“You never went to high school?

In what may be a sign of desperation, the left is jumping in a decades-old photo of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) pulling the prank in high school to promote a … well, weird campaign to paint Donald Trump's running mate as “weird.”

Ron Filipkowski, a left-wing sock puppet propagandist all too eager to regurgitate The Machine™ talking points, shared the photo featured in a Daily Mail article, along with the unoriginal comment: “This guy is so weird and creepy.”

This guy is so weird and creepy. pic.twitter.com/yNReg2H3Vs

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2024

According to the tabloid, Vance is posing with three female classmates in a boys' bathroom during her senior year of high school in Ohio.

“In the photograph, Vance, then 18, is seen in the men's bathroom watching three girls pretend to use the urinals. The image appeared in the 2003 Middletown High School yearbook in Ohio when Vance, then known as JD Hamel, was in his senior year,” he said Daily Mail informed

Then again, maybe Ohio was decades ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to men seeking to identify as women.

Either way, if every silly photo someone took while in high school is fair game, our politics may never be the same.

It's safe to say that the effort to exploit the photo for political gain was a failure, given the responses seen online…here's a sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

I'm sure this will be my most hated tweet of the day, but taking a silly, awkward photo when you're a kid isn't that big of a deal, the Daily Mail shouldn't have published it, and neither of them. we will have to worry. https://t.co/oCC7cclXxA

— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) August 15, 2024

Stop trolling the teenagers, Ron.

— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) August 15, 2024

This is JD Vance as a kid pranking his friends at school.

Are you mentally retarded?

— Philip Anderson (@VoteHarrisOut) August 15, 2024

I'm pretty sure the only weirdo here is the one posting pictures of a 17 year old in an attempt to get him points.

— (@RepubRepartee) August 15, 2024

It looks like a typical yearbook photo, did you ever go to high school?

— Jarrett Edwards (@whoismrzero) August 15, 2024

Pretending to be shocked or offended that JD is a typical fool in his youth is so stupid, this is a benignly funny photo and you know it. pic.twitter.com/2MnKAmuuvo

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 15, 2024

Pretty standard in the 90s.

We had no idea that people would take using the opposite gender bathroom seriously. This is women in a room of men joking, not JD Vance in a room of women.

— Diogenes (@____Diogenes___) August 15, 2024

Whoever posted this should be ashamed of themselves for releasing these 3.

— Andrew DeMaio (@andrew_demaio) August 15, 2024

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