Trump Announces Ohio Sen JD Vance as His 2024 Running Mate
July 15th, 2024Update: Brief Commentary
When this announcement came out, I didn’t know anything about JD Vance at all. I looked briefly and saw that he’s closely associated with Thiel and Vance’s wife was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Thiel is the special sauce behind Vance’s rise (financial backing) and his making amends with Trump. Vance used to be very strongly anti-Trump, but with Thiel’s puppet strings and good offices working the backchannel with the Trump camp…
Here we are.
Vance will be sold to the masses through his book, Hillbilly Elegy and the corresponding movie.
However, Vance is Thiel’s creature. No doubt about it. That means, of course, that Vance is Palantir’s creature.
If you want to try to look for a brightside, Vance appears to be two degrees of separation from the Epstein industrial complex, instead of just one, like Trump and Thiel. Whether or not being owned by Thiel is any different than being owned by Epstein, I don’t know. Maybe it’s, six of one, half a dozen of the other, as my dad used to say.
Keep in mind, I only read about Vance for about fifteen minutes before I wrote this commentary. Like everything with elites (and their creatures), I’m sure it gets worse the deeper one goes.
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Via: Fox:
With an eye toward the future of a Republican Party dominated by former President Trump and his legions of MAGA supporters, Trump has named 39-year-old Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on the GOP’S 2024 national ticket.
The former president, who made his greatly anticipated and high-stakes announcement on Monday as the Republican National Convention kicked off in swing-state Wisconsin’s largest city, will now share the ticket with one of his top supporters in the Senate and a one-time Trump critic who has transformed into a leading America First disciple.
Vance, a former venture capitalist and the author of the bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” before running for elective office, was one of a handful of Republicans considered top running mate contenders. That group included North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina.
She probably doesn’t kiss his ass enough, but I wish Trump would have picked Tulsi Gabbard for VP.
If Vance is the kind of person Trump wants, then Gabbard never had a chance.
With Vance appearing as compromised as he does, how can we expect Trump to actually accomplish all those great things on his to-do list? I know the overall, long-term methodology is two steps forward, one back, and we seem to be in the one-back stage, but the list is too extensive for so limited a degree of fake return-to-normal; it’s like at least three steps back.
Perhaps an assassination attempt right before the announcement of Vance for VP has intensified voters’ commitments to ‘Trump at any cost’ so that Vance will receive little scrutiny and disapproval. If the media pretty much ignore him, the Trump/Vance ticket will
get by unscathed.