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I feel dirty saying good things about Sarah Palin, but she was brought on to fire up the base and did just that. Vance has managed to alienate the base. I don’t think the incels even like him at this point.
Yeah people forget how long people looked favorably at Palin. The response to Vance meanwhile was an immediate and visceral "no thank you"
Of course the incels don't like him. He argues that childless people should pay higher taxes. How did anyone think that would go over with the "never even had sex" constituency?
I think the incel crowd generally want to strip women of their rights because they see women's liberty as a main reason they can't get laid.
So, I'd imagine the childless cat women thing could hit with them because they'd be like "yeah, women should stop being so up-tight and have my babies!"
Or something like that.
yeah, single women with no kids are childless cat ladies, but single men with no kids are just victims of the uncompromising selfishness of childless cat ladies. sounds about right.
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He can see useless postmenopausal women from his house.
Brilliant response!
Jr. was high AF when he talked dad into this shlub.
Sarah Palin was like a dog that peed on themselves because they're an idiot. Vance is like a dog that bites their owner because they're an idiot. Sure, Palin was dumb, but Vance is a real threat to all Americans.
Don't tell Kristi Noem. I bet she still keeps her favorite gravel pit in great condition, just in case.
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Palin was a joke because John McCain was at the top of the ticket.
If it was she was second to Trump and being groomed by the Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025, she would be scary too.
But since then, he has faced a rash of bad headlines about his past comments calling Harris a "childless cat lady," his past support for a national abortion ban and even a baseless internet rumor about having sex with a couch.
It may be baseless, but it's quite plausible because he is just so...uh...the way he is. Trump, Vance, and RFK are all kinda weird. Hugging and kissing the flag, playing with dead things, etc etc.
Baseless? I thought "people are saying" was an acceptable level of fact checking. Donald certainly agrees with me.
I think it has to be "all the best people".
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He's in the running to unseat Dan Quayle as the most mocked and out of depth VP pick of all time. The race is his to win.
Never forget that Pence was maybe even considering going along with Trump on J6, but Dan Quayle the potatoe man talked him out of it.
Quayle was adamant, according to the authors. “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,” he said.
But Pence pressed him, the authors write, asking if there were any grounds to pause the certification because of ongoing legal challenges. Quayle was unmoved, and Pence ultimately agreed, according to the book.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/dan-quayle-convinced-mike-pence-to-reject-trumps-coup.html
Quayle was unmoved, and Pence ultimately agreed
In the name of Murphy Brown I never thought I'd say this: Thank God for fucking Dan Quayle, of all people. once MAGA is in the dustbin of history that doofus should run for office on the platform of actually having saved democracy.
Dan Quayle is an idiot and an asshole, but unlike the current crop of Republicans, he actually wants the system to work. He doesn't want everything to collapse for his grandkids.
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Palin was a joke. Vance is, frankly, scary.
Moreso if you are a couch.
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Considering that Vance's biggest accomplishment so far is writing a best-selling book, in which he cosplays as a poor person while trashing rural Americans, this about checks out.
Do you think he wrote that book though?
Palin was at-least somewhat entertaining in her madness.
She also came across as ditzy, not creepily malicious.
Vance 100% knows what he’s doing. He accepted that he had to sell his soul to become a successful politician.
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Palin alienated anyone vaguely in the middle, but on the other hand she had at least some particular support that she brought distinct from McCain (basically Tea Party folks that were not particularly excited by establishment republican nor McCain).
Vance doesn't have any particular support, he only gets indirect support for people who are "republican no matter what" or "MAGA all the way", but those people were already covered by Trump. Even in his own state his margin of victory was much slimmer than the other republicans that swept Ohio in 2022, and Ohio's not even a state considered to be a risk to Trump's campaign.
He was just a tremendously bad choice with no strategic benefit. The VP pick should somehow provide some coverage for demographics not hit by the presidential candidate, and Trump instead went with someone with very limited popularity that is a strict subset of people already supporting Trump.
After seeing what the cultists were going to do to Pence, and that Trump was going to allow it, no one else was interested in being his VP. The only option was a bootlicker.
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And there's not going to be any porn parody about couchfucker
Wait did we just find an exception to rule 34? I never thought I'd see the day...
You damn well know someone out there has drawn Vance absolutely raw dogging a leather couch and there's nothing you can do about it.
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He's so spineless it's baffling that they thought this would be a good choice?
Trump thought that he'd appeal to hillbillies and poor Midwesterners. Clearly he didn't read Hilbilly Elegy beyond the title.
If he did, he would have learned that, much like Clarence Thomas with black people, Vance paints all poor people in Ohio and Kentucky as lazy welfare recipients who should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps* and work harder 🙄
*which was originally an expression for doing something literally impossible, as pulling on your own bootstraps would make you fall down.
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More unpopular or less popular?
I think there's a fun bit of linguistics there. If you say more unpopular it implies that both are unpopular and one is even more so. If you say less popular, it implies that they are both popular, but one is to a lesser degree.
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His greatest accomplishment.
It was not an easy feat, but he prevailed.
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So you're saying he's less non-unpopular
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Common guys! It's funny!
Imagine fucking a couch and then being popular…
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