Writes NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie, at Blue Sky, commenting on this video showing JD Vance declining to entertain hypotheticals about Alex Pretti.
this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) February 4, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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You might assume the line "i can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet" has a factual basis. Where in "Hillbilly Elegy" is the story about Vance's drug-addicted mother resorting to trying to sell him? That's what I asked AI. But I don't think there is any such background to support Bouie's effort at satire.
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That dullard propagandist stands no chance against JD. And the press will sputter and flail in the same manner when he’s in the Oval Office.
This is a Race Grifter spouting off
It is hard to express clear thoughts in a society of FEELZ.
PS Will Jamelle Bouie apologize to all his teachers through the years, especially those who taught him English?
’to be a bit serious one irony of vance’s life is that he is also an addict: addicted to power and clearly willing to sell anything to get it’
But enough about Hillary, okay?
shes a ghoul, thats why they hire her, whoever did
What is the purpose of Vance doing these interviews (aka debates) with Lefting journalists? Same ol' nonsense. The Gotcha guestions. The interuptions. The hypotheticals. Notice the "journalist" tries to pretend the man's "civil rights" had been violated when that has yet to be proven.
But at least JD Vance knows how to debate, which is more than you say for all the other Republican cucks.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Jamelle is a dude. A Righteous Black Man Speaking Truth to Power!
Well if Jamelle is a dude, he's a rather dull one. Reading this I would call Jamelle an idiot--but that that would be an insult to all the other idiots in the world.
It's not a surprising question, and he gave a safe answer.
He could have said, "Regardless of how law enforcement's actions are judged, what I said is accurate, that this man put himself there to instigate confrontation and increase the danger for all involved."
But, yes, no good comes from a politician entertaining a hypothetical, even a narrow one like this.
* Also, I need to get on Bsky. I can't find a good debate on X.
’i can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this’
Weren’t we discussing misanthropy earlier?
Jamelle is a racist POS.
Hah, now that's funny - when I read 'wicked man that knows he's being wicked', I thought he was talking about the reporter asking the question, since that's what the picture is showing.
NYT columnists are such an unserious group. The world's a morality play where they are always right and everyone they oppose is wicked.
He's literally worse than literally Hitler (Trump).
jd is very good, jamelles just been gutted and doesn't know
the fact the agents were latino doesn't enter intoit
Also, I need to get on Bsky. I can't find a good debate on X.
Use hashtags for controversial topics. You'll find them.
The "For You" tab exposes me to a lot more conflicting opinions than "Following," even though I follow a lot of left-wing assholes so I can drop some invective at them and their acolytes.
Every single day I learn that I don't yet hate the MSM enough.
blue scream is like the wraiths in pitch black
I thought the reporter was, if not evil, a trifle smug and pompous. I don't think Jamelle would notice that. Jamelle's perceptions are highly filtered. His nervous systems has been trained to bask in the warm rot of Kamala's words and to flee from the chill of logical arguments.
The NYTimes cannot follow the Washington post fast enough. So jd won’t accept the Democrat setup and for that he should have been human trafficked by his other. Tell me again why republicans whine about Trump be crass?
And as usual, she talks to herself for about 5 posts afterwords.
yeah for you is like what they did to alex in clockwork orange
A New York Times columnist wrote on social media this week that J.D. Vance’s mother should have sold him for drugs during his childhood. The comments were made by Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, in a series of posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday.
Bouie wrote, “No wonder his mom tried to sell him for Percocets... I can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for Percocet if they knew he would turn out like this.”
Vance should do a response video where he wipes away a tear and says, "What kind of drug?"
blue scream is like 28 days later, one minute they are sane then they jump into a frothing rage, (like brendan gleeson)
He must be among the irredeemable in the basket of deplorables. They hate him because he's an apostate. Went to Yale Law and is not a leftist.
Pretti was an insurrectionist, armed in confrontation. He was aborted in self-defense. It wasn't Capitol punishment. There's no evidence that Diversity was a motive. It wasn't Planned Protesterhood. It wasn't the progressive liberal's wicked solution to relieve a "burden". In defending illegal alien murderers, rapists, pedophiles, redistributive change schemers, Pretti was an accessory to their original criminal affirmative actions. Anti ICE is a xenophobic community organization that opposes repatriation of criminal illegal aliens to their native nations.
I think one interview question for journalists is, "When you were lying on the floor in the grocery store aisle screaming and kicking, what was the biggest reward you received?"
It's the same skill set; draw attention to yourself. This guy got us all talking. He wins.
