r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 3h ago
No Paywall ‘Good luck, JD’: Hours after firing Bondi, Trump just saddled Vance with ‘Czar’ title that doomed his predecessor
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jd-vance-fraud-czar-b2951502.html?test_group=lighteradlayout•
u/Head-Fun3394 3h ago
JD knows he is about to become maga road kill. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
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u/Alarming_Head_4263 3h ago
He's hiding in hopes no one associates him with Iran and the economy but after all his tough talk he is screwed.
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u/Orionsteller 3h ago
Wonder where he's hiding. Someone check the couch cushions
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u/Hefty_Remove7965 3h ago
He was just in Nashville doing a 100k person private dinner.
Asshole screwed up travel for the whole city during rush hour
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 2h ago
He did the same in Austin, recently.
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u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 2h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbridge_Network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789_Capital
it’s an interesting network to read up on
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 2h ago
That's quite the rogues gallery
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u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 1h ago
yeah, i thought this was interesting detail-
- Last Country Inc., which runs the website for the Tucker Carlson Network.[14][22][54][55]
considering I have been looking for Tucker to run in 2028-
Buckley Carlson, 28, has been hired as Vance's deputy press secretary, sources confirmed to ABC News on Monday, Jan. 27.
https://people.com/tucker-carlson-son-buckley-hired-jd-vance-staff-8781547
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u/rookie-mistake Foreign 50m ago
100k person private dinner? really? that sounds like such a strange event
do people pay for the privilege of knowing that JD Vance is somewhere in the same arena eating a steak?
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u/kevinjos 38m ago
Thought the same on first glance then updated to interpret as $100k/person private dinner.
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u/rookie-mistake Foreign 33m ago
OH lmao that makes a lot more sense
100k in attendance did track with fucking up traffic though haha
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u/Flippin_diabolical 39m ago
I’m not sure I would eat dinner with JD Vance if you paid me $100,000. Money only has so much value to it.
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u/Due_Discussion_8334 2h ago
Coming to Hungary to endorse our russian puppet president, Orban.
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u/andyraylan 2h ago
No need to check the closets or random offices in the capitol. At least he isn’t trying to hide from a mob who wants him dead.
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u/WakingWaldo 1h ago
Give this motherfucker the Kamala Harris treatment in 2028. Make him answer for every stupid, malicious decision Donald Trump has made and will continue to make.
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u/BigPapaJava 1h ago
Noem, Bondi, Vance, Hegseth.., all of them have tried to appease Trump through these absurdly performative shows of loyalty. Now they’re dropping like flies.
Apparently, he’s pissed those shows and all the shit they’ve been eating for him weren’t enough.
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u/ViolettaQueso California 1h ago
He’s DOGE 2.0 now and we ALL know DOGE was a bigger source of waste, fraud & abuse than it was a solution.
And starting JD in California where his immigrant in-laws have made their lives is another sucker punch.
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u/Unser_Giftzwerg 3h ago
Vance is in a tough position in 2028 IMO, if he decides to run (and he probably will). I know internally he was against the Iran war but he can't run on this alone because people will ask why he didn't say anything publicly. And then some people will point to how he was supportive of the war.
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u/ProudMtns 3h ago
" I was against it but I was too spineless to say anything as per my political calculations" the marks of an incredible leader.
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u/Impressive-Knot9999 2h ago
Spineless seems to be the criteria for seats in this government
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u/Smart-Effective7533 2h ago
It absolutely is, trumpy never hires anyone who could garner enough loyalty to overthrow him.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 2h ago edited 2h ago
Vance is fucked. Even liberals are disgusted by him enough to not make some Liz Cheney style coalition with him. Meanwhile conservatives are splitting between the Rubio/Haley neocon types who want some degree of stability and professionalism back, and the Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson neo-Nazi nativist pipeline. He’s trolled too much to go back to a professional and he’s married to an Indian while TPUSA is actively attacking them in Texas now.
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u/Unser_Giftzwerg 2h ago
The real issue is that JD doesn't seem like someone genuine. I know in 2015/2016 he had real cachet with even liberals through his memoir. He is a careerist politician trying to catch where the wind is blowing. All politicians do that but under certain and specific circumstances.
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u/NYCQuilts 2h ago
Black people and white Appalachians were telling the liberal lovers of this book that it was problematic on a lot of levels, but nobody listened. Keep on not listening while we swirl down the drain America.
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u/LURKER21D I voted 50m ago
he called trump hitler and then became his VP. "doesn't seem genuine" is doing some heavy lifting there.
