US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

Paul McCartney dies.

events, dear boy

Alfred is the Campari in the Negroni of ilx

i want them to announce that biden is stepping down and kamala is taking over right when trump is accepting the nomination. i don't know why i want that. but i do.

Best to do it right after the convention ends, so days of attacks on Biden are suddenly obsolete.

that would be the smart thing to do

events, dear boy

well played

From today's Garbage Day email:

On stage at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear. The attack happened while I was on a plane back from the Garbage Day Live show in San Francisco and, as news broke, a man behind me told a flight attendant, “Trump’s been shot,” to which she sort of laughed and excitedly said, “really?!” She then waited a beat and said, “wait, sorry, that came out wrong. That’s scary.”

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have each been told they won't be former President Trump's choice as vice presidential nominee, Axios has learned. Trump is expected to unveil his running mate on Monday afternoon.

Why it matters: Rubio was on Trump's shortlist but there were concerns over the two sharing the same state of residency, which would draw constitutional concerns and legal challenges. Trump previously said he was concerned by the severity of a near-total abortion ban that Burgum signed in 2023.

Doug Burzum

ohmygodwhoisitgonnabe?

vance has shown proper fealty and absolute unthinking loyalty, my two bits on him

many men (wish death) (on themselves, after reading this news)

CNN reporting that 50 Cent may make an appearance during the Republican National Convention

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 15, 2024

The RNC Monday line-up is pretty dire. Amber Rose? Charlie Kirk?

yeah, I don't remember who's left on the short list besides Vance. Tim Scott is speaking tonight so it's not him.

when does Larouche speak

They bring out the Ouija board at 10pm

Are they just inviting everyone who has ever dissed Kanye?

I remember confronting some LaRouchites in san francisco who had a poster of Obama sporting a hitler moustache.. they had a difficult time explaining what it was supposed to mean

Did Tim Scott get married for nothing?

NEW: Trump picks JD Vance as VP pic.twitter.com/EEfVrLhUsI

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 15, 2024

Vance is the best possible VP choice...if you're rooting for the Democrats. He's a repellent little shit (he's 5'7") who drives normal humans out of the room almost as fast as DeSantis. Maybe faster, because while DeSantis will give you nightmares when he tries to laugh or smile like a human, Vance never seems to express pleasure or joy at all.

Peter Thiel will be a heartbeat from the presidency. (He's working on that part, I'm sure.)

my new running mate jd vance will help me stick it to the elites! do not research where he went to law school.

i once got randomly hounded for a few blocks by a pack of Larouchies in DC, it was pretty scary. they saw me taking pictures - on the national mall, can you imagine?! - and decided I was a "Cheney asset" who was surveilling them. they surrounded me and started following me, (confusingly) trying to get me to take pictures and video of them, screaming "hi President Cheney!" at me. it got pretty scary, i had to sprint away like i was in a zombie movie

Hang JD Vance!

Just tryin' it out.

funniest possible outcome is if they find out that the shooter was radicalized by jd vance calling trump "america's hitler"

Vance is the best possible VP choice...if you're rooting for the Democrats

he was a straight-up San Francisco liberal as well, working on community gardens and shit like that

Congrats Juvenile Delinquent Vance!

MawMaw would be so proud!!

https://www.awardsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Glenn-Close-Hillbilly-Elegy.jpg

They could have Gabriel Basso deliver his speech

lock up the oxycontin

God. That movie is bad. Like, abysmal.

Feel like that book, with its mournful title, its "ten best books of the year"-ready cover, the suffocating praise, is one of the 21st century's greatest con jobs. However, he's fortunately so off putting that this might move the needle slightly in the other direction.

Sign of something we went from Pence to Vance

There was also a reckless financial profligacy and a total lack of regard for saving and thrift, behavior that JD would come to see as a consistent feature of hillbilly culture. This was despite the fact that the household income exceeded $100,000: hardly a small sum in rural Ohio.

Wait a minute...what the fuck?

JD's hardscrabble upbringing was in a rural 1980s household making crazy bank?

Having JD next in line will be a great way to make wannabe assassins rethink their plan.

He can reuse the old Trump-Pence signs with minimal change to the design.

― jaymc, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 9:17 AM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sign of something we went from Pence to Vance

― rob, Monday, 15 July 2024 20:40 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's an adVance in the alphabet

P to V

So I guess Vance will just carry a milk crate around with him from now on, in case he's required to be photographed beside Trump.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSjX1embIAAzmFf.jpg

P to V

iirc, this is exactly the kind of behavior Trump had to pay for and led to the only consequences he's ever seen!

People are not going to be happy when they read what Vance wrote about Reagan.

https://robertgavora.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39208.jpg?auto=webp&v=1545156282

^^^^^ Are those wax statues?

"God. That movie is bad. Like, abysmal."

its kinda awesome though! its a jaw-dropper. just when you thought they didn't make hilariously bad t.v. movies anymore along came Hillbilly Elegy.

Every time Glenn Close talked she spit in my face.

Bad Ronald, however, was a great movie.

(Also a TV movie.)