DT VP Pick Announced .... @@ page 4

[pinkdutchtulips]

JD Vance

If it wasn't already apparent, it certainly is now, that DT is absolutely pandering to his base .... 

[Gato]

Oh boy. A venture capitalist and author of one book, who has spent his one year in the Senate mostly sucking up to Trump. What could go wrong?

[wawa]

ha!
it's not funny, but it's funny.

We were talking about this at work the other day (blue state lunch table talk, lol) and somebody said they thought it would be Vance and I was like, "the least qualified possible choice with the least number of actual sincerely held stances. Yep....that sounds right."

[thejen626]

So how long until they build the gallows? Or will they just reuse the one for Pence?

[rubytue]

I don’t get anxious nausea in general, but my stomach is in knots.

[lucybrown]

Jul 15, 2024 14:58:19 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I don’t get anxious nausea in general, but my stomach is in knots.

I am physically ill, on top of the nausea I already felt.  The RNC is in Milwaukee (my city) and I can't even stand it.  GTFO, all y'all. We don't want you here.  


Edited for accuracy.  We don't want you, period. 

[MixedBerryJam]

Jul 15, 2024 14:58:19 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I don’t get anxious nausea in general, but my stomach is in knots.

Not your point I realize but I do actually vomit from stress and you don’t want to know what the last two weeks have been like. I’m actually taking Xanax prophylactally. And keeping the TV off.

[CrazyLucky]

Shocking. Now we'll get to hear more about how it is Biden's fault that someone tried to kill Trump. Such garbage

[bkseller13]

Less than 2 years of governmental experience. What could go wrong?

[lucybrown]

Jul 15, 2024 15:06:51 GMT -5 bkseller13 said:

Less than 2 years of governmental experience. What could go wrong?

This is the part that actually scares me.  All of those people that voted for cheeto in 2016 because he wasn't another politician.  He was a business guy that was going to turn America around.  He knows.  This is how he gets those voters again for this election. 

(Screams FUCK into the abyss)

[Velar Fricative]

JD Vance, Vance Refrigeration

(If I don’t make jokes about anything political these days I’ll sob.)

[pixy0stix]

Huh. Ok then.

I wonder if Rubio's lil' feelings are hurt.

[wawa]

Jul 15, 2024 15:20:55 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Huh. Ok then.

I wonder if Rubio's lil' feelings are hurt.

sometimes I think that Trump does certain things because he legit does not like Marco Rubio and is bullying him by doing shit like pretending he's considering him for VP.
his mocking always felt so PERSONAL.
Not that he didn't mock everybody, but so much of that was throwaway "loser" stuff.  
Little Marco....it just feels like schoolyard bullshit and I 100000000000% would buy trump's people pretending to consider him for VP just to give trump the giggle when he passes over him.

[erbear]

If Dems have any sense, they’ll start talking up how old DT is and how much no one wants a guy with one year as a senator in the president role.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jul 15, 2024 15:36:11 GMT -5 erbear said:

If Dems have any sense, they’ll start talking up how old DT is and how much no one wants a guy with one year as a senator in the president role.

They also need to emphasize how this asshole doesn’t believe in abortion even for rape survivors.

[pixy0stix]

Jul 15, 2024 15:34:46 GMT -5 wawa said:

Jul 15, 2024 15:20:55 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Huh. Ok then.

I wonder if Rubio's lil' feelings are hurt.

sometimes I think that Trump does certain things because he legit does not like Marco Rubio and is bullying him by doing shit like pretending he's considering him for VP.
his mocking always felt so PERSONAL.
Not that he didn't mock everybody, but so much of that was throwaway "loser" stuff.  
Little Marco....it just feels like schoolyard bullshit and I 100000000000% would buy trump's people pretending to consider him for VP just to give trump the giggle when he passes over him.

This is absolutely what I think is happening. I was surprised Ted Cruz wasn't on the list for the same humiliation treatment.

[cville]

BARF

[neverfstop]

He's terrible and horrible, but I don't think people will care. If they were going to vote for Trump, this doesn't change much.

Will it persuade any of the "undecideds"? Probably....they need a nice safe, clean, white guy they can feel comfortable voting for (i.e. pence). He's got the bombast and media presence to be Trump's attack dog & drum up a bunch of media attention. It's a positive for Trump and the GOP.

I'm not sure how the dems attack or undermine him because Trump/undecided voters don't really care about issues or substance or character or experience or qualifications. <lol sob>

[Pom]

They can slap a VA over the PE and move right on. Maybe some fresh flies for this sack of shit and reuse the gallows for when he screws the pooch and pisses off his orange turd.

[intheden]

As an Ohioan, I can confirm what a low life, cowardly, lying POS Vance is.

[sonrisa]

Jul 15, 2024 16:51:38 GMT -5 Pom said:

They can slap a VA over the PE and move right on. 

lol. This took me longer to process than I want to admit.

[neverfstop]

This old Vanity Fair piece is scary as shit....
We're basically spiraling towards a techno autocracy. Peter Theil propelled Vance to his Senate seat & is just waiting for an American implosion so we can return to a monarchy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

It's a very long article so I wnated to quote the scary part

He said he thought this was pessimistic. “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said. “And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”

“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

This is a description, essentially, of a coup.

“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

“Indeed,” Murphy said. “Among some of my circle, the phrase ‘extra-constitutional’ has come up quite a bit.”

