'Don't you all have jobs?' JD Vance mocks Americans protesting Social Security cuts

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

March 14, 2025 9:00PM ET


Vice President JD Vance recently traveled to Bay City, Michigan to speak at a manufacturing plant to tout President Donald Trump's economic agenda, and was welcomed by a crowd of protesters.

But once he was inside the event at Vantage Plastics, Vance ridiculed the protesters — many of whom carried signs bearing messages like "protect Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security" and "fascists not welcome in Michigan" — and suggested that they were only protesting him because they didn't have anything better to do. Some of the protesters' signs were also focused on South African centibillionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has repeatedly called for cutting Social Security by hundreds of billions of dollars, and recently railed against the New Deal program as a scheme by Democrats to entice undocumented immigrants to get free money and vote for them in elections (undocumented immigrants don't qualify for Social Security benefits and are not able to vote).

"I'm sure all of us saw there were a few protesters outside," Vance said. "And I can't be the only person wondering, you know, it's a cool afternoon, on a Friday, and don't you all have jobs?"

"Oh, I was livid," wrote one Bluesky user who was escorted out of the event. "Like 2nd [shift]? 3rd? Splits? Part-time? Retired? Hypocrite, what about his invite-only crowd?"

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"And I can't be the only person wondering, you know, it's a cool afternoon, on a Friday, and don't you all have jobs?"

NOTE: "FactPost News" is the Democratic Party "rapid response" social media account name (as I just discovered, although I kind of recall the DNC saying they would tap people from the KamalaHQ group for responses)

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[Irish_Dem]

1. He let it slip, this is the goal. Older people will have to go back to work to pay bills.

[elocs]

23. I will since SS is the only income I have coming in each month.

Fortunately, at age 72 I am still in good physical shape with no aches and pains.
But are there jobs to be had?

[Irish_Dem]

30. If SS, medicare, IRAs, state pensions all get cut, many will have to think about a job.

Just a cut in medicare would be a hardship.
Managed care will take over with huge deductibles and co-pays.

I have been wondering if the GOP plan is for the older folks to take the jobs of the immigrants
who are being booted out of the country. The menial labor.

But older folks cannot do the hard labor, perhaps the GOP does not care.

[kacekwl]

41. If they F with SS , Medicare etc. I know

what my job will be. Elimination of those responsible. Good Day.

[Traildogbob]

43. 🤜🤛

Service connected disabilities will not let me work.
But I will damn sure join your business.
I earned my income. Take it, I will take from them. Fucking sick of this shit.

[turbinetree]

54. Count me in................

[Irish_Dem]

96. The list of suspects will be very very long.

[rambler_american]

107. Pitchforks, torches

and walkers with affixed bayonets. That is our fucking money.

[henbuck]

123. If the F social security there will be riots in the streets

[Evolve Dammit]

94. The wealthy could care less. They can always afford whatever they want/need. The cruelty is the point.

[Irish_Dem]

98. Also the wealthy do not want money going to the old or sick.

It is not just cruelty, it is the fact that the rich think all money in the world belongs to them.
And they do to want that money going to the old, young, infirm. These are useless eaters in the mind of the rich.

So the rich would like to see old people pay their own way.
Does't matter the pensions, IRAs, etc are money we earned.

[Evolve Dammit]

110. Ebenezer Scrooge, Mr. Potter, were portrayals of such gross obsessions with greed. Would be deemed heroes by Magats.

[Irish_Dem]

111. Yes we now idolize corrupt greedy money addicts.

It is a true addiction.

They have more money than they can ever spend in one lifetime.
It is still not enough.

They will destroy everyone around them getting their money fix.
The money was not enough, they had to go for power, buy the entire US government.

There is no amount of money that can fill up the holes in their souls.

Americans appear to love these addicts.

[Evolve Dammit]

112. When Bush tax cuts were enacted, Warren Buffet received 186 million. "I don't need it" he stated. Honesty appreciated.

[Irish_Dem]

114. The money addicts always need more.

Nothing is ever enough.

I read a study once where wealthy men were interviewed and asked if they were happy.
Every single one of them said no, they were not happy. All of these men were very rich,
houses, yachts, cars. Every luxury.

But they all said they had to have more money, and could identify exactly how much money they
needed to be finally happy. But the richer men with that amount of money were not happy,
saying they needed more.

It was an eye opener and we can see the additive quality to chasing dollars.

Yes obviously WB is not an addict.

