JD Vance, who I really do like and consider an excellent VP pick (for whatever that’s worth)—because fuck you, that’s why—sits down for a chat with the good ol’ NYP.
JD Vance reveals Trump campaign’s plans for him, his strategy against Walz in exclusive interview
Okay, minor quibble: Tampon Tim AWOLz is such a complete trainwreck of a dumpster-fire of a total loss of a disaster, the living embodiment of one of my all-time favorite insults—“the guy’s an empty suit”—does any serious person really think he’s even worth bothering with formulating any kind of “strategy” for dealing with? Just sit back and let the flabby Commie dolt augur in on his own hook; t’is enough, t’will suffice, seems to me. Which notion, as we descry in the next excerpt, Vance seems to be cognizant of his own self.
On Wednesday, Vance sat down with The Post aboard the newly-redecorated “Trump Force Two” airplane and spoke about his future in the campaign and his efforts to focus on showing the critical salt-of-the-earth voters in middle-American swing states how Trump’s economic and other domestic policies are constructed with the middle class in mind.
“The campaign obviously wants me to spend a lot of time in the Industrial Midwest,” Vance said, noting he will do more rallies and press conferences in the critical swing state region. “The disproportionate amount of my time is going to be in these three states.”
Trump’s advisers told reporters last week in West Palm Beach that they see Vance as another voice to spread Trump’s messaging.
He was chosen from a list of other potential VP candidates partly due to Donald Trump Jr., his friend, vouching for him as a loyal member of the MAGA movement. The younger Trump said in an Axios interview at the Republican National Convention that he thinks Vance has a “very high chance” of being elected as president in 2028, extending the Trump legacy movement.
Vance seemed genuinely surprised when The Post brought up the Trump Jr. prediction for 2028.
He said a presidential run has not been a conversation within the Trump team and that “we have to win first.”
But the 40-year-old did indicate some openness to running for the presidency, depending on what happens.
“I’m very focused on winning this race and I think if, you know – we’ll see where things go, but let’s win this race first,” Vance said.
Like Trump, Vance has been especially hammering Harris during the past week, and has been focusing less on her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – despite the Harris VP pick directly attacking him by making reference to a fake and lewd Democrat meme.
In light of the Walz attacks, Vance said he will not “fight fire with fire.”
“I don’t expect to personally go after him. I think everything that I’ve said about him, that I will say about him, I’ve already said and I’ll just keep repeating it,” Vance said told The Post.
He will continue making reference to Walz mischaracterizing his military record, because the “stolen valor” “bothers” him, Vance said.
As well it might, and damned well ought to do, not just for Vance but all red-blooded Americans. Plenty more good, bracing stuff at the link, of which you should read the etc.
SIDE NOTE #UN: Expect to see more from the NY Post around this hogwallow in days to come; after attempting for months to sign up and getting the “Sorry, something went wrong, try again later” error message again and again, I finally figgered out a workaround and got myself enrolled on the Post’s email list, which I’m glad of. Next I need to unsubscribe from several others I never signed up for in the first place, namely several iterations of the Epoch Times (ET Health, ET Science, &c), the Spectator, and a handful of others.
Not that I have anything in particular against the aforementioned outlets, mind. It’s just that their articles are all paywalled, which to my way of thinking renders several-times-per-day emails from them the moral equivalent of spam. I stopped even scanning the headlines in those emails long ago, actually; now, I just dump ‘em in the trash as and when they come over the transom of my various email accounts. Time to do a little Thunderbird inbox-decluttering, methinks.
Such email lists are a heck of a handy-dandy resource for any Pyrsyns Of Blogge, provided you have the patience, discipline, and iron-willed perseverance to wade through the dross, dreck, and drivel to get to the useful stuff. Since I’ve been a fan of the Post going all the way back to my NYC days (when dinosaurs ruled the Earth), I’m betting this will be one sub I’ll get lots of inspirational mileage out of.
Although I gotta say, I dislike how the Post’s list breaks things down into separate emails for each individual article: one headline, a short excerpt, and link per email. None of the other lists I’m on go about it this way, which I think makes way more sense for all concerned. The Post’s convoluted, byzantine arrangement results in a veritable tsunami of emails throughout the course of the day, which is a bit of a nuisance. To wit: after signing up this mid-morning, I’ve so far received more than a dozen missives from the NYP. Seems to me that a single all-inclusive daily mailing would fit the bill quite nicely, be more efficient for whichever wage-slave(s) at the Post is/are charged with this task, and would certainly be less hassle for moi. But hey, what the hell do I know, right?
SIDE NOTE #DEUX: As I hunt ’n’ pecked out that last sentence, three (3) more Post emails came in. *Le sigh*
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Most paywalls, including but not limited to Epoch Times, NYT, New Yorker and Wired, flash the whole text of the article on screen for a few seconds before the paywall comes up. This works:
Reload page (F5 on my Linux system). Then, the moment you see text,
Ctrl-A
Ctrl-C
Then paste the text into your text editor.
I think it doesn’t work for The Atlantic.
I’ve done the same. Also, for many of them you hit refresh* then as soon as you see text hit the refresh stop and it will often load the entire page but stop the paywall script.
*browser dependent
I checked. My browser doesn’t have an effective stop button.
I’d actually forgotten that stop buttons were a thing. Now you mention it, that would be cool.
It doesn’t work as well as it used to as I assume folks have caught on to that trick.