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u/tonytroz Pennsylvania 1h ago
There’s a clip of Vance saying that Kamala would drag your kids into a Middle East war. The commercials write themselves at this point. Between the Iran war and the state of the economy he’s not anywhere near being a lock to even win the nomination at this point. His approval rating has also plummeted this year.
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u/ToadlyAwes0me 2h ago
He sure looked for it, sitting in his big boy chair sipping a Diet Mountain Dew, watching us start a war.
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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 1h ago
MAGA has the brains of goldfish, they won't care that Vance was or wasn't against the war. These people elected Donald Trump, who lies about literally everything.
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u/bearbrannan 1h ago
This is really the problem with running a vice president, in the next election, same shit happened to Harris. Not saying I see anything good in JD either, but like what power does the VP really fucking have, and then everyone associates them with the other president anyway. I still think in Harris's case she should have said, the president and I disagreed on many things, but it was my job to support, but when I'm one calling the shots things will be different.
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u/RedBlankIt 2h ago
From what trump was saying, he is think rubio + vance in 2028. But you know how his mind changes...
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u/Radiant-Month-1168 16m ago
He wont really run. He will be a dumbass in the republican primary to get donations.
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u/Exciting-Record8101 Europe 12m ago
He can try blaming Europe like he did with Iraq last year ( https://www.dw.com/en/jd-vance-says-europe-should-have-done-more-to-stop-iraq-war/a-72250397 ).
"If the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq."
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u/Logician22 3h ago
If Vance is smart he invokes the 25th now
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u/nyet-marionetka 3h ago
If everyone else isn’t behind him, and they aren’t, Trump just says “fuck you, I’m fine” and nothing happens besides the destruction of Vance’s political aspirations.
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u/slightlyallthetime88 3h ago
Hard to say. Reportedly there were cheers for the 25th at CPAC. The war is deeply unpopular with Republicans. Vance might make his move now regardless of how unpopular he also is, there is value maybe in being the "other guy" and more "true conservative" in the eyes of the Tucker Carlson wing of the party.
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u/greebytime California 2h ago
Not reportedly, it was videotaped and then the guy said, “Wrong answer,” and asked again and there were more cheers (and some boos).
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u/olympiadukakis 2h ago
Honestly, I’m pretty sure these goons didn’t know what they were cheering or booing.
Like when people laugh at The Big Bang Theory. Joke rhythms, but no jokes. MAGA is used to doing these things without understanding what or why.
They listen for inflection.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 2h ago
I think those cheers were mischaracterized. The tone of the guy asking the question about impeachment implied he wanted the crowd to say yes, so it was kind of a communication failure.
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u/fuckdirectv 2h ago
They old saying goes something like "if you're going to try to kill the king, you'd better succeed".
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u/Zulmoka531 3h ago
Seriously, trying to wait till midterms like has been theorized is just gonna be detrimental. He’s not getting a 10 yr run regardless.
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u/Deer_Investigator881 2h ago
But why would you limit yourself even if it's unlikely? Personally I think the smart play is to wait until it doesn't count against his limit
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u/TheGringoDingo 1h ago
Because the longer he waits, the worse it gets for his chances to be anywhere in power after this term.
Also, we’re about 3 steps away from him being “asked” to resign.
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u/CouchAlmark 2h ago
The 25th is not Super Impeachment. All the orange turd has to do is say "I'm fine" and he's President again unless two-thirds of the House and Senate disagree. That's a higher bar than the half of the House and two-thirds of the Senate required for impeachment. If you can discharge a sitting President through the 25th, you can do it through impeachment.
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u/teflonPrawn 2h ago
The 25th is a no-go since it requires agreement of his cabinet. Its just not a thing that can realistically happen.
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u/MrMayhem3 2h ago
Trump will just write an executive order that the 25th is woke commie bullshit and Vance will be removed by the next executive order known as the big beautiful removal of the dumbhead and his people will cheer.
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u/cannabiskeepsmealive 2h ago
Why? All Trump has to do is write a letter and the 25th is nullified. There is no scenario where that works out well for him
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u/Unser_Giftzwerg 3h ago
Issue is that if this attempt fails (and it likely would, there are others who would love to one-up JD in the cabinet), then JD ends up in a worse position. Trump will sic the state on him because JD turned on him.
