Vice President JD Vance appears on the Joe Rogan podcast for an extensive interview. Watch or listen as the content will likely be the subject of political conversation.
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Vice President JD Vance appears on the Joe Rogan podcast for an extensive interview. Watch or listen as the content will likely be the subject of political conversation.
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This is Vance’s interview on July 11 with Daily Wire:
JD Vance Takes on Milton Friedman
In Vance’s interview last week with The Daily Wire, he sounded much more like a Mitt Romney, big-government RINO than a Trump or Ronald Reagan.
Decide for yourself. Here are some of Vance’s misguided views on economics and the future of the GOP:
“Milton Friedman’s ideas made more sense in the 1980s because they were being advocated in a country that still had a very rich and powerful institutional Christianity.”
“If you look at modern Britain and the result of Margaret Thatcher’s policies, you would say that her policies actually got Britain further away from that ideal and not closer to that ideal.”
“I think that meritocracy can steal from us a sense of what really, really matters.”
“When Donald Trump ran for president the first time, the idea of tariffs on imported goods was a heresy in the GOP. It is now the baseline position that virtually every Republican politician adopts.”
“If you turn economic development (i.e., prosperity) into a sort of idol, then you end up sacrificing a lot of the things that matter most.”
“American economic policy on the right is now much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman. I think that’s obviously a good thing.”
This is anti-free-market, big government gobbledygook. Here’s just one “laissez-faire economic truism” that JD should learn: Individuals can always spend their own money better than the government.
https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2026/07/11/jd-vance-takes-on-milton-friedman-n3816824
With the midterms coming up and conservative leaning media going hard on pushing Vance, just reinforces he is the Republican version of Obama, a cardboard cut out made to fit preconceived ideas of the ideal conservative candidate. Vance is an empty suit and very vacuous. Plus VPs have made terrible Presidents, the first Bush and FJB for example. Vance is big government’s preferred candidate. Right now attention should be on midterms, we will hear enough about 2028 starting in Jan. 2027.
“If you turn economic development (i.e., prosperity) into a sort of idol, then you end up sacrificing a lot of the things that matter most.”
This is indisputably true, you cannot serve both God and money.
If Vance actually believes this, then he has my vote.
Well, you do know that Hamilton was a protectionist, right? Much like President Trump, he believed that the U.S. government should protect our industries and farmers, rather than sacrifice them on the altar of ‘laissez-faire’.
“In Vance’s interview last week with The Daily Wire, he sounded much more like a Mitt Romney, big-government RINO than a Trump or Ronald Reagan.”
A big government RINO. Almost as if he’s logged some miles riding around in Peter Thiel’s Plantir pocket? There will come a day when he’s no longer hidden by Trump’s shadow. When he finally steps alone into the sunlight, what will he look like?
Me too.
A vampire.
Trump never, EVER, sounded like Reagan on the subject of free trade.
In all three of his election campaigns Trump ran as a Hamilton-style protectionist and anti-free-trader. If you think that approach is ‘big government’ then Trump is also “big government”.
Conservative media absolutely hates Vance, just as they hated Trump back then.
You should listen to some of the promethean action videos that Sundance has been posting/ sharing. Then you’d Know what was going on and that your view is the warped one not J D’s
I like JD👍🏻
Wow, he called out Israel for running a propaganda operation against himself.
He also said Mossad and Israel are behind the Epstein blackmail operation.
We need Israel and Islam out of U.S. politics. Both drag us down and weaken America with ancient conflicts and forever wars.
I am seeing reports on MSM in my area about this part of the interview and I have to wonder if JD has been given the green light to actually discuss things that have heretofore been “protected speech”? If so, I am all for it…
I think he was given the green light. Probably President Trump is sick of Israel’s warmongering and sabotaging deals. I think we need to get out of the ME and let the chips fall where they may. Let’s focus on domestic and hemispheric defense like how the President talked about during the campaign.
Vance also said that ‘figures’ inside the Israeli government are manipulating American public opinion to keep the war going ‘indefinitely.’
Here’s more quotes:
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15980465/jd-vance-israel-epstein-mossad-rogan.html
I am not religious (I envy those that have something to believe in) but absolutely islam needs thrown out. As many have said it is not a religion but an all encompassing tyranny.
He was too nice to Milton Friedman but I like him anyway.
VP Vance tells Joe Rogan people “within Israel’s system” are trying to prolong the war “not toward any objective, but just indefinitely,” and cites a Time magazine article he says details an alleged influence campaign aimed at derailing U.S. negotiations with Iran.
“There are some people within their system (Israel), we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely. Not toward any objective, but just indefinitely.”
“But I definitely think you have seen this very discreet, extremely well funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal.”
“It’s social media posts. It’s, you know, they’re leaking to reporters. They are attacking, obsessively saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran, that we should just keep the military campaign going indefinitely.”
“Go to hell. I’m going to do what I have to do for the American people. I represent Americans first.”
https://xcancel.com/Osint613/status/2077534662738501851#m
You can’t make a deal with Iran they will not break. Period.
Relaxing from a full day. I’ll watch it later. Interesting comments from Treepers I respect. Israel suffers from the same problem as the US; good hearted people with corrupt and lousy politicians (and liberals)
I won’t vote for JD. He can’t hold the MAGA coalition together. He gives off a bad vibe, like a Sunday morning televangelist.
He comes off as very folksy..Aw shucks..but he is well spoken..
Well there is always Kamala or Gavin I suppose.
MARCO RUBIO
So if he is the nominee you won’t vote for him and that will make it better?
SMH
I wont say I wont vote for him, But, you’re right, there’s something that gets my suspicious cats fur up….Cant put a finger on it…
Raised by his grand parents, with a quick rise to the top…The story of Obama. Shudder.
I like Vance. I’m not nearly as involved in all of this as most of you are (which many of you will likely view as a failure on my part) but I like what I know of him.
I’m currently listening to his book “Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith”. I’m only a couple hours into it and it’s 8 hours long, but so far, it’s interesting and has started to make me think about my faith.