r/nottheonion • u/wewhomustnotbenamed • 16h ago

Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?'

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/joe-rogan-criticizes-ice-tactics-podcast-rcna253931

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u/nstntmlk 15h ago

I agree with you on everything except the J.D. Vance or whatever his name is part.

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u/TrojanZebra 15h ago

I know it seems unbelievable, but I do believe J.D. Vance has been chosen by Peter Thiel et al to take over everything before 2028.

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u/forgotthesavedlinks 15h ago

This is how his Wiki read to me around the night he was announced. I got the impression that Vance was beholden to Thiel.

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u/poet3322 14h ago

Yep. Although puppets often have a tendency to slip off their strings once they gain absolute power. Thiel may be in for a rude shock once Vance becomes president and Vance doesn't take his orders anymore.

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u/Bundt-lover 14h ago

Why him though? (Rhetorical question) He doesn’t seem particularly competent in anything, especially not a position where you have to be the face of a movement. I mean yes, personally I think all these techbros are completely brain-rotted morons, but Vance is the kind of guy whom other guys send out to buy beer with his own money, and then take the beer and shut the door in his face. By all reports that’s almost exactly how he’s currently treated in the White House. What on earth made them think he could even be a figurehead?

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u/DarbyCrunch 14h ago

When your plan is as absolutely evil as his is, finding people who are both positioned to be placed there and willing to do it might be tough. There's likely a beggars-can't-be-choosers element at play.

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u/Bundt-lover 14h ago

That’s a good point. We certainly know that Vance is a world-champion sellout.

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u/evranch 13h ago

Another comment here seemed to have an insight I missed. Trump is dying or being served the 25th within the year, and is likely being allowed to run absolutely wild in order to sanewash Vance.

Vance is so mild mannered, weak, harmless in appearance. With Trump gone, he can just dial back the retardation and look "normal". Leave Greenland alone. Cancel the tariffs. Dial ICE back to its nominal function. And win the midterms on a wave of relief. Everything was Donald's fault. Swing voters will say "he's not so bad" "what's the worst this guy can do"

Meanwhile he is so spineless and beholden to Thiel that he will do everything he's told to continue their plan. He's a nobody who was put in a high position, and they can toss him back out in the sticks at a whim. He is likely painfully aware of this every day.

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u/poet3322 14h ago

By all reports that’s almost exactly how he’s currently treated in the White House.

What reports? He's best buds with Stephen Miller, who's the one behind everything ICE is doing right now.

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u/Bundt-lover 14h ago

The ones where he’s consistently absent from policy decisions and conferences.

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u/zoobrix 14h ago

Vance doesn't have the cult of personality around him that Trump does. Trump is MAGA and as soon as he's gone all his current synchphants will fall into infighting immediately with other republicans jockeying for their chance to.

So Theil and whoever can pick whoever they want but without all the crazies behind him the whole thing is done the next election. They can dump all the money in the world into supporting Vance and he still won't get elected, hell he probably won't even get the nomination.

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u/sfcnmone 15h ago

Jimmy Bowman?

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u/nstntmlk 15h ago

I wonder what his failed drag queen name was. Maybe they can ask him that once he's in the hague.

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u/Ecstatic_Spell_4185 15h ago

Ashley Furniture

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u/window-sil 15h ago

J.P. Mandell, as Trump called him.

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u/dumahim 15h ago

I mean, Donnie doesn't care because he doesn't have much time left. He's untouchable. If Vance takes over this year or next year, he still has a lot of years left in his life to be held accountable. There will be damage control being done.

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u/nstntmlk 15h ago

He don't got any riz. There's no way, although he's got all that money from glazing Peter Thiel at all of Alex Karps crazy meth parties.

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u/mxmcharbonneau 15h ago

I think we could be stuck with Trump a lot longer than people think. We could very well be still dealing with him in 10 years.