The saga of Truth Social needs only now to be committed to music as a ballad and business people throughout the ages will remember it. Maybe we could give it a shot with the Theme From Beverly Hillbillies: “Let me tell you of the story of a man named Don, born with a silver spoon devoted to The Con, didn’t have enough troubles with J6 and things you know, decided he had to form a company named Truth Social.” (Then it got crazy, downright scary in fact.)
Listen to a short clip here which summarizes some of the issues that Donald Trump has had with his ridiculous social media platform. And don’t forget, once Truth Social got yuge, and we mean yuge, with big strong men with tears in their eyes saying, “Sir, this is the most wonderful social media platform on this or any planet. Let me give you my life’s savings to invest, please Sir,” then Trump was going to make movies and TV shows, ala Amazon.
Maga: "Lies, lies, lies. I believe Trump & as soon as I get next month's welfare check I'm going to do what he asked, invest the whole thing in his stock. Cause I'm a patriot."
— Barklee woke anti-facsist 🇺🇦🌊🌊🌊 (@northclarctica) April 13, 2024
Are you ready for this to get nuttier still? Because of course it does. Truth Social is going out of business, that’s not a question of if but of when. And that means that Devin Nunes is going to be out of work. So Roger Stone has a terrific idea of what the next step is for both Trump and Nunes.
Stone is absolutely right, I think he should go for Nunes as well. Maybe he’ll bring his @DevinCow ? 😉
— Alicia Mae (@AliciaMae_O) March 29, 2024
Devin can bring his cows to the White House and put them amongst the cow shaped lawn ornaments. Why not? And since we’re talking about nutty VP picks, here, look at this. It can hardly get nuttier than this, unless Trump would ask Casey DeSantis to be on his ticket.
Former primary enemies join forces in the general election all the time. Reagan and Bush, Biden and Kamala {she called him a racist during a debate). It would not be that weird for Trump to pick DeSantis and voters want it. pic.twitter.com/sGUmnxgYIW
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 30, 2024
You think that’s a nutty idea? Hold my beer.
That will be next. They don’t get it, she was almost as much a drag on his ticket as he was.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) April 13, 2024
No matter how crazy it gets, remember: There is no low they won’t go. It can always get crazier. And it does.
What kind of idiot would carry themselves as a VP to Trump’s, “Line them all up and shoot them”, kind of mental disability? He had Pence, sometimes I thought he may have stopped breathing, unknown to Trump and all the other dorks in the room …
With another session of Trump, the whole Republic could fail …
Tired of SS pay-outs, financial help with medical costs and treatments, other annoying things from our government spending? VOTE TRUMP —
Happier with the way Biden is chasing down the billionaires for fare share TAXES instead of handing them MORE Trump tax breaks with no returns …
It’s a simple idea, support the Women’s choice, flip the crooked GOP out of our House and Senate, keep the popcorn coming, we have to vote in every Democrat running for Congress, public offices and our own lives …
Well, if the GOP nominees are Trump/DeSantis, one of those men will NOT get the state’s electoral votes since the Constitution CLEARLY provides that
“The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, . . . .”
This is the opening text from the Twelfth Amendment. Trump changed his residence AND voter’s registration to Florida in 2020 (we all saw the photos of him coming out of a Palm Beach area precinct) and, of course, DeSantis is the governor of the state (and state law does kind of mandate the governor be a legal resident of the state).
Now, I can’t imagine Trump just “abandoning” Mar-a-Lago to set up a legal residence in another state and no matter how much he demands DeSantis do it, I don’t see DeSantis giving in. DeSantis was so unwilling to abide by existing Florida statutes requiring him to step down as Governor for his quixotic presidential bid that he “requested” his Legislature pass an exemption just because he asked so nicely so there is absolutely NO way that DeSantis would step down as Governor (not with two more years in the office when the team loses in November) not even to please Donald.
Now, there IS a potential workaround: The state’s electors simply cast no vote for either President or Vice-President (I’d hate to be the ketchup bottles at Mar-a-Lago when Trump learns that he didn’t get Florida’s electoral votes and I’d hate to be the electors when DeSantis learns they didn’t vote for him to be Vice-President). It’s the only way that two residents of the same state can possibly run on the same ticket (barring, of course, an amendment changing that rule or abolishing the Electoral College entirely–but that won’t happen in time for this year’s election).
I don’t see a Trump DeSantis ticket or a Trump Rubio ticket but not just because of the Constitutional issue. People who see DeSantis or Rubio as choices think that that would be Trump making his piece with “regular” Republicans. I don’t know if he wants to do that. I think he wants pure MAGA idolatry, which would mean Noem, or Mace, or somebody of that ilk.
I’m not sure desantis and rubio can be called “regular” republicans. Not anymore. They jumped on the trump train and except for a brief moment for desantis during his doomed bid for the ‘pube nomination, they never jumped off.
I never thought that a time would come that Sarah Palin wouldn’t be considered the worst ever candidate for V.P.
Yet here we are, with a plethora of them, all worse.
You never know – come November Trump could be a resident of New York (one of their correctional facilities that is)