I was a bit mystified by President Trump's pick of JD Vance for VP. I still don't fully understand the move, but an article I read this morning added a bit of clarity:
https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/rupert-murdoch-trump-doug-burgum-vp-j-d-vance
Bottom line: Rupert Murdoch HATES Vance to the point that the article claims Murdoch has been calling Trump multiple times per day heading up to his selection with one of the messages being "Anyone but Vance".
My question while reading the article was "Why?", and that's finally hit on at the very end with a Tucker Carlson quote:
""A lot of supposedly conservative news outlets turn out to have zero interest in anything their readers and viewers care about. Instead, they’re focused on promoting pointless wars. That’s why they’re working so hard to destroy J.D. Vance before Trump can pick him. Let’s hope they don’t succeed,” Tucker Carlson, who worked for Fox News from 2009 until 2023, told NOTUS in a statement."
Now, that quote isn't evidence, but Tucker is very plugged in. Perhaps Vance was selected in part because he doesn't have puppet strings attached to him.
Though that still doesn't explain Vance's ridiculous comments about the President a couple of years ago.
Regardless, I still don't fully understand the Vance pick. But the thought of Rupert Murdoch having heart palpitations about Vance as VP certainly makes me more comfortable with President Trump's choice.
A lot of us ahem "older" patriots have had a hard time believing that our old GOP party was a bunch of lying dirtballs too. While many of us have been always been open to a Trump presidency, since the GOP was failing us and couldn't attract new voters to save their lives, he has always been rough around the edges which didn't sit quite right. Perhaps that was the Vance experience as well. Just my two cents.
At least we are all coming around now and see the light.
At least some of those lying dirtballs may not have started as lying dirtballs but genuinely wanted to do good, then were worn down by the system and finally gave up and just started to do things the only way they could, and try to at least benefit themselves from it when they no longer could see any way to achieve anything that would have been actually useful to the whole society.
It is always possible you will not have to change every one of the old guard, but some will start to help because they genuinely want to when they find out it's finally possible to do that.
They probably figured out that they could enrich themselves in Congress if they STFU and took the money.
People give up if trying to achieve anything they want to starts to look impossible. That has to be one way the DS has kept its power, they probably have concentrated quite a bit of their resources to wearing down anybody who got there and actually tried to do something, while, yes dangling the carrot of easy money in front of them at the same time. It would take pretty remarkable individuals to stay the course for years when it looks like nothing they try for will ever happen while there is the easy way available the whole time, do nothing and get rich.
Humans are fallible creatures.