We lied to each other so much that in nothing we trust
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One of the weird things about living in the GOP’s post-reason era is the way people who know better persist in pretending Republicans are still reasonable. Even Republicans who demonstrated they are no such thing on a daily basis for years. Frequently in the dead of night on a social media platform via an unsecured phone.
For example, people continue to speculate about which Republican candidate Orange Finger might select as his running mate. Perhaps those people forgot that a grudge-suckling, grossly vain and extremely distrustful ambulatory stack of assholes who regards the presidency as his will make the choice. How could people forget this? And were Studio 54 in the 1980s amounts of illegal narcotics involved? And if they didn’t forget it and are just ignoring it, are they assholes or what?
At any rate, in his recent post on the 25th Amendment, Campos touched on one of the shall we say, unique considerations that drive the real great orange satan’s V.P. selection process.
I bet Commander Combforward worries about “betrayal” a lot. Not just because he likes doing it unto other people. And not just because he does not want it done unto him. And not even because he’s a permanently suspicious beady-eyed bacon streak in the universe’s panties. But his demands for absolute devotion mean people constantly “betray” him. That is, people constantly fail to plunge the depths of degradation just in order to salve his filthy ego. Vice President Pence was one of those people.
Reporters could focus on fun things, like how an increasingly erratic creature who trusts no one and hates everyone goes about picking the person who will replace him if something happens to him. But at the major outlets most reporters prefer to regurge pablum like this:
As she addressed a crushing crowd of volunteers and media at Donald Trump’s New Hampshire headquarters on Saturday, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik received a welcome chant.
“VP! VP! VP!” one man shouted across the room.
While vice presidential candidates typically aren’t picked until after a candidate has locked down the nomination, Trump’s decisive win in last week’s Iowa caucuses and the departure of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from the race have only heightened what had already been a widespread sense of inevitability that he will be the Republican nominee.
The horse race is over, long live the horse race.
That has given the campaign trail stops by Stefanik and other Republicans the feel of a public tryout reminiscent of Trump’s days as a reality TV host.
And, nuke it from orbit.
You can read the article. Or you can read any other article about vice presidential selection written in the past 50 years. Because too many political reporters want to maintain the pretense that the GOP is still normal.
Even when the Republican candidate says stuff like this.
Trump, too, has been stoking the speculation, saying during a recent Fox News town hall that he already knows “who it’s going to be.” He told Fox News host Bret Baier over the weekend that ”there’s probably a 25% chance” that he would ultimately pick the person he had in mind, adding: “The person that I think I like is a very good person, pretty standard. I think people won’t be that surprised.”
When someone says they are sure of something and then turns around and says they are 75% unsure of that same thing, that person is dithering. The only things he’s stoking are more questions about his decision-making capabilities. (Awful, abysmal or absolutely atrocious?) But that’s tRump for you. Can’t stand to be wrong, can’t learn from past mistakes to prevent being wrong, can’t keep his fucking overdone steak hole shut.
And that’s another fun thing reporters could write about but probably won’t: How his hatred of looking like a loser could further gum up the V.P. selection process. Being publicly rejected by a potential running mate and selecting a running mate that the GOP base hates are both risks he can’t avoid.
If we’re lucky he’ll refuse to pick a running mate. That would be fun to watch.
