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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts) Tue Apr 9, 2024, 08:41 PM Apr 9

Trump asks supporters to help pick his running mate. He really just wants their money.

Do you want to be Donald Trump's running mate?

That's the question the former one-term president asked supporters in an email Sunday evening. But that query, like another he sent last Thursday night, was really just Trump asking them more money while casting himself as a victim of judicial injustice and media mistreatment.

He's in a bind. Trump's first criminal trial – this one in New York involving paying hush money to keep a porn star quiet during the 2016 campaign about an affair – is scheduled to start next Monday. Those lawyers want to get paid. We're about to spend way more time than anyone wants hearing about the former president's approach to sex. And Trump, with three other criminal trials looming, trails President Joe Biden in fundraising for the November rematch.

It's completely on brand for Trump to turn his search for a vice president into a circus. He's going to squeeze this for cash for as long as he can, with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee still more than three months away.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-supporters-help-pick-092300039.html

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Trump asks supporters to help pick his running mate. He really just wants their money. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 9 OP

Fatfuck von Pantoad is too lazy and patronizing to figure it out himself Blue Owl Apr 9 #1

It also allows him to sidestep any responsibility for the choice, as always. Judi Lynn Apr 10 #6

So... Miguelito Loveless Apr 9 #2

honestly that is so effing tame compared to the thousands of horrific things he keeps doing. mucifer Apr 9 #3

How to pick keithbvadu2 Apr 9 #4

Intriguing. Igel Apr 9 #5

Blue Owl

(50,490 posts)

1. Fatfuck von Pantoad is too lazy and patronizing to figure it out himself

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 08:43 PM

Apr 9

Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts)

6. It also allows him to sidestep any responsibility for the choice, as always.

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:17 AM

Apr 10

Miguelito Loveless

(4,470 posts)

2. So...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 08:46 PM

Apr 9

the VP slot is now for sale.

mucifer

(23,560 posts)

3. honestly that is so effing tame compared to the thousands of horrific things he keeps doing.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 08:48 PM

Apr 9

keithbvadu2

(36,887 posts)

4. How to pick

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 09:34 PM

Apr 9

Igel

(35,350 posts)

5. Intriguing.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2024, 10:07 PM

Apr 9

Yes, he may be a "No Labels" opportunist.

But for a long time president and vice-president were uncorrelated. Had weird results.

Still, I can't say it's undemocratic. Even if it's un-party-dominant.

Then again, for a while, in SoCal, my ballot wasn't just split, or even fractured, but splintered. One ballot had me voting for reps from more than a half-dozen parties.

(Some research--replicated or not--showed a correlation between religion-loyalty and brand loyalty. I've long since decided on my beliefs, and when my church deviated from their precedential doctrines me desvie del rumbo de mi organizacion previa ... máš problém? to proč nelubiš mě?. So I have limited to null brand loyalty. Want my $? Quality x quantity / cost. I like pasta sauce X but it costs 20% more than the pasta sauce Y I like less, I have to decide. I think laundry detergent J and M are similar, cheaper wins. Follow, don't fallow, the science.)

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