Posted on 06/10/2024 12:10:04 PM PDT by richardtavor
This is yet another aspect of the 2024 race where the normal rules don’t quite apply. Candidates typically want a potential vice president who can “balance” the ticket demographically, ideologically, or geographically. Even Trump succumbed to this thinking in 2016: Mike Pence got the gig because he was a boring, midwestern, ultraconservative Christian with some governing experience — basically the opposite of the erratic, boorish New York TV personality. But this concession to the RNC ultimately backfired (in Trump’s mind) because Pence wouldn’t participate in his January 6 coup attempt.
Now that Trump’s GOP takeover is complete, he’s free to pick anyone he wants. His allies have reportedly urged him to pick a woman or a Black man as his running mate, but it seems most of the finalists are men. He’ll probably put a lot of stock in personal loyalty and who has “the look” (he’s known to base hiring decisions on whether candidates are “out of central casting”). This is creepy and inappropriate, but it’s something you have to consider when trying to predict Trump’s VP pick.
Trump said he will announce his VP choice at the Republican National Convention, which begins on July 15 in Milwaukee. He revealed Pence was his pick just days before the 2016 convention.
Here’s a list (which we’ll keep updated) of who is believed to be on Trump’s shortlist for vice president, and the pros and cons of each possibility, loosely arranged from the candidates with the best odds to the worst.
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SHE IS A HUNDU! She has godS not God.
Haven’t we diluted the Christian foundation of America enough? Is this what it’s come to?
THANK YOU!
“”He needs a wrecking ball like Vivek Ramaswamy””
He would get my vote...I think he is the smartest person on the list - in the room..
Could you technically retain the department, but 100% un-fund it?
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The Repukes will never un-fund anything. They keep signing off on everything the Dems want, which of course are things that always work to the Dems advantage. The bigger government gets the more power the Dems have. Strange that the Repukes cannot see that simple truth.
ICTHEMATRIX – […] “Related to the topic of discerning alignment via a question, I would like to sincerely ask you your thoughts on a very real possibility:
What are we to make of President Trump’s possible choice of Marco Rubio as his VP?
In many columns and pages, you have chronicled the multiple failure points of Senator Rubio…his service within the corrupted Intelligence committee, and his non-MAGA compromises. I fear this could become another massive moment of fatally poor judgement.”
The direct issue of the vice presidential pick of Donald Trump is a fun topic often discussed, because it can easily engage everyone. The issue of Rubio, or ‘fill_in_the_blank‘, is not really that important to me; and before your jaw opens, I’ll explain why.
My personal preference is Dr. Ben Carson, for all the reasons I have previously mentioned {GO DEEP}.
In this election, GOOD is going head-to-head against EVIL.
When I say GOOD -vs- EVIL, let me give context.
These are the stakes. Given the nature of potential nuclear weapon use, three simultaneous global conflicts (likely 4 with Taiwan), a looming World War III, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of slaughtered people, the likely elimination of the dollar as the global reserve currency for around half the world, a dollar-based central bank digital currency created by the United States Treasury if Biden wins, the catastrophic consequences in the lives of ordinary Americans, and essentially the end of projected USA power and the economic security that goes with it, there may not be a familiar tomorrow if the election goes the wrong way. With that in mind, the lowest possible consideration in my mind is 2028.
Next up, put this thinking cream into your coffee as we sip through the thought processes.
They crossed the Rubicon in 2020 with 51 high ranking Gov Intel members purposefully and specifically lying to the public. Does everyone realize the scale of that, and what it meant when they took that position on such an openly visible lie right to our faces, using our highest-ranking government intelligence members?
They don’t exactly come back from that; it was an all-in position…. and they did it. What does that stuff in 2020 tell you about 2024?
What they will do, based on what they have already done, is the stuff we should be thinking about.
Look at what they have done.
This doesn’t even touch on the forced vaccination and COVID madness where people literally stood outside of buildings while their husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, grandparents and children died alone, ALONE, because government people – the type who torture beagles for a living – said that isolation was what we needed to do…. because that was part of the predicate for manipulating an election.
Lawfare? Heck, that’s the least dangerous poison arrow in their death to the republic quiver.
That’s the 2024 context.
So back to the VP possibility and Marco Rubio.
I don’t have any idea who President Donald Trump will select. However, I can see him liking Senator Rubio, because Rubio is articulate, clean, relatively young, bilingual, has a family, is polite and well mannered, is cultured, is seemingly not in trouble, and he gives a good impression when he walks into the room and engages the guests. Rubio outwardly checks boxes that make him appear like a safe legacy consideration.
The downside is that Rubio is a manipulative liar, untrustworthy, speaks with forked tongue, fulfills the role of Brutus, or the “scorpion” perfectly, and seemingly has done stuff early on in his life that may have created the origination compromise. Beyond all that, the cherry on the corruption cake is his relationship with the Intelligence Community. Any SSCI Vice-Chair who can sit with SSCI Chairman Mark Warner as a “friend across the aisle,” can never, not for a single moment, be trusted. It’s just the reality of it.
