Posted on 07/17/2024 3:27:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At the outset of Christopher Marlowe’s late 16th-century play “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus,” the scholar at the center of the tale abandons all the learning he has mastered. Law, philosophy, medicine — none of these have fulfilled his boundless ambition. Instead, he turns to magic, making the fateful decision to sell his soul to the demon Mephistopheles, for what he “most desires” — “a world of profit and delight, /Of power, of honor.”
That brand of striving, so strong that it compels Faustus to sell what is most essential to him, must lie somewhere in the makeup of Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, who on Monday was offered and accepted the invitation to be Donald Trump’s running mate. What he has renounced in the process is in the public record for all to see.
Eight years ago, during the heated days of the 2016 Republican primary, Mr. Vance wrote that Mr. Trump’s policy proposals “range from immoral to absurd.” A few months later, he referred to Mr. Trump as “cultural heroin,” and called him “unfit for our nation’s highest office.” And memorably, in a text conversation with a former roommate, the future senator worried that Mr. Trump might be “America’s Hitler.”
After Monday’s announcement, of course, Mr. Vance distanced himself from those comments. Mr. Trump’s White House tenure, he said, had changed his mind, but it’s hard to take the senator entirely at his word.
Certainly, all politicians are ambitious — and many of them are cynical. But there is something particularly noxious about Mr. Vance’s posturing, which exceeds the run-of-the-mill Machiavellian self-interestedness that characterizes politics. The Faustian contract seems to have already been drawn up and signed.
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Says the spokes piece of satan.
Article, The New York Times ^ | July 17, 2024, Ed Simon.
Currently he is finishing, among other projects, the first full cultural history of the Faust legend for Melville House publishing. [Obviously, Vance is his deus ex machina.]
His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others, while his anonymous reviews appear in Publishers Weekly. Analysis: Just another Trotskyite.
bidet has covid, the assassination attempt on President Trump failed, so let’s take out bidet.
Nyt AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
HOW CAN WE LIE TODAY ????
NYT
NOT YET TRUE !!!
JD Vance is in the NYT character assassination bullseye.
I am confident their sleazy weapons will not prosper against him.
Did the Slimes/Lying outlets go after Penced like this?
All the right enemies.
Sounds like Trump picked the right guy then…..
The bums are running their cake holes again.
Anyone to the right of AOC would have been attacked, and I don’t think AOC would have been a good choice.
Democratic commentators know all about selling their souls.
It never stops.
This is a fill in the blank AI piece for the slobbering idiot knuckle dragging elitists on the left.
I actually ran into one who sounded like Lovey Howell.
There all Lovey Howells, even the biological males.
It is stupid. It is t I ring us out.
I’ve heard more than enough from the New York Times. They’re scum.
Is he re-writing a term paper from college?
RE: Democratic commentators know all about selling their souls.
Satan depends on it. 😈
I’ve found the quote they misrepresent as Vance saying Trump was Hitler.
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?”
It was a personal message to a friend and shows that his comment is taken out of context and distorted.
Vance was asked about that quote. He said something like Yeah - its true. I had my questions about Trump. But seeing what he was like as president those questions were answered.
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