J D Vance
December 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ben Shapiro gave two speeches last week that urged leaders of the conservative moment to perform acts of intellectual hygiene. I posted both of them on Power Line. The response from those who disagree with Shapiro has not been impressive. Speaking at TUPUSA’s AmericaFest this past Sunday, Vice President Vance avoided explicit ad hominem attacks, but his response offered little more than pompous non sequiturs. Shapiro has sought to do
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December 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
“Vanz Kant Danz” was the workaround title to the song John Fogerty wrote condemning Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz. It was originally “Zanz Kant Danz.” Forgerty was protesting Zaentz’s ownership of the publishing rights to the Creedence Clearwater Revival catalog. Fogerty altered the title and lyrics of the song to avoid a defamation lawsuit by Zaentz. Vice President Vance spoke at the TPUSA AmericaFest event yesterday. RealClearPolitics has posted the
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October 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As I did yesterday in “Arc of a groyper,” I’ve been saying for a while now that Tucker Carlson has made this a time for choosing. Every writer, every public figure, every publication, and every institution that lauded Carlson in years past is obligated to speak out against the figure he has become — deceitful and destructive in his own right and a discredit to everyone with whom he associates.
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October 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Vice President Vance was the featured speaker at Turning Point USA’s event at the University of Mississippi yesterday evening. Standing in for Charlie Kirk, Vance took questions from students in the packed house. There is room for dispute, but I take it from the tenor of his remarks that he has a cold, cold view of Israel. He doesn’t talk about Israel as a key friend and critical ally in
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October 12, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This morning, Vice President JD Vance was on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Ignoring the major issues of the day, Stephanopoulos yammered on about Tom Homan. That led to this rejoinder by Vance, which in turn caused Stephanopoulos to angrily end the interview: 🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance destroyed ABC's George Stephanopolous so hard they CUT HIS FEED and went to break 🤣 VANCE: "Here's, George, why fewer and fewer
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September 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the Rita Panahi Show with guest host Danica De Giorgio. It was a long segment by television standards, and we covered a number of topics, some serious, some not so serious. The subjects include the ICE shooting in Texas, illegal immigration in Europe, Jimmy Kimmel, Emanuel Macron calling President Trump on the phone when he was blocked in Manhattan traffic, campus security as reflected in
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September 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Park MacDougald offers extended consideration to Tucker Carlson’s “contribution” to the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday in the Scroll column “Cut Tucker loose” (behind Tablet’s paywall). He suggests that Carlson is making it a time for choosing on the right. After surveying the reaction to Carlson’s remarks — some celebrating their anti-Semitism, some decrying it — Park arrives at this conclusion: * * * * * It’s hard to know where
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August 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As I have said many times, I think the Russia Collusion Hoax is by far the worst political scandal in American history. However, as I wrote here, I also think it is far from clear that any of the perpetrators of that hoax will be, or should be, criminally prosecuted. Vice President JD Vance doesn’t share my doubts: Vice President JD Vance said in an interview Sunday that “a lot
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August 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The story, told at Breitbart, is essentially this: JD Vance and his wife Usha wanted to take their three young children canoeing (or kayaking, accounts differ) on the Little Miami River, near their Ohio home, for JD’s birthday. Canoes and kayaks are entirely different craft–the fact that left-wing news outlets don’t seem to know the difference is typical–but what they have in common is that they draw very little water.
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July 21, 2025 — John Hinderaker
You can’t avoid them. In London, opera lovers who attended a performance of Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House were exposed to pro-“Palestinian” propaganda: A privately educated “queer dance artist” unfurled a Palestinian flag while on stage at the Royal Opera House before tussling with a stagehand who tried to wrest it from him. During the curtain call on the closing night of the production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore
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June 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump isn’t leaving us any room for ambiguity or dissent in his demand for “unconditional surrender.” You know who he’s talking about. I think he’s given up on Tucker Carlson et al. The time to hesitate is through. So let it be written. So let it be done. pic.twitter.com/hjTjwVp83e — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 17, 2025 Vice President Vance undoubtedly knows what he’s talking about in his defense
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May 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
For several days, armed clashes and missile strikes between India and Pakistan had those countries on the brink of full-scale war. It wouldn’t be the first time, but now both nations have nuclear weapons. Initially, the Trump administration stayed out of the conflict, with Vice President JD Vance saying it was “fundamentally none of our business.” Neutrality is the Trump administration’s default position, but as the risk of war increased,
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March 28, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Vice President J.D. Vance is now visiting the North Atlantic island territory of Greenland. The New York Post reports, Vice President JD Vance arrived Friday in Greenland — which President Trump hopes to annex — and was ready with some humor, telling US military personnel: “It’s cold as s— here! Nobody told me.” Vance was visiting an American military base on the island. With the rising strategic importance of the Arctic region, Pres. Trump
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February 21, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Since many of our readers do not follow Twitter/X, it is worth bringing to everyone’s attention a very substantive exchange between Vice President Vance and historian Niall Ferguson. Ferguson is alarmed at Trump’s recent pronouncements and diplomatic initiatives over Ukraine, calling it “appeasement.” Vance very politely and respectfully dissents, followed by Ferguson’s rejoinder. Vance: In this thread I’ll respond to some of what I’ve seen out there. Let’s start with
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February 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
John posted video of Margaret Brennan’s exchange with Secretary of State Marco Rubio here yesterday. It may be instructive to pause over it for another moment. In the exchange, Brennan criticized Vice President Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference (video and text posted here). Brennan instructed Rubio: “Well, he [Vance] was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Rubio responded as a well-informed
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February 14, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Appearing at the annual Munich Security Conference today, Vice President J.D. Vance torched Europe in a manner they’ve never heard before. I kept seeing squibs from the speech on social media this morning, and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Some excerpts: The threat that I worry the most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about
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December 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
World leaders continue to adjust to the reality that Donald Trump is again going to be President. In some cases, the adjustment is easy. Thus, the Telegraph notes the good relationship between JD Vance and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch: Kemi Badenoch has had dinner with JD Vance, the vice president-elect, as the pair “renewed their friendship” ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The Tory leader and Mr
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