That said, I genuinely don’t care who Trump selects as vice president. I have my preference (Carson), but I’m situationally ambivalent to the issue, because I view my preference for Trump’s mission as something totally different than most.
WE THE PEOPLE need to take back the power from our government. I want President Trump to operate every lever from the limited office of the presidency to give us the tools to take back that power. WE need to be the vice president, and WE need to be the force in 2028 that determines how the deconstruction of our oppression continues.
President Donald J. Trump is our weapon, our wrecking ball to start this MAGA process. We the People are the entities who need to support Trump, while keeping him fueled and fearless as he does it. Depending on how much deconstruction demolition Trump is able to achieve, the next phase of operational leadership will need a different skillset.
Last point – I don’t believe that President Donald Trump has “massively failed” at anything. I’m not going to backbite, judge or criticize the man in the arena, because he wears a different sandal or chooses a different weapon to fight the enemy. Look around, he’s all alone.
Go back to what I wrote in July, 2015, about Donald Trump. “Why I Support Donald Trump“… Long before anyone thought he had a chance, I explained the reason I would support him in 2015. [Part 2]
I said in 2015, if Donald Trump showed up to the August Fox debate in five-inch heels, a Carmen Miranda hat and started twerking the podium of Jeb Bush, I would vote for him even harder. …. Because Trump was the only one different than the set of characters organized to help Jeb.
President Trump isn’t the cause of the GOP problems; President Trump is the result of the GOP problems. President Trump is our weapon. From that perspective, there is no alternative. And yes, he is the ONLY alternative. Whether he makes mistakes or not is a moot point against the reality of him being the only alternative to a completely corrupt system. Think about it.
There are quite enough high-horse riders and keyboard warriors who do not understand the DC system criticizing Trump. They don’t need my help. I cheer our glorious bastard every day, because every ounce of his thinking and effort comes from a place of good intention. I do not doubt this fallible, flawed and simultaneously decent, strong, purposeful and resilient man.
Beyond 2024, Good is going to have to battle Evil, and at the same time our nation will need stability, optimism and a resurgence of faith. In short, no one is winning this political war without putting God, righteousness and prayer at the forefront, as the DC tables are overturned.
When it gets ugly, and it will get extremely ugly, something just inherently tells me, we will need Ben Carson.
In theory yes, but that just means it can re-appear with the next budget. Take Department of Education as an example. From Wikipedia so take these numbers with a grain of salt (Not likely too far wrong!)
Employees 3,912 (2018)
Annual budget $68 billion (2016)
Let’s say it has four thousand people, that’s not a lot of federal pay roll. Let’s say it has $70 billion to distribute. Its damage is done by using that money to pay for “education research” that produces nonsense programs done by education colleges at high-toned universities like the Ivies. (”Education research” like what got Dr Jill Biden her EdD.) They then take the vast majority of that money to bribe state & local school systems to adopt those programs and pay for teachers. Their money often allows states to expand “education programs” they can’t afford and likely shouldn’t do. I wouldn’t be surprised to discover they also pay for a lot of education management overhead at the state & county level. Remember the primary purpose of education money state local or federal is to keep “educrats” - administrators (”management”) & teachers (union members) employed. If an act of education from all of that occurs it’s an afterthought.
Why take damaged goods when Vance is available?
If he picks a Senator the Repukes would throw the seat to weaken him.
JD is an enigma to me. Talks a game, true. Big stands? Stick his neck out? Nothing really comes to mind.
My impression of JD is that he rode to PDJT’s side pretty late in the game when it was safe [or at least the payoff was worth the risk] to do so. Could be wrong, just don’t know much about him [other than his pronouncements, which is what we get from all of the RINO’s and is worthless to me].
Trump needs to begin the process of choosing who the VP will be.
And my guess is it will be female. Thus we have the dems/pubs
with both have a female vp on the ticket.
If after the election and either is sworn in at some point during
their term history can be made as a female takes the office of
President, USA if either of the males become incapable. Ain’t
life grand.
Below is a composite photo of who the new VP will be.
Hopefully MAGA but who knows.
Trump/Vance. Vance is young and sharp.
There is only one crisis.
$36T in debt.
An inability to forge consensus and get things done is a GOOD THING. Governance should be ended. Governance got $36T.
The goal is to NOT GET THINGS DONE. That’s why you want non Swamp people.
Could she negotiate a trade deal with Europe. What would she want out-of auch a deal? Not enough is known of her.
The pit bull would be Elise Stefanik. Iron jaws and been in congress for years. She’s well aware of who the swamp creatures are and has sharp teeth.
Ben Carson is a nice, soft spoken guy… sorta like your grandpa.
Rand Paul?
AMEN!!
Rubio is NOT a PIT BULL!!!
It turns out this is a lefty organization. Some of the inaccuracies and digs are pathetic, I.e. use of the term ,”weird” and “RIGHT WING!” vs “conservative.”
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