[neverfstop]

Continuing on the Techno autocrat theme- this is from Axios
WSJ gift link link.axios.com/click/36071746.3937/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud3NqLmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy9lbGVjdGlvbnMvZWxvbi1tdXNrLWhhcy1zYWlkLWhlLWlzLWNvbW1pdHRpbmctYXJvdW5kLTQ1LW1pbGxpb24tYS1tb250aC10by1hLW5ldy1wcm8tdHJ1bXAtc3VwZXItcGFjLWRkYTUzODIzP3N0PWxscnZhOHU1dzN3MGo1NiZyZWZsaW5rPWRlc2t0b3B3ZWJzaGFyZV9wZXJtYWxpbmsmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9w/5966577bcb149020448b4822C4e0abe76 


Elon Musk plans to commit about $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC formed by a group of close allies, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The group includes Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins.
The intrigue: A new strain of GOP financiers linked to Silicon Valley — beginning with J.D. Vance's 2022 Senate patron Peter Thiel, and now continuing with Musk and David Sacks — are poised to gain influence in the Republican Party, Axios' Zachary Basu notes.

[shauni27]

Jul 15, 2024 16:20:21 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

He's terrible and horrible, but I don't think people will care. If they were going to vote for Trump, this doesn't change much.

Will it persuade any of the "undecideds"? Probably....they need a nice safe, clean, white guy they can feel comfortable voting for (i.e. pence). He's got the bombast and media presence to be Trump's attack dog & drum up a bunch of media attention. It's a positive for Trump and the GOP.

I'm not sure how the dems attack or undermine him because Trump/undecided voters don't really care about issues or substance or character or experience or qualifications. <lol sob>

this morning on NPR they interviewed Jonah Goldburg and when they asked if this was a good choice for a pick he just went "no." and then was quiet. He laughed and goes "I guess I should expand on that" and went on to say that this is not going to bring over any undecideds and it is not going to unite the party.

Jul 16, 2024 6:32:58 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Elon Musk plans to commit about $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC formed by a group of close allies, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The group includes Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins.
The intrigue: A new strain of GOP financiers linked to Silicon Valley — beginning with J.D. Vance's 2022 Senate patron Peter Thiel, and now continuing with Musk and David Sacks — are poised to gain influence in the Republican Party, Axios' Zachary Basu notes.

i saw this earlier, so fucking insane.

[basilosaurus]

Jul 16, 2024 6:32:58 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Continuing on the Techno autocrat theme- this is from Axios
WSJ gift link link.axios.com/click/36071746.3937/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud3NqLmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy9lbGVjdGlvbnMvZWxvbi1tdXNrLWhhcy1zYWlkLWhlLWlzLWNvbW1pdHRpbmctYXJvdW5kLTQ1LW1pbGxpb24tYS1tb250aC10by1hLW5ldy1wcm8tdHJ1bXAtc3VwZXItcGFjLWRkYTUzODIzP3N0PWxscnZhOHU1dzN3MGo1NiZyZWZsaW5rPWRlc2t0b3B3ZWJzaGFyZV9wZXJtYWxpbmsmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9w/5966577bcb149020448b4822C4e0abe76 


Elon Musk plans to commit about $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC formed by a group of close allies, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The group includes Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins.
The intrigue: A new strain of GOP financiers linked to Silicon Valley — beginning with J.D. Vance's 2022 Senate patron Peter Thiel, and now continuing with Musk and David Sacks — are poised to gain influence in the Republican Party, Axios' Zachary Basu notes.

Because he's an abslutely horrible person. But locally this has been shown to me as proof that he's not partisan. I don't know how to combat that crazy lack of information

[sent]

Wait a minute, he's married to a very brown child of Indian immigrants? And has 3 kids with her?

And the Tiger Mom lady is how they first met each other at Yale?

This is all an unexpected twist I did not forsee from reading everything you all have posted so far. (These days, this board is my source for breaking news.)

He's just like Trump then. A shape shifting chameleon (dementor?) who just spews random words out there to see what sticks and gets him into power.

[sonrisa]

Jul 16, 2024 7:29:23 GMT -5 sent said:

Wait a minute, he's married to a very brown child of Indian immigrants? And has 3 kids with her?

And the Tiger Mom lady is how they first met each other at Yale?

This is all an unexpected twist I did not expect from reading everything you all have posted so far. (These days, this board is my source for breaking news.)

He's just like Trump then. A shape shifting chameleon who just spews random words out there to see what sticks and gets him into power.

she clerked for Kavannah (and aRoberts). So she may be part of what pushed him trump ward.

[mrsukyankee]

He's a fucking asshole who has already pissed off the people in charge of the UK with his words -

link

Senior Labour figures have rejected comments by Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, that the UK could become the first “truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon” under the party.

They were reacting to comments that were made by Vance, a junior senator for the state of Ohio who has been announced as Trump’s running mate, at a conference for US conservatives.

Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, told ITV that Vance had said “quite a lot of fruity things in the past” and she looked forward to meeting him and Trump if they won the US election in November.

...“And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over.”

The Treasury minister James Murray said: “I don’t know what he was driving at in that comment, to be honest. I mean, in Britain, we’re very proud of our diversity.”

[mrsukyankee]

sent, from what I've read, she's pushing him to do whatever it is to get political power (they see themselves as a power couple). I mean, I think he's an asshole on his own and willing to say whatever gets him power, but I also think he aligned himself with someone who thinks the same way. We have a lot of brown conservative people who act like they or their families weren't immigrants - and want to shut the door.

[wawa]

Jul 16, 2024 7:29:23 GMT -5 sent said:

Wait a minute, he's married to a very brown child of Indian immigrants? And has 3 kids with her?

And the Tiger Mom lady is how they first met each other at Yale?

This is all an unexpected twist I did not forsee from reading everything you all have posted so far. (These days, this board is my source for breaking news.)

He's just like Trump then. A shape shifting chameleon (dementor?) who just spews random words out there to see what sticks and gets him into power.

I truly believe between the two of them (Trump and vance) there's not a single sincerely held belief to be found beyond "I deserve to hold as much power as possible and should do whatever it takes to get it"