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Watch him try to deny it, like Austin Powers trying to deny that the Swedish penis pump was his, until they also bring out the "Swedish penis pumps are my bag, baby, by Austin Powers" book with a photo of him on the cover.
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJXNJfb3yk
As Trump desperately tries to separate his campaign from Project 2025, users on X have noted one big problem: J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to a forthcoming book by the plan’s lead author, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.
On the Amazon product page, the promotional material for the book, titled Dawn’s Early Light, highlights Roberts’s role in composing Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation proposal for a conservative overhaul of the federal government.
The product page also includes a favorable review from Vance. “Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” the review says. “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”
On the Amazon product page, the promotional material for the book, titled Dawn’s Early Light, highlights Roberts’s role in composing Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation proposal for a ~~conservative~~ fascist overhaul of the federal government.
FTFY.
Trump, undoubtedly aware of the plan’s growing unpopularity, has claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025” and that “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
How does he know things in it are abysmal if he has no knowledge of it?
I realize this is just my brain struggling desperately to pattern match and make sense of something that doesn't, like seeing faces in white noise on a TV. But "they" could be the people saying things about Project 2025, not the fascist propaganda itself.
Semi brain dead orange man
Semi?
He really does lay the eyeliner on thick
That and seeing him without a beard is all the information anyone ever needs about J.D. Vance.
Like, it looks good on him, but for someone whose party is so angry about men wearing makeup it’s definitely a choice
It’s tattooed on.
No shit. It looks like someone is a little curious... I wonder if his project 2025 involves a closet?
So trump chose a fascist VP? SHOCK!!!!! /s
Andy Beshear is the exact opposite of JD Vance. He’s an authentic, decent person who can speak to rural communities and purple states with sincerity, the one thing that is truly lacking in American politics.
I know Shapiro is the conventional wisdom pick, but Beshear is the right pick.
Mark Kelly seems like the right pick to me, he's got the overview effect and has unique experiences and leadership, already has experience in the Senate which is their main job, can probably take his swing state blue, and his seat can be easily replaced.
Shapiro is too pro-Netanyahu IMO, I'm neutral on Beshear, but his seat isn't as easily replaceable, and losing a democratic governor would suck, and he might not take the state blue.
I like Kelly as a VP pick, but I don’t like turning a safe senate seat into a tossup. Beshear is term limited, so his lieutenant governor can finish the term and run as an incumbent.
I think they’re probably going with Shapiro, though. The old guard will see Pennsylvania turning blue and put their blinders on to everything else.
If Kelly gets the VP, the democratic governor of Arizona gets to pick his replacement, it's not a special election or a tossup!
I believe it would mean a special election in Arizona during the 2026 midterms. That’s a concern.
the right pick
beg pardon, the right pick for what?
They mentioned Shapiro, so VP.