Peloni: It is important that Vance recognize that he is the leader of the US and not Israel, of course, but his pronouncement here and elsewhere are quite reminiscent of his good friend Tucker Carlson, whose son currently works on Vance’s staff. Recalling Carlson’s nearly knee jerk call for Vance to be recognized as Trump’ successor just a little more than a month after Trump took office did seem to give Trump some pause, as he noted it was too early to draw any such conclusion, and of course, Trump was right. But time and circumstances do draw out the values and influences which define a person, and to Erin’s point below, we should be concerned by some of what we hear Vance say in those unscripted moments which reveal the man behind the speeches. It is still early, and perhaps we will see better from Vance in the future. I am curious what others think on this matter.
“It’s about what it says to me that you value, and what it says to me that matters to you if you were to get the top job”
We have a JD Vance problem…
No point pretending otherwise…
And when I say WE… I’m referring to all who embrace western values and reject terror… pic.twitter.com/oV3RL3JMkK
— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) October 30, 2025
When I watched JD’s entire speech I thought 2 things:
He speaks very well. So articulate.
But when it came to Israel I had a sick feeling. Thanks for posting Erin Molan’s video. That’s exactly why I love her! Her point about him saying that Israel does not control THIS president hits the mark. His answer implies that normally Israel does control the US but not this time. That’s exactly what Tucker believes except that Tucker thinks that Trump needs to have more daylight between the US and Israel (I’m quoting Obama).
More sinister was Vance’s implication that Christians do not have access to churches in Jerusalem! He should have shut down any anti-Israel sentiment in the audience radiating from influencers like Tucker, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Bannon and others by simply stating that we in the US share common Judeo Christian values with Israel and we will always have their back. He could have and should have said: As a devout Christian I/we very much appreciate Israeli’s protecting our sacred holy site the Church of the Sepulchre and other churches that were inaccessible and in disrepair under the previous Arab regime.
His entire speech was laced with Christianity as if us Jews were either non-existent or personae non grata.
I very much liked his talking points of getting married and having children. But not if those children become Jew haters.
I didn’t know much about Vance when Trump picked him as VP. He came out of nowhere. Usually when that happens, it is often problematic. The more I know about him and hear from him, the less I like him. I agree with you and your readers. There are way better options for presidents like DeSantis, Rubio or Cruz.
BTW, there is a huge difference between Trump and Vance. I’m sure by now you’ve watched the 60 minutes interview with Trump. The notion spread by so many on both the Left and Right that Israel controls Trump’s foreign policy was of course asked directly to him. He said that he pushed Bibi to accept his peace deal. And that Bibi did some things that he didn’t like. And that there is ‘solid’ peace in Gaza. And that He could disarm Hamas tomorrow. Of course all those statements are his very own opinion. I didn’t like to hear it but I also know that Trump often says things (for various reasons) that he himself doesn’t necessarily believe. In any case it’s a bonafide fact that he is the most Jewish friendly president in US history. He’s proven it not just in words but action. What is also a fact is that thanks to him alone (Bibi could not do it), he freed the remaining living Israeli hostages. To quote him: That was HUGE!
He also did what no other world leader would or could do: He bombed Iran’s nuclear sites. To me that was the most important act that any world leader could have done.
I’m sure he’s well aware of the anti-Israel (read anti-Jewish) sentiment boiling in the Republican party and in his cabinet. He/we saw it way back with his antisemitic fan, Marjorie Greene and others and it’s been festering ever since. He/we saw it clearly for a very long coming from the Left. Now it’s reaching a very dangerous pitch with a looming Islamo nazi possibly becoming mayor of NYC. But as a Republican president, it was very easy to fight the antisemites on the Left. Not so easy to fight antisemites who support him. Such is politics that he’s forced to appease this cohort. Let’s hope that his incredible instincts stay in tact and that he is able to rebuff the antisemites that are slowly but surely infiltrating his party.
JD Vance was made by Peter Thiel of Palantir. It was Thiel and Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, who introduced Vance to Trump at Mar-a-Lago and said they’d help finance Trump’s campaign if he took Vance as VP. Thiel and Schmidt sit on the board of Bilderberg, and they’ve taken Vance to meetings, at least one I can prove.
Vance was a Never Trumper until Thiel got ahold of him and got rid of his TDS. JD had called Trump “Hitler” many times. Vance had called for a global carbon tax on each person’s carbon footprint. He was also deeply into climate change and had spoken of same at OSU about the problem.
There are far too many problems with Vance and his connection to Peter Thiel, his attitude toward Israel and his many past statements to ever take him seriously as a constitutional conservative who would support our ally, Israel.
Vance’s wife, Usha, was on the board of directors at Gates Cambridge, a Bill Gates enterprise. Vance worked at Sidley Austin, a law firm that employed the Obamas and other such operators.
Both Vance and his wife are Yale grads, as is Usha’s first cousin, Vivek Ramaswamy. JD has said that, “The sad fact is that I couldn’t do it without Usha. Even at my best, I’m a delayed explosion – I can be defused, but only with skill and precision. It’s not just that I’ve learned to control myself but that Usha has learned how to manage me.”
Erin Molan and Larry Peloni are absolutely right in their statements regarding JD Vance, who has changed his name three times.
I couldn’t in good conscience ever vote for the man. He is not at all trustworthy.
Email Rec’d:
@Peloni I remember your early warnings about Vance. Whose staff was he on? A big globalist oligarch.
In NYC, the time to be a registered Republican is Presidential election years. The rest of the time, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t exist. The time to change one’s party affiliation is before the November election the year before.
And right after, change it back to Dem, so that you can vote against BDS candidates in the Dem primary, the following year.
Your party affiliation has no bearing on how you vote in general elections only on which primaries you can vote in and the Republican party rarely holds primaries.
This year there was none. In Israel, I think Likud is the only party that holds primaries, please correct me if I am mistaken.
In New York City, most years, its the Dems, and all, I kid you not, all elected offices except for a handful of
the more than 50 city council seats are occupied by Dems who have been annointed by leadership of
the party machine. We have Soviet style elections.
“It’s [donkeys] all the way down.” 😀
My comment: And Republicans are elephants and Democrats are donkeys, you ass. 😀
Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation is usually the best one.
Sebastian: Very interesting… and appropriate.
But when all is said and done (and it never really is) we in the world are suffering from a depletion of manliness. All these “friends of Israel” hurriedly back down when the least obstacle gets in their way. This applies to Vance (who loves to tout his religion) as well as many other commentators, all of whom were solidly behind Israel, and are now essentially “dead meat”.
@Sebastien
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Yes, I described him as the hillbilly of Silicon Valley, because the former is how he portrays himself, but his connections and rise to power are entirely associated with the latter.
He was a protege of Peter Thiel, and I would argue he owes him everything. Thiel found Vance in 2016 following which Vance became a venture capitalist, making big investments in big pharma where he made a tidy fortune. 8yrs after being discovered by Thiel, Vance is Trump’s VP. Vance’s later connections to Musk were also very important and telling.
These are members of the Cowboy wing of the Intel Community which Mike Benz so often makes reference, the Cowboys being only one side of the Washington Blob. The see the world as their oyster, where regime change is just one tool in which they control foreign powers. This is why it was somewhere almost amusing to hear Vance castigate Europe for overshadowing the will of the people. Looking back on that magnificent and inspiring speech, in light of his disdain of Israel’s own democratic process, we should understand that his comments in Europe were non sincere, or perhaps, not his own.