Not the best source, but I can’t post the image alone.

Here’s the image to save you a click on Newsweek.

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    Looks like he’s at a wrestling themed party dressed either as Nikolai Volkoff or Ivan Koloff. I hate the guy but this is a weird story

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      Remember that symbolism is everything for conservatives. This really shows that Vance has been pandering the whole time–he’s still just a bro.

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        Man I don’t think so in this case. Looks like an old picture. If anything the Democrats were more friendly with Russia before Russia started “annexing” Ukraine in 2014.

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          And that’s the point. Democrats were polled as being more favorable towards Russia prior to Trump. After Trump, Republicans polled as being more favorable towards Russia.

          Basically Communism and all that was the bogeyman for the Right for decades until suddenly it became more politically viable to change their stance and support their candidate. It was a symbol for decades until it suddenly wasn’t, and that is because Trump then became such a symbol and overtook so many others.

          My reference to him being a bro was facetious and referenced the fact that this looks like something mid-college. The joke is that he’s still a bro.

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      Yeah this is just dumb. I hate the guy but this is equivalent to wearing a Cleveland Browns jersey.

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      How do you know that? Honestly just looks like a random t shirt and his juggalo/ KISS friend. A don’t know enough about either to know.

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        One of them is clearly dressed as Sting. Another as the Macho Man. The NWO shirts kinda give it away. This is a nothingburger.

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          I wasn’t asking why he was dressed up. I’m asking how did the commenter know he’s dressed as Ivan Koloiff.

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    I wear old campaign shirts for candidates I didn’t vote for. Like this is dumb ass hell and I think Vance is a giant sack of shit who is a certifiable love seat lover.

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      You do? You wear your Trump Pence 2020 t-shirt all the time? You ever dust off your Dukakis-Bentsen shirt for throwback Thursday?

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        Not Trump no but I have w and McCain.

        It’ll be a few years before I jokingly wear Trump. Maybe when he dies.

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            If Harris wins (and we don’t get an updated project 2029) , trump’s absolutely going to be a joke in thirty years. It might even be ten or twenty, but I probably won’t find it funny for a while personally.

            Though I would probably not feel super comfortable wearing a Barry Goldwater sweatshirt, I can absolutely see it being hipster chic. With enough time and failure, I think trump would fall into that category.

            I can also see it ending up as hipster bigotry, which is why I wouldn’t wear it, but I give off a narc vibe, so I’m not a good bellwether

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    It’s insane how this guy got picked without even the most rudimentary vetting.

    Of course it’s completely in keeping with everything else Trump does, but man.

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      I’ve heard rumors that Vance is just there so Penis Thiel would donate more money to Trump’s campaign.

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      “Hmm…called Trump America’s Hitler… sounds like he knows what we’re going for here. Put him on the shortlist.”

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    I’ve always kinda taken Dave Chappelles take on vice president’s. “Here’s my Vp. You can assassinate me, but if you do - you get them.”

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    They are going to start printing this pattern on the rally diapers, aren’t they?

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      That’s because communism has never been implemented at scale except as a fig leaf for authoritarianism.

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        TBH I believe he is more the kind of someone who will mock communism wearing a communist T-shirt, republicans are far away of being communists. Or maybe he is just a good MKUltra objective. Who knows.

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    I’m not defending JD Vance, famous couch fucker, but I have a Soviet hockey jersey because my friend’s little brother got hyper-nationalist for awhile and kept calling me a communist. So, I leaned into it just to fuck with him.

    I also have an Arvydas Sabonis throwback jersey. If you can’t handle that, don’t come to my neighborhood court. Game recognize game regardless of political systems.

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    It appears that he is at a costume party. I don’t believe he wore the shirt because he actually is a communist.

    I heard someone mention that they never seen him laugh that wasn’t at someone else’s expense. I can imagine a guy like that buying this shirt to joke, “look guys! I’m a communist liberal” (Democrats are communist joke)

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    He’s Nikolai Volkoff, right?

    Anyways, yes. This is very likely completely innocent. However, the idiots that are making a big deal of it will have an effect on the wierd-ass magats. It will likely send them into a mental spiral