At 1:24 p.m. this afternoon in Yorba Linda, California, Vice President J.D. Vance sat in a tall cream-colored chair, shifting back and forth. With a microphone in his right hand, he awkwardly reached for his water glass, removed the lid, and then decided this was the perfect moment to attempt a joke about Gavin Newsom before excitedly sharing that his grandmother died with 19 loaded guns scattered throughout her house. He spoke for nearly 40 minutes and tried, over and over again, to prove he had presidential potential. He failed each time. But buried within those failed attempts was 1 minute and 7 seconds that changed the entire interview, when he said something nobody could have ever expected J.D. Vance to say out loud, not because it was wrong, but because it was true, and because he didn't seem to realize what he'd just confessed.
Every time I see or hear Vance I see a scared little boy trying to emulate his nasty older brother. He really is pathetic, and also a sham.
All of this bunch need to go and those poor souls who have been arrested because of the Reflecting Pool I hope have decent lawyers. Maybe a crowdfund could be set up to outsmart Trump getting away with his lies.
How dare Vance write a book about his faith. He has not a shred of decency in his body let alone his soul.
The closer we get to November the more the Trump Cess Pool (renamed everytime the administration try another way of blaming anyone else) should be kept in the minds of those who can put an end to Trump’s shenanigans at the midterms.
We really need to look at that word dumb and then back at the pool. Have you ever painted something, say a table, and before it was dry you put something on top? Oh no! You wait two weeks (or if you can at least a week). My friend painted a small chair outdoors and came back a few hours later. Unfortunately, a small rain had passed over. The paint was now bubbled and the paint job ruined.
Hey dummies! Take responsibility for your stupidity. Anything rushed has the real potential of ending up wrong, in many many ways.
But why use logic when they seem to not be able to understand it. Someone is always to blame and it is not them.
Vance is part of the regime that took office to save our country from waste, fraud and abuse? When in fact they are using waste, fraud and abuse to dismantle and destroy our Democracy. Watching Vance trying to create his version of Trump 2.0 should keep us all awake at night.
Yes, the gradual lowering of the bar of political discourse and action has been a feature of Trump’s administrations and campaigns from the beginning. Convincing the public that the truth does not matter is a technique known to propaganda experts since Bolshevik times.
I think I love you more every time you write. We can all see through the excuses and blaming others that continues to pour from Trump, JD and the many sheep who follow them along. But having someone clearly point it out so eloquently makes all of us stronger. Our hope must be that we can survive this nightmare and finally be really proud of our country again.
I have dragged out my copy of Rousseau's 'The Social Contract'. Where he sets out, about a million years ago, the circumstances whereby we can expect to live unmolested, by all agreeing on certain levels of behaviour. I always wondered what would happen if someone ignored those 'unwritten laws'.
Trump is showing us exactly what they can get a way with.
I hope that old vagabond Jean-jacques has some useful insights.
Mr. This Week My Name Is J.D.Vance would do well to remember it wasn't the break-in that sealed his fate, but the lying about the lying. The accomplices, the conspirators, mostly got done for their sleazy behaviour.
So Vance believes that if Watergate happened now it would be a 12 hour news story. No it wouldn't. In these days of 24 hour news and social media it would be hard to cover up any criminal activities. At least Nixon had the grace to resign.
As far as the lawsuit against the BBC Panorama programme, the Dumpkof hasn't got a leg to stand on. How many Americans actually saw the programme? Not that many I think. All Panorama is guilty of is editing Trump's speech to fit in with a 50 minute programme. We'll have to wait until next year.
It’s called DISCOVERY for a reason and he will find out what it demands.
One day soon all of his lies and corruption will catch up to him and he won’t be able to stop it but we must keep pushing back and demanding the truth ..we cannot rest until he’s exposed for the lying crook he is.
Vance is correct about Nixon in one aspect..what Nixon did fully deserved the consequences it brought but it was nothing compared to what trump has done..is doing..is planning on doing so ..in that respect ..today it would be as he described.
That doesn’t make it any less wrong or illegal..just less shocking than what his boss has managed to get away with so far.
