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Summary

JD Vance claimed pro-Ukraine protesters harassed him and his daughter in Cincinnati, but demonstrators say they merely passed him en route to a protest.

Video shows a civil exchange where Vance defended U.S. withdrawal from Ukraine aid, contradicting Trump’s stance on Russia’s invasion.

Critics accused Vance of using his child to deflect backlash over his role in a heated Oval Office meeting with Zelensky.

Protests against his Ukraine policy continue as Russia escalates attacks, with demonstrations held in Washington, D.C., and Europe.

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[–] m0n0me@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 hours ago

He should stop whining and think about thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped and brainwashed in Russia. That is much more stressful than one child and their couch-fucking creepy daddy, to face some protesters.

What a douchebag.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

are these the same people who ate cats and dogs?

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Like anyone can get within 300 feet of Vance without permission. Ridiculous.

[–] CactusProLaps@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Exactly, like the US Secret fucking Service would just let anyone "chase" the sitting Vice President around lmfao.

What a stupid lie for him to tell, but most of the conservative base will still eat it up because they're too politically uninformed to realize the premise of what he's saying is impossible.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 36 points 6 hours ago (4 children)
[–] seejur@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This comment is under moderation.

Oh wait this is Lemmy not Reddit. My bad

[–] adm@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Man, there's going to be so many feds on this platform soon. Mark my words.

[–] jojowakaki@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If there aren't feds watching fediverse/lemmy already, somebody is not doing their job.

There's definitely some honeypot instances.

The funny thing is you don't even need users, just to federate.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The consensus is that the next Luigi has to be a white heterosexual man and a veteran or active military, hopefully even conservative

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Serious question: when does he start having a decoy child lookalike so he can always have a child with him 24/7 so he can continually say he's being harassed with his daughter.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago

Vance, in tears, asked his daughter if they could go home to mommy where there weren't any scary people asking why he is Putin's bitch

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Glad someone's confronting republicans on Ukraine. No one we elected will.

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Sucks to suck

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 50 points 9 hours ago

The kid should know that daddy is making other little boys and girls die because he can't steal from their country.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

he is such a try hard. What a douchy loser.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 61 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Using your child as a shield for bad policy decisions? That’s a new low, JD.

🐱

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

What new low? The Dipship already did that.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmings.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's starting to sound like he's aiming for Ted Cruz's level of dipshittery.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But not using them as a literal shield yet, so he needs to work harder.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 hours ago

He still doesn't want to stoop to musk's level there

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 36 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So Vance just so happened to be "walking his daughter" near a group of Ukrainian protestors? The secret service didn't have the capability to look down the street he wanted to walk down and say "maybe we should take another route"?

Or did he purposely take his young daughter near a polite-looking group of protestors just so he could have a low-risk confrontation as fuel to demonize his detractors online?

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I hope to God she was wearing a leash for everyone's safety.

[–] YerLam@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

I hope it was attached to someone more competent than her father. Like a roomba.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 43 points 12 hours ago

Much better than families and their toddlers being faced with pro Russian missiles.

Cry me a river you petulant fuck.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

I'd prefer his version of events, honestly. Why do these fuckers ever get a moment of peace? Life should be made as difficult as possible for them, for every facet that we still have control over.

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago

I'm confronted by this fucker's stupid fucking face every goddamn day

Deal with it you fucking child

[–] TylerBourbon@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

This is the price of being a politician and being a complete P.O.S. one at that.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 55 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

As a parent this really hits home. I can remember vividly the time I was harassed, 6-month-old in my arms, when I cut off desperately needed funding. I was literally causing death and misery, all because I thought a ruthless foreign dictator was kind of a cool dude. If we were both threatened and harassed for being massive turd nuggets, where does it end? /s

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 points 12 hours ago

It's like you can't betray your allies and turn your country into a fascist shithole anymore. Well you can, but then some woke mob will calmly tell you that what you're doing is bad and I don't want my children being around that negativity!

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

JD joins the Elon club of using his children as human shields.

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago

Aw poor baby. You cannot convince me that this chubby man child doesn’t wear eyeliner

[–] beccar0ze@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 201 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Good. This administration should continue to be confronted and challenged on their stupidity. They are, and never should be, free from receiving criticism for their stances, and using the child to deflect from the real questions being asked is a cop out and completely on brand.

I bet the three year old has a more objective view on Ukraine anyway. The press should be interviewing them instead of JD.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 81 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

LOL, "confronted".

What fucking snowflakes these assholes are. I've seen the video. More like "asked pointed questions and I am too much of a gigantic man-baby to deal with consequences like that".

FUCK YOU and every single asshole that voted for you.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Republicans didn't seem too concerned when a Democrat was confronted by a guy with a hammer who attempted to kill him, in fact it was a big joke with them.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, they proceeded to make it out like it was some gay affair, too, thinking that was really hilarious.

They don't give a fuck about decorum and civility and all that. They just take umbrage with their people even being questioned at all. They think the right thing to do is everyone just rolls over because they won in the slimmest of majorities and that this gives them a "mandate" to do whatever wild shit they want. And everyone else should just shut up and make themselves invisible. Fuck that noise.

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 168 points 20 hours ago

Oh boohoo - somebody maybe said mean things to him while he was using his daughter as a human shield (or maybe they didn't and he's lying).

And meanwhile, parents in Ukraine are digging their children's corpses out from under rubble.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 29 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Confronted. lol. He needs to actually be confronted, in a deposition.

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 64 points 18 hours ago

Must be nice not having a foreign invader taking your kids away from you huh?

Must be nice not having your kids separated from you and put into cages huh?

You don't get to be a morally bankrupt Putin puppet and then appeal to actual morals.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

not a good enough protest if he can talk about it

[–] piskertariot@lemmy.world 89 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Children do not make you immune from criticism. If you're afraid of your child hearing that you're a collossal piece of shit, leave it at home or get out of politics.

Or stop being a huge piece of shit.

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I need to use this on my neighbor. Any time she gets called out on being a piece of shit, she uses her children as a defense and accuses the neighbor who called her out of hating children.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago

Nut up you fucking pussy.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 77 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

JD: "Hmmm ... Elon uses his kid as a human shield ..."

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 33 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Vance is a verified unabashed fucking liar.

Where’s the proof this happened? Where was his secret service detail?

Remember his fabricated story about Haitians in Ohio? I call Bullshit 💩

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[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I really don't need to know how old his couch cushion is tbh...

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 38 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

JD: "Stay back! I have a child." Raises their child up as if they were shield

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