[Evolve Dammit]

115. Gratefully, I never cared about money as long as I could pay my bills and provide for the family. It is an addiction

and held as a lofty aspiration requiring the basics of capitalism; fucking over others for fun and profit and taking advantage of other's misfortunes.

[Irish_Dem]

116. Yes the money addiction is destroying the planet and the humans on it.

The planet and the people on it are the two most valuable resources we have.
And the money addicts will destroy it all.

They know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Yes I never felt the way they do about money either.

[Evolve Dammit]

127. Well said

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

83. Good luck at finding one if you're 50+

Maybe a greeter at Walmart.

[elocs]

99. LOL. Nobody would believe I was a greeter at Walmart.

Besides, I'm looking for a physical job since I'm in better shape than I was decades ago.

[rurallib]

24. Expand the workforce and lower the price of labor with desperate seniors OR

have seniors staying in positions of power until death thus blocking the way for young people to advance.
Neither is a good situation

[Irish_Dem]

32. Yes, except older people will be forced out of top positions.

They are too expensive after a long career, and it's cheaper to hire inexperienced kids.

I think the plan is to make seniors take over the menial jobs the immigrants did.

[keep_left]

79. You may also recall RFK Jr's proposed "mental health gulags", where...

...patients with ADD, mood disorders, etc. will be compelled (probably by force) to grow and pick the crops that the now-deported immigrant farm workers did.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220043350
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220043350#post17

[Irish_Dem]

92. He himself was a mentally ill drug addicted kid.

But a white, rich, entitled, nepo baby.

So he is exempt from the gulag.

Thank you for reminding me of this statement.

Yes it sounds like they have plans for older and younger impaired Americans.

[Beartracks]

134. This sounds like communism.

[blue_jay]

89. Just cruel and stupid. My uncle lost his insurance job over 20 years ago so they could avoid paying pension

He ended up getting another job but doing that is total crap. He's a vet, now with health issue from agent orange compounded by covid and can't care for himself anymore much less work or attempt to gamble/rely on the unreliable stock market (401K) instead of SS in his elder years. Cheating people of what they've worked for isn't a new story as you all well know. Still pi$$es me off. Have other people who have lost jobs to this decades ago. What Doge is doing is just another form of vulture capitalism imo, kind of like what they are doing to the entirety of the govt.

I'm very protective of my elders. Am a child of older parents and even older grandparents. Have never understood not valuing each individual for whatever experience they have and can share and frankly the wisdom often gained from years of living. Sadly took me a while to figure out that a certain percentage of any population (regardless of age) are just plainly non-caring selfish people who won't ever learn but I still try to be open and find value in whatever knowledge or insight they may have as a human. I like to think that most people have at least one thing that can be construed as valuable (ala Sherrod Brown) and perhaps respecting and talking with them will plant a seed to help them see the light. Know this is a ramble, my brain's tired today and not coming up with quite the right words. I am a blue dot in a red sea. Please don't hold it against me. Thanks.

[Evolve Dammit]

95. Great post.

[blue_jay]

129. Thank you!

I appreciate the support.

[Irish_Dem]

119. You are fine.

Perfectly coherent and not rambling.

Yes Musk is vulture capitalism in action.
Yes we have seen versions of this for decades.

But now it is being applied to the entire US government and all American citizens.

Battle between good vs evil.

[blue_jay]

130. Thank you!

It is nice to hear other people's perspectives and not feel so alone in my beliefs...so many people not informed or aware of what's going on around us, indifferent or trapped in their own little rat races. Much appreciate your support and kindness. You're right, it very much feels like good versus evil. Hope enough of us wisen up to keep them in check.

[Irish_Dem]

135. Yes it is surreal.

We are losing our democracy and freedom.
And entering a dark dystopia.

And most Americans ignore it or don't care.

It is like a Twilight Zone episode.

Yes we shall see how this unfolds.
Will the American people wake up or not?

[calimary]

120. You sure don't sound tired to me, blue_jay. And Welcome to DU!

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I suspect if all the blue dots grouped together, we could surround the red sea and start building a wall around it.

[blue_jay]

128. Thanks, I hope so :)

It gets lonely out here at times.

[HappyLarge]

117. I think the plan is to have seniors and the disabled die.

Children whose parents can‘t support them will be “apprenticed” to some job creators.

[Irish_Dem]

118. Yes, those who cannot work, are useless to the billionaires.

Take away SS and medicare, people will die.

