• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    I genuinely thought this would’ve been his pick to begin with.

    But even if he does, I think it can only backfire. Remember, the vast majority of sexist scum fall under the MAGA banner. Doing that shows Trump is weak to those same people and now he begins pulling away from his own base.

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    Guess that’s why she doesn’t like that a whole bunch of her supporters are now supporting Harris.

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      Unfortunately for her, a whole bunch of her supporters supported her because they hate Donald Trump.

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    Having no principles undermines her only appeal. The moment she accepts a trump VP offer is the moment she lights any remaining credibility she has on fire.

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    …Democrats had already “set a precedent” by changing their ticket.

    Lol! No they didn’t. That’s like saying I already set a precedent by changing my dinner plans before I committed to a dinner place.

    Also, dude - you can’t even decide who your VP is, how can anyone expect you to make actual decisions? I’m not voting for him anyway, but my question still stands.

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      Also, dude - you can’t even decide who your VP is, how can anyone expect you to make actual decisions?

      You think they care? In a first past the post system like that with only two viable parties you could have Jesus himself vs actual Hitler and it would still be close to 50/50.

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    This is the second post today where I’m just impressed with the person’s teeth. In the last post someone mentioned dentures. It probably applies here too. But not much more difference. Nikki seemed half decent but then showed us her true boot licking colors. Plus she wears more mascara than Bens.

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    Wasn’t it Don Jr that convinced his dad to pick Vance? Not that I think Trump concerns himself much with his family, but he’s going to have to throw someone under the bus for the decision to go with Vance in the first place. Don Jr might have to go back to being 5th favorite child.

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      It it happens, Trump will make Vance withdraw to save face and Vance will probably do it to stay in Trump’s good graces.

      That will backfire, of course, because he’ll turn on Vance and start calling him a loser as he does with everyone that he throws overboard.

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    Sure, just remember, if you change who’s on the ticket after the convention, you can’t really complain if the Democrats complain who’s on the ticket before theirs.

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      They will forget, because fox news is going to upload their only current political memory every day at 6pm.

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    Paul Begala- the guy who sat there nodding along with everything Jon Stewart said as he berated both him and Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. Just totally aware of how awful he was.

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        And many of them still do. It’s a weird useful idiot/political survival thing. He’s their useful idiot to get what they want… but they better play by the new rules, lest they get Penced.

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          My imagined conversation when Vance was chosen as VP:

          “I liked how it sounded, Trump-Pence. It’s too bad he’s a traitor. It had a nice ring to it, everybody said so. Do we have a Spence? Maybe a Dense?” “Mr. President, the closest I see is Vance.” “Trump-Vance. I like it. It’s close don’t you think? He’s said some nasty, nasty things about me. But, Trump-Vance? I like it. He’s saying good things now, isn’t he? He’ll do the right thing, he knows what happened when the last guy didn’t do the right thing. He wrote a book, they’re telling me nobody is reading it. Everybody still reads Art of the Deal, imagine that? Vance, Pence, Vence, Pence, we should say it like that. I like it.”

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        It might help with the swing voters - which evidently somehow still exist, but it would make a bunch of the MAGA base stay home on Election Day.

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    I dare say he would just to claw some women voters. I’m surprised he didn’t do it in the first place.

    I’m actually more surprised he doesn’t just install Jnr as his VP so there can be two Trumps in office.

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    I have no idea whether that’s a good strategic response to a Harris/Kelly ticket, but speaking personally, I find Nikki Haley more-appealing than I do J.D. Vance, so I suppose it’d appeal to at least some voters.

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      No idea who this cuck was but whatever he was saying sounded brain dead in 2024 lol

      Trump prolly found out this guy is deff not resoanying with anyone besides base.

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      For this reason, I would much, much rather JD Vance stay on the ticket.

      Nikki Haley… I think she could so some damage to Harris’s election chances. It’s gonna be a tough fight to win this November, and Haley is much more palatable to moderates than JD Vance is.