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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    This is because Trumpā€™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 presidentā€™s known weaknesses.

    They said: ā€œYou 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 Trumpā€™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 ā€œrunning on an extreme Project 2025 agenda ā€“ and the American people deserve to know that theyā€™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.ā€

    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 ā€œtoo damn weird.ā€

    ā€œVance was essentially created in a lab by Peter Thiel,ā€ the person said, referring to the PayPal co-founder and major Republican donor who has funded numerous ā€œnew rightā€ political candidates.


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      4 months ago

      Thatā€™s assuming that the Democratsā€™ opposition research cuts through editorial directives at the billionaire-owned media and ā€œfact checkingā€ 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 someoneā€™s name wrong or something, and that Mother Jones story about mandatory period tracking or privatising the Weather Service will be shadowbanned as ā€œfalseā€ 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.