Ciso: "the fact the agents were latino doesn't enter intoit"
Good point. They should be held up for admiration, as a Latino version of John Brown's free black raiders, slaying minions of the white slavemaster, or in this case illegal-labor master.
Our borders are literally controlled by Hispanics, to protect the Hispanics already here. You would think La Raza would be proud....CC, JSM
"For what?" is an absolutely legitimate question. And if he hadn't asked it the interviewer wouldn't have been forced to clarify it by resorting to a hypothetical.
Without Vance asking, the headline would be "Vance apologizes for Pretti killing!!!"
the Times should be kindling, but they don't burn very well, and digitally, well it's useless,
Jamelle: "like, do you see that smirk? that brief 'ain’t i a stinker' grin? beneath contempt."
William: "I thought the reporter was, if not evil, a trifle smug and pompous. "
Yes, the i'm-a-stinker smugness is most often displayed by the Left, when they're in performative-ignorance mode.
As opposed to their righteous-indignation mode.
The Right should adopt both modes more often. CC, JSM
remember ramos and campean, scapegoated by the Bushes,
Jamelle will never miss a meal, will always travel first class, and will never be held responsible for the harms he has caused and will cause. That's why there are a slew of Jamelles in the pipeline.
for shooting a trafficker,
"Wicked man who knows he's being wicked" and "smirk" gave me a flashback to Peter Strzok's "testimony" before Congress.
I am not any kind of hater. But I make an exception for that guy. (Vindmann is too stupid to bother with.)
ALL leftists are lying liars who lie. That's why they are leftists.
Lying is part of their religion.
Flashback: Here's MN Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan Telling Citizens to "Put Their Bodies on the Line"
Will a single democrat party religious zealot media hack admit that it's Peggy who should apologize? No. Not one.
Ciso: "remember ramos and campean, scapegoated by the Bushes"
Yes, I think Trump remembers them, too. He really did not like Bush letting his cops and soldiers twist in the wind during "investigations" and "prosecutions" captured by the deep state. That's why he's pardoned so many cops and soldiers. I hope he continues. CC, JSM
Nurse wretched acted Pretti stupidly carrying a scalpel, a gun, etc in peaceful confrontation. Separately, no Good can come from steering a guided missile to clear an obstacle, relieve an "burden" of legislative enforcement. His Choice. Her Choice.
’"Wicked man who knows he's being wicked" and "smirk" gave me a flashback to Peter Strzok's "testimony" before Congress.’
A level of arrogance I thought impossible. And zero consequences.
What is the purpose of Vance doing these interviews (aka debates) with Lefting journalists?
It's a good question and I think the answer is he's steeling himself -- or perhaps more properly "he is being steeled" -- for the 2028 campaign. Trump is singularly good at taking down the media, and there is likely a recognition inside the MAGA inner circle that the ability to continue pursuing MAGA's objectives is going to, in no small part, depend on the next party leader having close-to-Trump levels of media management.
JD also did a good verbal judo move: "let the investigation take its course." The Left of course think the investigation is a way to slow down the government, get embarrassing leaks, etc. They forget how they used the Byrd investigation for the opposite. But Trump & Co remember.
I also like something I heard on Morning Joe today: supposedly the FBI and MN State Police will now be doing a joint investigation. This may also be a judo move on Ellison and Walz: if the MNSP have a Bureau guy next to them throughout this thing, and the Bureau presents the same evidence to USDOJ while the MNSP present the exact same evidence to Ellison, how can Ellison come to a different conclusion? Also, the MNSP guys will be on their best behavior knowing a Bureau witness was alongside them, ready to provide impeachment information or swear to a civil-rights arrest warrant if the MNSP guy gets on the stand and says something different. CC, JSM
It’s now less about the tricks they try to play and more about the people who help propagate their strategy. I want them all to fail…
well ellison is a denebian slime devil,
A Blue and polluted Sky is a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
Denebian slime devils are born that way. Ellison made loads of deliberate decisions over the years to become what he is. CC, JSM
"this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway”
Writes NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie
The old adage ‘it takes one to know one’ comes to mind.
Right on, JSM!
Vance should have used more emphasis.
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Not sure Bouie dishes in satire. Pretty much just straight up venom. On a regular basis.
When the NY Times gets around to slimming the staff, I look for Bouie's posts on the injustice of it all.
Beasts, not zero consequences. Strzok and whats-her-name won a violation of privacy lawsuit regarding those conspiratorial emails. And WE paid the award to them.
