Vance tells Sean Hannity that Democratic ‘arsonists’ will reverse Trump’s successes even as he admits his own administration needs more time

JD Vance laid out the Trump administration’s best case for a Republican victory in the midterm elections on Thursday, returning to his role as the White House’s great communicator. But instead of empathizing with Americans’ economic pains and fears about the future, the vice president leaned into fear-mongering about Democrats.

Vance spoke with Fox’s Sean Hannity in an interview that aired Thursday, and leaned into the administration’s successes at driving illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border to 50-year lows as he made the case for the GOP.

As he spoke about the supposed priorities of hypothetical Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, however, Vance claimed that his opponents wanted to block Republicans from ever winning elections again and “transform” America, citing such issues as acceptance of transgender Americans.

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    It’s pretty stunning how during the campaign they were like, “OMGWTF eggs cost a dollar more! Fucking revolution now!” And now they’re like, “Fuck you wimps for complaining about five dollar gas, you ungrateful little shits.”

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    “look I know groceries and gas are expensive right now, and that’s affecting 99% of you poors negatively. But you can fuck off, poors. If Democrats get into power we will have to accept trans people, which affects none of you negatively. Surely you can understand why you must starve.”

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    he admits his own administration needs more time

    You know what? If I was very generous and very naive, I might just buy this narrative.

    But here’s the thing: his boss promised to lower prices from day one, and that was one of the many hard promises he made that even the most mentally incompetent MAGAt knows full well were flat-out lies by now - if they needed convincing before the election.

    Fool me once…

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      that even the most mentally incompetent MAGAt knows full well were flat-out lies by now

      That’s putting a LOT of confidence in them that they haven’t earned

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      If the MAGA crowd critically evaluated his promises he never would have been President, certainly not a second time.

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      Vance tells Americans not to ‘gripe about all the little things’ as prices soar…

      he admits his own administration needs more time

      more time behind bars!

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      “needs more time” to complete the total fascist takeover of the government, complete the upward transfer of wealth leaving the masses with nothing but debt, complete the establishment of the surveillance state, finish shredding of what remains of any rights people have…

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      What is especially stupid is that in a lot of cases, it is rather hard to point at something an admin has done to raise the cost of everything and make an honest case for that. Though Republicans and reactionary centrists will do it all the time for Democrats.

      In the case of this administration they seem to be doing everything possible to do that and it’s working.

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        W can die in a fire but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t rather listen to audio of all the stupid shit he ever said on repeat for a year than hear another sentence come out of trumps stupid fucking face again

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          Dubya was supposed to be the dumbest president ever. Trump is so much worse, and happened so quickly after W’s term. It’s a bit shocking until you realize who actually wields the levers of power in American government: the rich/corporations. They control it all, including for whom we get to “vote” in the first place. POTUS being a useful idiot is quite beneficial for them.

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            At least dubya’s stupid was kinda funny and he did much more entertaining shit, the shoe dodge is something even at my most vitriolic I can’t take away from him. That shit was hilarious

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              lol yeah dude the shoe throwing incident will forever be hilarious. and you’ve gotta hand it to Dubya, at least he was spry enough to see it coming and duck out of the way in time.

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            They keep getting stupider. Maybe with the exception of Poppy Bush. Ronnie Raygun was a dipshit, too. Then W was dumber. And donnie is dumber than that.

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              Bush Senior was a dim bulb too. There are tapes of Nixon ranting about his brainlessness. Very loyal to the party though.

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            the dipshit may be a stupid motha’ but he’s got some not-so-stupid, and even more greedy, power hungry, and evil people whispering in his ear, dangling the big mac, and pulling strings when needed, to achieve their goals.

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    Yeah, you shouldn’t worry about the little things like food, shelter, transportation, and healthcare. We have bigger issues to tackle as a nation, like one trans kid being on a highschool sports team; you know, the big “purpose of government” stuff.

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      Their white Christian nationalist “utopia” is more important to them than pesky things like people eating, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, etc.

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        He’s Thiel’s boy, after all.

        Gotta work on that Network State or whatever the fuck dipshits like Curtis Yarvin and The Sovereign Individual kooks say…hey, there is nothing elitist about any of this stuff, though!

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      We’ve got arches to build, and wars to lose, and that shit’s expensive. Americans should just be less selfish.

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    Vance claimed that his opponents wanted to block Republicans from ever winning elections again

    So basically what the reds are trying to do to the Democrats very literally right now?

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      Exactly. Statements like that give them the rationalization to do anything they want, because they’re just leveling the playing field after Democratic cheating, even if there’s no evidence of Democratic cheating.

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        It’s either okay to cheat or not okay. You can’t “the other guy did it” and expect to be taken seriously. In the real world at least. In fantasy land amerikkka, it’s just par for the course.

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      The “you, not me” attack being normalized will be the downfall of civilization.

      People who value the truth and experience empathy and instinctively do critical thinking cannot tolerate life under these conditions indefinitely.

      Everything will break down.

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    Why does Vance have a voice? He should be attending book clubs and funerals in his role as VP. Is he griping about us complaining about his useless, no good, degenerate boss?

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      The whole US republican party just seems to be auditions for who will lead maga after trump shits his bed for the last time.

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    Rich tell poor to suck it up. This ain’t news, it’s the way of life for the world ever since factories were invented.

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      …it’s the way of life for the world ever since factories were invented.

      *looks at feudalism*

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      Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.

      The secret of great fortunes with no apparent cause is a forgotten crime, because it was neatly committed.

      • Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot published in Revue de Paris, 1834
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    Forgive me, but I’m just gonna be vulgar for a moment. My partner and I are well off. I don’t usually like to mention it, but I will in this context. We were discussing our ability to absorb the price increases pretty easily and how we feel not a shred of compassion for the maga shitheads who experience financial precarity because of how they voted. Fuck 'em.

    On the other hand, I feel bad for their children who didn’t choose to have groceries become less accessible, their education shat upon, and the same with every other way those kids get hurt by their stupid parents’ bad politics.

    And that’s saying nothing of all the good people who didn’t invite this upon themselves and tried to prevent it from happening but suffer just the same. I hope for the least harm to be visited upon people who didn’t do this to themselves. And the most for those that cheered for it. (I normally only want good things for people, but I take this moment to give in to my anger a bit.)

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      The only price increase that I can’t absorb is computing right now. I bought a server when I started college after the military, expecting to be on some kind of refresh cycle; ECC DDR5 is unobtanium for me on my pay. Hard drives are also so expensive I have to put NAS plans on hold.

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    Vance claimed that his opponents wanted to block Republicans from ever winning elections again and “transform” America, citing such issues as acceptance of transgender Americans.

    Oh noes not FREEDOM anything but that

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        Side pieces were a sign of a past prosporous age. Angela, Pamela, Sandra, Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Jessica, and Angela again, sorry, y’all are cursed to a life of monogamy.