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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I thought we were unhappy women who only had cats as friends.

Now we are wolves.

I cannot keep up with this so can we compromise and be cheetahs or something?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's the same, "enemy is simultaneously weak and strong" rhetoric characteristic of fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Perhaps there are two Democrats inside of you.

Wait, do those two internal Democrats have internal Democrats themselves? Does that make every Democrat a fractal?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Just don’t be his couch…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I think we established Republicans are cheaters a while ago.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wonder how the republicans would act if we went around saying they are vermin who should be slaughtered.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

They would be all "now is a time for unity, and the fascist Democrats threaten our Republic"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gosh, nothing weird at all about talking about millions of Americans in the same way the Nazis talked about Jews, gypsies, communists, leftists, unions, POC, LGBTQ, etc....

"Stop calling them weird, you guys!!!" - The Tone Police

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

ThE dEmOcRaTs aRe ThE rEaL fAsCiStS!

So anyway.... we should kill all Democrats amirite?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

An apex predator responsible for keeping the ecosystem balanced and with minimal pest animals that will harm the environment by consuming too many resources?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think he might be giving the Democrats too much credit, there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know, the ones that people have on sweatshirts and pillows and junk.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are two Democrats inside me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself. I’m 30-50 feral hogs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boars are the real threat to this country.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

I wish the democrats were wolves.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just a reminder that there is a pretty high chance that this guy becomes president given Trump's age.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This is his plan, if not that claim trump is unfit to hold office and take his spot. He doesn't interview like he's in it for VP he interviews like he is going to be president and it's weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

And likely intends to do so for life.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it only the men who are wolves? He established the women as cat ladies, but are they also wolves?

I’m starting to think the JD Vance extended universe has no internal logic.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

The left really need to tone down the rhetoric.

/s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Yeah man, compare us to the predatory pack animals that cull other species and re-balance ecosystems.

We're coming for you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

This will not hurt him, if anything it will ingratiate him with the magoos. They eat this shit up.

Imagine the fucking hypocrisy... Hillary says essentially "half the magas are a basket of deplorables" they cry foul and self select into that group, but then they go on about killing Demonrats and that's totes ok.

There was an asshat in Texas (I think) a few years back that said "the only good Democrat is a dead one" and the crowd went nutty cheering. Then he realized what he said and backtracked "I mean... Politically dead. You know the media will just twist my words." Too late fucker, the audience went nutty over the thought of killing Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought the neckbeards fancied themselves wolves among sheep

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

“The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems—we are no longer in this situation and must take a different approach,” Vance continues. “As Kevin Roberts writes, ‘It’s fine to take a laissez-faire approach when you are in the safety of the sunshine. But when the twilight descends and you hear the wolves, you’ve got to circle the wagons and load the muskets.'”

Roberts himself has recently called for a “Second American Revolution” — a modern-day repeat of the eight-year conflict that killed between 25,000 and 70,000 Americans. Roberts himself said that the second revolution will be “bloodless” but only “if the Left allows it to be.”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Conservatism is a plague of death that is long overdue for a cure.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

But if I take them at their word and start advocating "get them before they get you", I'm the bad guy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Oh hey he's making me terrified for my friends in the states. Neat!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

JD Vance has real "rejected from art school" vibes. Though I somehow suspect his villain origin story is even stupider than that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jorkin DePeanus Vance should be smothered to death with a couch cushion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don’t joke about autoerotic asphyxiation. It’s claimed some greats

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Llamas are cool. Can I be a friendly llama?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Carlllllll.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So sayeth the sheep.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's too bad these guys cannot just be treated like an internal ISIS - because that's what they are, only the threat is much, much greater.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I don't understand, did he write multiple forwards to Project 2025 books? Why do we keep getting random headlines to single lines that he wrote for one piece?

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