I'm glad Noem took herself out like that. She's not the worst, but one less establishment faux-revolutionary is still good. She was a one-hit wonder; good on lockdowns, but standard neocon on most other things. Good riddance. Shame, too, as I did initially like her. I know it goes without saying, but none of these fucks can be trusted in the slightest.
I'm not a fan of Noem, but the logic behind her demise is hilarious. Virtually every national US politician is at least complicit in the deaths of thousands of human civilians from Ukraine to Syria to Libya to Afghanistan, but you shoot one puppy and that's the end of your political career.
Eh... unless we count non-starters, she really was. Corporate shill, pro-transgender and said that you should go look for another job if you did not want the vaccine.
Don't forget Tulsi. Seems crazy, but I think he will at least heavily weight in favor of a woman, and she's got somewhat popular cross-aisle appeal. Note before anyone gets upset, I'm not even saying she'd be a good pick, just that I think she's on the list of potentials.
For your four...I hope it's not Scott or Rubio. Not dealbreakers, but I'd really rather not have them any closer to the presidency. Especially Rubio. Vance would probably be the best of those. I expect to be at least somewhat disappointed by Trump's eventual pick, though.
I really think it will be one of the three squishes: Burgum, Rubio or Scott.
Trump is looking to shore up the moderate suburban Republican vote and Burgum or Rubio both would achieve that easily. I am not a fan of them but they provide utility to help him win.
I think Tim Scott sucks and he will be suboptimal even for shoring up the suburban moderates.
Vance is fine but his Senate seat will go to RINO Matt Dolan and that is not worth it.
I think Tulsi being a Democrat till like 2021 disqualifies her.
He likely won't pick Tulsi as it hurts him a lot with the GOP establishment voters which he does need some of them to join him to win.
I think Tulsi would be a great pick because the onetruephilosoraptor types vowing not to vote Trump/Tulsi will actually vote for him anyway, and she picks up lots of moderates. And the narrative of her saying "I used to think Trump was the Orange Man Bad but I was wrong" is what the country needs.
But the main thing is she seems duty-bound so if Trump were taken out I think she'd carry on his legacy even though it's not what she would have done. I don't see any of the other floated people asking "what would Trump do?"
Either have somebody with a sense of duty or somebody 'worse' like a Rand Paul. Obviously Rand would be way better as a backup President, but we're better off with him in the Senate.
I know he pretty much explicitly stated that it wouldn't be him, but I'd still like to see Vivek Ramaswamy as his VP. I don't know enough about Vivek to trust him as the President atm, but in his campaign, he brought forth a lot of very important discussion topics and raised a lot of good points. He seems to be far more aware than Trump of many issues, such as internet censorship. He'd be able to cover a lot of Trump's blind spots, if he's acting in good faith.
Well, at least it's pretty much confirmed that he'll have a high Cabinet position. That's something, at least.
Thank god, now who's left as Noem seems to have tanked her own nomination to be VP.
I'm glad Noem took herself out like that. She's not the worst, but one less establishment faux-revolutionary is still good. She was a one-hit wonder; good on lockdowns, but standard neocon on most other things. Good riddance. Shame, too, as I did initially like her. I know it goes without saying, but none of these fucks can be trusted in the slightest.
A woman in politics shouldn't be trusted in the first place. Especially "conservative" politics.
The fact that many of the possible VP picks talked about for Trump are them is a sad state.
I'm not a fan of Noem, but the logic behind her demise is hilarious. Virtually every national US politician is at least complicit in the deaths of thousands of human civilians from Ukraine to Syria to Libya to Afghanistan, but you shoot one puppy and that's the end of your political career.
Optics is a huge element of politics but, yeah, it's absurd the lack of value for human life.
To be fair, dogs have a longer track record of being man's best friend than any human...
Eh... unless we count non-starters, she really was. Corporate shill, pro-transgender and said that you should go look for another job if you did not want the vaccine.
I think it is someone out of these four based on Trump's comments and who his campaign has said they like.
Tim Scott
Marco Rubio
Doug Burgum
J.D. Vance
Don't forget Tulsi. Seems crazy, but I think he will at least heavily weight in favor of a woman, and she's got somewhat popular cross-aisle appeal. Note before anyone gets upset, I'm not even saying she'd be a good pick, just that I think she's on the list of potentials.
For your four...I hope it's not Scott or Rubio. Not dealbreakers, but I'd really rather not have them any closer to the presidency. Especially Rubio. Vance would probably be the best of those. I expect to be at least somewhat disappointed by Trump's eventual pick, though.
I really think it will be one of the three squishes: Burgum, Rubio or Scott.
Trump is looking to shore up the moderate suburban Republican vote and Burgum or Rubio both would achieve that easily. I am not a fan of them but they provide utility to help him win.
I think Tim Scott sucks and he will be suboptimal even for shoring up the suburban moderates.
Vance is fine but his Senate seat will go to RINO Matt Dolan and that is not worth it.
I think Tulsi being a Democrat till like 2021 disqualifies her.
He likely won't pick Tulsi as it hurts him a lot with the GOP establishment voters which he does need some of them to join him to win.
I think Tulsi would be a great pick because the onetruephilosoraptor types vowing not to vote Trump/Tulsi will actually vote for him anyway, and she picks up lots of moderates. And the narrative of her saying "I used to think Trump was the Orange Man Bad but I was wrong" is what the country needs.
But the main thing is she seems duty-bound so if Trump were taken out I think she'd carry on his legacy even though it's not what she would have done. I don't see any of the other floated people asking "what would Trump do?"
Either have somebody with a sense of duty or somebody 'worse' like a Rand Paul. Obviously Rand would be way better as a backup President, but we're better off with him in the Senate.
If he picks Tulsi, I will not vote for him. I might even vote for Biden out of spite for you tourists.
I would take any of them over Tulsi. At least they are Republicans.
Again, I'm just talking about who's potentially on the list.
You'd take Rubio and Scott over Tulsi?
I know he pretty much explicitly stated that it wouldn't be him, but I'd still like to see Vivek Ramaswamy as his VP. I don't know enough about Vivek to trust him as the President atm, but in his campaign, he brought forth a lot of very important discussion topics and raised a lot of good points. He seems to be far more aware than Trump of many issues, such as internet censorship. He'd be able to cover a lot of Trump's blind spots, if he's acting in good faith.
Well, at least it's pretty much confirmed that he'll have a high Cabinet position. That's something, at least.
Awful, awful, meh, great.