Helen Lewis on that JD Vance/Joe Rogan confab (w/ emphasis on the 2nd syllable)
Vance then spent a lot of time defending his negotiations to end the war with Iran—which, as you might have noticed, have not turned out particularly well. The people criticizing his efforts, he said, want America “to bomb and bomb and bomb. And the honest view, Joe, is that they do not actually have a solution.” He added: “They’ll say things like, ‘Well, just bomb them to oblivion.’” Madness! Who are these idiots? Vance blamed Mike Pence, his very own Ghost of Christmas Past, but inexplicably failed to mention President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who began the war by promising to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.” Perhaps Vance’s amnesia is political genius: He simply picks his favorite of the nine conflicting opinions that Trump has expressed on any given subject, and enthusiastically agrees with it.
Helen Lewis on that JD Vance/Joe Rogan confab (w/ emphasis on the 2nd syllable)
Vance then spent a lot of time defending his negotiations to end the war with Iran—which, as you might have noticed, have not turned out particularly well. The people criticizing his efforts, he said, want America “to bomb and bomb and bomb. And the honest view, Joe, is that they do not actually have a solution.” He added: “They’ll say things like, ‘Well, just bomb them to oblivion.’” Madness! Who are these idiots? Vance blamed Mike Pence, his very own Ghost of Christmas Past, but inexplicably failed to mention President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who began the war by promising to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.” Perhaps Vance’s amnesia is political genius: He simply picks his favorite of the nine conflicting opinions that Trump has expressed on any given subject, and enthusiastically agrees with it.
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