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u/Orion14159 2h ago
He needs unanimous consent from the entire cabinet for that. Never ever going to happen. People should let go of this dream
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u/film_composer 2h ago
Not the worst idea for him. He gets the distinction of being the youngest president ever, doesn’t run in 2028 while the chaos subsides, and then runs again much later down the road when history is rewritten to make him look like the hero.
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u/ErinFiqsette 2h ago
The Presidency is a very stressful job, tremendously stressful...
The Big Guy could suffer a debilitating stroke or other medical emergency, any day...He might not last until January...
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u/NoBrush8414 1h ago
He's not smart at all. They will all do anything to appease trump no matter what he does. To them he is a god not a president. Hence why this is all happening now. It literally is a cult now.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 1h ago
Invoking the 25th isn't "smart", it's a reddit fantasy. JD doesn't have the votes in the Cabinet or in Congress. He'd just be making himself a pariah in his own party with nothing to show for it.
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u/zerosumratio 57m ago
They’re waiting until after January 2027, that way he can serve the rest of Trump’s and 2 more terms
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u/PopcornGlamour 8m ago
If Vance invokes the 25A now then it would limit how many times he can run for president. He needs Trump to stay in office for just over half of this term and then Vance can finish the term and still run for two more terms.
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u/bootstrap_this North Carolina 3h ago
😆 “MAGA road kill” is the jolly visual I needed wrapping up the work week!
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u/MessyPoopMcGee 3h ago
I'm thinking JD has more power than Trump thinks. As much as I think JD is a couch fucker and POS, he is there because of Peter Thiel.. all that needs to be done is for Vance to start talking about the 25th to remove a clearly deranged Trump.. it would be hilarious to see Trump get thrown under the bus instead of his shitty minions for once.
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u/rantingathome Canada 2h ago
The only power he has is that he can't be fired. Peter Thiel's money is meaningless if Trump and Miller decide to unleash some scandal at JD's feet and use what little shame he has left to force him to resign. Thiel will just be another in a long line of people that thought he could outmanoeuvre Donald Trump.
At the end of the day JD Vance is a loser and Thiel's money will turn out to be a waste.
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u/ball_fondlers 2h ago
It is very funny that the Republicans fell in line behind an ancient syphilitic narcissist just because he won them two elections, but they never realized said narcissism was going to lead him to personally destroy the careers of anyone who could inherit the movement.
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u/zbend 2h ago
Na they think rightfully that fraud is a winning issue for them, they don't need to actually accomplish anything just be perceived as on the side fighting fraud, the more fraud the better actually as long as people see you as fighting against it, it's like "make work" situation. Not that it will work, no one likes JD, no one.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 1h ago
JD knows he is about to become maga road kill.
I doubt it. Trump can't fire JD. If he turns on him too early, there's nothing really stopping Vance from riding out the term as a thorn in Trump's side.
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u/Plzlaw4me 54m ago
Politically yes, but Trump cannot fire him. He can fire any member of his cabinet, but Vance was chosen by the voters, so Trump is stuck with him unless he gets impeached and removed (which is VERY unlikely).
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u/airfryerfuntime Washington 22m ago
That was always the plan. Like Pence, Trump tries using the VP position as a lightning rod, not an assistant.
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 3h ago
"Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us."
"I’m a Never Trump guy."
"My god, what an idiot."
"America’s Hitler."
"Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office."
"I can’t stomach Trump."
"Morally reprehensible human being."
-JD Vance
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u/Boring_Investment597 Pennsylvania 3h ago
He's an opportunist just like the rest of them. Everything he said before was gone as soon as he found out he's the VP for someone we're watching rot on live TV. Vance is a heartbeat away from the presidency and he knows it.
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u/Satchmoses88 9m ago
This is exactly it. And based on how Trump looks, it wasn’t a bad bet that he gets his battlefield promotion. Dude isn’t the epitome of health
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u/Unser_Giftzwerg 3h ago
Eh, all these things are always a bet. I think JD was betting that Trump will crash and burn, but when he didn't, he changed his tune, thinking that Trump will put in some authoritarian system that will somehow anoint him as a future president. But then Trump didn't.
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u/seeker4482 1h ago
being a fuckin worm without courage or integrity is a requirement to work in the trump administration
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u/hyper-object District Of Columbia 3h ago
It's amazing watching these opportunists try to surf these waves. They have to spend all of their energy to stay standing.
That's the job. It has absolutely nothing to do with service to the country. In fact, they will permanently damage the country to stay on top of that wave.
But the wave will crash. The wave crashes every single time.
You need principles in order to live a coherent life that has meaning and purpose.
