Whitney Webb is one of the top independent research journalists going, and she puts her life on the line every day. Listening to what she has to say about JD Vance and the funders of his career is chilling.
Anybody who wants to know what’s behind the curtain should look her up. She did an interview on Jimmy Dore specifically about JDV last week.
Great insights there. I follow American politics and only came across JD in the last few weeks never mind reading his memoir hillbilly elegy. Tucker Carlson speaks highly of him in a speech to the heritage institute last week. Tucker says the one big thing that makes him stand out in Washington is he actually believes in stuff. Vast majority of the political class think thats crazy stuff . The only thing they believe in is their own career. When Trump was making waves in the Republican party , JD was a critic, he didnt believe in him , he thought he was just a performer , a bombastic TV celebrity but he's changed his mind. Most politicians never change their mind cause they never believe in anything in the first place. Sadly we are producing them by the 100. I must read hillbilly elegy. The best memoir I've ever read is John McGahern. Great story and quality of writing unreal.
You'd put Nostradamus to shame with your future gazing Gerry. This guy seems like the real deal, even converting to Catholicism in 2019. He also was spot on when he said the UK would be the first Islamist nuclear power. May God help the good people of Coolock.
Vance is an interesting choice. I was hoping it would be Tulsi Gabbard. I read Hillbilly Elegy when it hit the best sellers list in the US and it was brilliant for providing insight for the disenfranchised in America. I believe one can explain his fall to pariah from darling status (given the propagandised corporate media in the US) by his pivot from badmouthing and condemning Trump to supporting Trump. I do believe he does want to improve the lives of the working poor and disappearing middle class in the US. But so did Trump.
However, (and there’s always a ‘however’ in politics, especially in Israeli controlled US politics), I’m not comfortable with his alliance with the Israeli agenda. While he says he’ll work to stop funding the US proxy war against Russia (via Ukraine), he’s extremely hawkish China/Taiwan and on Iran (this is the last Muslim country Israel wants the US to decimate after Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Sudan (search NATO commander Wesley Clark for fact check). These countries were targeted after 9/11 (increasingly looking like a false flag) which resulted in the expeditious passing of the unconstitutional Patriot Act (and Act which had been submitted but rejected prior to 9/11). After 9/11 the senators who voted No to this act were later targeted with Anthrax which changed their minds; one, a former college professor of mine, met with a airplane crash while in a small craft (Paul Wellsone). Maybe just a coincidence.
Vance seemingly accepted significant funds from Peter Thiel, arguably a deep state operative, the billionaire owner of Palantir which provides AI to Israel for ‘Project Nimbus’ and “Lavender”. Part of the Military Industrial Complex.
But on the positive side, Matt Stoller (author of BIG on Substack which covered US monopolies and monopolistic power (most of his content is free for those interested), did an interesting thread on X on Vance’s positions against the policies pushed by oligarchic business forces.
And this quote from Tucker Carlson, “every bad person I’ve ever met in a lifetime in Washington was aligned against JD Vance.’ That’s gotta be a positive.
No one is perfect and certainly no one is American politics will be a saviour. The country is FUBAR, but maybe the incoming administration, if it’s Trump/Vance, can make people a little more comfortable as the ship continues to sink. Who can know?
Thanks for this comment , it's very enlightening as I've not been follwoing closely US politics for awhile. The Pac/;SuperPax model of funding US politics is slimey to say the least. the Billionaire class funs politics like Blackrock invest in corporations. Their tentacles are everywhere due to the fact it probably takes 10-20 million dollars for a Senatorbto get elected in the US.
Years ago I heard about very rich clients of PR companies who paid a lot of money to be kept out of the news. As I understood it, they did not merely try to quash unflattering stories when they arose. They just did not want their name ever to appear in the media, for any reason.
I was always intrigued as to why anyone would go to such lengths to be effectively ignored by the public. Then I read this juicy sentence in Gerry's piece:
"At first, he was a darling in the mainstream media then after a short spell he was upgraded to pariah."
This made me wonder about the upgrade beyond 'pariah'? The answer surely is to be completely ignored by the media. That's probably where the true 'movers and shakers' hang out.
If I'm correct it puts the likes of Gates and Fauci in their place. Or will soon enough.
.... you're gonna need some Irish Luck if there is to be a selection in November. Thanks for the heads-up on JD Vance. An American Patron Saint/Cynic said, "If elections made a difference they'd be illegal." [Mark Twain]
Interesting article, thanks. I was unaware of this guy. His book sounds interesting too. I just finished reading "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" by Howard Zinn who also benefitted from that GI bill. Highly recommend.
Whitney Webb is one of the top independent research journalists going, and she puts her life on the line every day. Listening to what she has to say about JD Vance and the funders of his career is chilling.
