Lies: Trump vs. Vance

[Ocelot II]

2. I am more convinced than ever that the billionaire techbros' plans all along

were to essentially bribe Trump to take on Vance as his running mate, assuming - probably correctly - that Trump was losing his shit so badly that he probably wouldn't survive more than a few months into a new term; if he didn't actually croak he'd become so deranged that they could do the 25th Amendment on him and bundle him off to a nice quiet, secure home in the country. I doubt very much that Trump himself has figured this out, but Vance knows that all he has to do until the election is toe the party line and avoid doing anything to piss off Agent Orange (like admit he lost the 2020 election, which made things awkward last night). If Trump wins Vance will become president, probably within the next year, and the techbros like Thiel and Musk and the Christian nationalists can jam Project 2025 up our collective asses. Trump is now their useful idiot as well as Putin's.