Let’s hope the BBC can and will do what we have failed to do here…shine the cold hard light of truth on him and end his reign of corruption forever. LOCK HIM UP as he so fondly loves to chant about others….tables turn…
She might think, "Now where did I hide that shotgun?" Or, "What is that little Judy up to now with that eye make-up?" Or, "Goddam it, I love beer but I hate getting up to piss every five minutes."
Thanks, Heather, for the nice touch of humorous irony showing us the power of using juxtaposition: Placing the words, Gifts for the Godly Father, of Pope Francis, alongside that of the book, Communion, by JD Vance.
As for JD idolizing Richard Nixon, and minimizing greatly the crimes and cover ups of WaterGate, I am sure in his knowledge of Nixon he is familiar with the name Anna Chennault .
Anna Chennault, a Republican fundraiser with close ties to officials in South Vietnam - at the direction of Nixon worked behind the scenes to delay the peace talks that were accelerating in 1968 - when the United States had already lost 30,000 of its military soldiers.
The purpose of this delay was to not allow the information of the peace talks to become public and probably give oxygen to the campaign of Hubert Humphrey.
The Chennault Affair is widely regarded as one of the most serious examples of alleged political interference in U.S. foreign policy by a presidential campaign.
This is the man JD Vance emulates?
I wonder then, how much of Nixon’s behaviors is he willing to replicate: interference in peace talks to end a war, lies, cover ups of criminal behavior, a Presidential resignation to avoid impeachment and conviction, a pardon of that departed President by the Vice President - who else but JD himself could have written this script….All of this is irony as well, just not of the humorous type.
There are Republicans who were still in their diapers or swimming in their dad's testes who have picked up the "Nixon was wronged!" torch and blame certain people for their white man frustrations. Those men who thought Nixon was being presidential in his cover-up (and his crimes) have been weaving their web for 50 years culminating in Project 2025. There is a direct line from Nixon to Vance and Vance, a rudderless ship, was easily indoctrinated by those who would take us back to the 1950s when women knew their place was either in the kitchen or the maternity ward and Black people knew their place was no place we could see them.
ANYBODY who esteems Nixon is not fit for office. Period. I was there.
Minimizing Nixon…( justification for what has happening and what will happen) just another twist in erasing history! Vance wants you to update yourself ie: corruption is not what you see w your own eyes… it’s just your old way of thinking.
Mr. Duffy should be careful, as we all should, in our use of language in public places. I don't mind being called any sort of names because, you know, rubber/glue. But there are many families in America who have sheltered and loved their mentally challenged children and do not associate "retarded" with their loved one because people like Duffy, usually when they are 22 and drunk, have used the word to besmirch other's abilities. Duffy is the one who is mentally challenged if he does not think this will come back at him. He should be and he will be called to account for acting like a drunk teenager in a public and sacred place. I don't need to be alive when karma comes calling in the form of his nine children's f-ups and their hatred for their dad. Just knowing it is going to happen is enough for me.
Thank you Heather. Vance recollection of history when it comes to Nixon is quite telling. He’s neglected to talk about those who stood up to Nixon and that 12-hour news story was so much longer. Ah yes the “Hubris, man—it's killed more heroes than monsters ever did."
Here is Adam Kinzinger words of the current state of affairs..
I don't know your age, TJ, but I was 17 years old when Nixon resigned. I remember the whole thing. I remember Vietnam. I remember the generation gap. I remember the marches for Civil Rights, for Women's Rights. for Gay Rights and I deliberately capitalize those movements because they deserve it. People came out for years to protest Nixon and the men who were fighting to keep us in their ideal of America: the 1950s. No woman in her right mind and, I believe, not many Black people, would go back to that time. Nixon was a corrupted human being who desperately wanted power. And when he got it he wanted it to be his say-so, no one else, I'm the boss. Just like Twump.
Ah yes Vance’s comment on Watergate is and was just a "blip" or a "12-hour news story" is not something to brag about, but rather a clear indicator of how low the standards for presidential behavior and ethics have fallen. Let alone even suggesting the Watergate scandal was “way overblown” and of course Vance appears to be delegitimizing historical political corruption and rule-of-law principles, the power of an independent press, the danger of the executive branch being weaponized, and of course any lasting systemic reforms that are to prevent any future abuses of power.
