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Trump Announces Pick on Truth Social: JD Vance

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How long will it be before the left claims that the thumbs-up gesture is a "well-known symbol of white supremacy," and racist black TikTokers start claiming "the thumbs up was a sign that masters had just used their thumbs to gouge out slaves' eyes"?

They keep claiming that with "Good Morning," just completely making it up that "Good Morning" was slavemasters baiting slaves after having tortured them all night.

Strangely, social media companies never ban that as poisonous, hate-speech disinformation.


Update: Hot off the Truth:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.'s book, "Hillbilly Elegy," became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond....
Jul 15, 2024, 3:04 PM

More:

J.D. Vance
@JDVance1

Today is not just some isolated incident.

The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.

That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.

David Axelrod
@davidaxelrod

If @JDVance1 is on the short list for VP, this Tweet, sent an hour after the assassination attempt in PA, ought to disqualify him in the eyes of the Trump campaign.

Wrong vibe in that moment. And as we now are learning, the gunman's profile doesn't seem to match Vance's premise. But at least wait and see!
Trump probably doesn't want a shoot-from-the-hip VP.

LOL, the left continues pushing their Assassination Prep (as Mollie hemingway calls the left's dehumanization of Trump and incitement to "kill Hitler") while telling the right to "lower the temperature of the rhetoric."

Thanks to AlphaChad4Ever

The rest of this post is now irrelevant, but here's what I wrote a few minutes ago:

This last tidbit -- about Youngkin speaking tonight -- may indicate that he's the nominee.

The American Conservative
@amconmag

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will speak Monday evening at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin, two people familiar with the plans told 8News Virginia.

On the other hand, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the night for the Vice Presidential candidate to speak usually on the penultimate night, that is, Wednesday night? Trump is a maverick, though, so that tradition may mean very little.

I mentioned this in the sidebar: A commenter posted that oddsmakers have increased the odds that Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin is the pick.

I prefer Vance, but Youngkin is governor of Virginia, and Virginia is a swing state whereas Ohio is not (and hasn't been for years). Polls show Trump tied with Biden in blue Virginia. Well, two polls showed Trump tied there, but a NYT/Siena poll just dropped showing Biden with a three point lead, 48-45.

It's close.

If you take Virginia from Biden, it's over. I think it's already over and you don't have to scheme to take Virginia, but the old idea that you pick a governor to swing a state would suggest Youngkin is the better candidate.

This is a terrible, terrible idea, obviously:


Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

I have just heard from a TOP Source that RFK Jr. is in Milwaukee meeting with Trump right now on the Vice Presidency. Trump has yet to decide his VP.


Trump is ahead, he does not need to pick a lunatic leftwinger to win. Let's not forget that Trump is himself 78, and overweight-- and he has assassins gunning for him. The Vice President may well become President (unfortunately).

I don't believe this claim. It sounds insane. Who knows, maybe Trump knows that while conservatives appreciate Youngkin, we know he's a corporate moderate from the despised capital class of the party, and he's faking us out by talking about RFK Jr. so when he names Youngkin we'll say, "Whew, at least he picked a Republican."

Trump will announce his pick at 4:30, commenters are saying.

nick "lindy"quist
@nick_lindquist

can't believe they made tim scott get married for no reason

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Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:03 PM




Comments

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1 anybody's Ok by me

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2024 03:03 PM (dCxaZ)

2 I have not been asked. Although the pay and guaranteed lodgings for a few years would be nice.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at July 15, 2024 03:03 PM (OUMaO)

3 Top 10

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 15, 2024 03:03 PM (elaR+)

4 But Sweet Meteor of Death is still in the running, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:03 PM (OBwus)

5 show up after a long absence, nab a Firstie!

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2024 03:04 PM (dCxaZ)

6 3rd. I'm the 2nd loser!

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 15, 2024 03:04 PM (elaR+)

7 Sweeney and Hendricks Boobies for VP

It'll provide all the insulation needed for any future bullet spray at Trump

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:04 PM (DBZuM)

8 Just in-Ace has been spotted in a Vespa motorcade headed towards the airport.

Posted by: We Deport-You Decide at July 15, 2024 03:04 PM (V5BDR)

9 I don't have a dog in this race, I just hope its someone that will actually aid Trump rather than undermine him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 15, 2024 03:04 PM (N1DT3)

10 Thanks for the Veep thread, Ace!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:04 PM (64Zez)

11 Seems like every potential VP candidate has something going against them, from the comments here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (DRSnL)

12 You all do know that these tea-leaves and entrail readings go on every four years, and it's rarely if ever who you think it will be? We'll find out in 90 minutes. I still think the odds are at least 50% that it's a leftfield pick.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (iFTx/)

13 Love the graphic, so obviously its someone not on the graphic.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (sX1BW)

14 Tulsi or
Youngkin

please

Posted by: Big Star at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (Modkf)

15 I love the Marco picture has him sipping water.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (uHd5d)

16 Rubio, of intimately examined garbage by furry night Ewok, gets the Ace of Spades again.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (OBwus)

17 603 Just in. The VP pick will disappoint many.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:02 PM (sX1BW)

=======

Not me!

I can't be disappointed. Or elated. Or anything.

I'm dead inside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

18 Burnum if ya' got'em.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (X8fgo)

19 I like Vance

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (IyPmt)

20 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

21 Afternoon.

Trump has already stated 'Swamy won't be the running mate but he might still serve in a second administration.

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (ZGZSd)

22 Please don't fuck this up...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (wtvvX)

23 Thanks for the Veep thread, Ace!

-------------

Yes, finally we can start talking about this.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (sX1BW)

24 Tulsi! She certainly tanned, and she's rested. "I can't spare that woman. She surfs!"

Seriously, I prefer JD; he's very smart, former (enlisted) Marine, young, and has shown he has flexibility (former never Trump, but now very loyal). Even Younkin would be okay. Too bad we can't have Winsome Sears.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (G5Juy)

25 can�t believe they made tim scott get married for no reason
------

Heh.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (G0vdT)

26 I'm just imagining Kamala debating either of the three pictured above and ironically, I'm cackling like Kamala.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (KbCG3)

27
Anyone else just happy the convention dorks aren't wearing those stupid straw hats anymore?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (mCw1s)

28 Its the guy everybody wants:

Mitt Romney!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (CKFI3)

29 Tucker Carlson

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (IyPmt)

30 I love the Marco picture has him sipping water.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (uHd5d)



Sipping? It looks like he's deep throating that bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

31 And I just noticed that the ace of spades is Vance.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (DRSnL)

32 I've never played poker. Does "four aces and a king" signify a special hand?

The pic on the card of Youngkin makes him look like Steve McQueen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (J2vNu)

33 Ok, this will be off topic. How come I have never heard anyone here talk about Joanna Cameron? I had to find out about her from John McWhorter's course on Language Families. I am at the same time disappointed in you people and impressed with his taste.

Posted by: Mishdog at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (NcDyu)

34 Kennedy and Trump were talking about assassinations and the IC

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (2NXcZ)

35 El Chupacabra will be VP.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (OBwus)

36 I would prefer Youngkin, simply because Vance can do more constructive work in the Senate, while Virginia has a deep bench at the executive level and can afford to give up its governor.

But I have no deep objection to Vance.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (jGGMD)

37 Viveck would be an outsider and brown

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

38 Burnum if ya' got'em.
Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (X8fgo)
-

Karl Rove's guy?

I sure hope not!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (0JGsp)

39 Whoever is conducting the alleged "investigation" into the security failure in Butler needs to first interview whoever greenlit the location of the stage where Trump was to speak.
I couldn't believe it when I saw an overhead view, it was a clear shot from the neighboring rooftop.

Trump definitely has got a highly placed mole within his ranks.

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (dCxaZ)

40 I guess it depends on what "job" Trump has in mind for his VP. Most VP's are just window dressing. Maybe Trump would like his VP this time to be less useless (and hopefully less of a backstabbing piece of shit.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (Q4IgG)

41 Seems like every potential VP candidate has something going against them, from the comments here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (DRSnL)

The perfect is the enemy of the good. This is the Way of the Horde.

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (ZGZSd)

42 I'm rooting for Youngkin.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (G0vdT)

43 Saw on Twitter that a motorcade was seen leaving J.D. Vance's home.

Posted by: I identify as a Hippopotamus at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (eXKZU)

44 If Trump does not pick Vance he is doing a disservice to himself and this country. Like Trump, Vance can't be bought.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (/U5Yz)

45 I'm not doing anything at the moment. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Liz Cheney at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (Y8lzz)

46 And, Trump's VP pick is.......

JEB!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (wtvvX)

47 Let's not forget that Trump is himself 78, and overweight-- and he has assassins gunning for him. The Vice President may well become President (unfortunately).

This is why I would pick someone who would be wholly unacceptable to the powers that would want me dead, like that move in chess where if you check the King you lose the Queen.

Posted by: Flyguy at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (HA1lM)

48 31 And I just noticed that the ace of spades is Vance.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (DRSnL)

ohhhhhh

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (64Zez)

49 Yes, finally we can start talking about this.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:06 PM (sX1BW)

=====

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (DRSnL)

50 About Vance:

In 2016, Vance was openly critical of Trump, calling himself a "Never Trump guy" and stating he "never liked him".

He even went as far as suggesting Trump could be "America's Hitler" in a private message.

Vance did not vote for Trump in the 2016 election and wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled "Mr. Trump Is Unfit For Our Nation's Highest Office".

He changed his tune in 2021 but this makes him suspect, even Cruz changed his tune earlier than that

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (DBZuM)

51 It's Vance - CNN

Posted by: hart at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (Unmm2)

52 I hope he picks someone that no one expects but who turns out to be perfect.

Like Tyrus.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (Ffcpk)

53 DDayCobra says Trump announces JD Vance from truth social

Posted by: Methos at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (Dnobf)

54 Viveck would be an outsider and brown
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (NtVYv)
-

A woman of color.

Go ahead. Define "woman." I dare you!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (0JGsp)

55 Breaking; Vance is now Hitler 2

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (iHiQe)

56 Is PDT going to line up the candidates and fire them one by until he has the VP?

That would be awesome.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (PUVOR)

57 41 Seems like every potential VP candidate has something going against them, from the comments here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (DRSnL)

The only absolutely no for me is Nikki Haley.. Oh and RFK jr

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (IyPmt)

58 ACE UPDATE:

The Veepstakes: Trump Announces Pick on Truth Social: JD Vance

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (64Zez)

59 that graph makes me laugh, hard!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (CIS44)

60 And, Trump's VP pick is.......

JEB!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (wtvvX)


Please clap.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (jGGMD)

61 37 Viveck would be an outsider and brown
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway


SOS ?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (/U5Yz)

62 I like JD Vance

Posted by: steevy at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (HJ9BW)

63 My person is not on the list.

Would accept

Sanders
Lake
DeSantis

And not in that order.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (7WnGI)

64 If Vance is the pick...there will be 2 open Seante Seats in Ohio this cycle.

I don't like that result.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (X8fgo)

65 Damn...my high stakes 18 cent bet on Stefanick didn't pan out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

66 The Gen z techie kids love Vivek.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (rxv4u)

67 twitter link

https://tinyurl.com/4vppbm42

Posted by: Methos at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (Dnobf)

68 I haven't read Hillbilly Elegy but I will now.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (64Zez)

69 Vance ? Super... A real fighter

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (IyPmt)

70 I think it may be Vance. That's my hunch anyway. Can anyone confirm?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (sX1BW)

71 50: Younkin is the man. Paxton AG, angry and scrappy

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (2NXcZ)

72 Vance looks a lot like US Grant.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (CKFI3)

73 Seems like every potential VP candidate has something going against them, from the comments here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:05 PM (DRSnL)

Funny how no human is perfect huh?

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (iHiQe)

74 Uffffffff

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (JeYYB)

75 Awsome

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (CKFI3)

76 68 I haven't read Hillbilly Elegy but I will now.
Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (64Zez)

I highly recommend it

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (IyPmt)

77 Not a surprise. Pence had leaked earlier in the day as well. Guess you can't hide a motorcade.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (7WnGI)

78 Younkin, to even it out and help get people over their hesitation with Trump.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (rEmVK)

79 update: It's vance, he just announced on Truth Social

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (KRtlO)

80 It's Vance

Posted by: Strelnikov at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (LrEPG)

81 Vance did not vote for Trump in the 2016 election and wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled "Mr. Trump Is Unfit For Our Nation's Highest Office".

He changed his tune in 2021 but this makes him suspect, even Cruz changed his tune earlier than that

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:08 PM (DBZuM)

I would suspect that this could describe a great deal of Trump's now supporters.

I don't care what you did or said yesterday. What's your plan going forward? All that matters. If JD says he hates Trump but hates the establishment more, good enough for me.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (KbCG3)

82 Vance has a beard.
That means he can swing a double bit battle axe.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (6TUIG)

83 Seems like every potential VP candidate has something going against them, from the comments here.

Yeah but to be fair even Trump has SOMETHING that goes against him.

Posted by: steevy at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (HJ9BW)

84 43 Saw on Twitter that a motorcade was seen leaving J.D. Vance's home.
Posted by: I identify as a Hippopotamus at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (eXKZU)
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Well the announcement happens in 85 minutes. I hope he has a fast driver and faster pilot.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (G0vdT)

85 The perfect VP pick is obviously . . . Elric Blade. Think Bernie Mac in Head of State.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (iFTx/)

86 70 I think it may be Vance. That's my hunch anyway. Can anyone confirm?
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:09 PM (sX1BW)

Ace has posted that as an update at the top of this thread!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (64Zez)

87 32 I've never played poker. Does "four aces and a king" signify a special hand?

The pic on the card of Youngkin makes him look like Steve McQueen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:07 PM (J2vNu)

Four aces is the highest four of a kind hand. Which is a pretty good hand only beaten by a straight flush(same suit all in a row) or a royal flush(highest possible straight flush, A,K,Q,J,10).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (eYoxG)

88 If both Trump and Vance don't come out on war horses, decked out in Revolutionary gear, then I'm voting for Biden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

89 Vance. Opportunist. Will wait for him to prove me wrong.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (7WnGI)

90 I dont trust Vance

His name ends in CE just like Pence!

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (DBZuM)

91 Vance the Viper.

Velociraptor?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (OBwus)

92 Fox News: Trump announces Ohio Sen JD Vance as his 2024 running mate

https://tinyurl.com/d8kuvfjy

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (ZGZSd)

93 It is Vance.

Posted by: Xipe Tptec at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (kzHlT)

94 DeSantis

Posted by: Constitutionalist at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (bHjPV)

95 The Gen z techie kids love Vivek.
Posted by: nurse ratche

I’m Neither a techie or GenX but I too love him.
Lots of time for him, he’s not even 40. Plus he has fuck you money and doesn’t have to worry about playing nice. He’s free to say what he wants.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (iHiQe)

96 Lets do the Vance dance.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (G0vdT)

97 Vance is young, smart and a fighter... Good choice

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (IyPmt)

98
Why Vance?
What does he bring to the ticket?

And don't say Ohio.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (mCw1s)

99 >>>87 32 I've never played poker. Does "four aces and a king" signify a special hand?

It's called a Royal Fizbin.

Posted by: Boss Jim Kirk at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (KRtlO)

100 It's Vance.

Posted by: ballistic at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (oqH4h)

101 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey


Hey, BD. How're you doing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (v6JzV)

102 Vance/Frawley 1958!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (YIxO9)

103 another Ivy league lawyer. yay.

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (25k9m)

104 Turns out, it was the micro-analysis of Rubio's trash can over time that took him out of the running. Disturbing findings-waiting to be dropped.

Posted by: A J Weberman at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (V5BDR)

105 This had to be announced in ad Vance.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (7WnGI)

106 do we like this

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (/7KEl)

107 Vice President Vance.

This choice pleases me. Like Trump, he is Not A Politician.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (RIvkX)

108 vance

Posted by: Big Star at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (Modkf)

109 What is great about Youngkin is that Sears woman. As Lt. Gov. she would step in. She is fierce.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (+H2BX)

110 David Axelrod
@davidaxelrod
If @JDVance1 is on the short list for VP, this Tweet, sent an hour after the assassination attempt in PA, ought to disqualify him in the eyes of the Trump campaign.
Wrong vibe in that moment. And as we now are learning, the gunman's profile doesn't seem to match Vance's premise. But at least wait and see!
Trump probably doesn't want a shoot-from-the-hip VP.
Quote
J.D. Vance
@JDVance1
Today is not just some isolated incident.

The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.

That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
Last edited
5:20 PM · Jul 13, 2024
7:40 AM · Jul 14, 2024

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (9aVck)

111 Can't say he was my first or second choice. In part because I don't like taking good Senators out of the Senate. But I hope he proves up and right for the job.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (sX1BW)

112 Vivian Vance?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (Aqu9a)

113 Neither a techie or GenZ that is.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (iHiQe)

114 Why Vance?
What does he bring to the ticket?

And don't say Ohio.
--
Super Kung-fu Grip.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (OBwus)

115 It's VANCE!!!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

116 Trump/Vance 2024!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (64Zez)

117 Vance is an acceptable choice.

He is at least keenly aware of the problems facing the working class.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (N1DT3)

118 >>>
What does he bring to the ticket?

he says almost all of the right things, and presumably his critique of current politics -- with the elites riding roughshod over the working class --- will resonate

Posted by: ace at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (KRtlO)

119 do we like this
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (/7KEl)


*holds cigarette lighter close to hair*

Posted by: spindrift at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (OguvZ)

120 Vance is Pence Jr. Untrustworthy and ready to evolve...but if that's who he chose, I'll vote for them

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (2NXcZ)

121 Vance has the highest upside IMO.

He's a smart, articulate dude who seems to actually care about the decline of American manufacturing and the rust belt/Appalachia.

He's also a hell of a dude for '28. I think it's the best pick possible.

Posted by: ballistic at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (oqH4h)

122 Vance is an awful, awful candidate. He's had one election, and he woefully underperformed, winning by about 6 while other Republicans in the same state and same year won by 15-25. Rob Portman won that Senate seat by 15-20 points in his races, and that was before Ohio's recent shift to the right.

Maybe it's Trump's flex? "I'm so confident in winning, look at how crappy my running mate is."

Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (ynbf0)

123 Today millions of Americans will be learnining that JD Vance is Hitler.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (xPl2J)

124 I interpret the Vance pick as Trump feeling completely confident that he has control of the GOP as a political party, that he no longer fears the establishment's power to block him, and that he's going to be closer to the revolutionary that people wanted the first time out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

125 If that fag Axelrod doesn't like Vance, that moves him up a bit for me.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (VavZF)

126 well, okay, I guess ... I liked Ben Carson

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (UWgy2)

127 112 Vivian Vance?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (Aqu9a)

-----
I lol'd.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (JeYYB)

128 Who the fuck cares what David Axelrod says about him?

Posted by: steevy at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (HJ9BW)

129 Sir Vance-a-Lot.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (G0vdT)

130 Palin, Pence, Vance tickets

Five syllable VP Picks

Painful rectal itch

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (YIxO9)

131 I don't hate RFK the way some of you do. I think he's definitely too left leaning, and if we're gauging these things solely on partisan politics, you don't give someone with whom you fundamentally disagree on a number of issues, that kind of a position.

But this is 2024. Personally, I'm for blowing up the 2-party system, as well as the Deep State, and I could see an argument as to why you would select someone who doesn't agree with the President on any number of issues. Especially one with as deep a motivation to blow up the Deep State as anybody. Including the Covid regime.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

132 I would suspect that this could describe a great deal of Trump's now supporters.

*****************

True, some peoples change of minds have been genuine, i genuinely believe Cruz changed for example, but Vance's conversion seemed more opportunistic

I hope Im wrong

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (DBZuM)

133 Vance is an acceptable choice.

He is at least keenly aware of the problems facing the working class.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian a

and he doesnt take any shit from the media

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (CIS44)

134 Hey, BD. How're you doing?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (v6JzV)
-

OK, I suppose. Things dragging along here as usual.

Calling it a night. About 10:15PM.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (0JGsp)

135 Four aces is the highest four of a kind hand. Which is a pretty good hand only beaten by a straight flush(same suit all in a row) or a royal flush(highest possible straight flush, A,K,Q,J,10).
Posted by: Red Turban


It can only be beaten by five aces.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (CKFI3)

136 Vance/Frawley 1958!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:11 PM (YIxO9)

Fred knew his shit!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (Aqu9a)

137 Why Vance?
What does he bring to the ticket?

------------

Very symmetrical yard signs.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (sX1BW)

138 who is bitching abut millennials now?

jk

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (25k9m)

139 90 I dont trust Vance

His name ends in CE just like Pence!

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:10 PM (DBZuM)

*Considers*

Im with Ranger. And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (PUVOR)

140 Did Trump announce it, or just Ryan Network

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (2NXcZ)

141 Let's VANCE!

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (63Dwl)

142 Oh well, then nevermind then.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

143 Hurray!!!!
Just got a copy of his book.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (t/2Uw)

144 I'm not overly impressed with Vance.

Seems rather lightweight to me.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (dGCAG)

145 >>>Can't say he was my first or second choice. In part because I don't like taking good Senators out of the Senate

me too but Ohio is pretty Republican these days, so hopefully we'll see another GOPer in the senate

then again, the governor is Mike DeWine, and evil Uniparty c*cksucker who will presumably appoint a similar Uniparty c*cksucker to the spot

But voters will at least get a chance to vote for someone else in a primary soon enough

Posted by: ace at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (KRtlO)

146 Well, Vance can take the aggressive role, and Trump can settle into his hero and statesman role that he's trying out with the convention speech re-write?

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (rEmVK)

147 I'm just glad it's a male. There, I said it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (/U5Yz)

148 Axelturfer has sent word to his concerny concerned people with lots of concerns that they should come to blogs like this one

Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (gKWVE)

149 Hmm. Will we hold his Senate seat?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (aD39U)

150 114 Why Vance?
What does he bring to the ticket?

And don't say Ohio.
--
Super Kung-fu Grip.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:12 PM (OBwus)

Flavor Crystals

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (wtvvX)

151 Well I was hoping for Tyrus because apparently there are not enough SS to go around and he could do his own bodyguards.

Oh well.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (Ffcpk)

152 a straight white male

this close to pride month, too

smh

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (25k9m)

153 Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

I don't like his abortion stance, but he's not for cutting energy or fertilizers until comparable replacements are available

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (2NXcZ)

154 Cyrus Vance

Cyrus the Virus

Vance is like the bad guy in ConAir.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (YIxO9)

155 I think that if Vance had not changed his mind about Trump being an unacceptable choice for President, Trump obviously would not be picking him now for VP.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (Zy6LG)

156 JD Vance and Kamala.

Now that’ is a contrast

Posted by: Redenzo at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (V/pbu)

157 Anyway, if the Trump/Vance ticket is elected, I hope Vance is ready for MAGA to blame all the second Trump term's failures on him, just like they're now blaming the first's on Pence.

Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (ynbf0)

158 >>Let's not forget that Trump is himself 78, ...

And judging from the photos of the assassination attempt, on warfarin (a blood thinner) indicating heart concerns.

Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (qUaw2)

159 consider the options who were in the running though

Haley
Scott
Rubio
Burgum
Vivek

Other than Youngkin, Vance seems like the least worst choice

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (DBZuM)

160 Good news!

Vance was my second pick Behind Vivek, which I see as having the most raw political talent and instincts to know what the base is thinking. But Vance will be a big strong voice to keep the Neocons in check

Posted by: Serious Cat at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (TaHi/)

161 He brings the South to the ticket.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (64Zez)

162 then again, the governor is Mike DeWine, and evil Uniparty c*cksucker who will presumably appoint a similar Uniparty c*cksucker to the spot

Himself.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (aD39U)

163 Listen to Vance in his media interviews. He’s cogent and articulate. His background is remarkable. He factually defends his positions. He’s well liked and reasonable. He will be a good choice.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (Fk3ck)

164 If you take the position of the letters v a n c e then raise them to the power of the square root of Trump’s golf handicap it spells Hitler.
- soon on Reddit

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (iHiQe)

165 How long til some women come forward to accuse Vance of sexual misconduct

bet Gloria Allred is working the phones as I write this

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (/7KEl)

166 At least Vance served in the Marines, along with an impressive resume.

He looks good on paper. I hope he is genuine.

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (fpVC1)

167 Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (ynbf0)

Hi Greg. Everyone say hi to Greg.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (gKWVE)

168
How about Ann Richards as VP? She'd be good.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (mCw1s)

169 RHEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (EGSGm)

170 Im with Ranger. And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (PUVOR)

I hear JD stands for some fruity Latin phrase that legal beagles use.

I don't trust Latin phrases. Or legal beagles.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (dGCAG)

171 It can only be beaten by five aces.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (CKFI3)

Fire up the Buick trunk!

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (7WnGI)

172 I saw on X it was going to be a woman and I thought please not Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (087+M)

173 Randy Barnett
@RandyEBarnett
VP Vance > Secret Service
Quote
Randy Barnett
@RandyEBarnett
He’s now assassination proof.
Quote
Abby D. Phillip
@abbydphillip·8m
NEWS: Former President Donald Trump has selected Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, Trump announced on social media Monday.
12:09 PM · Jul 15, 2024
12:11 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (9aVck)

174 I can dig Vance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (Q4IgG)

175 VPs never bring anything to a ticket regarding voters.

Voters don't vote for VP at any material scale. Voters vote for president, if anybody.

VP choices are about power in the upper echelons of the party. Granting the VP slot to a particular member of a particular faction within the party is effectively giving them clearance to be "next in line". Most of the time, it's consolidation or the sharing of power between factions. This is what both the Pence and Kamala picks were.

That's not what the Vance pick is. This is Trump telling the GOPe that he's in charge, fully, and completely, and they can get on board or be discarded entirely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

176 Picking Youngkin to carry Virginia feels like picking Romney to carry Massachusetts. I realize Youngkin is more right than Romney, but he does have a 'respectable conservative' Pence vibe to me. And it's hard to believe he'll carry the state for a POTUS election (as opposed to governor). It also kinda feels like *IF* Trump would carry Virginia, it wouldn't be because of Youngkin (it would be because of Trump or people voting against the Dems).

Could be *worse* than Youngkin. Vance would be great, but maybe we don't want to lose that Senate vote...? Is it true that Trump can't pick DeSantis (as they're both FL residents), or is it just assumed he won't anyway?

Posted by: bearski at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (Bhsk7)

177 Don't think Youngkin himself could bring in Virginia unless we're trending toward a landslide.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (YIxO9)

178 >>> 131 I don't hate RFK the way some of you do. I think he's definitely too left leaning, and if we're gauging these things solely on partisan politics, you don't give someone with whom you fundamentally disagree on a number of issues, that kind of a position.

But this is 2024. Personally, I'm for blowing up the 2-party system, as well as the Deep State, and I could see an argument as to why you would select someone who doesn't agree with the President on any number of issues. Especially one with as deep a motivation to blow up the Deep State as anybody. Including the Covid regime.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

RFK Jr for Secretary of HHS, with the expectation that *if* HHS still exists on January 1 2027, it will be with 5% or less of its current staff.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (VavZF)

179 >>And judging from the photos of the assassination attempt, on warfarin (a blood thinner)


Tell me you have never had a head wound.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (X8fgo)

180 I'll say this about Vance, he is going all in. Likely had a good career ahead of him in the Senate. Showing he is a man of action. Doesn't just want to coast as a Senator.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (sX1BW)

181 Can we all just savor the fact that Trump's VP was not handpicked by the GOPe?

This was not a forced upon selection.

Trump made a hiring decision. And IMHO, a great one.

If this shows the shackles are off...could be good things on the horizon.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (KbCG3)

182 I like this pick, unfortunately we are likely to get Senator Mike DeWine.

Buckle up Vance, you are now the heir apparent to MAGA, earn it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (V/bLm)

183 You just need to paint over the P an E on the running mate name on your yard signs from last time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (CKFI3)

184 I wanted the lefty heads explode VP. I think JD might fit that bill.

Good.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (tT6L1)

185 And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob


Yeah, what the heck are his full names?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

186 Hasn't even been five minutes and already I'm seeing new names popping up saying this is terrible.

So much concern!

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (ZGZSd)

187 I have no idea who Vance is, so I am curious.
I hope he isn't a squish

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (EGSGm)

188 Murdering Joe and Mika hate JD, so that's a plus. And he's 39 years old and a Marine. Ooh-rah!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (IcuR4)

189 OT - so I guess Jill really is 'acting' President, from the NY Post: "Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing congressional outcry and calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination Saturday, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, The Post has learned."

Posted by: beckster at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (GbGY3)

190 On the subject of JDs, whatever happened to JD Byrider? They were a big deal for a year or 2 and now I never hear any commercials for them, or sponsoring of a bowl game.

Posted by: Wally at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (hqVaF)

191 I'm good with Vance.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (6X8wc)

192 It's time to give Mike Pence a second chance!

Come to our Heritage Foundation dinner for him. We'll even quote Ronald Reagan AND George Washington!

Posted by: Conservative, Inc at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (ka28p)

193 Too easy for the anti-Trump pundits : JD, I mean "Shady" Vance , AM I RIGHT???

Posted by: theATL at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (GhJWt)

194 I suspect that RFKJ was meeting with Trump to discuss the sorry state of the USSS.

I can't find it online anywhere, but Saturday night Megyn Kelly read Nicole Shanahan's (RFKJ's VP pick) statement about the Trump assassination attempt, and incredibly, it was very good.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (bS+DD)

195 Project 2525 required Vance to be VP.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (087+M)

196 Let's VANCE!
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM


OK...I LOL'd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (XHLJ8)

197 For the record, simply the highest five cards in the deck.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (4780s)

198 Good pick. Let Youngkin keep kicking ass in Virginia.

Posted by: toddg at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (dg2su)

199 122 Vance is an awful, awful candidate. He's had one election, and he woefully underperformed, winning by about 6 while other Republicans in the same state and same year won by 15-25. Rob Portman won that Senate seat by 15-20 points in his races, and that was before Ohio's recent shift to the right.

Maybe it's Trump's flex? "I'm so confident in winning, look at how crappy my running mate is."
Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (ynbf0)

Maybe any actual conservative is going to perform less well than empty suit GOPe types in a statewide election. Compare Cornyn and Cruz in Texas, for example. The appeal of actual conservatives is bound to be more selective, I would think. Just a wild ass guess though.

Posted by: Maybe Could Be at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (2tt14)

200 166 At least Vance served in the Marines, along with an impressive resume.
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (fpVC1)

Yay!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (64Zez)

201 At least he only publicly called Trump Hitler once.

Like sniper shots at a presidential candidate, everyone gets a freebie!

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (7WnGI)

202 Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (xPl2J)

Trump is already Hitler. it has to be some right hand man to Hitler, only I can't think of a name right now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (Zy6LG)

203 145 then again, the governor is Mike DeWine, and evil Uniparty c*cksucker who will presumably appoint a similar Uniparty c*cksucker to the spot

But voters will at least get a chance to vote for someone else in a primary soon enough
Posted by: ace at July 15, 2024 03:14 PM (KRtlO)

======

I think it would require a special election in Ohio.

However, DeWine is still the leader of the party and will weigh the scales in his favor (for himself? maybe, I guess), and it's still the state that keeps sending Sherrod Brown to the Senate.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

204 Vivian Vance?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024


***
It should have been me!

Posted by: Zombie Wm. Frawley at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (J2vNu)

205 Wait he wrote Hillbilly Elegy?

book nerd!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (EGSGm)

206 Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (qUaw2)

You're wrong. And warfarin is not as popular as it was, too many options with less bloodwork on the market

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (2NXcZ)

207 >>That's not what the Vance pick is. This is Trump telling the GOPe that he's in charge, fully, and completely, and they can get on board or be discarded entirely.

I like and want to believe your interpretation! Let's hope it is correct.

Posted by: electronic means at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (rjJqk)

208 Would've preferred Vivek but Youngkin is a solid pick.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (pTSyq)

209 I'm good with Vance.

Same here.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (mH6SG)

210 Completely predictably, Trump chose a white male as his running mate, thus appeasing his legion of Christian White Supremacist minions, who cling to their oppressive dreamings of a dystopian patriarchal theocracy, where daily life for BIPOC women, LGBTQIA+, and other marginalized peoples will be a never-ending horrorshow of oppression....

Posted by: Tomorrow's MSM Expert Analysis Today at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (PiwSw)

211 Is Vance the guy with the eye patch? He's a squish.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (+H2BX)

212 The author VP Vance would be a fitting opponent to the author Governor Wes Moore in a hypothetical 2028 contest. Both men got thier notoriety from writing books.

Posted by: Serious Cat at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (TaHi/)

213 Trump/Vance: Take a Chance

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (7WnGI)

214 It's Vance, Trump announced on Truth Social

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:18 PM (DBZuM)

215 And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob


Yeah, what the heck are his full names?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

Jay Dee

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (Aqu9a)

216 And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob


Yeah, what the heck are his full names?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)



Jefferson Davis Vance.

Posted by: DU Braintrust at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (aD39U)

217 I need to re-watch "Hillbilly Elegy." He came from a rough background.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (IcuR4)

218  I interpret the Vance pick as Trump feeling completely confident that he has control of the GOP as a political party, that he no longer fears the establishment's power to block him, and that he's going to be closer to the revolutionary that people wanted the first time out.
--
Yup.
And to rub their noses in it, a thoroughly leashed Halley is going to grovel for Trump on live TV.

As for Vance "barely winning."
If you ain't first, you're last.
The GOPe did all they could to kneecap conservatives in 2022.
And OH is still rotted through with GOPe and squish split-ticket voters.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (OBwus)

219 Posted by: Maybe Could Be at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (2tt14)

Vance supported Obamacare and compared Trump to Hitler.

Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (ynbf0)

220 Vance vs Cacklin' Kamala in debate? Pure gold, that's gonna be. Good choice.

Posted by: lizabth at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (Jfw7U)

221 Not my first h choice but not bad.

The downside is it gives ammo to the left. Tell white men!!! Patriarchy.!! White supremacy!!! Which they’d do anyway so probably won’t matter much.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (iHiQe)

222 Washington Post: "JD Vance is Hitler part 2.0"

Posted by: Boswell at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (K+UlC)

223 181 Trump made a hiring decision. And IMHO, a great one.

If this shows the shackles are off...could be good things on the horizon.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (KbCG3)

========

I see Vance as an opportunist, but one who's been making Trump-y noises for a few years.

Eh. I feel nothing. I'm dead inside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

224 Trump is already Hitler. it has to be some right hand man to Hitler, only I can't think of a name right now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024


***
There were several. Bormann, Goering, Himmler, Canaris . . .

Posted by: Zombie Wm. Frawley at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (J2vNu)

225 Ace is a shoe in for the new Secretary of Cruelty, working with Victor Davis Hanson.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (eoQWY)

226 That's not what the Vance pick is. This is Trump telling the GOPe that he's in charge, fully, and completely, and they can get on board or be discarded entirely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

Sounds about right.

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (ZGZSd)

227 As a fellow alumnus of THE Ohio State University, allow me to say that I expect a humdinger of a VP acceptance speech this week.

Posted by: mrp at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)

228 I'm all for the VP pick, as I had a JD Card in high school.

Posted by: X-Offender at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (V5BDR)

229 I interpret the Vance pick as Trump feeling completely confident that he has control of the GOP as a political party, that he no longer fears the establishment's power to block him, and that he's going to be closer to the revolutionary that people wanted the first time out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

I was telling my wife that should Trump be able to overcome the margin of fraud this time, the left stealing the 2020 election may have had a significant upside:

Trump has had an extra 4 years to clear out more of those opposed to him in what is supposed to be his own party. He may be able to get many more things accomplished when most 2nd term presidents face mainly gridlock their entire second term.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (N1DT3)

230 Not ok with Vance. Wasn't ok with Pence. Oh well.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (7WnGI)

231 Not inspired by the choice but Trump is inspiration enough. Onward and upward.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (MoKe9)

232 I hope Vance never gave anyone a swirlie in high school.

Or wrote something in a yearbook using the terms "girl"
"had fun that night" or "summer will be bitchin'"

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (JeYYB)

233 JD Vance is single too.

Hello, handsome. 🙋‍♀️

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (fpVC1)

234 Not sure if this matches the timeline, but Notthebee has a post up about Trump talking with RFKJr for a while today and calling for giving RFK Secret Service protection as well (because they proved so effective at preventing threats?).

Posted by: Octochicken at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (oCS0o)

235 Trump Announcement of VP

https://tinyurl.com/yan7b2er

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (DBZuM)

236
Wait!

Can Biden Vice President Trump even nominee a Vice President?

It seems like that'd violate the Laws of Time and Space or some such thing!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)

237 >>> 185 And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob


Yeah, what the heck are his full names?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

John Donald?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (VavZF)

238 Well, the betting markets were correct !

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (V13WU)

239 Willowed but now relevant comment from the rant thread:

Looks like it’s gonna be JD Vance. He just left his home with a huge motorcade

I think I'm OK with that, at least among the names floated recently. What I want:

- a VP that the left hates at least as much as DJT
- two years of scorched earth
- DJT to retire at the end of January 2027 leaving his VP in the best position to vie for POTUS
- large rifle primers for $40/1000
- a pony
- ice cream

I might get one of those.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (/y8xj)

240 Good pick. Let Youngkin keep kicking ass in Virginia.
Posted by: toddg at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (dg2su)
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Yes. I'm happy with him staying here. We don't get gubernatorial elections until 2025.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (bS+DD)

241 Vance is good with me. Now let’s go win it.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (Aoykm)

242 Congratulations to Vance.

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (V13WU)

243 I thought he was doing this at 4:30. I was gonna rush home from work to catch it

Posted by: Jaimo at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (fYstg)

244 223 181 Trump made a hiring decision. And IMHO, a great one.

If this shows the shackles are off...could be good things on the horizon.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:16 PM (KbCG3)

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I see Vance as an opportunist, but one who's been making Trump-y noises for a few years.

Eh. I feel nothing. I'm dead inside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

Motivations are immaterial. Is he willing to advance conservatism? We shall see but it looks promising.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (KbCG3)

245 Jefferson Davis Vance.
Posted by: DU Braintrust at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (aD39U)

He's free to detach a few blue areas from the Union.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (eoQWY)

246 To the extent that I care about the VP, Vance will do.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (u73oe)

247 Yeah, what the heck are his full names?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM


I'd LMAO if they were Jefferson Davis. The leftist head explosions would be epic.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (XHLJ8)

248 JD Vance sounds like a car dealer name.

Come down to JD Vance and check out our new truck inventory. Free hotdogs and balloons for the kids.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (Ad8y9)

249 Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

I don't like his abortion stance, but he's not for cutting energy or fertilizers until comparable replacements are available
Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:15 PM (2NXcZ)

Yeah, the only way RFK Jr. makes sense as a political entity is if it's not about the issues at all. He's a traditional lefty, who thinks government solves all problems, but if it's not about issues, and it's an effort to blow up the two party system, and destroy the Deep State, he's an ally.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (dGCAG)

250 It's hard to understand David when he's trying to talk with Barack's cock in his mouth.

Posted by: The Donald at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (Y8lzz)

251 Will Vance' beard turn off old people? Seriously, when I grew out my Gladiator beard my Dad was ready to disown me. So many old people still think they're living in 1957 and the only ones with beards are atomic scientists and beatniks.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (YIxO9)

252 225 Ace is a shoe in for the new Secretary of Cruelty, working with Victor Davis Hanson.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (eoQWY)

-------

hhhahahahah

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (JeYYB)

253 vance vs. Kamala

are they doing a vp debate?

that'll be fun

she'll spew meaningless word salads, he'll get called racist for even responding

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (25k9m)

254 JD Vance for VP tells us PDT has learned and knows his base would have been furious at a GOPe pick.

In other words, PDT likes his base well enough to not stick a thumb in their eye.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (tT6L1)

255 Trump is already Hitler. it has to be some right hand man to Hitler, only I can't think of a name right now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Goebbels

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (v6JzV)

256 Trump needs to start announcing Cabinet

I'll start

Tulsi for Dpt of Interior

RFK Jr for something

Ric Grenell

Posted by: Big Star at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (Modkf)

257 I got nothing

Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (IFNME)

258
Vance. Pence.

Even the names are too similar.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (mCw1s)

259 What's going to enrage the left the most about Vance is that his wife isn't white.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (xPl2J)

260 Dear One Name Trolls Showing Up to Trash Vance,

LOLGF

Love, Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (RIvkX)

261 Vance miles ahead of Pence, he was a weathervane. I could tell you stories from his Congressman days.

Posted by: enough BS at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (2NXcZ)

262 JD Vance as VP.

Ok. I’m an neither disappointed nor elated.

It’s fine.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (phone, and in NJ) at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (EXuhY)

263 233 JD Vance is single too.

Hello, handsome. 🙋‍♀️
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (fpVC1

Nope.. Married with kids

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (IyPmt)

264 That's not what the Vance pick is. This is Trump telling the GOPe that he's in charge, fully, and completely, and they can get on board or be discarded entirely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges

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Is it that, or is it just that he's learned not to compromise with the Uniparty (e.g. Pence) and stick with someone loyal and aligned with him? I don't think (hope?) he's signaling as much as he's just acting on a lesson learned...

Posted by: bearski at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (Bhsk7)

265 On the plus side, Vance has a beard. Been too long since we had a VP or president with facial hair.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (Ad8y9)

266 Trump's announcement is why he picked Vance. He hits all the reasons why he will be an asset.
Ace, you should post that speech he gave in the sidebar.
He says when he met his wife in law school all he had to his name was a lot of student debt and a cemetery plot in E. Kentucky. He then goes on to explain why that is important part of his life story.
I was moved by this speech.
We have not had someone like,this in politics in a long time.
Reserve judgment until you have actually listened to him.
He was also a combat vet. Not a lawyer. Administrator. But served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When did that stop being important.
Yes I'm passionate and really really happy.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (t/2Uw)

267 He's perfect, got a full head of hair !

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (V13WU)

268
I hope JD and his family can withstand the Palin treatment.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (+oR7L)

269 This is the first time anyone on a major ticket is younger than me.

Feels kinda weird. Damn I’m getting old.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (iHiQe)

270 244 Motivations are immaterial. Is he willing to advance conservatism? We shall see but it looks promising.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (KbCG3)

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The point of being an opportunist is that you can change with the wind.

Right now, he's with the wind towards Trumpism. What will he be when Trump is gone? When Vance is suddenly the front-runner for the candidacy in 2028?

If I had to put money down, I'd say closer to Jeb than anything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

271 Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?

Posted by: Gentlemen


Head wounds are notorious bleeders.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (CKFI3)

272 I just realized who Vance reminds me of. Dale from Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (DRSnL)

273 And JD is some kind of code, that makes him suspect.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob


Yeah, what the heck are his full names?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

John Donald?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


Donald John Trump
John Donald Vance.


Crap. It's James David.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (NzK/m)

274 Come down to JD Vance and check out our new truck inventory. Free hotdogs and balloons for the kids.

the all-new Dodge Ram

Winner of the JD Vance and Associates award for Best Overpriced Truck 12 years in a row

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (25k9m)

275 James David Vance

very beige name

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (/7KEl)

276 233 JD Vance is single too.

Hello, handsome. 🙋‍♀️
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (fpVC1

Nope.. Married with kids

---------------

So not a tranny?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (sX1BW)

277 Too easy for the anti-Trump pundits : JD?, you mean "Shady" Vance , AM I RIGHT???

Posted by: theATL at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (GhJWt)

278 JD Vance is single too.

Hello, handsome. 🙋‍♀️
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (fpVC1)

Nope. He's married. Indian (dotted, not feathered) I believe. She's pretty.

It's good to have someone like JD who knows the cost of sending young men and women off to wars we have no intention of winning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (IcuR4)

279 JD is James David.

Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (p4NUW)

280 I'm good with Vance. Graduate of my alma mater and a Marine. Best selling author. What's not to like. Truthfully though I'm just glad it wasn't Scott or Rubio.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (oaGWv)

281 64 If Vance is the pick...there will be 2 open Seante Seats in Ohio this cycle.

I don't like that result.
Posted by: garrett

Nope, the usual is that any resignation occurs after the November election. You can serve as senator technically up to the moment of being sworn in as VP.

The usual is governor DeWine will appoint to fill the seat in January if Vance gets elected until a special election occurs. Via Ohio state law, an appointee can serve up to November 2026 election.

Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (mIs2x)

282 8 Just in-Ace has been spotted in a Vespa motorcade headed towards the airport.
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Was he blasting Bat Man song on his boom box?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (n17eQ)

283 I'm okay with Vance. I'da preferred a man with the political and warrior chops of a Genghis Kahn but, what can ya do?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (h/xVB)

284 They can use the PPT templates they already have and just sub out two letters.

TRUMP ALREADY SAVING MONEY!

