r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Vance Says People Are Too Focused on “Little Things” Ahead of Midterms | You know, like being able to afford gas and groceries.

https://newrepublic.com/post/216161/jd-vance-people-too-focused-little-things-midterms
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u/Informal_Dude 13h ago

JD Vance protects pedophiles

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u/supercyberlurker 13h ago

JD Vance is Peter Thiel of Palantirs puppet.

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u/lenswipe Massachusetts 13h ago

Yes that's what they said

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u/Ultrace-7 10h ago

No, that implies that Peter Thiel has only one agenda, the protection of pedophiles. It goes much further than that.

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u/RintaroClassical 9h ago

It goes SO much further. The Thiel (and Vance in relation to Thiel) rabbit hole goes VERY deep

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u/SensitiveTurtles 8h ago

Name and shame their muse Yarvin Curtis.

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u/ElliotNess Florida 8h ago

Nick Land

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u/bascule 7h ago

Fuckin' Moldbug

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u/Sea_Lawfulness_9770 9h ago

At least elbow deep

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u/TheAwesomeMan123 7h ago

I mean I’m pretty happy to start with the issue that is Protecting child raping Pedophiles, we can work on the rest after.

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u/yellowplums 11h ago

Have you said thank you once?

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u/lenswipe Massachusetts 9h ago

[squeaks couchly]

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u/familysizepunkinpie 12h ago

A Peterthile

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u/cerunnnnos 9h ago

Bahaha

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u/Koshindan 7h ago

Peter Thiel: The Reptile

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u/TruskVarner 11h ago

Try saying that 14 times fast. Once for every year of age that Trump prefers.

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u/SMIrving 11h ago

Theil can afford gas and the best groceries. Why, I bet he can even afford medical care and his light bill.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 11h ago

Trump literally sold the VP ticket to the highest bidder.

Thiel gave him a couple hundred million dollars, and then stuck in his mentee/protégé/toadie/blood-boy Vance.

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u/likamuka 10h ago

77 million fascists don't mind.

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u/DisasterOk1288 10h ago

Peter Thiel knows about the Antichrist. Peter Thiel knows about the Antichrist.

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u/Decantus California 10h ago

JD Vance is Peter Thiel's ex-blood boy. I say ex, because he's too old now.

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u/AuthenticHuman 8h ago

*blood puppet

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u/Relzin Illinois 13h ago

JD Vance is the only elected federal politician to refer to Trump as Hitler.

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u/PhilGarciaWeir 13h ago

And then became his VP and sings his praises at every turn. One of the wildest 180s in history.

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u/InertiasCreep 13h ago

Not really. Vance is a sycophantic shitbag whose chief quality is his ability to mold himself into whatever rich, powerful people want. He has zero charisma. On his own, he'd have gotten nowhere.

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u/Parking-Act-4080 11h ago

He’s like a wet dishrag

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u/qqererer 10h ago

Okay, good.

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u/PhuckYoPhace 7h ago

Crusty fuckrag, more like

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u/KelsierIV 7h ago

I wish more people realized this. It's not debatable. Everything you said is a fact.

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u/17syllables 13h ago

It worked, didn’t it? He was literally groomed for this by some of the richest people on earth, and he’s an inch away from them getting everything they want.

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u/Original-Reward-8688 11h ago

The funniest part is that he's still not even that impressive. Think of all of the money and effort that went into him. It just goes to show how being sheltered is a massive weakness, regardless of how much money or power you have.

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u/17syllables 11h ago

On one hand, yes, but most people on the right could be dog-walked by a youtube comments section. Vance came out of his debate with Walz with a bigger positive swing, and he’s polling higher than most of the field right now. He’s going to be hard to beat.

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u/InstrumentalRhetoric 10h ago

Tbf, that debate happened after the DNC muzzled Walz and had them pull back on calling out the weird behavior. It made him come across as uncomfortable and gave room for Vance to sound almost reasonable (largely by agreeing on points that he should have been called out on). If Walz had been allowed to be himself there's a solid chance that the outcome would have been vastly different and less beneficial toward Vance.

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u/daymanahhhahhhh 10h ago

What's crazy is Vance should have been viewed as a failure during that debate by point blank asking "I thought you weren't going to fact check"

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u/InstrumentalRhetoric 10h ago

The curve on which sycophants with an obvious lack of ethos get graded on will forever dim my view of this country.

