• jackmarxist [any]
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    1 month ago

    JD Vance is so comically bad that it's kind of insane that anyone in the republican party agreed to let this guy run.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      It makes sense if you look at Vance the way they do - as a big sack full of cash. Trump is burning through campaign cash on court fees and lawyers so that was the whole decision

      • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        God what I'd give (ok... nothing) to see receipts from Thiel paying for Trump's shit. It's pennies for him anyway. He could drop a $1B and never notice. What an incredible society.

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      1 month ago

      All the reporting points to Elon Musk, and his two kids convincing him to go for JD Vance while he was in shock from the attempted assassination. So I am dying at the thought he listened to his kids and now he is fucked.

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      What do Peter Thiel and Elon Musk love so much about him? I don't get the appeal to them.

      • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        They're fucking stupid and trump completely alienated himself from the (heavy fucking quotes) "reasonable Republicans" that he had around during the initial presidency

        If it wasn't for Biden drop out he would still have a fucking chance too, that's how much of a joke the Dems have been. Idk what's happening anymore though. Here there be monsters, uncharted territory when the Dems start doing politics correctly. It's a bit frightening just from how foreign it feels

    • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      It was a wink wink nudge nudge to the outright Nazis that are sucking trump off currently and he fucked the hell up

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 month ago

        They're both weird, but different types of weird. Carson is strange weird like "wow, okay that's weird." While Vance is gross weird, more of a "ew, that's just weird."

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        Carson is the weird unc at the party who complains all the time. Vance is the unc who you tell your children to stay far away from and especially in secluded areas of the house.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        Boebert or MTG could at least do the Palin-esque folksy charm thing to blunt the weird. Vance brings the “I’m not legally allowed to live within 500 meters of a school” vibe to the weird.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        Boebert wins the horny vote for giving a handjob at the theater and having a restaurant themed around being served by women who can physically kill you

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    1 month ago

    What are the odds that Trump will outright say that JD Vance sucks at one of his upcoming rallies?

    • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Yeah He will 💯% throw him under the bus when he loses. And it's literally what's he's always done to everyone that worked under him.

    • BabyTurtles [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      100%. It's barely been a couple weeks and Trump has already started coping with questions about Vance saying things like "the VP pick doesn't matter, because you're voting for the president and not the VP".

      I think that if Dems keep doing well in the polls, Trump might just straight up drop Vance from the ticket.

  • regul [any]
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    1 month ago

    They're over 500, but "heck of a year" is pushing it.

    • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
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      1 month ago

      That's even better. They are the good ol' workingman's team. No long winning streaks, no world series ambitions. Just a honest ball club playing the game, winning some, losing some.

      God forbid we have a Yankees or dodgers fan in the White House. That smacks of liberal coastal elite

      • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        This is a good, honest .500 baseball team. They play .500 ball goddammit. Salt of the earth, punch the clock, even win/loss ratio baseball. They lost a couple, guess what? They won a couple, too. But they never got too excited or let it go to their head. No long winning streaks there, no sir. That's hubris, which that blue collar, hard working everyman team didn't have. A few wins in a row, those guys, true to form, balanced it out with a couple a losses. Yes sir, that's my 2023-2024 Twins. A good, honest .500 baseball team.

        • LocalOaf [they/them]
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          1 month ago

          Speaking of midwestern baseball teams, one piece of schadenfreude I've been thinking about is if Obama is genuinely an actual fan of the White Sox, he's having a miserable year

          obama-sad field-baseball

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 month ago

        Ahhh I see, so that's Walz. I have seen people mention his name but had never seen the man before. Or maybe I have but he's just not that memorable.