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (1vwBF)

285 Although if Trump grew out a beard he'd bring most every elderly woman to spontaneously orgasm.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (YIxO9)

286 264 Is it that, or is it just that he's learned not to compromise with the Uniparty (e.g. Pence) and stick with someone loyal and aligned with him? I don't think (hope?) he's signaling as much as he's just acting on a lesson learned...
Posted by: bearski at July 15, 2024 03:21 PM (Bhsk7)

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These are not mutually exclusive ideas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

287 Trump just won the nomination. Never saw it coming. Never.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (RUmyk)

288 Listen to Vance in his media interviews. He’s cogent and articulate. His background is remarkable. He factually defends his positions. He’s well liked and reasonable. He will be a good choice.
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Consider the contrast in a debate with "the beingness of being for being" Harris.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (OBwus)

289 cosnidering ace was dead on sure Nikki was going to be picked

I think we could do worse

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (DBZuM)

290 On the plus side, Vance has a beard. Been too long since we had a VP or president with facial hair.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothi


Damn Right!
-Chester A Arthur

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (CIS44)

291
I won't pretend I like this picks like I pretended Paul Ryan was a good pick in 2012.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (mCw1s)

292 A single man of his age is a fag.

Posted by: Lindsay Graham at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (+H2BX)

293 Vance will help in Pa. Michigan and Wisconsin.

Posted by: Redenzo at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (V/pbu)

294 Will Vance' beard turn off old people? Seriously, when I grew out my Gladiator beard my Dad was ready to disown me. So many old people still think they're living in 1957 and the only ones with beards are atomic scientists and beatniks.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024


***
Fortunately, things have changed by the 24th Century.

Posted by: Cmdr. Will Riker at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (J2vNu)

295 Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?

Posted by: Gentlemen


Head wounds are notorious bleeders.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


WWF, Harley Race & Fritz Von Erich have entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (NzK/m)

296 I like circles!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (Y8lzz)

297 Head wounds are notorious bleeders.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (CKFI3)

Word.

Posted by: Teenage Ben Stiller at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (Aqu9a)

298 Oh, digging up Vance's post-2022 op-ed, he admits that his race had to be bailed out by Mitch McConnell and praises McConnell for the support McConnell gave him.

Of course, now Trump is breaking bread with McConnell, so I guess that's not an issue.

Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (ynbf0)

299 Listen to Vance in his media interviews. He’s cogent and articulate. His background is remarkable. He factually defends his positions. He’s well liked and reasonable. He will be a good choice.
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Consider the contrast in a debate with "the beingness of being for being" Harris.

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I heard he hates Venn Diagrams.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (sX1BW)

300 Will Vance' beard turn off old people? Seriously, when I grew out my Gladiator beard my Dad was ready to disown me. So many old people still think they're living in 1957 and the only ones with beards are atomic scientists and beatniks.

ha I had that experience as well

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (25k9m)

301 293 Vance will help in Pa. Michigan and Wisconsin.
Posted by: Redenzo at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (V/pbu)

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Trump getting shot in PA will do more for Trump in PA than what Vance can bring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

302 JD needs some gainzzz.

Posted by: Candidus at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (dfcuM)

303 Truthfully though I'm just glad it wasn't Scott or Rubio.
Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (oaGWv)
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Same same.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (bS+DD)

304 JD Vance sounds like a car dealer name.

Come down to JD Vance and check out our new truck inventory. Free hotdogs and balloons for the kids.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at July 15, 2024 03:20 PM (Ad8y9)

Did you see a slightly used Tundra on his website?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (PUVOR)

305 I'll admit, Vance does look like a chubby restaurant manager. As long as he's a kick-ass one, who'll take names at Trump's direction!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (J2vNu)

306 So we have some new trolls ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (IyPmt)

307 Vance. Pence.

Even the names are too similar.
Posted by: Soothsayer


Just go to the hardware store and buy a V. and an A for your yard sign.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (CKFI3)

308 Consider the contrast in a debate with "the beingness of being for being" Harris.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (OBwus)
~~~~~

Yes! Unburdened by what has been...

It's gonna be a blast.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (3ImbR)

309 I'm not sold on Vance. I like the guy and think he has a bright future in the party. But what does he bring to the table that Trump doesn't already have? What voter is he going to attract that already isn't voting for Trump?

Plus, Vance has some red flags in his background, and I don't like the optics of two rich white guys from snooty Ivy schools. Aren't we trying to get past that image, and finally making some inroads into minority communities? Might as well have posters printed up saying "The Man/The Man 2024"

And we really need his Senate seat. I'm not sure how the replacement thing works.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

310 I honestly don't get the Trump is in charge telling the GOPe what's what talk. I expect him to "lose" to the corpse in chief, but if Trump wins, he's going to encounter much the same, unchanged GOPe in congress. The same assholes who cannot wait to renew FISA and build the FBI a new palace. At best, it'll be a replay of 2016-20 (which is fine).

Posted by: What am I missing? at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (2tt14)

311 Will Vance' beard turn off old people? Seriously, when I grew out my Gladiator beard my Dad was ready to disown me. So many old people still think they're living in 1957 and the only ones with beards are atomic scientists and beatniks.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie


Someone here pointed out this morning that he will be the first Pres./VP candidate with facial hair since Taft.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (v6JzV)

312 >Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?


maybe he was perspiring in the heat
he's wearing a ballistic vest under a sport jacket
can't be too comfortable

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)

313 The fact he's VP doesn't mean he's a shoe-in for 2028. Not these days.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (MoKe9)

314 I heard he hates Venn Diagrams.


--

Is that his name? Venn Diagram Vance?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (EGSGm)

315 233 JD Vance is single too.

Hello, handsome. 🙋‍♀️
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 15, 2024 03:19 PM (fpVC1)

Nope, he's not!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (64Zez)

316 It's not Scott and it's not a chick.

Good Pick.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (X8fgo)

317 You know who wins no matter who is elected?

You get one guess.

Posted by: The Growing Unchecked Government at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (bILdU)

318 That's not what the Vance pick is. This is Trump telling the GOPe that he's in charge, fully, and completely, and they can get on board or be discarded entirely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges


Newsletter?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (/U5Yz)

319 Head wounds are notorious bleeders.
Posted by: Thomas Paine a


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Yes, I know this. My comment was on how watery it looked.
It could have been from sweat, or from any makeup on his face though. But it looked like thinned out blood to me.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (qUaw2)

320 I'm good. Let's go kick some ass.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (7+K68)

321
I was under the impression that Trump does not like unkempt beards.

Trump kinda rudely mocked Steve Bannon in public for Bannon's unclean-shaven face. I remember it vividly.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (mCw1s)

322
The Vance vs Kamala debate is going to be one sided.

Oh man. the popcorn bucket overfloweth.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (+oR7L)

323 Leaves Vivek with the most powerful position in government - Chief of Staff.

Make the call Trump.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (rHxhM)

324 I see that JD is a tall guy too. So his five-foot female SS detail will have their hands full as well.

Posted by: Damned Tallies at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (2tt14)

325 Trump is already Hitler. it has to be some right hand man to Hitler, only I can't think of a name right now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke'

Well, it's not Mengele, as he's been 'rehabilitated'.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (bFId9)

326 310 I honestly don't get the Trump is in charge telling the GOPe what's what talk. I expect him to "lose" to the corpse in chief, but if Trump wins, he's going to encounter much the same, unchanged GOPe in congress. The same assholes who cannot wait to renew FISA and build the FBI a new palace. At best, it'll be a replay of 2016-20 (which is fine).
Posted by: What am I missing? at July 15, 2024 03:24 PM (2tt14)

========

My comments are about perception. Trump is projecting power within the party. Will that be successful regarding legislation? Maybe.

Plus, you know, no more Russian collusion to hobble the first 3 years of his presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

327 306 So we have some new trolls ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024

It’s fine, we put up the good china in advance.

Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (p4NUW)

328 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (t/2Uw)

329 My thought is this pick makes me think Trump is extremely confident in winning in Nov (or at least believes he'll do as good as he possibly can versus the steal) because Vance doesn't really being any new voters to the table.

Though I guess there's very few, if any, VP picks that would expand Trump's voting bloc, while still being loyal to him as President.

Vance is also a good "if you try to kill me again there's just a younger version of me in waiting" safety net.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (Uj9Dw)

330 No, Vance didn't endorse or openly support Trump at the outset in 2015 or so. Very few did.

Yes, Vance came around on Trump and has been "ride or die" since right after the 2016 election, which is true for about 80% of Trump's supporters in the party.

Posted by: Shenanigans at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (pZ0Mr)

331 I was hoping for Byron Donalds or Ben Carson. Yes, I wanted a black guy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (MoKe9)

332 James David Vance

very beige name
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (/7KEl)

Woody. Not tinny, like Kamala.

Posted by: Upper Class Twit at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (Aqu9a)

333 IIRC, the poll masters say that the Big Ten States/former Big Blue Wall States of MI/OH/WI/PA are demographically similar enough one to the other that each polls within a narrow few points of the others. So something that wins in one of them should be appealing to the others. That's the theory anyway.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (ssz2a)

334 Yeah, a motorcade sounds cool, but did you ever go bike riding with more than 2 other people, or try to follow someone else in a car? More People=More Trouble.

Posted by: Here Come the Nelsons at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (V5BDR)

335
Plus, Vance has some red flags in his background, and I don't like the optics of two rich white guys from snooty Ivy schools.

Vance did not start out that way.. Very impoverished Appalachian upbringing.. I suggest reading his book Hillbilly Elegy

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (IyPmt)

336 I’ve seen pics of trump with a beard photoshopped in. He looks really good.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (iHiQe)

337 Will Vance' beard turn off old people? Seriously, when I grew out my Gladiator beard my Dad was ready to disown me. So many old people still think they're living in 1957 and the only ones with beards are atomic scientists and beatniks.
*
ha I had that experience as well
Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024


***
My father never saw my (neatly trimmed) beard. My mother did when I visited her from out of town in 1976 and '77, but then I had to shave it off for a job in '78 and didn't regrow it until '88, two years after she passed on. She never seemed perturbed by it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (J2vNu)

338
Now, I'm really wondering who Trump's second choice was. Must've been a real stinker. Damn.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (mCw1s)

339 318 That's not what the Vance pick is. This is Trump telling the GOPe that he's in charge, fully, and completely, and they can get on board or be discarded entirely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges

Newsletter?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (/U5Yz)

=======

https://shorturl.at/ttRC7

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

340 I had hoped it WOULDNT be him. He's young, sounds smart, etc. He's got the "ready to take over" look whether WE agree with that or not. This is a pick for the Independent voter. I really hoped for a bigger nut job.

The only plus is that the Dems should have LOTS of video showing him calling trump everything in the book. Trump won Ohio in '20 so he doesnt bring a new state. A smarter pick wouldve been Youngkin; possibly bringing VA. But Trump likely doesnt see him as "loyal enough".


The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance. Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.
by Tom Nichols

What do we call a man who turns on everything he once claimed to believe? For a practitioner of petty and self-serving duplicity, we use “sellout” or “backstabber.” (Sometimes we impugn the animal kingdom and call him a rat, a skunk, or a weasel.) For grand betrayals of weightier loyalties—country and faith—we invoke the more solemn terms of “traitor” or “apostate.”

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (JCZqz)

341 306 So we have some new trolls ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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Paid and lame ones. They drop scat and leave.

Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (mIs2x)

342 Consider the contrast in a debate with "the beingness of being for being" Harris.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (OBwus)


There will be no VP debate. That is for sure.

Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (IFNME)

343 Will Vance' beard turn off old people? Seriously, when I grew out my Gladiator beard my Dad was ready to disown me. So many old people still think they're living in 1957 and the only ones with beards are atomic scientists and beatniks.


... or Calvinists ...

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (rHxhM)

344 Vance vs Harris in a VP debate will be like Einstein debating science with a toddler.

Posted by: Shenanigans at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (pZ0Mr)

345
Trump getting shot in PA will do more for Trump in PA than what Vance can bring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges


Since I live in PA and know the leftists in my 'hood' they know damn well the stink eye I would give them if they showed up at the polls on Election Day. I suspect they'll either stay home or enter 10 illegal ballots for Biden in September, another 10 in October, and just 10 more in November.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (RKVpM)

346 Haley would have been an utter disaster.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (IG4Id)

347 All ready for the Vance curbstomps Harris debate

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (5MvGY)

348 >>maybe he was perspiring in the heat
he's wearing a ballistic vest under a sport jacket
can't be too comfortable


That and head wounds bleed profusely. Bright red blood running endlessly. It's a mess anytime you have a head wound.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (X8fgo)

349 And judging from the photos of the assassination attempt, on warfarin (a blood thinner) indicating heart concerns.

Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?
Posted by: Gentlemen

Probably not warfarin these days. Too many testing downsides. Perhaps Eliquis. I take it and bleed like a stuck pig if I cut myself shaving. But who knows?

I'm not too concerned by any candidate's age. It is an individual thing. Biden wasn't suitable starting in his 20's. I've know some pretty sharp characters at every age. Trump may be one.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (h/xVB)

350 JD needs to incorporate a little of his past Marine training. I don’t need both my President and VP to have a cholesterol problem.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (B1dzx)

351 Dont see Vance as a big positive nor a negative.
Safe middle of the road choice.

Would have preferred Dr Carson. Unshakeable America First beliefs and perfect counterpoint to Trump's bluster.

THE main thing : Trump is alive. Trump is running. And a Trump win means EVERYthing. If Trump wants JD to caddy for him , fine.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (G+Jfs)

352 316 It's not Scott and it's not a chick.

Good Pick.
Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:25 PM (X8fgo)

Good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (MoKe9)

353 >>>Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 whenever PM (ynbf0)

Concern status:
[ ] noted
[x] not noted

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (VavZF)

354 Both of my young sons have beards.

..

Phrasing?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (bILdU)

355 Trump chose Vance. Okay.

Those of us who are still unsure have history on our side. And Vance's previous commentary on Trump was not well thought out.

I'm long past the days of being gung-ho about any politician, especially VPs.

But the time for whining is over.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (JeYYB)

356 Nikki didn't get the VP pick? Never saw that coming. Never.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (RUmyk)

357 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now.

millennialls brought back the beard. zoomers are trying to bring back the mustache

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (25k9m)

358 Plus, you know, no more Russian collusion to hobble the first 3 years of his presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July

Are you kidding? James David is a Russian name. You think that is coincidence?

(I made this all up because they do)

Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (p4NUW)

359 My mother did when I visited her from out of town in 1976 and '77, but then I had to shave it off for a job in '78 and didn't regrow it until '88, two years after she passed on. She never seemed perturbed by it.
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Mom's are like that. They want to see their children regardless of facial hair.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (n17eQ)

360 Vance vs Harris in a VP debate will be like Einstein debating science with a toddler.
Posted by: Shenanigans

"Kamala you ignorant slut!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (h/xVB)

361 Vance is a solid pick. He fights the culture war well and that is a strong draw to a lot of independent voters.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (yI5mB)

362 328 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)


Don Jr. has had a beard for a long time.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)

363 340 The only plus is that the Dems should have LOTS of video showing him calling trump everything in the book. Trump won Ohio in '20 so he doesnt bring a new state. A smarter pick wouldve been Youngkin; possibly bringing VA. But Trump likely doesnt see him as "loyal enough".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (JCZqz)

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Republicans have footage of prominent Democrats this very year calling Biden too old for the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

364 For VP, pick whoever the Rino’s hate most.

Vance went on site to East Palestine right after the train crash, so that is a piece of evidence that he is genuine and not a turncoat IMO.

Posted by: Crazy at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (yGm8k)

365 Yes, beards are popular right now.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (elaR+)

366
Woody. Not tinny, like Kamala.
Posted by: Upper Class Twit at July 15, 2024 03:26 PM (Aqu9a)



Woody? You asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/BfCz7Hfxims

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

367 289 cosnidering ace was dead on sure Nikki was going to be picked

I think we could do worse
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

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Notice that Haley had not just the lowest numbers, but they were inverted, with more conservative people liking her less.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (qUaw2)

368
James David

Jeebus, but you people are lazy

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (xG4kz)

369 Vance is THE American dream story. Comes from nothing becomes VP and possibly president.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (iHiQe)

370 Both of my young sons have beards.

..

Phrasing?
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but?

For the Win!

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (RUmyk)

371 Trump said he thought JD's beard made him look like a young Abraham Lincoln. Also he liked his piercing blue eyes.
Do not put down the appeal,of charisma.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (t/2Uw)

372 Dear Mr. Ace, Where else can the pinheads go to fing out what people are thinking? Pack your bags, pinheads.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (QSrLX)

373
I don't know anything about Vance. Nada. Guess I'll have to read up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (T3es0)

374 First time I had a VP that was on my reading list.

(You will be shocked that I did not read anything by Al Gore or Obama Bill Ayers.)

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (cf/0E)

375 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024


***
The way my "Commander Riker" beard grows, though, I do shave the cheeks, two parts of the lower lip, and the throat below the sharp beard line. I've thought of going to a ring beard, you know, the Hans Gruber style; but I'm not sure about shaving all that new real estate.

With even my beard, though, a shave can be a quick thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (J2vNu)

376 I will say I'm glad it's not Scott or Rubio.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (JeYYB)

377 How long until 'Hillbilly Elegy' is unavailable at Amazon?

Posted by: Candidus at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (dfcuM)

378 > "On the plus side, Vance has a beard."

Any male above the age of 18 can grow a beard.

Posted by: Just reporting at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (scll+)

379 Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
@TulsiGabbard
It appears that President Trump may have chosen JD Vance for his VP. If so, that is a good choice.

How many Media hit pieces will debut in the next three days?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (TGPs7)

380 "J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance"



Finance? Oooh, goodie. Audit the Fed.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (mbb+A)

381 My oldest has a beard. My Marine will have one as soon as he's out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (XTjcx)

382 199 122 Vance is an awful, awful candidate. He's had one election, and he woefully underperformed, winning by about 6 while other Republicans in the same state and same year won by 15-25. Rob Portman won that Senate seat by 15-20 points in his races, and that was before Ohio's recent shift to the right.

Maybe it's Trump's flex? "I'm so confident in winning, look at how crappy my running mate is."
Posted by: Terry at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (ynbf0)

Maybe any actual conservative is going to perform less well than empty suit GOPe types in a statewide election. Compare Cornyn and Cruz in Texas, for example. The appeal of actual conservatives is bound to be more selective, I would think. Just a wild ass guess though.
Posted by: Maybe Could Be at July 15, 2024 03:17 PM (2tt14)

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Yes, just another example of the backstabbing ways of the more liberal GOPe Repub voters.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (2fIO4)

383 David Sacks makes a good case for Vance. Signed up after the towers came down. Then came to question the war he was sent to fight.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (sX1BW)

384 How long until 'Hillbilly Elegy' is unavailable at Amazon?

Posted by: Candidus at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (dfcuM)

No, they will bundle it with Mein Kampf.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (xPl2J)

385
Well, the kids today mock "neckbeards."

"Neckbeards" is a common put-downs on the internet, usually accompanied by "incel" and "basement."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (mCw1s)

386 But this is 2024. Personally, I'm for blowing up the 2-party system, as well as the Deep State, and I could see an argument as to why you would select someone who doesn't agree with the President on any number of issues. Especially one with as deep a motivation to blow up the Deep State as anybody. Including the Covid regime.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2024 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

That's a negatory. Look at the crap in Europe and the UK for what games can be played when more than 2 parties gain significant votes, not to mention having more than 1 election to get oppo parties in. Having to actually WIN your district, state or whatever. A state wide 'electoral college' to diminish the dominance of cities would probably be a good idea too.

Having to win majorities with your man means parties have to absorb popular fringe ideas which dilutes them. A coalition with a crazy party is a recipe for disaster as the French know well.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (eoQWY)

387 Both of my sons married, have kids and are gainfully employed.
One son worked for Trump's first administration. He was the one who called me with the news.
I must have done something right.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (t/2Uw)

388 368
James David

Jeebus, but you people are lazy
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

We go with our strengths!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (h/xVB)

389 With all the goings on as of late, this song popped into my head.

Twilight Zone - Golden Earring

https://youtu.be/z2xsbmBn09g

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (/HDaX)

390 Head wounds are notorious bleeders.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (CKFI3)

Word.

Posted by: Teenage Ben Stiller at July 15, 2024 03:23 PM (Aqu9a)

Not one agent yelled "SLAP A HOT IRON ON IT!"

Incompetent.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (PUVOR)

391 Vance is THE American dream story. Comes from nothing becomes VP and possibly president.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (iHiQ

Nope Clarence Thomas still has that title.

IMO

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (B1dzx)

392 8 Just in-Ace has been spotted in a Vespa motorcade headed towards the airport.
--------------
Was he blasting Bat Man song on his boom box?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (n17eQ)

Wearing sandals and a beach shirt?

Posted by: mrp at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (rj6Yv)

393 Well, the kids today mock "neckbeards."

"Neckbeards" is a common put-downs on the internet, usually accompanied by "incel" and "basement."
Posted by: Soothsayer


Incel, basement and muzzie.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (NzK/m)

394
brb, vettin' Vance

Posted by: Fake News at July 15, 2024 03:30 PM (mCw1s)

395 Hillbilly Elegy is his story. Rough upbringing in rural, rust belt Ohio. Single parent. Addiction struggles in the family. Abuse. Struggles in school. Adversity that was overcome. Achievements at the highest levels.

Totally relatable to a large swath of the country.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (Q4IgG)

396 Nikki was the choice that would have made me stay home

the rest, meh

Vance, meh, with cautious optimism

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (DBZuM)

397 Breaking: Vance once ordered a white Russian at a bar, making him both a white supremacist and Russian spy.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (iHiQe)

398 It really galls me that people are giving it the "benefit of doubt" as to the political affiliation of the shooter.

Like it is not the COMPLETE MO of Antifa to "disguise" themselves as the complete MAGA "Type". Registered Republican who donates to Act Blue.. Yea, sell that one! Let's wear the shirt of the most popular Youtube righty Christian Vlogger.. Use an AR15 when a 30-06 deer rifle is a dime a dozen and there were probably 20 within baseball throw, with great scopes. Within 130 yards on a rooftop For God's sake!

See the thing that is absolutely Demonic about this whole thing is the lies. It has gotten so bad that if Dems say the sky is blue, I am going to have to get a spectrum analyzer out!

Let's change the SS detail, blame it on the locals, say it was a "OP" by Trump at the last possible time before the VP pick was dialed in. People SEEING the shooter and yelling about it ON VIDEO! It is too much and it stinks. IT is not a "conspiracy theory" territory, it is a reasonable conclusion.
So, lefties no gaslighting .. I am not meeting you in the middle.. I am not "toning it down" .. Fuck You! We fight! BTW.. Yay Vance!

Posted by: catman at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (4HMlb)

399 Well, the kids today mock "neckbeards."

that refers to the unkempt look of a low-test shut-in who never grooms himself. can't grow a full beard but never shaves -- neckbeard

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (25k9m)

400
DU talking morality is always a chuckle.

Posted by: Auspex at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (j4U/Z)

401 >>Twilight Zone - Golden Earring


There are a few live versions of that tune that kill.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (X8fgo)

402 JD needs to incorporate a little of his past Marine training. I don’t need both my President and VP to have a cholesterol problem.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (B1dzx)
~~~~~

I don't think he's all that heavy, it's just that he has a very full, round face. (Which may be why he keeps the beard.)

