JD Vance

“So I would say that Trump's coalition Is a mix of Jefferson, Jeffersonians and Jacksonians, isolationists and hawks. You could say Vance as the isolationist champion, and in some ways, and Rubio as the hawk.”

“My brother's worked for JD since pre his Senate run, and he has this amazing job as his chief of staff, which is pretty surreal.”

“JD and Usha and many people from the White House were kind enough to come to my father's funeral last summer, and so we flew back to D.C., and they were nice enough to take me.”

“I believe that J.D. Vance will separate from Sachs and Trump on AI by, you know, first or second quarter of twenty-twenty-seven. Not all the way, but he's gonna have to.”

“I think Trump's fiscal stuff is going to kick in in the new year, and I think people are going to start reaping the benefits of that, and I think if that happens, and gas is cheap, and interest rates are down, and home ownership is up, and employment is up, th…”

“Complaining to our government about its crackdown on non-crime hate incidents, which is the ridiculous Orwellian term for people who say things on, online that, that lead them to being arrested. You know, criticizing that, as J.D. Vance has done, is the right …”

“I, I'm, I think I'm the first one, probably one of the first largest donors in the Republican Party. And I've been working pretty closely on supporting initiatives that, ah, you know, support things that are dear to JD Vance and, ah, you know, President Trump …”

“I'm in like with Trump. I'm in love with JD because he's young, he's opinionated, and he likes to mix it up.”

“I think in 2025, we will have the first net negative immigration number in about 50 or 60 years in the United States”

“I think it's going to lead to a new food revolution where we can grow a lot more food. On a lot less land.”

“When we try to grow our economy, frankly, through importing cheap labor, that I think is a dead end.”

“A foreign leader came to me relatively recently, this is actually last week small country, but very important country strategically, very good ally of the United States, and basically pitched me On creating a NATO alternative outside of Europe, but where count…”

“If the robots were coming to take all of our jobs, you would see labor productivity skyrocketing in this country, but you actually see labor productivity flatlining.”

“What actually happened is we have more bank tellers now than we did in the 19 seventies. They do slightly different jobs, and they're more productive, and they earn higher wages”

“The college-educated employment rate for STEM graduates in this country seems to be declining.”

“This idea that tech forward people and the populace are somehow inevitably gonna come to a loggerheads is wrong.”

“Like, to JD Vance's credit, I think he divested out of his individual stocks. He now only owns Bitcoin, S&P, QQQ, Dow and some gold. So he is very, kind of, aligned with America. If America wins, his portfolio will win. But he's not in, you know, he's not in m…”

“One is, this is not a negotiating tactic by Trump. I think that diminishes the administration's principled approach to restructuring globalism. I mean, you really have to listen to the speech that Vance gave yesterday. I did. I did. Whether it's Besant, whethe…”

“Up until two years ago, Kobe had a very interesting board and a very interesting co-founder. So his co-founder was Vivek. And his board was JD and Peter Thiel.”

“If you want to talk about like power plays, you got to watch out for JD. That guy's a, that guy's high emotional intelligence.”

“And then, right before this episode aired, they appeared at Google's demo day and won. They received another 250,000 dollars from JD Vance, one of the judges, and ended up oversubscribing their one million dollar seed round.”

“Frankly, I think I think Elon was a little jealous that Sam Altman was sitting next to JD Vance, and it wasn't him. And because it was right around the time that Sam Altman was speaking that he announced it.”

“The vice president wrote the speech or at least directed all of it. So the ideas came from him. I'm not gonna take any credit whatsoever for this.”

“I think that JD was focused, he was precise, he was ambitious, and even the part of the press that was very supportive of Kamala couldn't find a lot of very positive things to say about her, and the feedback was It was meandering. She was ducking questions. Sh…”

“I think the state of play is that, in particular, JD Vance. Vance has been deputized to do this. Is trying to figure out what group of investors broadly, including strategics, can own what parts of TikTok and satisfy you know, the law.”

“Yeah, J.D. Vance, I don't think is like, I just, to me, he doesn't have any charisma, really. I'm not grabbed by him when he talks.”

“Yes, because I think JD Vance has made that very clear, that sub-five hundred million dollar deals, the FTC has no business trying to block transactions.”

“I'm going to predict the pro war neocons who are going to go Head to head with the JD Vance and Elons and others of the world, and I think that they're gonna lose, and I think that there's gonna be this kind of big crack in the establishment of this neocon mov…”

“My political surprise is J.D. Vance. I don't think if this works out properly there will be a Republican party the way that you normally knew it. I think it is a MAGA party. And I think that JD Vance has the potential to become the standard bearer past Trump, …”

“JD Vance is going to become president in the next election, which I think has a very serious possibility”

“And so my bet that I would put on Polymarket right now is that The twenty-twenty-eight election is between JD Vance and AOC, or JD Vance and Buttigieg, because AOC and Buttigieg both can actually sit and be real people for several hours, and AOC's done it with…”

“No one who is persuadable, who doesn't have TDS cares about that topic anymore.”

“I think Vance did an outstanding job. I think he was like, he did a good job of being calm, collected, smart, empathetic, Thoughtful communicator.”

“What I really appreciate about JD is that it doesn't bother him that we don't agree on everything.”

“I am still Very strongly pro-Trump, pro pro-JD. I've decided not to donate any money politically, but I'm supporting them in every other way every other way possible.”

“I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we have in these important states.”

“I was a seed investor in Anduril.”

“I've got a piece of legislation in the United States Senate that we've got a lot of colleagues who have signed up for it, which would tax remittances, right?”

“If Trump gets elected, then I think it was a phenomenal pick because I think that JD is really, really smart, really capable, can actually, like, would be one of the best VPs you could possibly have on the job. But in terms of getting elected, I don't think th…”

“I would already say that Fox News has a market position problem, which is that Ruber is very much a neocon and neoconservatism is on the way out in the Republican party in favor of a more populist conservatism that you see with Trump or now his running mate JD…”

“Teal backed him with, I think, the largest Senate race donation in history, fifteen million.”

“He's going to be very hard to demonize.”

“It was a legacy pick because it means that this America first MAGA message Is gonna continue into the future, many years into the future.”

“JD Vance has been relatively positive towards Lena Kahn. He's one of Lena Kahn's few Republican fans”

“The problem is if you're the kind of person who it's like, I'm going to spend 10 years chasing down this media outlet when everyone is telling me not to do that. You're also the kind of person who can get sucked into other things that I think are going to pay …”

“JD's already won the primaries and I expect he will win. I mean, it's gonna be, I think a red wave in November and Ohio is a pretty red state these days.”

“The reason why I support JD and Blake for that matter is they are, they represent this more populist, working class wing of the Republican Party, and they're dragging the Republican Party in a more working class direction. I think that's the future of the part…”

“Putting ten million dollars into this guy, Blake Masters, running for Senate in Arizona, ten million dollars into JD Vance Both of them either former or current, you know, Teal employees”

“Josh Hawley is another one of these figures, also a figure former Stanford review guy who has taken money from Teal, who has endorsed JD Vance.”