This isn’t surprising, but it sure is repulsive: (Bloomberg)
Trump Auditions VP Picks Before Wealthy Donors in Palm Beach
Vance, Rubio, Burgum and Scott among leading contenders
Trump says he will likely announce running mate in JulyDonald Trump is sharpening his focus on a possible running mate by taking a page from his days hosting reality show “The Apprentice” and parading the top contenders for the slot in front of rich benefactors this weekend.
Grotesquely attired, preternaturally smooth-faced GOP fat cats presiding over a Hunger Games-style winnowing process for potential Trump second bananas is painfully on brand. It’s a fitting successor to the fabled smoke-filled rooms — Boss Trump’s Palm Beach star chamber of aggressively rejuvenated billionaire scum.
This is not a healthy party. But we knew that.
Open thread!
Baud
No women? What a surprise!
Scout211
I assumed that Governor she-who-shall-not-be-named was still in the running when you mentioned Botox. LOL.
But the fact that she was not there with Trump and the big donors is interesting.
I still have my money (Monopoly money, that is) on J.D. Vance.
Quaker in a Basement
I hope he makes them perform stunts for the audience.
Quaker in a Basement
@Scout211: But does Vance look like he’s from “central casting”?
Betty Cracker
@Baud: From what I’ve read, Kari Lake is too cringe even for Trump. Noem’s prospects are deceased in a gravel pit. Katie Britt went and Jindalled herself. Who else is there? Stefanik? Not “central casting” enough. 🤔
oldster
I hope they had to do all of the events in the pageant — the talent show, the swimsuit walk, the part where they share their hopes and dreams.
TFG is making sure that the eventual VP will be pre-humiliated and pre-neutered.
I agree that Vance has the inside track. Unless TFG gets a whiff of the fact that JDV thinks he is smarter than him — that will be fatal.
Trollhattan
@Quaker in a Basement:
“Central Moscow” hey-ohh!
Ohio Mom
@Quaker in a Basement: When was the last time we had a president or vice president with a beard? Lincoln and Grant? I’m off to Google.
ETA: Harrison, left office in 1893.
Scout211
They already are out in the media stroking Trump’s ego and rewriting history to Trump’s benefit. Just like a gaggle of trained seals, barking for Trump to feed them.
Okay, that image just made me throw up in my mouth a little. Sorry, not sorry.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I’m glad. The media gets really excited when they consider the possibility of Republicans being diverse. I hope we can avoid that at least.
Percysowner
Can we expect that the winner will talk about Trump’s “beautiful blue eyes”?
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I for one am glad that Avivek Kringaswamy is not one of the contenders. I would have pretended to be from Pakistan or Bangladesh were he selected.
Mr. Bemused Senior
I have no problem with your imagery. The more they humiliate themselves the happier I’ll be.
Baud
Via reddit. Be forewarned not to believe everything you see.
Scout211
Hmmm, not as “pretty” as the star (in Trump’s mind), can grow a beard, can mimic a lawyer-turned-financial advisor, has family with roots in the rust belt but has plenty of money and a big donor behind the scenes. Yep, perfect second banana! Will never upstage the star.
H-Bob
@Ohio Mom: There may have been a few gay ones with a “spouse”!
“aggressively rejuvenated billionaire scum” … do they include the Aussie to whom Trump told military secrets ?
Josie
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t know anything about Burgum, so I guess that makes him the least repulsive. What a line-up!
Betty Cracker
@Baud: We won’t escape that if Trump picks Scott, and I don’t think that’s outside the realm of possibility. It would be a sop to disgruntled forced birthers.
schrodingers_cat
@Josie: I have no idea who that is. Nikki Haley would have been a smart pick for the Orange Ogre.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Ah, my mind went to Rick Scott and was confused. Tim Scott, I can see. And you’re right.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
ND governor, I believe.
sab
I heard on NPR that most dogs in America are toxically bored.
My teen stepson was. Why wouldn’t our dogs be? My dogs beavered on through frudtration. My stepson did drugs,
So I am biased about her: dogs try, humans drugs.