Children going into a 21st century work house?

[Blues Heron]

2. maybe they got FIRED you asshole.

[synni]

6. Maybe we're disabled

[Blues Heron]

7. exactly

[paleotn]

10. Maybe they're retired after a lifetime of actually contributing to society...

vs. being a societal parasite like Vance, the fake hillbilly.

DEI doesn't apply only to brown people. It also applies to white hicks from Ohio who got into Yale.

[Blues Heron]

11. nailed it

[Bengus81]

56. We're you asking that on J6 Vance?? For your fucking info that was a Wednesday....

[Trueblue1968]

88. Vance does not have job either !!!!

[C_U_L8R]

3. What a dick.

His parents and grandparents ought to kick his ass for being so vile.

[mollie8]

60. You said it..

Wish I could rec that one ten times

[Walleye]

4. I'm 76 years old do you expect me to go to work for one of the Elon Bros?

And someone, please ask JD if he has a job or not

[MsSalvia]

15. Hey JD.

Do you know what FDR's two term vice president John Nance Garner said about his job? He esteemed the office of Vice President so highly he called it "Not worth a bucket of warm piss".

[Walleye]

37. Of course, now it's worth billions. Dirty money though.

[El Mimbreno]

102. Fits vance to a T!

[COL Mustard]

17. Supposedly he's the Vice President...

But I think Trump has elbowed him out of that job, since President Musk is really running things.

[Walleye]

38. Trump obviously doesn't think it's possible that he could die. And that JD would take over.

[Rebl2]

48. Has he

ever had a job in his life as an adult or only been a politician.

[Walleye]

49. Elon and Donald haven't had jobs in their whole life either. And I bet neither one of them has ever walked

Into a supermarket. Or bought a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon. much less struggled to pay a medical or dental bill

[KarenS]

5. my hatred is white-hot for him and trump and musk n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

8. On a scale of 1 to 10 on the Marie Antoinette scale of callous disconnect,

that was an 11.

[FalloutShelter]

14. Roll tumbrels.

[blubunyip]

75. Agree

The outrage of the day. I hope it will be quoted widely. A lot of older people are looking after kids, grandkids, and others in the community. Or doing volunteer work and various societal contributions and public service, unpaid.

[BeyondGeography]

9. Usha looked down and stopped smiling

She might have some standards. That’s good but, sorry ma’am, you’re married to that asshole and all he represents.

[HereForTheParty]

40. I've sensed this too

This is not the JD Vance she married. A Never-Trumper who sold his soul to MAGA.

[Dulcinea]

52. I wouldn't be surprised if she divorces him soon. nt

[CTyankee]

81. In the meantime, I hope she has some consolation from a nice gentleman who can appreciate her...

[Dem4life1234]

90. You can tell there is some soul there that she has

She didn't sign up for this shit.

Many Indian American families are not down with this garbage and I can imagine she is not, too.

[paleotn]

12. Trash a big part of your base, Vance.

Is this guy stupid or what.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. I'm sure the workers inside that plant have jobs.

And most would rather be doing their jobs instead of being herded into a group to listen to Vance.

"And if you like your job, you'll clap when I clap, got it?"

[GiqueCee]

16. One of the multitude...

... of egregious failures chalked up to M$M is their refusal to correct fascists trying to justify Musk's mendacious attack on Social Security by pointing out that Social Security is essentially a closed system, and it doesn't contribute one penny to the deficit, nor will its dissolution reduce the deficit by one penny. The vast majority of the Social Security Trust Fund is deferred wages held in trust. In other words, it's YOUR money, NOT the government's.
But then, Republicans have to lie, because only lies can support and defend their diseased belief system. They are liars and thieves who just want to rob Social Security to line their own pockets, and they get off on hurting people.

To boil it down to it's essence, Liberals get up in the morning and ask, who can I help today? Conservatives get up and ask, who can I punish?

[BumRushDaShow]

22. "To boil it down to it's essence,"

"Liberals get up in the morning and ask, who can I help today? Conservatives get up and ask, who can I punish?"

I know I have been posting that a lot - particularly when it comes to how we spend our money.

The GOP will spend gobs of money buying and staffing loon media outlets that will spew hate and vitriol - which is their "messaging".

Meanwhile Democrats will spend gobs of money on food and land banks (the latter for housing), conservation programs, healthcare initiatives in underserved areas, as well as medical debt reduction efforts, education and job training, etc.