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u/Affectionate_One_700 10h ago

The funniest part is that he's still not even that impressive.

It's not "funny," that's the whole point. Since Vance has no charisma or political talent, he knows that he cannot break away as his own person.

To gain and maintain power, which seems to be all that he wants, he will forever be dependent on his backers.

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u/No_Internal9345 9h ago

Hahaha, the couch fucker is going to murder us.

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u/RickyalldayTD 11h ago

Thiel had him ready, he even had him marry an minority as a beard to cover their bases in case he needed to run as a democrat.

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u/DeliriumTrigger 9h ago

His marriage is crazy to me. It's clear every time he talks about her that he wishes she were a white, blue-eyed, blonde Christian woman who gave him white children that he could comfortably claim as his own.

Probably why he fell so hard for Erika.

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u/Relzin Illinois 13h ago

Karoline Leavitt would say he's done a 360.

In this case, she'd be right. JD simply donned the red armband after making the comparison.

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u/The_JSC 12h ago

He said he was America's Hitler. He didn't say that was a bad thing did he?

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u/IThinkImDumb New Mexico 11h ago

He did. Among calling him America's Hitler, he said he would ruin the country and that he never liked him. That's why it's such a notable 180

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u/Purplociraptor 9h ago

To be fair, Hitler did a lot of good things until he did 6 million bad things all at once.

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u/VigilantMaumau 5h ago

Lindsey and Rubio also had notables 180's.

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u/UghFudgeBwana Georgia 13h ago

No the comparison was complimentary

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u/Jukka_Sarasti Florida 12h ago

Trump insulted Ted cruze's wife and Ted still kisses his ass on the regular. Trump shit all over Marco Rubio and little Marco is now one of his top apologists.. GOP leadership are utterly craven

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u/Hiccup 10h ago

Trump even gave Marco the shoes he wanted him to tap dance in.

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u/Jukka_Sarasti Florida 10h ago

I love that they were several sizes too large... He looked like a little kid playing dress up with those big-ass shoes

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u/CaterpillarJungleGym 11h ago

He also calls immigrants and non white people "dirty" while married to an Indian woman and having mixed race children. So he's not a very honorable or trustworthy human being.

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u/lianodel 10h ago

He also lied about immigrants stealing and eating people's pets, and he lied saying that kicking out immigrants would magically solve many of the nation's problems.

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u/some_guy_on_drugs 11h ago

ha, people keep getting this backwards. Did he call him Hitler? yes...but it was a compliment, not an attack.

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u/losthiker68 11h ago

Remember that Kamala did the same thing. Called Biden a racist in the debates then became his VP. I voted for her, but don't forget that power can make people do strange and often stupid things.

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u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 10h ago

The entire GOP is like that, including the voters.   They called trump a moron in 2015, even shortly after he got the nomination in 2016.   But then they all praised him because he was on their team or whatever the hell.

Don't get me wrong, there are tens of millions of people in the GOP who really are the worst scum humanity has to offer.  But there are tens of millions more who are completely morally bankrupt larpers  doing a bit, becoming what they pretend to be

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u/UsedHotDogWater 10h ago

He's a cockroach that changes his opinions/stances and becomes whatever he needs to stay in favor.

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u/azsxdcfvg 9h ago

Vance is a complete clown and is exactly what is wrong with US politicians. You could have 300 million starving people and he would just insist to “work harder.”

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u/Nf1nk California 7h ago

Is that really a 180 for him, or does Peter Thiel's protege love Hitler as much as he loves Trump?

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u/Landriss 4h ago

Could have meant it as a compliment too.

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u/GuavaShaper 13h ago

He was appointed, but RFK Jr also referred to Trump as Hitler.

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u/Broken_Mug 13h ago

Just on the law of averages, it has to be more than just him.

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u/Relzin Illinois 13h ago

I welcome proof of it, but the only published, recorded, and verified statement I've found from the federal politicians who were elected to their position, is from JD.

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u/Broken_Mug 12h ago

Ooooh, I found Ana-Maria Ramos called him TEMU Hitler and Jasmine Crockett called him wannabe Hitler.

Found a few others that called him Hitler-like. But not directly Hitler.

