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.

    • classic@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

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

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      4 months ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        4 months ago

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