Not the best source, but I can’t post the image alone.
Here’s the image to save you a click on Newsweek.
That’s weird
Looks like he’s at a wrestling themed party dressed either as Nikolai Volkoff or Ivan Koloff. I hate the guy but this is a weird story
Well, the Republican party is fuckin weird, so I guess it’s on brand.
Remember that symbolism is everything for conservatives. This really shows that Vance has been pandering the whole time–he’s still just a bro.
Man I don’t think so in this case. Looks like an old picture. If anything the Democrats were more friendly with Russia before Russia started “annexing” Ukraine in 2014.
And that’s the point. Democrats were polled as being more favorable towards Russia prior to Trump. After Trump, Republicans polled as being more favorable towards Russia.
Basically Communism and all that was the bogeyman for the Right for decades until suddenly it became more politically viable to change their stance and support their candidate. It was a symbol for decades until it suddenly wasn’t, and that is because Trump then became such a symbol and overtook so many others.
My reference to him being a bro was facetious and referenced the fact that this looks like something mid-college. The joke is that he’s still a bro.
Yeah this is just dumb. I hate the guy but this is equivalent to wearing a Cleveland Browns jersey.
How do you know that? Honestly just looks like a random t shirt and his juggalo/ KISS friend. A don’t know enough about either to know.
One of them is clearly dressed as Sting. Another as the Macho Man. The NWO shirts kinda give it away. This is a nothingburger.
I wasn’t asking why he was dressed up. I’m asking how did the commenter know he’s dressed as Ivan Koloiff.
I swear this guy has one facial expression. Every photo I see looks copy-pasted.
Ya know how old folks will say if you go crosseyed itll get stuck that way. I think he did that with that expression.
I mean, it’s not a good look given what he’s trying to become… but isn’t he just dressing up as a wrestler whose story has a Soviet background?
This looks like a costume party and he and his friends are dressing up as wrestlers. It’s like someone dressing up as The Iron Sheik.
There are worse things to go after him.
Republicans seem to like russians now in any case - which is so bizarre for anyone who remembers the “Better Dead than Red” tshirts etc that were all over during the last decade-ish of the cold war.
In any case, I don’t think the 15 people who were happy about the Vance VP pick nor the frothing cult members who would still vote for Trump if his VP pick was Satan himself really care even if it were something more damning than a costume.
I wonder how many of the people who shit on Republicans for being stupid look at this and don’t see the obvious.
Being stupid and loving wrestling has a sizeable overlap
The Iron Sheik would be an actual costume. What wrestler just wore a hammer and sickle shirt?
This seems to me that he went as “something communism” to a party and at some point posed with a bunch of people dressed up as wrestlers.
What wrestler just wore a hammer and sickle shirt?
During the cold war, a lot.
I seriously don’t know of any. Can you name one?
Hmm, no one wearing a hammer and sickle shirt, but plenty in some variation of leotard.
So best case Vance is just lame.
There are worse things to go after him.
And if someone eventually reports on it the audience is already primed to doubt that reporting thanks to stories like this. I’m not saying it’s a vast right wing media conspiracy, but it’s what one would look like.
Yeah he’s either Ivan Koloff or Nikolai Volkoff
Man once went to costume party, is really not a newsworthy story.
JD Vance sucks AND this is dumb.
Where is the couch in this picture?
He’s the couch.
I’ve always kinda taken Dave Chappelles take on vice president’s. “Here’s my Vp. You can assassinate me, but if you do - you get them.”
Gawddamn
Jorkin Depeanus is a gold mine as it seems. Thanks Donnie for the selection.
I wear old campaign shirts for candidates I didn’t vote for. Like this is dumb ass hell and I think Vance is a giant sack of shit who is a certifiable love seat lover.
You do? You wear your Trump Pence 2020 t-shirt all the time? You ever dust off your Dukakis-Bentsen shirt for throwback Thursday?
Not Trump no but I have w and McCain.
It’ll be a few years before I jokingly wear Trump. Maybe when he dies.
STOP THIS SHIT!!
JD makes Trump a weaker candidate, STOP TRYING TO MAKE HIM DUMP VANCE!
Stupid media always gotta fuck up a good thing lol
there’s no way he can dump Vance. it would look so terribly weak.
I thought about this. Trumpet dgaf about rules. If he did, we wouldn’t be facing the threat of the end of democracy as we know it. On one hand, sure, changing out this shitheel for another shitheel could open him up to attacks from his own side about being “weak like Biden” or flip-flopping or whatever. But nothing will penetrate his cult’s fog, a replacement with less obvious baggage could help, and again, he dgaf about the rules.
His ONLY concern is shutting down all the cases against him, and staying out of prison.
not weak like Biden. first of all he’s not running against Biden, second of all why would democrats attack Biden to call him weak‽ no, just deal weak, period. so many of his former staff speaks against him. so many are in prisons and he denounces them. he tried to have his former VP pick hanged. now he picks a new VP nominee and changes his mind in less than a month? he can’t make any good decisions. his staff agrees, his VP picks agree, and he agrees.
looking weak is poison to fascists.
I don’t disagree, but yet he has done all of those things and still roughly 50% of the electorate looks at him and says: “yeah, this is still the guy to run the country.”
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