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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 84 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch

Sounds like something some one who had sex with a couch would say.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Technically it wasn't sex.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That was what he said. To get out of child support payments.

Those poor little footstools are gonna have a hard life when they become chase lounges.

Especially because they’re ugly.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Won’t someone think of the ottoman?

[–] kometes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The eyeliner helps though.

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

Ok, raped a couch. I doubt it could consent.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 59 points 3 months ago

Title is misleading. A better title would be, “No JD Vance did not write about having sex with a couch in his memoir.”

For all we know, he may have fucked a plethora of furniture that did not make it into his memoir.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It does seem like an oddly specific denial.

[–] LordTrychon@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With how it's worded, it could even imply that he did reach completion, just that he was too selfish to help the couch get there.

[–] LordTrychon@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

And the next sentence is 'That is a lie.'

Is this calling the claim of his bad couch loving a lie, or his previous sentence where he denied it?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, JD Vance did not fuck a couch.

A couch fucked JD Vance. There's not a chance in hell he's the pitcher.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Headlines from our current era that would totally baffle people just 10/20/30 years ago.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Naw. They’ve already come across rule 34.

They’ll just assume we’re freaks, like everyone else

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A searchable PDF of the memoir includes 10 mentions of the word “couch” or “couches,” ...But at no point in his memoir does Vance write about performing sex acts on a couch

AP: "We're not actually reading that garbage but Ctrl+F find nothing."

An Associated Press reporter reviewed pages 179 to 181 in a physical copy

"Ok,we read 3 pages."

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

“AP… did you eat your vegetables?”

“Oh? Oh Really? Well how many did you eat?”

“No. I mean eat. Not just pushed around the plate…”

“That’s it. No more couch fuckin’ til you’ve finished your corn!”

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Whoever Harris picks for veep, I'd like to see an ad of them saying "I believe JD Vance when he says he never had sex with his couch."

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I don't think it was even his, he apparently did it in a store...

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because it was actually a loveseat.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

True is it was a futon... But since futons can "transform" JD could never admit to sleeping with something "trans"

[–] Zier@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

You win the internet today 1000%.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago

This is so fucking funny.

When the main discourse around your new running mate is whether or not he fucked a couch, you did not pick a strong candidate. Trumps gotta be pissed.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

People are saying he did have sex with a couch.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

When you have to explain it...

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Narrator voice: "He did."

[–] ech@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Are you sure? Lots of people are saying he did. Lots.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think you have to write "JD Vance did not have sex with a couch once" or else it's potentially libel.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife told me that story and I instantly went "That sounds fake, why would he admit that in a book?"

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It wouldn’t have been the weirdest confession in a book.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Hey, we're just asking questions.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

Is that a codeword for Peter Thiel?

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

I heard it was non consensual.

check the cushions for eye liner.

[–] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I believe the preferred nomenclature is couch botherer

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Step-couch what are you doing?

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I mean can anyone prove he didn't or hasn't?

[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This story did not go through our standard editing process and has been removed.

It seems AP are cowards. They've removed the article.

[–] dfecht@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They probably received a damning statement from the couch.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

No it's funnier - they factually don't know if he did or not. They can, however, factually claim that he didn't write it in his book.

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

Devon Nunez cow had to get involved.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

He's a couchfucker

[–] 242@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 months ago

Eh, whether he wrote about it in his book or not he totally has the look of a couch humper. I would also guess he likes to pee in the bathtub. I mean just look at him.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Everyone keeps saying JD fucked the couch but I know the true story... JD got raw dogged by the couch. Let's just say, calling him a tight ass is no longer literal.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe not, but it's out there apparently and the Internet is fueled by <60 second attention spans.

[–] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Not within the last five years, anyway.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Reminds me that Zelensky's initial cause of popularity (the one that got him in the show casting him as the president of Ukraine) was from a 'Ukraine's got talent' like show where he played the piano with his penis.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Bro he made the cushion look like the left side of that flag.