I was in college about forty years ago and Mountain Dew was the thing to drink if you needed to stay up late.
Is that a child… smoking a corn cob pipe?
I mean, I know it was a long time ago, but still…
FWIW I am 51 and was well aware of their old hilbilly marketing, I remember their 70s and 80s marketing that was all ziplines, waterskiing, and jumping into quarries. But NOW I think of them as favorite of the meth crowd.
“All your questions about my couch-fucking have already been answered in the retracted Associated Press article which denied my couch-fucking.”
What’s the backstory there? Did someone at the AP plant the story?
If Thiel and Musk decide that their darling’s presence on the ticket means that Kamala Harris will win—and all their dreams of being the Top Oligarchs in Trump’s autocracy are going bye-bye—then they will have NO trouble pushing the idea that Vance has a secret plan to pay REPARATIONS.
Nothing else could be so effective in getting all of MAGA—not just the ultra-white-supremacists unhappy about Vance’s Indian-background wife—to reject him. Calls for Vance to step down will carry the weight of armed fanatics willing to… take care of him, if he doesn’t step down.
He’ll step down.
Isn’t part of the convention to nominate the presidential and vice presidential candidates? So how can Vance be replaced after?
So is the consensus here that Vance isn’t going to make it to the ticket? Because I think he’s already become too much of a burden to keep.
It’s going to be SWEET to see this spineless nazi fuck given the boot! (Too bad he will continue to disgrace the senate…)
From my post above:
Probably already noted upthread, but the RNC already has rules in place to replace a nominee in case of a vacancy (i.e., the nominee steps down, dies, or is incapacitated). If Trump decided he just wanted to fire Vance (and Vance refused to step aside on his own), Trump very well could get the RNC to amend their rules to allow for it.
And, as has also previously been noted, the Democrats had this exact thing happen in 1972, when their VP nominee, Thomas Eagleton, stepped aside a few weeks after the convention, after it came to light that he had undergone psychiatric care (electroshock therapy for depression). Eagleton withdrew at the request of the presidential nominee, George McGovern, and was replaced on the ticket with Sargent Shriver.
Edit: @flurb shared the post with the RNC rule while I was typing.
Mountain Dew features prominently as a NASCAR sponsor and NASCAR is very white and very southern.
I didn’t grow up poor but I did grow up in a very rural area where the choices were Coke and Pepsi. Mountain Dew was like the kid’s drink - like a rebellious thing - and the hillbilly imagery was about as offensive as Deputy Dawg. I dragged it with me into adulthood because I was addicted to it by then and it contributed to me being overweight for most of my 20’s … but I digress.
I always kind of saw it as a novelty soda … with a cartoon sensibility.
I can’t help but feel that he’d feel he’s fine.
Picture it: he stands up in front of everybody and says, hey, I reasoned — correctly — that Trump/Vance would be the best ticket to run against Biden/Harris; but, as you all now know, I beat Joe Biden so badly in the debate that he wound up dropping out. So, now that they’ve swapped in a new ticket, I’m swapping in a new one in response; and if they change their ticket again — like if Kamala drops out, right after I beat her in a debate — I’ll consider another swap. I mean, I’m always the right answer; but any time they change their ticket in hopes of losing by less, I’m willing to change mine to win by more. And we’ve got to win by plenty, because if I win and it’s close they’ll try to steal this one from me like they did in 2020, amirite?
Can you imagine him (a) saying something like that, while (b) pronouncing “Kamala” wrong?
Exactly this. Obviously.
OK, that’s two tenuous connections, instead of three.
As for replacing him, the RNC has rules to replace him if he voluntarily steps down. But why would he do that? Part of the reason Biden’s stepping aside blindsided the Republicans so hard is that the concept of someone willingly giving up power for the benefit of others is so completely alien to them.
A big day on Google Trends for the sofa-curious.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=Vance%20couch&hl=en
Just from watching clips of J D Vance at rallies after the convention, he’s not a good speaker. Completely lacking in any kind of charisma or appeal.
I wonder how he was elected to the US Senate.
Trump endorsed him, both in the primary, and in the general election.
Barely. In a pretty red state he managed only 53% of the vote.
IMO, Ohio is only marginally red, though it’s probably just a bit too red to really be a swing state anymore. Trump only got 53% of the vote there in 2020, and 52% in 2016.
So, who wants to predict the over/under timeline for Vance’s Under-Bussing?