Not knowing the man, I had heard that JD Vance was unpleasant but was prepared to make up my own mind. After his performance in the Oval Office, I realise that Vance is just a pile of excrement. Between him and Trump, one asks: Oh America, what have you saddled yourself with?
This is the real face of the American empire, the hideously decayed and corrupted Picture of Dorian Gray. People like Biden kept it in the attic. Trump has fetched it down for all to see. Probably no bad thing in the end
I just don't understand it. This was such a huge opportunity for Trump to prove the democrats wrong. Instead he decided to bully the underdog. That's never a good look for anyone.
And yet the Trump supporters on social media are claiming it was great. One even claimed Europe’s leaders were now against Zelenskyy (evidence free of course). Trump is just playing to his very particular crowd again.
To be fair elections are run by the states and that gives a hedge. But yes, at the very least you're going to get massive federal/media interference on them
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I feel as scared for my children watching that video as I did the day Putin invaded Ukraine.
Plus there is no guarantee that the partisan politics in the US would allow the sort of Republican collapse in the mid terms that would force him out
Its not that he's unpredictable, its that he's clearly very ill indeed
My hope is that institutions hold up long enough for the GOP to get a shelling at the midterms which givens both house/senate to the Dems
I am.... not that hopeful of it
Vance is very different: he has beliefs, will pursue them and has the broad ability to do them.