Politics Thread

[Strange Brew]

One of my best buddies is from West Virginia. Try again . Even if I didn’t, it wouldn’t matter. Doesn’t have anything to do with how people from there feel about him in general.

Cool. So your buddy has the pulse of the entire region and you actually know nothing about it.

[xuphan]

No matter what I think about Vance, from a political standpoint it’s really stupid. It alienates many independents and Appalachia (who in general are big trump supporters) absolutely despise the man.

This election is over my dude. Doesn’t matter who Trump picks. Trump could have and should have nominated MTG as his VP given her loyalty to him. This will in my opinion be a very low voter turn out with most independents not voting or voting for Kennedy which Biden needs to win the election. Big mistake by the high ranking Dems not to replace Biden and it will cost them this November. Don’t want to hear the excuses because it’s all on them.

[Xville]

Cool. So your buddy has the pulse of the entire region and you actually know nothing about it.

You asked if I had ever been there, I have. My “pulse” comes from reading which I explained you should do. Good try!

[Xville]

This election is over my dude. Doesn’t matter who Trump picks. Trump could have and should have nominated MTG as his VP given her loyalty to him. This will in my opinion be a very low voter turn out with most independents not voting or voting for Kennedy which Biden needs to win the election. Big mistake by the high ranking Dems not to replace Biden and it will cost them this November. Don’t want to hear the excuses because it’s all on them.

You may be right it may already be over, all I’m saying is it could have definitely been over with a politically better vp pick.

[murray87]

Tucker Carlson summarized the pick this way: “Every bad person I’ve ever met in Washington was aligned against J.D. Vance.”

[UCGRAD4X]

With the election, in many corners, all but over, this pick might need to be considered more in line with 2028.

[Xville]

Cool. So your buddy has the pulse of the entire region and you actually know nothing about it.

What's hilarious and pretty ironic is that this is why the region can't stand him. He took his one experience, and applied that to an entire region of the country. For you scholars out there, that's called stereotyping, otherwise known as bullshit.

[Xville]

Two geniuses at work here:

“I thank God that His hand was on President Trump,” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said. “If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing now,” added South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.

----I guess we can just gloss over the death that occurred.

[GoMuskies]

Vance won statewide election in Ohio, and Trump is obviously winning Kentucky and WV. So what are we talking about? A handful of people in Virginia and Pennsylvania who were possible Trump voters but are turned off by Vance?

The Republicans apparently think Vance can help in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Not sure about that, but we shall see. Another interesting thought I saw on Twitter (there's a first time for everything!) is that Vance is attached to the more "elite" Peter Thiel-associated Republican wing (the Yale Law School and best-winning author part of his story), and this is a nod to them. Trump is pretty likely to win at this point, and winning is just the start. Last time it was pretty obvious they hadn't given any thought to what they would do if they ACTUALLY won. So the Vance/Thiel/Musk wing brings with it a bench of competent people actually able to govern in a way that won't break the government. Frankly, a good thing for all of us if Trump is actually elected. We don't want a bunch of idiots running the place in a Trump administration (which is kinda what happened last time). Might seem a bit "swampy", but I personally would prefer to have a functioning government if Trump is the President.

[xuphan]

Two geniuses at work here:

“I thank God that His hand was on President Trump,” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said. “If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing now,” added South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.

----I guess we can just gloss over the death that occurred.

Still shocked MTG wasn’t the VP pick. Only loyal supporter of Trump and would help Trump with the women vote.