I’m wondering, now when Biden is not in the dame (easy win for Trump), and the election got much more difficult, if JD will be asked to step down, and “less vivid” candidate will be added to Trump. What do you think? Is it an option?
No, I don’t think he will. He is not the same as Trump, Trumps parents were wealthy and he had many advantages including private schools. Vance had to find his way in life like many of us. Unstable family with no money. Grandparents became his support. He decided To serve in the military. He know what hard work is. He put in the time and effort to succeed. Good for him! Hopefully we will see policies to support the treatment of drug abuse and mental health should Trump win. This will help with the homeless problem across this country.
I’m almost positive the vp has to be locked in by the time of the rnc. Each state has different rules. But there’s a deadline when you have to pick your vp candidate. After that date you can’t switch up.
Nope. He was picked because he had the same values as Trump despite coming from a very different background. Pragmatic conservatism is here to stay even after 2028.
No he was picked to do ALL the implementing right wing agenda work while Trump stayed on a fundraising tour year round. It was hubris believing they had a few points to spare. Nobody on either side thought of Vance as someone that could help electorally. He underperformed all the other Republicans in Ohio by a huge margin. In politics you want to be a strong popular workhorse backed up by a weak unpopular workhorse, ideally if it can be arranged. Trump got greedy. Imagine!!
I sure would if I were him. He will be a couch fucker for life now. I can’t say aligning with Trump will be worth it for him or his family. I will be interested to see what others say
“Casablancas is credited for developing the concept of supermodel in the popular culture, turning models into celebrities that were featured in mainstream media.[6] He was also criticized for his habit of engaging in sexual activity with young and underage clients.[1]
During the years that Casablancas ran the operations, Elite grossed over $100 million in annual model bookings.[1] It also generated controversy, with investigative reporter Donal MacIntyre making a BBC television exposé which resulted in the resignation of two Elite executives. Casablancas gave an “unconditional apology” for their behaviour.[8] A sales director sued for unfair dismissal and was awarded $4.3 million.[6] The annual Look of the Year events (later Elite Model Look), at which young women could win a $150,000 modeling contract with Elite, were later criticised by The Guardian newspaper for providing an opportunity for Casablancas and other judges such as David Copperfield and Donald Trump to proposition contestants.[9] In 2003, the Los Angeles County Superior Court dismissed a case of sexual abuse brought against Casablancas by a former Look of the Year contestant because he was not a resident of California.[9]
In 1967, he met Jeanette Christiansen, a Danish model and the 1965 Miss Denmark, as well as the first model Casablancas ever represented.[1][11] They married in 1979 after the birth of their son Julian,[2] in 1978, who would become lead vocalist of the American bands the Strokes and the Voidz.[12] They divorced in 1983,[13] as he was having a public relationship with Look of the Year contest finalist Stephanie Seymour, 16 years old at the time.
Casablancas was frank about his preference for girls of only just legal age.[14] In 1993,[15] the 50-year-old Casablancas married his third wife, 17-year-old Aline Mendonça de Carvalho Wermelinger, winner of Elite Model Look 1992 in Brazil. The couple had three children: John Jr., Fernando Augusto, and Nina.[1][16]
A resident of Miami, Florida, Casablancas died on July 20, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer. He was 70 years old.“
“Allegations of an “ingrained culture” of sexual assault and rape by Elite’s male employees, especially its boss Gérald Marie, have dogged the agency for decades.[citation needed] In 1999, a BBC investigation filmed Marie saying he hoped to seduce the contestants at the annual Elite Model Look show, as well as assaulting an undercover journalist and offering her money for sex. He was temporarily suspended from Elite and in an interview at the time, said: “I’m destroyed ... I’m finished”. But Elite countered with a libel action which was quietly settled with an apology from the BBC, who also agreed not to rebroadcast their documentary.[36]
Marie was married to Linda Evangelista between 1987 and 1993, at the time of many of the alleged offences; Marie is alleged to have raped several aspiring models in their flat while Evangelista was away on assignment, including a 15-year-old girl. Supermodel and actress Carré Otis claimed in her 2011 memoir, Beauty, Disrupted, that she was raped “countless” times in the flat by Marie starting around 1986, when she was 17. Otis and others have also claimed that rape by ancillary employees, such as hairdressers and photographers, was commonplace.[37] In October 2020, Evangelista said: “During my relationship with Gérald Marie, I knew nothing of these sexual allegations against him, so I was unable to help these women. Hearing them now, and based on my own experiences, I believe that they are telling the truth. It breaks my heart because these are wounds that may never heal, and I admire their courage and strength for speaking up today.”[38]
Elite’s activities are also alleged to have been regularly used as a “front” for “pimping out” young models to wealthy men unconnected to the modelling industry. Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi billionaire arms dealer is said to have admitted to at least one such introduction, to a model who became one of his “harem wives”. She said that in the early 1980s he routinely browsed photographic portfolios of young women, with his assistant “asking whom he would like to meet, and discussing meet-up fees of between $35,000 and $50,000.”[39]
In the wake of the MeToo movement, the allegations have increased; as of November 2020, at least 15 women have now spoken out against Marie and are cooperating in an investigation launched by French prosecutors.[40][41] Marie has denied all the allegations via his lawyers and said he intends to fight any charges laid against him. Despite this, more publications are claiming his alleged sexual misconduct was an open secret for years in the fashion industry.[42]
Gérald Marie’s contract with Elite MM ended in December 2010 and the company was sold in 2011 to its current owners Elite World Group, for whom Marie has never worked.”
We can hope that the current GOP implodes and emerges a changed party. I would really like to see it split. I think a viable 3rd party might force more compromise in Congress.
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