Posted on 07/15/2024 5:22:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 07/15/2024 5:51:47 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
That is the question that has dogged the 39-year-old senator from Ohio along his peculiar path to power, which began in 2016 with the publication of his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and culminated this week when former President Donald Trump selected him as a running mate for the 2024 election.
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“Dude, who is more deep state than Vance? “
Literally EVERYONE else on his list for VP. If Vance is really ‘Deep State’, then why is Europe in an ABSOLUTE PANIC over the choice, calling him the ‘worst possible choice’ for their interests, or something close to that?
dunno, theater? admittedly, haven’t advanced to that level of chess. but I do know what I think about credentials like those posted.
“dunno, theater? admittedly, haven’t advanced to that level of chess. but I do know what I think about credentials like those posted.”
I strongly suspect that the Europeans wanted Nimroda, or Rubio, or even DeSantis, over Vance. But they got Vance and they are in full panic mode now.
Ironically, all the Deep State had to do was wait a week before trying to take out Trump - as Trump may well have picked one of their favorites, yet again. But once Trump was shot, it was GAME OVER regarding trying to please the Deep State, now it’s war, as far as Trump is concerned.
At a coffee shop..., [Blake] Masters and I went through the tenets of his nationalist platform: on-shoring industrial production, slashing legal immigration, regulating big tech companies, and eventually restructuring the economy so that one salary would be enough to raise a family on.This is the “white nationalism” that the left reports on like Margaret Mead observing pre-modern Samoa a century ago and finds appallingly fascistic—and that a Vanity Fair author is probably tasked with characterizing its proponents (like Peter Thiel, JD Vance and of course, DJT) as existentially threatening. I salute this author for his tone of mild curiosity. Then again, this wasn't published in a presidential election year.
Oops, here is the Vanity Fair article link missing from my above screed:
I was intrigued to read that she clerked for both John Roberts and Kavanaugh. She was characterized as a bit more liberal than that by Yale colleagues; but to me, that could readlly describe any conservative diplomatic enought to "pass" in a lefty environment. I did it for 50 years, working in the arts.
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