If he actually believes this, then he’s just stupid.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6197976-vance-midterms-iran-war-trump/

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[–] 86 points 1 week ago (5 children)
  • [–] 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Waiting for a confession of "I was for it before I was against it" for 2028.

    Vance is politically screwed. He hitched his wagon to Trump's rising star and now he's stuck in the middle of a river with dysentry and a broken wheel.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    No he's not. They have the memory of a goldfish. All he has to do is sit back, let fockz nooz blame Dems for everything over the next 2 years and he'll coast through the primaries

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Yup. The base are utterly clueless and the "independents" are often just as clueless.

    I bet anything they don't know about his Thiel/Curtis Yarvin connections. Or how he endorsed the book The Unhumans, FFS.

    And I bet few have read The Nerd Reich or have read - or at least read about - The Sovereign Individual...

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  • [–] 32 points 1 week ago

    A reason you lost the election is the war

    FTFY

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    "Breaks silence"??? when did he ever shut the hell up?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Just trying to distance himself from the most unpopular part of the current admin so his presidential campaign isn't a total joke.

    Spoiler: it will be a total joke.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    So when does Trump flee to Tel Aviv and leave this bumbling couch-fucker in charge? God, that would be hilarious.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Its hard for people to believe that its literally everything about themselves that is the problem.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    They are all throwing Kegsbreath under the bus. There's room for Stephen Miller too!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Lol. This dumb motherfucker thinks he can distance himself from it, doesn't he?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    Actually, it can be, and is, many bad things, including the war!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    "It was just one of our bad decisions, not the collection of them"

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The reason you lost is Trump. And the GOP being a bunch of Nazis.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago*

    Clearly that wasn't a problem for most voters when they reelected him. Vance is a douche but he's right, gas prices were probably the biggest reason even Republican voters voted for Democrats this time around.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    For me it's the 16 million scheduled to die in the next decade from having cut USAID. And a ton of other reasons, but that one stands out

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    The war vs Latinos. Yes.

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  • Hey! He's not just stupid.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    The reason is the war we lost.

    ftfy

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago

    No...the reason you lost is because you're literally a dick head on ever...single...issue that the working people care about.

    It's as though MAGA and Trump loyalists make a fucking spreadsheet, cross reference it with current events and the opinion of the working class, and then mathematically determine the exact opposite and most infuriating take on it, and then disseminate that out to their social media influencer army.

    Get fucked, Vance.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Oh! And the everything else Republicans "stand" for... Don't forget that!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    And Trump you dumb fuck

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Bush in 2000 talked about being careful about getting involved in foreign wars and nation building exercises, while his opponent ran as more interventionist. Then he invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.

    As the war in Afghanistan dragged on and people got frustrated with the political establishment, Trump distanced himself from that and presented himself as staying out of such conflicts, while his opponents ran as interventionists. Then he attack Iran.

    As gas prices soared and the Iran War dragged on, accomplishing nothing, Vance is now distancing himself from it and presenting himself as someone who would stay out of such conflicts.

    Will Americans finally grasp basic pattern recognition and realize that Republicans are a bunch of warmongering psychos no matter what they say? Guess we'll find out.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Well, how can you be dumb enough to go to war with Iran.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago
    5 comments in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] [S] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    It is kind of a big deal that Vance said this publicly and on purpose. Donald can't be happy.

    It's not going to amount to anything, because remember, both parties voted to fund the war... but it's culturally at least kind of a big deal. And that funding came through AFTER we found out the DoW was spending millions a month on steak and lobster.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    He was recently snubbed by Trump who refused to endorse him again, despite years of selling his soul to curry favour with the man. There's not much love lost between them, it's a purely transactional relationship

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  • Well, yes, but there are a fuckload of other reasons too

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    He added that the war will end “whenever I want it to, but it’s gotta be done right.”

    pitiful dickhead

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