In what may be a sign of desperation, the left is pouncing on a decades-old photo of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) goofing around in high school to further a… well, weird campaign to paint Donald Trump’s running mate as being “weird.”
Ron Filipkowski, a left-wing sock puppet propagandist all too eager to regurgitate talking points from The Machine™, shared the photo featured in a Daily Mail article, along with the unoriginal remark, “This dude is so damn weird and creepy.”
This dude is so damn weird and creepy. pic.twitter.com/yNReg2H3Vs
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2024
According to the tabloid, Vance is posing with three female classmates in a boys’ restroom during his senior year of high school in Ohio.
“In the photograph, Vance, then 18, is seen in a men’s bathroom looking on as three girls pretend to use the urinals. The picture appeared in the 2003 yearbook of Middletown High School in Ohio when Vance – then known as JD Hamel – was in his senior year,” the Daily Mail reported.
Then again, maybe Ohio was decades ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to males seeking to identify as female.
Either way, if every goofy photo someone took while in high school is fair game, our politics may never be the same.
It’s safe to say that the effort to exploit the photo for political gain was a bust, given the responses seen online… here’s a sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
I’m positive this will be my most-hated tweet of the day but taking a dumb and awkward picture when you’re a kid is just not that big of a deal, the Daily Mail shouldn’t have published it, and none of us should care. https://t.co/oCC7cclXxA
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) August 15, 2024
Stop creeping on teenagers, Ron.
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) August 15, 2024
This is JD Vance as a kid joking around with his friends in school.
Are you mentally retarded?
— Philip Anderson (@VoteHarrisOut) August 15, 2024
I’m pretty sure the only weird creep here is the one posting pictures of a 17 year old kid in an attempt to score points on him
— (@RepubRepartee) August 15, 2024
This looks like a typical staged yearbook photo, have you people never gone to high school?
— Jarrett Edwards (@whoismrzero) August 15, 2024
Pretending to be scandalized or offended by JD being a typical goofball in his youth is so dumb, this is a benignly funny pic and you know it pic.twitter.com/2MnKAmuuvo
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 15, 2024
Fairly standard in the 90’s.
We had no idea people would actually take using the opposite genders bathroom seriously. These are women in a men’s room goofing around, not JD Vance in a women’s room.
— Diogenes (@____Diogenes___) August 15, 2024
Whoever published this should be ashamed for outing those 3 theys.
— Andrew DeMaio (@andrew_demaio) August 15, 2024
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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