• Optional@lemmy.world
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    One thing’s for sure: JD Vance will be shit on and thrown under the bus.

    That’s The Turmp Guarantee!

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    Mike Pence is a milquetoast HIV enthusiast with the looks and personality of a Q-Tip but it didn’t deter the dimwits in 2016.

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      Conservative Christians / Evangelicals loved Pence. He was a big reason Trump was elected imo. I don’t think this new jabroni will help trump like pence did.

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          The vocal components are loud but don’t let them speak for everyone. Pence was a special candidate. He had a legitimate following. Vance might be able to get the GOP vote but he’s not getting the Christian vote like Pence was able to represent.

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            Isn’t Donald going to get the Christian vote on his own because most Evangelicals have lost their goddamn minds?

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              That’s what I thought. My Christian parents went from anti-Hillary voters in 2016 to pro-Trump voters in 2020.

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        I’m not sure Trump needs that kind of supporting appeal this time around. He survived an assassination attempt - to his religious followers, that is divine providence.

        I believe the new jabroni was chosen for entirely different reasons. There is a significant MAGA uprising going on in Silicon Valley, and Vance is well connected there. This is an inroad previously impassable for republicans…

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    Vance doesn’t win any demographic that was lagging for Trump. Anyone who likes Vance was already voting Trump. Strategically on that alone, he’s a wasted pick. (I’m not complaining, don’t worry)

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      I heard somewhere he has connections to money that Trump needs for the campaign, so that might be what drove it.

      It’s pretty clear Vance previously hated Trump. And it’s surprising Trump picked Vance after those comments, but when neither person has a moral compass to stick to, just like the rest of the party, overlooking those kinds of issues becomes much easier.

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        If Trump wins Vance is gonna have him killed so he can assume power. Terrible mistake for Trump. Maybe even worse for the every day person.

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      No, no, no. You simply misunderstood him.

      You were supposed to be in a subservient mental coma by the point you actually listen to him speak. Duh.

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    No headline in the form of this one means shit about what will happen in reality. I don’t pay these any mind anymore.

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    I mean, it’s not like they could ever find anyone worse than trump. I doubt this will hurt Trump’s election seeing as how republicans are already fine electing a conman rapist pedophile scumbag.

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    knowing how these guys like to act tough and force people to kiss the ring I bet this could just have been trump putting vance into a position where he in no way can talk bad about trump after him being “anti-trump”

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    Okay guys, the pool is open, we are now taking bets on how long it will take before Trump will throw this little shit stain under his bus.

    I say in under 6 months

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    While that article has some good, relatable points, Vance still managed to be elected, so there are a lot of people that won’t be swayed by this at all. Maybe some of the Democratic voters that didn’t vote last time will take this as an incentive to go vote.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    This is because Trump’s two other reported finalists for the job, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, each boasted positive qualities that could have shored up the former president’s known weaknesses.

    They said: “You come within inches of having your head turned inside-out, and two days later the guy you pick for the job of being alive in the event you are dead is the millennial freshman who has exactly one election and two years in the Senate under his belt?

    Democrats and Democratic-aligned groups are salivating over the opening provided by Trump’s tapping the Buckeye State senator as his number-two, citing what they described to The Independent as a smorgasbord of opposition research that will be used to make Vance politically toxic to persuadable swing voters within a matter of weeks.

    In a statement, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd said Vance is joining Trump in “running on an extreme Project 2025 agenda – and the American people deserve to know that they’re planning to rip away their health care, gut Social Security, strip their reproductive freedoms, and shill for big corporations on the backs of working families.”

    One person involved in an anti-Trump political committee told The Independent that voters can expect to see significant opposition research deployed against Vance to paint him as “too damn weird.”

    “Vance was essentially created in a lab by Peter Thiel,” the person said, referring to the PayPal co-founder and major Republican donor who has funded numerous “new right” political candidates.


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      That’s assuming that the Democrats’ opposition research cuts through editorial directives at the billionaire-owned media and “fact checking” on corporate social media. If the Owners are set on Trump, the NYT, CNN, and such will bury any adverse revelations about Vance, instead running non-stories about him having conservative/libertarian views within the Overton window or once having gotten someone’s name wrong or something, and that Mother Jones story about mandatory period tracking or privatising the Weather Service will be shadowbanned as “false” because Zuck says so. A few hundred trekkies on Mastodon will know the truth and chant it to themselves with increasing desperation, seeming to anyone stumbling in from the outside world like the horsepaste/5G-vaccine/ancient-astronaut truthers on boomer Facebook groups.