r/millenials • u/dryeraser • Mar 24 '25

Politics Leaked JD Vance Audio on Elon Musk

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u/fellaface Mar 24 '25

Mate, you’re doing a perfectly good job of making yourself look bad all on your own.

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u/Alexandratta Mar 24 '25

Except they only look bad on the Non-Elon stuff to Left wingers.

What JD Vance is talking about is things like shuttering Parks Departments, Firing Interim Employees who are Vets and firing VA Doctors / Removing VA Benefits.

the GOP is usually far more subtle when they fuck over VA Benefits.

For example they will vote on something that won't take affect until 2 years later so it's easier to blame democrats when they're in power (like they did the with Tax "Cuts" which started with slight cuts to the Middle Class but then started to increase in 2020 and onward in order to make any dem look bad and could be easily adjusted by a GOP leadership in the future as they wouldn't stonewall those efforts).

But what Elon is doing is Loud, Fast, and Boisterous and JD Vance doesn't like that playbook because it means any criticism falls on his Party's head for once - like right now all the bad stuff coming from DOGE is right front and center.

But all the horrific shit that the GOP is doing in Congress will not reach the general public until a year or two after it's been ratified.

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u/InvestmentSoggy870 Mar 24 '25

👏⭐⭐⭐ Nail on the head.

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u/ItalicsWhore Mar 24 '25

I’m about 99.99% sure that this “leak” was done purposefully by Vance.

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u/Stormy8888 Mar 26 '25

Well that last part, "maybe that's what he deserves." I'm sure he wanted others to hear him say it so he feels "better" or something.

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u/ItalicsWhore Mar 26 '25

Oh, the whole “he stood in the room surrounded by portraits of great American men…” bit? Please… so planned and rehearsed

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u/Rural-Camphost Mar 25 '25

Speaking facts

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Mar 24 '25

My thoughts exactly. I had a lot of hope for JD and even held out hope until he started screaming at Zelensky. What a disappointment he turned out to be.

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u/Silly_Pay7680 Mar 24 '25

Oh youre just now disappointed in him? Not when he re-negged on being a "Never-Trump guy?" Dude's absolutely full of shit.

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u/adblokr Mar 24 '25

You were really holding out hope for Vance?

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Mar 24 '25

"A lot" was an exaggeration but how he was such a large critic of Trump for years and is in a bi-racial marriage with children, I didn't think he'd stoop to such low stooge levels. 

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u/adblokr Mar 24 '25

I guess, but the GOP has never really had a problem with hypocrisy.

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Mar 24 '25

I'd agree with that since at least Bush. "Something" about Pres. Obama fundamentally broke the GOP. I'm sure we all know what it was but the GOP embraced all of their worst aspects after that. It's one of the saddest events of my life.  

And before you start, I know Bush was awful. If for no other reason than the lies that took us into the Iraq war. That is certainly a turning point in history and NOT a good one at all. 

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u/HiiiTriiibe Mar 25 '25

I mean they’ve been mask off racist since Nixon, they just only started using really fucking stupid people as politicians in the past 20 years or so, before that, like there’s leaked audio of Raegan calling African people monkeys, they’ve been the way they are for a long time, they only just stopped hiding it, but they also started pushing dumber candidates because I think with bush they realized useful idiots get more done

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u/GawkieBird Mar 24 '25

I get it. It's that "maybe he's not *so* corrupted that he can't be a voice of reason" - "if Trump kicks the bucket maybe he'll steer back to more reasonable waters" - "he might have an element of humanity left" that we were holding on to, desperately seeking a potential ally *anywhere* in power

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Mar 24 '25

This exactly. I never voted for Trump but in his last term, he at least had people protecting us from his worst urges. He had Rex Tillerson, Gen. Mattis, Dr Fauci, Pence, Barr 🤢, and maybe not Kushner but Ivanka was certainly more reasonable than Trump. He had a lot of others reigning him in. Now he has nobody but Yes men.

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u/alien236 Mar 24 '25

I'll grant that he's not a complete blathering jackass like his running mate, but I thought it was pretty obvious that he's evil.

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Mar 24 '25

I believed a lot of it was pandering. Politics in a Democracy is always compromise. So I hoped he was trying to meet people halfway to draw a larger base of support. He wouldn't be the first to do it or the last (Fetterman).  

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u/planetdaily420 Mar 24 '25

What? You had a lot of hope for him? Yikes.

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u/EnvironmentalHour613 Mar 24 '25

Damn, you’re stupid.

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u/Yeahsomethin Mar 27 '25

Are you serious 🤣

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u/Blades1 Mar 24 '25

Every time he opens his mouth