I’m looking at an article here that makes me wonder what JD is smoking. He’s so over-the-top loyal to tRump, yet he keeps saying things that we all know are nonsense, and increasingly often he gets refuted by his boss. You have to wonder what’s going on in his head when he gets contradicted. It certainly wouldn’t give me confidence to speak. Just wait and see what Agent Orange does later or the next day.
Better a strong silence of support than to talk. But this is JD Vance we’re discussing. He only has one more brain cell than tRump does, so smart is not a concept he is comfortable with. I’d be damn near willing to bet that he doesn’t consider himself to be embarrassed. He’s just speaking out with the knowledge he has. Still, it would be better to wait. From MSNBC:
Vice President JD Vance is one of the most vocal anti-interventionists in President Donald Trump’s inner circle — which makes watching him try to come up with arguments to justify Trump’s airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran this weekend such a tragicomic spectacle. “I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East,” Vance told NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America’s national security objectives.” “This is not going to be some long, drawn-out thing,” he added.
Erm, really? What makes him think that? There is a more than good possibility that Iran is still going to retaliate. Qatar was a token. How can he be so certain that it won’t be a long, drawn-out thing? (Spoiler – he can’t.)
But what evidence do we have of Trump’s exceptional powers of judgment and wisdom relative to his predecessors? Is it that Trump shirks intelligence briefings? Is it his decision to surround himself with loyalists who labor to confirm his instincts, instead of experts who counsel him based on facts? Is it his manic reversals (and then reversals of his reversals) of his own policies, and inability to explain why he’s doing what he’s doing? Is it his transparent disinterest in policy details? His fixation on the presidency as reducible to optics and stagecraft? Is it that he turns to the propagandistic Fox News — which is largely enthusiastic about strikes on Iran — for advice on how to run the country?
Those are all good questions to ask, although there isn’t much that can be answered, except for the “It’s Trump” response, and that’s not an answer. It’s a platitude. Expect the unexpected, always. He would rather be golfing as opposed to actually running the country. He never wanted to do that anyhow, just to stay out of jail.
Now El Presidente Imbécil has to actually *work* and *that* is certainly something he doesn’t want to do. So he has a giant military parade that flops. There are a gazillion people who took part in the No Kings protests. He called a preemptive strike on Iran, but the reports coming back are *not* saying these did what he claims they did, yet he can’t let go and admit it.
On Monday, Iran launched missile attacks on a U.S. military base in Qatar, which could in turn precipitate another round of tit-for-tat with the U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, before the attack, that the U.S. would “act swiftly and decisively when our people, our partners or our interests are threatened.” In other words, Trump has set in motion a face-off that could conceivably spiral into a full-fledged war with Iran. Vance says this time will be different because Trump is not a “dumb” president. A wise president would know that we wouldn’t have to have been contemplating this entire scenario if Trump had not taken the extreme step of striking Iran in the first place.
In the end, it doesn’t seem to matter if JD gets embarrassed by his boss. He will say the usual things about “Our Fearless Leader”, and will continue to have the Orangesicle prove him wrong, until he reverses himself. Then JD can say, “Told you so!” Thanks for sticking with me!
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Dumb Presidents in the past?
You know he might be right. The 45th President from 2017 to 2021 is widely acknowledged to have been the most stupid President, and perhaps the most stupid of any country’s leaders, ever.
What was his name again?