J.D. Vance’s weird, anti-woke punchline fell flat at his own sleepy speaking event on Monday.

Vance held a rally at his former high school in Middletown, Ohio, where hundreds gathered to hear the missives of Donald Trump’s newly-minted vice presidential candidate. But, even as a hometown hero, the Ohio senator suffered some brutally awkward moments.

“It is the weirdest thing to me: Democrats say that it is racist to believe—well, they say it’s racist to do anything,” said Vance. “I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today. I’m sure they’re probably gonna call that racist, too.” Around the room there were some scattered laughs.

  • @BetaBlake
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    174 months ago

    A diet drink? Wow that’s very woke of him!

    • @suction
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      44 months ago

      So brave of him to admit to like unmanly sodas!!

    • @Pretzilla
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      24 months ago

      It’s because his diet daddy Trump exclusively drinks diet coke - but jd didn’t want to be to obvious of a kiss ass so he went with diet dew