"My balloon animals are so big and so beautiful, you wouldn't believe it. Sometimes I do dogs, and even cats but really mostly it's snakes. It's always bigly balloon snakes. That's the best balloon animal I've been told. Anytime I arrive in my comically tiny car that has my entire cabinet jammed into it, everyone says, there goes Big Clown Donnie! Especially when Elon lets me wear my special squeaky shoes. And you know what? They love my pies. They love it when I creampie everyone. It's true, everyone knows this. Sometimes I even honk my big orange nose after giving them the biggest creampie when they stop me on the street. It's real old fashioned clown values, what America was built on. I've been told my nose honks are the honkiest honks to ever honk. These honks are really bold you know. They love it, they really do. I mean can you believe that? I wouldn't believe it, but it's very true and it is big. My circus is coming to town and Mexico is going to pay for it."
You know, people, grown men come up to him on the street, with tears in their eyes and they say, "President Trump", because that's my name, they say, "President Trump your balloon animals saved my life!" And it's true, they do save lives. They also can hold water, and if you throw one of my water snake balloon animals, you know they say that the water you get from one of those is 500 times more water than you get from one of the low flow showers.
"Mostly snakes" meaning he just blows up the balloon and claims it's a snake. Although I'm not sure he'd have enough breath to even blow up a balloon, so... never mind, as you were...
He may be quick study, but everything he’s learned about foreign diplomacy came from think tank keyboard philosophers who haven’t had a two-way conversation with another human being let alone conducted bilateral peace negotiations. Vance, more than Trump, comes across as complete fool every time he opens his mouth about foreign affairs, because with Vance is just a transparent posture.
He acts like he knows it all. He’s sophomoric. We all know someone like Vance. And we roll our eyes when they try to engage in the conversation. But Vance is also scary ambitious and paid off by a shadow figure. And Trump lets him jump right in.
That's the whole point. He IS smart, but his goal as a politician is to pander to Trump's base because that's where the profit is. He bet his career on that and it's paying dividends for him. If he were to actually act smart then he'd alienate all the morons that voted for him.
Did the same thing when he pretended to be from the back hills rather then the burbs.
James Donald Bowman has been a grifter since the get go. Get enough of a toe in to pretend to have seen action as a Marine, pretend to be close enough to the Hills to pretend to be one of the 'folk'.
I think there is a difference between smart and shrewd. There are some people who put all their intelligence points into fucking people over to get ahead. They could never be actual leaders or problem solvers, but they get a lot done because they don’t have pesky things like morality or rule following to get in the way.
Comes across as overgrown edge lord. Dude that said the n word while gaming into his late 20s and was the coolest atheist at private school, but got back with god for networking reasons.
He doesn’t actually KNOW things, so he’s ignorant, but he fakes it. But he’s smart enough to fake it decently and he learned all the big words and how to say them sternly. That definitely got him where he is now. He’s more aggressive than Trump. He’s less silly than Trump. He’s scarier. 2028 will be tough.
He was a critic of Trump during his first presidency and then eventually joined the right-wing grift when he saw where it could lead him. He is dangerously smart.
He's never really given off the smart vibe. He puts off the pseudo-intellectual conservative vibe. He he has learned that using big words around conservatives makes him seem smart, but that's about it. He has proven lately that he has dogshit for brains.
Vance was called the porn monster in the senate for the amount of porn they found on his computer after he attempted to ban porn in Florida😂. Bro is the farthest thing from smart
The only thing that gives me hope with him is that I don’t believe he’s a true believer. I believe his previous statements on MAGA from back in 2016. He’s smart, but a ruthless opportunist.
He wants to inherit the mob, but if he does I think he would try to pivot to his true world view which is much more centrist.
The only question is how much the tail is wagging the dog here. Could he keep control of the mob or would he lose them? If he started losing them would he give up and just allow himself to be their puppet in order to try and retain power?
He probably would tbh, but it would probably also be to no avail. He doesn’t have the charisma to hold their interest.
