JD Vance's time is up

[VivaE]

I think that post was somewhat in jest.

It was.

I heard a talking head on one of the American news channels (Might have been MSNBC or CNN) that technically the orange turd has until the Iowa Ballot (or whichever state is first) is locked in (gone to print) to switch VP's. That's sometime in late August or early September... it's not good form to switch after the convention but there's no rule against it, it's just the traditional norm to stick with your pick. As we all know, trump does like to fuck with the norm...

Thanks for that. Vance comes with Peter Theil's backing though so it'll be interesting to see if that's enough to keep him on board, despite his many shortcomings.

 

[VivaE]

This is well conspiraloony.

And it's millstone, not milestone, you can wear a millstone round yer neck cos it has a hole in it, you can't wear a milestone, maybe as a pendant, I guess. Frau Bahn makes the same mistake and it's become a pet peeve.

Keep your hair on, I was just spelling it like trump would spell it.

 

[tim]

It's very John Galt right?

Is he that the right-wing cunt who used to broadcast on Radio London and was surprisingly popular with Urban posters?

 

[JimW]

Is he that the right-wing cunt who used to broadcast on Radio London and was surprisingly popular with Urban posters?

Ayn Rand's hero isn't it? Not that I've read her.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Keep your hair on, I was just spelling it like trump would spell it.

Not sure Trump would use either word, with neither milestones nor millstones being much of a thing in the US.

 

[two sheds]

You say that like it's important

 

[Ming]

Ayn Rand's hero isn't it? Not that I've read her.

Yep! Atlas Shrugged. Rand's a must read in the States if you're a mad right winger. Galt reminds me of Peter Theil with his mad plans for the Titans of commerce (without whom the world would collapse).

 

[petee]

Not sure Trump would use either word, with neither milestones nor millstones being much of a thing in the US.

there are still milestones in ye olde parts of euro-america. a bar two blocks from me:

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world and all that, but I'm still kind of fascinated by the idea of a potential Trump voter being put off because his vice-presidential pick was too controversial and offensive.

Just when you think they can't go any lower, they go even lower.

 

[Idris2002]

This is Vance during his army days, apparently:



I genuinely thought it was the fat lad from Full Metal Jacket.

 

[Yossarian]

This is Vance during his army days, apparently:

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I genuinely thought it was the fat lad from Full Metal Jacket.

"This is my rifle, that's a futon. One is for fighting, the other for fun"

 

[krtek a houby]

This is Vance during his army days, apparently:

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I genuinely thought it was the fat lad from Full Metal Jacket.

"fat"

 

[two sheds]

apparently SOFA is a real Republican PAC

 

[moochedit]

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apparently SOFA is a real Republican PAC

Took me a moment

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Vance trying, and failing, to be likeable.



Though the Entourage are total cunts, so a fitting comparison i guess

 

[Yossarian]

Vance trying, and failing, to be likeable.



Though the Entourage are total cunts, so a fitting comparison i guess

Not sure why the Secret Service allowed this weirdo and his pals to get so close to the vice president's plane

 

[Jeff Robinson]

First this moron attacks 'childless cat ladies' and now he attacks people who were bullied in school? He just keeps digging that hole, his fundamental nastiness just bubbles to the surface whenever he opens his gob.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think my favourite Peter Thiel fact is his dedication to the idea of making a floating island/giant boat to be a libertarian utopia/dystopia:

The Seasteading Institute - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This is old but good from C Meiville

Floating Utopias

On the degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders.

inthesetimes.com

 

[two sheds]

This is interesting/somewhat scary:

J.D. Vance’s “childless cat ladies” remark is just Quiverfull unmasked

How this once-fringe Christian movement jumped into the mainstream

medium.com

No suggestion Vance is part of it but suggests where his hatred of childless people comes from.

The term “Quiverfull” is derived from Psalm 127, a Bible passage that compares a man who has many children to one with many arrows in his quiver. In other words, a large family is an accomplishment he should take pride in. Recently, however, proponents of this verse have aligned with the larger Christian anti-feminist movement, which proclaims that a woman’s role is in the home as a loyal wife and dutiful mother to her children. So, the original context of the verse, that a man should take pride in having many children — problematic in its own right, of course — has morphed into an anti-feminist calling card that redraws women as no more than the sum of her womb and her wifery. She’s a baby-pumping maternal machine.

Christian misogyny is nothing new — I’ve previously written about its persistence in our modern culture, including the far right’s fervent appropriation of the Hawk Tuah Girl meme — but Quiverfull is interesting in its combination of Christian misogyny with hyper-fundamentalism and the overarching natalist movement.

 

[Rimbaud]

I think my favourite Peter Thiel fact is his dedication to the idea of making a floating island/giant boat to be a libertarian utopia/dystopia:

The Seasteading Institute - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Isn't that literally the plot of the video game Bioshock?

Rapture

“I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those...

bioshock.fandom.com

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Just watched an hour long review of his book.

He is fucking wierd. So is his book.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Isn't that literally the plot of the video game Bioshock?

No. His is on the surface and not as cool.

 

[_Russ_]

In another time it could have been the Anti - Republic of Rose Island

 

[two sheds]

I read that Trump had been hacked, including

https://archive.ph/Ue5GL

Trump’s 270-Page Dossier of JD Vance’s ‘Vulnerabilities’ Hacked by Iran​

One email contained a 271-page report on Vance entitled “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” Robert told Politico they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions,” and when pressed for how they obtained them, Robert responded, “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”

This is by no means a first for Trump. In 2020, a hacker hacked his X account by guessing his password, ‘maga2020!’

only 271 pages must have been a precis

 

[two sheds]

He's being bullied now

 

[spring-peeper]

He's being bullied now


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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4822658-jd-vance-democrats-schoolyard-bully-attacks/

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said in a Sunday interview that Democrats are engaging in “schoolyard bully” attacks by calling the GOP ticket “weird.”

“It drives home how they’re trying to distract from their own policy failures. I mean, look, this is fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff,” Vance said on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash. “They can accuse me of whatever they want to accuse me of.”

“I’m doing this because I think that me being vice president will help improve people’s lives, so I accept their attacks, but I think that it is a little bit of projection, Dana,” Vance added.

Vance tried to levy similar attacks on the Democratic ticket, saying Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) — Harris’s new running mate — “gave his wife a nice, firm Midwestern handshake” when he was tapped as the vice president pick “and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it.”

“So I think that what it is is two people, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who aren’t comfortable in their own skin because they aren’t comfortable with their policy positions for the American people, and so they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better. I think that’s weird, Dana, but look, they can call me whatever they want to,” Vance said.


Diddums!!!

 

[petee]

snowflake should hug his feefees in his safe space etc.

 

[two sheds]

He's right though, they are bullying him



I saw elsewhere that his campaign didn't deny it.

 

[krtek a houby]

From today's graun:

In a recording shared by the Harris campaign, JD Vance says that postmenopausal women have a single purpose, which is to raise grandchildren. He does not clarify what it is he thinks postmenopausal women without grandchildren are meant to do.

He also says that getting help from your mother in law to raise your children is a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman”. Vance is married to Usha Vance, an Indian American lawyer.

He has previously referred to women who don’t have children as being “childless cat ladies”.

 

[mentalchik]

He also obviously doesn't realise that huge numbers of postmenopausal women have to work....