The Witness Chronicles, July 15, 2024

So much for unity- J.D.Vance Is Trump’s VP pick

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Trump is Talking Unity But He Just Picked One of the Most Divisive People in the Party

J.D. Vance will be his running mate

After the assassination attempt Donald Trump talks about unity, pretty ironic since he is single-handedly responsible for the division across this country. But his VP pick tells us that is a bunch of baloney.

Vance is a pit bull willing to change gears to protect and grow his power base and he is a vicious one. Only a few years ago he called Trump a crook and a grifter. He claims to be a man of the people but in his novel Hillbilly Elegy he spreads stereotypes about the regular folks who live in Appalachia.

The reality is he is solidly in favor of more massive tax breaks for the wealthy, which would further crush the rural poor. It’s no wonder since as an ambitious politician he needs to raise big money, so now he is a big money guy.

In other words a typical extreme right Republican attack dog and unity is a word he does not know or care about. So much for pretending division is over as a Republican policy.

Trump could have picked a woman, a person of color, or someone else who is not a white male politician. Instead he picked a white male fake Everyman who masquerades as a regular guy. So now we have two jerks on the same ticket, both comfortable with blatant lying and using fear to scare voters.

After the shooting, Vance immediately started blaming Biden with no proof whatsoever. As we learn more about the shooter we know he was a registered Republican and his classmates called him conservative. He apparently was bullied relentlessly and, curiously, he tried to take out a well known bully.

Biden had nothing to do with any of this. The guy appears to be a classic loner shooter, alienated and angry at the world. But Vance saw a way to get a news bite after a tragedy that saw a man killed defending his family and two others, besides Trump, wounded.

That is called opportunism and opportunist perfectly describes J.D. Vance, man scarily focused on anything that can advance his career and willing to run over anyone else in the process. Unlike Trump, who shares these traits, Vance doesn’t even pretend to be a nice guy.

So much for unity.

My advice? Watch what Republicans talk about this week to see their true colors. Trump may pretend to have changed and mellowed but this choice tells us nothing has changed with him or his party. This is going to get ugly and we now know who the surrogate attack dog will be.

His name is J.D.Vance.

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