"The trouble isn’t that these are bad jokes. It’s that they aren’t jokes at all. There’s no distance between what Vance is saying and what he means to say, no dots for his audience to connect."
This Slate piece on JD Vance's attempts to tell a joke resonates today.
https://slate.com/culture/2024/08/jd-vance-trump-walz-harris-donut-shop-couch-joke-humor.html
#Hinchcliffe
#HarrisWalz2024
(((Cindy Weinstein)))
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