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cybersin@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Vice President JD Vance describes Britain as ‘some random country’

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Vice President JD Vance describes Britain as ‘some random country’

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cybersin@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago
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JD Vance, the Vice President of the US, has described the UK as “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
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  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    Bold words coming from a couch fucker.

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      Someone really should ask if the Whitehouse cleaning staff are being paid extra to get Vance’s emission’s out of the furniture.

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    Vance is Peter Thiel’s hand puppet, just like Trump is Musk’s. Thiel and Musk first came to serious money when they merged their companies to create PayPal, and since then they’ve been cooperating on various projects. Their current project is to establish corpo-feudalism in the US, and for that they need geopolitical isolation (Thiel’s job) and the dismantling of all social safetynets (Musk’s job). That’s all the context needed to understand Vance’s behaviour.

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      So Thiel is really in control then, since Musk is actually an idiot. The idea that Thiel thought “I can’t trust this guy to do anything” when he kicked Musk out of PayPal, and now “Wait, I need someone to ruin something and run it into the ground, I’ve got just the guy” is somehow absolutely hilarious to me.

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        Yeah this has been what I’m wondering lately. Clearly Thiel can’t be super in love with Elon since they ousted him from PayPal while he was on his honeymoon… but if he’s a useful idiot that can take the attnetion and heat, when everything implodes it’ll be on Musk and then Trump, and then Vance, who has been higher profile as VP than most, can try and worm his way in there and voila, Thiel has got what he wants. Vance is pretty off putting to most people though, which seems like bad judgement on his handlers part if they want a pseudo-legit govt CEO… but then the handlers are also super off putting in real life and clearly live in a alternate reality/bubble so maybe it’s not that far fetched.

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      Their playbook is The Sovereign Individual.

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      Just like 2 dogs - feed off each other’s bad habits and team up.

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    Hasn’t fought a war in 30 to 40 years? Who came with us into Iraq and Afghanistan?

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      Also a little over 40 years ago was the Falklands war.

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      And did real, actually fighting there, too.

      Vance was in the Marines and ought to have known that

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        Vance was a press correspondant in an office. He didn’t do shit and didn’t see shit. He has no idea what fighting a war is.

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    I hope this guy is a blimp in history and nothing more.

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      Like the Hindenburg, I hope.

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        Excuse me, the Hidenburg was not merely a blimp, it was a rigid airship. JD could never.

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          JD rigid airships couches

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          He does strike me more as the flaccid type.

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    Well, it shows Vances vast knowlege of politics, history, and reality. It fits on a very small piece of paper.

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      I’ve read longer fortune cookies

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      deleted by creator

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    What a moron! Everybody knows it’s four random countries

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      In a trenchcoat

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        But actually, they literally invented it

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          So I have the British to thank for me looking so cool as a teenager?

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    Haha! Yeah! Wouldn’t want some loser military that hasn’t won a war in the last 80 years. Haha!

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      Can’t lose a war if you don’t declare war, taps head

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    Fuck you, Vance. You fucking dick puppet.

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      Couch fucker. Vance is the couch fucker, cheeto is the dick puppet. Get your facts straight!

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        A fair assessment

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        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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          It’s a typo couch

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    They do their best to get alienated from their allies, don’t they?!

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    Britain hasn’t fought wars? Try Googling Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Vice President.

    🐱

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    What a knob, the Australians were right.

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    Sounds like something a knob would say.

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      Not a knob, more of a bell-end.

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    As a french, I expect an apology. Come on, you expect that from Zelensly so it’s not that hard.

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    What a weirdo

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    Pretty disrespectful of him.

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