jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoJ.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down18
arrow-up1339arrow-down1external-linkJ.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults”www.motherjones.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square42linkfedilink
minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoVance made a statement clearly saying he has never had sexual relations with a couch ‘to completion’. This qualifier means, to me, that he did indeed do the thing.
minus-squarevxx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI couldn’t believe my ears when I heard it. That statement was so funny.
minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI had to read it like four times, I focus (a bit too much) on rhetoric when someone speaks because I’m used to qualifiers like this twisting what they say, so I’m going to just keep pointing it out.
Vance made a statement clearly saying he has never had sexual relations with a couch ‘to completion’.
This qualifier means, to me, that he did indeed do the thing.
I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard it. That statement was so funny.
I had to read it like four times, I focus (a bit too much) on rhetoric when someone speaks because I’m used to qualifiers like this twisting what they say, so I’m going to just keep pointing it out.