JD Vance Asked By Reporter: 'What Makes You Happy?'

At a campaign event in Shelby Township, Michigan, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) was asked what makes him happy.

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[barleymepodcast]

What makes me happy? RAGE. Blind, unfettered rage.

[Delilah-zdem]

Fun fact: this softball of a question was from Fox.

[robertbelcher]

"Fake laugh", inability to point at anything that makes him happy, starts listing things that make him angry. Joy is the antidote to this doomerism

[codypagels]

The reporter gave him an easy layup to just say something normal like “My wife and kids make me happy. They’re why I’m fighting to secure a better America for them and families like us”.

Instead he whined about the media not being nice to him, laughed at his own comment, declared that he’s extremely angry because Kamala Harris is the Destroyer of Worlds, then declared that his master is the funniest man in the world.

So much weirdness and personality disorder on display in 86 seconds when all he had to do to score the most political points possible was say he loves his family and they make him smile.

[cnvjrsc]

Definitely a totally normal person and not a hatefull rage-filled creep

[Ivanisoutside]

Why get defensive over such a simple question?

[AW-nzgl]

What makes you smile?

"KAMALA BAD!"

This guy is a goon.

[brendenbeaman]

Happy does not compute. Re-initialize generic anger speech

[jerryhikel]

Totally normal and not weird answer. Cool guy.

[vancemead]

He might have said "Playing with my kids. Quiet evening with my family." Something that would make him seem human.
Instead, what makes him happy is attacking people. He started by attacking the reporter. He enjoys hurting people.
That's his answer.

[BigDannyDangus]

What a normal, relatable, human reaction.

[DizzyedUpGirl]

"My family"

"Sunsets"

"Week old kittens"

"Ham sandwiches"

Lots of better answers out there, JG

[bernardwylie]

Man…. He even answers a softball from Fox News like “what makes you happy?”…..like a total prick. Like, there’s a valid reason we already don’t like him, regardless of the state of this campaign.

[PopxTartxThief]

He was lobbed the softest of softball questions and he still hit himself in the balls with the bat. He's so weird

[Crouza]

This man is literally not human. He cannot define any aspect of the human experience. All he knows how to do is be mad and spout talking points. Its like he was grown in a lab to be a politician.

[WiseSnake]

Easiest question in the world with countless of non-political answers like fishing, hunting, walks on the beach, etc. (it's what he should have given to counter his weirdo reputation) but he couldn't resist acting like a Trump clone.
The question practically gave him a ramp to fly into nuances, but instead gives a barely comprehensible answer that instantly gets buried under gish gallop.

[redcurrantart]

If you have to get snotty why someone asks what makes you happy… oh honey. You have serious issues.

[dorianshadesofgray]

You can see why trump picked JD as his running mate

[taylorchristiansen]

Children, family, hobbies, traveling, watching/playing (favorite sport)—so many relatable human answers, and he missed the real point of the question 🙄

[Gas_man]

He’s the most awkward and abrasive politician I’ve ever seen.