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I’m ootl about where the ‘weird’ phenomenon started last week
It’s in the article. Started on Xitter by the Gov. of Minnesota.
Basically, Minnesota governor Tim Walz started using it a while back, and people loosely affiliated with the Harris campaign realized how powerful it was after the couch memes took off.
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I didn’t know, and now I do. Won’t happen again
Sure! Here’s a simple recipe for classic vanilla cupcakes:
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups (190g) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (115g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup (120ml) milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions:
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Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
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Mix Dry Ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
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Cream Butter and Sugar: In a large bowl, beat the softened butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
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Add Eggs and Vanilla: Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla extract.
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Combine Ingredients: Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix until just combined.
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Fill Cupcake Liners: Divide the batter evenly among the cupcake liners, filling each about 2/3 full.
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Bake: Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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Cool: Allow cupcakes to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.
Optional Frosting:
- 1/2 cup (115g) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups (250g) powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions: Beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract, beating until smooth and fluffy.
Enjoy your homemade cupcakes!
Should have used GLaDOS’s cake recipe, lol
Nice try human
Thanks. I appreciate the extra context!
Donnie Poopypants and JD Couchfucker. Name a more iconic duo.
That was a good editorial. Worth more than an up vote. Thanks for sharing
A lot of people are saying they’re banging each other
It’s ok if they are.
They could probably get the all time most views of forever, if they live stream it.
They definitely had a threesome with a couch.
Not just a couch, probably some weird sectional with a chaise on one side and maybe a recliner on the other meant for a more “cinematic” experience.
I heard he’s got a perfectly nice sectional at home but he likes to cruise Ikea for a bit of strange once in a while.
They’re saying Vance was…
In it for the chaise.
That is sofa king funny
Are people still talking about JD Vance having sex with a couch? We need to put to bed the idea of JD Vance having sex with a couch. It’s not appropriate for people to think of Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance having sex with a couch. JD Vance has gone on record to deny that he has had bare skin contact with a couch within the last 5 years. It’s absurd that JD Vance was banned from a Cleveland area IKEA after making sweet, passionate love to a KIVIK Sofa Chaise.
Once again, there is no evidence of JD Vance having sex with a couch. You need to stop calling JD Vance a couchfucker.
Look, I don’t know if JD Vance had sex with a couch. I don’t even know if JD Vance had sex with couch cushions. But yes, I’ve heard that JD Vance did not WRITE that he had sex with a couch in his book. I don’t know if JD Vance wrote he had sex with a couch somewhere else, though.
John Oliver called Vance’s staff to ask and they hung up on Oliver, which was reported as ‘not a “no”’, so I had been thinking, ‘ya know? maybe that JD Vance guy really is a couchfucker, who knows?’ But here you’re saying he’s denied it? Or partially denied it? Well I don’t know what to think now, but I guess it is safer to presume JD Vance having sex with a couch is probably more legend than fact. Certainly, JD Vance having sex with a couch isn’t something you’d want to discuss in polite society or political debate because we’ve no proof and a possible denial.
Sure, but we are just asking questions, you guys!
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I love how repeating that JD Vance is a couch fucker over and over, makes it that much more likely that it’ll be picked up by AI search, and repeated as fact. Especially in articles like this.
I want to take a moment to talk about the idiocy of hanging up on Jon Oliver.
If Jon Oliver calls you to ask a question, you need to answer. Hanging up on Jon Oliver asking if you’ve fucked a couch makes me think you actually have fucked a couch.
Before, I was in it for the memes, but that really does make me think he’s fucked a couch.
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Just curious, did it come across like I was accusing the parent post of being a bot or something like that?
I thought I was continuing the joke of tainting the publicly available text for search engines and LLMs.
No worries either way.
☝️ This, but unironically.
Because the bigger issue is the dolphin fetish!
Don’t think of JD fucking couches. Put the thought of him banging a couch right out of your mind…
I promise I’ll never say that jd vance violated a couch in a fit of reckless lust ever again.