I shouldn’t post this.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Thanks. I had no idea.
moops
I think all picks are basically a wash with the voters. Scott would alienate some voters, and pull some undecided in. The rest don’t move the vote polls. So, Trump is smart to see which VP can bring in the most money. The dude has a lot of bills and still has to staff all of his ground game.
Old School
JWR
I put my (imaginary) $$$ on Tim Scott months ago, and I’m sticking with my bet. Vance just seems a bit too bright for TrumpWorld, but not nearly as bright as Stefanik, who’ll never make the grade. As for the others? Hell if I know
ETA, I think that Burgum won’t make it through the Central Casting filter until he plucks his eyebrow.
Baud
@Old School:
Ah, thanks. I celebrated too soon.
eclare
Totally OT, I watched the first episode of season three of Hacks. A little slow to get going, but once Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) were in scenes together, it was brilliant. The show portrays female friendship and competition so well.
lowtechcyclist
Don’t know much about Burgum, but the other three are all quite loathsome. They deserve the humiliation that Trump’s gonna inflict on them before he picks one. Not that that will end the humiliation for the chosen one, but at least the winner has the potential payoff of succeeding to the Presidency.
BTW, anyone remember who was the last President who’d previously been a losing candidate for veep? It’s been awhile. Being the #2 on a losing ticket seems to be way more of a curse than a blessing if one has national aspirations. ETA: Only a couple of them during my lifetime have even gotten their party’s Presidential nomination, and they both lost.
Baud
For Betty C, a nice picture for you via reddit.
Josie
@schrodingers_cat:
Right? But she had a following, which he could not stand. He only wants someone who is needy.
Baud
Noem would shoot Trump in a gravel pit to be president. She won’t get it.
Trollhattan
@eclare: Do not have Max but thought she was great in Mare of Easttown. Had completely lost track of her prior to seeing that.
NotMax
@Ohio Mom
Last Veep who regularly sported a beard was, I believe, Charles Fairbanks (1905 -09).
Trollhattan
Waterfall fans, evidently it’s time to get yourselves to Yosemite.
kindness
JD Vance is gonna be the pick. Trump refuses to elevate a woman and won’t share billing with his VP. So the VP will have to be a suck up. That’s Vance. That plus he won’t have to let go of his Senate seat to run.
Won’t matter. Trump & whom ever is toast in November.
WaterGirl
What an appalling creature he is. And appalling creatures are drawn to him.
sigh.
eclare
@Trollhattan:
I think Jean Smart has been in several seasons of Fargo. This role, as sort of a Joan Rivers comedian, fits her perfectly. She owns it.
I normally don’t like Kate Winslet, but everyone was great in Mare of Easttown.
sdhays
I look forward to reading about the swimsuit competition.
NotMax
@kindness
“And we won’t have to lay out bucks for new campaign signs and banners, just have to white out the ‘PE’ from the last ones and Sharpie in ‘VA'”
//
Elizabelle
Ick. Not gonna spend any time thinking about Trump or his VP pic. This post should be illustrated by Chester Gould, of Dick Tracy fame. All the repellent looking villains.
Straight out of a dystopian comic strip.
TBone
I’m betting it’s Rick Scott because Dotard doesn’t want too many syllables to pronounce.
Baud
@NotMax:
Haha.
Bill Arnold
In the Talent competition (or maybe Hopes and Dreams), the candidates should be asked for their opinion about Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. That’s the part about a certain duty of the Vice President:
This question needs to be asked by the press as well.
Trump’s cognitive decline appears to be trajectory such that by Jan 2021, were he and the VP in office, it would be a question openly being asked by many. Voting Americans need an answer before the election.
sab
@kindness: I hope so. He has so much sucked as a senator.
Trollhattan
@TBone: I would be amused, but only if they agreed to my stipulation: Rick Scott and Trump must exchange hairdos.
Josie
@NotMax:
That would make a really good political cartoon (with Trump wielding the sharpie).
piratedan
waiting for the expose when Trump stumbles into the dressing room before the swimsuit competition…..
