Blink Twice, Mr. Trump: So You Really Want To Lose Huh?
The politics of J.D. Vance pick.
Isn’t it interesting that Donald Trump is doubling down on the angry incel crowd right after an angry incel tried to kill him?
Now I personally would not appoint a super Bibi bro as my VP a day or so after I got shot at but maybe that’s just me?
Anyway, let me begin by saying that I tried to recruit J.D. Vance for the forces of good, unburdened by what had past.
It did not go well.
I told him, my colleague told him, and this separate person unbeknownst to us from the IC told him that it would be a grave error to take money from Rebekah Mercer, who is a front for the Russian world and a backer of one Tucker Carlson. Vance went and took that money anyway.
Over the years we’ve maintained a cordial conversation where he has been mostly wrong. He thinks it’s bad that Japan is buying U.S. Steel; I think it’s great for Japan and for America. He says Amy Chua isn’t a Chinese spy; I know she is.
Nevertheless I congratulated J.D. Vance on the 24th of June on his impending pick as the vice presidential candidate and I advise him not to take the job. “It’s a trap,” says I—correctly. (Indeed I’m more or less of the view that Trump is promoting Vance—and Vance’s network— in order for them to blow themselves up.)
And he replied that he doubted it would be offered. Here’s some of that tech exchange.
And now the Vice Presidential spot has been offered.
In fairness I’d predicted it and then I got word in the way that I so often get word—through spookworld.
Just you wait until you learn how Russian JD Vance really is. How one of his patrons — David Sacks — is actually a front for the Italian-Russian mafia.
Our NATO friends will learn it—and they will not permit it.
This is, I’m afraid, a time for choosing and so let me make my choice.
I’m with the Ukrainians. I’m with the free world. I’m with Uncle Joe.
So let’s have an election.
Today I met with the Ukrainians about how I can helpful. I was entirely dismayed to learn today from my Ukrainian friends that Hoan Ton-That — my cofounder at Clearview.AI — turned off all the Ukrainian facial recognition accounts. He demanded lots of money for it. Gross! All the more reason Hoan needs to be made accountable.
Anyone else notice how quiet Peter Thiel is? Gee, I wonder why.
Hillbilly elegy indeed!
You are wrong about Vance. He is the only choice who is not controlled by the Wall St. Mogul and the neocons.
Thiel is quiet because he knows the Vance pick will put him in the spotlight and he does NOT want that. He has a lot to hide and doesn't want people to find out about his "casting couch" or those male orgies he holds regularly