Deliberating these vice presidents
Deliberating on vice presidents
Deliberatus has been weirdly into vice presidential nominees lately. Who could blame?
The actual vice president was just appointed as basically president, and the way that all went down was awful. Shame on the people around President Biden for not having the courage to take the keys from him.Their husband/father/brother could have wrapped his legacy gracefully. Instead the whole country watched him age out in real time.
We’re left with a president we all kinda know shouldn’t be president still. But that’s okay! His vice president can handle it. It’s kind of the ultimate unintentional campaign contribution when you think about it. Bow out too late for anyone to challenge your vice president and let her be half-president for the next three months so people can get used to seeing her do president things.
Some people take issue with the “undemocratic” way Harris ascended to the top of the ticket. Deliberatus doesn’t. Coalescing around the most available candidate was the right move.
The greatest quarterback of all time was drafted in the sixth round and sat on the bench until the player in front of him got injured. Tom Brady never gave the job back. Sometimes we don’t see that a person has the skills for big time moments until they are in big time moments. Deliberatus thinks that’s what we’re seeing in Kamala Harris. Her first presidential campaign was laughably bad and questions dogged her entire term as VP up until the moment she needed to shine.
She’s shining. Yes she is in the honeymoon period to end all honeymoon periods. Look at it another way: She’s flipped the entire race upside down without doing an on-the-record media interview. Do you know how fucking hard that is? Books will be written about what her campaign team is doing. It’s all the more astonishing when you consider the staff is largely unchanged from the staff that supported President Biden. On a dime they pivoted to supporting a completely different candidate and they are absolutely crushing it. Hail.
The honeymoon won’t last though. The media will eventually compose itself as a group. Just ask JD Vance. His bliss lasted about as long as it takes to realize humping a couch cushion is a raw deal. The thing that gets me about how his cat lady comments came back to bite him so incredibly hard is this: The Trump team would have seen them and thought nah not a problem. Motherfuckers, women are having a moment. The most famous woman in the world has one cat and no children. Deliberatus believes hindsight is 20/20, so of course we sit here and say how did you not see this would happen. You have to be self-aware enough to know this could be a problem and have some kind of plan to roll the guy out. Fill the media vacuum to push this kind of stuff out of the picture.
Nope. They didn’t. Totally failed. Which exposed another problem with picking JD Vance. When a politician comes under attack they tend to default to their base instincts. But what are Vance’s base instincts? I argue he has no idea. He was fervently anti-Trump until he (like every other Republican) realized he can’t be anti-Trump and politically successful. So he bent the knee.
Deliberatus asks you to be honest with yourself here. Do you deep down really believe it’s coincidence JD Vance did a 180 on Donald Trump at the exact same time he needed Trump supporters to vote for him? You don’t. Vance changed his tune because it was in his best interest to do so. Now a man with no compass has no instinct to fall back on.
So it’s no surprise Vance comes across phony as hell in all settings. He represents the pinnacle of the shallow communication style prevalent among most MAGA politicians. Couple that with spectacular inarticulatness and you have in Vance a candidate who not only has no inner compass but no ability to communicate in a way that can cut through negative media coverage.
Compare that to Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who’s primary appeal seems to be vibes. Walz is a phenomenal communicator in just about every environment you put him in. T-shirt and jeans on a farm? Vibes. Suit and tie at a podium? Vibes. Vibes vibes vibes. Kind of hilarious for a Vice President to be nominated by a Chinese-owned app the United States is trying to ban.
Walz won his first election to Congress in 2006, then became governor of Minnesota in 2018. It’s now year 2024. That’s an 18-year political record that Deliberatus is sure will bubble up to the surface at some point in this campaign.
Once we’re done reporting on his camo hat.