Republican nominee for vice president, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), brought the culture wars to a friendly forum on Thursday with a visit to Joe Rogan’s podcast. Vance told Rogan, “I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote.”

He’s alone in his prediction.

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The unlikely forecast came amid a long and self-satisfying discussion with Rogan on LGBTQ+ issues, from mocking Two-Spirit people to blaming the Nashville shooter’s motives on “radical trans ideology,” which Vance said is something “we should talk more about as a country,” while talking more about it to the country.

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“100%,” Rogan nodded.

The two straight white men were confident in their assessment of all things LGBTQ+, including their belief that “normal” gays “just want to be left the hell alone.”

Vance asserted, “And now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they’re like, we didn’t — we wouldn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to nine-year-olds who are transitioning their genders,” Vance added, moving the conversation back to a conspiracy theory about an LGBTQ+-deep state-Big Pharma cabal profiting off of young people’s gender-dysphoria.