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Victor Thorne's avatar

How much do you think this will actually hurt Trump? I could see it mattering a decent amount or none at all, depending on how Kamala plays her cards.

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Cartoons Hate Her's avatar

Impossible to tell right now. Sarah Palin was a major hit to the McCain campaign, but I feel like since Trump everything is uncharted territory. He is equally if not more embarrassing than Palin.

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charles222a203's avatar

I was gonna try for a couch joke, but my sense of humor casually crawled into retirement with the rest of the article. Such fucking buzzards

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Pam B's avatar

I honestly thought Vance was going to crack a few jokes like "they know I'm all about the Diet Mountain Dew so they made sure to stock up" but he couldn't even do that. Just threw it back in the cooler. What a lackluster display of snacks, not even displayed in a basket. No fruit or veggie tray? I guess that's for the Democrats. Calling it 'crap' and talking about the impact on his figure was *chef's kiss*.

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Bookers's avatar

I'm surprised you don't agree with Vance. I feel like "the internet was a mistake" could be an alternative title for this newsletter.

Also I think I mentioned this maybe before in comments that Vance is definitely hyper online (although its surprising that he still messes up his tweets if he is)

There were the stories about him at NatCon with people like Walter Kirn (who I think is great tbh) and Curtis Yarvin (who is weirder) and then the twitter follows for people like BAP and REN.

All of that stuff is definitely the behavior of someone who is very online.

Personally, for me, the thing I find most weird about Vance is that he keeps hyping up Diet Mt Dew.

He keeps talking about how much he loves it. Why Diet Mt Dew? Out of all the caffienated drinks to pick, he picks that one.

And the other day he had that table spread with a bunch of junk food.

Perhaps this is where Trump and him found their common bond?

Like when him and Trump first met they took a trip to McDonalds together to discuss strategy.

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Alex S's avatar

I don't know about diet, but Mt Dew is the most Appalachian coded soda - they just replaced the messaging with extreme sports and gaming at some point.

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Pam B's avatar

Doesn't Mountain Dew have the highest caffeine level of all the sodas? I think in the soda world it has that street cred, if you will, more 'man of the people' than Coke Zero.

And he insulted the snacks in the video, called it 'crap' and said he would 'balloon up' if he ate it. So I guess he's willing to drink crap if it's Diet.

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Alex J.'s avatar

It's more caffeinated than most, but not by much compared to a cup of coffee.

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