Monday, July 15, 2024

Trump’s VP pick is JD Vance

Donald Trump has selected Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his presidential running mate.

Posted by qcp at 03:12 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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Well, that's the GOP gone Full Crazy Fascist Mode.

"Trump's VP pick is a naked authoritarian

The thing to understand about J.D. Vance is that he doesn't believe in democracy.

Vance has said that, had he been vice president in 2020, he would have carried out Trump's scheme for the vice president to overturn the election results.

He has fundraised for January 6 rioters. He once called on the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a Washington Post columnist who penned a critical piece about Trump.

After last week's assassination attempt on Trump, he attempted to whitewash his radicalism by blaming the shooting on Democrats' rhetoric about democracy without an iota of evidence.

This worldview translates into a very aggressive agenda for a second Trump presidency.

In a podcast interview, Vance said that Trump should "fire every single mid-level bureaucrat" in the US government and "replace them with our people."

If the courts attempt to stop this, Vance says, Trump should simply ignore the law."

www.vox.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-15 03:40 PM

Vance is concerning because it's like if Trump had youth and a brain to self-monitor what he was saying publicly.

I wanted to celebrate that this is the first millennial on a Presidential ticket, also a politician who does not seem to be the type to be aiming for POTUS since age 17, and also a prior enlisted Marine. Yet, this guy is very slimy and supported by a tech sugar daddy who has done a poor job of hiding his fascination of techno-fascism (Peter Thiel).

#2 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-07-16 10:27 AM

"Reprehensible": J.D. Vance's journey from "Never Trump" to VP nominee
www.axios.com

... Eight years after wondering whether former President Trump could be "America's Hitler," Sen. J.D. (R-Ohio) has become Trump's running mate.

Why it matters: From a "Never Trump guy" to one of Trump's fiercest defenders, Vance's conversion to MAGA acolyte stands out in the former president's inner circle. ...

During the 2016 election, Vance wrote that he went "back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical ----- like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler."

- - - The comparison between Trump and Adolph Hitler was included in a message Vance sent to Democratic Georgia state Rep. Josh McLaurin, his old college roommate. ...

After launching his Senate bid, Vance deleted a series of social media posts critical of Trump.

- - - In one from the 2016 presidential election, he called Trump "reprehensible" for his rhetoric toward immigrants and Muslims, according to CNN. ...

- - - In another, Vance said he was voting for Evan McMullin, a former CIA operations officer who ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election.

Zoom in: When Trump's infamous "Access Hollywood" tape was released, Vance warned fellow Christians in a since deleted tweet that "everyone is watching when we apologize for this man." ...

[emphasis mine]

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-16 01:42 PM

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