Jake Tapper has a verbal war with JD Vance
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You'll note I'm not using CNN's YouTube video for this. "Full Video" my ass. Here's the "full" interview via non-CNN Rumble. Seventeen minute interview? More likely an hour long interview cut down to 17 minutes of the shit they hope would fly after heavy editing.
Qutoe of the day:
Yeah, it's what you do you fucking war-whore.
Even with this, Jake tries a half-dozen strategies and gets called out on all of them, and gets visibly pissed off after being challenged each time.
"HE MIGHT USE TROOPS AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!"
He might use troops against people actively seeking to overthrow the US government. You actively seek to use the military against people who dissent from you. From mass incarceration, lawfare, censorship, and lockdowns. Not a fucking peep for open violation of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments. In fact, condemnation to anyone who did object to it. You didn't say shit when Barack Obama drone striked a US citizen, did you?
Fascism in America doesn't look like Trump, it looks like Jake Tapper.
All that being said, great job on Vance for putting up with one of the most hostile, dishonest, and aggressive interviews I've ever seen; and I'm including ones involving Tommy Robinson and Jordan Peterson.
I think an important quality for anyone in Trump's camp to have is this one. You can't go in thinking it'll be a Press Release with a guy giving you jumping off points like it sorta used to be, you have to treat it like debate club.
Which means you need to be constantly watching for traps and tricks they are setting up and then setting your own back to exploit them. You can't be remembering your own rehearsed speech, you have to be present in the moment and watching for minor little things your "interviewer" is doing.
Its something most of his 2016 administration failed at, because they weren't ready for TDS. Its why so many were able to be led like dogs into betraying him and working against him just by someone outwitting them long enough to make them think it was their own idea.
Vance at least seems to be young enough to have dealt with Millenials long enough to understand this and able to be able to defend against it.
Frankly, Trumps problem with this would have been himself. He can handle these hostile interviews, but not in this way. He'd hit back at them, and focus on his narrative, but he'd still have a good chance of being deflected to some other point, and he wouldn't be able to address the firehose of bullshit being spewed at him. He'd just power through it.
Vance is clever enough to deflect each deflection back to each his narratives.
That's what was pissing off Tapper. He'd bring up Kelly, so JD would show that Trump is anti-war. Tapper smears with "an insult to Kelly's honor", and JD deflects to how The Atlantic is pro-war. Tapper claims that Trump insiders are lining up against Trump, JD deflects to that as evidence of clearing out incompetence; all while JD is pushing Tapper on "get back to the voter's issues".
It's like watching someone doing fencing.
Maybe it was 17 minutes, and Jake just got tired of getting his ass handed back to him after each line.
Exactly. What the fuck good would it even do? There's no point in a speech, you won't get one. This is why Kamala is fucking up so bad. That's all she has, and she can't even handle friendly follow-up questions.
Trump still acts like he can woo the media back onto his side. JD Vance realizes that is never going to happen and the 5th estate is an enemy actively against us.
I wouldn't say Trump thinks he can woo the media, he just doesn't fight them in the way that Vance does.