Vance really needs to learn to shut up. He keeps blurting out things he ought not to, and he’s riding the edge of a complete, no salvaging it, screw-up. He hasn’t gotten to Trump level yet, but he’s trying. *Think* about what you’re saying, boy! Good afternoon to Raw Story:
An offhand comment from Donald Trump to Vice President JD Vance may not have been meant for public consumption, according to political analyst Heather Digby Parton. In an unguarded moment this week, Vance disclosed that Trump told envoys tasked with negotiating a peace deal with Iran to “use the [memorandum of understanding] to refill the world’s oil economy, refill some stocks and then to see where the hand is.”
Uhhhhhmm. No, that was saying the very, very quiet part really, really, REALLY out loud. Iran knows about this already. You can be sure of that. Of course, they’re likely being sneaky about some things too, which may make it balance out, but still. That didn’t need to come out in public. It’s going to make things a helluva lot harder, as if we didn’t have enough troubles.
According to Parton, that was an admission that the administration is stalling negotiations to drive down gas prices before possibly restarting the war, but that Vance’s blunder is simply business as usual in an administration where “verbal incontinence” cascades from the top down. Trump’s tendency to blurt out whatever pops into his head has become so normalized that his vice president is now doing the same thing, she suggested. The result in Trump’s first term was a presidency that was, in a word, unstable. Now, a year and a half into his second term, that instability has grown because he believes he can do no wrong.
That’s spot on. He does not think he can do anything wrong, including starting the war in the first place, yes? There are so many choices he has made that are abhorrent to most people, but Trump wanted them, and he did it, and that’s the way it is and will be. We’re not even a year and a half into his second term, and look at all that has changed. Look at what nastiness has grown. Trump wants to be an autocrat, a despot, a tyrant, just like his buddy Pootie. We won’t get back into the excessive gold again. Vance is following his Dear Leader’s example.
“Trump’s old compulsion to behave erratically and shoot his mouth off is now combined with a megalomania that has him building monuments to himself and musing openlyabout being included in the pantheonof dictators like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Today he’s driven by a belief that he is omnipotent and that nothing he does will have any negative consequences.
He has come to believe that whatever he says is the right thing, no matter what,” she wrote. Even worse, she suggested, if Trump faces “blowback,” he dismisses it and makes more outrageous claims. “He is impervious to criticism now because he literally believes he can do no wrong, and there are tens of millions of people who believe that too,” she warned.
That’s a whole lot to think about. Look at that damn ballroom or the hideous arch he wants to build in a horrible place. Look at his banner on Justice Hall. Look at him completely hijacking and effing up America’s 250th birthday. I remember 1976. Yes, I’m old. The celebrations were touching and thoughtful and contemplative and glorious. But we have an insane leader now, and he will do what he pleases. Not even 18 months in yet, and we are in hell. It cascaded so fast. It’s stunning how fast. Now Trump is bringing up Vance in his image. Vance has started blurting out the quiet things. Vance is following in Trump’s footsteps in those Florsheim shoes. Vance isn’t as crazy like a fox as Trump is. He’s just dumb. And MAGA will not follow Vance. If he thinks they will, that’s quite a delusion. Shut up, JD. Shut up.
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