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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[–] 84 points 1 month ago

"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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  • [–] 61 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 89 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    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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  • [–] 53 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Fool me twice… you cant get fooled again.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That was the dumb fascism era. We're at the pedophile fascism stage now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    "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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [+] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago*

    Gaslight
    Obstruct
    Projection

    It really is the same thing every time with these corrupt losers, isn't is? Yes, it's everyone else obsessed with trans people and what's in their pants, not Republicans. It's certainly not Conservatives persecuting immigrants and LGBTQ folks, instead of addressing actual issues. Couldn't be the Grand Old Party chasing AI dollars by building environment-destroying data centers to suck up all our water and personal info. How could it have been Republicans that started a pointless war and drove up prices on gas and food for everyone!? Who's actually focused on the "little things" of culture war bullshit while workers suffer??

    Meanwhile, the President is obsessed with vanity projects like ballrooms, arches, and national monuments, while illegally enriching himself and his billionaire friends... The corruption is on full display with these incompetent fools.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You know. The little things. Like gas prices. Grocery prices. Housing prices. Trump is a pedophile. Trump is named more in the Epstein files than god in the bible. Trump is a rapist. Trump is a convicted felon. Kash is down with beastiality. Vance is a drunken moron. You know, just the little things.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Little things like the escalating costs of food, clothing & shelter, the basic necessities of life, those little things?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What an irredeemable piece of shit. Let them eat cake indeed. Fuck this guy.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How big is the kid fucking and treason?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

    Though GK Chesterton was himself a conservative and a bit of a tool, once again he's the man for the quote. Vance and his handlers fear the bill for their crimes. I have little faith they'll pay it, but they're desperate to prevent that risk entirely.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    "JD Vance, Vice President to President Trump, man who incessantly gripes about every minor slight, real or imagined, tells americans to not gripe about legitimate issues"

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    None of you in this thread get it. Did any of you even say thank you?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Wait, isn't this the guy who couldn't gripe about the little things well, and screwed it up?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-eggs-kamala-harris-b2617527.html

    Yes, yes it is.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Vance can suck a shitty but hair

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Oh, just go fuck yourself, you pedophile traitor.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    They must be very confident in their plans to retain power.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    What about all the big things? Things like the fact that Trump is a pedophile?

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    Love it. Keep saying this dumb shit JD.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    How strict are we on the Lemmy.world instance in terms of what we can say?

    Because I'm gonna express what I'm thinking in one way or another, it's just a matter of how bluntly I can say it on a regular basis.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Vote the fucking MAGA weasels out of office. Release the damn Epstein Files and end the stupid war against Iran.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    He's RIGHT! It's a SMALL Price to Pay!

    -People with KAMALA = HIGH PRICES signs in Their Yard!

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  • Here in Ohio they're now running whataboutism ads against the Dem candidate for Governor. The whole ad is someone in 2028 complaining about not being able to afford groceries because of the the candidate, Amy Acton's, tax hikes.

    THAT is the whole ad

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    It certainly feels like we’re treated as peasants like they are in those movies where the king and royalty just treat everyone beneath them like shit. We’re just rabble to be mocked, fodder for the peerage’s disposal. Except you know, unlike real life, in the movie the bad guys get it in the end.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    like pedophilia?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Americans dying of a thousand paper cuts.

    JD: "Quit whining. They're just tiny cuts. You haven't even said thank you for the paper. No, you can't have a bandaid."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    He's gonna wish we left it at griping.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Trouble is, almost zero of those successes are for the benefit of the public, and almmost all only benefit Trump and his class.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin

    These idiots really believe they have power. Can't wait for the tipping point.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    "Any sacrifice for Dear Leader is worth it!"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Like his and his boss's dicks?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    When was the last time that JD Vance went hungry because he couldn't afford food?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The White House’s great communicator? Lol.

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    lets not gripe and kick all of them out and jail them no pardons allowed in fact lets remove that power completely.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    It's for the greater good!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Is that what his wife told him?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Cool. Now if the Murc's Law Media would just take up things like this and endlessly repeat them.

    What "JD" here is doing is deeply tone-deaf, for real. The moral scolds of the Murc's Law Media kept getting the vapors anytime anyone even thought to be associated with the Biden administration would point out the good aspects of the economy in 2024...I guess we'll see if the tone police talk about the Republicans nearly as much as they did for Democrats.

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