Donald Trump missteps stir growing Republican worry, campaign seeks Vance reset

“Oh well, you know, he’s not serious,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told reporters in the U.S. Capitol. “He likes to goad you. You can’t take him seriously when he’s talking about stuff like this.”
"i don't kid."
-trump
"he tells it like it is"
-trump ~~voter~~ cultist
- This sentence is a lie.
  -The Ascended, product of Trump and his cult fusing into one giant monstrosity... That promptly implodes from the self-loathing of realising it's mostly made up of 🤢 poor people 🤮

Fox wasn't even aware of Trump's unilateral debate announcement.
- Need to find a way to make a hybrid scarecrow/tin-man/lion/trump. Seeing as how he’s brainless, heartless, and cowardly.

I enjoy that pollsters are starting to poll for what happens if Trump drops and Vance is the top of the ticket, while Washington republicans are trying to figure out how to oust Janky Douche.
At this point I wouldn't be completely surprised if that chair that Clint Eastwood shouted at a few years ends up on the ballot.
- i enjoy watching republicans eat each other alive while self-immolating
  
  What's delightful is that their whole... (waves hands frantically) thing¹, takes all the most crucial tools off the table. Imagine this safety sign posted at the RNC:
  Absolutely NO:
  compromising
  back-tracking
  changing your mind
  making mistakes
  wrong opinions
  
  \ All one can do from there is lie while doing one of those things anyway. At a certain point people are going to take notice, which just makes it worse.
  ¹ - Machismo? Rampant authoritarianism? Sociopathic narcissism? I can't keep up.
  
  I hope there's some left for me to eat.
- At this point I wouldn’t be completely surprised if that chair that Clint Eastwood shouted at a few years ends up on the ballot.
  That was 12 years ago :(
  
  That hurts. That hurts deep inside.
  stupid time
  
  Fuckin weird then and it's weird now.
- People told me that it was impossible for the Republican party to even concieve of replacing Trump. Yeah? How's that going now, huh? Personally, I'm looking forward to Trump ripping the party in half.
  
  That's the problem when you have a bunch of narcissistic opportunities vying for power. Eventually, they start trying to push each other down the stairs...
- The chair would have less felony convictions and rapes
  
  That's where you're wrong. The chair would actually have fewer felony convictions and rapes. Allegedly. I don't know that chair personally. But the point is that "fewer" is the grammatically correct word for the point you're making.

The same Vance that refuses to learn a nice life lesson from Mamaw?
"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I'm going to hell."
When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as "Mamaw" — she replied bluntly: "Don't be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you're gay?"
When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.
"JD, do you want to suck dicks?" she said, according to the book.
The young Vance, apparently "flabbergasted," said: "Of course not!"
"Then you're not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay," she replied. "God would still love you."
- Oh wow. Even when they try they can't get it right. Many people know they're gay by 9, not all gay men want to do oral sex, and all most 9 year olds know is they're supposed to want this thing called sex. It's literally the grade where they talk about "it" and some braggart says they did "it".
  And the God loves you line is just classic. According to conservatives God loves gay people which is why it's important to save them from hell.
  This entire story is just a massive line of red flags.
  
  My family loves to tell the story about my cousin and I running around the house when we were like 6 and supposedly he stopped dead in his tracks, looked at my stepmom and said "that dress is so your color."
  Doesn't have to do with dicks, but from that day they knew he was gay and he very much is now that we're in our late 30s. I love him to death, he's such a great guy!
  He finally came out to me when we went to an art exhibit because I always liked Tim Burton stuff and he kept commenting on paintings "why are the men all clothed and the women all topless? Why does Jack not have a bulge but Sally is full figured!?" That kind of stuff. So over dinner I was like "ya know... I couldn't help notice some of your comments? You know I love you, is there anything you want to share with me?" Lol

- The hell is "skibidi"? I've seen it a few times and no idea what it means.
  
  It's a gen-alpha slang term that is like a cross between creepy and gross.
  And Ohio means boring and weird.

If he replaces Vance, it'll have to be Nancy Mace, the only one left in the potential pick pool whose one-syllable name ends in "ce".
- But she doesn't have a 5 letter last name, so she's straight out.
  
  Looks like he's stuck with JD then!

So how many Scaramuccis is that?
- Ok I'm interested. He was picked July 15, 3 weeks, 21 days ago. That's 1.9 Scaramuccis as of today. If he's replaced tomorrow Aug 6, that's 2 Scaramuccis on the dot.
  Ohio needs the names Aug 7.
  
  Cap’n! Tha Mooch scale was ne’er intended for campaignin’! I dunnae how much longer she’ll hold!
  
  But what happens in Ohio if Trump/Vance is the name on the ballot, but Vance has since been replaced by Rubio? Is the vote just torn up and tossed? If a VP candidate dies in a bizarre boating accident in October is it just... over?

CARRY IT TO TERM LOSERS

- i don't know how much i would pay to see this as a huge banner at the debate, but it would be a lot

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- Why is this getting downvoted so much?
  Edit: Downvoting me for asking a question? Don't ever change ~~reddit~~ lemmy
  
  From what I've seen so far, a number of reasons:
  It's not overly accurate, with a tendency to report from a basis of American centrism as though that's the sole metric to measure what is left and right. I assume they decided they had to pick something to base it off of, but even a lot of Americans take issue with what an American centrist considers left-wing.
  It's a bot, and some folks hate those enough to downvote it every time rather than block it.
  Some folks prefer to decide for themselves what's credible. I've also read comments saying they don't like that there's no disclaimer — plenty of people get riled when something is presented as though it's the sole arbiter of truth.
  I've probably missed plenty, too.
  
  MBFC is a conservative project to give their rags more credibility while painting the news organizations with good records of being objective as left leaning. There is no actual center designation. The best anything can get is center left or center right. So on center left you have stuff like NYT, feeding into the idea that mainstream news is biased left. And on center right you have the Ayn Rand Institute, getting it's credibility washed by being placed in any category with the word center in the name.
- Please keep doing this.