J.D. Vance Spends Weird, Low-Energy Speech Praising Diet Mountain Dew
J.D. Vance Spends Weird, Low-Energy Speech Praising Diet Mountain Dew
Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick went off on a bizarre tangent about diet Mountain Dew during a rally.
J.D. Vance’s weird, anti-woke punchline fell flat at his own sleepy speaking event on Monday.
Vance held a rally at his former high school in Middletown, Ohio, where hundreds gathered to hear the missives of Donald Trump’s newly-minted vice presidential candidate. But, even as a hometown hero, the Ohio senator suffered some brutally awkward moments.
“It is the weirdest thing to me: Democrats say that it is racist to believe—well, they say it’s racist to do anything,” said Vance. “I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today. I’m sure they’re probably gonna call that racist, too.” Around the room there were some scattered laughs.
Like Vance’s quip about diet soda, this approach to criticism seems to stem from having absolutely nothing of substance to say about a subject, but giving it their best shot anyway.
Overall, the Republican’s performance was so underwhelming that even Fox News stopped airing coverage of Vance’s speech in the middle of his remarks.
oh that is funny!
Worst VP pick since Palin. He presents as your smartass alt right troll cousin that you think about skipping Thanksgiving to avoid, and his only real appeal is speaking out against the "elites," who were all inconveniently in the list of his personal contacts that were accessible to the public because the RNC forgot to set his Venmo to private while "vetting" their VP pick.
It's a clown show. The MAGA camp thought they had it in the bag for a few weeks and made some incredibly stupid, sloppy decisions.
I hadn't heard that venmo story, gotta love the self owns, here it is: https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/
I wonder if all the other options actually had backbones? I know the one supreme deciding factor for Trump's pick: "will you do as I say and deny the results of the election and anything else I ask you to do that isn't above board?"
I think there might be more pences out there than we think so Vance might have been one of a few on a short list that filled that criteria. Plus I'm sure Trump liked the look of him.
It's a clown show. The MAGA camp thought they had it in the bag for a few weeks and made some incredibly stupid, sloppy decisions.
You say that like MAGA and stupid, sloppy decisions don't go hand in hand.
Anyone publicly known to be supporting Trump is by definition stupid or sloppy.
“They keep saying I’m a racist no matter which soda I drink—it’s almost as if they reached that conclusion on some other basis altogether!”
"They're never satisfied, I mutter the n-word while I drink coke, racist! I mutter DEI n-word while drinking Pepsi, racist! I put my foot on the throat of my black maid for fun while drinking sprite, racist! The left has lost their n-word minds! Oops they'll call me racist for that too! Unbelievable!"
Ew he drank DIET? Is he some weird LEFTY MARXIST COMMUINIST? Real Americans have FULL SUGAR
Diet Mountain Dew tastes like absolute trash. It's like they just replaced the pound of sugar in each bottle with an equal amount of bitter aspartame with no other recipe adjustments.
Freedom is consuming the sugary chemical water of the megacorporations.
Actual leftists prefer Code Red.
that's hexabear for you
So far he's got the charisma of a soap dish.
That's more than Mike Pence ever managed.
Hell, I was convinced Pence was a supervillain sitting in a swivel chair stroking a long haired cat for like the first year of Trump's presidency. I didn't like Trump, but I just thought he was a blowhard who would do absolutely nothing rather than trying to actively harm people.
Pence turned out to be little more than a neutered grapefruit with almost as much personality.
He truly is Trump’s successor, rambling about incoherent nonsense is a staple of a Trump rally. My favorite has to be his many rants about toilets not flushing.
LOL he wrote a whole book blaming uneducated southern bumpkins for their own generations-long problems, so now he's trying to win back the ones who hate his wife but are going to vote R anyway. because of course they guzzle mountain dew by the 5gal bucketload
1000 years from now, historians are going to base their life's work on trying to figure out how americans fit so much pants-on-head stupidity into so few decades
1000 years from now, historians are going to base their life's work on trying to figure out how americans fit so much pants-on-head stupidity into so few decades
Leaded gasoline is my guess. We put so much brain damaging shit into the air that decent portions of a couple generations have mental issues like this.
