A sitting senator has these brilliant ideas:
“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” he continued. “That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that’s what we should have done.”
Small problem, Senator Political Science Major:
The Constitution makes no such provisions for this.
And let’s talk about his views on how his idol should conduct himself if re-elected:
Stephanopoulos also asked Vance about a September 2021 podcast interview where he said that if Trump is reelected in 2024, he would advise the former president to “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people”
Oh, and let’s not worry about that bothersome Supreme Court either, shall we?
– and, if and when the courts tried to stop him, “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
Okay, those are a bit aged, but he’s resurrected it with this nonsense:
“The Constitution also says the president must abide by legitimate Supreme Court rulings, doesn’t it?” Stephanopoulos pressed.
“The Constitution says that the Supreme Court can make rulings … but if the Supreme Court said the president of the United States can’t fire a general, that would be an illegitimate ruling,” Vance said.
So, we’re yet again listening to a leading republican (I’ll have to say someone currently in the United States Senate should be considered a leading member of their party; after all, there are only 100 US senators) who cares not a whit about the constitution of the United States of America even though it’s said constitution that created his job.
I wonder if the Powers That Be at Ohio State University can revoke his degree. He obviously learned nothing about how the United States government.
Oh, let’s not forget his take on victims of sexual abuse:
“I think it’s actually very unfair to the victims of sexual assault to say that somehow their lives are being worse by electing Donald Trump for president when what he’s trying to do, I think, is restore prosperity,” Vance told Stephanopoulos when asked to respond to the argument that backing Trump meant tacitly supporting abusers.
WHAT THE FUCK?
“You got raped, but you should be okay with that because with a rapist in the White House, your life will be better.”
How the fuck does someone come up with that bullshit?
Well, since Tan the Conman is his idol, maybe Vance will soon say that he was only joking.