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They're both weird. Who isn't into Pokemon?

Pika pika!

On brand.

It's oddly appropriate that those who are most focused on the supposed inherent moral imperative to have children are so often such awful parents.

”And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase... I mean he’s really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I’m like ‘son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,’” Vance told the podcast.

Wow. Maybe Vance should have gotten some stability in his career before he had kids. Maybe figured himself out a little better and grown as a person until he was ready.

Children are a life-altering obligation, after all. Maybe Vance would have been happier if he focused on his career first. Of course, that’s a deeply personal matter, and I would never assume that I know better than someone else what is best for their life.

5000000 upvotes to OP for using 12ft on the post link.

What a weird thing to say to your kid. That's not normal. What happen to protect the kids? "Shut the hell up so I can talk to the rapist, convicted felon and credibly accused pedophile!"

Are these the family values?

If that little dude is as stoked about Pikachu as my dude was about Ninja Turtles then I feel his frustration. My dude one time spent an entire 5-hour car ride talking about Master Splinter. If I could have left him on the side of the road in New Mexico without his mother killing me, I would have lol.

Absurd. Pokemon are, and always will be, more important than anything trump has to say.

Might be an unpopular opinion While JD has said plenty of horrible things, this reads more like someone relating how they felt in the moment than reciting what was actually said. I'm sure most parents have felt this way at some point. We don't need to make this mole hill into a mountain. There's already a whole mountain range of his shit that's actually egregious.

Seeing that picture reminded me his kids are biracial. So to add to this fatherhood moment: he also supports a man who doesn't respect someone of mixed heritage, the very thing his own kids are.

It's not cognitive dissonance, it's wilful suspension of the truth and the reason politics are driving wedges into our families and friends.

Lastly, I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if another country wanted to destroy us from within this seems like a good way to do it.

This is a bs story. This was just a recounting of him getting the call for VP. It’s not a direct quote. Just how he felt, and if you’ve had kids, there are plenty of times you want to tell them to shut the hell up like that but don’t say it that way. There are reasons to not like this guy but we can be better than this rage bait bs.

Dad we gotta

Can someone explain what a Pokémon "phase" is?

Is he implying that you become less interested in Pokémon at some point?

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I dislike this guy as much as everyone else, but isn't the fact that his son wants to tell him about Pokémon all the time an indication that he is not a terrible father?

I mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but the kids I've seen who are treated badly do not want to talk to their parents about their interests.

Dude, you threw your wife and your kids in front of the bus because of Trump? You're never gonna recover from this, ever.

Can I adopt JD Vance's kid? Not because I particularly want to raise a child, but because that early enthusiasm shouldn't be snuffed out by Vance, especially not when he's talking to someone about whom he says:

• "I’m a Never Trump guy."
• "My god, what an idiot."
• "America’s Hitler"
• "Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office."
• "I can’t stomach Trump."

I agree with J. D. Vance's factual quotes, but not his political ambition, which apparently caused him to reverse-course on all that and bend the knee. My personal conspiracy theory is Trump chose him as VP Nominee because that enables Trump to humiliate Vance with his past comments and current subservience. He's just that petty. I hope he loses the election because of it...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/15/jd-vance-donald-trump-comments-00168450

Dude is a scumbag, but I think it's pretty easy to understand that what he says on a podcast, where he's promoting himself, and what he said to his child are probably not verbatim. We use hyperbole all the time. I might describe to a coworker a conversation with a client where I say, "And I was like, what the fuck do you expect?!" I obviously didn't use profanity in that exchange and I obviously wasn't super sarcastic to the client.

This one is a clickbait headline framing something that has poor optics as though it is literal fact when it's almost certainly paraphrasing. He probably said something more like, "Son, please be quiet," and the "shut the hell up" bit is describing the intensity of his emotion (and not in a hostile way, even).

Fuck JD, but this is a bullshit story.

I shocked that such a good Christian would allow his children to play Pokemon. I was told by a pastor a few years back that Pokemon was evil, Satan's cards, etc., and that no good Christian family would allow their children to play it.

I guess he's a good political chameleon ! I mean he changed his stance on Trump.

You just know that guy sneaky sniffs his own fingers a lot. There is just something about the way he stands; like he's always a bit tensed for the opportunity to sneak a quick sniff.

Pokemon isn't a phase, I'll talk Pokemon with his kid while he goes and loses an election.

pokemon is stored in the balls

Pikachus for Harris!

Looks like things are getting pretty stressful in the MAGA/Couch-Fucker party.

This doesn't read as a literal quote to me. I'm feeling 50/50 that was what he was thinking and said something more appropriate vs actually saying that. He was on a podcast, presumably in a storytelling/jokey frame of mind.