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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This whole couch thing never ceases to produce new pieces of art:

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It loses a lot of its effectiveness since we’re already talking about the couch. It is better just posted in some random place, so that “COUCH” can burst into the scene unexpected, as was intended.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Is this the fabled Gen Alpha humor I have heard so much about?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

...a faction of the internet believing Vance actually had sectional relations...

Look ma, I'm part of a faction!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You mean to tell me that Republicans are upset about a false story about someone they like?

Tell me more about Obama's birth certificate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it false though? I don't think you can prove that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Release the long-form LaZBoy receipt!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or the amusing assertion that Michelle was a guy.

People actually spent time photoshopping and uploading crotch bulges on the First Lady. Wild...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They STILL go on about this. Just saw some chud that's an associate (not a friend) of the family talking about "Michael". I swear most of them have a thing for trans and that's what the obsession really boils down to...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I wonder how much hate over the last 100 years has been from closeted conservatives turned self-hating from a lifetime of strict moral browbeating from their peers, parents, and pastors.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Facts have never been a problem for Republicans so J.D. Vance is a couch fucker regardless of what any fact checking says.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Folks could show up to rallies with a couch cushion bungee corded to their crotch just like the ear bandage thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Now I'm not saying JD is a couchfucker, it's just really concerning that he HASN'T come forward to prove to us that he has fucked no couches.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let’s not spread the rumor that JD Vance raped and killed a couch in 1990

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And then tried to pin the murder on the Zodiac Killer, Ted Cruz.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

sectional relations

Phenomenal

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Print photos of different couches and mail them to any or all of these locations:

https://www.vance.senate.gov/office-locations/

Don’t forget to add little love notes. e.g., “Thinking of you 💋”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Makes me wish Lovesac sent out mailers instead of infinite emails.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

I mean, I'm not aware that JD Vance has denied having sex with a couch.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So a guy on twitter made up a story about Vance admitting to fucking a couch in Hillbilly Elegy, which is verifiably false.

AP posts an article which says as much, but it's titled 'No, JDVance did not have sex with a couch', which is a slightly different claim. Since they can't affirmatively prove that Vance hasn't ever fucked a couch, they took the article down.

And people took that and ran with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It's funny and he can't prove otherwise. I'm OK with it. It's a stupid bullshit meme that doesn't mean anything, but that's fine.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

We're still in the worst timeline, but at least it's occasionally hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Couch fucker.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I heard he fucked it raw, no glove. Probably gave it Syphilis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This meme with Donald Trump’s VP candidate has gotten out of hand.

Well if a couch was involved then it would be out of hand. I'll believe* him when he comes out publicly with a statement saying that he have never had sex with a couch.

  • as much as I would believe what any republican has said over the last 8 years
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

He would never go sofar as to publicly refute such an allegation. That might make his base question his sectionality, or up holster and figuratively shoot up his burgeoning political career.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Man, how long until the gloves cum off?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think it depends on the couch. Some couches you'd want to leave the glove on, safety first.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is all just fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

It’s pretty great judo. The hard right spews neverending bullshit as a weapon to erode the concept of truth and it’s ineffective to try to debunk or fact-check that noise. Ridicule lands well against fascism though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I would say being blatantly racist is stupid. This is just funny.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It’s pretty fucking funny if you ask me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

JD Vance most definitely did not fuck a couch.

The couch fucked HIM

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I recently saw a meme of JD Vance and a couch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He likes the big black couch the most.

There’s always a camera, and they’re so nice to him there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

So listen I know this is disproven like Biden sniffing children but jd Vance fucks couches because I still have to explain the Biden rumor is false all the time.

Jd Vance. He fucks couches. Literally. He does it. Dead ass.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm disappointed nobody has made this yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Where's John Oliver when you need him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Why they ruin all the fun?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I got a glance at Reddit and it was like 70% of the political memes and unlike here, the fact checkers were buried in the comments.

Didn't get me wrong, I love the meme and will continue to use it but I don't want people to get the idea it's not satire. We don't want a new Birds Aren't Real type situation where a meme gets out of hand!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

One of the funniest segments I've ever seen was John Oliver's most recent show when he talks about this and then slams into a "now this" segment about furniture. Hilarious.