Ain't no damn way. It better be a Wes Moore/Josh Shapiro ticket or, mark my words, we'll be living under President Vance.
Maybe related, maybe not: My wife saw I had sugar on the grocery list and looked in the pantry. "Did you mean to put sugar on the list? We have like ____ bags in here." I just gave her a look. She understood.
Yeah, and no queers, either! I'm only partially joking. There's been a bunch of talk lately about 2028 (wait for the mid-terms first, goddammit... That's where the energy needs to go right now), and I see Mayor Pete's name thrown around a lot. If they try running that guy, there goes your minority vote. Black, Muslim, HISPANIC; they are NOT voting for a gay man. Even if he's only VP. They either stay home*, or vote for the Republican candidate, whether it's Trump again, or someone else (I kinda don't think Vance will be the candidate in '28, but what do I know.). Of course, this all assumes that the Democrats aren't a "controlled opposition" party working for the same people as the GQP. As time goes on, they become less credible to me. Just look at how the Dems have fumbled again and again in Texas. I can elaborate on this if you want. This message brought to you by a straight white guy who has lived around Mexican-Americans for 40+ years**. *Think of all those "Free Palestine!" people who didn't vote Kamala, and tried to convince everyone else they knew to do the same. **God damn, I feel old saying that.
I think it's important to point out that there isn't a giant pool of trained and available law enforcement to hire from for this massive increase in immigration enforcement the Republican spending bill requires. These new folks at ICE, HSI, CBP, etc, are going to be folks who couldn't be trusted to be cops, couldn't hack it in the military, and didn't meet the minimum standards to be prison guards. They're going to be hiring from a massive pile of rejects; the kind of folks who dreamed about being a cop so they could "shoot a [insert racial slur here]" but had their application thrown in the bin by a sergeant who felt the department had paid out enough excessive force settlements as it was. And the Trump administration is going to empower them to wear masks and violate any law or civil right they please.
Can confirm. Inside DHS, no one trusts these fuckers. This is basically the only place that would give a Proud Boy a job, much less a gun.