• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There was a fake story that he wrote about humping a couch in his book, Hillbilly Elegy.

    It’s been completely debunked, but people still talk about it because it’s funny.

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      3 months ago

      Theres more to it. AP published a fact check titled something like “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch”.

      Later they took this down because they were unable confirm he did not have sex with a couch, only that he did not say so in his book.

      As you can guess, this added a lot of fuel to the fire.

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      3 months ago

      now there’s a new one that it was in the first edition and removed from later editions. also made up as far as I can tell

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      It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Essentially AP fact checked it and instead of saying “Hillbilly Eulegy doesn’t contain a story about Vance getting freaky with a couch” they used the headline “Vance never had relations with a couch”

      That’s not something anyone could actually know for sure though, and they were called on it… and had to retract it…

      Which of course lead to people wondering why it was retracted, and it kinda snowballed. I don’t think anybody seriously believes it, but as the story goes, there’s no evidence he DIDN’T fuck a couch lol

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        3 months ago

        akshually he fucked a glove stuck in the couch and technically speaking he fucked the glove and not the couch /s

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      3 months ago

      Now we’ve reached the point where you have a faction of the internet believing Vance actually had sectional relations…

      Lol

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    3 months ago

    Didn’t Vance respond with something like “I’ve never had sex to completion with a couch” - or was that bullshit?

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      3 months ago

      It was definitely alleged that Vance had frequent sexual contact with a couch using a rubber glove to collect and dispose of the evidence, yes.

      AP initially fact checked it as false, but had to retract the fact check because it broke their own rule that fact checks have to be known to be correct.

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    3 months ago

    The dude fucked a couch one time, that we heard about. You know it must be true since Jorkin Peanuts Vance denied it.

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    3 months ago

    Are you American? If no, then you are dreadfully fortunate enough to not have to deal with it. Every election year is a bunch of apes flinging shit and this is just another turd in flight.

    But if you still want the rundown it is “HA HA MAN FUK COUCH LELELELELELELELELE” and apparently it isn’t even true. Credible, though, I know.