#trump's running mate

[tomorrowusa]

« Vance reportedly wondered if Trump would be "America’s Hitler." Now that he’s a V.P. contender, Vance told Ross that Mike Pence could have justifiably tried to subvert Biden's election. He’s a completely amoral sycophant without an independent political base, which I think is what Trump is probably looking for. »

— Michelle Goldberg on amoral sycophant Sen. J.D. Vance at the New York Times.

Vance is greedy for power and influence. He previously called Trump "America's Hitler" But now Vance is competing to become his Hermann Goering.

Vance wondered whether Trump was ‘America’s Hitler,’ says former roommate sharing screenshot

The screen shot has been removed, but it lives on at Internet Archive. 🙂

The expression "cynical asshole" seems rather appropriate for Vance himself.

[hella-marshmella]

As much of a mess as that was…still voting for Biden. I’ll be damned if I don’t do my part to keep Trump out of office.

Cause hey, it’s not so much just a vote for Joe:

it’s also for Kamala as VP, the entirety of his Cabinet appointees, his potential SCOTUS picks (which if Alito and Thomas retire/expire could flip the court back 5/4 left leaning), Federal judicial picks, etc..

[alwaysbewoke]

[deadpresidents]

Interesting that there's tension between Obama and Biden since leaving office. Did any other recent presidents have issues with their vice president?

Ummm....Trump legitimately almost got his Vice President killed on January 6th, so let's not forget that. Especially since Mike Pence was one of the most subservient, ass-kissingest (I made that word up, it's okay) Vice Presidents in American history up until the last two weeks of their Administration.

Pretty much all of the POTUS/VP partnerships this century ended kinda badly. Bill Clinton and Al Gore were barely on speaking terms for a few years. Gore felt that Clinton cost him dearly with the whole Lewinsky scandal right before Gore made his own bid for the Presidency in 2000. Clinton felt that Gore should have sucked it up and used him more as a surrogate on the campaign trail because even with the scandals, Clinton was still a wildly popular President in his last few years in office, and a top-notch campaigner. Gore tried to put as much distance as possible between him an Clinton during the 2000 campaign and considering how razor-thin the margin was in 2000, Clinton's presence on the campaign trail probably would have sealed the deal and made Gore the President.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were growing apart in Bush's second term. Bush started to bristle at all the talk that he was an empty suit and that Cheney was the power behind the throne, and he sidelined Cheney in the second term compared to Cheney's aggressive role in the first term, particularly during the run-up to the Iraq War. The breaking point was when Bush refused to pardon Scooter Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, who was indicted and ultimately convicted for leaking information about Valerie Plame's role as a CIA agent. Cheney thought President Bush should give Libby a full and clear pardon, but although Bush commuted Libby's prison sentence, he refused to give him a full pardon and it infuriated Cheney. They've reconciled over the years, but it's still a sore spot whenever Cheney talks about it. Of course, Donald Trump eventually pardoned Libby.

I think we'll learn more about the relationship between President Biden and Vice President Harris after the election, but it doesn't seem like they were particularly close, although there wasn't the outright tension as in the other partnerships I've mentioned. Biden has always had an extremely tight circle of close advisers, and I don't think Kamala ever was a part of that insular world around Biden. It seems that, instead of tension between the principals, there were issues from the beginning between the two staffs. I'm not sure they were ever completely on the same page, but those stories won't fully come to light until after November.

[godisarepublican]

Vivek Ramaswamy?

Ron DeSantis is largely ruled out because he's governor of Florida and technically Trump is a resident. But that didn't phase Bush & Cheney, though both were residents of Texas back in 2000...

Apparently you can switch your address even 5 minutes before the Electoral Votes are cast and you're fine...

Just a guess here but I'm thinking that it won't be Mike Pence.

[sonsband]

okay maybe it's just me but not sure I'm loving this trend of people responding to Republicans claiming that Walz is far left or "woke" or whatever by pointing out that Trump praised him. for "maintaining order" by calling the National Guard on protestors in 2020. like. you realize that's a bad thing, right?

[petnews2day]

Kristi Noem's VP Odds Crash After Dog Killing Revelation

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/RvRki

Kristi Noem's VP Odds Crash After Dog Killing Revelation

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has seen her chances of becoming Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate fall dramatically after reports of her shooting her “untrainable” dog emerged, according to an online prediction market. Polymarket, a platform where users can place “yes” or “no” bets on the likelihood of world events, is currently giving Noem a […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/RvRki #DogNews #2024Election, #DonaldTrump, #KristiNoem, #Odds, #RunningMate, #VicePresident

[bigassbowlingballhead]

not to get political on main but DeSantis just ended his presidential campaign

and i'm frightened.

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

Radical Centrism in action. Were out here.

This is violently American 

[tomorrowusa]

Kristi Noem's newest dog appeared on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

[my-chemical-rot]

Back in the states I downloaded a few supernatural episodes to watch on the plane, watched them on the plane, got re-invested in season 3, then landed in France and found out supernatural isn’t on French Netflix. so now I’m watching Sherlock season 4 instead. And for a minute I genuinely forgot there are only 3 episodes instead of 4.

[captain-starskull]

This has stopped being funny.

These tweets were posted 85 minutes apart

[originalleftist]

Who Will P01135809 Choose As His Running Mate?

(Posted this poll over on Spoutible, reposting here with an additional option.

Some may consider this in poor taste given today's events but, while I EMPHATICALLY believe that shooting Trump is NOT the answer, he is still the man that he is, and an assassination attempt does not make him a better one. President Biden has to be Presidential and pull his punches (and his adds) for a bit. I do not.)

[moomin279]

Trumps running mate shot her own puppy? America he cant win im begging

[becomingv-sobro]

Run for President as a write in candidate from New York but a political outsider that embodies the holy unity. Congress is fractured down the middle and though it is a duopoly it is broken. If it’s broke, fix it. That’s my motto, but then again I’m a Magnum cum laude engineer from the university of Michigan. Go blue, team red. I also have the better part of 15 years experience and Brandon invasion and new product development engineering, and big Corp. The former gives me an understanding of artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning that will allow us to position ourselves as a leader in the field, the ladder Means I have the ability to halt corporate, crony capitalism & corporate greed ($1.5T/year) and corporate welfare and not paying their fair share of corporate taxes ($100B/year)

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Corporate Consolidation : more robust, higher market share, reduced costs and competitiveness on the market. But, this can lead to fewer options, layoffs, higher pricing strategies to pad their bottom line with our pocket books. To achieve corporate social responsibility, goals when they focus on short-term profits and ignore actual consumer needs. 46% of respondents CEOs and top executives play the most prominent role in corporate social responsibility.