Originally published at: JD Vance To Elegize Own Dignity On Night Three of RNC - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) will deliver the keynote speech at the RNC on Wednesday night, marking his first full-length public appearance after Donald Trump selected him as a vice presidential candidate. Vance has made the transition, at once remarkable and utterly familiar, over the past eight years from comparing Trump to “cultural heroin” to now…
Not sure if this is the backdoor or front door.
Biden deserves credit for no US servicemen war deaths. I’m sure a bunch of service members have died doing stupid stuff, but that’s just young men, booze and idiocy.
ETA: if the Dems could please stop fighting Biden for a minute, a whole bunch of adverts highlighting what Vance used to say put on Fox “News” might mean that he gets canned by TCF for being insufficiently loyal in the past. Can’t hurt things.
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Lots of chatter about Vance being the MAGA dude with a brain. The smart one. The guy that can pull it off. Well…he’s not smart enough to see what’s happened to all those before him that came into close association with Trump nor smart enough not fear it happening to him.
MAGA has two options do what it says…and become pariahs within 2 years and don’t do what it says and have their base screaming for their heads. Or a gallows. Either way Vance is fucked bigly and his political career ( which is all he’s playing for ) is done.
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It is somewhat surprising that Trump chose Vance as his running mate. I would think the beard would cause some irritation when he kisses Trump’s butt.
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I’m very sorry that TPM staff are going to have to watch this. Godspeed, you crazy kids. Thank you for your service.
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It’s certainly not an unfamiliar tone as Richard Hofstadter pointed out years ago but the level of ressentiment has been raised to 11 and the level of responsible government actually on offer is going negative: Fascism got the trains running on time as the cliche goes but, like Putinism, what is on offer here is authoritarian kakistocracy with a big serving of klepto.
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Is he going to inform us about what stage of her menstrual cycle his wife is in?
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In Milwaukee, it’d better be a Harley! 
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Thank you! Writing a book that got Appalachians deplorably wrong AND became a mediocre, poverty porn film directed by a nepo baby, hack does’t make JD the smart version of anything.
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Trump may like that little “tickle”…
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Pity that.
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Not gonna listen to Vance
I’ll read the aftermath
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Follow the money.
How freaking wealthy are these fat cats like Trump and now Vance?
Vance dances with Thiel and other big money. The money flies off and into Vance’s pockets.
As my the father admonished, “the Republican party is the party of the rich.” It’s plain as day with people like Vance doing the money dance.
Vonnegut said it well in “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” with the concept of the Money River:
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'“It’s still possible for an American to make a fortune on his own.”
Sure—provided somebody tells him when he’s young enough that there is a Money River, that there’s nothing fair about it, that he had damn well better forget about hard work and the merit system and honesty and all that crap, and get to where the river is. ‘Go where the rich and powerful are,’ I’d tell him, ‘and learn their ways. They can be flattered and they can be scared. Please them enormously or scare them enormously, and one moonless night they will put their fingers to their lips, warning you not to make a sound. And they will lead you through the dark to the widest, deepest river of wealth ever known to man. You’ll be shown your place on the riverbank, and handed a bucket all your own. Slurp as much as you want, but try to keep the racket of your slurping down. A poor man might hear.’
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Also the usual risks involved in operating vehicles in marginal conditions during training, etc.
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May as well call it a eulogy for his dignity. Feel free to confirm with the criminal ex president’s former cabinet.
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"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them.
From “1984”.
In plain words if Trumpers were given a EEG it would be flat line.
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I’m gonna presume that if TSF wins, his cabinet will open with a session devoted to praising Dear Leader.
And JD will be part of it!
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Did you miss the Afghanistan withdrawal?
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Yes, I look forward to JD’s retiring to compete with Dan Quayle and Paul Ryan for places on the talk show circuit.
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