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Hoping and praying that Trump remains safe and healthy, (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Dec 2024 OP
I miss twofer Tuesdays. Solly Mack Dec 2024 #1
Is there a such thing dweller Dec 2024 #2
Or Thunder Thursdays? Maybe Festive Fridays? Solly Mack Dec 2024 #11
No, Vance is a house fly. Frasier Balzov Dec 2024 #3
Ka-Ching Strelnikov_ Dec 2024 #9
Nah. Nobody likes Vance. legallyblondeNYC Dec 2024 #4
Disagree awesomerwb1 Dec 2024 #5
Yep. Vance has all the charisma of an alarm clock. keep_left Dec 2024 #7
This. Dulcinea Dec 2024 #12
I wish he would croak. GoodRaisin Dec 2024 #6
Be terrible if he stroked out like Sharon Strelnikov_ Dec 2024 #10
If it gets him out of office and off the media everyday then i'm all for it. GoodRaisin Dec 2024 #17
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Hello Sunshine!! Back again!! GP6971 Dec 2024 #20
A pox on both of them. nt Tommy Carcetti Dec 2024 #8
Could anyone be worse than Trump? I doubt it but who knows. The entire GOP is disgusting, no exceptions. walkingman Dec 2024 #13
Equally catastrophic at this point. moonscape Dec 2024 #14
I dunno Trump is uniquely nuts liberalmediaaddict Dec 2024 #15
Vance would be putty madamesilverspurs Dec 2024 #16
However, Vance can't deflect like *rump does. haele Dec 2024 #18

keep_left

(2,825 posts)
7. Yep. Vance has all the charisma of an alarm clock.
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 06:22 PM
Dec 2024

He can still do quite a bit of damage on his own, I'm sure, but anyone who saw him on the campaign trail (and who has noticed his absence since then) has been disabused of any illusions about Vance's leadership qualities. Any DUers remember the picture from C-SPAN with the caption "single person clapping" at one of Vance's "rallies"? (It may be a fake, but I heard the clip myself, and the caption is indeed correct).

Dulcinea

(8,157 posts)
12. This.
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 06:49 PM
Dec 2024

Hillbilly Vanilli doesn't have the McFelon's salesmanship or ability to sway a crowd. If Trump kicks off, Vance won't be able to keep the scam going.

Strelnikov_

(7,960 posts)
10. Be terrible if he stroked out like Sharon
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 06:32 PM
Dec 2024

Spent his final 8 years subject to the tender mercies of underpaid nursing home staff.

It would be just awful.

I’m sure his family would be there every day to advocate for his care. I’m sure . .

GoodRaisin

(10,066 posts)
17. If it gets him out of office and off the media everyday then i'm all for it.
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 10:00 PM
Dec 2024

I’m tired of hearing his lies and seeing his ugly, greed filled face everyday. When all they can say about him is the poop they took out of his pants that day that will feel like being rid of him at last.

Response to GoodRaisin (Reply #6)

walkingman

(9,039 posts)
13. Could anyone be worse than Trump? I doubt it but who knows. The entire GOP is disgusting, no exceptions.
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 07:26 PM
Dec 2024

Update - I changed my mind. I think maybe an evangelical preacher like Franklin Graham or a prosperity gospel preacher like Joel Olsteen would be worse.

liberalmediaaddict

(986 posts)
15. I dunno Trump is uniquely nuts
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 07:31 PM
Dec 2024

I have no idea what Trump as Commander-In-Chief is capable of if he's backed into a corner. Vance is awful but I don't think he'd fire off nuclear weapons because someone hurt his feelings.

madamesilverspurs

(16,210 posts)
16. Vance would be putty
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 09:09 PM
Dec 2024

in a delighted Musk's hands, likewise with those black-hearted MAGA members of congress. They don't like Trump, but he is useful to them because he succumbs easily to cash and flattery, Vance already believes himself above such plebian offerings. Trump is a known bag of awful, Vance is largely a sack of you-ain't-seen-nuthin-yet.


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haele

(14,097 posts)
18. However, Vance can't deflect like *rump does.
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 10:43 PM
Dec 2024

He doesn't have the Celebrity darling glitter about him, and he can't lie convincingly.
The public, even MAGA, will find it easy blame him for any problem the GOP causes if they have to listen to his blathering on the evil Commie Democrats are the real villains making their lives miserable.
The GOP is an old fashioned circus. *Rump is the carnival barker, quipping and manipulating the public to see what he wants them to see.
Vance is the pencil neck geek.
Not the good type of cute, nerdy geek, the original 19th century carnival geek - typically a pseudo-idiot that did freaky things like pulling apart live chickens and eating them in stage. Or pretend he was doing that.
While he is smarter and has a more formed agenda than *rump, he just does not have the Teflon idiot charisma to pull off what *rump does.

Haele

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