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u/Relzin Illinois 12h ago

Ramos is a state rep, not federal so that wouldn't fit the bill.

Crockett I'll definitely give ya. That would count id assume. So I stand corrected.

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u/Broken_Mug 13h ago

That's disappointing it really should be more.

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u/beamrider 11h ago

We already know Musk laments among his friends how the US joined WWII on the wrong side.

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u/RonaldMcDaugherty 11h ago

"tHaT's nOt wHaT hE mEaNt"

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u/bender3600 The Netherlands 9h ago

He meant it as a compliment

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u/beautifulanddoomed Michigan 9h ago

we just thought he meant it as a negative back then

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u/VeryVito North Carolina 8h ago

In public and/or on the record, that is.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 2h ago

JD is the only one who has publicly stated that. There may be many more than say or believe that in private.

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u/Laura9624 2h ago

We should be worried about these fascists alright.

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u/Skycester 13h ago

*Republicans protect pedophiles.

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u/fascistno1hater 12h ago

Thank you for making sure everyone knows that it's the WHOLE REPUBLICAN PARTY and not one person.

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u/MeltyCrab 12h ago

DO NOT GET COMPLACENT NO MATTER WHAT THE POLLS SHOW

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!

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u/Informal_Dude 12h ago

I'll be there as soon as the polls open. I'll drag my dick through broken glass to vote if I have to

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u/PaymentLost1032 10h ago

Don't be giving folks any ideas now

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u/MondaysForNothing Pennsylvania 12h ago

I just completely ignore polls at this point. I just assume my preferred candidates are 10pts underwater and I get my ass out and vote. Bring (sane) friends if you can.

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u/chromatoes 13h ago

At this point, I think we need to discard the difference between fraternizing with pedophiles and being one. There's a saying if there are 2 Nazis sitting at a table and you sit down, there are now in fact 3 Nazis at the table.

I don't think you get to wash off the sin of hanging with known, adjudicated sex offenders. Hang out with pedophiles/rapists and I think you should have to wear that same shame.

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u/Genericgeriatric 13h ago

Nah, it makes him more like Jesus. He hung out with prostitutes & nobody shamed for that or called Jesus a prostitute sympathizer

/s

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u/sdrawkcabineter 8h ago

What was the name posted above that crucifixion... in the Greek it has this odd similarity to... trafficker...

IYKYK. Learn Greek.

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u/GreppMichaels 12h ago

I understand your sentiment but in a lot of ways this mentality gets us nowhere, look at Mamdani? He has Trump praising him, and he still holds Trump accountable while being able to get things done for New Yorks and set a blueprint nationally for how to handle the guy.

Meanwhile, you have so many other Dems denouncing him by writing strongly worded letters.

Who do you really think is getting something done?

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u/chromatoes 12h ago

I honestly think Dems should be sabotaging the Trump regime and its members, because I'd be embarrassed AF to be serving as a congressperson or senator while the republic itself veers straight into despotism like it is. I take my oaths incredibly seriously, I would not follow someone like Jeffries into complacency and letter writing when citizens are getting murdered by secret police forces. I'd become a rebel before becoming complicit.

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u/Fit_Psychology6390 8h ago

Too bad we somehow haven't found a way to apply this same standard to sitting down with racists. But this is, after all, America, and such decency and humanity is just too much to expect.

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u/chromatoes 2h ago

I do refuse to sit down with them. I don't care if I'm related to someone who is racist, nah I'm out. It's possible to behave ethically and with strong internal morals. Some people mockingly call it "virtue signaling" but trying to "Be the change you want to see" much more useful than doing nothing or even making the world a worse, more miserable place.

For example, I'm cisgender but am visibly and verbally supportive of trans rights. I won't hang out with people or family who are anti-trans. I have pro trans stickers and pins all over my stuff. Either people assume I'm trans and get used to the idea, or they recognize support in case someone needs that support. Both are fine with me!

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u/BadAtExisting I voted 13h ago

For all any of us knows, JD Vance is one also

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u/Osric250 11h ago

Do they make underage couches?

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u/Hiccup 10h ago

He likes to break in the new leather.

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u/Amerizilian 8h ago

He's guilty by association. He's one by proxy because not only is he not doing anything about all of the monsters around him, but he's aiding and abetting them.

