More whiplash, ouch

 Vance trip to Pakistan for Iran talks is on hold, NYT reports

Peace talks in Pakistan have failed, Vance is on his way home

Here we go.

J. D. Vance heads to Hungary to support Orban ahead of high stakes election for the incomes of John O'Sullivan, Rod Dreher, and Gladden Pappin lol

 JD Vance heads to Hungary to support Viktor Orbán ahead of high-stakes election

My favorite phrase from this essay: "To the extent that there’s an intellectual foundation for Trumpism . . ."

Very amusing.

There's a lot riding on the outcome of the Hungarian elections for certain "conservatives" next week. 

 Meet the MAGA Intellectual on Hungary’s Payroll: A political theorist who once prophesized a Queen Melania is Viktor Orbán’s envoy to the court of Trump

It's mostly about Gladden Pappin, but is useful for describing the connections between Hungary and other American figures like J. D. Vance, and also the Danube Institute bankrolling Rod Dreher (unmentioned), helmed by National Review veteran John O'Sullivan:

Another English-speaking member of this species is John O’Sullivan, a former speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher. O’Sullivan is the founder and president of the Danube Institute, which receives funding from Orbán’s government and stays relentlessly on message. Last year, the institute put on an event called Is Transgenderism Dying?” With nearly two weeks to go before the election on April 12, the institute hosted a summit featuring a video address by the deputy U.S. secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and in-person remarks from one of his advisers. Weeks earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had traveled to Budapest and told Orbán, “Your success is our success.” The Danube Institute event reinforced that message by giving U.S. diplomats pride of place in the program. “It’s very comforting to know that we have allies like you,” an institute employee told the Americans at the conference’s conclusion.  

J. D. Vance: Republicans have to break the Senate filibuster and destroy the country in order to save it

Remember when W said to CNN's Candy Crowley in December 2008 that he had abandoned free market principles in order to save the free market system?

We got Obama, a foreclosure crisis for six million, banks failed by the hundreds, and jobs didn't recover for six years and five months.

Why is it always the Republicans with these paraprosdokians?  

 

The Mar-a-Lago donor class overwhelmingly prefers Marco Rubio over J. D. Vance

 

The 2024 pro-peace ticket shunned Ukraine like the plague and promptly launched strikes in seven other nations

 

Why is NBC afraid of the truth?

 

World heard JD Vance booed at Olympics. Except for viewers in USA...

... NBC has denied editing the crowd audio, although it is difficult to resolve why the boos so audible in the stadium and on other broadcasts were absent for US viewers. ...

 

 

I hope so

Vance: If Democrats Win House It Will Be All About Impeachment

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is the evil energy at the heart of Trump's death star, brain-dead Kristi Noem simply follows his orders, and soulless J. D. Vance retweets him

They all have to go.

 

Everybody knows Trump, Vance, Noem, Bovino, and Patel are lying through their teeth to America about Alex Pretti

 

Videos of Alex Pretti shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis contradict Trump official claims

J. D. Vance on Thursday promised ICE would show no quarter, and on Saturday in Minneapolis ICE showed no quarter to Alex Jeffrey Pretti, fatally shooting him in the back after disarming him

 

It's instructive how both political parties say they have the same solution to assault on federal officers, except this one skips the prison part and cuts directly to execution at the scene

 

What's that crunching?

 

Take Vance at his word: First they murdered civilians in the Caribbean, then Renee Good, next it could be you

Why shouldn't they "show no quarter" to anyone else after all that, since no one is doing anything about it?

 

VP Vance: Protesters Assaulting Law Enforcement Will Be Shown No Quarter, "It's Cowardly Bullsh*t"

 

J. D. Vance falsely claimed on Jan 8 that Renee Good obstructed the ICE operation, but the ICE vehicles weren't there when she arrived, only arriving later to box her in, one to her left, and Ross to her right

Ross left the door to his vehicle, to the right of Good, wide open when he exited to start taking video around her vehicle. 

When Good decided to flee, she had to avoid that open door, which meant aiming straight ahead before her hard turn to the right. It's why she had to back up first.

The ICE vehicles used a blocking tactic to obstruct Renee Good's vehicle. She partially obstructed traffic when she arrived, but the video shows vehicles were able to get around her on either side, which is how Ross got his vehicle around her in the first place.

ICE could have simply left the scene, leaving her sitting in the middle of the road. 

ICE did not arrive to diffuse this situation, but to escalate it.

It was premeditated. 

CNN video here.

 

Mr. No Regime Change Wars J. D. Vance blocks Senate effort to stop regime change war in Venezuela

He believes in nothing. 

Vance breaks Senate tie, votes to block Venezuela war powers resolution

Why not both?

 

Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. 

-- RFK 

Who really likes J. D. Vance?

 'Who really likes turkey?' - JD Vance serves Thanksgiving meals to soldiers

 

Straw Man Vance

 

Prioritizing Ukraine Over Your Own Country Is Bonkers

Vice President JD Vance, X

 

Hundreds of millions of dollars are presently being spent against Venezuela which hasn't attacked anybody, at least $5 billion was burned in the unsuccessful attempt to stop the Houthis in the Red Sea, Israel received close to $18 billion in help after 10/7, Operation Midnight Hammer against Iran alone cost several hundred million dollars, and DHS is going to burn through $170 billion over the next four years for immigration and border enforcement because of the Big Ugly Bill.

 

Recent Police State deployments of the National Guard to places like DC and LA have cost from $1-2 million per day.

 

America can do and does do many things at once, especially when it comes to spending money on "wars", whether foreign . . . or domestic. 

 

J. D. Vance is smart enough to know all that. He's just counting on fooling enough of the people who aren't.