Then as the cherry on top of who he really is, Vance said Nixon's legacy was rightfully "enjoying a bit of a renaissance", with more attention being paid to his diplomatic achievements in ending the Vietnam war and opening relations with China. Nixon was, Vance argued, a "political genius" with whom he shared many traits.
"Young senator. Vice-president. Writes some bestselling books. Is hated by the media," Vance said. "It kind of sounds like JD Vance."
Was also 17 years of age and attended so many protests even at a young age. My grandfather and uncle worked within the government at the time in the State Dept and Commerce. So they were well attuned and paid close attention to all the goings on in DC. It’s not really surprising to hear Vance’s comments about the Watergate scandal because it exposed widespread presidential abuse of power, systemic political corruption, and the vital role of democratic checks and balances, that is so now abused that even SCOTUS has negated the very essence of “No One is Above the Law” by giving immunity to that Felon. If anyone is surprised by Vance’s affection of Nixon they have had their head buried in the sand long ago. Vance is slimier than the Felon and younger — Just ask Peter Thiel who backs him..
No question that Vance's take on Nixon shows he "doesn't know his history," or just simply is “whitewashing history”, because that’s all this current regime is consistently doing.
Heaven forbid pointing out that Nixon was forced out because his own Republican party realized the evidence of corruption was so overwhelming that they told him he had to go. Because nowadays there’s not a one of them within that political party that has any integrity, let alone a backbone.
Will say that Vance is clearly telegraphing the kind of president he hopes to be if given the nomination in 2028, the dismissal of a presidential cover-up is what he would want regarding any executive power… If this democratic-republic will still exist by then … there wouldn’t even be a need for any cover-up..
So thinking is that they will want the out of control MADMAN, trump out so JD can follow through their Project 2025.
Anyway, we know for sure the MAGA/MAWA KKKult are under the control through the proganda machine, Orwell’s, “1984” with their controlled monopoly of almost ALL media outlets.
TJ, we all know everything they do and say is planned. Vance is just another puppet/useful educated idiot proudly funded by the Nazi, technofasist and Eugenics villionaire, Thiel.
The administration's desensitizing of the public to corruption in the oval office happened long before Trump took office for his second term. The constant references to the 'Biden crime family' and the manic focus on Hunter Biden's laptop served to cement in the public's collective mind that corruption by presidents and especially corruption that enriched their friends and family, was common, and even when called out, was never punished - especially if it was committed by Democrats. They did the same thing with pedophilia. Constantly accusing Democrats of being pedophiles to the extent that they accused Hillary Clinton of using a DC pizza place as a hideout, also served to cement the image in the public's mind. Now, if Democrats accuse, and rightfully so, the Republicans of corruption or, in the Epstein files case, pedophilia, they shrug. If the other side did it and got away with it, why can't we? It's a sinister and unfortunately effective propaganda tactic, and it's working on the uniformed and uneducated.
Worse, I see it working on informed and educated people as well. Like Trump, they twist the truth and convince themselves their version IS the truth. Facts don’t matter.
In the recent Fox poll regarding Trump’s overall performance, 40% of no college degree still approved of Trump‘s performance compared to 37% of college educated. That is pretty close. I’m just relieved that the overall percentage of approval has been shrinking.
Every time I see or hear Vance I see a scared little boy trying to emulate his nasty older brother. He really is pathetic, and also a sham.
All of this bunch need to go and those poor souls who have been arrested because of the Reflecting Pool I hope have decent lawyers. Maybe a crowdfund could be set up to outsmart Trump getting away with his lies.
How dare Vance write a book about his faith. He has not a shred of decency in his body let alone his soul.
I think we have to rename it The Infection Pool - what do you think?
Makes me itch but yeah.
And then rename it again a few weeks later -
The Disinfected Pool . . .
And then rename it again a few weeks later -
The Unaffected Pool . . .
And then rename it again a few weeks later -
The Reinfected Pool . . .