That's going to be such a shitshow and I'm there for it. I don't mean the political side, I mean his kids and Melania all stabbing each other in the backs for a cut of his estate and throwing each other under the bus to make themselves look better.
No idea what's going to happen on the political side, but I'm sure it won't be good.
Not close to charismatic and powerful enough in a cult like sense. That’s why the handlers are pushing so much so fast, once trump dies they know it will fracture. No way the base will play nice with the tech bros and they need each other. Congress will revolt against Elon. They have to get this done now while trump can hold it all together for them.
I genuinely want to hear why you think this man has an ounce of intelligence. If he ever did, which he may have when he wrote his book considering he actually seems to value people of different nationalities and backgrounds, he seems to have sold it or killed it within himself for power
I never said he's not a spineless sellout bitch.
Dude's a Yale graduate and he managed to dress himself this morning. Not having a diplomatic meltdown on television isn't really a high bar.
Yeah, Vance, his bff Elon musk, project 2025 author/ White House budget director Russell Vought, and in house eugenics advocate Steven Miller together or essentially the New World order. Trump is too stupid to understand how much he’s being used by these guys and he’s too egocentric to believe it if you were able to prove it to him. A gross man with a fifth grade speaking level who owes Russia and is acting like this is just a television show half the time. 🙄
In authoritarian regimes, the greatest threat to the leader usually comes from their second in command as the latter's frustration at waiting their turn grows. The leader knows this, and often takes their second-in-command out of the equation - with prejudice - as a pre-emptive strike. It's a dangerous position to be in, but many are tempted by the thought of being the one who lives long enough.
Vance is the most mid level white dude you’re ever going to meet. There are guys doing oil changes around the United States that could absolutely fucking baffle Vance.
The nick name “shark sucker” is perfect. He’s a parasite who latches on to real predators. He went to Yale law school and met his wife who is an immigrant who was part if the schools “Iraqi refugee resettlement program”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Vance
How could he marry someone like this and then be part of this administration? Peter thiel was the first shark he latched on to and now he’s riding whale shark trump. He’s such a fucking bitch boy failing upwards.
Vance isn’t smart though. He needlessly spoke and made himself and Trump look bad to both the American public and to every country around the globe. He is a liability. I am surprised that Trump even still allows him to speak.
Except less predators and more scavengers preying on the weakest country they can see. Never seen a day of war and think they can dictate to the president of a country facing exestential threat where he's gone wrong.
The only thing I took from this was that nuclear proliferation is going to take off, hell if I was in Ukraines place I'd be dropping nukes all along the border if they're threatening to force him to hand it over in any case.
While that's not what Ukraine would do, you're on the mark when it comes to the global balance of power. There is no more balance, and while scholars variously cite the (mostly nuclear) balance between great powers' relative capacities, international economic/financial integration, and international law/the UN Charter for the absence of a Third World War for this long (discounting Africa's World Wars and others)...every one of those containment mechanisms is fundamentally ruptured at this point.
Americans, do not wait 4 years. The rest of the world needs you to be who you always said you were.
Yes, agreed. I know that I'm pretty upset about the way they both yell at Zalensky. These idiots are going to cause World War 3. We thought a lot of people died under Trumps Presidency during Covid, and how bad he downplayed it. That will be nothing compared what's about to happen I fear.
They are all in it for themselves. He’s VP and likely next in line so he’ll play ball until the party is done with trump. He’s a career politician and he’s already made it this far
You're absolutely right about Vance. With Zelensky, that guy is one class act and any country would be fortunate to have him as a leader. He was the only real President in the ovsl office today.
That's an insult to clowns. If we took raw sewage, pumped it full of viruses, tied it into a orange sack of disgusting skin, starved it of love and taught it to hate, it would be on the first step of the horror that is Donald Trump.
I'd just like to point out that the clown emoji is currently available for lifetime adoption from Unicode for $5,000 in case anyone feels like immortalizing this likeness and supporting that organization at the same time.
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u/R3DKn16h7 Feb 28 '25
he's a fucking clown