What type of VP will JD Vance be?

I'm trying to think of the last time any vice president did anything of note.

Re: What type of VP will JD Vance be?

Actually, I suspect he'll become the sort of vice president that becomes president.

Our two-party system produces some interesting bedmates - I mean, the Dems literally had the Arab and Jewish communities in the US under the same Big Tent, and we all saw firsthand just how compatible that ended up being when Israel decided to have it out with Hamas and Hezbollah. The Dems probably could have survived that, but Russian bots also took the young leftist college vote along with the Arab vote. If you look county-by-county where Kamala lost the election in, say, Michigan, it was in Wayne County - home of Dearborn, Michigan - and Washtenaw County, home of the University of Michigan.

I figured the Arab community would largely sit this one out, and they did, but I also thought the college kids would go back to the Dems in the end because of the abortion issue and also because that's what they've always done and at the end of the day they didn't have any skin in the game with Gaza. But they didn't. They seem to have largely sat this election out as well. And that ended up being the ball game, especially since Kamala never actually advanced any specific proposals that would have won over the so-called "Haley" voters.

But the biggest incompatibility of all are the new technocrat faction of Big Tech - led by Elon Musk and Peter Theil - and the traditional GOP conservative faction, led by think tanks like the Heritage Foundation that now have as their biggest backers Big Oil. (This was the bunch that advanced Project 2025.) Obviously these two are never going to be able to co-exist under the same Big Tent for so much as ten minutes before they start gouging away...and I wouldn't put my money down on the traditional conservatives. And JD Vance is the handpicked boy of Peter Theil...and I suspect Vance is going to end up being the worst personnel move Donald Trump ever made, and he's made some whoppers. Because now all the Big Tech faction - which includes the richest man in the world - needs to do to get their handpicked fellow and a guy they own right down to his toes into the Big Chair is...to rid themselves of Donald Trump.

They may not even have to assassinate Donald. Elon can just outright buy Donald's cabinet right out from under him and invoke the 25th. He could offer each Cabinet member a billion dollars cash and it wouldn't be but a drop in the bucket, especially compared to what Elon's got to gain.

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Nov 7, 2024, 5:55 PM

"They may not even have to assassinate Donald. Elon can just outright buy Donald's cabinet right out from under him and invoke the 25th. He could offer each Cabinet member a billion dollars cash and it wouldn't be but a drop in the bucket, especially compared to what Elon's got to gain."

That is some Alex Jones level stuff right there.... Trump ain't going nowhere and Elon has no interest in seeing him removed - quite the opposite.

Elon has been very clear that his life's dream and work is focused on making the human species a multi-planetary species. Elon has spent $Billions building SpaceX in that pursuit. He has spent countless dollars finding and hiring some of the best project managers, engineers and scientists towards that endeavor. As a result, SpaceX has made some real breakthroughs in everything from rocket to control systems technology and beyond.

The one thing Elon has identified that can stop or drastically slow down and/or reduce his chances of seeing his life's dream from coming to fruition is the bureaucratic, Government regulatory State.

During a recent interview with Joe Rogan - Musk stated he can manufacture a rocket and have it ready to launch faster than he can get five of the Government's bloated bureaucratic agencies to approve a single launch. He also discussed the catch 22 the DOJ throws at SpaceX from their hiring practices. The DOJ goes after SpaceX for their "discriminating against asylees and refugees" yet because of the technology SpaceX deals with they legally can't hire such foreign nationals. To me - all of this is a "tell" about Musk's motives and state of mind. Elon simply wants to remove as much of the Government obstacles from his pursuits and believes that of the available options - Trump is the best vehicle to do so.

The Democratic Party embraces big Government bloat and regulation while Trump is much more amenable to reducing regulation as witnessed by his first time in office. Elon has no need to pull a Machiavellian stunt (where it can go terribly wrong) with Trump's staff to get what he wants. It is much easier and more effective to just stroke Trump's ego and get the same/better result as a palace coup.

I also believe Musk is being genuine when he discusses and expresses his concerns with the "woke mind virus" and the drastic turn the Democrats have made to the far left. He's been very clear that the DEI practices as put forth in policy by the Democrats is detrimental to our country and future as a civilization.

So... Musk, like all folks of his stature, have a lot of self-interests in their dallying into politics but in Musk's case - I think a lot of his political self-interests might actually be beneficial for the rest of us as well.