When couched in those terms:


 Liz Dye: It's fine to laugh at JD Vance and his couch. At this juncture, the GOP is weird memes practically write themselves. You look at the policies that Vance, Trump, the right-wing think tanks (including the one that hatched Project 2025), and it becomes obvious that these folks are pushing policies and ideas that are really out of touch and just plain odd - definitely radically out of touch with what most of us as Americans want or value. That's worth mocking. Hell, we could all use a few good laughs after the events of these last few weeks, and definitely the last decade. As long as we remember to go to the polls and vote this November, let's continue to laugh.

Note, image comes from link, which is credited to Getty. Also, most importantly, no couches were harmed in the composition of this post.

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