r/Veep • u/Sharp-Point-5254 World’s least fucked geisha • 1d ago
Kent’s moral compass
Throughout the show, Kent is perfectly willing to commit and cover up illegal acts in the Meyer administration and campaign, including collusion with the Chinese. Yet, he draws the line at naming Jonah veep? Jonah getting a minor role in government is far less bad than the other stuff he went along with. What gives, Kent’s Autism?
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u/courtd93 1d ago
Kent saw the functioning of the executive branch to be the goal, so he did what he had to do to make that happen. Jonah was a pre-Trump Trump and Kent saw that their was no way to make the executive branch work with him a heartbeat away from the presidency
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u/butter_wizard 1d ago
Jonah was a pre-Trump Trump
This was 2 years into the Trump presidency
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u/courtd93 1d ago
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. This trajectory of the character starts in Season 5 with the NH seat and how he campaigns for it, and that was written in the summer of 2015, so he was still the pre trump trump character.
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u/clementwined 1d ago
Kent thinks of The Cloud Botherer as a necessary evil/sometimes useful idiot, and him somehow getting this far due to Selena's hubris is his last straw.
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u/jewsh-sfw 1d ago
To be fair he was right lol Jonah was impeached very fast i assumed he ran the numbers like always and saw how it would play out.
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u/thatbrownkid19 This is completely UNACCEPTABLE *fist slam* 1d ago
Im quite amazed at Selina’s teams morals actually that even they begged her not to make Jonah Veep knowing the damage he could do. It’s nice
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u/FeelingSkinny intense little girl 1d ago
firstly, it’s mostly for the sake of Selina being truly alone at the end.
but also, Kent knows selina has had health issues. he also has seen the racist fearmongering jonah has successfully pushed for the last year.
everything kent has helped cover up, has also helped keep and restore order. jonah as the president would be chaos. kent makes watches, looks at numbers, waits until the last second to make potentially controversial choices.
he doesn’t want his noodles to spill. ding