'This is simply insane': Questions raised about vetting of J.D. Vance amid new blow-up
'This is simply insane': Questions raised about vetting of J.D. Vance amid new blow-up
Dude, NSFW.
NSFJD
💥 GOT'EM
Come on Donnie, replace him with Brain Worm Bob. Just do it! Nothing could possibly go wrong.
The chance we will see his severed head strapped to the top of a station wagon would increase EXPONENTIALLY
Sadly, RFK is more popular and might actually gain him votes.
Peter Thiel wanted him. Who knows why.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/
Peter Thiel is so weird. Gay and conservative just don't go together. But I suppose his billions cushion him from the usual level of contempt.
The thing that baffles me is that Thiel thinks for some reason he’ll be spared by the theocrats that are in the Trump bandwagon.
He won’t. The Nationalist Christians really hate the gays. He’ll eventually be “reeducated” just like the rest if the fascists win.
Did someone say cushion?!
Maybe Thiel just has a fetish for closeted men so he wants to keep everyone locked in
Easily moldable. Like a couch cushion.
"vetting", wait til they see who's at the top of the ticket.
The orange idiot's idea of "vetting" is asking "what did he say about me?"
Vance launched a broadside at teachers who don't have children of their own, telling a crowd he thinks they are "trying to brainwash the minds of our children."
Will be interesting to see how this folds out
I'm edging my seat on the edge of my seat.
if it folds out like a futon, we know how it would play out
He said he wouldn't have certified 2020. That was all the vetting Team Cheeto needed.
*....new blow-up couch.
I’d be absolutely shocked if he was vetted at all, in the traditional sense.
he was, politico was sent the whole 271 page document the campaign collected on the weirdo, they're just sitting on it
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503
Im still convinced Vance was chosen primarily because it sounds similar enough to Pence when Trump forgets who his VP is.
The media was sent this guy's whole binder of vetting papers after they were leaked, why are they still feigning surprise that this guy is a weirdo?
Son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu.
-JD Vance
If you don't shut up, I'll smack you after I'm done smacking your mother for disturbing me during my alone time in the sectional...ON THE SECTIONAL!!
I thought vetting was only for the Blah people? Remember how well they "vetted" the dumb-dumb Palin? And then spent so much time caterwauling about how the media, the gubbermint, and basically the world, did not properly vet Obama?
And by that, they meant that he was BLACKITY BLACK BLACK and had a foreign-sounding name, if you weren't catching their drift about what they meant about "vetting" in relation to Obama. The center-right Obama had nothing to really be concerned about, since the Democratic Party does things like this, including running oppo research on their own. They thought it was just plain criminal, no, socialism, no, Communism, no, fascism, that Hillary would run oppo research on donOLD, though, so you can see what we are dealing with here.
Of course, they had no problem with the "liberal media" doing next to nothing in 2015 and 2016 to explain to the American public just who and what donOLD was, and it was not a bigly successful bidnessman, LOL. The media, and the right were just fine when no one was vetting donnie for the American public and letting Johnny Public think that donnie's persona was all about the one created for him on the game show he was given.
Long story short - the cons don't really have a good relationship with vetting.
Honestly, I don't think any of this would have been flagged as a problem by their campaign. They want these perspectives front and center, they're a feature, not a bug.
They very, very much want the power to indoctrinate children, they're fully aware they cannot survive in a world where people are taught how to think rigorously for themselves. That's just not how religion works, and it's not how autocracy works.
The more elevated tiers of the conservative movement have plenty of rigorous thinkers. That doesn't save you from bad policy, because the thinking is rigorous within the bounds of their revanchist ideology.
You've still got guys from PNAC running around the Project 2025 committee, looking to MAGA like it was at the end of the Cold War. You've got billionaire tech gooners eager to kick off a shooting war with Iran and China, because it will benefit their aerospace investments. You've got paleocons eager for a new mass media fueled Great Awakening religious revival.
Meanwhile, you have a large body of progressives routinely getting rounded up by police during protest marches, raided by the Texas AG, censured by the AIPAC wing of the Congress, and expelled from universities for even mild criticism of our foreign policy. These aren't uncritical thinkers either.
What we have isn't a cognitive imbalance. It's a power imbalance.
That power imbalance did not arise from nothing though, it's not a necessary state of being in a democratic society. A cognitive imbalance is a necessary pre-requisite for it to form within our structure.
Not half a century ago we didn't have unlimited money running our politics for instance. How it arose merits examination.
Agreed this wouldn’t be flagged. This seems entirely consistent with their current messaging and actions. I’d equally believe it was vetted as ok