Peter Thiel’s fake-Appalachian messenger boy delivers chilling lies to justify state repression

Congratulations to every elite editor in the liberal-ish media who propped up this guy as the Reasonable Conservative whose Arguments You Need to Consider:

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

[image or embed]— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) Sep 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM

Vance is right that "one side has a much bigger problem": Political violence of any stripe is relatively rare, but political killings in the United States are about six times more likely to be motivated by right-wing ideology than left-wing. www.cato.org/blog/politic…

[image or embed]— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) Sep 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM

The rest of the speech is an argument against James Madison’s dictum that taking away liberty to eliminate faction would be like taking away oxygen because it feeds fires:

There could be “no unity” with Americans like this, he said. Ominously, after speaking of liberal journalists and Democratic donors, whom he blamed for Kirk’s death, he vowed that in the months to come “we will explore every option to bring real unity to our country and stop those who will kill Americans because they don’t like what they say.” (We still don’t know what, exactly, motivated Kirk’s killer.)

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But there had been hints from Vance through the episode that he was leading to a darker place. Vance, toward the end of his opening segment, teased that he would discuss strategies for “dismantling” the “incredibly destructive movement of left-wing extremism that has grown up over the last few years.” (He ended the segment by declaring that “the greatest lesson any of us can take from Charlie is to have faith in the Lord and be bold in how we glorify Him.”) He then, when speaking with Miller, said, “We’re going to go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence.”

Being a cold-blooded enemy of liberty is no bar to social advancement in America, and might even be an advantage.