US Politics Thread

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Similar trajectory to Liz Truss. A lib dem in student politics and addressed their conference.

Moves to tory camp to increase chances of election and a career.

Then losses mind and goes fiscally rogue. An absolute disaster which has clearly traumatised her. She is dead behind the eyes.

I see Vance on a similar journey. He has that disconnected look about him.

By all accounts Vance is intellectually gifted; Truss not so much.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Interesting comparison. Truss has been off the deep end for a long time though.

Vance’s book came out in 2016 and he was vehemently anti-Trump until very recently.

His slide has been a lot more rapid than Truss’s

It's something about the mannerism. It's like they have a brain injury. Something is dead inside. They both have it. Lindsey Graham another one who at times has that look. It's like they've just been involved in a car crash.

 

[KS55]

Interesting comparison. Truss has been off the deep end for a long time though.

Vance’s book came out in 2016 and he was vehemently anti-Trump until very recently.

His slide has been a lot more rapid than Truss’s

And he must be quite clever to reach Yale but she is dumb, though she reached Oxford.

 

[SebastianBlue]

It's something about the mannerism. It's like they have a brain injury. Something is dead inside. They both have it. Lindsey Graham another one who at times has that look. It's like they've just been involved in a car crash.

I would suggest that, in the case of Vance and Graham, that it is a look (and behaviour) of someone that has a sword hanging above their head, with the person holding it forcing them to act increasingly irrationally and disingenuously to avoid seeing it swinging through the middle of their skull.

 

[KS55]

I would suggest that, in the case of Vance and Graham, that it is a look (and behaviour) of someone that has a sword hanging above their head, with the person holding it forcing them to act increasingly irrationally and disingenuously to avoid seeing it swinging through the middle of their skull.

The haunted cult member look.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Vance has apparently decided to campaign for Kamala.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Vance has apparently decided to campaign for Kamala.

Hahaha

 

[Vienna_70]

There were a lot of people who were fairly reasonable before MAGA (and more widely social media) came along.

We've come a long way from this:

John McCain was a really great person, whose political views represented what the Republican Party was and should be now.

And where did those people calling Obama get their opinion of him from?

A certain racist, orange idiot, who questioned whether he was born in the USA.

 

[Vienna_70]

What a sobering clip this is; a throwback to a time in American politics when, for the most part, discourse between the two main parties wasn't polluted by fear, mistrust and undisguised hatred. Also, it serves as a reminder of what a courageous man McCain was, often in the face of vicious attacks not only from Republican supporters but those within his own party.

And his daughter is proof that the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

When the shitgibbon dies, will the MAGA movement die, recede or flourish?