• FartsWithAnAccent
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      I care about pokemon but only because it became my duty as a father after “Dad, let’s play pokemon!”.

      Pokemon Go is kinda great actually: It’s a video game but it gets people up and walking.

      If you ever have kids, you’ll probably share my fate lol

      • Zerlyna
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        34 months ago

        Gotta catch them all!! My stepkids sucked me into it and I played after them for years.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 months ago

      Trump seems to just riff on his weak understanding of the last thing he heard. Maybe they were afraid of a weird rant about bulbasaur extinguishing clean coal.

  • @[email protected]
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    474 months ago

    “My son, who is seven, is in the hotel room with me,” Vance told the podcast about the phone call he got from former President Donald Trump on the first day of the RNC to tell him he was his veep pick. “And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase… I mean he’s really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I’m like ‘son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,’” Vance told the podcast.

    Vance is going to find out that his political career is just a phase, but his kid will be into Pokemon forever.

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      Ehh, not interrupting someone when they’re making a phone call is pretty basic manners.

      • @[email protected]
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        184 months ago

        Sure, “basic” manners that we can expect of adults. Yelling at kids to shut the hell up doesn’t teach them manners, it teaches them to stop sharing their interests with you.

  • @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    JD Vance talks about a fictionalized fantasy world made for entertainment and most importantly profit after he tells his son to shut up about Pokemon.

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    Isn’t it weird that the only member of the NELK Boys who has birthed a child is also the one kinda banished for being a compulsive gambler? I think a podcast featuring JD Vance with the main purpose to sell “Happy Dad” booze with the male hosts who are childless is pretty weird.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      I’m no fan of Vance or Trump, but I would think if you’re on the phone with a previous president of the US and he’s inviting you to be his running mate, you might also be telling your kid to STFU about a game for a minute.

      If not, you have the patience of a saint.

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        If a former President called me while I was in a room with talking person(s), I’d bring my phone to a bathroom and close the door for privacy.