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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 128 points 3 months ago

One thing’s for sure: JD Vance will be shit on and thrown under the bus.

That’s The Turmp Guarantee!

[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 57 points 3 months ago

Will he reuse the last set of vice presidential gallows, or get his own?

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Ooh. That's dark.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on how he transgresses the unwritten law

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 months ago

Vance seems like the kind of sleaze that would throw Trump under the bus too. Honestly I think it's gonna come down to who gets the opportunity first. Its like a sith master and apprentice.

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Someone needs to Photoshop Vance as Darth Maul with the head spikes and all.

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Dang yo

Accurate AF

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I didn't really know anything about him until recently, but from what I've been reading, that's spot on. He doesn't have principles except whatever is expedient in the moment. He's happy to fellate Trump now, but if there's an opportunity to get more power for himself, he's going to take it, regardless of Trump.

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

Oh man please let it be soon. Let the two rip each other and the party apart trying to throw each other under the bus

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah 747s are from before Boeing went cost cutting on engineering.

[-] SlowRoastedMadness@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

I'm waiting for the inevitable 'I never even knew the guy'

[-] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

JD Vance was just a covfefe boy.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Trump said, “See ya later boy.”

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Over/under on how long it takes Vance to flip to the prosecution in some as-yet unknown future case against Trump?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh I think he’s already got the fake-tooth-cyanide-capsule implanted. He can never turn, only die.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

That's good news, I hope so. They just seem to turn a blind eye to everything.

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[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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…

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Trump picked Pence to shore up the evangelical vote. Vance was chosen to shore up the Nazi vote. Easy peasey.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

https://vxtwitter.com/JDVance1/status/1511311385543815180 - Seriously look at this campaign ad.

And don't believe his sob story about his mother, I looked into it... She was an RN who kept raiding the controlled substances cabinet, had nothing to do with "Mexicans forcing drugs on her"

[-] Delusional@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Hahahaha the community notes.

JD Vance’s mother utilized her position as a nurse to steal prescribed medication from her patients, not because of undocumented immigrants.

[-] SoleInvictus 4 points 3 months ago

I don't even know what to say. It reminds me of the dumbass whitebread fascist version of Sally Struthers hawking "degrees" back in the 90s.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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)

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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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[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

(Pe)nce -> (Va)nce

(Pe)nis -> (Va)gina

Just saying... LOL

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

He has no charisma whatsoever and struggled to get through his speech while talking like a robot.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Delusional@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Here’s hoping! 🤞🏻

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The new season of "Swamp Creatures" sure seems to be the swampiest yet.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

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"

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago

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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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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