• TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    4 months ago

    At least normies will clock Kamala as some sort of modern, non-white telegenic girlboss politician in passing, the way they’ll mentally peg John Fetterman as some rugged guy, Warren as some professor lady, AOC as some young firebrand.

    Liz Cheney however occupies absolutely zero space in the public’s mind as anything, and her celebrity is exclusively the concoction of the centrist and neocon media anchors who still remember and care about Dick Cheney, and thinks it somehow matters that his daughter occasionally adds one Republican vote to another doomed bill to prosecute Trump. Cheney herself cannot capture any organic public interest, and any coverage she gets is due to either the cable news hosts mentally masturbating about her across the aisle commitment to “norms,” or Donald Trump seeing these news bits, getting mad, then calling for his hogs to find and kill her.

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      Liz Cheney however occupies absolutely zero space in the public’s mind as anything

      Then even if one grants the lib the full sociological ground (which is an absurd thing to do), this is still a bad idea because how is this nobody going to match up against Trump? Trump could throw some red meat to his base with the MyPillow guy or throw some red meat to the politics freaks with Senator Ted Lasso who went to Mexico when it got cold and they’d eat that shit up. Any moderate republican would see Ted Lasso as the unity ticket between 101.5% Hitler and the establishment politicians.

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        It would be fitting because Cruz joining as VP after Trump called his wife ugly and said his dad killed JFK would signify the final submission of evangelical and bowtie Republicans to Trump