The Thrill of the Chaise (Premium E254)
Added 2024-08-03 21:14:36 +0000 UTCDid JD Vance write about exploring his sexuality with the assistance of a rubber globe and a couch? No, he did not. Despite that, does JD Vance possess some essential quality of a couch fucker? We discuss the origin of this false internet rumor and what it can tell us about the nature of truth on social media.
Plus we go over newly revealed details about Trump’s failed assassin and some of the conspiracy theories and speculation about the event itself.
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REFERENCES
Snopes: No, 1st Edition of JD Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy' Doesn't Mention Couch Cushion 'Eroticism'
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-first-edition-couch-erotica/
Business Insider: The author of the viral joke post about JD Vance having sex with a couch breaks his silence
Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting
Trump has given no official info about his medical care for days since an assassination attempt
https://apnews.com/article/trump-shooting-transparency-db2f4437237ad03d3b04b0b5f1573977
Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/trump-shooter-bullet-trajectory-ear.html
Comments
Less than 10 min in and I’m laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes, love this show so much
Hannah Lux
2025-01-24 15:20:30 +0000 UTCAlso Travis did you read about Prefactual Thinking for this ep? I loved your comments on the nature of couch fucking truth and my psychologist husband said there's a technical term for it and showed me an article about it. I've enjoyed it so far as a seasoning to the couch fuck phenomenon https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000308
Jess C
2024-09-15 13:53:44 +0000 UTCGoncharov
Vaz
2024-08-20 09:07:49 +0000 UTCYakov Smirnoff voice “ In American politics…couch fucks you! “
Salamander Tom Paris
2024-08-09 21:41:44 +0000 UTCPoint (3) now THAT right there is the Dark Timeline and thank God we don’t live in it.
Mac-something
2024-08-09 09:02:20 +0000 UTCI think there are at least three major reasons the Trump assassination attempt hasn't had much staying power: (1) The gunman kind of just wanted to commit suicide by cop and thought going for a president would give him some sort of satisfaction. And he was not a minority or a democrat; the republicans had no good way to spin it. (I also think this is the reason they are so desperate for a second gunman because then there could really be some nefarious, radical, leftist minority actually pulling all the strings.) (2) Trump wasn't injured, not in a meaningful way. There was no, "is he gonna make it?" moment. Pretty much as soon as you heard that it happened you also knew that Trump was basically unscathed. That pretty much contained the event to just the one day; you made your excited phone calls to your relatives and talked about how "this changes everything" and hung up and woke up the next day and did some chores around the house or whatever. (3) Probably the biggest thing is that Trump didn't die. If Trump died that would have shifted us into a very different political timeline, and that would force us all to think daily, "we're in this situation now because Trump got assassinated." That fact changes this event from a whole chapter in a history book to maybe a page.
psidew
2024-08-09 07:34:03 +0000 UTC
