JD Vance wins Trump's VP pick

Trump got his yes-man. JD will do anything and everything Trump wants without question. Ugh. Please don't let these two in the White House! Please!!! A barely functioning Biden is better than that any day!

So I just wrote a comment which could be taken as justifying vigilante violence, so here's the flip side:

Does anybody still believe that this kind of switch results from careful, rational contemplation of the issues? Nah fam, this change by Vance makes sense when you realize that right-wing populism is a kind of mind-virus which attacks our figurative lizard hind-brain and overrides our rational faculties. It's powerful and highly treatment-resistant because it weaponizes the fight-or-flight threat response against facts and reality.

Still, you'd think that with the advancing state of our psychological and pharmaceutical sciences, we'd be better equipped to take it on than during the last "pandemic" in the 1930's. A global paroxysm of violence was required to stamp it out last time, and we'd all be so much better off with a direct treatment. I guess that that kind of response would require understanding and recognizing that it is a mind-virus, a.k.a. a meme in the OG, Dawkins sense of the word.

(Also, does anybody else feel like this guy is only on the ticket because his name is a single, strong syllable?)

Does this mean he vacates the seat? I sure hope so.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Vance of Ohio as his running mate, selecting a rising star in the party and previously outspoken Trump critic who in recent years has closely aligned himself with the former president.

The ex-president, who would be limited to one term if he wins in November, weighed a variety of candidates for his running mate this cycle, requesting documents from at least eight hopefuls and holding unofficial auditions for many of them at campaign events.

Vance has been one of the former president’s most vocal champions, showing his support outside the New York City courthouse during Trump’s criminal trial this year, as well as boosting him in frequent appearances on cable TV.

He served in Iraq as a U.S. Marine from 2003 to 2007 before studying political science and philosophy at Ohio State University and attending Yale Law School.

But he has since moderated his pitch after losing an Ohio abortion ballot measure, acknowledging that Republicans are mistrusted on the issue and need to find middle ground, putting him in alignment with Trump.

“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,” Vance said in a February interview with ABC News.

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