Vance: We Used to Have “Dumb Presidents”
Well, I feel better now.
I scrolled past this and thought it was a paraphrase. Ends up: nope! This searing, insightful commentary about “dumb presidents” is a direct quote.
Look, if there end up being no real consequences for this strike, and it sets back the nuclear program siginificantly, all well and good, I suppose. I have sincere doubts about both notions. But we shall see.
In regards to the clip, the notion that the current president is smarter than his predecessors is, shall we say, highly questionable, and I have to wonder what step Vance is describing to ensure the end of the Iranian nucelar program. That doesn’t make this seem one and done.
Given that Trump himself was one of Trump’s predecessors, is Vance including his boss in the tally of dummies?
And he said it with a straight face…. no irony. Sounds good, JD. Searingly insightful indeed.
If there are no real consequences it will be by accident. Let’s hope, though. I have to live on this planet too.
To quote Ken White, this is indeed the Leeroy Jenkins administration.
Apparently, as evidenced by JDVance, we have no shortage of dumb Vice-Presidents.
@CSK: This is the absurdist Administration, populated by absurdist personalities like JD Vance, Trump, Miller, Kennedy, et.al., representing an absurdist MAGA electorate, in pursuit of absurdist goals, while absurdly proclaiming in absurdly loud voices that “they aren’t the dumb ones.”
Which only underscores their hypocrisy and self indulgent ignorance. America is in a bad spot.
Vance reminds me of Harry Ellis, the obnoxious kiss up kick down character who meets a sticky end at the hands of Hans Gruber in the first Die Hard movie.
Vance … just maybe Yale Law School isn’t as good as people think it is.
@al Ameda:
Well, after 4 years at undergraduate school, and some exposure to the socially elite of Yale, Vance claims he still had to call his girlfriend to find out which fork to use at dinner, so perhaps he was an admissions error.
@CSK:
No, he’s a DEI acceptance. You know the part where admissions tries to build a diverse incoming class by looking at where the applicant grew up and household income. Yale, likely hadn’t had an admission from the county where JD grew up in a while, so voilà, he’s in.
Will Baron Trump be enlisting?
@Sleeping Dog:
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. Vance got into Yale because he was a hillbilly.
@Daryl:
His mommy will lock him in a Trump Tower closet and keep him there before that happens.
Jeez. And I thought Mike “Dense” wasn’t very bright.
Whatever Vance’s hobby is, we have made it too safe.
@Gustopher:
Having sexual intercourse with sofas?
@CSK: JDVance was already on the Right’s radar. It’s not posted on Wiki, but I read somewhere he had interned or been mentored by an Ohio Republican politician while an undergrad in Poli sci at OSU (later switching to sci-fi after hooking up with Peter Thiel /s). He had the “right look” for the Right. Marine, up from poverty, conservative, and otherwise “empty vessel.” Looks like Yale didn’t have significant input.
Mentored at Yale by Prof. Amy Chua who clerked with Brett Cavanaugh. Chua recommended a “self directed study” wherein he fleshed out Hillbilly Elegy and subsequently was nudged into the Right’s billionaire reactionary funnel directly to Thiel.
I suspect the our institutions of higher learning (and military) are salted with the Right’s talent scouts, looking for impressionable stand-ins.
@Rob1:
It’s interesting, though, that Vance was so down on Trump initially, calling him, among other things, an idiot and an asshole.
@CSK: Microfiber was a mistake.
@CSK:
Opportunity knocked.
Dear me.
As someone once said:
“Power corrupts. But lack of power corrupts absolutely.”
I think Vance is deliberately trolling, trying to provoke responses that will look like “they hate America, and want Iran to have nukes”.
Whatever else he is, he isn’t stupid.
@Jay L Gischer:
Indeed.
He’s a lot worse than that.
But also rather liable to calculate on a totally US-centric, and then MAGA-centric, basis.
See his recent comments on European politics, which seriously offended and alarmed traditionally pro-US groups, such as the Poles, the German Christian Democrats, and some Brits.
Vance seems to share a general “US Right” assumption that Europe must be a US ally due to some law of nature. And therefore can be compelled to accept whatever the current US adminsitrtion may desire.
This is, imho, a mistake, and a rather basic one.
Alliances generally require consideration of the other parties imperatives.
Not just “you must do this because we KONG!”