among many other topics that the political press would normally make a huge deal out of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is to be President, especially in context of aging Trump's at-best-mysterious health. US senator for 2 years and that's about it
JD veeps are only supposed to THINK this, not SAY it
That's the reason he got the job. He was the most spineless sycophant of the bunch. JD would never lift a finger against Dear Leader. He thinks about it every day, but he'd never do it.
He's comically unqualified to order doughnuts, I honestly don't know how he ties his own shoe laces
Even if you want to argue Obama only served less than four years, he was a state senator for a couple terms, a community organizer, and a law professor. He wasn't his own brand ambassador.
It's more than Trump had... The GOP has reveled in putting empty suits in the Oval Office going back at least to Reagan, so JV Dance looks like more of the same to me.
to be fair this is more qualification than trump ever had
manifestly more qualified than trump himself though which adds a wrinkle
Please, please, please let Fox or CNN cover this comment so that DJT has an aneurism
But he was a junior attorney for a couple years!
his work experience before he ran for Senate was as a writer, a pundit and a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel. Never ran anything in his life!
that's why reporters love him so much, he's always just had a do-nothing job where he farts around group texts with his nazi friends like they do
This is why I think he's going to get eaten alive when Trump kicks the bucket. Anyone in the GOP with an ounce of ambition can see he's vulnerable. A black hole of charisma.
He’s been getting a lot of training on being a hand puppet for our god emperor overlord Peter Theil. That’s really the only qualification that matters.
A sample JD Vance work product: He was on the board of directors for a SPAC "vertical farming" company that was accused of massive labor law violations and has since gone bankrupt and delisted and now trades as a penny stock. Great job JD, I'm sure "most powerful person in the world" will go great!
spending his entire term in office in vacation instead of hanging out with Trump is the only relatable thing about Vance to me bsky.app/profile/matt...
Those are dark money alt right networking trips under the cover of vacation, at least those European ones were
from what i’ve read he wants to be more involved but nobody respects him. there was a story about him hanging around mooching cookies from the snack table
It makes you think huh bsky.app/profile/capi...
It definitely wanders a bit, but my god, what an *amazing* & well-cited Thiel mega-thread we had today!! Amazingly shitty timeline, of the worst fucking villains. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Billionaires. It always come down to their collective needs.
Involvement in a SPAC is a red flag for me by itself
oh absolutely
They put a chimp in a suit and convinced him he was going to work.
He's a natural for SecDef!
Didn't he also have something to do with a company that killed, like, a BUNCH of monkeys?
Yup, there it is. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
He has the greatest qualification capital could want: an instinctive drive to brown nose and suck up to the richest guy in the room.
Nothing says success like following in Chester Arthur’s shoes. Although even he managed to get the Pendleton Civil Service Act.
Will no one rid me of this troublesome...orange dude? 👀
Because he actually is the embodiment of an autopen. He’s nothing but a seat filler.
Remember how they shat on Obama's experience "Community organizer? What even IS that? Is that like a caterer??"
He's also spent an inordinate amount of time on the job either on vacation or giving bloviating interviews to friendly press. Not really the best on the job training for the leader of the free world.
Leader of the free world is not the job Donald Trump is doing or even wants to do, either so, yeah
For the actual job, no. For what MAGA thinks the job is (shitposting and babbling on TV), he’s qualified.
For the actual job of "President of the USA", no. For the ACTUAL actual job "Peter Thiel's finger puppet" he's perfectly qualified.
At least he's never led an insurrection against the government of the United States
I mean he joined the ticket and became an unrepentant sycophant for a guy he literally said was Hitler a few years before, so indirectly he kind of did?
If god forbid he was allowed to take over the Oval Office, the press would rediscover its backbone and suddenly report on all the BS because no one likes or respects or most importantly fears couchfucker Vance
This smells like foreshadowing on Vance's part As my grandma would have said "The fix is in"
Yes this was strangely ignored when almost all previous non-Trump VP picks have been raked over the coals.
Serial liar, friends with avowed Nazis
Wasn’t Obama a two year senator? Not sure this dog will hunt (He’s still a no-qualification hack scumbag)
4 years, plus 8 as a state legislator
and the extent to which obama was "inexperienced" was extensively litigated in the 2008 election - was one of the top issues and one that he chose Joe Biden as VP to explicitly address
Good points all! I stand corrected
Oh, don't kid yourself, Peter Thiel is our Vice President. Vance is just his meat puppet.
Veteran of many hours of vacation, though - experienced!
The worst part about Trump dying is Little Johnson moving up in the line of succession.
I mean that was exactly why the press was hyperventilating about Biden's age: because Harris, though she had been a senator and VP for 4 years, was seen as unqualified by them.
I mean…they say there’s no Russian influence, but if you’re a foreign antagonist state, and they handed you a list of jobs in the government, these would be the exact people you would bring in to destroy the place. The only competent people actually hate the US.
He simply doesn’t command the cult of personality that Trump does, where people are willing to help him out even though he’s an obvious dullard. People are not scared of JD Vance
There are a lot of windows in trump tower... just sayin'...
Shit…he’s gonna die and we’re going to call for healing aren’t we
He spent all term on vacation!
Yeah but he won’t be a president in the traditional sense as we know it. He’ll be a wannabe dictator (or real dictator of the guardrails keep getting removed) empowered by Thiel and his other funders
TBH seems like the entire story of this administration is filling it up with people whose only qualifications for that office is loyalty to Peter Thiel.
I've been calling him Shadow President Thiel for almost the past two years straight.
After Trump it's Guns, Germs and Thiel.
Thiel staffed Trump's 2016, 2020 & 2024 campaigns & major players in Trump's 1st & 2nd administrations. Trump's 1st term, Kushner & Trump's kids ran their patriarch after kicking Bannon out. This round, they've taken a backseat to quieter grifting & let Thiel's people run DOGE, agencies, etc.
Mossad, if you’re listening
Thiel is Blofeld. and soon...Blofeld will be in charge of the U.S. government
the dude is 41 and hasn't had a serious job in 18 years!
Sarah Palin but somehow worse in just about every way
But if you think the job is exclusively shitposting he's perhaps the most qualified president-in-waiting we've ever had
Vacationing has prepared him to be president?!
Not only is he unprepared to be POTUS in general, he's also gets to look forward to nobody in the administration having anything approaching loyalty toward him and a cult that will have a not insignificant number of people believing he engaged in a conspiracy against Dear Leader.
I mean, he’s in Peter Thiel’s pocket. What more qualifications could you ask for?
Also has a LOT of white nationalist friends.
he's been on vacation for like half of the last year, and he's scared of getting booed while he's on vacation.
My long-standing belief is that Stephen Miller is the more important puppet master here, and that any Vance administration will rise and fall on where Miller’s role lies, along with how satisfied both he and Vance are with that role.
To be fair, he also wrote a shitty book. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Plus, nobody likes JD. He makes Ted Cruz look lovable
Hey that’s not fair, he might technically be an Oscar nominee, if I cared to look it up