And then rename it again a few weeks later -
The Disaffected Pool . . .
See where this is heading?
The closer we get to November the more the Trump Cess Pool (renamed everytime the administration try another way of blaming anyone else) should be kept in the minds of those who can put an end to Trump’s shenanigans at the midterms.
Perfect and I love that Trump is accusing others of poisoning it when his guys poured the peroxide in themselves and must know it !!
We really need to look at that word dumb and then back at the pool. Have you ever painted something, say a table, and before it was dry you put something on top? Oh no! You wait two weeks (or if you can at least a week). My friend painted a small chair outdoors and came back a few hours later. Unfortunately, a small rain had passed over. The paint was now bubbled and the paint job ruined.
Hey dummies! Take responsibility for your stupidity. Anything rushed has the real potential of ending up wrong, in many many ways.
But why use logic when they seem to not be able to understand it. Someone is always to blame and it is not them.
The contractor who did it will have disappeared at speed. 14million to slosh some blue rubber on the bottom of a pond is extraordinary !!
Most contractors would have done a repair job and a repaint for a few thousand !!
And driving his motorcade over it to check it out (lazy much?) can't have helped.
Vance is part of the regime that took office to save our country from waste, fraud and abuse? When in fact they are using waste, fraud and abuse to dismantle and destroy our Democracy. Watching Vance trying to create his version of Trump 2.0 should keep us all awake at night.
Yes, the gradual lowering of the bar of political discourse and action has been a feature of Trump’s administrations and campaigns from the beginning. Convincing the public that the truth does not matter is a technique known to propaganda experts since Bolshevik times.
JD Vance: see lowering of the bar.
Yes, William, the whole administration is a load of Bollshovicks! They must be kicked where it hurts most - right in the BOLL…..s!
I think I love you more every time you write. We can all see through the excuses and blaming others that continues to pour from Trump, JD and the many sheep who follow them along. But having someone clearly point it out so eloquently makes all of us stronger. Our hope must be that we can survive this nightmare and finally be really proud of our country again.
Kristin in Alaska
Oh, I love the irony of that JD Vance display! I will have to share it far and wide!
Do I detect a $5 off sticker on the books?
Next, buy one get one free.
I have dragged out my copy of Rousseau's 'The Social Contract'. Where he sets out, about a million years ago, the circumstances whereby we can expect to live unmolested, by all agreeing on certain levels of behaviour. I always wondered what would happen if someone ignored those 'unwritten laws'.
Trump is showing us exactly what they can get a way with.
I hope that old vagabond Jean-jacques has some useful insights.
Mr. This Week My Name Is J.D.Vance would do well to remember it wasn't the break-in that sealed his fate, but the lying about the lying. The accomplices, the conspirators, mostly got done for their sleazy behaviour.
So Vance believes that if Watergate happened now it would be a 12 hour news story. No it wouldn't. In these days of 24 hour news and social media it would be hard to cover up any criminal activities. At least Nixon had the grace to resign.
As far as the lawsuit against the BBC Panorama programme, the Dumpkof hasn't got a leg to stand on. How many Americans actually saw the programme? Not that many I think. All Panorama is guilty of is editing Trump's speech to fit in with a 50 minute programme. We'll have to wait until next year.
I bet they all want to watch it now !!
It’s called DISCOVERY for a reason and he will find out what it demands.
One day soon all of his lies and corruption will catch up to him and he won’t be able to stop it but we must keep pushing back and demanding the truth ..we cannot rest until he’s exposed for the lying crook he is.
Vance is correct about Nixon in one aspect..what Nixon did fully deserved the consequences it brought but it was nothing compared to what trump has done..is doing..is planning on doing so ..in that respect ..today it would be as he described.
That doesn’t make it any less wrong or illegal..just less shocking than what his boss has managed to get away with so far.
Let’s hope the BBC can and will do what we have failed to do here…shine the cold hard light of truth on him and end his reign of corruption forever. LOCK HIM UP as he so fondly loves to chant about others….tables turn…
The Godly father ? Chilling . Blasphemy . Wonder what Maw-maw would think ?