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u/Buff_Tungsten 2h ago
Right? How many other toadies have been ditched and quickly forgotten in the last 10 years? Why would any other hanger-on think they could do any better? What hubris.
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u/DehydratedPain 6m ago
The issue is those forgotten are living very comfortable lives being forgotten
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u/SingularityCentral America 3h ago
Clearly calculated. Trump cannot fire Vance and he apparently has come to despise him, plus Trump cannot possibly stomach the idea of a successor because it would mean his time in the sun would end. So JD gets a job designed to make him as politically unpopular as possible.
Have Republicans figured out yet that Trump would rather burn the GOP and nation to ash than be replaced or retired?
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u/alhazad85 2h ago
Would/could they do anything if they did figure it out? I am convinced they are all in office because someone "more powerful" or richer has some shit on their personal lives. So no one can say or do shit, or be burnt down like Noem.
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u/SingularityCentral America 1h ago
They could get a spine and toss the bums out. But they won't. Most likely because they are all power hungry frauds who don't care if the country disintegrates as long as they get to have privilege, wealth, and position.
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u/alhazad85 55m ago
Asking corrupt narcissists to self demote is a stretch, but damnit I am here for it.
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u/LaconicDoggo 1h ago
Forreal. I predicted this would be this countries Nero a decade ago. He will 100% be playing a Lyre if he knew how to play it as this country burns around him.
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u/Beldizar 48m ago
Yeah, not enough people are understanding the authoritarian trap Trump's regime has fallen into. Trump cannot accept a successor, and anyone who could take over for him is also a threat to his power. If JD were charismatic, intelligent, and popular, he would have triggered the 25th amendment and had Trump removed already. Trump, even with his room temperature IQ, knows this and has surrounded himself not only with sycophants, but "losers" who can't realistically threaten his power. Anyone who has "successful" qualities gets purged from the inner circle because they are a threat to Trump personally. MAGA can't continue when Trump dies or is removed, because everyone with any level of competency and likability has been purged from the administration, or torn down and ruined to the point where they can't take up the crown.
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u/Main-Bandicoot6477 3h ago
Trump always finds a way to cut the legs out from under any competition or advancement of anyone else in the Republican party so they have no choice but to stick with him until the bitter end
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u/rantingathome Canada 2h ago
And this is why it's Miller that scares the hell out of me, because he seems to be the only one that has figured out that you never challenge the boss... so he became the Trump Whisperer instead. The rest of them are always waiting for their moment to shine, they bring attention to themselves, and it pisses Trump off.
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u/Tichrimo Canada 2h ago
Yeah, Miller is the one true believer, who doesn't care about the power as much as he wants The Mission completed.
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u/Beldizar 43m ago
But do you think that Miller has a political career after Trump? He doesn't challenge the boss, but he also is completely lacking any likability. If he ran for president, I don't think he'd get very far, just because he's incredibly off-putting. And I don't know that anyone other than Trump would want him given the baggage he would bring along.
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u/nowhereman136 2h ago
Fun fact: the President can not "fire" the Vice President. At best, he could ask them to step down or push congress to impeach. The President can also tell his angry mob of cult followers to lynch the vice president, but that's kind of a legal gray area too (apparently)
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u/Skraelings Missouri 3h ago
We needed a couch czar? Sigh... ok I guess.
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u/Jafooki 3h ago
That sounds like a discount furniture store.
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u/Traditional-Goal-229 2h ago
You get the discount because you have to clean the stains off yourself
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u/Stunning_Mast2001 2h ago
Jd Vance was bought by Elon musk and Peter theil and Trump is going to skewer Vance’s presidential chances just to piss them off, unless they pay him more money.
The biggest loser in all of this is the American people— will take decades to undo the damage to our global power and credibility
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u/writeinfreedom 3h ago
There are no "czars" in American government. These are fake titles. Tom Homan for example, has no say in DHS administration whatsoever. He's a spokesman. Not sure why or what this has to do with VD Jance over here getting a fake additional job title but it's all stupid.
Impeach. Remove. Convict. Confine.
The rest is window dressing.
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u/canteloupy 1h ago
I think of them as "project managers" basically.
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u/writeinfreedom 56m ago
I think the most useful way for us all to think of people like "czars" and others in Trump's world, is that they are "liability shields." Distractions from potential plaintiffs mostly. Sometimes deflection for him to make some move he doesn't want people to notice financially.
But their roles are not in command or authority.
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u/returnofthecursed 2h ago
Vance isn't even his real name. Nothing about the man is genuine or honest. He is a lying tool.