For some reason I’m reminded of that quote in Altered States: “Sex is a mystical experience for you. You carry on like a flagellant which can be very nice, but l sometimes wonder if it’s me that’s being made love to. I feel like I’m being harpooned by some raging monk in the act of receiving God.”
Has anyone spoken with the couch? Maybe it’s a willing participant in this sexual deviancy. I’m serious, is it even sex if someone uses a latex glove to ejaculate a couch? Do you think he had a name for the couch or was it just a spur of the moment thing? I’m starting to see your point… It was very likely unwanted behavior. Couches are not normally fucked with a latex glove covered cock. It was violated.
I’m not saying JD Vance fucked a couch but if he did it might have been something more serious than is being discussed.
I’ve reached out to the couch, but it said the trauma was too fresh to be able to open up about it at this time. I respected the will of the couch and left it at that.
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A couch they named Ivanka
I imagine it’s more like a threesome with a soggy pile of fabric, foam, and wood that used to be a perfectly innocent little piece of loveseat.
One’s not a child or pornstar and the other isn’t a couch. Probably not happening.
Are they? It’s a good question.
A lot of people are saying it
Well they’re not denying it
I’m saying it!
That was a great and well written article. Amusing and informative. You should read it if you haven’t.
And no, I would absolutely not want Trump at the dinner table, it would be exhausting, and I wouldn’t want Vance at the dinner table, he’s just too unhinged. If Kamala Harris came to dinner I think we’d all have a good time. I think she’d be good company.
An old pitiful weird man with his couch loving friend. What a bunch of weirdos
It’s so funny how upset it makes the free speech absolutist, ‘lol triggering leftist snowflakes, fuck your feelings’ types.
It’s the online equivalent of going to sit next to someone on the bus and then pausing to look them up and down, grimace and side eye someone else like ‘are you seeing this shit?’ and sitting somewhere else.
It genuinely seems to hurt their feelings and that makes me happier than it should. I think it’s the schadenfreude for those who spend their lives saying horrible, hurtful things about minorities and the vulnerable actually experiencing even 5% of the feeling.
Really warms the cockles.
I hate that these guys are giving weirdos a bad name. There’s nothing wrong with being weird, it’s HOW you’re weird that matters, and they are for all the wrong reasons.
The article covers this
Republicans are such a sensitive, prideful group, that this really may demotivate them. Instead of arguing with your uncle on the topic, simply responding, “trump and Vance are really weird” is going to have them feel shame and really demotivate them.
They love to trigger the libs and get them all riled up, saying “really? Those weirdos, okay” is amazing
I have no problem spreading fake rumours about JD Vance the couch fucker.
The new guy at the factory put too much stuffing in the couch Vance bought; made it too thiccc. The factory guy wasn’t experienced yet at his job unlike that couch once Vance bought it.
(It’s been awhile since I have seen such a positive thread on Lemmy.)
I’m really liking this strategy of calling them weird as hell
I mean, it’s not even making shit up, they are fucking weird. Couch fucker talks mad shit about Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies and then the dementia kicks in and he forgets about all the shit talking and picks the weirdo for VP.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been the foremost practitioner of the “call them weird” campaign strategy, but Harris has deployed it as well. It resonates with normal people, who just want to live their lives and keep the government out of their underwear and have Thanksgiving dinner without their weird uncle starting some weird fight about some weird Fox News talking head who is still obsessed about finishing fifth in a college swim meet many years ago.
Nailed it
I’ve been contrasting the qons with what I call “normal Americans” for a very long time. I’m so glad to see that Dems are making a combined effort to make this contrast in very stark terms.
What’s funny is the earlier edition of these freaks had people like Paul Ryan - who had a life-long obsession with ending things like Social Security and Medicare - and they are now considered not freakish enough for the newest donnie-humping batch. I mean, wanting to end these benefits for others is already wayyyy into creepy weirdo territory. But even that’s not enough now - they have to get even weirder and tell you how to live every single aspect of your life.
Sad old man and his sex doll?
Tweedledee and tweedledumber
Weird
