• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So… they swap out the couchfucking weirdo for the brain-worm weirdo.

    this is gonna go so well!

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    8 months ago

    You can’t switch candidates like that! That’s a coup!

    At least it is according to this weird douchebag who told me he was totally trustworthy

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    8 months ago

    Trump dies on the second day in office, then the newly minted President Kennedy butchers a bald eagle on the Oval Office desk, cooks it in an air fryer perched on the railing of the window, then tosses it in buffalo sauce and eats it before blowing the brain worms to kingdom come with an original flintlock from the time of Thomas Jefferson that was sitting on one of the shelves.

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        8 months ago

        My opponent has never chainsawed off the head of a dead whale for personal whale anatomy experiments. Do you really want someone without that valuable experience as second in line for the presidency?

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    8 months ago

    You cAnT jUsT CHanGe CanDiDAtes

    No one knows anything about RFK

    Who voted for him

    Etc etc

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      8 months ago

      They are truly sending their best.

      ironically, RFK Jr has never had an elected office. So he’s every ounce as incompetent as Trump. Not that Vance is any more competent.

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      8 months ago

      Trump wants a pretty nonentity.

      Pence looked like a 1960s TV version of a Vice President. Vance looked like someone the rural MAGoos would like.

      DeSantis might actually [accidentally] tell Trump the truth…

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      8 months ago

      he did. JD Vance is one of those ironic punishments Olympians gave to people that pissed them off. someone with as much ability to come off as human, let alone normal, as desantis, if not less.

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      8 months ago

      Because Desantis challenged him in the primary. It’s as simple and petty as that.

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    8 months ago

    Wasn’t Vance officially chosen by the delegates at the RNC? Can Trump actually pick someone else now? What would the party have to do to change their nomination after the convention-hold an emergency meeting and revote?

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      8 months ago

      At this point there’s no way to do it legally. Ballots are already being printed. But legality’s not an issue for Trump and his personal fan club.

      I think Vance could step down, then Trump would have no running mate, I think? And a VP would be appointed by Congress if he wins? Idk.

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        8 months ago

        Technically,

        The president and vice president are chosen by the electoral college in separate votes.

        Though, for some time, it’s always been the winning candidate’s selected running mate… there is no requirement there. The electors could pick Mittens the back flipping poodle for VP if they wanted.

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          Fun fact, the VP was originally supposed to be whoever got second place in the presidential election…until they figured out that the candidates might hate each other and that relationship isn’t so great for a president and their VP.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    That’s my bet as of this last weekend, tbh.

    Trump’s kinda obviously having serious buyers remorse over Vance and how he’s basically fucking kryptonite to the vast majority of women. And I’m sure he thinks including the Kennedy name on his ticket will give him a big boost. And now that he’s pulling both RFK and Tulsi closer in to the campaign, I’m really thinking it’s only a matter of time.

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      Ra. The Kennedy name. No one has given a shit about the Kennedys in so long. Hell, I forgot they existed until that group of smooth-brained dipshits started wearing red hats and quoting The Enquirer and Weekly World News stories as gospel and insisting the one that sadly died in plane crash 25 years ago was raising from the dead.

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    8 months ago

    Honestly thought he was going to pick himself as running mate. It’s the only person he’d never blame for losing.