Closing Argument: #NotScott

  • Trump’s favorite candidate for VP is currently Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the black John McCain. This fateful choice would doom any Trump second term to a poor man’s version of his first term, and were Trump to try to buck the Deep State, Trump would be Kennedeyed quickly. Per popular inquiry, let’s explain why #NotScott must be the call to Trump world.
  • Put simply, the Deep State loves Tim Scott. Few Senators more consistently advocate for their interests than Scott. Indeed, as Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham reveal, the military industrial complex long ago bought off the GOP hierarchy in the Palmetto state filled with retired and active defense contractors. Scott supported the extradition of Deep State adversary Julian Assange, the indictment of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, promoted a bill to protect Deep State hatchet man Robert Mueller from Trump firing him, celebrated Pence’s betrayal on J6, cheered the lockdowns and mandates during Covid, praised the Covid vaccines endlessly, welcome the raid on Mar-A-Lago, and ran against Trump’s renomination in 2024. But that’s not all.
  • Scott led the support for billions to Ukraine, cheered the war with Russia, opposed Trump withdrawing American troops from the middle east, demanded more troops to Afghanistan, seeks war with Iran, backed CIA torturers for high-ranking promotions, welcomed coups in central America, and whored for every war in the last two decades to a degree that would make John McCain blush. Scott championed every surveillance state initiative for the last two decades.
  • On economics, Scott opposed Trump’s trade policy, protected corporate access to Chinese markets and the inverse while also plotting ways to go to kinetic war with China, the kind of dichotomy that could make only the Deep State dance to such disharmony. Scott backed NAFTA and every other job-abandonment, industrial displacement policy for the last three decades. Scott developed a reputation for his anti-labor stances dating to his South Carolina days, and continued that approach in Washington. Scott’s time in the state house was equally inconsequential, where corporate PACs and Deep State ally Boeing proved his biggest public backers. Much like his state legislative history, his Congressional track record followed the same tact of big corporate backing, anti-labor policies, and catering to the entrenched interests. Scott mostly protects Wall Street in his legislative focus on the Banking and Finance Committees.
  • Some of Scott’s politically poisonous proposals include a massive national sales tax of 30% to replace all corporate and income taxes, a tax change that would massively increase the tax burden on the working class. His healthcare proposal is to give immunity from medical malpractice for most harms caused. Oh, and to scrap Medicare as well as gut Social Security. Scott would reverse all Trump trade policy to return to his favored Bush-era economics. Scott would return the country to pretty much all of Bush’s policies, and restore the Deep State to power fully.
  • Scott’s key to success was often this trio of traits: big money backing, not upsetting any apple carts of the entrenched interests, and “look at me, I’m black and Republican.” Scott likes to virtue signal, and only changes his signaling depending on the audience he needs at the time. Scott championed Obama style federalization of police after George Floyd, criticized Trump for questioning the Floyd riots, and called Trump’s comments on Charlottesville “indefensible.”
  • Scott represents the failed political class: a new leadership cadre running for office since they could crawl. Scott ran for high school offices and continued his political climb quickly, carving out space as a black conservative. An insurance salesman, he started out like a lot of career politicians for local office in Charleston. As a county commissioner, Scott really never stood out, as a muted supporter of the city’s established political brokers. Of note, Scott never showed appeal to black voters in South Carolina, with so little appeal that the Justice Department could sue the city for its at-large election schema, noting black voters always rejected Scott. As a public official, he sells his soul to those with the power to enrich his political ambitions at each and every stage. a Deep State tool if there ever was one. A perfect personification of all that is wrong in Washington. 
  • A Scott VP dooms Trump and invites assassination. That is why #NotScott is the only option.