TBone
@Trollhattan: all Dotard needs is a stiff breeze and they’re twins.
Baud
Via Reddit
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@moops:
This. The selection this time around will have nothing to do with whatever political boost such a pick might give him. It’ll be all about grifting the rubes.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Trump talking about his black across the country will convince people that the blacks support him.
mrmoshpotato
Yup. Been true since least the days of Newt.
TBone
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson turned away from polling station for forgetting voter ID under rules he introduced when he led the Conservative Party.
😆
Jeffro
Yeeeeeeup. Ol’ J.D., probably. (barf)
CaseyL
The abasement and humiliation the VP-wanna-Bs have to endure makes me smile.
The fact that they’re willing to endure it makes me very earnestly hope for an asteroid strike on Mar A Lago.
eclare
@Baud:
Orangutans are very smart. The story about orangutans in some zoo, IIRC in TX, was that the keepers trained them to clean their enclosure by giving them a treat for every candy wrapper, potato chip bag, etc. the orangutans brought to them.
Then the orangutans figured out to tear the trash into smaller pieces…
They are one of my favorite zoo animals.
Harrison Wesley
Trump and Rick Scott? It would be a race to see who could steal all the money first.
Baud
@eclare:
We need more orangutan CEOs.
Quinerly
OT.
Took a little drive over to Las Vegas, NM….the original Vegas….where Teddy Roosevelt pulled from the country side to make up his “Rough Riders.” Home of Armand Hammers’s World College and roadside natural hotsprings where you pull over behind some pickup trucks parked side of the road, take a little walk, and jump in a natural tub with the locals soaking in the middle of the day. Lively conversation for sure.
Had a nice lunch at a favorite “dive bar” and a HH IPA at the refurbished Castenada Hotel, an old Harvey Hotel by the LV train depot.
Actually, what I came here to post is this….saw one of the ugliest things I have ever seen in my life behind pictures of Trump, Cruz, and Musk.
Tesla’s Cybertruck. Up close and personal at nearby Storrie Lake State Park. Temporary plates. Texas. I peeked in. Ugly on the inside too. Who on earth is buying these things?
Hob
@eclare: Smart also had a great supporting role on the HBO Watchmen miniseries, as Laurie Blake the cynical ex-superhero turned FBI agent— wonderful casting, made me literally laugh out loud from pure appreciation when she first showed up.
cope
And serious people think we are a species capable of colonizing the galaxy?
Baud
@Quinerly:
Douchebags.
eclare
@Quinerly:
What a bummer on what sounds like a great day.
Mapaghimasik
@Baud: we have white racists! We have not-white racists! Look how diverse we are!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
With very small penises.
Scout211
I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild last week in the parking lot of my dentist’s office. The pics have always looked ugly but in person, that truck is fugly!
JWR
BBC just showed me that the UCLA encampment has been completely erased, which I guess means the protest is like so over! (Yeah right.)
Betty Cracker
@Baud: That is beautiful—thank you!
mapaghimagsik
HumboldtBlue
At this point, the fat fuck should just do what the base want him to do anyway and appoint a Nazi.
Laura Ingraham, everyone. National recognition, and that goose-stepping twat can do a Nazi salute with the best of the SS.
mapaghimagsik
@Betty Cracker: greetings from Max’s South Seas
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Scout211:
The Cylon Transport Vehicle. A Pontiak Aztek with Playstation 1 graphics.
For people really interested in a comparison of “I Have A Small Penis” vehicles, this one’s pretty good:
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-tesla-cybertruck-vs-rivian-r1t-vs-ford-f-150-lightning-comparison-test-review/
I’m not typically a fan of watching videos but this one’s good in terms of how they beat apart the thing but then still rate it higher than the Ford Lightning because ultimately the writers at MotorTrend can’t help themselves.
mapaghimagsik
@Betty Cracker:
Greetings from Max’s South Seas
Jay C
@lowtechcyclist:
Not since Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 – FDR had been the VP candidate on the Dem ticket with James Cox in 1920.
