour is pining for the fjords

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]

10. ... and a good old Nazi boy slap on the back.

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

[sakabatou]

13. A joke is supposed to be funny.

What was said during TFG's ego-fest was awful.

[Wild blueberry]

15. Here's what I have to say

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]

16. He needs a chill pill. The kind that Hermann Goering

Took.

[Dear_Prudence]

17. Pity Vance's family.

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

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I'll tell him the same after TSF loses bigly.

[Clouds Passing]

19. Says a guy with no real sense of humor

[Figarosmom]

20. That is exsctly why women

Are out in droves. They'll learn one way or another to take us seriously.

[SupportSanity]

21. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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.

[jfz9580m]

28. Or as his fellow traveller that harmless dude Carlson said

This movement will spank all the “disobedient daughters”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/10/24/tucker-carlson-donald-trump-spanking-america/

“There has to be a point at which Dad comes home,” Carlson said to rapturous applause. “Yeah, that’s right.” And when Trump came home, Carlson continued, he would tell his daughter, “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking, right now.”

God, I love a good piece of literary symmetry. So thank you, Tucker, for delivering unto us the same kind of October rhetorical environment where we found ourselves eight years ago, when the “Access Hollywood” tape broke a few weeks before Election Day. From grabbing we were born, to spanking we shall return.

Let’s see, what else? There is no subtext left to unpack. Nobody is misspeaking, nobody is misunderstanding. Carlson presumably wrote his remarks with care and intention, then stood in that arena in front of God and country — a stage upon which Trump himself appeared Wednesday — and declared that what petulant girls need is a 78-year-old man to whack their fannies.

And then the audience, primed to agree with so much bizarre crap at this point that you wonder whether they even so much as arched an eyebrow, seemed to agree with this, too. Yes! Spank her!

Just once I would like to turn on the television this week and not encounter Donald Trump or one of his surrogates alluding to private parts. But no. There was Trump in Pennsylvania, honoring the late golfer Arnold Palmer by repeatedly implying that he had a really large endowment. “When he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh, my God, that’s unbelievable,’” Trump informed his audience.

A few days before that, he’d told a conservative podcast host that he “was so amazed that Harvey Weinstein got schlonged” — as in, prosecuted and shamed. (Trump in the past has insisted that he doesn’t associate “schlonged” with genitalia, but some of us remember middle school.)
What a fitting finale for the Gender Election.

I am sure “family man” Vance missed all this too..
In Tucker’s case at any rate, he’d have to go very far to get back to merely weird..

[DBoon]

22. Your crude insuts against entire classes of Americans are detestable

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

[appleannie1]

23. He needs to learn, some things are never funny and insults are insults no matter how you sugar coat them.

[Wednesdays]

24. Yeah, YOU'RE the ones with the problem, never them.

[twodogsbarking]

26. He is so loyal. A good boy. He is second in line, right? Hmmm.

[Basso8vb]

27. Good advice for when he's rotting in prison.

[SupportSanity]

29. I think of Vance saying that but with a German accent....

And then a seig heil!!!

Just like his heroes, the Nazis.

[Mollyann]

30. Clayton Williams

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]

63. I remember that. n/t

[Dulcinea]

31. I'm so over JD Vance.

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]

32. racism and sexism isn't funny vance.

[central scrutinizer]

33. There's a name for this : schrodinger's douchebag

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]

34. Vance's next life-story book

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

[Skittles]

37. especially when he gets offended over being labeled "weird"

[slightlv]

35. Maybe he needs to teach his own snowflakes

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]

36. YOU have nothing to "get over" because YOU are a FUCKING FASCIST

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnQFunk]

39. Well, isn't that special, coming from a man who...

… needs a conscience and a soul.

[BlueKota]

40. He needs a lobotomy

[Marthe48]

41. You couldn't find a bigger horse's ass

even if you looked real hard.

[Ursus Arctos]

42. You're too sensitive

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

[Evolve Dammit]

43. What an utter out of touch miscreant. True sociopath, just like Orange Julius.

[wolfie001]

44. Women are dying in parking lots because of republicans and that's what he says?

What a f6cking clueless a-hole.

[Milesfanboy]

45. The Repubs were so mad about being called deplorables back in the 2016 election

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]

46. So, we should just ignore your open racism? Sorry, but nope.

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]

48. try the deep freeze eyeliner man

[DallasNE]

49. Vance, Point Me To The Punch Line

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]

50. Let's see if a two by four will chill him

[Haggard Celine]

77. Good idea.

I would like to lock the bastard up in a Porta potty.

[applegrove]

51. Like he has a good sense of humour.

[keithbvadu2]

52. JD, you would find it humorous if the racist jokes were aimed at your wife and children?

[Aviation Pro]

53. Go fuck yourself

And the couch you rode, Flipper.

[Jacson6]

54. deleted bad taste

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[efhmc]

55. Vance needs a conscience and an ability to align with people who are not white male douche bags.

Pretty sure this is never going to happen.

[Jack Valentino]

56. He should take a chill pill when we call him a weird fascist

[Collimator]

59. So, everybody else needs to chill and learn to take a joke.

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]

60. GFY, Choadboi. ..nt

[patphil]

61. Hey Vance, how about you take a "shut the fuck up" pill.

I'm so over your BS.

[The Wizard]

62. I guess that means we can point

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

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

65. ThomasMann quote applies?

The Devil, that proud spirit, cannot stand to be mocked.

[Aussie105]

64. There is funny humor and there is nasty humor.

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]

66. "Conservative Values"

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

[BattleRow]

67. If you want a laugh,JD ,just look in the mirror.

[PortTack]

68. Except jd....you're the one causing everyone to freak out...and you and your crazy ppl have NO sense of humor!

[Picaro]

69. Can't read a room

JD Vance is like a faux human.

Everything he says is like an off key note.

[Grins]

70. Getting "offended at every little thing" is what Republicans do!!!!

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

[GoYouPackersGo]

71. Couch fucker says what? nt

[NCjack]

72. GOP needs to field 1st Class candidates, instead of dredging the bottom of the swamp.

[LilyBelle]

73. My cat would like a word...

Apparently Vance needs to be buried in litter.

[33taw]

74. Maybe they could make jokes about themselves instead of others. Self deprecation can be appealing.

[Godot51]

75. Little JDV

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]

76. This is the way bullies speak.

They discount and dismiss the harm their cruelty causes.

[Hope22]

78. Dear fellow Ohioans...

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]

79. Name a Republican with a sense of humor.

[truthisfreedom]

80. Puerto Ricans don't forgive or forget, and they're not interested in

Your repuke drug offerings, JD.

[Javaman]

81. the couchfucker who purposely manufactures convenient lies now want us to chill because

the repukes are being attacked? fuck off snowflake

[purr-rat beauty]

82. Quintessential Abuser Language

ahhhh.....it's just a joke at your expense!

[Ray Bruns]

83. So if I say J D Vance's first sexual encounter was with his mother, he should just get over it?

[PJMcK]

84. Hey, Vance!

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]

85. Republicans have no sense of humor

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

[pecosbob]

86. Most people want to save the world...we just disagree on how. Then there are people like J.D. and Donald.

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

[CTyankee]

87. I AM SO SICK OF YOU. NOBODY LIKES YOU! GO AWAY!!!

[Aussie105]

88. The verdict is in.

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

Hopefully he will also fail his audition for VP.

[TBF]

90. That misogynist a** can go play with his couch. nt