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njm1314 , (edited )

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

don ,

Couchfucker Vance is also Childhater Vance?

No fuckin way

Mouselemming ,

Pikachus for Harris!

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.

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?

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.

taiyang ,

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

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.

Huschke ,

I agree with you in principle, but after having a kid who, without wanting to go into too much detail, requires my constant attention, I can understand parents losing their cool. Thankfully, I have never done it myself, but I have definitely been close to my breaking point a few times already.

Look, all I’m saying is that I have stopped judging parents as easily as I did when I didn’t have any kids. The guy might be an ass to them. Or he might not be. I just dislike people jumping to conclusions as fast as they are.

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.

FatCrab ,

Nah, man, you made an error in your parenting. It’s not a big deal so long as your recognize it but at this point there is pretty substantial evidence that such discipline techniques are generally more harmful than not.

And that’s ok, because honestly parenting is fucking hard. I definitely get rougher and less patient with my kid when I’m stressed, but it’s a behavior I recognize I need to change and actively work on because it is objectively, unquestionably, bad parenting. This is a long way of saying that while, yea, family dynamics vary, there are many ways of parenting that are just very clearly bad or good, and recognizing the bad, even in ourselves, is something that is necessary for being a complete parent.

Dead_or_Alive ,

Not at all what I meant. I’m not sorry and I would spank my kids again if they tried to do something life threatening (fortunately they are old enough that I don’t have to do that).

People shouldn’t jump to conclusions or judge other parents for their parenting styles as long as it isn’t out and out abuse.

There are plenty of other policy and moral decisions that J.D. Vance to bag on than the way he disciplined his kid. If there was a history of abuse then that would be a different thing altogether.

RIPandTERROR ,
@RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works avatar

I wanted to tell my dad about Pokemon, but my parents were religious fanatics. They sent me to an all boys extreme religious group home for being autistic where kids were raped and beat. My parents wouldn’t listen as I begged them to take me out and that we were being abused. They still defend the place 20 years later after it was sued into the ground. When I came out to them this year as transfem they told me not to contact them again and I haven’t heard a word since.

It’s not a very reliable indication that a kid wants to share their interests with their mom and dad. They’re your parents. Kids crave bonding over their interests.

I still wish things were better and dad would play video games with me, even though I know he’s a piece of shit sent from the lowest level of humanity attainable.

jadedwench ,

Ghost Hug

Sorry if a virtual hug is inappropriate. I am just glad that you can be you now.

RIPandTERROR ,
@RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works avatar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f1ee3287-11e0-4885-98e1-370676c80aad.gif

🫂❤️

Nuke_the_whales ,

I mean my kid will tell everyone who will listen about Pokemon cards, even complete strangers, so I dunno if it has anything to do with parenting.

Empricorn , (edited )

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. He’s just that petty. I hope he loses the election because of it…

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

suction ,

Nice try but his adrenachrome is already paid for by Musk.

Leviathan ,

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

DudeImMacGyver ,
@DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

suction ,

I don’t know, maybe he was just nervous meeting Palpatine and overreacted out of fear?

DudeImMacGyver ,
@DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Calling Trump Palpatine is giving him waaay too much credit lol

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.

Nuke_the_whales ,

JD Vance is racist towards and looks down on his own mixed race children. Not a new thing for conservatives

BigPotato ,

It’s not like slave owners ever had mixed racial kids for any reason or anything. /s

SwingingTheLamp ,

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, either, but my preferred suspicion is that it’s aliens. They’ve tried a number of techniques, from implanting mind-control devices (Mitch McConnell and the way his face carries a look of horrified disgust at the things they make him do) to direct infiltration by putting one of their agents in an ill-fitting human suit (Ted Cruz). Ultimately, they seem to have given up the finesse approach, and settled on lobotomizing humans with existing personality disorders to create a RAID (redundant array of inexpensive dipshits) to simply overwhelm our system of government.

It’s the only explanation that really makes sense to me.

authorinthedark ,

I think you’re a conspiracy theorist

SwingingTheLamp ,

Deep state fake news!

Jumpingspiderman ,

JD Vance is a disgusting excuse for a human.

user1234 ,

Shut up about your pocket monster, I’m on the phone with a real one.

spacesatan ,

This doesn’t read as a literal quote to me. I’m feeling 50/50 that was what he was thinking and said something more appropriate vs actually saying that. He was on a podcast, presumably in a storytelling/jokey frame of mind.

Bristlecone ,

Yeah, I absolutely hate this guy but that does kind of sound like what he was saying. Articles like this that make conservatives think that liberals freak out about every joke. I’m as far left as it gets but even I can see this should not have been an article, basically. Still a giant piece of shit person regardless.

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