twocoach wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 7:37 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 7:33 am
I certainly think the two most
important moments of last night were (1) Vance lying through his teeth - and knowing that everyone knows it - about 2020, and (2) Vance throwing a temper tantrum about being fact-checked.
Vance built a pretty house. But he is showing you through his words and actions that that pretty house is moldy and crumbling on the inside* and constructed on a latticework of soggy toothpicks.
* Among many other things, his support (as a man married to and parenting with an Indian woman) of Trump’s open racism and misogyny tells you all you need to know of his morals and where they sit vis a vis his ambition.
The best I heard: “Vance looks like the guy you casually keep your hand over your drink while he tries to impress you about crypto at the bar.”
Lyinging smoothly shouldn't be a positive. Vance has made clear the policies that Trump's administration will implement. That's enough of a disqualifier as most have either been proven already to be negative (tariffs, tax breaks for ultra wealthy, abortion bans), have been reviewed by experts and projected to be negative (his "fixes" for the economy and immigration).
“Looks like” is doing some heavy lifting there.
There’s no doubt that he is intelligent and strategic in a way Trump is not. He is also principled in a way Trump is not.
Those things do not make him “better” than Trump - they make him dangerous in a way that Trump is not. Because the principles are rotten.
You get the distinct sense that, unlike Trump, he would actually have an idea of what to
do with the towering powers of the Presidency, as aided by his ideological patrons on the Court.