• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Why not? We all know Vance is pretending for the position. If he sees a real shot, he might take it.

    Nobody likes Trump as a person. They’re all just grifting.

    The trick is getting enough to turn at once, and getting them all to know that there’s enough. A dumb one might rat it out because of greed, but they should know that doesn’t work. If they’re in that position, there’s no further loyalty rewards. The best they can hope for is avoiding retribution, and that’s not even guaranteed.

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      13 hours ago

      The reason he picked Vance is because he knew there was no resistance there, he learned from Pence.

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        12 hours ago

        But he’s an idiot, and if Vance sees a legit opening he might jump at it.

        “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” he wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.

        In another 2016 interview about his book, Vance told a reporter that, although his background would have made him a natural Trump supporter, “the reason, ultimately, that I am not … is because I think that (Trump) is the most-raw expression of a massive finger pointed at other people.”