Posted on 06/23/2024 7:20:33 AM PDT by jacknhoo
A couple of quick hot points from the 2024 presidential race and Trump side of the equation.
♦ First, we can ignore all of the typical pre-debate banter about who is doing what in the lead-up to the Trump v Biden debate. Every cycle the debate narratives are pushed for clicks and attention; almost all of it is manufactured nonsense and false.
Actual, professional, presidential debate teams do not leak information about their debate prep activity to the media. The only information released is from campaign players who want the other side to see, hear and waste time preparing for imaginary nonsense. All of the pre-debate stuff, banter, punditry and column inches are one big mind game of misinformation. Ignore all of it.
♦ Second, the DC system that created Mike Pence as the best option for Trump 2016 is the same system pushing Vance, Rubio and Burgum for 2024. [Example HERE] The intent with Pence 2016 is the same intent with Vance, Rubio and Burgum ’24. I’m cautiously optimistic President Trump is well aware of this.
Seriously, how many times have you heard me repeat the warning: NEVER TRUST A NEVER-TRUMPER. Yet, time and time again people get wooed back, deny their instincts, dismiss the intellectual reality and drop their guard. Every single time the Trump supporters get burned.
This is not complicated folks. The Never-Trumpers do not change position, have an awakening, trip over some “come to Jesus” moment, engage in self-reflection, or otherwise evolve to stop thinking that Donald Trump is the end of their world. Never-Trumpers espoused that opinion, because Never-Trumpers saw value in holding that opinion. It is simple and should be accepted.
Those who claimed Trump was/is horrible, terrible, egotistical, evil and all the other adjectives to describe their sentiments, do not suddenly have a change in perspective. What changes them are changes in the instructions they are given. They begin praising Trump because there is new value in stating that opinion. NEVER, EVER Trust a never-Trumper. The stakes are too high.
♦ Third, apparently the secret service is increasing the security detail around President Trump.
Kelly O’Donnell: “Secret Service is ready to add new protectee detail for Trump running mate. USSS is also increasing size of Trump detail beyond level for formers. Official said, “The Secret Service detail has been bulked up by additional special agents and support teams to ensure the highest level of security for not only the event sites but the travel in between events.” (source)
Generally speaking, the current DC system operators, that are referred to as the ‘Biden administration’, have no motivation to protect Donald Trump other than their sense of personal responsibility to the nation President Trump represents.
Given the effort that Tucker Carlson has put into mainstreaming thoughts around the ‘killing of Trump‘, I am cautious to view any Secret Service effort through the prism of professional altruism.
I pray for the safety of President Trump and his family daily, because I am very clear-eyed about the nature of the enemy he faces.
Sarah Sanders, please
Here’s my plan! Trump should pick Hillary. Sure to get the election through Congress. Then after being sworn into office, Trump can let the Congress impeach Hillary or the DOJ pick a special, very special counsel…… lock her up!
I just wrote about him. I went into his life...Pretty awesome record.
I’m hoping he picks someone who helps him win. At the moment, I don’t really care about raising someone’s profile for 2028, or anything else. Just winning now. I was looking at Tim Scott’s Wikipedia page, and did a little digging into his previous elections. Seems pretty popular in South Carolina. Consistently runs about 6 points better than Lindsey Graham.
Another odd thing about Scott. The Democrats have faced him 3 times, and all 3 times have run an African-American against him, whom he defeated easily. I think Scott would be a plus on the ticket. He would help in Georgia, North Carolina, plus Philly, Detroit, and Milwaukee.
I’d be ok with Rubio. Him being able to speak Spanish has to help in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Yes, lots of Spanish speakers here in PA. I’d be ok with Vance. Might help with younger people, and possibly voters in western PA.
Not sure what Burgum brings to the table. He’s probably really capable, but virtually no one knows who he is. I’m not sure how he helps us win.
I was wondering, after reading about his SS being beefed up: How do we know the Deep State isn't interjecting their spies into his security detail?
Yeah, I'm that cynical (and so should be Trump!)
Nope I was “hyped” by listening to Vivek ‘s consistent statements and declarations.
What’s hyped you?
Good by me, I’m well stocked with popcorn for thee FR meltdown.
If it’s true that Don Jr. is pushing for Vance that would carry a lot of weight. You can be sure Trump is thinking 4 and 8 years out.
Get a far-reaching vision for America.
Probably the most important thing Trump can do to extend MAGA beyond himself and his time is choosing the right VP who almost certainly will be the frontrunner for President in 2028.
“Thig is, he truly does like the people and it shows. That is a power he has that others lack.”
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Profoundly true. And he speaks in terms that people understand instead of hiding behind disingenuous rhetoric, dissembling and verbal smoke screens. He speaks directly and without equivocation. That alone makes him widely trusted. He’s not your typical lying and self-serving DC politician.
the right VP
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A fighter with convictions who won’t back down. That rules out most of the people in the GOP.
That's why I hope and pray Trump will choose Vivek.
I like everything Vivek has to say and I love how he says it. He WAS also a WEF young global leader. Dont know if I will ever be able to believe he is not a Manchurian scumbag.
Skmeone who isn’t a career politician would be interesting. Ben Carson, Vivek. People who haven’t been grown in Washington, Bergum. There is however, a good case for most od those who have been presented. I would still suggest the January 7th test.
There are two qualification one needs to be the successor to Trump:
1.) Must be MAGA
2.) Must be willing to risk jail time and even death.
So basically an anchor baby is legally a NBC and I don’t agree with that.
If either are pushing him, it's to get him out of the Senate.
Is Burgum anti-deep state? He’s got a Pence type RINO look about him.
Vivek in not an “anchor baby”. An anchor baby has parents who are not legally in the U.S.
Yeah, consistent since 2023.
Most Freepers were neither literally nor figuratively born yesterday, but some apparently were.
Yeah I already forgot he was backed by the WEF early on. Also he had Soros money backing him which ties in with the WEF. He’s never really addressed that and that’s the elephant in the room.
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