Yet Democrats will quickly revert to the hand-wringing circular firing squad bemoaning "what did we do wrong?" and "where is our messaging?"

[FakeNoose]

26. Isn't it odd that Chump used to be a Democrat?

Now he's an anti-Democrat.

[Bengus81]

59. The answer to the change from Trump was on Letterman show decades ago

When asked by Letterman if he'd run as a Dem or Republican he flatly stated it would be Republican because you can make them believe anything.

[ReRe]

18. He's so stupid.

He doesn't know the difference between Social Security and Unemployment!
Seriously, he doesn't know what Social Security is.
He thinks all the hecklers are on Soc. Sec.!
Hey, J.D., you will be heckled for the rest of your life.
And you deserve it.
Get used to it.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. dont you understand that some of us CANT WORK?

[durablend]

42. Then you're a useless eater as far as he's/they're concerned

[elocs]

20. Well, at 72 I will need to get a job if they steal my SS that I had taken out of my paychecks

for 40 years.
Will Republicans be anxious to run for reelection if they are blamed for stealing the retirement money from millions of their constituents and possibly making them homeless? People who perhaps voted for them and now won't again along with millions of their family members who are unhappy about what has been done to Grandpa and Grandma.
Have these Republicans really thought all of this through completely?

[slightlv]

74. 'Will Republicans br snxious...'

Makes one think theyve got the election processes all thought out and locked down in favor for all repugs. We'll be lucky if any Democrat anywhere wins an office ever again.

[SWBTATTReg]

105. I wonder if they do try to take our SS out/or reduce downwards, if we all should in turn, sue the Feds and tRUMP for

every cent they have and use that money to pay for the ongoing support of SS. It would send a massive signal to these thugs who are obviously chomping at the bit to get their hands onto our SS. I wonder just how successful we would be if we did this, a massive class action lawsuit by every senior in this Country who has earned their SS benefits, against these thugs who are daily threating our SS.

[2naSalit]

21. Maybe someone should ask him...

Don;t you have a grave to fill somewhere?

[Joinfortmill]

25. He's a jackass.

[BoRaGard]

27. Shitting on the people. How republicon is that?

The repubes don't need Putin to show them how to be Bungholes.

[Blue Full Moon]

28. This could be "Let them eat cake" moment.

How dare someone not be at work. We are all supposed to be working 24/7.

[elocs]

29. I'm sure that Vance knows that in an interview when Trump was asked

if he wanted Vance to be his successor he answered "no".
Perhaps it was a slip of the tongue that he doesn't intend to need to be succeeded because he doesn't intend to leave, but usually a sitting VP expects the president to say he wants his VP to succeed him.

[dlk]

31. JD should let us know which companies hire full time workers in their '70's and '80's

Would love for him to share a list.

Apparently, Republicans are against senior Americans living indoors.

[Hotler]

33. Bite the crub asshole.

[SSJVegeta]

34. No bitch, you fired them. Remember?

[Naio]

35. Uma was not looking down because she is ashamed of what her husband said . She was just laughing on her mind . She is pr

Uma was not looking down because she is ashamed of what her husband said . She was just laughing on her mind . She is proud of her husband and or the power they have.

[Diamond_Dog]

36. Same old right wing trope that they've used for decades in regards to protesters

He is too stupid to realize SS recipients are RETIRED.

Fuck off, Hillbilly

[MLWR]

39. We paid into Social Security and Medicare for decades

You miserable, good fucking christians have no right to steal it. It has nothing to do with the debt. It is my sincerest wish that Judgment Day is not kind to you. What you are doing will result in many, many deaths, making YOUR actions MURDER. I hope your eternity in hell is worth it to you. GREED is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

[ancianita]

44. Unlike you, shady, they don't have a Peter Thiel creating jobs for them.

[orangecrush]

73. THIS

[Turbineguy]

45. Let these scumbags speak.

The more people hear, the better.

[travelingthrulife]

46. He has never had a real job is my guess.

Keep it up little boy.

[LoisB]

47. I worked for many more years than that punk has been alive.

[Marthe48]

50. Anyone who works

has put in more hours than that slimy little fake.

[LoisB]

66. "Ain't" that the truth.

[bromeando]

51. Social Security

I didn't work for 40 years paying into retirement insurance (SS) just to have some fascist stealing it.

[sakabatou]

53. Not one bone of empathy in their repuke bodies.

[City Lights]

55. He really is a dick.

A nasty piece of garbage. Someone his kids should strive to become the opposite of. He is a horrible "Christian."