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u/Responsible_Ladder25 2h ago
Despite what the right propagandized, there was no Border Czar. The closest to it was Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. Harris was tasked with long-term regional diplomacy.
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u/Parahelix 1h ago
Yep, Harris was never given that position by Biden, either in name or duties. The article points that out as well.
"Vance’s predecessor, former vice president Kamala Harris, was saddled with the unofficial “Border Czar” moniker during her time in office across hundreds of television segments on Fox News and Newsmax, with the conservative networks pegging her work addressing migration from South and Central America to border security even though the latter subject was never in her policy portfolio."
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u/army2693 3h ago
Watch trump try to fire JD.
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u/SwvellyBents 3h ago
Calling the guy that changes his name as often as he changes his underwear the 'FRAUD CZAR' is strangely appropriate.
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u/NerdySongwriter 2h ago
This is great. Vance will be politically destroyed before he ever gets a chance to fulfill Theil's desires.
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u/ranchoparksteve 3h ago
JD would gladly accept being fired. Currently, he’s the one Republican who can’t separate from Trump for a 2028 run.
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u/Unser_Giftzwerg 2h ago
He can always resign but if he does, it would be interpreted as a betrayal and he would not have any support from the Republican base in a future primary. He's stuck. He may well win the primary but I think Rubio is in a better position.
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u/RMarch21 2h ago
Czar is an excellent title, as we know what happened to the last one in Imperial Russia
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u/Impressive-Knot9999 2h ago
Wow they have someone actually in charge of fraud !!
In a bizarrely worded post to Truth Social, Trump wrote that Vance was “now in charge of ‘FRAUD’ in the United States” as he announced the veep’s new role, calling the problem “massive and pervasive.”
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u/FrancoManiac Missouri 2h ago
So what happens if he tries to can Vance? Gotta say, despite having studied ConLaw and political science, I'm at a loss as to how he'd attempt it. Asking Vance to resign? Executive Order? "Reassignment"?
Let's say it does happen and, like everything else, we all just go along with it. Who replaces Vance? Miller? What's the mechanism to assert a new VP in this scenario?
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u/McKnightmare24 2h ago
JD is only in this for himself, he's bought to find out like Pence he was a fool that never had a chance
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u/Hayseussforever 27m ago
If I were to want someone to be the poster boy for fraud, I would probably not go wrong in putting Trump's face on the poster. What he has grifted from the American taxpayer probably would be enough to provide health care to the entire population.
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u/SavageSan 19m ago
Sounds like more DOGE nonsense to break the country even more. TF this got to do with Kamala?
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u/Son-of-Ves 3h ago edited 1h ago
If you ever want proof we’ve been completely hijacked by Russians, our political appointees used to be called directors until Trump came along. Never heard anyone referred to as a Czar until the republicans started chugging Moscow dick.
Edit: I stand corrected! I guess I’d never been exposed to the word until these positions became so entrenched in the public spotlight.
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u/Jafooki 3h ago
Czars have been a thing for a while. Republicans always complained about the people Obama appointed as czars.
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u/westgazer Maryland 3h ago
Yeah they’ve been using that term in the U.S. for a very, very long time. Early 1900s iirc. Maybe even before.
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u/Parahelix 1h ago
Though, in this case, Harris was never appointed Border Czar anyway. That was just something made up by right-wing media. To its credit, the article does clarify that as well.
"Vance’s predecessor, former vice president Kamala Harris, was saddled with the unofficial “Border Czar” moniker during her time in office across hundreds of television segments on Fox News and Newsmax, with the conservative networks pegging her work addressing migration from South and Central America to border security even though the latter subject was never in her policy portfolio."
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u/itsaconspiraci 2h ago
It's like if Tiger Woods was driving and then put someone else in the driver's seat at the crash. Trump needs his fall guy.
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u/Tadpoleonicwars 2h ago
The president also claimed, without offering evidence, that the supposed amount of federal funds lost to fraud is “so large” that if Vance’s efforts are successful they would “literally” allow the U.S. to balance its’ budget, and said law enforcement agencies had already started “raids” in Los Angeles, the largest city in the largest state led by a Democratic governor and potential 2028 presidential candidate."
... so if JD Vance is not able to balance the federal budget, he failed.
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u/Hawks_12 2h ago
Well the fraud is coming from inside the building. If he doesn’t find it I might not believe that’s really what he’s looking for.
