Vance is one of the least popular vice-presidential picks this century.
    • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

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      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I don’t know about that… but then I made sure to read about her past as mayor of Wasilla and before that. She is incredibly malicious and petty and vindictive.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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        1 month ago

        Vance 100% knows what he’s doing. He accepted that he had to sell his soul to become a successful politician.

    • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
      61·
      1 month ago

      Palin at least gave grist for porn (nalin’ Palin). Furniture porn was hilarious before Vance, is still funnier without humans.

  • tourist@lemmy.world
    101·
    1 month ago

    I mean, yeah, I would be fine with leaving Palin alone in a room with my furniture.

  • jj4211@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Palin alienated anyone vaguely in the middle, but on the other hand she had at least some particular support that she brought distinct from McCain (basically Tea Party folks that were not particularly excited by establishment republican nor McCain).

    Vance doesn’t have any particular support, he only gets indirect support for people who are “republican no matter what” or “MAGA all the way”, but those people were already covered by Trump. Even in his own state his margin of victory was much slimmer than the other republicans that swept Ohio in 2022, and Ohio’s not even a state considered to be a risk to Trump’s campaign.

    He was just a tremendously bad choice with no strategic benefit. The VP pick should somehow provide some coverage for demographics not hit by the presidential candidate, and Trump instead went with someone with very limited popularity that is a strict subset of people already supporting Trump.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      She also brought in the evangelicals because she was one of them. And she had the same false piety the other evangelical darlings have.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      True, he only brings the few techno autocrats. Though that does bring money (though some of that money, like Elon’s, would have gone there anyway).

      But he was picked because he’d do what Vance wouldn’t and overthrow the election.

      • norimee@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        he’d do what Vance wouldn’t and overthrow the election

        Pence, Vance, shitty Underpants…
        same, same but different…

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      After seeing what the cultists were going to do to Pence, and that Trump was going to allow it, no one else was interested in being his VP. The only option was a bootlicker.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        While the list was certainly constrained, he did have a line of boot lickers. Perhaps none more ardent than Tim Scott.

        Given how they keep want to accuse Harris of ‘not being really black’, maybe they would have wanted to have Tim Scott, so it’s still terrible but at least it’s not as completely insane as two white guys trying to gatekeep being black.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    But since then, he has faced a rash of bad headlines about his past comments calling Harris a “childless cat lady,” his past support for a national abortion ban and even a baseless internet rumor about having sex with a couch.

    It may be baseless, but it’s quite plausible because he is just so…uh…the way he is. Trump, Vance, and RFK are all kinda weird. Hugging and kissing the flag, playing with dead things, etc etc.

    • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I think there’s a fun bit of linguistics there. If you say more unpopular it implies that both are unpopular and one is even more so. If you say less popular, it implies that they are both popular, but one is to a lesser degree.

      • norimee@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        For me, less popular would also include people who are indifferent about them, just less people exited. Doesn’t necessarily mean that people really dislike them.

        More unpopular seems to me there are more people who are actively against them, dislike them.

        I can be not popular, without being unpopular at all.

        But english isn’t my native or main language, so…

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Considering that Vance’s biggest accomplishment so far is writing a best-selling book, in which he cosplays as a poor person while trashing rural Americans, this about checks out.