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

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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I really don't understand what these stunts are trying to achieve.

[–] classic@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the social media era. This is an organic extension of trolling, yt/IG/tik tok videos, etc...

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

That makes sense. Clearly a move for the Q crowd.

Fucking lame.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's content, it's eyeballs. People devoting thought cycles to him. Like we're doing now, reading an article about it, talking about it. Probably still a net loss in terms of public opinion, but for his supporters they probably think it's bad ass.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

His supporters are at minimum ruthlessly trying to convince themselves it was badass