I think we can safely assert that there is no candidate too depraved, incompetent, or malignant to be the Republican nominee for president. The delusion that it requires competence, a history of alliance with the party values, or an unblemished record, has been blown to smithereens. In the age of social media all former bets are off.
Whatever strange alchemical mix that is now required to rise to the top in the mind of the public cannot be predicted. Voters have elected wife beaters, child molesters, multiply bankrupted conmen, neo-Nazis, thieves, conspiracy theorists, people hated by their own families, all without remorse.
I used to think that the movie Idiocracy was an exaggeration. Now I'm sure that it was not.
I have no faith in the future or American voters. We might run Abraham Lincoln back from the dead and they still might vote for Vance. Hell, they might vote for Vance because Lincoln fought the Confederacy.
Not a call to despair or do nothing, but just what seems to be reality.
This man is so repellent that he could run against an old beat up sofa and lose. Rethuglicans know this so he’d probably lose the primary and wouldn’t be nominated. Don’t be surprised if they throw Theil as the candidate.
On the other hand, Republicans always know the assignment in the fall and will always make sure they vote, and Democrats are always about Charisma™ and Saying the Pretty Things What Democrats Like in Every Situation.
To achieve what the unreconstructed among us want only requires entropy. This is also why the vast majority of their Congressional reps are essentially social media influencers; all they have to do is suck at their actual jobs. If you replaced each and every one of them with a fire hydrant it would achieve the same ends.
Democrats require actual legislators because doing the things we want typically requires statute. Think about Mamdani. He actually knows what he's doing as a manager. He's not a social media influencer first.
"Of course, the worst thing that could happen for Republicans (and liberal democracy) is that Vance actually wins because Democrats stupidly nominate someone who makes Mike Dukakis look like Barack Obama. That’s a doom loop we need to break."
Schumer and Jeffries are feverishly coming up with lists of candidates as we speak. The top of which is probably Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney.
I have been rubbing my hands with glee, like a cartoon villain, just waiting to enjoy the spectacle of Vance running for president, while Trump throws gigantic tantrums. As long as Trump is alive, he won't allow anyone else to be president. Anyone in his party who tries to run will be forced to run against a Democrat, and MAGA orcs energized to violence by Trump's behavior and comments. Trump will force a shitshow for Republican candidates for any office.
“Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?” Vance asked, initiating his own sociopathic dialogue with an absent Pope Leo. “
Is this his version of Clint Eastwood talking to a chair with a rhetorical Obama sitting in it except this time is Vance and its a couch?
JD Vance isn't even liked by his neighbors! He's supposedly leaving his neighborhood and moving out into the richy burbs where he isn't in anyone's way (every time he comes home, he insists on arriving at 5pm, blocks up the freeways and then they close down all the roads by his home) yet he persists. But Peter Thiel has sunk a lot of time and money in him; I don't know if the Trump stench is enough to stop that.
I think we can safely assert that there is no candidate too depraved, incompetent, or malignant to be the Republican nominee for president. The delusion that it requires competence, a history of alliance with the party values, or an unblemished record, has been blown to smithereens. In the age of social media all former bets are off.
Whatever strange alchemical mix that is now required to rise to the top in the mind of the public cannot be predicted. Voters have elected wife beaters, child molesters, multiply bankrupted conmen, neo-Nazis, thieves, conspiracy theorists, people hated by their own families, all without remorse.
I used to think that the movie Idiocracy was an exaggeration. Now I'm sure that it was not.
I have no faith in the future or American voters. We might run Abraham Lincoln back from the dead and they still might vote for Vance. Hell, they might vote for Vance because Lincoln fought the Confederacy.
Not a call to despair or do nothing, but just what seems to be reality.
This man is so repellent that he could run against an old beat up sofa and lose. Rethuglicans know this so he’d probably lose the primary and wouldn’t be nominated. Don’t be surprised if they throw Theil as the candidate.
On the other hand, Republicans always know the assignment in the fall and will always make sure they vote, and Democrats are always about Charisma™ and Saying the Pretty Things What Democrats Like in Every Situation.
To achieve what the unreconstructed among us want only requires entropy. This is also why the vast majority of their Congressional reps are essentially social media influencers; all they have to do is suck at their actual jobs. If you replaced each and every one of them with a fire hydrant it would achieve the same ends.
Democrats require actual legislators because doing the things we want typically requires statute. Think about Mamdani. He actually knows what he's doing as a manager. He's not a social media influencer first.
"Of course, the worst thing that could happen for Republicans (and liberal democracy) is that Vance actually wins because Democrats stupidly nominate someone who makes Mike Dukakis look like Barack Obama. That’s a doom loop we need to break."
Schumer and Jeffries are feverishly coming up with lists of candidates as we speak. The top of which is probably Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney.
I have been rubbing my hands with glee, like a cartoon villain, just waiting to enjoy the spectacle of Vance running for president, while Trump throws gigantic tantrums. As long as Trump is alive, he won't allow anyone else to be president. Anyone in his party who tries to run will be forced to run against a Democrat, and MAGA orcs energized to violence by Trump's behavior and comments. Trump will force a shitshow for Republican candidates for any office.
“Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?” Vance asked, initiating his own sociopathic dialogue with an absent Pope Leo. “
Is this his version of Clint Eastwood talking to a chair with a rhetorical Obama sitting in it except this time is Vance and its a couch?
JD Vance isn't even liked by his neighbors! He's supposedly leaving his neighborhood and moving out into the richy burbs where he isn't in anyone's way (every time he comes home, he insists on arriving at 5pm, blocks up the freeways and then they close down all the roads by his home) yet he persists. But Peter Thiel has sunk a lot of time and money in him; I don't know if the Trump stench is enough to stop that.