Bill Arnold
@kindness:
From a betting odds site (and others seem to agree), here are the top ones:
Tim Scott 3/1
Tulsi Gabbard 5/1
Doug Burgum 7/1
Elise Stefanik 8/1
J.D. Vance 8/1
Ben Carson 9 1
Marco Rubio 12/1
Kristi Noem 16/1
Lee Zeldin 18/1
Mike Pompeo 18/1
Nikki Haley 20/1
Katie Britt 20/1
Vivek Ramaswamy 22/1
Also see this, which doesn’t list odds but is updated frequently:
Who’s the Trump VP Pick? Latest Odds for Every Shortlist Candidate. (Margaret Hartmann, Updated May 1, 2024)
Origuy
@eclare: If you’re ever in the Indianapolis area, check out the Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. They do a lot of research on orangs, and the habitat is huge. They have an area where they can climb out and hang around above the visitors.
Hoppie
@lowtechcyclist: Well, Franklin Roosevelt seems to have made out okay
(Ah, Jay C beat me)
schrodingers_cat
@Bill Arnold: His supporters wanted to hang the last VP, why would anyone in their right mind want to be Trump’s VP.
Quinerly
@Baud:
I walked the little beach area at the lake. Was trying to figure out which of the middle-aged, big belly, White men could be the owner. Lots of fishing going on. LV is not wealthy by any means. Huge Hispanic population. After 30 mins of recon, I gave up and went to The Castenada for a HH beer before driving back. You would have thought a Texan Tesla Cybertruck owner would be easy to spot with my finely, honed skill set.
WaterGirl
@Baud: That is really interesting.
eclare
@Origuy:
Thanks! That looks awesome, I love to watch them climb with the requisite three points of contact.
WaterGirl
@eclare:
I love that so much.
Quinerly
@Scout211:
This one was a funny gray. Parked in the shade. I did a double take. Even with my now perfect eyes from fancy surgery last summer, I thought it was some sort of card board box thing that had been spray painted with cheap paint and had weird plastic wheels. Our Ozark will remember the original floats in the old neighborhood’s Mardi Gras Parade in the early 1980’s. They would fall apart a block or two into our neighborhood parade. I immediately flashed on my parading past.
Scout211
Lawmakers announce dog lovers caucus in wake of Noem news
🤣🤣🤣
Melancholy Jaques
@Ohio Mom:
Last major party candidate with facial hair was Thomas E Dewey in 1948.
eclare
@Scout211:
Noem has united the right and left over dogs. It is scary that she thought this story would play well.
Hoppie
@cope:
Mike Resnick covered that in Birthright, I would say.
Jackie
@Baud: No women this round. The next round will be the women. Stefanik, Mace, Huckabee-Sanders, Britt… maybe Nikki Haley…
Harrison Wesley
@Jackie: Yes, indeed. Binders full of women….
gene108
Rubio?
I thought the President and VP had to be from different states. I though that’s why Dick Cheney switched his official residence to Wyoming, even though as President of Halliburton he lived in Houston, when he was Bush, Jr.’s VP.
cope
@Hoppie: I have not read that book but will look for it at the bibliotek, thanks.
Yutsano
@gene108: This also rules out Medicare Fraudster BatBoy.
JPL
@gene108: omg Rubio would resign and move in a flash
I still think it’s Tim Scott because trump takes pleasure in saying my black.
lowtechcyclist
@gene108:
Here’s what the Constitution says (Article II, Section 1, third paragraph):
So if both candidates on the ticket were from Florida, then Florida’s 29 Electors could only vote for one of them. All the electors from other states could vote for both. But that could lead to some interesting calculations in an election that was close in the Electoral College.
lowtechcyclist
@Jay C:
Yeppers!
Losing VP candidates since have rarely even won their party’s Presidential nomination. I think Bob Dole and Fritz Mondale are the only major-party exceptions.