A good percentage of the current republican politicians are too young to have directly had their brains damaged by that, but their parents and the constituents they're trying to woo all had the damage, so it's likely either they were traumatized by their parents or they're just being stupid to seem more relatable to the constituents.
Diet Mountain Dew tastes like shit. Either drink classic, Code Red, or Baja Blast. Fucking tasteless profligate. I already hated him but now I wanf to feed him battery acid.
Fwiw zero tastes a lot better than diet. Not a substitute for the OG but passable if you need to save calories
They may use different sweetener alternatives to sugar, but they all taste the same and leave the same awful aftertaste and feeling in my mouth. Aspartame, suclarose, stevia extract, etc.
I hate it when they use them in juices even more; I would rather have the sugar free version simply not have any added sweeteners at all. I mean, the ones I am thinking about are still actually juice and coconut water, so the sweetness of the juice from its own natural sugars should be enough. Putting in the sugar substitutes just makes it gross.
A diet drink? Wow that's very woke of him!
So brave of him to admit to like unmanly sodas!!
It's because his diet daddy Trump exclusively drinks diet coke - but jd didn't want to be to obvious of a kiss ass so he went with diet dew
It's all about the caffeine, not the sucralose.
low energy
It's that lack of HFCS in the diet version.
As he started defending diet mt dew, I knew he was unelectable. Massive miscalculation Vance.
I've joked for years drinking diet mnt dew on purpose is a cry for help. This only confirms my position.
Please drink a verification can to continue campaigning
Can-paigning
Oh god, are they actually selling product placements in their speeches now?
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho enters the race
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was several orders of magnitude a better president than any of these chucklefucks could ever hope to be. He saw his country had a problem he didn't know how to solve so he found the smartest person he could, asked him what to do, and then did it even when it sounded crazy to him and his entire cabinet. We would all be a lot better off if we had more presidents like Camacho and less like Trump.
What’s the over/under on him getting asked to withdraw as the VP now that it’s Kamala instead of Joe since he doesn’t really bring anything to the ticket than more smooth talking MAGA talking points?
“I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today. I’m sure they’re probably gonna call that racist, too.” Around the room there were some scattered laughs.
...smooth-talking?
Yep. He is dialed in to the right-wing grievance politics message. You and I may think he sounds like an idiot but to the “my gender is attack/helicopter” crowd he generally hits all the notes perfectly.
But that’s the problem. He doesn’t bring anything outside of those who are already 100% tuned in.
I'm of two thoughts, I think GOP is thinking they'll need to replace him because he is a direct double down of Trump, but their options are poor. It basically would have to be Haley or Scott. Anything else is just "MAGA white guy" and swapping one for another won't have an impact.
He only changes his underwear every 8 years. which is what i learned from him saying no-fault divorces allow people to change their spouses as often as their underwear.
Vance IS a "weird, anti-woke punchline" to a joke setup that the vast majority of people are sick and tired of.
Vance is Palin .. but without the fashion sense
He looks like a guy who left his parents’ basement and, blinded by the sunlight, accidentally stumbled into a tailor’s shop.
Vance is just a can of diet mountain dew himself.
Fuck you, don't disrespect the dew.
Dew paid for it. They well and deserve that blatant disrespect.
But has it got what plants crave? Electrolytes?
He looks like an evil Tyler Labine.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil is amazing
Poor Tyler
Sleepy J
It's a GOP plot to reduce sugar intake among its most overweight and pre-diabetic supporters.
What a fucking weirdo.
Nasty as that stuff is it explains a lot
Why do all of his pictures look like he's straining to poop?
I’m getting 2012 vibes now.
