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 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.”

    • awesomesauce309@midwest.socialEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        12·
        9 months ago

        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.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    601·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    55·
    9 months ago

    This man’s mouth deserves to be treated as nothing less than a literal toilet.

  • nvvp@discuss.tchncs.de
    53·
    9 months ago

    “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.

    So we’ve just been doing it completely wrong for the past 225 years? This is what happens when fascists lose elections. They just make up new rules and say the old rules were wrong all along. The actual elections don’t matter and Congress just gets to appoint the President? That sounds super constitutional.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      184·
      9 months ago

      So we’ve just been doing it completely wrong for the past 225 years?

      I mean, broadly speaking he ain’t wrong. The electoral college system is dumb and broke. It exists to dilute the power of the popular voter and centralize authority to select the President in the hands of State Secretaries and their election-administering deputies. That’s why Katherine Harris was such a BFD in the run up to Bush v Gore.

      The actual elections don’t matter and Congress just gets to appoint the President?

      No no no. The actual elections don’t matter and state legislatures get to appoint the electors who get to pick the President. But then their seats are gerrymandered, so really the governor’s guy in charge of writing state senate maps gets to select the state legislators who get to appoint the President.

      And all that power is rolled up behind big lobbying groups, who get to bankroll the elections of these governors and their state senate allies.

      So really its these Chamber of Commerce / Wall Street cartel / ALEC motherfuckers who get to select the President. Which is kinda how it already was, but now we cut out the voter entirely rather than doing the “Beauty Pageant in a Few Primary / Swing States” Kabuki Theater that gets people like Trump and Sanders within striking distance of a major party nomination ahead of insider loyalists like Jeb Bush and Nikki Haley and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    9 months ago

    One wonders if in the 1700s if Washington would have stood idly by and let Senators openly discuss overthrowing the Republic.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • ctkatz@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    If he was in office during J6, Vance would have been cowering behind the Capitol Police like all the other would-be traitors.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    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