What do you even say anymore. I hit my expressive limit very early on into this presidency and now it’s hard to express anything because every thing is so beyond the pale. All i can say is im surprised its gotten this far and i would like to get off this wild ride.
A broken psychopath piece of sh*t clock is right twice a day.
I mean we could have used more sitting Republicans turning against MAGA, but go off queen. Thanks for vacating your seat.
Vance is waiting for January so Vance can do two more terms for a total of a decade…
But we need to try to hold all of trump’s admin accountable for this shitshow. They’re the ones actually steering trump and still doing their own evil shit.
But Vance has to be the one to invoke the 25th, he just needs the majority of trump’s cabinet with him. And absolutely nothing will make him do it a couple months early, because then he misses out on a four year term he thinks he can get.
Like, fuck it, charge him under “dereliction of duty” and for fairness do the same thing to Biden’s admin who we’re doing the same thing when he was in office.
Flush em all out, otherwise they’ll hang around politics for decades.
Vance is waiting for January so Vance can do two more terms for a total of a decade…
I see this as total, baseless cope. Vance was carried into office by Trump and has minimal popularity with Republicans – while Democrats despise him. If Vance were seeking power, he would know the 25th (not necessarily Section 4) would be his only chance at the presidency. If Trump is allowed to fuck everything up for two years, then Vance swoops in and says “I declare
bankruptcythe 25th!”, it’s somehow successful, and he’s left barely cleaning up Trump’s mess for two years, he may have a shot in the primaries, but he has none in the general. The guy has the charisma and likeability of a wet sock, and he knows it.That is, it’s the exact opposite: if Vance were seeking power by usurping his way to the presidency, now would be the opportune time to do it; he’d have the most time, and the iron is getting red-hot.
I think this perspective is the real copium. Vance’s performance in the VP debate righted the ship for the Trump campaign. Trump’s rock-solid 38% will vote for anyone with an R.
Vance lacks the showmanship, but he makes up for it by either pretending his terrible agenda is not true or actually agreeable to the center-right. Most know Trump is crazy. Even his more adoring fans will give him a pass on at least one insane thing if you press them. Think “I wish he didn’t post on social media so much, but I love that he speaks his mind”
Two years is more than enough time to get incumbency advantage. He can course correct a couple things in July 2028 and ride that through the debates saying “I’m not trump guys, see, I fixed X and Y!” That gives the 38% the okay to say “yea, he’s basically trump still, I didn’t actually want X or Y”
As for winning over the rest of the electorate, who cares? Who on the left didn’t know what trump was? We all knew. We saw through the Project 2025 lies. It didn’t matter. Enough people stayed home because they knew and thought “it won’t be that bad” or “he won’t win with that baggage”
That’s Vance’s strength. He doesn’t need to win anyone over. All he needs to do is flake off a couple factions by pretending to not be that bad.
I think this perspective is the real copium.
We’ll see by January-ish, I guess, because until then both of our positions are unfalsifiable. But I brought up Vance having nothing with Democratic voters not because it’s impossible to win that way, but because Vance simply isn’t Trump and doesn’t have his uncanny ability to “flood the zone with shit”. He’s shown e.g. with the Springfield, Ohio pet-eating hoax that, like Trump, he’s not above insane, bigoted strawman issues to distract from real ones, but Trump probably almost really has been at the point where he could shoot someone dead on 5th Avenue and have it out of the news cycle two weeks later. (It’s at least starting to turn now thanks to dipshit Republicans caring about e.g. easily visible gas prices.)
Trump isn’t, of course, some magical creature – he’s propped up enormously by Congress, online floods of disinformation by foreign adversaries, right-wing justices, news media, etc. Vance would benefit from some of that. But he doesn’t have this insane, just-now-waning grip over the US’ right-wing where he functionally can’t do any wrong and, if he can, it’s immediately forgotten about. Trump over the last 10 years has accrued an insane followership, and Vance inherits almost none of that. I think that, right now, Vance “enjoys” (or at least prefers) having Trump out in front as an incompetent, buffoonish shield to the general public while he can mostly stand away and do whatever work he wants to.
Edit: I forgot to address the “real copium” part, and enequivocally: no, it isn’t. I badly want Trump out of office. I hold this belief despite what I’d want to happen (recognizing impeachment at this point is effectively impossible).
Drowsy, Dementia Don woke up from his nap and declared war on the people who hurt his fee fees by not falling for his bluster. He is not fit for the job, fire him Maga.
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