Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/15/trumps-vp-pick-widens-the-ideological-gap.html
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I just hope that his many disparaging statements about Trump, including calling him “America’s Hitler,” get brought up at every opportunity.
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Me too but, maddeningly, that’s not gonna happen with the (always polite when dealing with fascists) corporate media.
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… Vance thus being America’s Franz von Papen
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“You called Trump America’s Hitler. Have you changed your mind, or did you decide you wanted to be Vice-Führer?”
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Well it looks like a few outlets are bringing it up today, but they definitely won’t stick with it.
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I’m so fucking tired.
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Vance has already blamed Biden for Saturday’s shooting - so we can expect a lot more of this assholery in the run-up to November. So much for bringing the US together.
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Well I was wrong. I thought for sure Trump would pick Burgum. Vance seems like the kind of guy Trump would be worried might try to poison his Diet Coke.
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He’s thinking about how easily he could 25th Amendment The Donvict right after inauguration.
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- “I’m a Never Trump guy, I never liked him.” --J.D. Vance, 2016
- “My god what an idiot [is Trump]” --J.D. Vance, 2016
- “Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us. When we apologize for this man, lord help us.” --J.D.Vance, in response to access hollywood tape
- "[Trump is] noxious and reprehensible.” --J.D.Vance, tweet
- “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?” --J.D.Vance, ~2017
…and so forth, (s/The Artistocrats!/The republicans!/)
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I don’t get it 
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… Vance wrote a book called “Hillbilly Elegy” 
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■■■■■ took all those statements as compliments.
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Huh. I didn’t realise that it was the same asshole.
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… I thought he’d put it off until the last day
Now we can go back to ignoring the convention
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This also means we get a Millennial on a Presidential ticket before we get a Gen Xer.
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