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I mean REALLY can we not just elect politicians anymore why do we only elect literal ACTORS?

Don't get me wrong, Cuomover isn't super great in his own way but at least he has years of experience leading people. Which is not the same as being a lead actor in a comedy movie from the 90s!

I just don't see how electing people solely because they're good on screen, or maybe kinda funny like Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan, is a good idea. What real policies does this man have other than a low budget film and great hair?

Sorry just needed to vent about the lack of QUALITY in today's politicians.

Like the title says

I know what wikipedia says about JD Vance, and his history, but what I don't understand is how someone no one has ever heard of could just become the Vice President overnight, and beyond what I can see on TV, I have no proof he's an actual person.

Like, Trump we know is real becuase lots of people have seen him and he's been in movies and TV shows before like in the 80s and stuff. I mean, hell he's already been president, but what did JD Vance do? Write a book? No one knows what authors look like! He might as well be a radio host. That could be anybodys book.

Then we have the huge turn around in his opinion of trump that was all over the news when he was announced president. How can someone just change their programming like that? Which got me thinking, what if he's actually either :

a) an AI like the kid from the Sixth Sense

b) a b-list actor hired by Peter Theil to do his bidding

While I think it's more likely he's the second one, lets talk about a) a bit first:

• Why I think JD Vance is an AI:

So, I hear a lot of people saying that JD Vance is basically owned by Peter Theil right? and Peter Theil is one of the uber rich tech crowd with a company that specificaly develops AI for the military and US govt. Well, what if that's more true than people realize and Peter Theil actually DOES own JD Vance, who is just a hyper advanced AI robot? I mean have you seen the stuff they've been showing at AI and robotics trade shows lately?

China has a kung fu robot, why woudl it be so far fetched for a tech billionaire to create his own AI robot that he controls and make it be president? It could theoretically live forever and woudl even be assassination proof.

This could explain why it says such bizarre things as "have you ever said thank you even once" or why it has trouble ordering sandwiches. It's just a prototype and I assume there are still bugs, which is why it's only VICE presdent and not full on President because that would be dangerous at this stage.

• Why it's more likely JD Vance is a puppet

While all of the above I feel is perfectly plausable, I do think it is needlessly expensive when you can just hire someone to do the AI's job, even though you'd give up the immortality part.

I think its more likely he is a washed up child actor who has had some plastic surgery to disguise himself, since he'd be known from movies and shows he's been in otherwise. If you're going to pick someone to do a job like pretend to be the Vice President, you'd have to pick someone who's acting skills were decent, but not good enough to really stand out, and with a mostly forgettable face.

So far, no one has been able to convince me that JD Vance did not play the role of Al Borland in Tim Allen's Home Improvement, though I realize his age might not fit the timeline.

Alternatively, (and this is actually spooky with the AI thing, but i guess he probably isn't both) he might just be Haley Joel Osmand (or one of the other members of the Joel Osmand family) after having a small bit of facial surgery. Since they're about the same age it's possible "JD Vance" got his start acting in movies like AI and the Sixth Sense. It'd also explain how he met a billionaire and became friends with him, since he was already friends with Bruce Willis and Bruce was on Epstein's list.

Anyway, why would they let some hillbilly guy who bashed Trump suddenly be his running mate if he wasn't already under control the whole time.

dunno just some late night thinking :)

and why doesn't everybody vote? I don't understand why it isn't mandatory i think everyone should have to, men, women, and children. If you can read the ballot, you should be able to vote. I know my nephew wouldn't have voted for trump and he's 10!

At work today I heard a few people say that "they didn't vote for elon" and why does he have so much power and I got to thinking that I haven't actually met anyone who says they did vote for Elon.

I know he wasn't on my ballot, but neither was Nancy Pelosi and I never met anyone who voted for her but shes always in office so i just assumed it was a regional thing, but why are people around me saying stuff about not voting for him but they dont complain about nancy pelosi?

idk something just feels off to me like if i could have voted for him why wasn't he on my ballot?

Did the dems tried to supress his vote just because he's a white guy or was he not in my district or something?

I feel like my post yesterday spurred some good discussion but i got a lot of down votes which I didn't think you could do in this subreddit and a few people seemed upset whcih was never my intention.

So, I wanted to share some actually good news that's coming out of this administration.

Ever since Elon musk took over the IRS i've been hoping maybe something good would come out of it. I mean who doesn't hate the irs right?

anyway, filling my taxes has always been such a PITA (pain in the ass) and every year I have to pay out a bunch of money to HRblock just to be able to find out if I owed or coudl get a refund, but now that Elon is changing things, it was soo much easier!

In fact, I didn't even have to file anything this year. For the first time ever, I got a nice text message telling me what I owed and with a handy link to pay on line.

I thought that was pretty nifty on its own, but seeing as I don't have a credit card, i thought it might not work for me. Then i noticed the option that I could pay with Itunes Gift Cards, which you can just buy for cash at the local Kroger.

Anyway, I was able to pay my taxes basically in cash this year and I didn't even have to file. Hopefully, streamlining the gov't like they say they're doing will have some other good things come from it!

Has anyone else gotten the IRS text yet?

Hi! I'm new here but i've been lurking around the lemmyworld for a while and as a big advocate of freedom of speech

All i see anymore are people being divided and blaming each other for not acting right but without being willing to change how they act at all. And it breeds so much fear and anamosity that the changes they fight against eventually come about just so one side can spite the other.

Like, people are never going to agree on things and its pretty much always been that way so why don't we learn to agree to disagree.

Someone once said a great deal is one where both parties walk away feeling like they've pulled one over on the other, and a good deal is where both parties walk away feeling like they've been had.

Sometimes compromise isnt' pretty but the way I see it today is that the compromise step has been skipped entirely, so now people are having their rights taken away without getting anything in return where as they could have been making a deal

for instance: the left just lost the right to abortion, which I agree sucks, but the right is just taking that without any reprocussions. It might be too late now but I've always said that if there are certain rights we don't want other people to have its only right to give up a right of your own as a compromise

maybe if we'd compromised before, the left could have worked with the right and made a deal saying somehting like, the left will give up the right to abortion, if the right will give up their guns!

It hits both sides where it hurts, but also no matter what way you look at it both sides are saving lives.

idk just some food for thought :)