She might think, "Now where did I hide that shotgun?" Or, "What is that little Judy up to now with that eye make-up?" Or, "Goddam it, I love beer but I hate getting up to piss every five minutes."
You know, grandma thoughts.
Why not? They want to save their own asses. Pls keep in mind that scotus validated corruption. Fuck maga. Fuck trump. Fuck gop. No pasaran
Thanks, Heather, for the nice touch of humorous irony showing us the power of using juxtaposition: Placing the words, Gifts for the Godly Father, of Pope Francis, alongside that of the book, Communion, by JD Vance.
As for JD idolizing Richard Nixon, and minimizing greatly the crimes and cover ups of WaterGate, I am sure in his knowledge of Nixon he is familiar with the name Anna Chennault .
Anna Chennault, a Republican fundraiser with close ties to officials in South Vietnam - at the direction of Nixon worked behind the scenes to delay the peace talks that were accelerating in 1968 - when the United States had already lost 30,000 of its military soldiers.
The purpose of this delay was to not allow the information of the peace talks to become public and probably give oxygen to the campaign of Hubert Humphrey.
The Chennault Affair is widely regarded as one of the most serious examples of alleged political interference in U.S. foreign policy by a presidential campaign.
This is the man JD Vance emulates?
I wonder then, how much of Nixon’s behaviors is he willing to replicate: interference in peace talks to end a war, lies, cover ups of criminal behavior, a Presidential resignation to avoid impeachment and conviction, a pardon of that departed President by the Vice President - who else but JD himself could have written this script….All of this is irony as well, just not of the humorous type.
There are Republicans who were still in their diapers or swimming in their dad's testes who have picked up the "Nixon was wronged!" torch and blame certain people for their white man frustrations. Those men who thought Nixon was being presidential in his cover-up (and his crimes) have been weaving their web for 50 years culminating in Project 2025. There is a direct line from Nixon to Vance and Vance, a rudderless ship, was easily indoctrinated by those who would take us back to the 1950s when women knew their place was either in the kitchen or the maternity ward and Black people knew their place was no place we could see them.
ANYBODY who esteems Nixon is not fit for office. Period. I was there.
So, are we lowering ourselves to their level if we start referring to them as RepubliCONS ?
That's good. I also like Republican't
RepubliCAN BUT
RepubliWONT
Because Uncle CON
Says “they better DONT”.
Minimizing Nixon…( justification for what has happening and what will happen) just another twist in erasing history! Vance wants you to update yourself ie: corruption is not what you see w your own eyes… it’s just your old way of thinking.
"The IRONY!" Migawd, the irony. Someone in that bookstore was ordered to set up that display, and slyly skewered it.
Mr. Duffy should be careful, as we all should, in our use of language in public places. I don't mind being called any sort of names because, you know, rubber/glue. But there are many families in America who have sheltered and loved their mentally challenged children and do not associate "retarded" with their loved one because people like Duffy, usually when they are 22 and drunk, have used the word to besmirch other's abilities. Duffy is the one who is mentally challenged if he does not think this will come back at him. He should be and he will be called to account for acting like a drunk teenager in a public and sacred place. I don't need to be alive when karma comes calling in the form of his nine children's f-ups and their hatred for their dad. Just knowing it is going to happen is enough for me.
Thank you Heather. Vance recollection of history when it comes to Nixon is quite telling. He’s neglected to talk about those who stood up to Nixon and that 12-hour news story was so much longer. Ah yes the “Hubris, man—it's killed more heroes than monsters ever did."
Here is Adam Kinzinger words of the current state of affairs..
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/how-badly-can-trump-meddle-in-the?r=viplr&utm_medium=ios
I don't know your age, TJ, but I was 17 years old when Nixon resigned. I remember the whole thing. I remember Vietnam. I remember the generation gap. I remember the marches for Civil Rights, for Women's Rights. for Gay Rights and I deliberately capitalize those movements because they deserve it. People came out for years to protest Nixon and the men who were fighting to keep us in their ideal of America: the 1950s. No woman in her right mind and, I believe, not many Black people, would go back to that time. Nixon was a corrupted human being who desperately wanted power. And when he got it he wanted it to be his say-so, no one else, I'm the boss. Just like Twump.
