JD Vance’s cringeworthy joke about ‘racist’ Diet Mountain Dew fell flat – 19 sparkling ripostes
Donald Trump‘s running mate J.D. Vance, who is the junior senator from Ohio and author of the best-selling but widely panned Hillbilly Elegy, got his chance to shine at a rally held in his home state – in fact, in his old school, Middletown High.
He wasted his chance. Here’s an example of his excruciating Partridgesque performance.
Vance: I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I'm sure they will call that racist. pic.twitter.com/z3ra8Y5F2f
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 22, 2024
“Democrats say that it is racist to believe …well, they say that it’s racist to do anything.
I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I’,m sure they’re going to call that racist, too but …it’s good.”
*smattering of awkward laughter*
“I love you guys.”
We can confidently predict he will, at one rally or another, tell the crowd he identifies as an attack helicopter.
People managed to uncringe long enough to leave these comments.
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Vance’s stump has got a nice Jeb Bush quality to it. And I mean that in the worst way possible.
The lone, singular clap at the end is just https://t.co/5Zdb1zimZ1
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 22, 2024
2.
The majority of right wing reactionary figureheads think they’d be amazing stand-up comedians. pic.twitter.com/3wLsKvaPz5
— Sooz Kempner is doing Edinburgh and then a tour (@SoozUK) July 22, 2024
3.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) July 22, 2024
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I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I'm sure they will call that racist. pic.twitter.com/dn14qf6I57
— the inscrutable (@mustachetoilet) July 22, 2024
5.
I actually do think it's entirely possible that JD Vance found a way to racistly drink a diet mountain dew https://t.co/oVnlAEZew3
— Rob (@robrousseau) July 22, 2024
6.
The charisma of a lamp post
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 22, 2024
7.
bro has zero juice wtf was that https://t.co/ZMdeQ3RUFO
— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) July 22, 2024
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“What else, what else? Any birthdays here? Anyone celebrating an anniversary?” https://t.co/nP4EeNnh03
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) July 22, 2024
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Hello my fellow hillbillies. I'm just your down to earth Yale grad and San Francisco tech venture capitalist who enjoys Diet Mountain Dew. https://t.co/cZHP0ZVRpx
— Goad Gatsby (@GoadGatsby) July 22, 2024
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Imagine being given the national spotlight of a presidential ticket and your first public appearance is you bombing a joke about Diet Mountain Dew https://t.co/C3GDfDLYSD
— Appodlachia (@appodlachia) July 22, 2024