Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

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    I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it’s not gonna work. He’s gonna get curb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.

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      And what political relevancy was that, exactly? That hectoring poverty-porn book he wrote, that was like Horatio Alger sucking off Peter Thiel?

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        Yes, that’s what I’m referring to. Remember how many moderate Democrats ate that shit up and anointed him the working-class whisperer? He wants that back.

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      Shame it’s too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.

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        It’s 2032. The Democratic ticket is Mike Pence and J.D. Vance. Their key issue is immigration, where they argue that immigrants should be sent to labor camps instead of exterminated. They are easily defeated by Trump, who’s entire campaign consists of telling incoherent stories about celebrities until he trails off into a series of racial slurs. The Democrats believe they lost by being too soft on immigration, but they’re optimistic that they can have a productive relationship with Vice President Benjamin Netanyahu.

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          92 days ago

          IDK, the zombie of Robert E Lee is probably electable in at least 15 states.

          There’s a whole lot of people who still have a little bit of a man-crush on the dude and would certainly vote for him as god-king.

          • @LowtierComputer
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            All of the southeast and pretty much any rural area in the entire US. He’d win in a landslide.