JD Vance and Erika Kirk's Warm Hug at Turning Point Event Goes Viral

https://people.com/jd-vance-erika-kirk-hug-11841052

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muxika@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 314d (8 replies)

"You smell like my couch."

Blum0108@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 314d (1 reply)

At JD's every couch is a love seat.

muxika@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d

The plastic on the furniture is for your protection.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 9 pts · 314d

Hmm polyester and fabric

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 314d

"...though you've had more people on you than my couch"
"Are you calling me a slut?"
"No, I'm just unlikeable."

Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 314d (1 reply)

"You smell like my couchas lounge."

Curmuffin@fedia.io · 2 pts · 313d

She went to J. and she got the D.

rayyy@piefed.social · 3 pts · 314d

Fast moving leather upholstery coming in HOT.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d

Hence the leather pants.

“I wanna be between your cushions.”

rayyy@piefed.social · 76 pts · 314d (2 replies)

Wow! That is moving fast. She is luring him in with her black leather pants. She loves power. He loves upholstery. He can't resist. GOP perversion/hypocrisy at its finest.

Curmuffin@fedia.io · 4 pts · 313d

I'd have thought that Vance liked a bit more "cushion for the pushin'" than that. Guess he'll take what he can get. Which in this case is Charlie Kirk's professional widow.

rayyy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d

Correction, her upholstered black leather cooch.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 314d (7 replies)

So, he has to dump the brown wife, win full custody of his Christian kids, and marry the white widow all by early 2027?

I'm sure they can do that. We all know evangelicals don't give a fuck about any of this.

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 314d

Those kids are not pure enough for his constituents. He will deliberately lose custody and then whine ahout how the system is biased against fathers.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 314d (3 replies)

Public opinion is irrelevant. There's not gonna be legitimate elections again, and the oligarchs control the media the 99% consume.

Only 50% of Americans blame R's for the shutdown ffs. Wake up! The US is collapsing under the weight of its own corruption.

phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 314d (2 replies)

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid."

edible_funk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d (1 reply)

It's been forty years with no bill in sight.

phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 312d

It took 70 for the soviet union to collapse. The British Empire lasted a couple hundred before it started getting cut to size.

Ancalagon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Or the alternative...

wheezy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 314d

Vance will deport his wife and kids as an example to be led by.

He'll talk about how it's a sacrifice that needs to be made and how it's actually beneficial for them. He's actually the victim of the success of making America great again. But it's a sacrifice he is willing to make.

celeste@kbin.earth · 58 pts · 314d (1 reply)

"No one will ever replace my husband," she told the crowd. "But I do see some similarities of my husband in JD— in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that's why I am so blessed to be able to introduce him tonight."

Her husband's been dead five minutes and he's married. Gross.

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 314d

The hug, I could maybe understand, but that comment is either weird or performative. I'm leaning towards the latter, given her husband's background as a performative mouthpiece for the right. She seems like she's basically giving her and her dead husband's endorsement to this administration. They can't help themselves from jerking each other off in front of everyone. "It's ok that we act like this because we're doing it together." and "the left is trying to break us apart, if we don't stick together while we act terrible then we'll all be alone again."

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 45 pts · 314d (1 reply)

They are disappearing people illegally. Who gives a single flying fuck about the interpersonal relationships of these two ghouls? The only relationship they should have is with the other inmates in federal prison.

Tinidril@midwest.social · 11 pts · 314d

I don't really give a shit about the East Wing either, but whatever catches people's attention and turns public attention against these losers is useful.

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 314d (1 reply)

"No one will ever replace my husband, but..."

-words uttered by no faithful widow, ever.

BigPotato@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 313d

He's dead, she can move on whenever she wants...

He, on the other hand, is still married and needs to at least have the balls to divorce his wife before he moves on her.

She's garbage but, in this situation, he's entirely responsible for his actions.

AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 314d (5 replies)

I dunno, seems like a stretch to me. This particular drama probably says more about our touch-averse culture, or starvation for constant political drama.

