The usual end to that phrase is, "dies." But that may be a little hyperbolic. His mob wanted to kill Pence, but they failed.
"Diminished," is a better word.
Has anyone's stature ever been elevated by being associated with Donald Trump?
Ever?
Poor J.D. Vance. (Sympathy can be found in the dictionary, between "shit" and "syphilis.") Here's an ambitious young man, grasping desperately for power and acclaim, having had a taste of it in his association with Peter Thiel and the success of his book. Apparently the movie wasn't as well received.
I guess that hillbilly upbringing left him with the same aching void that Rick Scott has. One that will never be filled. Scott was weird before weird was a Republican thing. It's possible he was Patient Zero.
And shoutout to Jacksonville's own Florida Times-Union columnist Nate Monroe, who'd been calling Ron DeSantis weird long before Tim Walz used the term to describe Trump.
Just sayin'.
Anyway, back to poor J.D. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion. Here's this poor guy, doing an internal calculation about becoming Trump's VP.
On the one hand, it's Trump.
On the other hand, it's one 78-year-old and climbing heartbeat away from real power.
The equation had Trump trouncing poor old Joe Biden, while Vance would get to go up against a San Francisco liberal! And a woman at that! How hard could that be? Plus all that free media!
"Many's the slip twixt the cup and the lip." Or maybe they don't use the old saying, "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched," in Appalachia anymore.
Now he's got to demean himself by attacking another veteran. That's after attacking women, which he actually seemed to enjoy. Still mad at mom? I don't know, I never read the book.
And pathetically chasing after media coverage on the tarmac, while insulting the same media he craves.
I mean, hasn't the guy seen what happened to Guiliani?
"Love is blind." Ambition too.
This thing is still a contest. We have this bizarre, archaic, undemocratic thing called the Electoral College, and there are still a significant number of "Americans" who think democracy is a waste of time, and want to put their faith and trust in a man they watched on prime time reality TV show for so many years. I guess they view the world as a game show.
We could still lose the whole thing.
But J.D. Vance will forever be diminished. He's just smart enough to know it, and it will eat him up from the inside. It'll make him mean and cruel and lonely.
But them's the breaks. He should've known.
Everything Trump touches...
Originally posted at Nice Marmot 06:11 Friday, 9 August 2024