Ah yes Vance’s comment on Watergate is and was just a "blip" or a "12-hour news story" is not something to brag about, but rather a clear indicator of how low the standards for presidential behavior and ethics have fallen. Let alone even suggesting the Watergate scandal was “way overblown” and of course Vance appears to be delegitimizing historical political corruption and rule-of-law principles, the power of an independent press, the danger of the executive branch being weaponized, and of course any lasting systemic reforms that are to prevent any future abuses of power.
Then as the cherry on top of who he really is, Vance said Nixon's legacy was rightfully "enjoying a bit of a renaissance", with more attention being paid to his diplomatic achievements in ending the Vietnam war and opening relations with China. Nixon was, Vance argued, a "political genius" with whom he shared many traits.
"Young senator. Vice-president. Writes some bestselling books. Is hated by the media," Vance said. "It kind of sounds like JD Vance."
Was also 17 years of age and attended so many protests even at a young age. My grandfather and uncle worked within the government at the time in the State Dept and Commerce. So they were well attuned and paid close attention to all the goings on in DC. It’s not really surprising to hear Vance’s comments about the Watergate scandal because it exposed widespread presidential abuse of power, systemic political corruption, and the vital role of democratic checks and balances, that is so now abused that even SCOTUS has negated the very essence of “No One is Above the Law” by giving immunity to that Felon. If anyone is surprised by Vance’s affection of Nixon they have had their head buried in the sand long ago. Vance is slimier than the Felon and younger — Just ask Peter Thiel who backs him..
No question that Vance's take on Nixon shows he "doesn't know his history," or just simply is “whitewashing history”, because that’s all this current regime is consistently doing.
Heaven forbid pointing out that Nixon was forced out because his own Republican party realized the evidence of corruption was so overwhelming that they told him he had to go. Because nowadays there’s not a one of them within that political party that has any integrity, let alone a backbone.
Will say that Vance is clearly telegraphing the kind of president he hopes to be if given the nomination in 2028, the dismissal of a presidential cover-up is what he would want regarding any executive power… If this democratic-republic will still exist by then … there wouldn’t even be a need for any cover-up..
We’ll see…Vance has very little following.
So thinking is that they will want the out of control MADMAN, trump out so JD can follow through their Project 2025.
Anyway, we know for sure the MAGA/MAWA KKKult are under the control through the proganda machine, Orwell’s, “1984” with their controlled monopoly of almost ALL media outlets.
It's really like living inside a nightmare. .
TJ, we all know everything they do and say is planned. Vance is just another puppet/useful educated idiot proudly funded by the Nazi, technofasist and Eugenics villionaire, Thiel.
I love Adam Kinzinger.
Yep he’s Peter’s little friend…
It’s so sick and vile.
The NY Democratic socialist movement is gathering great momentum.
(I just edited my comment from before…it sounded odd.)
The administration's desensitizing of the public to corruption in the oval office happened long before Trump took office for his second term. The constant references to the 'Biden crime family' and the manic focus on Hunter Biden's laptop served to cement in the public's collective mind that corruption by presidents and especially corruption that enriched their friends and family, was common, and even when called out, was never punished - especially if it was committed by Democrats. They did the same thing with pedophilia. Constantly accusing Democrats of being pedophiles to the extent that they accused Hillary Clinton of using a DC pizza place as a hideout, also served to cement the image in the public's mind. Now, if Democrats accuse, and rightfully so, the Republicans of corruption or, in the Epstein files case, pedophilia, they shrug. If the other side did it and got away with it, why can't we? It's a sinister and unfortunately effective propaganda tactic, and it's working on the uniformed and uneducated.
Worse, I see it working on informed and educated people as well. Like Trump, they twist the truth and convince themselves their version IS the truth. Facts don’t matter.
In the recent Fox poll regarding Trump’s overall performance, 40% of no college degree still approved of Trump‘s performance compared to 37% of college educated. That is pretty close. I’m just relieved that the overall percentage of approval has been shrinking.