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Someone finally got through to Trump that Belarus has no potash to spare. All of their production is under contract.

Someone is feeding Trump fake news, and Trump is making very public announcements based on it. The bad intel, one might suspect, is designed to make Trump look foolish, having to backtrack. I wonder if that' someone' is Vance, who desperately wants to evict Trump from the White House after the mid-terms?

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[+] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] -7 points 5 days ago (18 children)

You missed my point, then, about Vance being the one who is out to make Trump look foolish. This is not the media, not the Democrats, not the public, but an insider who is perhaps the closest to Trump and with the most to gain by doing so.

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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 21 points 5 days ago (16 children)

He’s a moron. He doesn’t need any help being a fool.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] -4 points 5 days ago (15 children)

But Vance needs help in getting him impeached. Vance needs an offer that Trump can not refuse.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (14 children)

If that’s Vance’s gambit, he’s just as dumb as trump

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[+] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] -7 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Do not ever miscalculate on Vance. He is no Trump, and he is very intelligent. He wrote the book on how this would unfold years ago.

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Vance is not intelligent; he is Peter Thiel's puppet.

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[–] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

I heared "Failed Intern" and that fits. I really hope he takes over because there is no way he can hold this shit together

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 5 days ago

Vance is cold and calculating, with no social conscience. His intelligence is not moderated by any ethos. That is why he is so dangerous, far more dangerous than Trump. Trump is scatterbrained, Vance is deliberate and methodical.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago (9 children)

I don’t, but to that point he’d know this wouldn’t be a thing that would work.

Either way, he’s not that smart. Yes he can read and write, and has the capacity for critical thought which puts him leagues above trump, and yes he’s financed by Peter Theil, but by the same token none if that will help him sway the maga cult. In fact, they hate all that.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 4 days ago (8 children)

Do not underestimate his intelligence. He outmaneuvered Trump in the Supreme Court, and Trump does not even know it.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 4 days ago (7 children)

Mmmm not sure what you’re on about exactly, but I don’t think he’s smarter than any other average couchfucker.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 2 days ago (6 children)

An IQ of a university professor. Not many couch potaots have that IQ.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago (5 children)

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 2 days ago (4 children)

Like it or not, accept it or not, you don;f graduate from law at Yale with anything less.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

I’m sure that's true but, in the last 30 years between 100,000 and 150,000 people graduated that school, and most of them had the common sense to seek power outside of politics.

Not sure how he’s topping your charts, but either way I feel very confident he has little-to-no sway with trump’s yee-haw flagtruck cult. Inevitably of course trump will stab him in the back.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

From Google AI: No, the president cannot immediately fire or remove the vice president, as the U.S. Constitution does not grant the chief executive the power to dismiss a separately elected vice president

Vance does not need Trump's clown car supporters, he just needs the begrudged Republican Senators who lost their seats, between the election and when they are officially booted from office, to impeach Trump. The Dems will certainly go for it. There is nothing Republicans love more than a scorched earth policy in defeat.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 22 hours ago (1 child)

Where are you getting this intel, so to speak? That’s an alternate universe from where I see it. Not that he doesn’t have designs, but - that’s just highly unlikely.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 20 hours ago

I do not dispute that you are living in an alternate universe. In the universe I live in, most people thought it was unlikely Trump would have been elected first time around.

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[–] Octavio@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

I'd say it's far more likely that Trump saw some idiot on Fox News say "We should just buy potash from Belarus," and went straight to social media. He doesn't listen to his advisors anyway.

Maybe it's true that Vance wants him out; he would have the most to gain. But in the final analysis, I'm not sure there's much Vance could do to make him look even more foolish than he actually is.

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