Jackie
@gene108: They can be from the same state – and give up their EC votes… OR someone can move to another state. I don’t see Scott or Rubio prematurely giving up their senate seats, AND I don’t see TIFG moving to NY or NJ.
Jay C
@gene108:
The Constitution only specifies that Presidential Electors from any state can’t cast EVs for *two* persons from their own state: which could (theoretically) lead to a situation where a Presidential candidate could get X EVs, and their running mate only get X – n: though in practice, as in 2000, the candidates on the ticket “officially” are “from” different states.
Baud
@Jackie:
I can see Trump moving to New York or New Jersey, or wherever Rikers is.
Almost Retired
My bitcoin is on Vance for VP – his smarmy loathesomeness makes him a natural. And he’s clearly campaigning for it – going so far as pretending he likes hanging out with Donald Jr. I will never forgive Vance for wasting about 90 minutes of my time trying to read his wretched book before abandoning it when he got to the welfare recipient with the T Bone.
Martin
Apparently this was supposed to be done at the Formula 1 race being held in Miami for $250K a pop for the audience, but the crypto.com sponsors shut it down as violating the terms for the venue.
When the crypto guys are like ‘ehh, that’s kinda sketch’ you know you’re charting some new political territory.
Harrison Wesley
@Jackie: I dunno. Scott might bite if Trump offered him coffin space at his NJ golf course. I mean, it wouldn’t be the first one there.
Martin
@lowtechcyclist: 1) the law doesn’t necessarily prevent them from voting for both, because
2) the only enforcement is by Congress on Jan 6, and we know how that’s going to go. Probably the same way that a 14th amendment section 3 objection would go.
Jackie
@Harrison Wesley: 😂
He’s got the perfect body for it!
Sure Lurkalot
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
I read that article last week and WTFing hell.
Frankly, I think all three of those vehicles are a fucking bad joke. I was tailgated by a big Rivian the other day and all I could see out of the rear view was that enormous grill. It could eat my Subaru in one bite.
I sure wish the US would get over its truck and super sized SUV fetish. The benefit of electric is diminished by the 3x weight of these vehicles over a car, you know, those things most of us used to drive.
Jackie
@Martin: I’m hoping the new congress will be majority Democratic on J6. That might not be to TIFG/Scott or Rubio’s benefit.
Eta: And, I’m REALLY hoping Biden/Harris will be starting their second term🤞🏻
3Sice
He will fail in the attempt to auction the seat. The Big Money won’t play and potentials like Vance are way too transparent in their ambition.
Pence is predictive in that the selection will have to be dumber than Trump.
HumboldtBlue
If in need of a chuckle, how our parents walked to school.
Baud
@Jackie:
That would be swell.
RaflW
@JWR: This seems like the play. I agree that Vance is a bit too smart (relatively speaking) for Trump. Don doesn’t want anyone to upstage him, which is why adoring Pence was the perfect sycophant.
Tim Scott is just craven enough, yet not quite ambitious enough to stab Trump in the back at a crucial moment (something I wouldn’t put past Vance).
And once Trump spins Tim as the well behaved, loyal to Trump African American who is the ultimate “sSck it, libtards, he has not just a Black friend, but a Black veep nominee!” rejoinder to the (accurate) accusations of Trump/GOP racism, I think MAGAland will accept Tim’s spot on the ticket.
One also expects our shitty press to have lots of “Trump can’t really be racist” reactions to a Scott nomination. Ugh.
Misterpuff
@Quaker in a Basement:
Stupid Veep Tricks
#1 Steely-eyed Stare
#2 Fly Landing Zone
#3 Leads Disorderly (Non) Transfer of Power
Betty
@RaflW: You can’t be any more obsequious than Tim Scott which should rank him pretty high.
JPL
@HumboldtBlue: omg My father walked in two feet of snow.
Suzanne
@kindness: I’ve been feeling like Vance might be the guy, too. Maybe Stefanik, because she’s really mean. Kristi Noem just ruined her chances.
