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[–] [email protected] 266 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Schumer is goading Trump into keeping him. He knows Trump is too prideful to let a Democrat be right about something.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

This is actually a brilliant strategy then. It's a lose-lose.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 3 months ago

I love how they’re fucking with him. It’s going to cause him to do more silly shit.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 months ago (33 children)

Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence is scared. He's looking really bad, the dementia is really getting to him. He picked a VP that he forgot was openly talking shit about him and loves fucking couches. He needs to just drop out, it's embarrassing.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Absolute panic and disarray. I wonder who he would go with. Logically, it would have to be a woman or person of color to counter Harris, right? Would there be anyone who would boost him among pro-Palestinian voters, I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I don't think he wants a VP who will strengthen him at all. I think he's too prideful.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Vance wasn't picked to complement Trump; he was picked to compliment Trump.

(I wish I could say I was clever enough to have created that.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I don't think he's beyond a "token DEI hire" who is willing to publicly fellate him if they boost his numbers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

That would offer the projection that the GOP is so fond of exhibiting..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Maybe that psycho bitch that's running for secretary of state? She's lying like a cheap rug, practicing stolen valor, and breaking election laws.

She's perfect

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

Would there be anyone who would boost him among pro-Palestinian voters, I wonder?

I doubt it, when Trump is on the record as stating that Netanyahu's main problem is he isn't going fast enough.

Trump, who routinely touts his support of Israel more broadly, has reportedly said he supports Israel in its continued “war on terror” after the October 7 attack by Hamas. And like members of the Israeli government, he has cast doubt on the continued viability of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been a cornerstone of US policy for decades.

At times, however, he has also been critical of the Israeli campaign. He’s said Israel should “get it over with … get back to peace and stop killing people.” But he’s also emphasized they “have to have a victory” and implied that what’s really the issue is that Israel is “absolutely losing the PR war” and “losing its power” in Congress.

https://www.vox.com/politics/353037/trump-gaza-israel-protests-biden-election-2024

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Repubs have been campaigning on a platform of bigotry and hatred for decades so I don't see a woman or minority VP happening. Also Donald is personally a bigot and his eggshell ego could not handle the idea of a VP boosting him.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that you're wrong, but I'd point out he had Omarosa clinging to him at the beginning of his first term. He doesn't seem above using women or minorities when convenient to make himself look good. He seems to really want the Kanye and rap crowd to love him, as another example.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (7 children)

He’s already made his commitments to Netanyahu public. He’d be trying to reclaim the people on the right that he’s lost, not woo voters from the left. I think Haley’s the most likely replacement.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It wouldn't necessarily need to be a PoC or woman but Vance was an extremely weak pick - he's basically just a little uncharismatic sychophant from an electorally unhelpful state. Trump would probably prefer to get a swing state candidate or someone who brings votes to the table.

Weirdly enough, that might actually be Nikki Haley since she captured the "reasonable" side of the party (her policy stances were a fucking train wreck especially on reproductive rights).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nikki Haley is not a sychophant though. He learned that lesson with Pence. He wants someone who will worship him and follow his instructions.

Not some "free thinker".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

He absolutely wants a sychophant... but not more than he wants presidential immunity and it's not clear if the Supreme Court's bizarre rulings are enough to give it to him without him being elected... right now they're trying but it's pretty clear Democrats want to overturn that.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He’s gonna replace pour man’s Donald Junior with actual Donald Junior.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My Pillow Guy for VP. C'mon it would be so much fun!

[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plot twist, that's who Trump was actually trying to get but there was a misunderstanding when he asked for "that guy with the fucking cushions".

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

"i said fucking cushions, not cushion fucker!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hell yeah, that would be hilarious. Mike Lindell, the Jesse Ventura we have at home.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Couch-fucker to That Pillow Fucker.. Yes i like this timeline

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I think everyone forgot how fast the Trump team rotated during his government (what was the name of that guy that lasted 10 days? Moochie?) in comparison to Biden's government, where AFAIK, there's haven't been a lot of changes on his team.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

And if he replaces couchfucker, he'll remind everyone of how unstable a Trump presidency is.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Anthony Scaramucci: My favorite slimeball. Saw the other CHUDs in the Trump administration and then bounced after eleven days after realizing that "the juice ain't worth the squeeze". I wouldn't turn my back on him, but I would trust him over all other Trump world alumni since he has enough self preservation not to burn the world around him.

Edit: He had an unhinged interview with a reporter and was dismissed a couple days after. Go listen to the audio; I'm laughing so god damn hard at it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

NOTE: Moochie died on the way back to his home planet

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Replacing Vance now would also undermine any argument they might make about switching the names on ballots for the Democrats. Those aren't valid, anyway--Biden wasn't the official nominee until the convention says so; nothing was locked in--but they would now lose the possibility of using it rhetorically.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

they would now lose the possibility of using it rhetorically.

I think you're over-estimating their commitment to logic, consistency or reality.

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[–] solsangraal 20 points 3 months ago

never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kamala should sue RNC for “undermining the will of the people” in every fucking state. Litigate that shit until the last second before polls close

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Trump's communications director, Steven Cheung, denied the reports in a statement to Newsweek on Tuesday, "President Trump is thrilled with the choice he made with Senator Vance, and they are the perfect team to take back the White House. And any reporting to the contrary is nothing but ridiculous fake news from either nonexistent sources or individuals who have no idea what's going on.

Saving this quote for when Trump replaces Vance.

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[–] solsangraal 22 points 3 months ago

couchfucker

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the funny part is that he's hated by both sides. A new Ted Cruz.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

He's cracking yall

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Hey, with all this talk of unity and how the Democrats should be picking a Republican to run on some kind of centrist wet-dream ticket, how about the "liberal media" starts beating the drum for donnie to kick JD off the ticket and add someone like AOC to the ticket?

You know: for "unity". For the tone - the Republicans should be utterly capitulating to the Democratic Party.

Why does no one in the corporate media ever suggest it is the Republican Party that should cave to the leftist majority in this country, but instead, the reverse is something that comes up. All. The. Time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

…and the same people who call the Democratic Party “chaotic” for replacing Biden with Kamala will have no problem shifting gears to adore whatever wretched troll they scrounge up to replace Vance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Can't wait for Trump to come out and say his campaign should be reimbursed for all dumbass merch they had made as well. What a clownshow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

They need a replacement alright, but not just at the bottom of the ticket.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So I'm hearing that Harris' VP announcement will be in 11 days.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Democratic convention is 8/19 to 8/22.

I expect the announcement on or just before the 19th. So 20-21 days.

Floor speech from the VP candidate on the 21st. Harris on the 22nd.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it because of all the couch fuckin'?

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