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© Thomson Reuters 2024.Trump's running mate JD Vance introduces himself to nation at Republican convention
By Nathan Layne, James Oliphant and Gram Slattery MILWAUKEE©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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bass4funk
Absolutely love this guy!!
Underworld
Says the guy who once called Trump "America's Hitler"
Says the guy who used to work for Wall Street.
JJE
JD has been received will by the MAGA base; that is very clear. What a compelling life story and his wife fits the bill too. More importantly, he has gone down well - like a cold beer on a hot day - with moderates, independents, Kennedy voters, union workers, Reagan democrats and those who want some common sense and public decency injected into foreign & domestic policy, which has sorely been lacking under the ingrained incumbent who created a record inflation economy, open borders and taken the world to the precipice by propelling us to WWIII.
It's time for change, peace and prosperity.
wallace
You always love a flip-flopper.
Geeter Mckluskie
Good thing Trump puts America ahead of personal insults against him
Norm
Me, too. No red roses, but where can I send a donation directly to the VP candidate?
Jimizo
Is that a diplomatic way of stating he still believes Trump is “an idiot”?
Geeter Mckluskie
No, it's the part that follwed what you've clipped
GuruMick
Good to see the MAGA crew on here supporting their man.
Less good is some recently released Court documents in the Epstein sex abuse of minors case....Trump a regular caller to Epstein...lots of phone messages etc.
What did they talk about ?
JJE
Keeps getting worse for Biden:
The full one-on-one softball interview he did with Black Entertainment Television (BET) has been released.
Pundits are saying it "wasn't a commanding performance and there were notable stumbles in what was a fairly non-confrontational interview" - which translates as he totally bottled it with echoes of his woeful debate performance.
He certainly made some impressive gaffes.
Jimizo
?
Idiots can have powerful ideas
Underworld
Ramsey's Kitchen
"President Trump's vision is so simple and yet so powerful" he said......Says the guy who once called Trump "America's Hitler"
Nah, he still hates Trump, but will sell his soul for power.
Totally respect this guy. /s
Unlikely. I'm no sellout.
Norm
Yes, it’s elegantly phrased so that TFG won’t catch on to what good ol’ JD really thinks.
Geeter Mckluskie
The same guy who came from poverty, enlisted in the Marines, then graduated summa cum laud from Ohio State before getting a scholarship to Yale where he obtained his Juris Doctor degree...before writing a best selling "Hillbilly Elegy"...and is about to be the next Vice President of the United States of America...before becoming the 49th President of the United States of America...All before the age of 45!
That guy
dagon
If people get fooled twice by this pap, shame on them.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/05/24/why-corporate-america-loves-donald-trump
Being done catering to Wall Street means serving them everything they want in Vance's book.
And don't forget Vance's Svengali Peter Thiel.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/
A guy who believes free market competition is for losers.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536
And how they are going to 'commit' to the working man this time I don't even want to think about.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood
Peter Neil
the insurrectionists convention.
opportunists, convicted felony fraudsters, sedition and coup conspirators, traitors all. radical right wing con men kissing the ring of a pathological lying, wannabe dictator narcissist who says he loves the poorly educated.
imagine his disciples explaining to their parents that they love these people who tried to overthrow the united states by attacking the capitol to stop the results of an election and creating false documents, false electors and threatening to hang the vice president.
their parents must be so proud of their treasonous children.
Underworld
Geeter Mckluskie
Says the guy who used to work for Wall Street.
You forgot the bit when he became a tech-bro.
I thought the GOP didn't like elitists.
And if you think that he's going to go after Wall Street, don't forget that his rise to this job has been groomed and financed by Peter Thiel.
ulysses
No surprise because the guy is a liar!!!
wallace
What year will the 49th be? Down the road.
Geeter Mckluskie
"You ain't black if you don't vote for me."
Because, y'know...of all the wonderful things the Dems have done for the black community...like "unity" and stuff
GuruMick
JD sounds a little "too good to be true "
Maybe there's some sex scandal like the tele evangelist men.
As with Trump's wall, I will await to see if this fellow actually achieves what he says.
bass4funk
Speaking of, wasn't Biden supposed to give a speech today?
And then admitted he was wrong after he met the guy. Context matters, It always does.
Now how on earth would you know this? Oh, yeah, you don't.
We all do what we do.
lincolnman
So JD has told us that "he could care less about Ukraine"....
Hmmmm....so will the Repubs let Trump BFF and golf partner Lindsey Graham speak at the convention and say how important it is to support Ukraine and stand-up to Putin?
I'd say E. Jean Carroll has a better chance of speaking...
ulysses
JD claimed in his speech that he left Yale with$120,000 in debt. Yet in his autobiography he says he got a financial aid package beyond his wildest dreams!!!!
Now was he lying in his speech or was his autobiography a piece of fiction.
MAGA , they lie and then they forget their lies!!!!!
Norm
From yesterday, but still want to do my small part for the next almost VP.
B4F: Want to help us to help him by providing a link?
Geeter Mckluskie
Imagine taking a job for a company that invests in tech...in the Information Age...Just Wow!
dagon
Haven't seen the topic of race come into this, but you do you Geeter.
Many blacks have stayed independent, and a huge number have supported Bernie Sanders campaigns in '16 and '20.
That is someone who has actually been unwavering in his fight for the working poor.
