Republican Senator Says He’d Totally Do a Coup if He Gets the Chance
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Senator J.D. Vance is openly embracing the idea of a coup in a pathetic bid to become Donald Trump’s vice president.
Senator J.D. Vance has essentially admitted he would have carried out a coup during the 2020 election if he could have, in a bald-faced attempt to be chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate.
The Ohio Republican has been floated alongside Representative Elise Stefanik as a possible Trump vice presidential pick. And in an effort to outdo his reported competition, Vance gave a full-throated defense of autocracy during an interview with ABC on Sunday.
When asked if, had he been vice president in 2020, he would have certified the election results, Vance said he would have done things a little differently.
“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” Vance said, referring to the fake pro-Trump electors that some states’ Republicans tried to send to Washington.
“That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that’s what we should have done.”
And that isn't enough to immediately kick him out of office. That's the truly incredible part.
Just a little bit of light treason, what’s the problem?
You hate freedom, don’t you
Sorry, we can’t enforce any insurrection charges. Ohios AG Dave Yost is too busy restarting the death penalty and going after 10 year olds for getting abortions.
Yep, I know. I'm in Indiana. Our AG went after the doctor who gave the 10-year-old kid from Ohio the abortion when it was still legal in Indiana, doxxed the kid, then tried to sue the doctor for doxxing the kid.
And he got his friends on the medical board to reprimand and fine her.
A group of people tried to overthrow the government and interrupt the peaceful transfer of power in order to install their leader as president. Those people could be accurately described as enemies of the nation. Senator Vance here is saying that, if he had had the opportunity, he would have seen that those people were successful. Vance has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Isn't this giving aid and comfort to the nation's enemies? That pretty much meets the definition of treason if so.
Treason is a stretch. Seditious conspiracy? 100%
Yeah that's a pretty cut and dry example of the same law they're using to bury Trump.
And should be burying Vance, MTG, Bobert, Gaetz etc. at the same time.
This man's mouth deserves to be treated as nothing less than a literal toilet.
Don't threaten him with a good time.
I'll have a better time watching him slowly die from sepsis.
Don’t denigrate toilets like that. They serve a useful function and improve public health, unlike the literal piece of shit J.D. Vance.
With hard water tablets and a scrub brush?
The 2020 election that had a lot of problems, like fabricated election fraud claims and actual republican election fraud?
Got him confused with the NY AG from a few years ago. Not him.
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So bad home life, goes to Yale Law, works with noted shitbag Peter Thiel and is now doing evil out loud and proud. Great.
Title should be: Guy who is part of the government actively wants to destroy his peers.
Saying the loud part louder.
One wonders if in the 1700s if Washington would have stood idly by and let Senators openly discuss overthrowing the Republic.
No, they would have been hanged
Oh, bullshit. There is no way this guy really thinks that there were "problems in 2020", other than tiny d losing, and not just losing the popular vote.
He also cut a deal with epstien and refused to prosecute with plenty of evidence.
I don't see the link to the onion?
he took a vow to protect the constitution and he's going to fulfill that vow by ripping it to shreds just to put their doddering, syphilitic, insane, demented, narcissist god king in power.
I'd make the case you should use the 14th amendment on this guy right now. he just admitted that he will undermine the thing he is supposed to protect and defend.
If he was in office during J6, Vance would have been cowering behind the Capitol Police like all the other would-be traitors.
His idol is Lance Vance from Vice City.
Because they share a last name and they're both traitors!
Have the Dems done anything to fix the potential pathways to autocracy? Or didn't they get a chance to? Shouldn't that have been their campaign slogan?
God damn centrist corporatists suck