Absurd. Pokemon are, and always will be, more important than anything trump has to say.
That implies trump has anything important to say.
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.
I shocked that such a good Christian would allow his children to play Pokemon. I was told by a pastor a few years back that Pokemon was evil, Satan’s cards, etc., and that no good Christian family would allow their children to play it.
I guess he’s a good political chameleon ! I mean he changed his stance on Trump.
Pokemon isn’t a phase, I’ll talk Pokemon with his kid while he goes and loses an election.
Might be an unpopular opinion While JD has said plenty of horrible things, this reads more like someone relating how they felt in the moment than reciting what was actually said. I’m sure most parents have felt this way at some point. We don’t need to make this mole hill into a mountain. There’s already a whole mountain range of his shit that’s actually egregious.
I’m conflicted.
I feel that the assessment you made is accurate.
But, Context matters. and in this case he made this comment that shows him being annoyed as a dad after going on the record about how useless people without kids are and calling childless women crazy cat ladies.
It just reeks to me of him being jealous of people who don’t have kids and/or him regretting being a parent?
Idk. I’m not sold on my take. I guess good for him for being in the kids life in a significant way, but again I don’t like the framing of his anti family stances with complaining about being a parent. Pick a side lol
It just reeks to me of him being jealous of people who don’t have kids and/or him regretting being a parent?
Perhaps. I don’t think there’s much here to substantiate that reading though, even with the context. I’d want a bit more evidence if I were to incorporate that into my appraisal of him.
You can judge someone to be morally repugnant without interpreting everything they say/do as an extension of the things that make them repugnant. It doesn’t lessen the repugnance.
This is all true. Like I said, I wasn’t sold on the take I gave (which was a gut take) from the logical side. I think your point about wanting more evidence is the best takeaway. Shady vance is the guy you can just give rope to and he’ll hang himself.
Yes, let’s not be too hard on good old JD, who called Democrat politicians a bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives".
“The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he said at the time. “How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
The Senator from Ohio said the country was being run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too”.
This has nothing to do with going easy on JD. It has to do with the things we chose to criticize on principle. It’s about who we choose to be. You gave two great examples of things we should judge him for. I’m happy to focus on those and the next oppressive thing he says. If you want to be someone who criticizes parents for getting exasperated by their kids, that’s your perogative, but that’s not me and I don’t think people should.
You can definitely get exasperated by kids without acting like this. I’m honestly a bit shocked how many people seem to think this is ok behavior.
Again, if we read it as he literally said that, then sure I’d agree the behaviour is not okay. Given the context of the quote, I’d want more evidence to take that quote literally.
Sure, but let’s not give him the benefit of the doubt. He wouldn’t.
Or you could, maybe, care about whats true instead of what’s convenient the same way the right does.
Agreed, this is the dumbest thing ever. I get that they’re trying to make them look bad, but I’m sure over half the people with kids have told their young child to shut the hell up when they’re on the phone with someone “important”.
Counterpoint - hit him early and often. Don’t relent.
Nah, that just fucks your kid up when you do it too often. Sometimes little kids need a good smack because they absolutely refuse to listen to anything you say, but I’m largely against hitting kids. My dad spanked me once as a kid and it worked.
This was me every other day during lockdown. My kids would walk into my ad hoc office and start complaining about some random shit or come in there to continue their little squabble.
I heard a guy tell his teenage kids to “shut the fuck up!” multiple times.
This really isn’t worth a story. Conservatives are awful in so many other ways. This is more of a human moment.
Yeah, back in 2022 I was doing teletherapy and the therapist worked from home and had a baby and one a few years old. Half the time I could hear them screaming in the background (granted you can’t really tell a baby to be quiet, but you can a little kid) and it was annoying as hell to listen to.
My dad would tell me to shut the fuck up when I was a kid. I don’t talk to him anymore
So you did as asked?
No. I did as told. As any abused kid would
Also, fuck you. Eat shit
I agree. I don’t understand how this is important enough for someone to report on.
This was the first time I ever felt empathy for JD Vance, just as a dad. Also probably the last time.
Pikachus for Harris!
JD Vance is a disgusting excuse for a human.
Sounds like someone who absolutely hates being a parent and is bad at it.
I don’t know, maybe he was just nervous meeting Palpatine and overreacted out of fear?
Calling Trump Palpatine is giving him waaay too much credit lol
we need to ask trump about pokemon, for Vance’s kid.
“No Pikachu”
Looks like things are getting pretty stressful in the MAGA/Couch-Fucker party.
Dad we gotta
pokemon is stored in the balls
I’m guilty of saying mean things to my kid too. Sometimes kids are just fucking annoying. If you recall, each and everyone of us were probably fucking annoying at some point in our life. I think though that I wouldn’t do that for a douchebag like trump. Like, as a parent, we learn to avoid the toy isle at Walmart. Anything that triggers the blind craze for something from the kids so you’re not out in that situation. Here though, with vans, he’s basically insulting his kid while trump dildoes him for the vise president spot. He’s boot licking it up all the way up trumps butthole until he’s officially the VP.
