Ah yes, and they can replace him with a real politician: RFK jr.
What a fucking distended asshole.
Prolapsed
and unwashed
goatse
I wish he was Somebody That I Used To Know.
Close enough; it’s what I read when I first saw the word and the sentiment is valid.
His actions say “goatse”, but his soul says “one guy one jar”.
He’s the jar, america is the guy.
Trump is 100% going to blame this loser when he fucks the election up, and the following insurrection attempt.
If Trump loses in November he’ll be in jail by January. The sentencing has already been scheduled. If the election is going to be stolen it’ll have to be stolen when the votes are cast or counted, not when the election is certified.
he’ll be in jail by January.
Sigh - no he won’t, so can we stop pretending like he will ever face punishment for anything?
I would believe a “house arrest” at Maralago. A house arrest where he gets to pick his security and visitors like Columbia did with Escobar.
I would believe a “house arrest” at Maralago.
I would too, unless Congress revokes his Secret Service detail. Secret Service protection is what makes imprisoning him difficult, it’s either house arrest or they rededicate an entire prison wing to just him.
I wouldn’t let him pick his security and restrict his visitors though. And absolutely no internet or social media. It’s supposed to be a punishment, after all.
I think he’d just ditch to someplace with no extradition so he can keep gassing up domestic terrorists from abroad.
Colombia
Thanks fixed.
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I expect he’s going to say he didn’t mean that he fabricated the story, but instead meant that he “created the story” in the sense of bringing it to the media’s attention
He did say exactly that in the interview when called out. It’s in the twitter thread linked, let me mirror it here.
He should definitely resign from the Senate. I’m not sure if he’s legally allowed to back out of the VP nomination.
He can’t be forced to serve but it may be too late to get his name off of ballots. I’m pretty sure the rules for that vary by state, though. We’ve already then through this once this year with RFK.
He didn’t create it, but he should resign anyway because he is a sack of shit.
He should resign. He is a spineless piece of trash and will do and say anything for power.
No one who voted or will vote for him gives a shit anyway though, so the only way he’s going to go is if R does the right thing which, we know how that will play out.
Thats probably why Trump picked him.
Trump picked him because he said he wouldn’t have certified the election in 2020.
I’ll never quit! First attempt… I’ll never leave his side! Second attempt… Oh shit this is real! Fuck that! Yeah Haitians are nice people I shouldn’t have lied! I’m sorry. I’m subjugating, quitting, resigning, whatever you want!
Oh that’s it, just the two? Yeah I’m never leaving his side! Even if Haitians eat all my cats.
Have we ever had a presidential candidate swap, and then a VP swap in the same election year before?
Ballots are already getting printed and early voting will start soon.
Can he be swapped? I thought the reason Biden got swapped is because he wasn’t locked in yet, but now the candidates are locked in.
That’s a good question. Unfortunately we’re living in interesting times.
I’m not so sure that he can be. He was nominated by Trump, and the party as a whole voted on both Trump and Vance, together. Would they need a new convention in order to select a new VP? I don’t know. I don’t think that anything like that has ever happened before, so it would be uncharted territory. Much like if the VP died in office.
They could always say that JD is officially on the ticket, but he is going to resign day 1 and let RFK Jr. have the job…
I’m not entirely sure that the president can simply appoint a new VP once they’re in office, since VP is an elected position.
It’s a fascinating question, and I hope that there’s never any reason to see it answered.
Agnew resigned. Nixon nominated Ford to replace. Congress approved the nomination. Ford became vp and became president when Nixon resigned. Ford repeated the process FOR whomever he selected for VP.
We truly do not live in a democracy
VP can resign at any time though. I’d have to double check, but I don’t think there is a line if succession for the VP, since the President is over the VP, they can just select a new VP, although Congress may have to have a majority vote to accept the appointment.
Now to go check how good my HS government class was almost 20 years ago…
If the VP spot is vacant, the president selects a new VP who must then be confirmed by the House and Senate; per the 25th amendment:
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Hmmm, simple majority vote. Interesting. So if we somehow got a Democratic house with a Trump presidency, they could just refuse to confirm any VP at all, which would make the speaker of the House 2nd in line for the presidency.
The crazy thing is: If he hadn’t admitted this, there wouldn’t have been calls for his resignation. The Republican party is fine with spreading harmful misinformation, but admitting to it is a no-go.
The Republican party needs to have plausible deniability. In the conservative playbook, it’s okay to repeat things that they know for a fact are untrue, or to tell a lie of omission to further their agenda, because they can always walk it back at the point in time which they are receiving blowback by saying they didn’t know it wasn’t true or that they didn’t have all the facts at hand. Assuming that the lie doesn’t manifest itself into truth or that there are enough people who care enough about the real truth to bother fact checking it at all to the point where it would necessarily generate any kind of controversy.
This was Vance saying the quiet part out loud, probably by accident, and his pivot was not convincing at all.
He broke kayfabe.
Please don’t let him resign. We need him to keep making the trump campaign look even worse.
The people calling for it want him to resign as I’mSenator. It’s not really resigning if they just pick a new VP nominee
He is such a loser, no wonder Trump picked him as VP. They smell their own.
Or, and I know it’s going to sound like a conspiracy theory, Trump picked JD because JD is so weird, and he knew that JD would tank. So when Trump drops JD it’ll give him a boost, like the one the democrats got when Biden dropped out. Trump has repeatedly kept lowering people’s expectations, to the point that if he somehow managed to put the round peg in the round hole, it would be a success. So imagine the boost Trump would get, for making the obvious decision to drop JD.
But that plan requires that Trump is able to play the long game, and stay quiet about it. Two things we know isn’t plausible.
But it sounds like he can’t drop JD. It is not an option and i am sure someone would have told him this, if it was his plan
They have so many people stacked at the polls and swing states that they’re not worried about actually winning by performance.
There were theories that when RFK jr flipped they wanted him at the VP candidate hard, but they were already stuck with Vance. Conspiracy theory time…they’re purposely tanking the already wildly unpopular Vance so it wouldn’t seem like such a fickle move.
If there is any conspiracy here, I would be more likely to believe the one where JD Vance was a plant whose goal is to sabotage Trump’s campaign.
Although, I still think it’s most likely that they are just incompetent idiots, and aren’t sabotaging themselves on purpose at all.
Oh I totally think you’re right in applying Hanlon’s razor here. The opposite would spell doom.
But sometimes you’ve got to wonder how incompetent can they be. And at those times “they’re not babbling buffoons, it’s a clever ruse” seems a plausible explanation. I mean Trump parading his mistress on the campaign trail, what the actual fuck?
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.
Ironically, Vance’s attempt to point out imagined “suffering” has led to actual suffering by his own constituents.
Wow. What a horrible piece of shit. I knew he was ‘bad news’. But like. God damn. You’re a fucking moron. A perfect Trump pick for VP.
If my eyes rolled back any further I’d go blind.
It’s so disheartening that the polls are basically tied. However much they can be trusted
Honestly I really really doubt that.
Yeah but smack in the middle of the range of expected traitorous republican behaviors.
I’ve been saying for a while now the easiest way for trump to regain the upper hand is to kill JD Vance. I hope he doesn’t do it, but he killed a border security bill because he thought he’d be able to run on it. (Its a wasteful, racist bill, but for the people who accept the corporate media framing on immigration, it would have eased their concerns)
Do you mean kill literally or metaphorically?
Take angry orange with him
