If you’re following the US pre-campaign between ippon, a series of 400 hurdles and a ring routine, you’ll have heard a lot about sofas, and it’s not because Biden is upholstering the Oval Office, it’s more fun. Days after Trump announced that Senator JD Vance would be his running mate, someone posted on X: “I can’t say for sure, but I may be the first vice presidential candidate to admit to masturbating using a latex glove between the cushions of a sofa (Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, (pp. 179-181)”. It was a lie, but don’t tell me that citing the source doesn’t add weight to the lie. So much so that few bothered to open the book to check it, they just retweeted it, and since a lie repeated a thousand times runs the risk of becoming the truth, when the tweet reached two million views, the Associated Press wanted to provide some common sense with a verification article titled: “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch”. Boom, it was no longer a funny tweet, it was news.
Something similar happened a few weeks ago when Susanna Griso swallowed a xenophobic hoax from the far right, what a coincidence, and broadcast a video titled “zoophilia in Malaga” in which no animal appeared, only a couple practicing the art of fornication in the open air. But Griso did not let her eyes deceive her, for a good while they were rambling on about something that was not happening. Associated Press, with a little more professional scruple than Public mirrorinstead of spreading the hoax about JD Vance, intended to dismantle it. But good faith had an unwanted effect and the hoax was amplified. There must have been something wrong if a prestigious media outlet had wasted time investigating it. The final straw came when they finally deleted the article. What did they want to hide by silencing the matter? Canned laughter.
Since then Memes about sofas They also multiply the word games between couch (sofa) and coach (coach in English, referring to Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, who once coached at the high school.) In his first speech, Walz himself could not resist urging Vance to “get off the couch.” Wink, wink, nudge. Now the Republicans are crying foul, although they had no qualms about feeding nonsense like the theory of the great replacement or the fact that Biden and Hillary Clinton belonged to a sinister cabal of pedophiles. They did not consider that hoaxes, like laughter, are local.
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