Trump selected 39-year-old Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate last night at the launch of the Republican National Convention. Other potential contenders were drip fed their rejections beforehand…
Venture capitalist Vance wrote a respected 2016 treatise on the intricacies of American (especially middle-) class dynamics and has converted from ardent anti-Trumpism to the intellectual future of the “MAGA movement“. Eyebrows are raised in Ukraine, support for which Vance has heavily criticised…
Trump’s main speech in Milwaukee is on Thursday, which he says he’s changed from a “humdinger” to one of “unity for the country and world“. With a base-oriented VP pick the Trump campaign can get on with pushing its messaging…
With 2024 set to be a mega election year, hacks and boffins are considering the implications of synchronous November elections in the USA and UK. The last time they coincided was in 1964, and remember how that went…
Guido hears Tory strategist Isaac Levido had some thoughts of his own this week in CCHQ. Levido’s said to reckon a Trump campaign and/or eventual presidency coinciding with a British general election would be a bit of a boon to Sunak’s chances thanks to the chaos it would create. The rationale is that voters would balk at the “dangerous world” unfolding and be more inclined to vote for Reliable Rishi as a safe pair of hands. A sliver of a silver lining.
Kanye West is back on Twitter, and is again running for President. In a video released earlier this week, he made the announcement as well as accidentally revealing his campaign manager – an intern from hard-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office. That intern’s name will be familiar to many in Westminster… Milo Yiannopoulos.
It’s been quite a run for Milo over the last decade. He soared into political celebrity in the UK during Gamergate and the birth of the culture wars, and moved to the US to make his fortune. After some, erm, imprudent remarks about paedophilia he lost almost everything, including his homosexual lifestyle. His rehabilitation program included demoting his bed-partner to housemate and dedicating himself to one of Christianity’s senior saints
He told EWTN:
“St. Joseph is the spiritual father figure of the Holy Family. In this time of gender madness, devoting myself to the male protector of the Infant Jesus is an act of faith in God’s Holy Patriarch, and a rejection of the Terror of transsexuals.”
Now, his shot at redemption has been confirmed by this latest leap back into the political arena. Guido’s sure Milo will steer Kanye away from any gaffes, errors of judgement, social outrages or unnecessary controversies…
Donald Trump is mulling yet another stab at the presidency. The 45th President was speaking at a midterm rally in Iowa, where he boasted of the results of his 2020 presidential run, claiming he “won twice”. He then addressed his future, leaving all options on the table by claiming he would “very, very, very probably” run in 2024. This should be fun…
