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@molly0xfff
There's something interesting I noticed about the criticisms on social media. I saw a post (I think on Reddit) saying something like "give us JD Vance" which struck me as really odd.

Not only does Vance have the charisma of a pair of wet socks, but he's heavily in the crypto space. Why would anyone see Trump pulling some crypto scam and think Vance would course correct on that issue? Then I started noticing other screencaps of cryptbros who were similarly promoting Vance while criticizing Trump.

The whole thing makes me really suspicious that we might be seeing the very beginnings of an astroturf campaign to set up Trump as the patsy for all the really unpopular shit that we know is coming down the pipe. Once he gets too radioactive for even the most die-hard supporters, they can dump him and put Thiel's puppet in charge. Priming people to see Vance as a favorable alternative is a good way to give that move some real positive impact with their base.

A big part of me wants to write off those suspicions as conspiratorial thinking... but on the other hand, I have a very hard time believing that tech bros pumped billions into the election just to install their guy as *Vice* President, you know?