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[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 8 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

I don't get it. Is there another comment further down that explains the joke even further that was maybe cropped out?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Sounds like you're one of today's 10,000!

You see, JD Vance is very fond of furniture. Don't let anyone or anything (including the article I just linked) tell you that it isn't true!

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago) (1 children)

Actually, I’m just bad at making jokes 😅. I was trying to call out including the reply in the screenshot that explains the joke.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 50 minutes ago

Nah, I got it with your first comment :)

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"I can't wait to debate the guy... that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up."

'Getting off the couch' sounds like more sexual courtesy than id have expected from him. Totally had him pegged (not litterally) for a cum n go go kinda guy.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 24 minutes ago

He doesn't get off of the couch, he either gets out of the couch or gets off with the couch.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

JD Vance likes fucking couches. If his wife wants some, she needs to get upholstered.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

she wants to get nailed, but all hes giving are upholstery tacks.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

If trump dies in office and he becomes president, can we refer to him as Sofa King?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 52 points 4 hours ago (8 children)
[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 87 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My ai sense is tingling, but this admin has been a part of so many supremely bizarre things that I can’t rule it out completely

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 27 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

It's REALLY sus ~~coming from Twitter~~. Notably, the couch and her clothing have the exact same pattern. So presumably if this was real someone would have had to reupholster the couch.

Edit: threads

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

For plaids, thats not really that crazy to find a shirt and matching upholstered couch. (Although now that I think about it I dont think ive ever seen a plaid couch irl, but google has plenty they want to sell me...)

but because all the patterns (tartans) represent families (like a coat of arms) youll see them reused for a lot of different items.

Like at one point, I had a shirt, a throw blanket, and a jacket with a plaid liner, all with the same exact blue green black patern... which i later found out was clan Mckay, and was one of my friend's clan colors.

I think this is one of the Stewart variants? Which would kind of be ironically appropriate forna wannabe kings wife?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 hours ago

someone would have had to reupholster the couch.

They already do that a few times a week at Number One Observatory Circle ever since they Vances moved in 🤷

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Also, I don’t know why the Second Lady (that’s a thing, right?) would ever pose for a photo shoot in pajamas

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

Given the context of the supposed interview... Pajamas would totally be something they use to try and add authenticity with the common man.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The fist lady posed nude, so…

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I saw her nudes a while back, must have missed that photo shoot.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Freudian slip

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago

You can look up pictures of Usha Vance. That ain't her at all.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

No, this is AI. Look at the middle finger on her right hand. It's phasing through half a finger under it.

Edit: the top two buttons on her shirt are also placed weird too.

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 3 points 50 minutes ago

It's also AI because of common sense. People don't wear clothes with their couch pattern, even less so for an official picture when sitting on said couch. The couchfuckers' wife doesn't mimic a couch, the same way trump doesn't drive a taco shaped car

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I really love that you're trying to analyze little details here as if the picture just clearly isn't her. Like you don't have to work that hard on this one buddy.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Some folks in this thread seemed genuinely not sure if this picture was real. Just trying to help.

It also feels like a somewhat important skill to have, especially now that AI is getting better at making realistic looking pictures. Those gradeschool "find the mistake in this picture" exercises are finally paying off, lol.

[–] ywain@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 hours ago

No that doesn't even look like her.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

The fact that she looks more like Freida Pinto than Usha Vance makes me think it's AI.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't belive it

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

An AI detector says is it not.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope he starts fucking Erikkka and his marriage ends in disaster.

And maybe someone in the Vance family gets polio since they're trying to infect the rest of us with their anti vaccine bullshit. And then Usha gets deported. And maybe one of the kids is shot at school by a disgruntled exstudent. Nothing will change until the people in charge start living in the America the rest of us have the misfortune to live and die in.

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 hours ago

He's gay, so I don't think there will be any vag penetration just sectional.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm with the couch and the couch is with me! I'm with the couch and the couch is with me! I'm with the couch and the couch is with me! I'm with the couch and the couch is with me! I'm one with the couch and And the couch is one with me!

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's so funny watching JD dodge the fact that MAGA hates his wife and kids, and will demand that he replaces them if he wants the presidency nomination post Trump.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Is he dodging? Last I heard, he was openly, if obliquely, trashing them.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I mean, even if the follow up comment was authentic, the picture is clearly AI and her matching the couch was an intentional thing...

It's an "alley oop" post, you intentionally miss the obvious joke, and set up the next person to get the punchline.

Reddit it was really easy back in the day, but on here 99% of the time no one makes the obvious punchline.