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JD Vance is a product of Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with Carl Schmitt. Schmitt argued that a dictator seizes power through a "state of exception"—when the rules are suspended due to some "emergency." "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Vance is vastly more dangerous than Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."

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I noticed one the headlines in the video was by "David Wexner and David Wexner". I probably wouldn't have noticed the name except that it was the same name twice. Googled and there are multiple Quartz articles with the same byline. What's up with that? And is he Les's son or grandson by any chance?

Peter Thiel’s secret “Dialog” society 1/ 222 elites. $16,000+. One hacker ended two decades of secrecy 2/ Bessent. Cruz. Lonsdale. Driscoll. Saudi Ambassador Al-Saud 3/ “Build-a-Cult.” “Navigating WWIII.” Dublin, August 2026 4/ They built mass surveillance for us. Met in secret for themselves

Related they have also taken on the Schmittian axiom that politics is reducible to friend-enemy interactions, which expresses itself in their nihilism and absence of clear moral or political convictions

I thought we were through with the Chuck Schumer way of doing Democracy? That's what I tell people. Maybe it's my way to throw an uncertainty into the equation. I don't want that kind of thinking & neither do a lot of other people. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, won't be a twice.

It’s hard to say! Despite his dopey presentation he did go to law school. He would understand the Lawfare strategy if not the tactical approaches to getting that done. But from a public perception perspective he’s fucking creamed corn. He wouldn’t last an hour

Disagree. Vance at least knows when he's lying, and has some clue that reality exists. More competent than Trump, ofc, but Trump delegated his destruction to Vought, Miller, and Musk, who got it done much more effectively than Trump45 ever did, and he got to do the fun speechmaking stuff.

IMO, the real concern isn’t them stopping or rigging the election on the front end (though it’s possible; wouldn’t put anything past the fascists) but more just refusing to recognize the outcome on the back end due to “fraud”. lower-friction solution when you control the courts

I really, really wish this were better understood on the left. Any assertion that Vance is or even could be more dangerous than Trump is almost always automatically dismissed and derided. Very much hating the watching-a-crash-coming-while-paralyzed part of this era.

Being born with a facts-&-reality-based trauma defense mechanism, and despite a solid understanding of selective updating and normalcy bias, I still need to do a better job remembering that that's what smug cope is actually hiding. Appreciate your wisdom on this front and beyond.

As long as the police force and military go along...the civilised people of the shithole country named America are cooked. Look at Russia and China and tell me those folks had any chance... because 60% of uneducated pricks are enough to tank democracy.