Anybody who wants to know what’s behind the curtain should look her up. She did an interview on Jimmy Dore specifically about JDV last week.
Great insights there. I follow American politics and only came across JD in the last few weeks never mind reading his memoir hillbilly elegy. Tucker Carlson speaks highly of him in a speech to the heritage institute last week. Tucker says the one big thing that makes him stand out in Washington is he actually believes in stuff. Vast majority of the political class think thats crazy stuff . The only thing they believe in is their own career. When Trump was making waves in the Republican party , JD was a critic, he didnt believe in him , he thought he was just a performer , a bombastic TV celebrity but he's changed his mind. Most politicians never change their mind cause they never believe in anything in the first place. Sadly we are producing them by the 100. I must read hillbilly elegy. The best memoir I've ever read is John McGahern. Great story and quality of writing unreal.
You'd put Nostradamus to shame with your future gazing Gerry. This guy seems like the real deal, even converting to Catholicism in 2019. He also was spot on when he said the UK would be the first Islamist nuclear power. May God help the good people of Coolock.
Vance is an interesting choice. I was hoping it would be Tulsi Gabbard. I read Hillbilly Elegy when it hit the best sellers list in the US and it was brilliant for providing insight for the disenfranchised in America. I believe one can explain his fall to pariah from darling status (given the propagandised corporate media in the US) by his pivot from badmouthing and condemning Trump to supporting Trump. I do believe he does want to improve the lives of the working poor and disappearing middle class in the US. But so did Trump.
However, (and there’s always a ‘however’ in politics, especially in Israeli controlled US politics), I’m not comfortable with his alliance with the Israeli agenda. While he says he’ll work to stop funding the US proxy war against Russia (via Ukraine), he’s extremely hawkish China/Taiwan and on Iran (this is the last Muslim country Israel wants the US to decimate after Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Sudan (search NATO commander Wesley Clark for fact check). These countries were targeted after 9/11 (increasingly looking like a false flag) which resulted in the expeditious passing of the unconstitutional Patriot Act (and Act which had been submitted but rejected prior to 9/11). After 9/11 the senators who voted No to this act were later targeted with Anthrax which changed their minds; one, a former college professor of mine, met with a airplane crash while in a small craft (Paul Wellsone). Maybe just a coincidence.
Vance seemingly accepted significant funds from Peter Thiel, arguably a deep state operative, the billionaire owner of Palantir which provides AI to Israel for ‘Project Nimbus’ and “Lavender”. Part of the Military Industrial Complex.
But on the positive side, Matt Stoller (author of BIG on Substack which covered US monopolies and monopolistic power (most of his content is free for those interested), did an interesting thread on X on Vance’s positions against the policies pushed by oligarchic business forces.
And this quote from Tucker Carlson, “every bad person I’ve ever met in a lifetime in Washington was aligned against JD Vance.’ That’s gotta be a positive.
No one is perfect and certainly no one is American politics will be a saviour. The country is FUBAR, but maybe the incoming administration, if it’s Trump/Vance, can make people a little more comfortable as the ship continues to sink. Who can know?
Thanks for this comment , it's very enlightening as I've not been follwoing closely US politics for awhile. The Pac/;SuperPax model of funding US politics is slimey to say the least. the Billionaire class funs politics like Blackrock invest in corporations. Their tentacles are everywhere due to the fact it probably takes 10-20 million dollars for a Senatorbto get elected in the US.
Thanks for reply.
The corruption in virtually every aspect of the pillars of US ‘democracy’ is extreme.
Fourth Turning stuff.
Years ago I heard about very rich clients of PR companies who paid a lot of money to be kept out of the news. As I understood it, they did not merely try to quash unflattering stories when they arose. They just did not want their name ever to appear in the media, for any reason.
I was always intrigued as to why anyone would go to such lengths to be effectively ignored by the public. Then I read this juicy sentence in Gerry's piece:
"At first, he was a darling in the mainstream media then after a short spell he was upgraded to pariah."
This made me wonder about the upgrade beyond 'pariah'? The answer surely is to be completely ignored by the media. That's probably where the true 'movers and shakers' hang out.
If I'm correct it puts the likes of Gates and Fauci in their place. Or will soon enough.
.... you're gonna need some Irish Luck if there is to be a selection in November. Thanks for the heads-up on JD Vance. An American Patron Saint/Cynic said, "If elections made a difference they'd be illegal." [Mark Twain]
Interesting article, thanks. I was unaware of this guy. His book sounds interesting too. I just finished reading "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" by Howard Zinn who also benefitted from that GI bill. Highly recommend.
That is a beautiful piece and informative. I hope you will return to it in due course of the election in the US.