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 314d

In isolation perhaps, though I'd consider the whole thing in poor taste regardless. The circumstances and timing doesn't exactly help however.

zbyte64@awful.systems · 4 pts · 314d

Projection is our favorite pass time

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 313d (1 reply)

Sorry, did someone say Epstein files? 🤔🫩🤷🏼‍♂️

AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 313d

Here's a more appropriate take.

LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 314d

Yep, plus I think it's pretty low to do this to a family who've just lost dad. If nothing else the kids don't deserve it.

pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 314d

Yeah, because that is how you hug a significant other. Weird shit going on behind the scene at a republican gathering.

gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 314d

The hand on the back of his head for a hug? ...yuck.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 314d

Motherfuckers are trying to make Goebbels into Malcom X.

HuskerNation@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 314d

Jds wife knows how much he loves pleather

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 314d

He has the hots for his Horst Wessel's wife.

ubergeek@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 314d (3 replies)

They fuckin.

4grams@awful.systems · 10 pts · 314d (2 replies)

oh please, this is the republican version of an arranged marriage.

Here’s my conspiracy brain take. With turnips rapidly declining health, they know they need the next puppet to take his place. J.V. dunce is all they’ve got but his wife will never be accepted by the cult. So, this kirk shit happens and all of the sudden they have an already cult approved stepford wife, complete with a perfect sympathy story for cover (‘he was helping me with my grief and it just happened like it was meant to be from god!’).

If any of this happens, it just feels too cooked up, a desperate throw of the dice. But, I think the magats are just the right kind of stupid and evil for it to work.

This is all just insane ramblings of a bored nerd.

edible_funk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Go deeper conspiracy brain, Erika is actually a sexpionage handler positioning to be first lady.

4grams@awful.systems · 1 pts · 313d
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 314d (1 reply)

My brain is insisting that this was a perfectly innocent embrace. The alternative is to imagine JD banging her and that just not a mental picture I am willing to endure.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 24 pts · 314d

"Fuck me like one of your french cushions "

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 314d

I thought they were outraged by people disrespecting Charlie. And now his widow is disrespecting him like this not even 2 months later.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 313d

JD & Erika sitting in a tree

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

First comes love

Then comes m̶a̶r̶r̶i̶a̶g̶e̶ JD divorces his brown wife & starts paying her child support

Then comes ̶a̶ ̶b̶a̶b̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶b̶y̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶r̶i̶a̶g̶e̶ Do whatever you want, JD & Erika. You're g̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ corrupt adults.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 313d

“You’ll convert to Catholicism for me, won’t you?”

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 314d

Of course we already knew that these people were utter failures as human beings and walking advertisements for the benefits of early abortion, but it's still unnerving to witness the abyssal depths they willfully sink to.

Then again, I suppose it's only to be expected from a bunch of bottom feeders.

1141kizzie@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 314d (1 reply)

maybe they killed him for this or maybe it is one sider move by Erika

HuskerNation@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 314d

She has being flotus in her cross hairs for sure

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d

They fucking.

🤢

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 313d

If Shady's wife were a Christian then this never would have happened.

LoveCanada@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 313d (4 replies)

It appears no one here has lost a loved one. When you do, the people who show up for you are deeply appreciated. A 3 second hug is hardly an issue when someone has been there to help you reclaim and return your husband's body.

Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 313d (2 replies)

Did you run your fingers through their hair? 😳

LoveCanada@lemmy.ca · -6 pts · 313d (1 reply)

Not explicitly, no, but I wouldn't consider holding the head of someone I cared about and who had just helped me through a desperately traumatizing event odd. The world needs a little more compassion and empathy and less criticism.

Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d

Lol, the person who had no compassion and empathy for anyone deserves neither. That includes their spouse who mirrors the same ideas and grifts for a living. Fuck your concern trolling.

shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d

Yeah I gave her the benefit of the doubt initially too but watch her intro of Vance prior to this. Didn't strike me as a person mourning. Especially for her to directly bring up similarities between him and Vance.