Posted by: IrishEi at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (3ImbR)

403 If Vance is good enough for President Trump, he's good enough for me.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (bS+DD)

404 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM

Yes...let the butthurt flow through you...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (XHLJ8)

405 Vance is THE American dream story. Comes from nothing becomes VP and possibly president.

I thought Obama was THE American dream by coming as a bastard child born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia by Communist activists to cruise through two Ivy League colleges as a cypher.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (rHxhM)

406 378 > "On the plus side, Vance has a beard."

Any male above the age of 18 can grow a beard.
Posted by: Just reporting at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (scll+)


*shifty eyes*

Posted by: David Hogg at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (PiwSw)

407 Trump said he thought JD's beard made him look like a young Abraham Lincoln. Also he liked his piercing blue eyes.
Do not put down the appeal,of charisma.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (t/2Uw)

All he needs is a top hat and vampire hunting tools and he's all set.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (eoQWY)

408 No, they will bundle it with Mein Kampf.
Posted by: Mark1971

Anyone that can kick their way through Mein Kampf is okay in my book. It is unreadable. Similar to Das Kapital.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (h/xVB)

409 351 Dont see Vance as a big positive nor a negative.
Safe middle of the road choice.


Rest assured, sir, you are about to find out that he is Reinhardt Heydrich to Trump's Hitler.

Posted by: It's Nazis All The Way Down at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (2tt14)

410 275 James David Vance

very beige name
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (/7KEl


Like Donald John.

Posted by: Emmie at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (Sf2cq)

411 Just in-Ace has been spotted in a Vespa motorcade headed towards the airport.
--------------
Was he blasting Bat Man song on his boom box?
Posted by: Pudinhead


I'm just a poor boy,
From a poor family,

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (NzK/m)

412 Consultants now say having two large, very white guys needs to be countered by immediately appointing a wiry, black, guy to an important post. I guess Sammy Davis Jr. and Gary Coleman aren't available. How about Ben Vereen? Though he's more mid-sized. Light on his feet, though.

Posted by: Cigar Man In Back Room at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (V5BDR)

413
Well, the kids today mock "neckbeards."


And yet, that's the best many of them can muster.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (xG4kz)

414 My mother did when I visited her from out of town in 1976 and '77, but then I had to shave it off for a job in '78 and didn't regrow it until '88, two years after she passed on. She never seemed perturbed by it.
-------------
Mom's are like that. They want to see their children regardless of facial hair.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024


***
She may have said -- once -- that she thought I looked better without it. But that was it.

I was inspired years before that by Robert Vaughn wearing a beard in a little-known British SF film called The Mind of Mr. Soames. If you do an image search, you'll find it. He was always my favorite actor, so . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (J2vNu)

415 The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance. Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.
by Tom Nichols
---
If Tom Nichols is against him, I'm for him.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (iZbyp)

416 I love Venn diagrams. But I am strange. About six of us were given a book on Set Theory in 5th grade.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (+H2BX)

417 Compare Vance to Kamala..... should be a bloodbath.

We all thought biden versus Ryan would be one, but now we know that Ryan was a GOPe cuck to the max.

Somehow I don't think Vance will pull his punches against Kamala.

And this election will be likely a lot more about the VP's than normal: no one expects Biden to live and Trump's no spring chicken. So I think a fair amount of voters will actually look at the VP choice. And Vance versus Harris? Not much of a choice there!

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (FthWa)

418 Crap. It's James David.
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (NzK/m)

=====

He was apparently actually named James Donald Bowman when he was born.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (DRSnL)

419 Oh... one more thing... JD Vance may very will bring "Mamaw" back in our lexicon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (Q4IgG)

420 Vance's last name was originally "Bowman." He was adopted by his mother's third husband and it was changed to "Vance."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (v6JzV)

421
brb, framin' Vance as anti-gay

Posted by: Gay Twitter at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (mCw1s)

422 405 Vance is THE American dream story. Comes from nothing becomes VP and possibly president.

I thought Obama was THE American dream by coming as a bastard child born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia by Communist activists to cruise through two Ivy League colleges as a cypher.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (rHxhM)

The paper trail was a wee bit thin.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (64Zez)

423 that refers to the unkempt look of a low-test shut-in who never grooms himself. can't grow a full beard but never shaves -- neckbeard
Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (25k9m)



That's what some guys at work used to call whomever the QB for the Bears was several years ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

424 My comments are about perception. Trump is projecting power within the party. Will that be successful regarding legislation? Maybe.

Plus, you know, no more Russian collusion to hobble the first 3 years of his presidency.
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Yup.
GOPe spent the last 8 years gutting their power in the party, throwing bodies at Trump in futile, pointless tantrums.
40 of their best and their Speaker walked out in 2018. 10 more voted to impeach, 8 are gone. Romney is gone. Sasse, and a couple others too.
National Review and the rest dumped themselves on the scrap heap.
No one wants or seeks their endorsement.
And he just forced their top remaining face, Nikki to bend the knee.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (OBwus)

425 392 8 Just in-Ace has been spotted in a Vespa motorcade headed towards the airport.
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Was he blasting Bat Man song on his boom box?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:22 PM (n17eQ)

Wearing sandals and a beach shirt?
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There are no Bat Man Crocs?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (n17eQ)

426 Vance's beard isn't real.
It's a face merkin.

Harland should investigate now!

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (2tt14)

427 So when President Trump wants more power, will VP Vance say, "I don't think so, Tim"?

Posted by: Emmie at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (Sf2cq)

428 Any male above the age of 18 can grow a beard.
Posted by: Just reporting at July 15, 2024 03:29 PM (scll+)

*shifty eyes*
Posted by: David Hogg at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM


He said "male".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (XHLJ8)

429
brb, callin' Vance a racist

Posted by: Black Twitter at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (mCw1s)

430 Cliff Clavin Trivia

Taft was the last President with facial hair.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (B1dzx)

431
Can't wait for the re-edited version of Hillbilly Ellegy where a young Vance joins the KKK, tortures animals, and a thief.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (+oR7L)

432 The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance. Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.
by Tom Nichols
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If Tom Nichols is against him, I'm for him.

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Yep, that pretty much seals it.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (sX1BW)

433 If Tom Nichols is against him, I'm for him.

*********************

This a billion

get fucked nichols

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (DBZuM)

434
All he needs is a top hat and vampire hunting tools and he's all set.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (eoQWY)

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holy shit. hahahahahaha

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (JeYYB)

435 251 old people don't like beards.
My father, a car dealer, always said you can get rust a guy who hides his face.
I've been bearded since age 19.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (4780s)

436 419 Oh... one more thing... JD Vance may very will bring "Mamaw" back in our lexicon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:32 PM (Q4IgG)

LOL.. Have to read the book to get that

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (IyPmt)

437 That'll be some debate between him and Kamala. Unless she's debating Trump, of course.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (1bNHn)

438 "How long will it be before the left claims that the thumbs-up gesture is a "well-known symbol of white supremacy," "

You didn't know the symbolism behind "thumbs up", you bigoted dolt?!! When used by a white male it always means that whites are the only acceptable race (They're number 1) and if you do a thumbs down symbol it means that you want a person who is not white killed-kind of like they used a thumbs down symbol in the coliseum. You did know the Romans were mostly white?!!

Posted by: Democrats forever at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (Zy6LG)

439 I didn't think for a second it was going to be a woman but there were a couple I would have accepted. This is a "project strength" election. Women make easy targets and a Democrat pile on against a woman is never pretty.

That said I would have preferred someone who could clear a bar that virtually no one in media can clear.

"Never Called Trump Hitler".

There are those among us that didn't like or hated Trump, but "Hitler"? Do please fuck off with your bullshit forever, asshole.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (7WnGI)

440 Woody? You asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/BfCz7Hfxims
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)


That was . . . disturbing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (Aqu9a)

441 424 No one wants or seeks their endorsement.
And he just forced their top remaining face, Nikki to bend the knee.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (OBwus)

========

The reform of the GOP isn't done.

But it's much closer now than it was in 2016.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

442 Semper Fi, JD!

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (G5Juy)

443 Trust a guy.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (4780s)

444 Biggest BMI for a Republican ticket since Taft/Sherman.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (wGerL)

445 Any male above the age of 18 can grow a beard.
Posted by: Just reporting

For some of us, it's essential to hiding our weak chin and jawline, and sagging neck skin. No matter how soy we are, our testes still have us covered.

David Hogg, don't glare at us like that! You were, uh...just built different!

Posted by: David French, Jonah Goldberg, etc at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (JCZqz)

446 I love beards. Not that anyone cares.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (iZbyp)

447 Ughhhhhhh...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (exHjb)

448 It's pretty funny watching liberals seriously have shit fits now, turning on Ron Howard, because he made Vance's book in to a movie.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (Uj9Dw)

449 >>Compare Vance to Kamala.....


His beard really impeded that ball slapping sound I need to climax.

Posted by: Willie Brown at July 15, 2024 03:34 PM (X8fgo)

450 429
brb, callin' Vance a racist
Posted by: Black Twitter at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (mCw1s)


LOL.. Tell that to his Indian wife.. Dot not feather

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (IyPmt)

451 Let the word go from forth through out the land.

I don’t give a shit what ‘vibe’ Axelrod thinks is right. I didn’t like a single Goddamn vibe he and his prissy race baiting boss put out. He can sit down and STFU.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (tkRpE)

452 Moochell Obama is the only beard that matters

Posted by: Taggart at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (N2oAm)

453 Anyone that can kick their way through Mein Kampf is okay in my book. It is unreadable. Similar to Das Kapital.

They are both more compelling reads when read in the original language.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (rHxhM)

454
My wife watches all these dating shows and the competing guys for the hot babe don't have beards, they're 'scruffy' like they haven't shaved in three days.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (RKVpM)

455 @259 What's going to enrage the left the most about Vance is that his wife isn't white.

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They'll say she's a token, and just for show. It's a script that they've run in the past.

Posted by: junior at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (SNA6G)

456 But the time for whining is over.
Posted by: Seems Legit
=======
How long you been at AOS? Woulda, Shoulda, or Coulda are favorite whines here.

Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (mIs2x)

457 I’m afraid this pick won’t be well received by NYT and WaPo. Horrible miscalculation by Trump.

/s

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (iHiQe)

458 Now that the VP pick is out, I guess it's back to "It's time to put Trump in a bullseye" again, eh?

Posted by: electronic means at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (rjJqk)

459 I didn't think for a second it was going to be a woman but there were a couple I would have accepted.



America's mom - Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (NzK/m)

460 Even Drumpf/Bowman sounds like a pretty good ticket.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (7WnGI)

461
And what, pray tell, have you done for your community, Tom Nichols?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (xG4kz)

462 Trump listened to Don Jr.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (NpAcC)

463 Hillbilly Elegy is his story. Rough upbringing in rural, rust belt Ohio. Single parent. Addiction struggles in the family. Abuse. Struggles in school. Adversity that was overcome. Achievements at the highest levels.

Totally relatable to a large swath of the country.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:31 PM (Q4IgG)

Trump's locking down OH as a Red state was pulling in the Appalacian part of OH that were old time Dems that lost jobs....the part were the chemical spill on a train that Biden did not care about is. Sounds like JD is their kind of guy.....and Trump sent them water out of his pocket I believe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (eoQWY)

464 So when President Trump wants more power, will VP Vance say, "I don't think so, Tim"?
Posted by: Emmie at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (Sf2cq)

I get that reference. +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (Aqu9a)

465 Did I hear Mitch McConnell get booed when announcing Kentucky's delegate votes?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (BbSDq)

466 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

My son too.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (oaGWv)

467 Cassandra MacDonald

@CassandraRules
He picked Vance. At least it's not Haley I guess.


David Sacks

@DavidSacks
When the Twin Towers came down, JD Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps, gung-ho to exact justice on America’s enemies. Subsequently he came to believe the Forever Wars were a mistake. This is who I want by Trump’s side: an American patriot, with the courage to fight America’s wars but the wisdom to know when to avoid them. God bless JD, God bless Trump, and God bless the USA.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
Great choice

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (TGPs7)

468 The working class revolution has begun!

Posted by: Splunge at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (hmKaK)

469 462 Trump listened to Don Jr.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (NpAcC)

And Biden listened to Hunter!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (64Zez)

470 The reform of the GOP isn't done.

But it's much closer now than it was in 2016.


I rate this statement as True. We are making progress, folks, be of good cheer.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (xCA6C)

471 465 Did I hear Mitch McConnell get booed when announcing Kentucky's delegate votes?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (BbSDq)

=======

"Fuck you all! He pays us!"
-The KY delegation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

472 Vance solidifies PA , MI, WI. Listen to him talk economics. He will definitely appeal to middle class voters.
Trump was never going to get VA. It is like MA. R's can get maybe up to 45% but that's it. If RFK gets on the ballot in MA, he could pull as many votes as Biden.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (t/2Uw)

473 Sing along now!...(Synthesizer beat)

I say, we can Vance, we can Vance
Everything's out of control
We can Vance, we can Vance
We're doing it from pole to pole
We can Vance, we can Vance
Everybody look at your hands
We can Vance, we can Vance
Everybody's taking the chance

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (/6GbT)

474 444 Biggest BMI for a Republican ticket since Taft/Sherman.

Literally LOLed!

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (iHiQe)

475 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

My son too.
Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (oaGWv)

=====

Mine three

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

476
456 But the time for whining is over.
Posted by: Seems Legit
=======
How long you been at AOS? Woulda, Shoulda, or Coulda are favorite whines here.
Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (mIs2x)

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You are correct, Sir.

I just typed wildly saying crazy shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (JeYYB)

477 LOL.. Tell that to his Indian wife.. Dot not feather
Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:35 PM (IyPmt)

That's how racist he is, he's hate-banging the chutney out of her twice a day.

Posted by: MSNBC at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (2tt14)

478 I wonder if he is related to Bob Vance and his wife Phyllis from the office.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (Sgq8y)

479 465 Did I hear Mitch McConnell get booed when announcing Kentucky's delegate votes?
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I thought I heard that as well.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (+b4rY)

480
They'll say she's a token, and just for show.

J.D. Vance knew years in advance through special hillbilly ESP that he was going to be selected for VP, so he chose a non white woman as a spouse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (Zy6LG)

481 Sounds like JD is their kind of guy.....and Trump sent them water out of his pocket I believe.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (eoQWY)




How much water could he possibly carry in his pocket?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

482 Wait until I tell you all about where he put his fingers!

Posted by: E Jean Carroll at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (8NJgB)

483 I love Venn diagrams. But I am strange. About six of us were given a book on Set Theory in 5th grade.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 15, 2024


***
In the section on set theory at the beginning of my ninth-grade algebra book, the authors gave one set of three last names, seemingly out of nowhere. I was the one who spotted that they were "the set of authors of this textbook."

That was about my peak when it came to algebra, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (J2vNu)

484 The working class revolution has begun!

The tumbrils are warming up. Well, they would be, if tumbrils needed warming.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (xCA6C)

485 Is there any pick that Tom Nichols would have approved of?

Like anyone of consequences gives a FF about what Tom Nichols thinks?

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (CjgNg)

486 I get that reference. +1

***********

ERRRRiiii???????

Posted by: Tim Tool Mutherf*ca Man Taylor at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (DBZuM)

487 Picking Vance is the equivalent of Johnson picking Humphrey in 1964.

Basically Trump is saying that he will win anyway, and that he will pick someone from the right instead of having to balance the ticket.

Posted by: Ken at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (cuu81)

488 J.D. Vance knew years in advance through special hillbilly ESP that he was going to be selected for VP, so he chose a non white woman as a spouse.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (Zy6LG)

LOL.. Good one Fen

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (IyPmt)

489 472 Vance solidifies PA , MI, WI. Listen to him talk economics. He will definitely appeal to middle class voters.
Trump was never going to get VA. It is like MA. R's can get maybe up to 45% but that's it. If RFK gets on the ballot in MA, he could pull as many votes as Biden.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (t/2Uw)

You're right. With this pick, Trump is never getting VA.

So, he better damn well have folks out there preventing the cheat in Dem Gov led Midwestern states...b/c he just torched a possible R one...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (exHjb)

490 IIRC, the left went pretty nasty after Vance in 2022.

Like, real ugly.

They know instinctively--because they understand the power of image-- what a threat he is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (OBwus)

491 So... It was who we thought it would be?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (y31cs)

492 Vance's last name was originally "Bowman." He was adopted by his mother's third husband and it was changed to "Vance."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus



Sooo...you're saying he's on Team Crossbow...

Posted by: Oedipus at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (l5mdQ)

493 I think Vance is probably the best of the three main contenders. I think he'd look better without a beard, though.

Posted by: Paco at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (njExo)

494 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

-

Beards are actually a side effect of tranny women taking hormones to pretend to be men.

The little terrible looking wispy teenage boy facial hair that they're able to grow when they pump themselves full of hormones and start going bald is the only identifier that they are "male", so corporations had to begin allowing beards at work.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (2eR39)

495 481 Sounds like JD is their kind of guy.....and Trump sent them water out of his pocket I believe.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (eoQWY)



How much water could he possibly carry in his pocket?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July

What does this even mean?

Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (p4NUW)

496 Ace added a photo of PDT and JDV up top!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (64Zez)

497 I have started a Go Fund Me page for Rubio so he can afford disappointment counseling.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (RUmyk)

498 Would have preferred Dr Carson. Unshakeable America First beliefs and perfect counterpoint to Trump's bluster.

I like Carson but he's A Nice Guy. The swamp would have him for breakfast on day one. Rhetoric aside, what did he actually accomplish at HUD?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (/y8xj)

499 Head wounds are notorious bleeders.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

That's nothing! Once a month, my cooter looks like an abbatoir!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (JCZqz)

500 Trump lurks at aos and saw that ace likes Vance, that's why he pucked him.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (EGSGm)

501 This is who I want by Trump’s side: an American patriot, with the courage to fight America’s wars but the wisdom to know when to avoid them. God bless JD, God bless Trump, and God bless the USA.

Elon Musk
Posted by: Mister Ghost

This Musk guy seems to have a backbone. He may make something of himself.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (h/xVB)

502 We can Vance, we can Vance
Everybody's taking the chance
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 15, 2024


***
"'Cause your friends don't Vance
And if they don't Vance,
Well, they're no friends of mine!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (J2vNu)

503 RFK approved for secret security protection after Trump tweets and meets. Sure makes Trump look like a leader.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (sX1BW)

504 Was Vance a JAG in the Marine Corps?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (v6JzV)

505 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

My son too.
Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (oaGWv)

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Mine three


It's so trendy, I'm considering shaving mine. My wife will be happy.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (xCA6C)

506 What if, now stay with me here, Trump/Vance actually do some good when/if elected?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (JeYYB)

507 If you swim out about 500ft to sea and drop a deuce, does the chocolate torpedo melt before it gets back to shore, or will it strike some frolicking toddler below the waterline?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (ykOw5)

508 When the Veep debate happens, the moderators will spend the entire time trying to get Vance to agree he will always cast tie-breaking Senate votes as Schumer instructs, and to admit he would have certified the 2020 EC slates as submitted by the Big Steal States.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (MqOEd)

509 I vote for the 2A first. I wanted someone strong on the 2A.

https://tinyurl.com/rxu48hvt

Will keep Donald in line I hope.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (/U5Yz)

510 I hope Nova is okay I really like her.

Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (p4NUW)

511
🫃🏼💉🇺🇦Hollaria Briden, Esq.
@HollyBriden
I’m excited to find out who JD Vance touched inappropriately in college.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (TGPs7)

512
The Menopausal Mullahs on The View are going to tear Vance apart, tomorrow!

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (mCw1s)

513 464 So when President Trump wants more power, will VP Vance say, "I don't think so, Tim"?
Posted by: Emmie at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (Sf2cq)

I get that reference. +1
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (Aqu9a)


I'm cracking myself up over here. But unfortunately I'm not very good at making *other* people laugh.

Posted by: Emmie at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (Sf2cq)

514 494 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)


My Son has a beard... Son In Law also.. Husband has a mustache

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (IyPmt)

515 I'm buying popcorn now for the VP debate.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (W/lyH)

516 Trump also listened to Elon who endorsed Vance.
Elon made a very donation to the campaign said he was all in for Trump.
I feel like Elon is our answer to all that Soros money.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (t/2Uw)

517 It's so trendy, I'm considering shaving mine. My wife will be happy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (xCA6C)
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You chemists are such rebels.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (bS+DD)

518 Let's change the SS detail, blame it on the locals, say it was a "OP" by Trump.....

Posted by: catman

---------
related,
One thing that really bothered me was a former USSS guy interviewed on fox that I saw -- he tried to sell that the anti-sniper fired just as the assassin fired, and the reason the assassin missed was because he was hit with a barrage of incoming fire and that threw off his aim.

So, the reason Trump survived is because of the great work of the USSS.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (qUaw2)

519 I've had a beard for 50 years. Once on vacation, I shaved it. My wife said-"Grow it back!" She avoided looking at me for 10 days, or so. Made me look too much like my brother.

Posted by: Hirsute and Hisute at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (V5BDR)

520 Who, now, will replace Vance as Senator? Are there good odds that a Republican will take that seat?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (bc7bh)

521 492 Vance's last name was originally "Bowman." He was adopted by his mother's third husband and it was changed to "Vance."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

As Schicklegruber's are wont to do.

Posted by: The Media at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (2tt14)

522 Vance had the highest conservative rating for his voting record, so at least he's consistent there

If he served then he should also be used to bullets whizzing by him as well

So those are two pluses

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (DBZuM)

523 You're right. With this pick, Trump is never getting VA.

So, he better damn well have folks out there preventing the cheat in Dem Gov led Midwestern states...b/c he just torched a possible R one...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (exHjb

I think Youngkin might be the responsible party to prevent the cheat in his State.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (B1dzx)

524 "I say, we can act if we want to;
If we don't nobody will!
And you can act real rude
And totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile!
[Chorus]
"I say, we can Vance, we can Vance --
Everything is out of control!
We can Vance, we can Vance!
We're doing it from pole to pole!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (J2vNu)

525 Now that that is out of the way
Vivek for Chief of Staff
De Santis for AG

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (5MvGY)

526 Sure makes Trump look like a leader.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (sX1BW)

Eventually he will stop getting so lucky. I'm sure of it.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (7WnGI)

527 516 Trump also listened to Elon who endorsed Vance.
Elon made a very donation to the campaign said he was all in for Trump.
I feel like Elon is our answer to all that Soros money.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (t/2Uw)

========

Elon Musk did more for American conservatism by buying Twitter than the GOP did for American conservatism since the removal of Newt Gingrich from power in the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

528 >>If you swim out about 500ft to sea and drop a deuce, does the chocolate torpedo melt before it gets back to shore, or will it strike some frolicking toddler below the waterline?

