bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Ah OK, I missed that. It hasn't been formally announced yet.
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spring-peeper
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RNC 2024 Day 1 updates: Bandaged and emotional, Trump makes 1st appearance since assassination attempt
Delegates were anticipating Trump possibly revealing his VP pick on Monday.
Trump announces Vance as his running mate
Trump announced Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate, writing on Truth Social that the Ohio Republican is "the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States."The decision caps off months of speculation and sees Trump elevate a 39-year-old first-term senator whose roughly year and a half tenure in the Senate has seen him emerge as a staunch ideological ally of the former president.
bcuster
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A former "never-trumper"; confirms to me trump's serious lack of judgment
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
It was only on the Graun 11 minutes ago so perhaps I can be forgiven for not knowing 3 hours ago.
I don't think it's unalloyed good news of course, though it could be even worse.
I don't think it's unalloyed good news of course, though it could be even worse.
bcuster
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exactly; a craven sycophantic opportunist.
Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
..and the malleable nature of Vance's personal morality.
bcuster
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Who is JD Vance? What to know about Donald Trump's VP pick
Former President Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance to be his running mate, catapulting the Ohio senator even more into the national spotlight.
www.usatoday.com
Everything Goes
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Trump has now been formally nominated as Republican presidential candidate.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
The most rabid of his maga would tongue Trump's arsehole if he told them to. His pick as VP has got nothing to do with rabid maga and everything to do with the votes who matter, the wavering in the tighter states.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
I doubt that very much. If it is true (according to reports) that Trump is going to tone down his rhetoric over the rest of the campaign starting with his RNC speech - which he can easily do whilst having his lunatic stooges do the crazy talk instead - then he can pretend to be the changed man who has realised this is his last term, so he is promoting a younger generation of leaders from outside politics etc etc. Vance's previous opposition is a strength in that respect, as is his age and lack of time served in Washington. Compared to Scott or Rubio (especially) he is a vastly better choice.
It will almost certainly work too, given that the Democrats will still be led by the idiots who refused to change after 2016, who refused to change after AOC and the Squad emerged, whose bright idea to stop Trump was to firstly rush his second impeachment trial and then to spin out court cases so they'd all land during this election cycle, and who will allow themselves to go into this campaign with a president that they publicly have no confidence in.
skyscraper101
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I’m mildly relieved he didn’t go for that utter slimeball Vivek Ramaswamy or even worse Marjorie Taylor Green.
It’s a low bar of course, and I’m clutching at straws for something positive given the inevitable next four years but Vance seems not to be the worst of the worst. Inevitably I’ll discover something about him now and change my mind but for the moment, I’m just glad it’s not those two.
It’s a low bar of course, and I’m clutching at straws for something positive given the inevitable next four years but Vance seems not to be the worst of the worst. Inevitably I’ll discover something about him now and change my mind but for the moment, I’m just glad it’s not those two.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Yes, it could have been even worse. Vance is bright and ambitious and will say and do whatever it takes to get ahead. Changes his mind when the wind blows.
And he has the hillbilly backstory. The extracts I read a few years back - I think it was before he was elected - were well written.
Everything Goes
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Tory reject Thick Lizzy at the Republican National Convention.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
If bullets can't stop the prick, it's highly unlikely that the "law" will
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
More on country singer JD Vance:
www.theguardian.com
Democrats warn JD Vance will enable Trump’s ‘extreme Maga agenda’
Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortion
so as it turns out, perhaps he was saying that approvingly
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Trump better not change the law so she can be vice president
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Judge who dismissed Trump criminal case is ‘future supreme court justice’, Gaetz says
Far-right Florida congressman is asked by critic: ‘Are you admitting to a quid pro quo?'’
Democrats are just fucking amateurs in comparison aren't they
krtek a houby
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Some of the Republican talking heads on the news are spinning the idea that Democrat rhetoric is to blame for the assassination attempt.More on country singer JD Vance:
Democrats warn JD Vance will enable Trump’s ‘extreme Maga agenda’
Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortion
so as it turns out, perhaps he was saying that approvingly
Seen it online, too. Not surprised, that's their tactic.
krtek a houby
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Used to give examples of republican hypocrisy on this other site and it made zero difference. The Trumpist contingent would ignore it and say "what about your team"... (Whoever the fuck my "team" is supposed to be...)
krtek a houby
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Nat-c tosser. Just what's needed in the world right now.
Everything Goes
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But having Liz Truss as vice president would be hilarious, how many days would she last....
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