this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's almost like we shouldn't have campaign cycles that run for years at a time. I think most sane countries have their entire election season run the span of just a couple months.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being Dutch I'd like to inform you that the leader of our current leading party never stops campaigning, always throwing one-liners everywhere and even tweeting from parliamentary debates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was mainly thinking of the French variation I read about. 2 weeks? As an American I’m mostly ignorant of European politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's the official campaign time, but in France the likes of Marine Le Pen will also be looking for ways to make the news all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I always upvote the showdy and our cream corn overlords.

[–] solsangraal 1 points 1 month ago

he'll still spend half of it golfing

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's worse for GOP!

They also have to make Vance NOT creep - even to their own!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Couch Cushion Crusher Vance?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

JD "Sofa King" Vance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They're saying he couches his replies.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They blew the small amount of money they did have front loading the attacks to built momentum , and the rest is tied up in all of Trump's legal cases, which will cost a fortune and he will lose almost all of.

He has to pay settlement money that was delayed, and now he has a whole new opponent to try and attack, with no money and a huge deficit until past election.

His assassination and best fundraising is all behind him now, and he used it all to attack Biden.

Yeah, sucks to be Trump, I just hope his supporters will wake up to reality. Take those blinders off and stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think you are discounting how the election itself can bring eyeballs and green backs. He is only to utter an outrageous statement and create a media buzz. Plus, he has won over most of the media, anyway. Or at least they are willing to grade Trump on a curve.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Rich scum protect their own. That is why US "news" conglomerates always treat him with gloved baby hands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

On the other hand though, there is a vast well of exhaustion with him from people outside his brain rotted fanatics. Given there is now a reasonable-ish alternative, the old rules are not as firm as they were.

[–] solsangraal 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i remember when trump started his 2020 campaign. in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And copied their slogan from the fucking purge!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vance can't dance

Vance can't talk

The only thing about him is the way that he walks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wow a Phil Collins reference about vance