Jackie
OT: It’s funny; most, if not all of us have heard this clip multiple times… it’s crazy that this might be the first time the jury has heard it! Difference between political newsies and “normies!”
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Needs moar snowdrifts.
;)
schrodingers_cat
I don’t think Orange Error will pick Scott. It will be somebody gross and completely out of even the Republican mainstream.
Jackie
@Misterpuff:
#4: Puppy-eyed adoration.
Princess
The advantage of Burgum over anyone else is he comes with his own money. And since no one knows anything about him and yet he thought he had the chops to be president, so he’s obviously an egomaniac who likes setting money on fire. Perfect. To me, Vance or frankly Haley would be the most dangerous picks for us but I think they’re both too smart for Trump to want to give them that kind of boost. And Vance has Thiel’s money, but it is Thiel’s money not Vance’s, which adds a complication. Thiel would like to own a president but Trump is probably not his first choice. The ones Trump would probably like the most are Scott and Rubio because they’re the best obsequious butt kissers.
Princess
@schrodingers_cat: I would not bet against that. Someone like Steve Wynn maybe.
Scout211
@Jackie: And this: Klasfeld Reports Twitter:
Another Scott
Presumably the only folks interested in being VP to TIFG are people who are praying for him to die in office. Being the loser VP candidate has very little power to make one P in the future.
Ford + Dole (1976)
Mondale + Ferraro (1984)
GHW Bush + Quayle (1992)
Gore + Lieberman (2000)
Kerry + Edwards (2004)
Clinton + Kaine (2016)
TIFG + Pence (2020)
Of course, this election is different with TIFG running again, but it’s still a very heavy lift for a VP candidate to make much of a difference at all.
Pence-
NomeNoem 2028!!1 [ Was red before my edit ]:-/
TIFG is desperate to stay in the news on his terms. He’ll do anything to try to distract from his upcoming convictions…
Cheers,
Scott.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
And bears.
NotMax
“I’ll take Places Door Dash Doesn’t Deliver for $1000, Alex.”
Jay
Which VP “candidate” has the best skills at changing a diaper?
Starfish
@Baud: So smarter than Trump, then?
Harrison Wesley
@schrodingers_cat: How about Spud City Tommie? Sure, he lives in Florida, but he’s really from Alabama! Dumb as a stump, too.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
Talk about walking to work uphill, both ways!
NotMax
@Jay
Best? It all depends.
;)
TBone
Perplexing development in Niger. Consarn it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russian-troops-enter-base-housing-us-military-niger-us-official-says-2024-05-02/
catclub
Richard Nixon’s eyebrows would like a word.
geg6
@Sure Lurkalot:
Could not possibly agree more.
Misterpuff
@Jay:
Maybe which candidate has lost their sense of smell?
Bupalos
@Scout211: I feel like there could have been a market for an ugly truck that was ugly because it just threw looks out the window because it was so concerned with functionality that it just had no time. In a way, trucks are kind of marketed this way, payload numbers and horsepower numbers and look at it doing this rock-crawling (that you’re absolutely never going to do because you’d scratch the magic ceramic coating on the clear coat because this is actually about preening.) It’s fake, but you could have found the “real” niche there, and maybe created a fashion out of “I don’t care about fashion” kind of thing. There are brands like this.
But CvpfrTffk has so obviously sweated the visual design elements that the fact that it’s just fugly and awkward can’t be spun back out as a positive. You can tell someone tried hard and a lot of resources were poured into cosmetics and… hole leee fuck!! Like you can tell “this would be much cheaper if it wasn’t supposed to look like this!”
That’s where it’s not going to work.
Jackie
@Scout211: Von ShiztinPantz!
I sooo wish we could have seen TIFG’s reaction to that!😂😂
Honus
@Josie: look at his picture on his wikipedia page. You’ll change your mind.
Scout211
@Bupalos: The thing that struck me when I saw the cybertruck in person was, it didn’t look like a truck at all. It looked more like an ugly sedan. We had to get up very close to it for us to even see that it really has a (tiny) truck bed that you can throw a few things into. Otherwise, it looks nothing like a truck. I guess by design. Maybe.
