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JD Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

America being the worldwide laughingstock when it comes to politics has lost it's charm. The last few years Idiocracy has become the better alternative.

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

The only people that think this are people obsessed with American media.

David Cameron has some association with a pig.

Modi has said some bizarre things about being a demigod.

Macron lectured a kid for saying "How's it going Manu?" instead of "How's to going, Mr. President"

Germany has a long history of very dumb policies, not unique to any specific politician. Such as banning protestors from chanting in any language other than English or German.

And many other things. Politics have dumb things and dumb people everywhere*- it's not uniquely American. American politics are just the most widely publicized internationally.

[–] quotable@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Australia has Engadine McDonald's and its former Prime Minister

[–] supergirl@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I remember the German politician who had scat fetish/toilet fetish content posted by himself all over the internet

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1189710-german-politicians-video-of-licking-public-toilets-goes-viral

Of course the party he's in is the FDP (libertarians)

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're not libertarians, just neoliberals

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're not?

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

From what I can see, yes. Libertarians are much more radical

[–] supergirl@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They are libertarian for the most part. The person who responded to you seems to be an (American) libertarian himself so perhaps he's just trying to distance his ideology from this.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 months ago

according to wikipedia's sources it's more liberalism. it's just that neolib policies have quite a bit in common with libertarianism, since the latter is kinda a radical variant.