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Plavatos ,

Seeing that picture reminded me his kids are biracial. So to add to this fatherhood moment: he also supports a man who doesn’t respect someone of mixed heritage, the very thing his own kids are.

It’s not cognitive dissonance, it’s wilful suspension of the truth and the reason politics are driving wedges into our families and friends.

Lastly, I’m not a conspiracy theorist but if another country wanted to destroy us from within this seems like a good way to do it.

laranis ,

Could happen that way, but I keep going back to the future timeline where fascists take over the US, fuck everything, decide war is the solution, then China puts them back in their place and reign as the world’s super power for the next 200 years.

DudeImMacGyver ,
@DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Sounds like someone who absolutely hates being a parent and is bad at it.

Leviathan ,

Looks like things are getting pretty stressful in the MAGA/Couch-Fucker party.

Empricorn ,

Can I adopt JD Vance’s kid? Not because I particularly want to raise a child, but because that early enthusiasm shouldn’t be snuffed out by Vance, especially not when he’s talking to someone about whom he says:

  • “I’m a Never Trump guy.”
  • “My god, what an idiot.”
  • “America’s Hitler”
  • “Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
  • “I can’t stomach Trump.”

I agree with J. D. Vance’s factual quotes, but not his political ambition, which apparently caused him to reverse-course on all that and bend the knee. My personal conspiracy theory is Trump chose him as VP Nominee because that enables Trump to humiliate Vance with his past comments and current subservience…

politico.com/…/jd-vance-donald-trump-comments-001…

Huschke ,

I dislike this guy as much as everyone else, but isn’t the fact that his son wants to tell him about Pokémon all the time an indication that he is not a terrible father?

I mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but the kids I’ve seen who are treated badly do not want to talk to their parents about their interests.

Prethoryn ,
@Prethoryn@lemmy.world avatar

Or his son wants attention you can be treated poorly without being treated poorly physically.

Manny wats to interpret a situation and of a kid wants to tell him someone one time how do we know he is constantly wanting to talk about it.

Regardless, your comment does one thing it tries to side step the real glooming issue. You shouldn’t be an ass to your kids by shutting them down the way he did. There are way better ways to handle this. I cuss like a sailor but I would never tell a kid to shut the hell up.

Nah, this is guys a fuckwad.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Somehow I have gone through over 14 years of parenthood without ever telling my child to “shut the hell up.”

You say, “please be quiet for a minute, ok? We’re talking about something important.” Something like that seemed to work just fine when she was of the age where she constantly babbled about video games.

Dead_or_Alive ,

Yeah people are reading too much into this. I’d like to think I’d never say shut the hell up to my kids (or anyone else), but everyone’s family dynamic is different.

Unfortunately sometimes you have to make them understand that now is not the time. This may be his attempt to do so.

I only spanked my kids once and that was when they tried to run into traffic. I’m sure some people watching judged me and thought I was a terrible parent. But I needed to make them understand immediately that they can’t do that.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Unfortunately sometimes you have to make them understand that now is not the time. This may be his attempt to do so.

And yet my parents, my wife’s parents and we as parents have never had to say that to a child. Once.

I only spanked my kids once and that was when they tried to run into traffic. I’m sure some people watching judged me and thought I was a terrible parent. But I needed to make them understand immediately that they can’t do that.

So they learned the necessary truth that if they try to run into traffic, they will be hit by a parent?

I don’t think you’re a terrible parent for that, but I am judging you. That doesn’t let them know why it’s wrong to run into traffic, it just lets them think it makes you angry. That is not a way to teach your kids a lesson.

taiyang ,

Pokemon isn’t a phase, I’ll talk Pokemon with his kid while he goes and loses an election.

eestileib ,

Can someone explain what a Pokémon “phase” is?

Is he implying that you become less interested in Pokémon at some point?

🤔

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

My 14-year-old who had an Evee plushie and used to call our dog Charlie “Charmander” rolls her eyes when she sees Pokemon stuff now that she’s a “I’m too cool for this kids stuff” teenager.

Then she asks if I can get her some Hello Kitty stickers for her to put on her phone case.

Snapz ,

What a weird thing to say to your kid. That’s not normal. What happen to protect the kids? “Shut the hell up so I can talk to the rapist, convicted felon and credibly accused pedophile!”

Are these the family values?

modifier ,

You just know that guy sneaky sniffs his own fingers a lot. There is just something about the way he stands; like he’s always a bit tensed for the opportunity to sneak a quick sniff.

TheRealKuni ,

You just know that guy sneaky sniffs his own fingers a lot. There is just something about the way he stands; like he’s always a bit tensed for the opportunity to sneak a quick sniff.

Is there something wrong with sniffing your fingers? I unconsciously sniff my fingers all the time. It’s a behavior I picked up from my dad, who picked it up from his dad. It’s part of the way I interact with the world, I guess. Helps me know how things I’ve touched smell.

Mouselemming ,

Pikachus for Harris!

don ,

Couchfucker Vance is also Childhater Vance?

No fuckin way

njm1314 , (edited )

God he has the political instincts of a tree stump. Why would he think this story makes him look good?

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

After reading the title, I thought that his son was talking to Trump about Pokémon.

Turns out, it was Vance talking to Trump on the phone and his kid wanted to talk to his father about Pikachu.

N0body ,

”And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase… I mean he’s really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I’m like ‘son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,’” Vance told the podcast.

Wow. Maybe Vance should have gotten some stability in his career before he had kids. Maybe figured himself out a little better and grown as a person until he was ready.

Children are a life-altering obligation, after all. Maybe Vance would have been happier if he focused on his career first. Of course, that’s a deeply personal matter, and I would never assume that I know better than someone else what is best for their life.

FundMECFSResearch ,

But ChILdLeSS pEoPLe bAd

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

But it’s his wife’s job to raise the kids! Idk why she even let them near him when he was expecting a very important phone call anyway!

Willy ,

This is a bs story. This was just a recounting of him getting the call for VP. It’s not a direct quote. Just how he felt, and if you’ve had kids, there are plenty of times you want to tell them to shut the hell up like that but don’t say it that way. There are reasons to not like this guy but we can be better than this rage bait bs.

CHOPSTEEQ ,

For real, friends in discord were aghast at this, and I’m thinking “bro I’ve heard you tell your kids to shut the fuck up.”

Fondots ,

I don’t know anything about the full send podcast, if it’s meant to be a serious interview, I think that’s kind of a bad look on him that he’d choose to recount it with a mild profanity like hell. I curse like a sailor on my own time, but in any situation where I’m acting as a representative of my job or acting in any sort of official capacity for any organization I’m a part of, or just trying to make a good, professional impression, my speech is squeaky clean and fit to be aired on PBS kids.

Even if it’s meant to be a more light-hearted and humorous podcast, there’s a fine line to walk for people in the public eye and they need to be mindful of what sort of soundbites they’re making that could be taken out of context. That kind of shows a little lack of forethought about what he’s going to say and how it might be received by his audience, which isn’t exactly a desirable quality in a politician.

ChaoticEntropy ,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Yeah… relatable internal thoughts aren’t the way to take down this idiot who is taking himself down.

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