[Wicked Blue]

57. Vancey, go f*ck a couch

[Kaleva]

58. I had to go back to work when Biden was in office

Just too hard to make it on SS alone

[LittleGirl]

61. Did you watch the wife behind him?

right before he spoke, she was smiling and then he said the most awful thing..."don't you have jobs?" and she stopped smiling.
She knows.
She's embarrassed. I'm sure.

[travelingthrulife]

136. She should be embarrassed.

Maybe attending these events with this monster keeps him from using their kids as human shields like Elon does.

[Martin68]

62. The stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance of Vance knows no bounds. He talks like he's Trump's long-lost brother separated

at birth. He apparently is confusing social Security with unemployment benefits. He doesn't realize that it is for people who have retired. Retired, like, "no longer working because of retirement." Like so many MAGAts, he doesn't know that workers paid for their SS during their lifetime of work. If only stupidity like this was a quick-acting fatal disease.

[Deminpenn]

63. What a jacka--

Goes well with his boss, larda--.

You might say they are MAGA--es.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

64. Hey JD, you IGNORANT prick!

Many of us Seniors have worked all of our lives, are too tired, or physically challenged to work beyond a certain age. We have invested, earned pensions, and PAID into Social Security and Medicare all of our working lives.

What a IGNORANT prick!

[Bluejeans]

65. JD -- I worked F/T for 46 years & P/T for 3 years before that!

I wanted to puke when I read Vance asking if people had jobs.

I worked full time for 46 years (20 years active duty military, 12 years private sector, 14 1/2 years Federal civil service) and part-time during three years of high school.

I'm retired now and the last thing I need is JD questioning why I'm not working on a Friday afternoon, even if I wasn't at a protest!

[Hekate]

67. JD the Shillbilly wants to know why people in their late 70s and up aren't working? Cute.

Did he practice that line while putting on his eyeliner? Did it make Thiel chuckle?

[Grins]

68. "Don't you all have jobs?" Yes. Sometimes 2 of them!

Whatadick.

[BoRaGard]

69. While his felonious repub boss is squandering another $3 mil of our money to luxury golf

But then, republicon billionaires are not like you and me. They are special.

[dawgdan]

70. What an Ass

Probably never held down a real job in his life.

[Paladin]

71. May he never ever live down that shitty comment.

The Musk/trump/Vance regime drives the national economy into the toilet in record time, and then Vance sees fit to trash newly out-of-work Americans. Makes me want to puke.

[blubunyip]

77. Keep it up Vance!

clap clap. Let's see more of this. Vance doing his job here --playing to the base and insulting everybody else. Beware the revenge of the base.

[Paladin]

100. I'm confident Vance will meet the same fate as other trump helpers:

Career in the toilet, a la Rudy Giuliani. Can't happen soon enough to suit me.

[orangecrush]

72. Go fuck a couch

Fascist pig.

[Bluethroughu]

76. Not everyone is a prostitute like Vance.

He is such a garbage human.

[CousinIT]

78. WTF with this jackal? THEY ARE RETIRED, dumbass. nt

[Norrrm]

80. Blue falcon Vance talks about jobs.

Blue falcon Vance with Cadet Bone Spurs

[VanceFan]

82. Scum

Vance is scum, and Usha is a whore. They are both disgusting.

[Aristus]

84. This, from the guy holding a position John Adams described as

“The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

[Lifeafter70]

85. My son was live streaming the vet protest in Carson NV

That exact comment popped up a few times yesterday on his feed.
His answer was " dude, these are retired and disabled vets, who are losing benifits they worked for. Some giving arms and legs, with the promise we would take care of them."

[Grokenstein]

86. That's it, fool. Double down. Keep pissing everyone off.

What's the worst that could happen?

[Dem4life1234]

87. I don't like him, he is very smug

Very unlikable and arrogant person who doesn't know shit.

We have all known coworkers like him. Think they know it all but don't know a damn thing.

Still stuck in his hillbilly trash mentality.

[kimbutgar]

91. What a friggin a hole

Sometimes I go into stores and see these elderly people who are working to supplement their social security. You can see they are in pain and are not efficient. I feel so sorry for them and Mr couch f’er has no idea how people are suffering in this country. I hope everyday for a karmic payback to him, the parasite musk and the orange Hitler !

