the fake hillbilly motherfucker is gonna be one burger down the wrong pipe away from the presidency
we live in the bad timeline but at least it's funny
the fake hillbilly motherfucker is gonna be one burger down the wrong pipe away from the presidency
we live in the bad timeline but at least it's funny
As president he's gonna have to wear suspenders and snap them anytime he wants to make a point
Fucking lmao Peter Thiel is one fish delite-related asphyxiation away from the presidency.
I think the Trillbillies are going to SH themselves
Next episode is going to be a banger
Tarence has already muted his DMs apparently. lol
Yikes lol
Negative charisma. Hillbilly Elegy aged like shit (and it already was shit).
My sister went to see jd Vance speak at her college and there was going to be a meet and greet thing after the speech with cookies and juice. She ended up having to leave early and when she went to get a cookie she accidentally knocked the whole catering-sized box all over the floor. She tried to help the staff clean them up, but when she tried to throw them away they were like, "what are you doing? Those are still good?" and PUT THE FLOOR COOKIES BACK ON THE TABLE TO BE SERVED!
So I know for a fact that JD Vance has eaten floor cookies.
I've also eaten floor cookies, tbf.
Same. I've eaten a lot of things off the floor.
Most commonly it's floor chips
I mean look, it depends on how clean the floor is
Your sister is Larry David
I'm surprised by this pick because I think Trump will get annoyed - perhaps very quickly - if Vance gets even a little too much attention. I'm not saying Vance is super charismatic or anything. But Pence was a smart pick for Trump because he was as interesting as a pile of wet paper towels.
I hate Peter Thiel so much
the message of his famous memoir was literally "the working class appalachians i grew up with are loser rednecks who will never amount to anything because they're worthless lazy fucks who blame all their problems on the system." not exaggerating, this is how he talks about his people:

No wonder Peter Thiel has been jerking him off.
The best thing Hillbilly Elegy did for me was get me into Trillbilly while looking for good critiques afterwards
"A naked druggie"
What Ed, do you bathe with your clothes on?
I can see the electoral rationale for this if you consider Vance as a way to try and plug some holes in Trump's public image for the campaign.
His USMC service means Trump can use him to distract from the 'suckers and losers' or lack of support from veterans attack line. Vance's whole hillbilly elegy working class hope shtick (yeah it's bullshit) counters Trump's NYC spoiled billionaire reality. The fact that Vance used to talk mad shit about Trump doesn't just mean that Trump can use him bending the knee as a sign of strength, but Vance can distance himself from those comments, especially after the shooting, and play into the whole unity and calmer rhetoric thing.
Plus I imagine it comes with an absolutely blank cheque from Peter Thiel and a lot more of silicon valley.
JD Vance sounds like a shady car dealership.
He sounds like he's about to sell me a refrigerator
I know
is the more direct Republican counterpart of

but Vance gives off a very similar "grown in a vat and programmed to acquise to the highest bidder/biggest evil by adopting any affect or positions his ~~owners~~ ~~handlers~~ backers want him to" kind of vibes
It's not even vibes, lol, he's explicitly owned by Peter Thiel.
So independent. Such outsider.
Better than Flynn imo
Peter Thiel is VP. Musk in shambles
blood boy two handshakes away from the presidency 
Well, at least it was not some freaky, absolutely-unhinged, Neocon, nuclear warmonger (like Nikki Haley, John Bolton, or even Mike Pence).
However, Vance does seem to be quite anti-China. His selection likely represents a growing split within the US ruling class. One faction wants to "destroy Russia first, then attack China" (i.e. the pro-Biden faction). The other faction wants to "attack China now, then destroy Russia" (i.e. the pro-Trump faction). Both factions seek the same goal: US global domination.
Of course, both of these ruling class factions are arrogant, delusional morons. They could not successfully occupy Iraq and Afghanistan without bankrupting the US federal government. They definitely will not be able to defeat China and Russia.
There's two kinds of Terminators
Blue Terminators and Red Terminators
Is this not going to alienates to his rural working class chud base? Do they not know who JD Vance is? Like is he not broadly known outside of his preferred fanbase and the communists who hate him?
They won't care, but will blame him for Trumps failures
I already do. Fucking JP MorgVance!
Trillbillies Ep. 1 throwback.
I wasn't sure about Trump before, but with this JD VANCE pick he secured my vote. In fact I will vote for him 5 times. Suck it loony liberals!
Why does the absolutely shittiest thing keep happening?
Oh boy, Thiel acolytes.
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