Underworld
bass4funk
Nah, he still hates Trump, but will sell his soul for power.
Really? It's completely obvious!
Just like Tucker Carlson, who loathes Trump, but toadies up to him all the time.
Spineless.
u_s__reamer
Vance was an astute pick to pull the MAGA working-class base closer to the phony rebranding of the Republican Party in their desperation to stay relevant. Vance will be a magnet to harvest the votes of the angry masses abandoned by the neo-liberal Democrats and who now want a demagogue as their "retribution" to punish Biden & his ilk. As a twofer, Vance also has business connections to people with deep pockets so he can attract Capital that makes Trump's eyes sparkle. Finally, as a successful author, he has a charismatic celebrity factor and his youthful, energetic aura makes a pointed contrast to Biden's decrepitude. The downside for democracy, though, is that Vance with his smarts is cunningly calculating and has all the ominous potential to become an America-first NATIONAL"socialist" who will throw the inarticulate, incompetent Trump under the bus first chance he gets.
Jimizo
So is this man a better pick than Mike Pence?
I remember some MAGA faithful believing Pence would be better than Trump in some ways - a true Conservative.
Let’s hope circumstances don’t arise where violent conspiracy theorists riot while chanting death threats to Vance.
bass4funk
Did well the first time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/291320/trumps-list-289-accomplishments-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping/
When Wall St. is happy, the Market is happy, that's the sweet hum of the American economy revving up.
Typical leftist Progressive Marxist thinking...
https://youtu.be/z3Ow8RurMRk?si=6a2MByoYoafpXv9B
Like this
https://www.barrons.com/news/vance-says-us-should-commit-to-the-working-man-not-wall-street-d1134e9f
lincolnman
Latest "theory" on the QAnon boards is since JD was indoctrinated at Yale, and said Trump was similar to that guy with the small mustache, that he is a Deep State/Dem/Globalist plant...that will find a way to sideline Trump and then install pizza parlors in every state capitol - and you know what those places do...
QAnon thinks Trump should have picked JFK Jr who is obviously alive and blogging from a basement in DC...
So do our MAGA-friends here share the same view as their MAGA/QAnon brothers and sisters?
Moonraker
Trump's capon. Hope he likes being thrown to the baying mob.
bass4funk
Absolutely
You are confusing them, those are the evangelicals
If the left and people like Adam Schiff and the Squad can contain themselves, probably.
Underworld
bass4funk
OK, then why is JD Vance saying:
We're done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street. We'll commit to the working man
Is Wall Street a good thing or a bad thing?
dagon
Yes it seems Vance's business guru loves using tactics derived from Marx's critiques of capitalism to game the competition and amass wealth through crony capitalism.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/10/17/peter-thiel-believe-it-or-not-is-a-marxist/
MAGA is funny innit?
but the consequences for working Americans, and small business will be nothing to laugh about.
Geeter Mckluskie
Names like Ramaswamy who brought the RNC to its feet in elation?
Maybe try another card...THAT one has been TRUMPED!
Moonraker
And policed each other to make sure they did.
wallace
At the time, Trump said God sent VP Pence.
TaiwanIsNotChina
So how did foreign wars destroy this gentleman's childhood?
Jimizo
Typical of Trump to shift responsibility onto someone else.
wallace
40 previous Trump cabinet members don't support him for president.
Geeter Mckluskie
Steele Dosier..Fake intel to overthrow an elected President
Weaponization of the DOJ, FBI and CIA...to overthrow an elected President
Ignoring a reported threat and allowing the best vantage spot to remain open...while trained SS stared at a guy from a vantage point where they could clearly see that threat who was able to get off 8 rounds...killing a father of two
lincolnman
So JD's wife, who he praised in his speech, is not Christian but Hindu....
"I did grow up in a religious household. My parents are Hindu. That is one of the reasons why they made such good parents. That made them very good people. And I think I have seen the power of that in my own life."
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/ohio-senator-jd-vance-thanks-hindu-wife-usha-chilukuri-help-him-find-christian-faith-vp-trump-fox-news-2559197-2024-06-27
Hindus believe not in Jesus and a Christian God, but in the God Brahma, who created all things...
So MAGA-faithful, do you support a non-believer as the VP's wife and the Hindu Ten Commandments hanging next to the Christian ones in all our schools?
bass4funk
And many more estimates are at least that Trump could get around 20% of the Black vote. That is huge.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/why-are-black-voters-backing-donald-trump-in-record-numbers
Which he has been.
And?
bass4funk
Now how on earth would you know this? Oh, yeah, you don't.
Ok, so how? You talked to him or asked him? You read his mind, you can perceive human emotion just by looking at the TV?
Tucker changed and he said that as well.
Why? Dunno, you guys love sausage, but you don't want to show people the entire process of making it.
bass4funk
Yeah, speaking of humiliation....
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schiff-calls-on-biden-to-drop-out-citing-serious-concerns-he-cant-win/ar-BB1qa5Eq
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/election
Blacklabel
Great speaker and great speech. Highly relatable to normal Americans with a great underdog story. wife is elegant and eloquent and educated.
Underworld
bass4funk
40 previous Trump cabinet members don't support him for president.
They don't, but like JD Vance they sell themselves out for power.
And before you ask me how I know, yes, I can see it. If you can't, then that's you.
Underworld
Blacklabel
Great underdog story? Bought and sold by Peter Thiel more like.