Depends if it's an ordinary deuce or a Mark 48 Advanced Capability deuce.

Posted by: electronic means at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (rjJqk)

529 347 All ready for the Vance curbstomps Harris debate
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:27 PM (5MvGY)

Oh, please, let that happen!

Posted by: EveR at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (Z/h4+)

530 251 old people don't like beards.
My father, a car dealer, always said you can get rust a guy who hides his face.
I've been bearded since age 19.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 15, 2024 03:33 PM (4780s)

Its like a grandpa - dad - grandson kinda thing. Beards were big in 1860-1890 then were gone for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (eoQWY)

531 The working class revolution has begun!

The tumbrils are warming up. Well, they would be, if tumbrils needed warming.


Take a minute to contemplate that. The Dems are the party of minorities and the wealthy, and the Republicans are the party of the common man. Things could get sporty.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (xCA6C)

532 493 I think Vance is probably the best of the three main contenders. I think he'd look better without a beard, though.
Posted by: Paco at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (njExo)

No.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8bbhbc

His head is almost perfectly spherical.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (y31cs)

533
This means Vance has received Immediate secret service protection, yes?

And I mean immediate.

In fact, I would guess that the SS was the first to know, even before the announcement on Truth. Yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (mCw1s)

534 Elon Musk did more for American conservatism by buying Twitter than the GOP did for American conservatism since the removal of Newt Gingrich from power in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Yup

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (EGSGm)

535 and the reason the assassin missed was because he was hit with a barrage of incoming fire and that threw off his aim.


-

That would make more sense if the assassin had missed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (2eR39)

536 520 Who, now, will replace Vance as Senator? Are there good odds that a Republican will take that seat?
Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (bc7bh)

It's a Gov appointee to start...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (exHjb)

537 Kamala used to be the first Indian-American elected to the Senate.

Posted by: Candidus at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (dfcuM)

538 Was Vance a JAG in the Marine Corps?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I don't think so - iirc, he was a PAO.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (h/xVB)

539 I shall now eat my words..

Posted by: InZona at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (qz1Fg)

540 That must be an old picture, Trump's got both ears.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (bc7bh)

541 You're right. With this pick, Trump is never getting VA.

So, he better damn well have folks out there preventing the cheat in Dem Gov led Midwestern states...b/c he just torched a possible R one...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (exHjb)

___________

So he could have picked Youngkin, not gotten VA, and still had to have folks out there preventing the cheat.

Got it.

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (CjgNg)

542 I still want Trump to make RFK Jr. his surgeon general.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (wyMQY)

543 I've had a beard for 50 years. Once on vacation, I shaved it. My wife said-"Grow it back!" She avoided looking at me for 10 days, or so. Made me look too much like my brother.
Posted by: Hirsute and Hisute at July 15, 2024


***
Yeah, that's my fear about cutting back to a ring beard or goatee a la Hans Gruber. It would take a while to grow it back if I don't like the look.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (J2vNu)

544 How much water could he possibly carry in his pocket?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Trump tapped his American Express Diamond-Studded Platinum card against a rock and ...

Posted by: mrp at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (rj6Yv)

545 J.D. Vance knew years in advance through special hillbilly ESP that he was going to be selected for VP, so he chose a non white woman as a spouse.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

https://tinyurl.com/55z9nsep

Usha Chilukuri. Yale Law school, working for a San Francisco and New York based law firm? Not super confidence inspiring...kind of a reverse Kellyanne Conway look lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

546 Sure makes Trump look like a leader.
-

Eventually he will stop getting so lucky. I'm sure of it.

Posted by: ...

--

hahahaha

Threadwinner

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (2eR39)

547 Oh.
And David Axelrod is a scum-sucking Siberian snow pimp.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (W/lyH)

548 Was Vance a JAG in the Marine Corps?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (v6JzV)

Nope. Joined the Corp(se) right out of high school.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (IcuR4)

549 You chemists are such rebels.
Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (bS+DD)

Rebels without a cation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (y31cs)

550 Vance AOC 2028 gonna be lit!!

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (7PziG)

551 In the rural areas I'm familiar with, a beard is typically a sign that hunting season is upon us.

Hillbilly signs 101

Follow me for more hill people tips.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (Q4IgG)

552
Any guesses on what Vance's secret service designation will be?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (mCw1s)

553 This means Vance has received Immediate secret service protection, yes?

------------

"JD, the good news is you get SS protection. The bad news is you get the protection I had on Saturday. I'm upgrading"

- Trump

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (sX1BW)

554 I really like Vivek, but didn't hold out much hope. I do hope a place can be found for him, he's a fantastic speaker, isn't afraid to say what needs to be said, lives this country.

Vance is OK. Looks good on paper. I initially confused him with Jim Webb, and think I'm still confusing him with someone who wrote a similar book, but is much more of an asshole. Can't remember his name, he isn't a politician.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (Vvh2V)

555 so corporations had to begin allowing beards at work.

And now you know the rest of the story.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

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I am dubious. Most corporations DGAF, and those that do had muslim lawsuits long ago.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (qUaw2)

556 507 If you swim out about 500ft to sea and drop a deuce, does the chocolate torpedo melt before it gets back to shore, or will it strike some frolicking toddler below the waterline?
---------------
Did the shitee eat a good bit of collard greens? This matters.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (n17eQ)

557  Vance solidifies PA , MI, WI. Listen to him talk economics. He will definitely appeal to middle class voters.
---
Correct.
He brings a passion for the working and middle class that Trump can't match.
Trump motivates the conservatives.
Vance motivates the casual unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (OBwus)

558 Trump lurks at aos and saw that ace likes Vance, that's why he picked him.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM


I think it's Don Jr who lurks here. Trump is working on his 4 handicap.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (RKVpM)

559 If you swim out about 500ft to sea and drop a deuce, does the chocolate torpedo melt before it gets back to shore, or will it strike some frolicking toddler below the waterline?

I'll take questions it never occurred to me to ask, for $500, Alex.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (xCA6C)

560 Phrasing? Your concern is noted?

Gosh, suddenly its 2016 in here!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (phone, and in NJ) at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (EXuhY)

561 233 JD Vance is single too...

No, he is not. There's a good section in "Hillbilly Elegy" about meeting his future wife at Yale and how socially awkward he was.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (G5Juy)

562 I've had a beard for 50 years. Once on vacation, I shaved it. My wife said-"Grow it back!" She avoided looking at me for 10 days, or so. Made me look too much like my brother.
Posted by: Hirsute and Hisute at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (V5BDR)

=====

Luckily, there isn't anything my husband could do to his hair or face that would make him look anything like his brothers.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

563 Any guesses on what Vance's secret service designation will be?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (mCw1s)

Hillbilly

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (xPl2J)

564 523 You're right. With this pick, Trump is never getting VA.

So, he better damn well have folks out there preventing the cheat in Dem Gov led Midwestern states...b/c he just torched a possible R one...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:38 PM (exHjb

I think Youngkin might be the responsible party to prevent the cheat in his State.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (B1dzx)

Vance will drive away VA voters...Dems won't need to cheat.

Trump had a chance in VA with a popular VA gov on the ticket. He will not have a chance without it.

Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (exHjb)

565 There were probably intangibles involved in the choice, as in Trump felt he could have a better working relationship with Vance, after meeting both of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (wyMQY)

566 I am dubious. Most corporations DGAF, and those that do had muslim lawsuits long ago.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest

-

Now do tattoos.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (2eR39)

567 I think Vance is independently wealthy. I have seen estimagtes of his wealth in single digit millions. I suspect it is more - he was a venture capitalist, one of Peter Thiel's guys.

Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (IFNME)

568 https://tinyurl.com/5n8bbhbc

His head is almost perfectly spherical.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 15, 2024


***
Election Eve prime-time special:

"You'll Make a Great Vice-President, Charlie Brown!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (J2vNu)

569 Gee, did something happen?

@LeadingReport
·
15m
BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IG4Id)

570 How long has Obama had a beard?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (b+KOz)

571 As an almost-lifetime Virginian(since age 4) with many, many Virginian friends, I can tell you that if any Virginians are already for Trump, the VP pick didn't matter, and if they were already against Trump, the VP pick didn't matter.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (bS+DD)

572 RFK approved for secret security protection after Trump tweets and meets. Sure makes Trump look like a leader.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 15, 2024 03:39 PM (sX1BW)

He better double check their work.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (eoQWY)

573 It's a Gov appointee to start...

***************

The senate map is brutal for the left this cycle, if youre going to pick a senator this is the best time to do it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (DBZuM)

574 557 Correct.
He brings a passion for the working and middle class that Trump can't match.
Trump motivates the conservatives.
Vance motivates the casual unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (OBwus)

=======

I don't think that's accurate. Trump came to power because he was motivating unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters, especially in the Midwest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

575 What this means is the new GOP will not be the party of career politicians. And that is a good thing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (xjTDL)

576 Gee I guy who seems capable of being President. Shouldn't they have chosen based on race/gender and how many times he was on a TV talkshow -- the real Gold Standard for leadership excellence?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (wBaIH)

577 I'm a little surprised by the graph at the bottom of Ace's post. I don't know much about Vance, assume most Americans know less, and assumed that would mean he polled well amoung independent voters. Apparently not so at all.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (JCZqz)

578 Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (exHjb)

Well then Fuck VA because Vance's assasination tweet was perfect.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (wyMQY)

579 Vance is a poor white who climbed out of the poverty ditch… I imagine that DOES repel the Elites..

Posted by: tubal at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (PCK5/)

580 Someone D soap actress just called JD "Hitler-esque" so he's got that going for him.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IcuR4)

581
Cassandra MacDonald

@CassandraRules
If little ben is happy then I am not.

Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
·
24m
As a friend put it, Vance is truly a "f*** it, we ride!" pick from Trump. Demonstrates real confidence -- and shows that he wants a bulldog. Vance is certainly that. In terms of pure IQ and speaking ability, Vance is the best candidate Trump could pick.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (TGPs7)

582 Take a Vance on me.

Posted by: Agnetha Faltskog at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (OguvZ)

583 Both of my young sons have beards. I think it is pretty popular right now. Another side effect of the pandemic. Didn't have to shave.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

My son too.
Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 03:36 PM (oaGWv)

=====

Mine three
Posted by: Jordan61




Stepson has one. In Texas. In the summer.

I. Can't. Do. It.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (NzK/m)

584 >>I've had a beard for 50 years. Once on vacation, I shaved it. My wife said-"Grow it back!" She avoided looking at me for 10 days, or so. Made me look too much like my brother.


I shaved my 10+ year beard one night while the ex wife was asleep...she had never seen me without it.

I woke up to screaming and the sound of her backpedaling out of the bed and hitting the floor.

It was hysterical.

Posted by: Willie Brown at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (X8fgo)

585 You're right. With this pick, Trump is never getting VA.
-
He got it last time, but for overnight ballot stuffing.

That said, it's full of federal employees, so fuck that state.

Posted by: Methos at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (Dnobf)

586 507 depends on the tide.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (4780s)

587 Vance helps revive the Trump Thiel alliance too.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (7PziG)

588 533
This means Vance has received Immediate secret service protection, yes?

And I mean immediate.

In fact, I would guess that the SS was the first to know, even before the announcement on Truth. Yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:41 PM (mCw1s)

The assigned him all the five foot female agents he could personally carry out of SS headquarters.

Posted by: I'm Sure at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (2tt14)

589 The Bush's have got to be going nuts. Calling Barry. Calling Rove.

Posted by: torabora at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (8NJgB)

590 It should be noted that popular former governor, Republican Larry Hogan, is likely to lose his Senate race in MD, right next to VA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

591 MSNBC criticizes Trump picking Vance because he is too inexperienced to succeed Trump when they find somebody with better aim. #unity

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (9aVck)

592 sockOFF

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (X8fgo)

593 Any guesses on what Vance's secret service designation will be?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024


***
He's from Ohio?

"Mailman"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (J2vNu)

594 Good morning!

Good morning?

Get on the desk!

You brought a spy around me?!

Spy in the building!

Don't touch the 'fro.

Back up off!

Back up off "me!"

Let me tell you something about the word "good." Good is an ancient Anglo-Saxon word. Go-od, meaning the absence of color, i. e.-"It's all good," which it is, or "Good Will Hunting," meaning, "I'm hunting n*****!"

So if you say "good morning" to me, you're saying, "I'm gonna kill your black ass."

Posted by: Ribbed at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (Ectld)

595 I've got a beard for the time being, but I have to shave if off whenever I have a job interview, because it's almost completely white.

Want to avoid that age discrimination as much as possible.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (v6JzV)

596 Yeah "Trump doesn't motivate the working class" is certainly a take.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (7WnGI)

597 hope TJM is right @124

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (UWgy2)

598 Well then Fuck VA because Vance's assasination tweet was perfect.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (wyMQY)

I agree.. He spoke the truth

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (IyPmt)

599 563 Any guesses on what Vance's secret service designation will be?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (mCw1s)

Hillbilly
Posted by: Mark1971

Throat Ripper

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (/U5Yz)

600 Yeah, that's my fear about cutting back to a ring beard or goatee a la Hans Gruber. It would take a while to grow it back if I don't like the look.
------------------
The Colonel Sanders look is where you want to be. Everyone loves Colonel Sanders.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (n17eQ)

601 > I wonder if he is related to Bob Vance and his wife Phyllis from the office.
---


Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration?

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (/7KEl)

602 Locking down PA, MI is way more important than he might get VA.
Piper, apparently you didn't have to worry about Nova.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (t/2Uw)

603 Usha Chilukuri. Yale Law school, working for a San Francisco and New York based law firm? Not super confidence inspiring...kind of a reverse Kellyanne Conway look lol.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

They have two cute little boys also. Great photo ops abound.


"I'm sure they'll make the covers of all the news and fashion mags. NOT!!"
-- The lovely Melania

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (h/xVB)

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (/U5Yz)

605 How long has Obama had a beard?
Posted by: Northernlurker



Since high school.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (NzK/m)

606
I still want Trump to make RFK Jr. his surgeon general.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM


Yup, and permanently ban pharmaceutical advertising on radio and tv. Too much power is in those fvckers hands.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (RKVpM)

607 573 It's a Gov appointee to start...

***************

The senate map is brutal for the left this cycle, if youre going to pick a senator this is the best time to do it
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (DBZuM)

=======

1. The Senate map very much favors Republicans this cycle.

2. The replacement wouldn't have to happen until after the election and Vance would take the office of VP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

608 https://tinyurl.com/55z9nsep

Usha Chilukuri. Yale Law school, working for a San Francisco and New York based law firm? Not super confidence inspiring...kind of a reverse Kellyanne Conway look lol.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (JCZqz)


I hate you.

Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (IFNME)

609 Any guesses on what Vance's secret service designation will be?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (mCw1s)

Hillbilly
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (xPl2J)

nice!

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (V13WU)

610 That said, it's full of federal employees, so fuck that state.

*****************

Yeah I cant see any national candidate winning Virginia unless Trump ends the careers of all the fed employees who live there so they have to move

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (DBZuM)

611 .

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (2eR39)

612
Did you see Disney "News'" martha radditz?

She looks like an old MUPPET.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (mCw1s)

613 569 Gee, did something happen?

@LeadingReport
·
15m
BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IG4Id)

Looked really shitting that Biden was withholding ss from a rival pulling10 percent away from Biden. Since they are knocking off bidens rivals now it would look bad.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (uBBbP)

614 Vance knew he’d be a potential vp pick for trump so he married an Indian woman and had kids with her just for some DEI cred.
- soon on Reddit

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (iHiQe)

615 > I think Vance is independently wealthy. I have seen estimagtes of his wealth in single digit millions.
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I bet there are commenters here who have wealth in the single digit millions.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

616 I woke up to screaming and the sound of her backpedaling out of the bed and hitting the floor.

It was hysterical.
Posted by: Willie Brown at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (X8fgo)


And the rest is history.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (PiwSw)

617 Vance is OK. Looks good on paper. I initially confused him with Jim Webb, and think I'm still confusing him with someone who wrote a similar book, but is much more of an asshole. Can't remember his name, he isn't a politician.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (Vvh2V)

Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion?

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (+zk9R)

618 If you swim out about 500ft to sea and drop a deuce...

I'm fairly sure you'd be breaking federal law. I'd have to check to find the limit (memory says 1 mile).

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (/y8xj)

619 Correct.
He brings a passion for the working and middle class that Trump can't match.
Trump motivates the conservatives.
Vance motivates the casual unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters.


I'd say Trump also has the working and middle class, so in that sense, Vance is a bit redundant. However, Vance has all the credentials that matter with the smart set: Yale, VC, and best of all, they can burnish their own credentials by supporting the guy who wasn't born with a Ag thermometer up his butt.

My preference was for Youngkin, but it's remarkable that we are so spoiled for choice, that Vance is also very desirable.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (xCA6C)

620 582 Take a Vance on me.
Posted by: Agnetha Faltskog at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM (OguvZ)

ABBA. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (y31cs)

621 578 Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (exHjb)

Well then Fuck VA because Vance's assasination tweet was perfect.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (wyMQY)

So someone better figure out how all those Midwest voters that Vance will apparently attract will have their votes counted by Dem govs in WI, MI, and PA...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (exHjb)

622 580 Someone D soap actress just called JD "Hitler-esque" so he's got that going for him.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

She probably said the same about Romney, though. As well as "bigot istaphobe".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (JCZqz)

623 Correct.
He brings a passion for the working and middle class that Trump can't match.
Trump motivates the conservatives.
Vance motivates the casual unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (OBwus)

Trump has a great connection to the workers, even though he isn't one of them. Some aristocrats have that touch....Julius Caesar and Pompey did.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (eoQWY)

624 507
‘ will it strike some frolicking toddler below the waterline?’

Idk if you’re high or just high on life when you typed that but you’re funnier than hell.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (tkRpE)

625 504 Was Vance a JAG in the Marine Corps?...

Nope, initially he was enlisted infantry in Iraq. He eventually became some sort of press liason, I think through connection with Gen Mattis. JD went to THE Ohio State on GI Bill and then got scholarship to Yale Law.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (G5Juy)

626 Good news on another front . Squad member Cori Bush is down over 30 pts to her Dem primary challenger in Aug 6th primary. Preparing to cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (yI5mB)

627 In fact, I would guess that the SS was the first to know, even before the announcement on Truth. Yes?

his detail is just wrapping up their mani-pedis and then they'll be right over

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (25k9m)

628 The rest of this post is now irrelevant, but here's what I wrote a few minutes ago:
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It's okay -- the irrelevant is the symbol of the GOPe!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (Jh5b+)

629 My contempt for the DC suburb of VA is legion. Fuck those glorified Marylander trash.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (wBaIH)

630 Someone D soap actress just called JD "Hitler-esque" so he's got that going for him.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IcuR4)

"Welcome to the Party, pal!!!!"

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (7WnGI)

631 I hate you.
Posted by: blaster at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (IFNME)

Me too.. I looked

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (IyPmt)

632 623 Correct.
He brings a passion for the working and middle class that Trump can't match.
Trump motivates the conservatives.
Vance motivates the casual unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (OBwus)

Trump has a great connection to the workers, even though he isn't one of them. Some aristocrats have that touch....Julius Caesar and Pompey did.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (eoQWY)

Trump spent a lot of time with construction workers in his youth iirc. It's how he picked up the mannerisms.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

633 Gerry Callahan
@GerryCallahan
Has some crazed crisis actress accused JD Vance of raping her in middle school yet?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (TGPs7)

634 Anyone saying that the Secret Service saved the day or anything to that effect should be immediately boo'ed out of the room.

They fucked up, bad. The counter-sniper ended the threat that should have never existed in the first place.

There should be a LOT of badges being turned in.

Posted by: ballistic at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (oqH4h)

635 630 Someone D soap actress just called JD "Hitler-esque" so he's got that going for him.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IcuR4)

"Welcome to the Party, pal!!!!"
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (7WnGI)

=======

I bet she thinks Vance is even worse than Trump!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

636 Usha >>> Second Gentleman

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (V13WU)

637 Cassandra MacDonald

@CassandraRules
If little ben is happy then I am not.


This is an extremely pathetic way to live your life.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (IG4Id)

638 Vance married his wife to curry favor in the crucial Indian Call Center field.

Posted by: Makes Sense at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (V5BDR)

639 551 In the rural areas I'm familiar with, a beard is typically a sign that hunting season is upon us.

Hillbilly signs 101

Follow me for more hill people tips.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (Q4IgG)

Had a beard for 30+ years. Daughter, in her late 20s, has never seen me without one. I'm from a rural area, wouldn't consider myself a hillbilly but do have redneck leanings.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (N39Ws)

640 I bet there are commenters here who have wealth in the single digit millions.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Do you think that they are home right now?

Posted by: *dons panty hose headgear* at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (2tt14)

641 In fact, I would guess that the SS was the first to know, even before the announcement on Truth. Yes?

his detail is just wrapping up their mani-pedis and then they'll be right over

-

PepsiCo DM'ed them with the new assignment

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (2eR39)

642 How long has Obama had a beard?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (b+KOz)

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For like 35 years now.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (DRSnL)

643 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 15, 2024 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

Well, having lived in NJ for many years and changed political parties and philosophies, I take these sorts of things (that you work in NYC of San Fran) with a grain of salt. Some of the strongest conservatives in an online parents group which I look at are people who came from India-some of whom work in NYC. Why? Because they want their children to have a strong academic future that gives hope and they are livid about transgender indoctrination.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (Zy6LG)

644 "As an almost-lifetime Virginian(since age 4) with many, many Virginian friends, I can tell you that if any Virginians are already for Trump, the VP pick didn't matter, and if they were already against Trump, the VP pick didn't matter."

_______________

That rings a bit more true than, "Trump's VP pick should revolve around a state that doesn't factor into the EC numbers."

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (CjgNg)

645 Yeah, that's my fear about cutting back to a ring beard or goatee a la Hans Gruber. It would take a while to grow it back if I don't like the look.
------------------
The Colonel Sanders look is where you want to be. Everyone loves Colonel Sanders.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024


***
"Here, chickie, chickie, chickie . . ."
( -- Col. Sanders on Laugh-In)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (J2vNu)

646 Yup, and permanently ban pharmaceutical advertising on radio and tv. Too much power is in those fvckers hands.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (RKVpM)

Something like 60% of cable news revenue is from pharma ads. It’s nuts.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (iHiQe)

647 Vance will drive away VA voters...Dems won't need to cheat.

Trump had a chance in VA with a popular VA gov on the ticket. He will not have a chance without it.

Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (exHjb)

The only VA voters that won't for Trump now are the same VA voters that won't vote for Trump before he picked Vance.

Posted by: mrp at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (rj6Yv)

648 yay!

good pick I'm psyched

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (s3qiR)

649 Oh, shit, let the whining commence (from me).

Never Trust a politician with a lefty wife.

Would someone clue me in on Vance's wife?

It doesn't sound good so far.

She sounds exactly like Ryan's wife.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (JeYYB)

650 Good pick but his tie is horrible. Lose the stripes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (7+K68)

651 Vance is OK. Looks good on paper. I initially confused him with Jim Webb, and think I'm still confusing him with someone who wrote a similar book, but is much more of an asshole. Can't remember his name, he isn't a politician.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (Vvh2V)


Was it the national Review guy who wrote a book on Appalachia and basically said the were losers since they didn’t move to better themselves ?

I forgot his name too.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (B1dzx)

652 'I won't Vance, don't ask me...'

Posted by: Ella Fitzgerald at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (X8fgo)

653 NERVA ADOPTS TRAJAN

Posted by: Headline, Acta Diurna, AD 97 at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (Zt+o3)

654 The senate map is brutal for the left this cycle, if youre going to pick a senator this is the best time to do it
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (DBZuM)

=======

1. The Senate map very much favors Republicans this cycle.

2. The replacement wouldn't have to happen until after the election and Vance would take the office of VP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

1. Yea, where have I heard that before? Something about red waves, IIRC.

2. How does that change anything? It still gives up a safe GOP seat when we can't afford to give up anything, no matter how confident we are.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

655 525 Now that that is out of the way
Vivek for Chief of Staff
De Santis for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (5MvGY)

Agree.

It was a shame that RDS listened to the siren song of the GOPe and ran against Trump this cycle. The 2024 VP spot was his for the taking.

Oh well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (JPA8o)

656 Vance is a poor white who climbed out of the poverty ditch… I imagine that DOES repel the Elites..
Posted by: tubal at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (PCK5/)/i]


that's just his white privilege.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

657 641 In fact, I would guess that the SS was the first to know, even before the announcement on Truth. Yes?

his detail is just wrapping up their mani-pedis and then they'll be right over

-

PepsiCo DM'ed them with the new assignment
Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (2eR39)

Hopefully Barbie has worked on her pistol holstering skills since Saturday.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (N39Ws)

658 This means Vance has received Immediate secret service protection, yes?

Those gals are tanned, rested and hungry.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (mH6SG)

659 crap

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

660 There should be a LOT of badges being turned in.


-

The men will resign in shame and the teletubbies will be promoted to their positions.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (2eR39)

661 562 Luckily, there isn't anything my husband could do to his hair or face that would make him look anything like his brothers.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

When they were younger, my father and his brother looked almost nothing alike.

Now, they absolutely do.

Posted by: XTC at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (UnA8+)

662 This. Vance and wife, looks good to me.

https://shorturl.at/jWxIP

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (bc7bh)

663 Doing the opposite of what David Axelrod suggests in public is a pretty solid strategy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (xcxpd)

664 Anybody remember Harris calling Joe Biden a racist during the 2020 Primary?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (a1415)

665 Well then Fuck VA because Vance's assasination tweet was perfect.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (wyMQY)


Spot on Tom.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (W/lyH)

666 644 "As an almost-lifetime Virginian(since age 4) with many, many Virginian friends, I can tell you that if any Virginians are already for Trump, the VP pick didn't matter, and if they were already against Trump, the VP pick didn't matter."

_______________

That rings a bit more true than, "Trump's VP pick should revolve around a state that doesn't factor into the EC numbers."
Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (CjgNg)

==========

Name me a presidential campaign that selected a VP based on trying to win the state.

It doesn't happen.

If presidential campaigns don't do it, do they think VP candidates have favorite son effects?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

667 Trump isn't winning Virginia. Too many government employees who see him as an existential threat , not to the nation, but to their jobs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (yI5mB)

668 Well, looks like I got married for nothing.

Posted by: Senator Tim Scott at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (xPl2J)

669 The trolls are upset. I’m guessing that means Vance is a good pick.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (cIsFN)

670 Reminder, Ron Howard made a movie of Hillbilly Elegy. I think this is the first VPnominee that has his own movie.

Vance will help in the Midwest and with women. And he's competent to be President.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (xjTDL)

671 Vance is intimately familiar with the ravages of de-industrialization, off-shoring of jobs, and China's fentanyl war against the United States. He's very smart and an independent thinker, not a weak knee like some others. He'll be great!

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (gJskm)

672 The Colonel Sanders look is where you want to be. Everyone loves Colonel Sanders.

I hated the Colonel. With his wee, beady eyes and that smug look on his face!

Posted by: Stewart Mackenzie at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (tYiVR)

673 Thumbs Up means 8 8 !!!!!!!

We all know 8 8 is a secret code for Heil Hitler.........

Posted by: Jack Mehoff at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (38eU4)

674 669 The trolls are upset. I’m guessing that means Vance is a good pick.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (cIsFN)

That's also a good rule of thumb

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (xcxpd)

675 Something like 60% of cable news revenue is from pharma ads. It’s nuts.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (iHiQe)

I just can't figure out why the media pushed the fake vaccine so hard.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (7WnGI)

676 655 525 Now that that is out of the way
Vivek for Chief of Staff
De Santis for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (5MvGY)

Agree.

It was a shame that RDS listened to the siren song of the GOPe and ran against Trump this cycle. The 2024 VP spot was his for the taking.

Oh well.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (JPA8o)

+1.
Would love to see DeSantis as AG.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (N39Ws)

677 651 Vance is OK. Looks good on paper. I initially confused him with Jim Webb, and think I'm still confusing him with someone who wrote a similar book, but is much more of an asshole. Can't remember his name, he isn't a politician.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (Vvh2V)


Was it the national Review guy who wrote a book on Appalachia and basically said the were losers since they didn’t move to better themselves ?

I forgot his name too.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (B1dzx)

Kevin Williamson?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (eYoxG)

678 Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (ex

You and Axlerod agree.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (B1dzx)

679 653 NERVA ADOPTS TRAJAN
Posted by: Headline, Acta Diurna, AD 97 at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (Zt+o3)

That WAS probably the best thing Nerva ever did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (y31cs)

680 "Doin' the Neutron Vance . . ."

Posted by: Pointer Sisters at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (J2vNu)

681 659 crap

hello, sailor!

Posted by: amber heard at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (oY6Yp)

682 Good pick but his tie is horrible. Lose the stripes.

-

Forgot about it until just now, but apparently that was another SS failing. The agents now wear different color ties from the man they're protecting. Seems that used to be a tactic to add just a bit of confusion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (2eR39)

683 Any guesses on what Vance's secret service designation will be?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (mCw1s)

Hillbilly
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:43 PM (xPl2J)

It won't even be a name, they'll just hum a line of the banjo bit from Deliverance.

Posted by: Methos at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (Dnobf)

684 Vance feels like someone who sees through bullshit and will call out people who attempt to deceive Trump with flattery

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (V6W16)

685 I don't know if best because don't know much about him
But hopefully one who can help right this country

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (fwDg9)

686 I like Vance but didn’t have a strong opinion as to whom it SHOULD be. I’m just laughing that the announcement came an hour early as opposed to Biden always being at least an hour late!

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (rbKZ6)

687 "Someone D soap actress just called JD "Hitler-esque" so he's got that going for him."

She means white.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (Ectld)

688 "As an almost-lifetime Virginian(since age 4) with many, many Virginian friends, I can tell you that if any Virginians are already for Trump, the VP pick didn't matter, and if they were already against Trump, the VP pick didn't matter."

This goes for the rest of our 57 states.
I don’t think many minds are changing either way regardless of what happens or who the vp pick is. It’s Trump or not Trump. And after 8-9 years of Trump on the front page every day, you either like him or you don’t. Not much left to sway people in either direction.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (iHiQe)

689 612 Did you see Disney "News'" martha radditz?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (mCw1s)

She was shaking on Steffi's Sunday morning show. Anger or Parkinson, IDK.

Posted by: Auspex at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (j4U/Z)

690 I bet she thinks Vance is even worse than Trump!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, not yet. In 2028, when Trump's about to leave office and Vance is running for president, then Trump becomes not so bad, and Vance (or DeSantis) becomes the new extremist Hitler.

Posted by: Democrat NPC Patch and Programing Division at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (JCZqz)

691 another good rule of thumb is not to pick Murdoch's fave

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (V13WU)

692 “ 667 Trump isn't winning Virginia. Too many government employees who see him as an existential threat , not to the nation, but to their jobs”

Cuts in the size of government are coming with the next administration no matter what. The good news for them is McDonalds is hiring.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (cIsFN)

693 I don't think that's accurate. Trump came to power because he was motivating unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters, especially in the Midwest.
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I mean it in a complementary, multiplier way.
The ones that Trump can't reach, Vance can.

To me, this is a huge signal that not only is Trump the only one fighting for them in either party but they he's gonna make sure they have someone for a decade more.
This just ripped the last of the "for the little guy" from the Democrats mythos.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (OBwus)

694 The Ace of Spades is a well-known symbol of White Supremacy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (A3700)

695
BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM


I don't like much about him, maybe 5% approval, but he deserves protection and it showed how petty Biden was to not approve it.

Maybe some adults have told Biden to STFU and STFD before he loses all 50 states in November.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (RKVpM)

696 Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...

His tweet was spot on, and was exactly what a veep candidate is there to do: say the harsh things that the top of the ticket avoids, but which still need saying.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (xCA6C)

697 Isn't there a mystery or crime or thriller writer named J.D. Vance also?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (J2vNu)

698 654 1. Yea, where have I heard that before? Something about red waves, IIRC.

2. How does that change anything? It still gives up a safe GOP seat when we can't afford to give up anything, no matter how confident we are.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

=========

WV, MT (fingers crossed), and OH seem in the bag.

MI, PA, NV, and AZ are all gettable.

And that was with shaky July polls and before the Trump assassination attempt.

I mean...there will be cheat, but I'm suddenly thinking that the cheat may be too big...My black pill has a red tinge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

699 I forgot his name too.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (B1dzx)

Kevin Williamson?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (eYoxG)

I’m not sure but that sounds right.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (B1dzx)

700 664 Anybody remember Harris calling Joe Biden a racist during the 2020 Primary?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (a1415)
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Dr. Jill does.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (G0vdT)

701 Let's get some kiddy porn installed on all of his devices. Stat!

Posted by: Merrick Garland at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (/U5Yz)

702 667 Trump isn't winning Virginia. Too many government employees who see him as an existential threat , not to the nation, but to their jobs
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (yI5mB)

Well to be fair if Trump succeeds in taking the axe to their jobs like he aims to, those aren't people we should be winning anyways.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (eYoxG)

703 Vance has been going on shows on places like CNN and making mincemeat of the show hosts. He can hold his own because, guess what, he is actually smart. He didn't get where he through graft. He made his money by being legitimately successful. Kind of like Trump.
But unlike Trump, he is soft spoken, not bombastic, married to his college sweetheart, from Kentucky and Ohio, not some blue city.
If the only way they can go after him is because he is a conservative, that doesn't affect Trump.
If the only way they can go after him is because he made some anti Trump remarks and Trump doesn't care, I don't see how that hurts Trump also.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

704 I would guess that Trump picked Vance because he’s the sort of person that he respects, admires and resonates with.

Posted by: tubal at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (PCK5/)

705 That convo with Kennedy may have had to do with Trump courting the libertarian vote. Kennedy pulls libertarians to Trump and gets - ambassador to Brussels?, Holland? - something comfortable with dignity.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (bc7bh)

706 673 Thumbs Up means 8 8 !!!!!!!

We all know 8 8 is a secret code for Heil Hitler.........
Posted by: Jack Mehoff

Did he do the "okay" sign!?!?!?! Super racist dog whistle!!!!

Posted by: The Bulwark at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (JCZqz)

707 The only VA voters that won't for Trump now are the same VA voters that won't vote for Trump before he picked Vance.

Exactly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (mH6SG)

708 https://shorturl.at/jWxIP


awwww

cute couple!

I don't know about VA but here in Pennsylvania this is the hot combo (or other Asian).

and a great combo (either type of asian)

I'm for!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (s3qiR)

709 that Vance was critical/skeptical of Trump initially doesn't bother me

most of us were, and Trump proved us wrong

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (V6W16)

710 Oh, no~! Anyway...

@JackPosobiec 3m
Neocon Karl Rove is on Fox melting down right now over the pick of America First JD Vance

Sorry, Karl, we’re breaking up

It’s not us, it’s you. It’s definitely you

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (IG4Id)

711 > I think Vance is independently wealthy. I have seen estimagtes of his wealth in single digit millions.
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I bet there are commenters here who have wealth in the single digit millions.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Not here. *checks wallet* Just single digit wealth.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (Aqu9a)

712 2. The replacement wouldn't have to happen until after the election and Vance would take the office of VP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ohio law would have a DeWine appointee serving until the next general election in 2026. Then a special election would be held for the remainder of Vance's term.

Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (mIs2x)

713 672 The Colonel Sanders look is where you want to be. Everyone loves Colonel Sanders.

I hated the Colonel. With his wee, beady eyes and that smug look on his face!
------------------
This is apostacy. Get yourself to KFC and repent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (n17eQ)

714 701 Let's get some kiddy porn installed on all of his devices. Stat!
Posted by: Merrick Garland at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (/U5Yz)


I know just where to find some.

Posted by: Greg Terry at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

715 The Marxists are going to go ape shit with the 2025 Project that it's a Fascism to take over the country

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (fwDg9)

716 Vance picked to assist in the Midwest. Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and possibly Western PA....

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (hbjSA)

717 If Karl Rove is upset over Vance, Trump did himself a solid.

Posted by: electronic means at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (rjJqk)

718 In the rural areas I'm familiar with, a beard is typically a sign that hunting season is upon us.

Hillbilly signs 101

Follow me for more hill people tips.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


Hillbilly is gauche. I prefer Mountain William.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (NzK/m)

719
brb, framin' Vance as anti-semite

Posted by: ADL at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (mCw1s)

720 Jason Whitlock
@WhitlockJason
If you've never read the book Hillbilly Elegy, I suggest you do. It captures what it's like growing up poor/working class in middle America. I couldn't believe how similar JD Vance's story was to my own family. Fantastic choice for VP!
12:32 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (9aVck)

721 A lot of recent ex-Dems like RFKJr; I hope ge siphons of some of the anti-Trumpers from Biden

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (EGSGm)

722 Forgot about it until just now, but apparently that was another SS failing. The agents now wear different color ties from the man they're protecting. Seems that used to be a tactic to add just a bit of confusion.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (2eR39)

Why suits and ties at all. Ever try running in one? Or doing any kind of physical activity? Plus it’s hot as fuck in summer . Why put these obstacles in the way?

Khakis and a polo.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (iHiQe)

723 705 That convo with Kennedy may have had to do with Trump courting the libertarian vote. Kennedy pulls libertarians to Trump and gets - ambassador to Brussels?, Holland? - something comfortable with dignity.


hmm

he could do Sec of State better than most recent ones tbh

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (s3qiR)

724 Unlike Joe and Kamala, PDT is positioning Vance for success.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (tT6L1)

725 694 The Ace of Spades is a well-known symbol of White Supremacy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (A3700)

Bacon supremacy, maybe.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (7+K68)

726
@JackPosobiec 3m
Neocon Karl Rove is on Fox melting down right now over the pick of America First JD Vance

Sorry, Karl, we’re breaking up

It’s not us, it’s you. It’s definitely you
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (IG4Id)



Why no one trusts Fox anymore either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

727 Some poor bastard has to look at Biden through all this shit.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (QSrLX)

728 Vance's last name was originally "Bowman." He was adopted by his mother's third husband and it was changed to "Vance."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


Thinking like a democrat:

Bowman -> Baughman -> Baumann -> is German -> Nazi

REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (/HDaX)

729 Reminder, Ron Howard made a movie of Hillbilly Elegy. I think this is the first VPnominee that has his own movie.
Posted by: Notsothoreau


Al Gore will be deeply upset you think so.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (IG4Id)

730 "This is apostacy. Get yourself to KFC and repent."

Love that chicken from Popeyes!

Posted by: Ribbed at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (Ectld)

731 Ned Ryun
@nedryun
If JD Vance frustrates Karl Rove and Lindsey Graham and other neo-cons. . . That should tell you A LOT.
12:46 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (9aVck)

732 Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:51 PM (iHiQe)

The VP selection won’t change people who were going to vote but it can have an effect to motivate people to vote who otherwise were not going to.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (B1dzx)

733 635 I bet she thinks Vance is even worse than Trump!

no doubt. after four more, trump is out, but vance is just getting started.

Posted by: anachronda at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (oY6Yp)

734 712 2. The replacement wouldn't have to happen until after the election and Vance would take the office of VP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=====
Ohio law would have a DeWine appointee serving until the next general election in 2026. Then a special election would be held for the remainder of Vance's term.
Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (mIs2x)

========

DeWine would appoint himself ala Luther Strange in AL. It will probably follow the same path of uncovering misdeeds by DeWine followed by the state level GOPe throwing the election after they lost the primary for the special election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

735 OT

Anyone else worried that China/Russia/Iran will take advantage of the US's distraction?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (qUaw2)

736 Van Jones on CNN is pontificating that JD Vance started out as a great human, a bridge builder and now has become a dark divider. Alright. So sad to see mental illness go untreated for so long.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (RUmyk)

737 not so Tiny Vancer

Posted by: Elton John at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (/6GbT)

738 brb, framin' Vance for Abu Ghraib

Posted by: Candidus at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (dfcuM)

739 Dear Karl, you have bben served.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (QSrLX)

740 Neocon Karl Rove is on Fox melting down right now over the pick of America First JD Vance


GOOD

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (s3qiR)

741
How long has Obama had a beard?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (b+KOz)



Since Oct 3 1992

https://tinyurl.com/BarrysBeard

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (y9nCu)

742 >Would someone clue me in on Vance's wife?


she's a lawyer too
Indian lady
dot, not feather

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (/7KEl)

743 JD Vance is eight letters. So we have 8 8 again which we all know what that means !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (hbjSA)

744
brb, gettin fatter

Posted by: Megan McCain at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (mCw1s)

745 Yea, where have I heard that before? Something about red waves, IIRC.

2. How does that change anything? It still gives up a safe GOP seat when we can't afford to give up anything, no matter how confident we are.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

=========

WV, MT (fingers crossed), and OH seem in the bag.

MI, PA, NV, and AZ are all gettable.

And that was with shaky July polls and before the Trump assassination attempt.

I mean...there will be cheat, but I'm suddenly thinking that the cheat may be too big...My black pill has a red tinge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
_______

I don't disagree . . . by why give up a seat you already have, even if you are confident it can be replaced with pick-ups elsewhere? I don't get that logic at all. Now, if it was sure that the schmuck OH gov would appoint a good conservative, then that's a different story. But it's not a different story.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

746 Trump leading every single battleground state in poll conducted BEFORE Saturday's loud noises.

Posted by: YouGov at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (Y8lzz)

747 I think Vance is independently wealthy. I have seen estimagtes of his wealth in single digit millions

This isn’t really independently wealthy. It’s doing okay, but not Scrooge McDuck.

Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (p4NUW)

748 If Pence and Ryan and Rove dislike him, then yeah, I'm in.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (2eR39)

749 You know who else would have picked Vance as vice-chancellor?

Posted by: The MSM at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (tYiVR)

750 "If Karl Rove is upset over Vance, Trump did himself a solid."

If you've ever worked with a sales contractor, you know exactly why Rove is upset.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (Ectld)

751 Vance loses Michigan for Trump.

The Ohio State v Michigan hate runs deep.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (7+K68)

752 How long will it be before the left claims that the thumbs-up gesture is a "well-known symbol of white supremacy," and racist black TikTokers start claiming "the thumbs up was a sign that masters had just used their thumbs to gouge out slaves' eyes"?

Great ace they are already printing the stories...

Posted by: steevy at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (HJ9BW)

753 she's a lawyer too
Indian lady
dot, not feather

Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (/7KEl)

From San Diego.

Posted by: Peaches at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (14URa)

754 Gerry Callahan
@GerryCallahan
Has some crazed crisis actress accused JD Vance of raping her in middle school yet?
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Never happen. The girls in Middletown were giving it away to everyone to try to get out of that shithole. Similar to Newburgh (town near of West Point).

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (h/xVB)

755 722 Forgot about it until just now, but apparently that was another SS failing. The agents now wear different color ties from the man they're protecting. Seems that used to be a tactic to add just a bit of confusion.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (2eR39)

What's the point if you are going to have him surrounded by the wammins? Slapping a red tie on those midget broads isn't going to fool even the most challenged would-be assassins.

Posted by: Does This Tie Make Me Look Fat? at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (2tt14)

756 I don't think that's accurate. Trump came to power because he was motivating unaffiliated conservative-leaning voters, especially in the Midwest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Trump does motivate conservatives too, despite not being one all his life, because he listened to us and kept his word.

Ditto for right to lifers. He was the most overtly helpful president, going to their rallies.

Ironically I saw Ana Kasparian on the Young Turks praising Trump for *listening to his constituents* and *keeping his word* in a YT video this morning. That mugging may be changing her pretty fast.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (eoQWY)

757 716 Vance picked to assist in the Midwest. Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and possibly Western PA....
Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (hbjSA)

Last time I checked, every vote counter there is a D...but OH, which was already in the bag...

SE corridor (VA, NC, and GA) now still up in the air...and it's the corridor that has to be won...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (exHjb)

758 Ohio law would have a DeWine appointee serving until the next general election in 2026. Then a special election would be held for the remainder of Vance's term.
Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:53 PM (mIs2x)

Let's hope he doesn't pull a Ducey and appoint Moreno after he loses to Brown.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (xPl2J)

759 Now that that is out of the way
Vivek for Chief of Staff
De Santis for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (5MvGY)

Agree.

It was a shame that RDS listened to the siren song of the GOPe and ran against Trump this cycle. The 2024 VP spot was his for the taking.

Oh well.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (JPA8o)
_______

The FL residence thing was an issue, but otherwise I agree.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

760 2. How does that change anything? It still gives up a safe GOP seat when we can't afford to give up anything, no matter how confident we are.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Senate is not like the House. DeWine appoints a senator once resignation occurs which will be after Nov. elections. Usually late December or early January. Then a special election would be held in November, 2026 to fill the rest of the term.

Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (mIs2x)

761 Love the JDV pick!
His tweet right after the shooting at Trump was perfect. Other GOP should take notes

Posted by: Ex GOP at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (Umtg5)

762 I bet there are commenters here who have wealth in the single digit millions.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Anyone who bought a house in SoCal 15+ years ago has a net worth in the low single digit millions. It’s not the flex it once used to be.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (iHiQe)

763 This isn’t really independently wealthy. It’s doing okay, but not Scrooge McDuck.
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (p4NUW)


It's barely Moo Moo territory.

Posted by: spindrift at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (OguvZ)

764 A of of liberals liked "Hillbilly Elegy" I guess bc it showed problems they think socialism will solve or something

anyway, I bet it's getting a flurry of 1 star reviews on Amazon right now

Posted by: brak at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (25k9m)

765 748 If Pence and Ryan and Rove dislike him, then yeah, I'm in.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
----------------------

And Axelrod, oBama's boi.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (bc7bh)

766 Let's hope he doesn't pull a Ducey and appoint Moreno after he loses to Brown.
Posted by: Mark1971

Entirely possible.

Posted by: whig at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (mIs2x)

767 @JackPosobiec 3m
Neocon Karl Rove is on Fox melting down right now over the pick of America First JD Vance

Sorry, Karl, we’re breaking up
It’s not us, it’s you. It’s definitely you
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Jeb! was pale, rusty, and ruddy! He would have unified the party and appealed to independents! His soft immigration stance would have attracted the growing, and critical, illegal immigrant demographic!

Posted by: Karl Rove at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (JCZqz)

768 There are very few politicians in the entire world that don't have "red flags".

Vance is no Pence, Yay!!!!

Preferred Vivek, but still its all about the cheating come election day.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (Mlhrz)

769 If presidential campaigns don't do it, do they think VP candidates have favorite son effects?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

__________

Bingo.

There's more of an argument against picking a senator from OH, which hasn't exactly been reliable GOP when it comes to Senate races, but this argument that VA is somehow the lynchpin to the election is...well, I don't wanna be mean.

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (CjgNg)

770 Jason Whitlock
@WhitlockJason

If you've never read the book Hillbilly Elegy, I suggest you do. It captures what it's like growing up poor/working class in middle America. I couldn't believe how similar JD Vance's story was to my own family. Fantastic choice for VP!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (NpAcC)

771 745 I don't disagree . . . by why give up a seat you already have, even if you are confident it can be replaced with pick-ups elsewhere? I don't get that logic at all. Now, if it was sure that the schmuck OH gov would appoint a good conservative, then that's a different story. But it's not a different story.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

=========

Fair.

My choice would have probably been DeSantis.

But, if I'm right and Trump feels in control of the party now, then that may extend to directing things like Vance's replacement through DeWine's office. Is he right?

Can you imagine Trump, freshly re-elected, announcing support for one person in Ohio politics and DeWine choosing someone else? Even himself? I can imagine it, but it would not be good for DeWine or the OH GOPe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

772 from the photos of the assassination attempt, on warfarin (a blood thinner) indicating heart concerns.

Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?

===============

Pretty sure Pres. Trump wiped that that streaked blood across his face reflexively when he felt the bullet impact his ear. It seemed like he needed to confirm to himself what he already knew had happened.

Posted by: -DC at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (nOzgv)

773 >>>>that Vance was critical/skeptical of Trump initially doesn't bother me

most of us were, and Trump proved us wrong
---

He is the only one of them I've ever heard say explicitly, "I was wrong." I give him a lot of credit for that.

Posted by: Headline, Acta Diurna, AD 97 at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (Zt+o3)

774 China/Russia/Iran are soiling their Monday panties. Un is waiting for the phone to ring.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (QSrLX)

775
Why suits and ties at all. Ever try running in one? Or doing any kind of physical activity? Plus it’s hot as fuck in summer . Why put these obstacles in the way?

Khakis and a polo.
Posted by: Biden is Finished

-

Vests probably stand out in polo shirts.

Plus I appreciate the sense of dignity and decorum.

Now that I think about it, I guess the fat chicks could wear the polos.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (2eR39)

776 569 Gee, did something happen?

@LeadingReport
·
15m
BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IG4Id)

Do you know anyone in real life that even knows what that is. Whenever bidens spews it I absolutely know that leftist know all about it and rank and file reps are like what the hell is Biden blathering about?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (uBBbP)

777 Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
So proud of my friend, classmate, and fellow southwest Ohioan today. We used to watch Bengals games at the bar in law school, it’s awesome we’re now here a decade later with JD joining the strongest presidential ticket in our lifetime. He’ll be an outstanding Vice President and I look forward to everything ahead for him and for our country. 🇺🇸

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (TGPs7)

778 I think Vance should do some campaign-appearances in Lansing. It's about time the Toledo War ended and it's not like MI really want the city back anyway.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (gKWVE)

779 696 Vance is the wrong type of R for here (he fails the "statesman" test) - the assassination tweet already killed it...

His tweet was spot on, and was exactly what a veep candidate is there to do: say the harsh things that the top of the ticket avoids, but which still need saying.

Vance will surprise a lot of people with his understated demeanor

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (gJskm)

780 >>Jason Whitlock
@WhitlockJason


Based Jason Whitlock.

I like that guy.

Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (X8fgo)

781 I was expecting disaster. But I got ambivalence. Great!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (evvc2)

782 Yeah most of my friends have 7 figure 401ks . Not hard to do if you are responsible.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (B1dzx)

783 Now that that is out of the way
Vivek for Chief of Staff
De Santis for AG
Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (5MvGY)


Again, perfect picks.! 🤞

Posted by: Ex GOP at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (Umtg5)

784 "It captures what it's like growing up poor/working class in middle America."

Thanks. I lived it.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (Ectld)

785 The Ohio State v Michigan hate runs deep.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (7+K6

Bread and circuses

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (/6GbT)

786 Anyone who bought a house in SoCal 15+ years ago has a net worth in the low single digit millions. It’s not the flex it once used to be.
Posted by: Biden is Finished



It's only a flex if it's all cash.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (NzK/m)

787 777 Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
So proud of my friend, classmate, and fellow southwest Ohioan today. We used to watch Bengals games at the bar in law school, it’s awesome we’re now here a decade later with JD joining the strongest presidential ticket in our lifetime. He’ll be an outstanding Vice President and I look forward to everything ahead for him and for our country. 🇺🇸
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (TGPs7)

Very classy

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (IyPmt)

788 518 Let's change the SS detail, blame it on the locals, say it was a "OP" by Trump.....

Posted by: catman

---------
related,
One thing that really bothered me was a former USSS guy interviewed on fox that I saw -- he tried to sell that the anti-sniper fired just as the assassin fired, and the reason the assassin missed was because he was hit with a barrage of incoming fire and that threw off his aim.

So, the reason Trump survived is because of the great work of the USSS.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:40 PM (qUaw2)

I watched that. The former SS guy made it sound like it is near-impossible for SS snipers to do the job. 'They have to search out to a 1000 yards! There are a lot of farm fields and a highway, a car dealership and other buildings in that area!'

OK, what's the plan, Mr Retired Expert? A handful of snipers and spotters have to actively monitor all overlooking positions within a thousand yard radius? How can they possibly be expected to do so using rifle scopes, binos, and spotting scopes, mostly having fairly small fields of view?? Overlooking direct view positions must be secured and patrolled. Snipers are the last defense.

Posted by: Gref at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (5fDan)

789 I really don't care what anyone on the left thinks about Vance. They'd find a way to hate anyone Trump picked unless, perhaps, it was Kennedy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (Zy6LG)

790 This isn’t really independently wealthy. It’s doing okay, but not Scrooge McDuck.
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (p4NUW)

I have a swimming pool full of money!
Pennies
Above ground
Kiddie pool.

I still dive in buck naked.

Posted by: Candidus at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (dfcuM)

791 Okay can Trump/Vance start now?!

I don't want to wait until 2025

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (s3qiR)

792 The Vance pick is ruffling GOPe feathers. Good.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (tT6L1)

793 Name me a presidential campaign that selected a VP based on trying to win the state.

JFK?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (/y8xj)

794 Hey, 51 , about that top secret security "clearance."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (QSrLX)

795 I remember the expectations of Ryan vs Biden VP debate.

Forgive me if I daren't get my hopes up quite yet for a Vance vs Harris VP debate. Nothing against Vance at all. It's just the debate setups stink to high heaven.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (Aqu9a)

796 772 from the photos of the assassination attempt, on warfarin (a blood thinner) indicating heart concerns.

Anyone with more experience or expertise notice how watery his blood looked? Am I wrong?

===============

Pretty sure Pres. Trump wiped that that streaked blood across his face reflexively when he felt the bullet impact his ear. It seemed like he needed to confirm to himself what he already knew had happened.
Posted by: -DC at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (nOzgv)

Could also have dripped across(more) when he was taking cover and his head was horizontal.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (eYoxG)

797 Trump Announces Pick on Truth Social: JD Vance


-

Also did Trump post this in a way that would require the MSM to have some sort of access and permission to access and quote it?

Because that would be pretty funny.,

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (2eR39)

798 15m
BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.
---
After this weekend, he might just say, "Nah, bro, I'm good"

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (iZbyp)

799 Nice tweet from Vivek.

Posted by: bluebell at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (bS+DD)

800 BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (IG4Id)

I'd still hire private. I mean, when asked about that roof, they were all "not my job."

Posted by: Peaches at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (14URa)

801
Based Jason Whitlock.

I like that guy.
Posted by: garrett at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (X8fgo)




He certainly pulls no punches and isn't afraid to muck it up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

802 769 Bingo.

There's more of an argument against picking a senator from OH, which hasn't exactly been reliable GOP when it comes to Senate races, but this argument that VA is somehow the lynchpin to the election is...well, I don't wanna be mean.
Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 03:57 PM (CjgNg)

========

I really wish people would stop with the whole, "This VP will definitely win their state for the ticket!"

No one who actually runs elections seems to believe it. I've done statistical analysis that shows they have no effect.

Hell. Romney lost WI in 2012 with Paul Ryan on the ticket. Trump won it the next cycle without Ryan on the ticket.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

803 "So proud of my friend, classmate, and fellow southwest Ohioan today. We used to watch Bengals games at the bar in law school, it’s awesome we’re now here a decade later with JD joining the strongest presidential ticket in our lifetime."

Did Vance turn Trump on to Ramaswamy?

Posted by: Ribbed at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (Ectld)

804 Like my earlier comment, i hope he is not just a kinzinger who made a better choice in who to latch onto for power.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (evvc2)

805 I bet there are commenters here who have wealth in the single digit millions.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Not here. *checks wallet* Just single digit wealth.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Myself, I'm on a very fixed income.

Posted by: Nana at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (V5BDR)

806 My 29 yr old boy spawn has kept a neatly trimmed beard since he got out of the Army. Without it he has a baby face. Round cheeks that make him look much younger than nearly 30 years old.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (4XwPj)

807 15m
BREAKING: RFK JR. to receive SS protection.
---
After this weekend, he might just say, "Nah, bro, I'm good"
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 03:59 P


Ouch, baby...very ouch.

- Austin "Danger" Powers

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (XHLJ8)

808 775 Why suits and ties at all. Ever try running in one? Or doing any kind of physical activity? Plus it’s hot as fuck in summer . Why put these obstacles in the way?

Khakis and a polo.
Posted by: Biden is Finished

-

Vests probably stand out in polo shirts.


i wonder if trump has considered all the possibilities that a super suit has to offer

Posted by: edna (no capes!) mode at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (oY6Yp)

809 Pretty sure Pres. Trump wiped that that streaked blood across his face reflexively when he felt the bullet impact his ear. It seemed like he needed to confirm to himself what he already knew had happened.
Posted by: -DC



The loud pop and the almost instantaneous burn told him. The blood was confirmation.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (NzK/m)

810 According to the internets, Vance's worth is $5M. That actually surprises me. I'd have thought his earnings from Hillbilly Elegy would be that much alone.

He's clearly white trash and the reincarnation of Andrew Jackson.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (xCA6C)

811 So the RINO'S don't like Vance ? I'd wear that as a badge of honor

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (IyPmt)

812 656 Vance is a poor white who climbed out of the poverty ditch… I imagine that DOES repel the Elites..
Posted by: tubal at July 15, 2024 03:44 PM (PCK5/)/i]
See, this is the thing. He is also an acclaimed author whose book was made into a movie by Ron Howard. He is also articulate. You know who'se being articulate was soo very important.
Think thee must be a lot of cognitive dissonance going on in that group.
Support Senile Biden/Dummy Harris or Trump/Vance.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (t/2Uw)

813 How many cabinet departments? Again?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (QSrLX)

814 This is all super interesting but did you guys hear that Margot Robbie is pregnant?!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (EGSGm)

815 Whatever happened to old MooMoo ? Was he permanently embarreled?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (yI5mB)

816 Very classy l
Posted by: It's me donna

Indeed, And kindly as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (Zy6LG)

817 Meanwhile, MSNBC is pimping the newly dynamic FJB being "interviewed" by Lester Holt. It will have an audience of dozens.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (RUmyk)

818 The Colonel Sanders look is where you want to be. Everyone loves Colonel Sanders.
Posted by: Pudinhead


Ach! I hated the Colonel and his wee beady eyes. And he always had that smug look on his face like, "Ohh, you're gonna buy my chicken, ohh.".

Posted by: Stuart MacKenzie at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (mbb+A)

819 Michigan is already lost because:
https://tinyurl.com/ych8uzza
Robert Barnes analyzed this yesterday. This new legislation effectively stops all challenges to an election result. The only recount permitted will be a mere count of votes... not whether the votes were authentic, legally canvassed or cast, not whether signatures match... Michigan will be subject to vote fraud permanently.

Posted by: electronic means at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (rjJqk)

820 I just realized that Trump would have had better protection from a tribe of Ewoks on Saturday. I think they would have had much better situational awareness that the Secret Service.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2024 04:00 PM (VNX3d)

821 Could also have dripped across(more) when he was taking cover and his head was horizontal.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:59 PM (eYoxG)

SS hit him so hard, he came out of his shoes ("and they're tight"). Head wounds bleed.

Posted by: Peaches at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (14URa)

822 Vivek and Vance classmates at Yale Law. Nice.
We have a solid bench for the future.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (iHiQe)

823 >>>Agree.

It was a shame that RDS listened to the siren song of the GOPe and ran against Trump this cycle. The 2024 VP spot was his for the taking.

Oh well.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 15, 2024 03:49 PM (JPA8o)
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That showed a stripe that doesn't belong in the VP seat. Independent thought is not his forte. He would do well as AG.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (bc7bh)

824 Gerry Callahan
@GerryCallahan
Fun fact: JD Vance has a son named Vivek. His in-laws are immigrants from India.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (TGPs7)

825 I watched that. The former SS guy made it sound like it is near-impossible for SS snipers to do the job. 'They have to search out to a 1000 yards! There are a lot of farm fields and a highway, a car dealership and other buildings in that area!'

-

He's accidentally making our point for us.

There was no need for snipers to be monitoring that roof. A couple of 20 year old VFD local yokels could've been asked to sit on it and radio in if they had any concerns.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (2eR39)

826 There's a line between skeptical and Hitler.

And I am skeptical of Vance.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (7WnGI)

827 This isn’t really independently wealthy. It’s doing okay, but not Scrooge McDuck.
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2024 03:55 PM (p4NUW)

It's barely Moo Moo territory.
Posted by: spindrift at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (OguvZ)

I'm dying here.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (Aqu9a)

828 789 I really don't care what anyone on the left thinks about Vance. They'd find a way to hate anyone Trump picked unless, perhaps, it was Kennedy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM (Zy6LG)


Looks like I picked the wrong day to look for peace, love, and togetherness at AOSHQ!

Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (5fDan)

829 Don Juan and the JD kid.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (7+K68)

830 blake that's what we need, Trump can only serve 1 more term so there has to be a MAGA leader afterwards

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

831 612
Did you see Disney "News'" martha radditz?

She looks like an old MUPPET.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (mCw1s)

Garrison Keillor in drag.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (JPA8o)

832 Donald Trump is George Washington wealthy.

JD Vance is John Adams wealthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

833 Cernovich
@Cernovich·34m
JD Vance was the best pick in any world outside of fantasyland where Tucker Carlson is even remotely interested or compatible.
We live in the real world, folks, not Candyland.

Cernovich
@Cernovich·36m
It took a bullet for people to understand this.
Quote
Cernovich
@Cernovich·May 9
Trump needs a VP that will make him assassination proof. Anyone saying otherwise has no understanding of the time we are in. Tim Scott as VP? Trump's survivability will drop to zero. It's incredible to me that more don't understand this.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (9aVck)

834 Kevin Williamson?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 15, 2024 03:50 PM (eYoxG)

Spit!

Posted by: mrp at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (rj6Yv)

835
Now do tattoos.
Posted by: Moron Robbie


I will never understand that. I guess because they are so common it is hard to find people without them, but I think it is wrong to see any visible tattoos on LEO especially.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (qUaw2)

836 Trump / Vance has to be one of the punchiest, most macho name combinations possible. However, I'm still disappointed it wasn't Trump / Riprock.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (xCA6C)

837 OMG! The Teamsters Union just refused to endorse Biden - no Dem endorsement this election is the word out today.

It's over, Johnny...

Posted by: Boswell at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (K+UlC)

838 825 I watched that. The former SS guy made it sound like it is near-impossible for SS snipers to do the job. 'They have to search out to a 1000 yards! There are a lot of farm fields and a highway, a car dealership and other buildings in that area!'

-

He's accidentally making our point for us.

There was no need for snipers to be monitoring that roof. A couple of 20 year old VFD local yokels could've been asked to sit on it and radio in if they had any concerns.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 04:01 PM (2eR39)


Eggzacle

Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (5fDan)

839 Cat Meme:
I really only wanted 1 cat
But if God wanted me to have 3
Then 7 it is.


If you take in strays you'll understand this.

Posted by: Ciampino - Mon Update #04 at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (qfLjt)

840 820 I just realized that Trump would have had better protection from a tribe of Ewoks on Saturday. I think they would have had much better situational awareness that the Secret Service.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
------------------

Shooter wouldn't have made it to the building.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (bc7bh)

841 Michael Brendan Dougherty
@michaelbd
Great VP pick. Finally ditching the most braindead ideologies that have been dragging the party down, and finally a candidate in touch with issues that actually affect people under 40 years old.
12:22 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Trump appears to have pissed off The Bulwark with his VP pick:
Sonny Bunch
@SonnyBunch
JD Vance realizing that telling the truth (people are responsible for improving/ruining their own lives) sells books to one audience while telling a lie (they are helpless pawns of the global elite) to another audience wins power is, in a way, the most American story of all.
12:17 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (9aVck)

842 JD like OrangeMan also likes 2 scoops of ice cream, I suspect.

Impeach!!

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (iHiQe)

843 832 Donald Trump is George Washington wealthy.

JD Vance is John Adams wealthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I still don't know how rich that is, off to do research.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (LJ9Iy)

844
Really hard to spin this as not fucking over Ohio in the next two Senate elections.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (aIaBZ)

845 The Ohio State v Michigan hate runs deep.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
---
Heh. I'm a Clem[p]son gal, I too hold a deep and abiding loathing for THE Ohio State. I can overlook it.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (iZbyp)

846 That showed a stripe that doesn't belong in the VP seat. Independent thought is not his forte. He would do well as AG.

************

Ken Paxton for AG

Mike Flynn for the new cabinet position of Burn That Motherfucka Deep State Down to Ashes Administrator

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (DBZuM)

847 >>> Today millions of Americans will be learnining that JD Vance is Hitler.

He's a Hillbilly Hitler! I eagerly await the headlines.

He's actually a smart choice. Rupert Murdoch was actively campaigning for Burghum and other GOP stooges, and against Vance. Vance isn't in the establishment GOP pocket which will drive the never trumpers nuts.

Has military bona tides which will hopefully silence the propaganda that Trump is a military dodger that mocks vets. He has tech savvy, a successful book turned into a movie (which I still need to see), and has some Ivy League cred, so unlike Palin, his grassroots connections won't scare the GOPers at their cocktail parties like Palin did.

He's smart and well spoken and will school Kamala at the VP debate.

It's a solid choice.

Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (QAK8m)

848 It's barely Moo Moo territory.
Posted by: spindrift at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (OguvZ)

LOL

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (EGSGm)

849 Man, If they thought Trump was gonna kick folks in the gonads, just wait till Vance gets going.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (7+K68)

850 He's fine. The Dems will hate whoever. F'n commies.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (vFG9F)

851 837 OMG! The Teamsters Union just refused to endorse Biden - no Dem endorsement this election is the word out today.

It's over, Johnny...
Posted by: Boswell at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (K+UlC)

========

So...how much cheating have they been responsible for over the years?

They're the ones who delivered IL for JFK in 1960, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

852 I would have preferred Youngkin, but that's irrelevant.
I feel like Vance's schtick is aimed at the rural, working class and Trump already has them.

If think he should have put it off a few days, give the near death incident some time to settle into the public consciousness before going back to normal politics.

Posted by: Blago at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (w36aP)

853 -
582 Take a Vance on me.
Posted by: Agnetha Faltskog at July 15, 2024 03:45 PM
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That costs extra.

Posted by: teh ho at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (SchQD)

854 850 comments per hour!!!

This thread is SMOKIN'!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (wtvvX)

855 OT

Anyone else worried that China/Russia/Iran will take advantage of the US's distraction?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 15, 2024 03:54 PM (qUaw2)

Not really - they all have been trying to stop the US rush towards all out nuclear war for some time. Russia will continue its advance but that was a given. China is glad if we are too distracted to create a crisis in Taiwan to embarrass them.

Trump is pretty ideal to make a place for the US in the new economic world that isn't a hostile bloc versus everyone else. That ship has sailed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (eoQWY)

856 Have all the wimmen JD has assaulted come forward yet?

Posted by: Peaches at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (14URa)

857 So you're all saying the beard looks hot on me. Mrs Meanie would concur.

Such is the progress of my life...

First, the Playboy playmates were younger than I.
Then, the baseball MVPs were younger than I.
Then, the squadron commanders were younger than I.
Now, the VP candidate is younger than I, and frankly the women on Golden Girls look pretty bangable.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (YIxO9)

858 Is this correct, Vance is the first Gen Xer to top a presidential ticket?

Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (QAK8m)

859
I will never understand that. I guess because they are so common it is hard to find people without them, but I think it is wrong to see any visible tattoos on LEO especially.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest
----------------------------

It's a fad I'd rather not see.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (bc7bh)

860 Like my earlier comment, i hope he is not just a kinzinger who made a better choice in who to latch onto for power.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy


Except Shitzinger is a deeply, deeply stupid excuse for a man.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (IG4Id)

861 I wondered why the one sniper was on his knees, and had to bend way down to see through his scope. That seemed to me to be suboptimal for a prolonged session.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (xCA6C)

862 @SonnyBunch
JD Vance realizing that telling the truth (people are responsible for improving/ruining their own lives) sells books to one audience while telling a lie (they are helpless pawns of the global elite) to another audience wins power is, in a way, the most American story of all.
12:17 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Orrrrrrrr

Maybe two things can be true at the same time. The global elite has destroyed millions of lives. But some of those people still make it despite the odds.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (iHiQe)

863 845 The Ohio State v Michigan hate runs deep.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
---
Heh. I'm a Clem[p]son gal, I too hold a deep and abiding loathing for THE Ohio State. I can overlook it.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (iZbyp)


No love for Woody Hayes, huh?

Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (5fDan)

864 So now Michigan has had a shitty ruling on elections and Wisconsin has. So far this is a replay of 2020.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (7WnGI)

865 Nikki trolls hardest hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (Jh5b+)

866 Trump appears to have pissed off The Bulwark with his VP pick

The Bulwark pretends to be conservative the same way David French pretends to be heterosexual.

Posted by: Halfhand at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (tYiVR)

867 And I think if Vance didn't know he was the choice before the assassination attempt on Trump, I think it shows he has a backbone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (Zy6LG)

868 "It's over, Johnny...
Posted by: Boswell "

After the conversation I had with my sister and parents today, I'm not so sure. The TDS runs deep. I was amazed.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (vFG9F)

869 858 Is this correct, Vance is the first Gen Xer to top a presidential ticket?
Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (QAK8m)

He's a millenial.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (exHjb)

870 Vance isn't in the establishment GOP pocket which will drive the never trumpers nuts."

That's the biggest thing I like about him, and was my biggest worry about Youngkin. Vance will never sell out Trump the way Pence did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (wyMQY)

871 836 Trump / Vance has to be one of the punchiest, most macho name combinations possible. However, I'm still disappointed it wasn't Trump / Riprock.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (xCA6C)

I mean, can we all agree on quien es mas macho ahora?

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (LJ9Iy)

872 Karl Rove? Is he still alive?

Why does W's boot boy have a problem with Vance?

Posted by: Paco at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (njExo)

873 While Vance is a fine pick, my dream would have been a Trump-DeSantis ticket. However, DeSantis is super important to stay and keep kicking ass in FL.

Posted by: Cheri at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (oiNtH)

874 JD Vance, pretty sharp feller. From Maggie's Farm:

"J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond…."

Posted by: javems at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (8I4hW)

875 For all the stupid TV talking heads criticizing the pick, it's pretty damn funny since Kamala is on the other side.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (Mlhrz)

876 Is this correct, Vance is the first Gen Xer to top a presidential ticket?

Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (QAK8m)

Born in 84. Early Millennial.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (xPl2J)

877 Anyone else worried that China/Russia/Iran will take advantage of the US's distraction?

-

I'm more concerned about Congress passing amnesty before November.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (2eR39)

878 What does the map look like without PA, AZ, WI and MI.

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: ... at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (7WnGI)

879 @869 Skipped over us again.

Whatever.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (YIxO9)

880 WTF does Ron DeSantis have to do to make conservatives happy? Because it seems like he's nailing it.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (5YmYl)

881 Senator McConnell BOOED and MUTED at RNC National Convention.

Boos were so loud, he could not be heard.


Go off and die somewhere Mitch.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (/U5Yz)

882 Is this correct, Vance is the first Gen Xer to top a presidential ticket?
Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (QAK8m)

He’s a millenial. Born 1984.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (iHiQe)

883 It's barely Moo Moo territory.

Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (mH6SG)

884 I have to admit, all the shitbirds are made about the Vance pick. That's a good thing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (JeYYB)

885 >>

Unions and the mafia probably did, but then the deep state assassinated their guy, so....

Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (QAK8m)

886 Vance sounds too much like Pence, and from a guy who said:
'I'm a Never-Trump guy'
'Terrible Candidate'
'Never Liked Him'
'Idiot if you voted for him.'

Posted by: Ciampino - Mon Update #05 at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (qfLjt)

887 No love for Woody Hayes, huh?
Posted by: Gref
---
Nope. Even though that was before my time.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (iZbyp)

888 Ned Ryun
@nedryun
Very happy to see Trump reject Lindsey Graham’s advice re VP. Word was Lindsey was lobbying hard against JD.
Quote
Saagar Enjeti
@esaagar·55m
We have a long way to go but JD Vance on Trumps ticket is the biggest blow to neocon establishment in DC since Trumps election in 2016

And that is a good reason to put a big smile on my face
12:21 PM · Jul 15, 2024

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (9aVck)

889 Rumor has it that Sunny Bunch likes to gargle Oliver Darcy's pubes.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 15, 2024 04:06 PM (Y8lzz)

890 Pence in 2016. Vance in 2024. This is progress. This is a big middle finger to the RNC and Conservatism Inc. Hopefully this is a harbinger of future great personnel decisions.

Stephen Miller for Attorney General.

Posted by: Wade Hampton at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (9I0M3)

891 JD Vance is John Adams wealthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I still don't know how rich that is, off to do research.


$5M

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (xCA6C)

892 Now, the VP candidate is younger than I, and frankly the women on Golden Girls look pretty bangable.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (YIxO9)

Come over to my hut sometime. I'm not called Lovey for nothing.

Posted by: Mrs. Howell at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (Aqu9a)

893
Mike Flynn for the new cabinet position of Burn That Motherfucka Deep State Down to Ashes Administrator
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (DBZuM)



Put Mike in as the DCI.
Either one. Watch the cockroaches scurry away.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (W/lyH)

894 Paul Ryan is only Gen X on a major party ticket. Harris missed by one year.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (xPl2J)

895 I said earlier
Trump is on a winning streak, don't bet against him

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (fwDg9)

896 832 Donald Trump is George Washington wealthy.

JD Vance is John Adams wealthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

I still don't know how rich that is, off to do research.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (LJ9Iy)

Think Washington in addition to Mt Vernon and Arlington owned huge chunks of what is now Ohio and presumably sold them off to settlers.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

897 No outsider would think they could climb on that roof and take a shot at trump unless they were told they could climb on that roof and take a shot at trump by their handler.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (evvc2)

898 Very happy to see Trump reject Lindsey Graham’s advice re VP. Word was Lindsey was lobbying hard against JD.

___

Its because Vance is not a neocon shill like Graham that want us in every foreign war.

Posted by: Blago at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (w36aP)

899 858 Is this correct, Vance is the first Gen Xer to top a presidential ticket?
Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (QAK8m)

I think so, how old is Kamala? She's older than I am.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (LJ9Iy)

900 Trump / Vance has to be one of the punchiest, most macho name combinations possible. However, I'm still disappointed it wasn't Trump / Riprock.

___________

Blast Hardcheese had a prior commitment.

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (CjgNg)

901 >>>Not really - they all have been trying to stop the US rush towards all out nuclear war for some time. Russia will continue its advance but that was a given. China is glad if we are too distracted to create a crisis in Taiwan to embarrass them.

Trump is pretty ideal to make a place for the US in the new economic world that isn't a hostile bloc versus everyone else. That ship has sailed.
Posted by: Oldcat +
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Solid

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (bc7bh)

902 WTF does Ron DeSantis have to do to make conservatives happy? Because it seems like he's nailing it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (5YmYl)

You are at aos where they also hate Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott .

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (B1dzx)

903
Very classy

Posted by: It's me donna at July 15, 2024 03:58 PM


Yes. I'm not the least bit tired of Vivek. Hopefully there's a 'front and center' place for him in January. I wanna see him around for the next dozen years, at least.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (RKVpM)

904 Gen X can't be bothered to play in politics. We just want you off our lawns.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (7+K68)

905 I think so, how old is Kamala? She's older than I am.
Posted by: CaliGirl

1963 or 1964.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (NzK/m)

906 I just realized that Trump would have had better protection from a tribe of Ewoks on Saturday. I think they would have had much better situational awareness that the Secret Service.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Shooter wouldn't have made it to the building.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 04:02 PM (bc7bh)
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Yub yub!

Posted by: Random Ewok at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (3Fz6p)

907 Karl Rove? Is he still alive?

Why does W's boot boy have a problem with Vance?


Who cares?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (xCA6C)

908
Think Washington in addition to Mt Vernon and Arlington owned huge chunks of what is now Ohio and presumably sold them off to settlers.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

I did not know he owned that much land. I am starting some tabs to read about this. If I learned it, I forgot it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (LJ9Iy)

909 Nood.

Posted by: Haw Tua Girl at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (PiwSw)

910 We need a Purger for State as well. someone who will also force the allies to purge their intelligence systems.

Any Ideas?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

911


nooood

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (aIaBZ)

912 WTF does Ron DeSantis have to do to make conservatives happy? Because it seems like he's nailing it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto


Stay in Florida and rule with an iron fist.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (NzK/m)

913 KJP is wearing a fetching outfit today.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (7+K68)

914 McConnell looked like a dope just standing there being booed at the convention. Best video I've seen in a while.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

915 Yeah.. once dems took control of legislation they rammed some voting laws through that are highways for fraud. Alot of people will need to vote to overwhelm it

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (/6GbT)

916 (xCA6C)

I mean, can we all agree on quien es mas macho ahora?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (LJ9Iy)

That would be a great placard for a yard sign.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (uBBbP)

917 Everybody Vance now

Posted by: C+C Music Factory at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (mbb+A)

918 I did not know he owned that much land. I am starting some tabs to read about this. If I learned it, I forgot it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 15, 2024 04:08 PM (LJ9Iy)

i know he was speculating out there, and that land under England was reserved for Native Americans. Not sure how that turned out for him.

Cincinnati is named for a fraternal vet organization he set up.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (eoQWY)

919 PredictIt liked the choice; Trump up $.02 to $.69. Trumps was at $.60 on Friday.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (G0vdT)

920 Yes. I'm not the least bit tired of Vivek. Hopefully there's a 'front and center' place for him in January. I wanna see him around for the next dozen years, at least.

He's very young, and savvy enough to learn what worked this time and what he needs to change. We'll hear a lot more from him.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (xCA6C)

921 919 PredictIt liked the choice; Trump up $.02 to $.69. Trumps was at $.60 on Friday.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (G0vdT)

=======

Something else happened after Friday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

922 913 KJP is wearing a fetching outfit today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (7+K68


Like a dog collar?

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 15, 2024 04:11 PM (uBBbP)

923 WTF does Ron DeSantis have to do to make conservatives happy? Because it seems like he's nailing it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto


Stay in Florida and rule with an iron fist.
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (NzK/m)

I'd be happy if he moved from state to state and locked them down as Red paradises.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:11 PM (eoQWY)

924 Harris was born in 1964, the last year of the Baby Boom

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2024 04:11 PM (yI5mB)

925 What does the collective genius of the View think JD Vance? I am leaning towards thinking the more unhinged the response the more I am all in on JDV VP.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 04:11 PM (RUmyk)

926 He's very young, and savvy enough to learn what worked this time and what he needs to change. We'll hear a lot more from him.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (xCA6C)

No more rapping would be my first recommendation.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2024 04:12 PM (B1dzx)

927 Harris was born in 1964, the last year of the Baby Boom
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Then we have to change her birthdate to 1965.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 04:12 PM (RUmyk)

928 If you swim out about 500ft to sea and drop a deuce, does the chocolate torpedo melt before it gets back to shore, or will it strike some frolicking toddler below the waterline?


It's food for the Undertoad.

Posted by: DU Braintrust at July 15, 2024 04:13 PM (aD39U)

929 913 KJP is wearing a fetching outfit today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (7+K6

Sounds like someone's Koo Koo for Cocoa Tits..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 15, 2024 04:13 PM (I8RRu)

930 880 WTF does Ron DeSantis have to do to make conservatives happy? Because it seems like he's nailing it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto
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Redemption is difficult after one is caught sucking dick.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 15, 2024 04:13 PM (bc7bh)

931 861 I wondered why the one sniper was on his knees, and had to bend way down to see through his scope. That seemed to me to be suboptimal for a prolonged session.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:04 PM (xCA6C)


My best guess is that guy was the spotter at the time for that pair. The prone guy was the shooter. I do not know if or how often they would change roles. If so, The Big Problem is - why is the spotter using his rifle scope to spot? It has a relatively small field of view. This is why he had to raise his head up, IMO - to get situational awareness and figure out where to point his small FOV optic to see the scumbag. Reviewing the video I don't believe either of those guys made the shot. That jibes with recent reports that a sniper in a tree, farther distant from the scumbag than those two guys, made the shot.

Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges at July 15, 2024 04:13 PM (5fDan)

932 920 Yes. I'm not the least bit tired of Vivek. Hopefully there's a 'front and center' place for him in January. I wanna see him around for the next dozen years, at least.

He's very young, and savvy enough to learn what worked this time and what he needs to change. We'll hear a lot more from him.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2024 04:10 PM (xCA6C)

Chief of Staff.

h/t Jim SND

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 15, 2024 04:14 PM (JPA8o)

933 They're the ones who delivered IL for JFK in 1960, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

They do the work that the USPS won't do, they get ballots over the line...they are the muscle and arms of the Dems in places like Illinois and Ohio, NY and other places - intimidating muscle. Its a big deal...

Posted by: Boswell at July 15, 2024 04:14 PM (K+UlC)

934 >>> 868 "It's over, Johnny...
Posted by: Boswell "

After the conversation I had with my sister and parents today, I'm not so sure. The TDS runs deep. I was amazed.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (vFG9F)

Did you offer to help fund their escape from the US before it falls to the dictatorship of Orange Hitler?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2024 04:14 PM (VavZF)

935 929 913 KJP is wearing a fetching outfit today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (7+K6

If you like lime Jello/fruit cocktail salad molds

Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges at July 15, 2024 04:15 PM (5fDan)

936 If Vance is smart.. and he is. His wealth is not personal. It is in various LLC's so, the Vance is worth??? is just a bullshit guess. Book money alone should be a lot more as well as the movie deal for said book. Even the medium wealthy here prob. have an LLC or Trust or two.

FWIW, the tweet from Vance on Saturday prompted me to say to catwoman that Vance was the VP. It sounded correct.

I predict now Trump WILL win VA. There are more Righty gov. employees running undercover than you think.

Posted by: catman at July 15, 2024 04:16 PM (4HMlb)

937 McConnell also got mooed at the convention.

https://tinyurl.com/4afhfsaf

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 04:16 PM (RUmyk)

938 I am confused why one rifle was on a tripod, other not.

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:16 PM (fwDg9)

939 The Ohio State v Michigan hate runs deep.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Heh. I'm a Clem[p]son gal, I too hold a deep and abiding loathing for THE Ohio State. I can overlook it.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (iZbyp)


No love for Woody Hayes, huh?
Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges

We Buckeyes wear our hate of Michigan proudly. Not too fond of Clemson either though I give it a bit of a pass because one of my son's best friends went there. Poor Woody. Great coach who should have retired before the "incident ".

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 04:16 PM (oaGWv)

940
SE corridor (VA, NC, and GA) now still up in the air...and it's the corridor that has to be won...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 15, 2024 03:56 PM (exHjb)

——-

FFS, I live in NC. If Trump picked Youngkin, I would’ve voted for Biden. So there.



Of course that isn’t true but nobody in NC or GA would switch a vote to Trump because he picked the governor of VA for VP.

Frankly I’m glad Trump didn’t pick Youngkin just to stick it in the eye of all those “Republican” liberal government employees in NoVa that are sucking the country dry and thinking they are the most important people in the universe.

And I’m doubly glad he picked JD Vance for the double bird to that same group.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 15, 2024 04:17 PM (2fIO4)

941 Vance was FAR AND AWAY the best pick.

Had Trump gone with a Rubio, Scott, or even my governor Youngkin: I would not have voted for Trump.

Moreover, picking Vance is a robust form of assassination insurance. - Doesn't guarantee they won't try to kill him again. But it will at least give them pause. And it just might prevent further attempts.

Posted by: Bach in Black at July 15, 2024 04:18 PM (+oqUV)

942 The Teamster president is speaking at the RNC. It is truly written that Joe Biden fucks up anything he touches.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 15, 2024 04:19 PM (RUmyk)

943 >>> Born in 84. Early Millennial.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (xPl2J)

Dang! I feel old lol.

He's going to make the dems look old and out of touch then. Good.

Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:19 PM (QAK8m)

944 As said know nothing of Vance so hope it's a good pick

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:20 PM (fwDg9)

945 Are we willowed?

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:21 PM (fwDg9)

946 Nood coronation speech

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 04:21 PM (J2vNu)

947 There are _some_ questions about Vance.
He originally described himself as a "Never Trump Guy".
(I was too.)
But his conversion seems genuine. I damn sure hope so.

Posted by: Bach in Black at July 15, 2024 04:21 PM (+oqUV)

948 So...how much cheating have they been responsible for over the years?

They're the ones who delivered IL for JFK in 1960, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 15, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

They are the foot soldiers the criminal wing of the Dems used to use to cheat in elections. This defection might make it much harder to fake 50 billion ballots if they are sitting it out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 15, 2024 04:21 PM (eoQWY)

949 Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2024 03:47 PM (+zk9R)

My son! How are you? Still driving?

Not him, though the asshole parts fits. This is more recent. Last 10 years or so. I think the book was negative about the whole hillbilly thing. Guy might be from Texas.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 15, 2024 04:21 PM (Vvh2V)

950 938 I am confused why one rifle was on a tripod, other not.
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:16 PM (fwDg9)

Probably the bipod pointed toward most likely area of interest, while the unmounted rifle is easier to adjust to a different sector.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 15, 2024 04:22 PM (nLKwz)

951 We Buckeyes wear our hate of Michigan proudly.
Posted by: Tuna


It's heartily reciprocated by us Wolverines, I can assure you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 04:22 PM (v6JzV)

952 KJP is wearing a fetching outfit today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM


Are the cold temperature indicators flashing?

Posted by: J. Random Single 'Ron at July 15, 2024 04:22 PM (2ZFHC)

953 After the conversation I had with my sister and parents today, I'm not so sure. The TDS runs deep. I was amazed.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2024 04:05 PM (vFG9F)

Hi Fd - I don't want to discount your families vote - they are valued. Of course, and it's a blessing!

But the Teamsters lead all the other Unions - and they are the muscle that get out the vote for the Dems - they have since they were formed. They put out their typical Dem preference about this time every year - a call to arms to brother unionist groups to get out the vote and drive and/or coerce the vote their way - and they are hugely successful in industrial areas. And they control the ballots in Penn, Ohio, Illinois, NY and other places...

The fact that they have refused to endorse or release their intimidation against their "drive the vote" legions is a huge, unbelievable blow to Dems - Not sure it has happened in the last 70 years.

Posted by: Boswell at July 15, 2024 04:23 PM (K+UlC)

954 My best guess is that guy was the spotter at the time for that pair. The prone guy was the shooter. I do not know if or how often they would change roles. If so, The Big Problem is - why is the spotter using his rifle scope to spot? It has a relatively small field of view. This is why he had to raise his head up, IMO - to get situational awareness and figure out where to point his small FOV optic to see the scumbag. Reviewing the video I don't believe either of those guys made the shot. That jibes with recent reports that a sniper in a tree, farther distant from the scumbag than those two guys, made the shot.
Posted by: Gref, channeling Lloyd Bridges at July 15, 2024 04:13 PM (5fDan)

———

It was a full on clusterfuck and everyone knows it. It’s all CYA at this point.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 15, 2024 04:24 PM (2fIO4)

955 We Buckeyes wear our hate of Michigan proudly.
Posted by: Tuna

===

It's heartily reciprocated by us Wolverines, I can assure you.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 15, 2024 04:22 PM


Can't we just all get along?

Posted by: zombie Rodney King at July 15, 2024 04:24 PM (2ZFHC)

956 KJP is wearing a fetching outfit today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 15, 2024 04:09 PM (7+K6
---------

Unbelievable. Listening to press conference. Some twenty something reporter asks "There's a lot of reference to 'deep state' over the weekend on social media like X and Meta. Have you made any attempts to censor this type of disinformation."

You don't hate the press enough.

Posted by: WisRich at July 15, 2024 04:25 PM (G0vdT)

957 If Axelrod was scared of Vance, he's a good pick!

Rest of the dream team....

Alex Jones as press secretary or head of the intelligence deep state departments
Ben Carson back doing good work in HUD
Elon Musk as transportation secretary kicking out buttigedge (we will get EV stations in a month, and get that hi speed big tunnel under the ground drilled)
Vivek in a role... commerce sec?
Giuliani as attorney general since he was destroyed by the left.
Lots of revenge picks that will dismantle the deep state and get America humming again.

Posted by: LizLem at July 15, 2024 04:28 PM (QAK8m)

958 JD has a child named Vivek? That's wild.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at July 15, 2024 04:29 PM (FFn+L)

959 The Rove news is good indeed. How does Jeb feel about Vance?

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 15, 2024 04:42 PM (Z8Yh2)

960 Got to state, I'm very happy with Vance as the VP choice. He's young, courageous, a fighter for both America and MAGA.
And the best part is he's NOT a Pence!!

Posted by: Tracy at July 15, 2024 04:59 PM (e6KBG)

961 Yup, and permanently ban pharmaceutical advertising on radio and tv. Too much power is in those fvckers hands.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 03:46 PM (RKVpM)

Something like 60% of cable news revenue is from pharma ads. It’s nuts.
Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 15, 2024 03:48 PM (iHiQe)

Pharma AND attorney ads were banned from TV and radio for many years. Around 35 or so years ago, that banned was lifted. Attorneys were permitted to advertise in the Yellow Pages only. Advertising in the media was considered "unethical". Yeah, I know. LOL!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 15, 2024 05:00 PM (iODuv)

962 When does the Vance Desantis war begin?

Posted by: Eskimo at July 15, 2024 05:09 PM (h39WR)

963 Youngkin is a back stabbing RINO.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 15, 2024 05:30 PM (vuZLO)

964 672 "I hated the Colonel. With his wee, beady eyes and that smug look on his face!"

-----

I caught that even though no one else may have. Hungry for some haggis?

On J.D. ... IMO he's the best of the ones mentioned as possibles. He's got a true American success story. Born poor, raised by his grandmother, has personal experience with how drugs harm the family unit and can speak to that at the convention and on the subject on the border.

He also did well by getting into Yale and then married the daughter of Indian immigrants. That's also good pushback in speaking about the current illegal immigration crisis we're enduring.

And, it seems, he pisses off all the right people. Good enough for me.

Posted by: desertgardens at July 15, 2024 07:05 PM (KQ24u)

965 This union guy is better than Youngkin.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 15, 2024 09:16 PM (55boN)

966 Not my first choice, but anybody wouldf be better than Pence.

Posted by: Jane at July 15, 2024 10:45 PM (bXvrr)

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