The Republican presidential nominee made the weirdest comment in his interview with Joe Rogan.
JD Vance claimed that he and Donald Trump could likely win the votes of ānormalā gay men because they ājust want to be left the hell alone.ā
Vance appeared onĀ The Joe Rogan Experience for a three-hour interview released Thursday, discussing everything fromĀ Emily in ParisĀ to him standing at his front door for an hour with a loaded gun after the first Trump assassination attempt.
But one of the wildest moments in the interview came when Vance told Rogan he believed he and Trump would win the ānormal gay guy voteā due to the āextremist religionā of āwokeness.ā
āFrankly, I wouldnāt be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because again, they just want to be left the hell alone,ā Vance said. āAnd now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that theyāre like āNo, no ā¦ we didnāt want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning their genders.āā
Rogan then went on to discuss how itās actually the transgender movement thatās homophobic, pushing some of his most outlandish anti-trans views yet.
Iām sorry, what? This isnāt the story?
From a fictional novel, maybe a thriller or a horror, I could see it. If the nebulous they that is acting against the protagonist takes out the protagonistās side-kick, it would make sense the plan is to then come after the protagonist. If he wasnāt republican, I wouldnāt be surprised if he was a big reader of fiction. I would expect a man to be as deep into fictional novels as he is into couches. They make great places to read.
They want to normalize this. They want their supporters to encite violence through the means of weird, out of the ordinary violent behaviors.
And that is from someone thatās pro-gun. This is fucked up.
Also that wasnāt the first attempt, there have been at least two previous people who tried to kill him
2016 Las Vegas Attempt- On June 18, 2016, a man attempted to steal a police officerās firearm and use it on Trump, during a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada. 20-year-old Michael Steven Sandford, who was visiting the U.S. from the U.K., was immediately subdued by the officer, and was taken into custody by the Secret Service. Sandford later told officials that his plan had been to kill Trump, who was speaking at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino.
2017 Forklift Incident- On September 6, 2017, Gregory Lee Leingang stole a forklift from a North Dakota oil refinery, with the intent of driving it into Trumpās presidential vehicle while he was en route to a rally. Leingang was stopped before reaching the motorcade after the vehicle got stuck in the refinery. Officials originally thought that Leingang had stolen the forklift for a much less serious reason, and only reevaluated the seriousness after he confessed to trying to kill the then-president by flipping the vehicle.
Iām from the UK and the first one interested me.
Steven Sandford was sentenced to one year for this, which is shockingly low (not that Iām pro punishment, I believe in a rehabilitation approach).
He was released and deported back home, in 2017, after 5 months in federal prison, but he had been in custody for 11 months in total; assuming whilst awaiting trial.
All the botched Trump assassination attempts really remind me of the short story where the guy has to keep on going back in time to stop the other time travelers that are trying to kill Hitler because as bad as Hitler was, in this timeline, he was necessary.
Honestly, if trump is the necessary evil, I think Iād just rather we not. Like maybe the country needs a hard reset. It could be part punishment part cleansing.
Well he did already have a run at it. Maybe we are getting lucky and he might lose, go away, and just be a skidmark on history instead of a complete shit pants situation. Iām choosing to believe the time travelers who stopped the assassination attempts from succeeding are just making sure we have skid marks instead of shit pants.