So yeah, there’s a market for an ugly truck that looks like and ugly sedan but is super cool, man! So cool!
NotMax
@Scout211
Serves as something for the design of the Chevy SSR to look down upon and snicker.
MikefromArlington
Wonder if the vp contestants have like a talent show or swimsuit competition like in trumps miss America days
NotMax
@MikefromArlington
“Next up, the ketchup toss.”
Jackie
@MikefromArlington: The only talent needed is how skillfully he/she can kiss his orange ass and agree with everything TIFG says 100%.
Brachiator
@oldster:
I wonder which one will win the Miss Congeniality award?
The Republicans have gone overboard in deferring to Trump. They are doing everything they can to ensure that he is happy and are not giving any consideration to the future of the GOP.
The sole requirement for the Trump VP pick is obedience.
Brachiator
@Sure Lurkalot:
But the main issue here is the weight of the battery. EVs need lighter batteries, greater range and more charging stations before they will truly make a difference.
When I was on vacation on Texas and Oklahoma, I saw a lot of practical sized SUVs used to haul families, along with trucks of all sizes.
Danielx
@Quaker in a Basement:
Eating a live bat on stage, a la Ozzie Osborne?
Kayla Rudbek
@Baud: so now we can insult the Republicans by saying that chimpanzees are better at providing medical care than they are
thruppence
lowtechcyclist
@Martin:
Truth!
It’s a pity that’s a bit long for a rotating tag.
lowtechcyclist
@Martin:
Or the way the emoluments clause has already gone.
They’re quickly turning the Constitution into just another piece of paper. Not good.
lowtechcyclist
@Sure Lurkalot:
Indeed.
My odd thought here is, don’t allow people to drive anything that big without getting a bus driver’s license. That would at least make potential monstermobile owners ask themselves if it’s worth the hassle.
Gloria DryGarden
@Baud: thank you for making me laugh
lowtechcyclist
@catclub:
Not to mention his 5 o’clock shadow.
lowtechcyclist
@Brachiator:
None of them, Katie.
Another Scott
@Sure Lurkalot: @lowtechcyclist:
I blame Section 179:
Why would a business buy a 4000 pound GVW truck when they could write a huge amount off their taxes by getting a 6000 pound GVW one instead??
Since one can also write off luxury SUVs that weigh over 6000 pounds via the same mechanism, I’m willing to bet that wannabe MotUs that set up a one person LLC are doing the same thing.
There are too many pathological things in the tax code that need to be done away with – this is one of them.
Grr…,
Scott.
SH
@eclare: That is so funny. The best comment!
SiubhanDuinne
@Another Scott:
I believe your list is missing
McCain + Palin (2008)
Romney + Ryan (2012)
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks muchly.
Cheers,
Scott.
artem1s
@Scout211:
more important to TIFG Theil has his money on Vance. This is definitely going to the highest bidder.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Also too Dole + Kemp.
dnfree
@Betty Cracker: Okay, that made me laugh. “Jindalled herself.”
Mai Naem mobile
@JPL: I don’t see TFG going with a black guy. I’m guessing they’ve done some polling/focus group stuff and Scott would probably lose him more votes than he would gain. I would say JD Vance but he’s not exactly central casting for a Veep. Also mainstream GOP thinking might be that Vance as Veep might help defeat Sherrod Brown in Ohio with GOP GOTV. He would go with Burgum but he’s so weird looking. Burgum looks like some 19th century Gothic creature.
Mai Naem mobile
I don’t know if there are any rich Dems in Florida but I would really like to see Biden do a big dollar fundraising event in Florida. It would wind up TFG even more bigly. Maybe celebrities in Miami??
wjca
With appropriate emphasis, the question answers itself.
JCNZ
@Betty Cracker: Haley, obviously.
JCNZ
@kindness: Totally.
Ironcity
@Jackie: I think TIFG could move to Alaska. Closer to his good buddy Vlad.