[CareyOn]

93. JD needs to start taking his role as court jester seriously.

Come on JD. Apply yourself. Let's see some serious tumbling. Throw yourself into entertaining the orange man with energetic flip flops and we will find out how long your knees and back hold up.

[IronLionZion]

97. Get back to work you lazy old retirees! You are entitled to nothing!

Because Vance is creating so many jobs in factories?



There was a time when Social Security was the third rail that no politician dare mess with. Now the world's wealthiest person wants to cut funding, cut benefits, and tells us we are entitled to nothing.

[no_hypocrisy]

101. Well, golly willikers! Maybe, just maybe, folks 40 years and older WOULD

have jobs if we weren't fired for younger replacements! And we could successfully sue for age discrimination.

And hey JD! You seem to have forgotten your proud past of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps by way of help from the Government.

And I guess you skipped reading "A Christmas Carol". Especially this passage:

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the [one of the gentlemen], taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”

“Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.

“Plenty of prisons,” said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

“And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?”

“They are. Still,” returned the gentleman, “I wish I could say they were not.”

“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” said Scrooge.

“Both very busy, sir.”

“Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,” said Scrooge. “I’m very glad to hear it.”

“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentleman, “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?”

“Nothing!” Scrooge replied.

“You wish to be anonymous?”

“I wish to be left alone,” said Scrooge. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.”

“Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

[D. Spaulding]

103. I thing that question would be more applicable

to the foolish MAGA minions and groupies that followed Orange Julius to rallies around the country.

[forgotmylogin]

104. YES WE DO HAVE JOBS, YOU FUCKER

We have jobs that PAY INTO Social Security so we have it when we retire, so DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE imply we're lazy or unemployed after you've robbed us of retirement support so you can all have Teslas AND a second yacht you fucking son of a bitch.

[W T F]

106. In this economy????😂😂😂😂😂

[Baron2024]

108. JD Vance

JD Vance is a bitch faced coward and a fascist sycophant.

[Karasu]

109. Of course. Using this tired question in response to literally everything in an attempt to invalidate the opposition

is exactly what mindless conservative glorification and worship of American work culture has gotten us. This is cartoon fascism.

And it's especially ironic/hypocritical when this administration is so deeply in bed with the same fucking people pushing for AI, with no regulations whatsoever.

You don't get to play the old "Do you have jobs" card when you're firing tens of thousands of people every week to pinch pennies and literally trying to automate as much of the national workforce as possible, least of all in a country where most are living paycheck to paycheck. And in addition to all that, at the same time, they're also not in favor of a living UBI and actively want to kill off SS. Modern "conservatism" is a fucking ideological contradiction and nothing more than corporate bootlicking. Something has to fucking give.

[red dog 1]

113. Worst VP in history

He makes Dan Quayle look like FDR.

[Norrrm]

121. Let's see how great a jobs creator Trump is. Boast about this, JD.

Not the most recent chart.

[swampthingdc]

122. what was his job(s?

Wasn't the guy openly atheist until around 2018 or so - gone catholic - " liked the money power" thing .. of Vatican ?
Vatican does not run the secular U.S. never will. No matter how bad the gerrymandering roosts as we see now..

[Flux]

124. ohhhh...

The Democratic party members should run with this comment and yammer on and on about it like the other party does.

[Godot51]

125. vance is clueless...

... he claims to be a "self-made" man yet he demonstrates 100% cluelessness about growing up, working actual jobs, and retirement for ordinary people.

He is young, and it is to be supposed, healthy, yet he is 100% clueless about those born with defects and diseases, those defects and diseases created by life, work, and simple bad luck, and those defects and diseases of aging and old age.

It is to his great shame that he, his "boss", and so many of our oligarchic elites are without understanding, sympathy, or empathy for those who have less "luck" than they.

He is a "man" devoid of humanity.

[Raven123]

126. Bet he wasn't thinking that on Jan 6, 2021

[Emrys]

131. If he's not being offensive, he has nothing noteworthy to say.

This all smacks of performing for an audience of one - "Look, Trumpydaddy, I can be a mean asshole too!"

[Skittles]

132. I worked for 50 years

and my jobs were way more important than playing Trump whore

[Rebl2]

133. J.D. Trying

to win friends and influence people. Great job jd Vance🙄

[Hope22]

137. They aren't thinkers.

These are the words hurled at people standing up against war. Get a job, why aren’t you at work, over and over again. Vance doesn’t stretch far for a banana.