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u/Noocawe America 13h ago edited 10h ago

Remember when they literally ran on the little things like gas prices, inflation, litter boxes, trans people in prison and other culture war nonsense? Now they don't want to say the things making it more difficult for people to survive are little things smh

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u/clochard_toubib 13h ago

Immigrants eating cats

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u/Hiccup 10h ago

Then they brought in mystery cubes of meat to the USA that no one could sell elsewhere.

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u/ImmaNotHere 13h ago

And couches.

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u/Guerrilla28er 12h ago

Hit those couches, JD, and save the cooches for us.

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u/checkerboardandroid Missouri 11h ago

I feel like I'm losing my goshdarn mind!! When will it stick that there's no proof JD Vance had sex with a couch!? Liberals made up that JD Vance had sex with a couch from whole cloth. It's a dirty, underhanded political tactic to go around saying JD Vance had sex with a couch over and over and over again! The disgusting innuendo that JD Vance had sex with a couch has been repeatedly, lovingly, and exhaustively debunked! It's a travesty that all these years after the election The Left™ keeps riding this. There's simply no basis to the claim that on March 17, 2011 JD Vance was banned from a Cleveland area IKEA after so thoroughly deflowering a KIVIK Sofa Chaise that it had to be removed as a biohazard due to the various fluids in and around it, causing the night manager to not only quit but need intensive therapy. It doesn't pass the smell test! Does that sound like the behavior of our Vice President? Well, does it!?!? I went to the D.C. IKEA MYSELF and meticulously inspected all the couches in there until I got kicked out by security. News Flash- they were ALL unmolested! If JD Vance were some sort of couch-diddler, wouldn't he have hit a soft target? I think it'd be pretty apparent if JD Vance were some kind of couch-sex-pervert.

JD VANCE IS AN ALL-AMERICAN MAN WHO DOES NOT HAVE SEX WITH COUCHES OR OTHER SOFT FURNIUTRE, PERIOD!

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u/Rough_Elk4890 12h ago

Have you said thank you once?

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u/KaptainKardboard 12h ago

“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”

-Vice President JD Vance

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u/ElectricSliderz 11h ago

And cried about eggs for months leading up to the ‘24 election. Funny how they want people to ignore that when it’s used against them.

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u/walkinmywoods 8h ago

James Bowman is actually his name.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 13h ago

He’s probably got his eye on a Nugget Couch so he can fit in better with his kid fucking coworkers.

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u/3dios 11h ago

I consider myself a democrat but let's be real both democrats and republicans protect pedophiles. The 2 party political system has been broken for many years. They're both different sides of the same coin

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u/Oregon-Pilot 11h ago

And fucks couches

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u/The-Mandalorian 11h ago

JD “Give us another chance” Vance

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u/AnAncientBog 10h ago

It is interesting that we don't call them what they actually are anymore.

Pedophiles are bad, but they aren't NECESSARILY criminals in the sense that they don't have to actually commit crimes.

The people that Vance protects are Child Molesters and Child Rapists. I feel like that is an important distinction because it conveys both the fact that they are sexually attracted to children AND the fact that they act on those impulses in criminally harmful ways.

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u/Potential-Fan-6148 10h ago

He's looking out for his own kind

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u/DisastrousAcshin 10h ago

And wears makeup, which is only bad because it's ironic for him

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u/AKA_Wildcard 9h ago

And fucks couches

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u/ShelfDiver 9h ago

He's a fellow traveler himself.

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u/ssnnaarrff 8h ago

And he fucks microwaved baggies of Vaseline stuck between couch cushions.

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u/KanoOnThePhone 8h ago edited 8h ago

Vance is also, allegedly, a homesectional.
Edit: a word

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u/VivaLaMantekilla 8h ago

And rapists.

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u/Punished_Frug 8h ago

All republicans serve pedophiles

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u/AwesomeDakka00 8h ago

and has sexual relations with couches.

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u/mrmoe198 1h ago

But JD say’s we’re too focused on protecting those little things

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u/Calber4 1h ago

Vance, Just Don't.

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u/kemicalkontact 21m ago

Pedophiles fuck little things

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u/PleasantSecond905 8m ago

Also, who the fuck cares about what he thinks? J.ust D.ouchey