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J. D. Vance: “Somebody clearly screwed up [regarding the assassination…”

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Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414

Published October 26, 2024 | Video Starts at 49:00

I mean, I could literally hit a silver dollar from 125 yards with an AR15. And. Okay, so Somebody clearly screwed up [regarding the assassination attempt on Donald Trump]. Right. And obviously I've gotten to know the Secret Service over the last three months. The guys on my detail, universally super professional, good guys. (49:00–49:09)

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Asserts that there was a failure in handling the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

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J. D. Vance

“I ran for Senate once before in my life a couple years ago.”
Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414 | Uploaded October 26, 2024 | 00:45-00:49
“We won, obviously, or I wouldn't be here.”
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“I was, like, very frustrated with the policies of Kamala Harris and of Joe Biden.”
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“We can be pissed off about the policies of Kamala Harris and we should be, frankly, because she's a disaster.”
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“The thing that's different about the Trump rallies versus the Kamala Harris rallies is the fake joy of the Kamala Harris rallies.”
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“Most of the wars that we fought over the last 40 years have been a total disaster for the American people.”
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“Massive investment in what I would call shipping our industrial base to countries like China and Mexico, which has eviscerated the American…”
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“Every political party has tried to make it easier to bring more and more people into the United States of America.”
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“The American people have consistently been out of step with their leadership [on immigration, trade, and foreign policy].”
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“The military industrial complex has its own self-fulfilling momentum.”
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“America was the only superpower.”
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“Now we're still the lone superpower. But other countries are catching up.”
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“China is 32% of global manufacturing GDP. We're 18% of global manufacturing GDP.”
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“We had 22 intelligence agencies.”
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“Donald Trump and I really do want to, like, make the federal bureaucracy smaller.”
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“There was a Wall Street Journal story about how the Chinese had hacked into the Verizon and AT&T networks.”
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“Part of the infrastructure that they hacked into was built on top of surveillance systems that were implemented in 2001.”
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“Your tax dollars. My tax dollars were funding programs in a country where a lot of people didn't have running water. Yeah, we're funding…”
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“Not only that, but they want us to use tax dollars to try to force other countries to follow this ridiculous pathway.”
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“And right now we have pharma companies making billions of dollars off of cross sex hormones for children.”
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“Nobody on the left is like, huh, that's kind of weird that the very people who are getting rich off of this are also lobbying the American…”
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“I came out in support of banning gender transition for minors during my Senate campaign.”
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“She said the hormonal therapy for minors is totally reversible. Right. So the way they sell this is it just delays puberty. But then if…”
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“Like kids have permanent sexual dysfunction. Permanent like serious health problems when they take this stuff which is totally predictable.”
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“If you look at both black and white Americans, they say that race relations are worse now than they were 20 years ago.”
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“We've run this experiment now for 20 years. It's bullshit. It didn't work. It's made people hate each other.”
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“Israel has the right to defend itself, but America's interest is sometimes going to be distinct.”
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“Our interest, I think very much is in not going to war with Iran.”
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“The Iranians funded part of [the October 7 attack].”
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“Nuclear proliferation is just a bad idea.”
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“The Abraham Accords [are] Israel entering into an alliance with Gulf Arab states.”
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“Israelis, Gulf Arab states don't like Iran. So let the Israelis and the Gulf Arab states provide the counterbalance to Iran.”
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“Taiwan makes so much of the computer chips, right, which is such a driver of all economic growth.”
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“If the Chinese took over Taiwan, it would be really bad for us.”
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“The Trump campaign had requested additional resources, and those resource requests were very often denied.”
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“None of them have lost their security clearance. Right. Despite participating in a massive hoax.”
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“I firmly believe, and I've seen independent analysis that suggests this, that if the American people had known the full truth about the…”
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“There's sure as hell evidence that our intelligence community conspired with big tech to literally control the flow of information in the…”
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“The leading generals in our country were lying to Donald Trump about troop redeployments in Syria so that they could say that we were…”
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“You had generals in particular, Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, lying to Donald Trump.”
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“You start with the most hardened criminals, about 425,000 violent illegal alien criminals.”
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“There's a lot of Social Security fraud that happens in our country.”
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“One of the biggest and most pernicious effects of illegal immigration, of Kamala Harris's open border, is it means that millions and…”
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“If our share of manufacturing GDP goes from 18% to 10%, then the lawyers and the bankers are gonna realize they don't have good jobs either.”
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“The nanny is receiving welfare benefits from American taxpayers.”
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“Americans won't build houses. And it's actually a totally reasonable argument if you think about it, because in the 1960s when we had low…”
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“The solution to that problem is to raise wages for working people to get more of them into the labor force and not to constantly import this…”
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“If you have a permanent class of low wage serfs, many of whom don't even speak English, that destroys the citizenship ethos that makes our…”
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“You live seven years longer for having gone to college in the United States of America.”
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“Globalization. It's been very good for rich people in rich countries and it's been very good for poor people in poor countries. It's been…”
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“When my steel mill, the steel mill that employed my grandfather for 40 years, when it went from 10,000 jobs to 1800 jobs.”
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“The criticism of the Federal Reserve that makes the most sense to me is that it gives massive corporations a lower cost of money than the…”
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“Part of the reason BlackRock has been able to buy all these homes is you ask, well, what is BlackRock borrowing at?”
Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414 | Uploaded October 26, 2024 | 1:09:55-1:10:01
“The average mortgage interest rate is somewhere around 7%.”
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“BlackRock's borrowing at like 1.5, 2.5%.”
Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414 | Uploaded October 26, 2024 | 1:10:08-1:10:12
“Material living standards in this country have been stagnating for many years.”
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“Ordinary Americans are paying the same amount for debt as the big guys.”
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“We have a set of economic policies that are turning our generation... into permanent paupers, permanent renters.”
Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414 | Uploaded October 26, 2024 | 1:13:18-1:13:35
“Did American diplomacy actually create conflict instead of diffusing Conflict, in my view, it did.”
Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414 | Uploaded October 26, 2024 | 1:15:36-1:15:45
“Germany could field between 0 and 1 mechanized brigades.”
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“I don't want America to be the policeman of the world.”
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“I think we should basically ban foreign asset purchases of American land.”
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“The only way to build a sustainable middle class is to have a viable manufacturing economy.”
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“The Google antitrust lawsuit that's moving through the courts right now was actually started under Donald Trump's administration.”
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“I think you have to break these companies up. I think they're too big. They become monopolists.”
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“They became too powerful thanks to government privileges.”
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