This Is Stupid
Primaries are part of our free and fair elections in this country. It’s not America First to oppose this.
I’m tired of people litigating and re-litigating primaries. I’ve noticed it’s the grifters that promote this nonsense because they buy into the scarcity of opportunity and they do this as a way to gatekeep their new, and already waning, influence. I didn’t expect to see it from the current Vice-President of the United States. This is how it began:
Reaboi is a friend and was a big promoter of Vance as VP during the ‘24 primary. He was worried about leaks within Vance’s staff, and named Tucker Carlson’s son Buckley (who was recently named Vance’s Deputy Press Secretary) as a potential source. Vance responded harshly:
This is why it’s stupid to constantly re-litigate the primary as a means of determining who kisses the most ass:
Vance not only backed McMullin, but he literally called Trump “Hitler” in a widely-heard radio interview that is still online, called himself a “never-Trump guy,” threatened to back Clinton, among a million other things. In Dante’s Inferno of Political Offenses, this is a level seven.
For comparison, my only sin was to question Trump’s conservative bonafides in the lead-up to the 2016 primary based on sketchy Second Amendment support, voter for him in both the primary and general in 2016, back DeSantis in the ‘24 primary, and vote Trump in the general. Reaboi, who only backed DeSantis in ‘24, merely called out speculative leaks coming from Vance’s camp.
Maybe Vance’s reaction was designed to draw attention away from the question of leaks. Who knows. People should be free to ask questions of our elected leaders, as the Founders designed, without these idiotic and clownish loyalty tests invoked. Primaries are part of our free and fair elections in this country. It’s not America First to oppose this. Rubio ran against Trump. Previous Trump spokespeople literally called him a racist on CNN prior to the ‘16 primary. The standard of perceived loyalty doesn’t exist because it’s never applied inconsistently.
It’s not about loyalty, it’s about subjugation, and stupid people who mistake subjugation for loyalty and don’t see the potential danger in doing so.
The danger in constantly doing these stupid things is that it fractures the coalition. If newcomers see people going at each other like this it puts them off because it betrays the point of a coalition. You either want to persuade people to join your cause or you don’t. The people who don’t aren’t for the cause either, they’re self-serving grifters who want to guard the little influence they’ve attained at the expense of the movement itself. It’s about growing them, not growing the movement.
That’s why it’s so ridiculously idiotic that the Vice-President pulled this on X. He’s supposed to be better than this. He has promises to fulfill, we have objectives to hit, and we will never do it by situationally holding grudges.
The “Ringwraith” republicans are on the hunt for the ring of power. Nasty “Nazgûl”. Bureaucratic “Blackriders”. Stay in Fellowship! Stay Frothy
If I were JD Vance, I wouldn't read this, just based on the title; but he should. A good man, a wise man recognizes that when someone is showing him how to be better, that is the truest expression of loyalty. I'm not sure what the usefulness is in comparing sins, though. It makes it sound like you had an expectation of benefit for your expression of loyalty, but since it was more honest than someone else's, someone else got the benefit you were looking for. I don't blame you, you're a capitalist, and in this age, information is the currency of the realm. Which brings us back to the leak. I worked in engineering for the Navy, and we are always testing for leaks of a different kind. The way we found them is by applying a lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure, a lot of important information flowing around geopolitics lately. Instead of patching the leak, we replaced the leaking component. JD is trying to patch the leak. This will lead to failure later on, especially when something more vital, more secret needs to be contained. The Iran conflict is out in the open. There are times when the disclosure of international political correspondence would be absolutely devastating. We've seen it in history. If I were really trying to bend the ear of JD Vance, I would title it, "An appeal to better thinking" or "Do better, JD." "This is Stupid" is explicit throughout the piece.