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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Dude fucks furniture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I dare say he would just to claw some women voters. I’m surprised he didn’t do it in the first place.

I’m actually more surprised he doesn’t just install Jnr as his VP so there can be two Trumps in office.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

He would probably become president if he had chosen Haley but there is just zero percent chance he acknowledges he was wrong. This is a Democrat making up theories, not a leak familiar with his thinking.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

…Democrats had already "set a precedent" by changing their ticket.

Lol! No they didn’t. That’s like saying I already set a precedent by changing my dinner plans before I committed to a dinner place.

Also, dude - you can’t even decide who your VP is, how can anyone expect you to make actual decisions? I’m not voting for him anyway, but my question still stands.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also, dude - you can’t even decide who your VP is, how can anyone expect you to make actual decisions?

You think they care? In a first past the post system like that with only two viable parties you could have Jesus himself vs actual Hitler and it would still be close to 50/50.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know that I like your analogy, but I can appreciate the sentiment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

👌 I have the best 🫲🫱 analogies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Right. I think this messaging would target the undecided though. We know minds on left and right are made up already.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wasn't it Don Jr that convinced his dad to pick Vance? Not that I think Trump concerns himself much with his family, but he's going to have to throw someone under the bus for the decision to go with Vance in the first place. Don Jr might have to go back to being 5th favorite child.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It it happens, Trump will make Vance withdraw to save face and Vance will probably do it to stay in Trump's good graces.

That will backfire, of course, because he'll turn on Vance and start calling him a loser as he does with everyone that he throws overboard.

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

This would just further illustrate the futility and ornamental nature of the 2 party system and the way the parties nominate candidates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We all know, we get it, that horse is mush at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is that how you make glue?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I genuinely thought this would've been his pick to begin with.

But even if he does, I think it can only backfire. Remember, the vast majority of sexist scum fall under the MAGA banner. Doing that shows Trump is weak to those same people and now he begins pulling away from his own base.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Paul Begala- the guy who sat there nodding along with everything Jon Stewart said as he berated both him and Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. Just totally aware of how awful he was.

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

Thank you for bringing up a happy memory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Remembering those times us like finding out you just had to speak "Friend" to get into Moria.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God if Nikki declines him that would be FRESH

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where would she get the spine for that?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

She's the queen of doublethink, shell accept to be his VP for the power and praise how large his mushroom is and how every woman should embrace his masculine alpha musk or some equally bullshit announcement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh no, I'm up against a woman now! However will I win? Oh, I know!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Where are you getting all these left handed pitchers from?

Edit: i just searched half an hour for a reference. and couldn't find it. IRC it's from the extended version of "who's on first"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well I am left handed. And I do own a pitcher.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I hear the Ghost of Lincoln is available.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Having no principles undermines her only appeal. The moment she accepts a trump VP offer is the moment she lights any remaining credibility she has on fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nikki Haley has credibility?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What is this "remaining credibility" you speak of?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's gone a be a very small fire. So I suppose no worries there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is the second post today where I'm just impressed with the person's teeth. In the last post someone mentioned dentures. It probably applies here too. But not much more difference. Nikki seemed half decent but then showed us her true boot licking colors. Plus she wears more mascara than Bens.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It might make sense to pick a woman against kamala, but what would be the optics of the change. Plus haley would not do it if things started to look bleak for trump, which they already are a bit.

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