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

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.)

since ilx first mentions thread is locked

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-politics-poor-whites/

thought this was a p interesting read

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, July 31, 2016 6:18 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

WRT to the Trump voters having higher incomes: yes, but it's a type of higher-income person who regards himself as the champion of the common joe. He's successful, he owns an exurban mcmansion, but he feels more tribally linked to the downscale Appalachian white male than to liberal coastal urban elites.

From the JD Vance thing Gbx linked:

In a world of Trump, we’ve abandoned the pretense of persuasion. The November election strikes me as little more than a referendum on whose tribe is bigger.

For good or for ill I think this is right, for many voters. The battle consists partly of convincing undecided that they are better served by one's own tribe, and worse served by the other.

Another part is the registration/motivation/turnout efforts directed at your tribespeople to make sure they all get counted.

― mandolinsanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, July 31, 2016 6:55 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I want you to remember I saw through Vance's book when some of you ate it up like ice cream.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 15, 2024

Our Media is Ready pic.twitter.com/NzvER1rQD1

— Eli Valley (@elivalley) July 15, 2024

Tumescence achieved

P to V

― Jersey Devil Vance (President Keyes)

i guess you can't say i have _nothing_ in common with trump

RNC going well

Sounds like old Mike Johnson is dealing with cognitive decline. https://t.co/i4O3FrazoT

— Ambassador Greg Delawie (@GregDelawie) July 15, 2024

Scoop: Biden WILL announce plan to cap rents at 5% nationwide, sources say

Would strip tax benefit from corporate landlords who dont comply

Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress, comes as Biden emphasizes populist econ ideas after debate

W/ @rachsieg… https://t.co/iOcmE9ig0e

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 15, 2024

Scoop: Biden WILL announce plan to cap rents at 5% nationwide, sources say

Would strip tax benefit from corporate landlords who dont comply

Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress, comes as Biden emphasizes populist econ ideas after debate

Washington Post story:

President Biden will unveil a new proposal in Nevada on Tuesday to cap rental costs nationwide, according to three people familiar with the matter...

The policy push reflects the White House’s efforts to respond to widespread voter anger over high housing prices, which have soared since the pandemic and undermined Biden’s standing among voters about the economy. Nevada has seen among the biggest explosions of housing costs in the country, and Democrats have grown increasingly concerned that Trump could win the state in November.

Biden’s plan — which would need to be approved by Congress — calls for stripping a tax benefit from landlords who increase their tenants’ rent more than 5 percent per year, the people said. The measure would only apply to landlords who own more than 50 units, which represents roughly half of all rental properties, the people said. It wouldn’t cover units that have not yet been built, in an attempt to ensure that the policy does not discourage construction of new rental housing. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a proposal that isn’t yet public.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91n+yOTjuVL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

Vance has a deep bench of stupid factoids to talk about and I don’t look forward to hundreds of think pieces about the hillbilly book/movie, more people finding out about NRx horseshit, etc

just noise that gets more press coverage!

Vance is the worst possible pick given how much he loves killing women over their decision to get abortions.

"Bad Ronald, however, was a great movie."

very true!

if Biden got shot at the article would probably be something like 'Stupid Old Fuck Got Shot At, Gets Civilian Killed'

Will Trump be granted access to Thiel’s blood boys?

appropriate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth

https://i.ibb.co/g30gbw0/Screenshot-2024-07-15-4-26-54-PM.png

Riding to the White House! Witness me, blood bag!

thought it was Styx playing at the convention right now but they are playing a Journey song at the moment so maybe not.