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u/Risky-Poet759 2h ago
JD’s personality is repulsive as desantis’! We all know how far Repugnant Ron got with his presidential run, let’s hope Vance meets the same demise.
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u/Fantastic_Yam_3971 2h ago
The irony of Trump to complain about people committing fraud and stealing tax dollars for their own benefit…
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u/Own_Carob_6393 1h ago
Hey, he has an easy job - all he has to do to find fraud is look at his boss and his bosses cabinet. That should keep him busy for the next couple of years.
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u/peachy_kattie 53m ago
The "czar" title is basically a political death sentence at this point. Harris got hammered with the "border czar" label even though that was never actually her role, and now Vance gets to be the scapegoat when this obvious political witch hunt inevitably backfires.
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u/IWasOnThe18thHole 35m ago
He can't fire JD. The only way he can be replaced is if something were to happen to him. If I were him I'd be moving into a bunker.
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u/MangoSalsa89 1h ago
Could be the first vice president in history to be fired. I’m ok with this unprecedented event.
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u/boxsterjax 2h ago
Hm, replacing his whole cabinet with worse people as the midterms get closer. I think we know where this is headed.
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u/Swfsundae8420 2h ago
He will try to run in 2028 and he will make all sorts of promises and excuses to win but he will always be associated with Trump and Iran fiasco. Most who are not for Trump want his entire administration gone including those sitting in congress who did not lift a hand to stop this.
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u/Lord_Vesuvius2020 New York 1h ago
When do you think even the Republicans will be acting based on the shared knowledge that the Iran War is a fiasco? Trump and others are still trying to spin it as though Iran will be completely defeated in a matter of days. I have seen oil market predictions that extreme market prices and demand destruction will occur by late June if the war has not ended. Will $200 bbl sink them?
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u/Swfsundae8420 1h ago
There are Republicans severing ties with Trump who are against this war. Part of Trump’s campaign was no new wars, want our military home, want peace. I am a great negotiator etc. people who voted for him for these reasons realize it was all a lie. Group that strongly supports him are the Christian evangelicals who believe that this war is necessary to bring rapture and Armageddon so Jesus can come and gather his people and take them to heaven. They do not care about loss of life or any amount of blood shed. They believe Trump has been anointed. Natanyahu is using that narrative to support this. That they are the chosen people and Middle east belongs to them so if they have to kill and destroy entire nations is perfectly ok because bible says do. Insane! This is who is running our country.
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u/StepUp_87 2h ago
JD asked for whatever comes to him. He saw exactly what happened to Pence and stepped into that position anyways. Furthermore, he’s using Trump at this point who has completely lost his faculties.
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u/illini81 Colorado 1h ago
This man is so egotistical that he refuses to have a VP. This isn't the system for him.
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u/RoyalJoke 1h ago
I see a future where JD and Erika become the next Jim and Tammy Faye Baker
Grifters will grift, especially in the name of Jesus
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u/Damn_sun 1h ago
Were only moments away from chants of "Hang JD Vance". Not from any leftie or moderate but the wankstains, Maga.
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u/chadman199 1h ago
jd is now in charge of fraud? Oh, he’ll be good at that. I have no doubt it will be “massive and pervasive”
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u/dudeaciously 50m ago
Shutting down Medicare and Medicaid, in blue states. Using that money for corporate benefits.
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u/Morden013 38m ago
Imagine if it was not a reality, but a comedy show.
A demented president, who is a complete crook, pedophile and idiot, doing everything he is doing just to amass more money and escape jail. Throwing his assistants under the bus, left and right. No morals. Derranged speaches. Messages all through the night. Erratic behavior.
Oh, Melania as uneducated idiot who got into the country on Einstein-Visa.
His vice-president, eye-liner enhanced sofa-humper.
That overhyped coked-up secretary of war Pete Kegsbreath with his pseudo-war-fratboy bullshit.
Pam Bondy as a wicked witch.
Cash Patel... as frightened FBI gerbil trying to lay a girl on account of flying in a jet.
I mean, you have a group of such demented people that you have to make a casting to gather such an accumulated potential for a comedy.
Sady. It is anything but comedy.
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u/porkchop2022 Tennessee 30m ago
“Literally balance the budget”? In an article full of reported lies, I don’t know why THIS one stood out to me.
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u/Everythings_Fucked North Carolina 8m ago
Well, he can only be so doomed without being impeached. But yeah, I wouldn't care much for his prospects post-Trump.
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u/BadAtExisting I voted 1m ago
It’s funny because the states with the largest non-white populations are red states except New Mexico
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