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'Trump is desperate': Ex-GOP aide thinks a Vance-RFK swap is a real possibility (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 2 months ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 236 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So.... they swap out the couchfucking weirdo for the brain-worm weirdo.

this is gonna go so well!

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Slurp that fetid whale juice!

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 165 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Trump dies on the second day in office, then the newly minted President Kennedy butchers a bald eagle on the Oval Office desk, cooks it in an air fryer perched on the railing of the window, then tosses it in buffalo sauce and eats it before blowing the brain worms to kingdom come with an original flintlock from the time of Thomas Jefferson that was sitting on one of the shelves.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not even sure I oppose this timeline

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 38 points 2 months ago

I would watch that pay per view.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm fine with this. Honestly. Beats having President Trump again, and you know it does.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 120 points 2 months ago (2 children)

RFK vs Walz would be a truly insane debate.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"how many roadkill raccoons have YOU fit into a roadkill deer? Huh, Mr Waltz?!?"

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[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

This made me laugh out loud

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Oh please do.

I will fucking bet you he does it and the numbers drop after it happens. In fact I have this bet already, but I'll make it again.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you think he’d swap back, or find some new guy?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

after some dumb shit? Bruh idk. This election season so fucking off the rails.

But I owe some one twenty bucks if the following doesn't happen:

Trump swaps out Vance as VP and the resulting polling is lower.

If that does happen, I will much more than 20 bucks.

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[–] Brown5500@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Wasn't Vance officially chosen by the delegates at the RNC? Can Trump actually pick someone else now? What would the party have to do to change their nomination after the convention-hold an emergency meeting and revote?

[–] Countess425@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

At this point there's no way to do it legally. Ballots are already being printed. But legality's not an issue for Trump and his personal fan club.

I think Vance could step down, then Trump would have no running mate, I think? And a VP would be appointed by Congress if he wins? Idk.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Technically,

The president and vice president are chosen by the electoral college in separate votes.

Though, for some time, it's always been the winning candidate's selected running mate... there is no requirement there. The electors could pick Mittens the back flipping poodle for VP if they wanted.

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Trump can do pretty much anything he wants. No one in the GOP has any power to stop him and the moon that supports him.

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[–] finley@lemm.ee 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s all winners in that party, I tell ya, lol

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They are truly sending their best.

ironically, RFK Jr has never had an elected office. So he's every ounce as incompetent as Trump. Not that Vance is any more competent.

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The couch fucking weirdo is tanking the numbers! Quick! Go find the guy with the brain worm!

[–] frezik@midwest.social 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does the GOP have problems finding normal people to run?

Yeah, I guess they would.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags. - Bojack Horseman

Or, more accurately: When you surround yourself with weirdos, all the weirdos start to look normal.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 56 points 2 months ago

THE WEIRDO EXCHANGE PROGRAM

ACT NOW

😭😭😭

[–] Zink@programming.dev 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can’t switch candidates like that! That’s a coup!

At least it is according to this weird douchebag who told me he was totally trustworthy

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

This timeline is wild.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That’s my bet as of this last weekend, tbh.

Trump’s kinda obviously having serious buyers remorse over Vance and how he’s basically fucking kryptonite to the vast majority of women. And I’m sure he thinks including the Kennedy name on his ticket will give him a big boost. And now that he’s pulling both RFK and Tulsi closer in to the campaign, I’m really thinking it’s only a matter of time.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dementia Don and Brain Worm Bob. Name a more iconic duo.

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Ra. The Kennedy name. No one has given a shit about the Kennedys in so long. Hell, I forgot they existed until that group of smooth-brained dipshits started wearing red hats and quoting The Enquirer and Weekly World News stories as gospel and insisting the one that sadly died in plane crash 25 years ago was raising from the dead.

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[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

You know Donald would cream himself if he could make signs that said Trump and Kennedy.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

You cAnT jUsT CHanGe CanDiDAtes

No one knows anything about RFK

Who voted for him

Etc etc

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Griffin hails from the centrist wing of the GOP. Every day, she said, Trump gives people like her "more and more permission to not vote for Republicans" as he surrounds himself with people like RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and J.D. Vance, who on the fundamentals, "we just don't agree on, whether it's support for Ukraine, not having tariffs on imports, wanting to pass border security deals."

"So I think he's really doubling down to what is a minority within a minority of the GOP," Griffin added.

I really hope this is true.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any true "centrist" GOP person would have stayed away from Trump 8 years ago.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (11 children)

In America people who identify themselves as "centrist" usually have no strong opinions on anything. They might also be what we might call a traditional republican suddenly realizing they're surrounded by fascists.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Couchfucker or chainsaw-whale-head guy . . . .

Spoilt for choice

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have there ever been weirder candidates? Fucking a couch is the least weird thing compared to chainsawing a whale's head or abandoning a dead bear cub in Central Park, and the former is the only one of those probably not true (although Vance hasn't denied it).

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump choosing his VP:

Give me the hillbilly.

I said the real hillbilly.

Perfection.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

JD, you’re fired!

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a COUP and ILLEGAL for DEMOCRATS to Swap their Candidate before they even have one but it's TOTALLY FAIR AND LEGAL for REPUBLICANS to do that AFTER they've been Decided Voted on and Confirmed!

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Honestly thought he was going to pick himself as running mate. It's the only person he'd never blame for losing.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

[JD is replaced with Kennedy jr and they meet]

"And how long have you been the VP candidate?"

"It's actually started a while ago when I was walking down the-"

"Okay good." [Turns to rotting bear corpse]

"And how long have you been here?"

[Bear corpse silence]

[Kennedy collapses, a large green caterpillar emerges from his nose]

[JD, to worm] "And how long have you been here?

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[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 26 points 2 months ago

No better way to signal stability and confidence than shuffling your deck so close to the big game.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So swap out the couch fucker for the brain worms guy? LOLOLOL.

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[–] exanime@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (4 children)

so the GOP wants to switch creepy couch-fucker with creepy brain-worm bear carcass dumper... and that is an improvement?!

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Don't forget decapitating a dead whale

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

vance presidency would have made this guys career ten years ago. instance snl multiappearances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Labine

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[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

Make them fight over it, arm RFK with a sofa piece and arm Vance with a piece of some dead animal

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