Wasn’t Bluesky supposed to be the venue where nice liberals could escape from the horrible toxic environment of X?
yes it was a sinecure from the likes of monaco and clarke, obviously garland wasn't in charge, I think they had their security clearances pulled though
jamelle is black, I don't know who this dweeb is,
Strzok and whats-her-name won a violation of privacy lawsuit regarding those conspiratorial emails. And WE paid the award to them.
I don't see how that is even possible. Those were government telephones. We the people own every word they typed on them.
because they wanted to protect them from accountability,
Our borders are literally controlled by Hispanics, to protect the Hispanics already here. You would think La Raza would be proud....CC, JSM
People under retirement age probably don't remember the days when when Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the labor movement in general HATED illegal immigrants and supported vigorous efforts to deport them. They correctly saw them as scabs and minions of the farmers and packers and millers, undercutting wages and union organizing efforts.
As far as I know Chavez never recanted, even when unions in the private sector withered on the vine, and illegal immigrants became the favored pets of the government workers' unions.
Hassayamper said...
Strzok and whats-her-name won a violation of privacy lawsuit regarding those conspiratorial emails. And WE paid the award to them.
Not won, Garland and Biden's DOJ collusively settled the case.
’Not won, Garland and Biden's DOJ collusively settled the case.’
Reaction redacted.
What Bouie's screed reminded me of is the time John McWhorter scrutinized Sarah Palin's use of deictic "that". In each case you have a vast edifice of contempt teetering on a tiny little foundation of fact.
The midterms are critical. The Democrat propaganda machine continues to demonize Trump and Vance. Thus, their elimination to pave the way for President Hakeem Jeffries won’t cause even a ripple amongst Party faithful, leftmediaswine and other consorts. Democrats and their true causes are evil.
Vance's interview super power is that he won't just accept the dweeb journalist's premise. Conservatives who risk talking to the press should keep that in mind. Either JD or Marco in 2028 would suit me just fine.
If someone in this administration actually did something evil, you wouldn't be able to tell from the press. It would read like every other story.
Temujin -- the NYT is a long way from cutting staff. With annual total revenue of $2.825 billion, a 9.2% increase year-over-year, and net income of $343.98 million, the NYT will probably be hiring some of the WP castoffs.
Vance's interview super power is that he won't just accept the dweeb journalist's premise.
Objection. The persecution's premise is plausible but improbable.
Pretti is a violent thug who feloniously assaulted an ICE agent in the performance of his duties, then was shot while violently resisting arrest.
I sure hope JD isn't upset about him dying, because no one who isn't a democracy hating, rule of law hating, and America hating scum bag should care about Pretti's death.
If you want to live, dont' try to stop Ice from enforcing the law, just like President Trump promised when he ran for, and won, office.
If you do want to die, don't expect anyone sane other than be upset when you get your wish
JournoList's jaundiced eye for the jingoist's dye.
"this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway”
Writes NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie
Yes, that is a true statement about Pretti. And about all his defenders.
It's not in the least bit true about JD
I took the smile as, 'I know how to respond to this, this is a slam dunk.' Vance laughed at the desperate interviewer failing to lay the proverbial glove on him.
The question 'apologize for what?' set the interviewer up for the slam dunk. The smile was a celebratory precursor. Vance just exhibited confidence about the possible gotcha coming up empty.
The smile was about the true nature of the interview going well as perceived by Vance. Where Pretty was just a reporters latest prop.
The true nature of the gotcha interview being, 'how can I nail this guy and become the guy who nailed Vance'.
Pretti didn't deserve to die in that incident, even when paired with the earlier one. However, he was on a path to die by the time he was 40 by doing something stupid like petting a crocodile.
If you take a gun into a group of armed men with the intention of opposing whatever mission they are on, you should expect the possibility of being shot. Only a fool would fail to consider that. I think he did consider it, and did it anyway. The danger was foreseeable, and easily avoidable. He underestimated the risk he was taking, and it was fatal. That happens when you do that.
I used to go hang-gliding multiple times a week. Fatality rate is about 1 in 10,000/year. If I got killed, I already know whose fault it was, no matter how it happened.
Better answer: "Prette was violating civil rights of two Hispanic men attempting to perform their job". Or, "Prette was violating rights of two of my brown brothers".
If you feel compelled to draw conclusions based on the facial expressions and physiognomy of someone you disagree with and detest, it's best to run your conclusions by a panel of unbiased jurors first -- or maybe just don't do it.
This is like the VP debates, when Vance was checking the clock to see how much time he had, but the glance he made was interpreted as a Fourth Wall moment, where he was communicating with the audience with a 'can you believe how full of crap this guy is?' look.
When he asked 'For what?' I think it wasn't with a smirk, it was the ghost of a smile, the kind that a pleasant person makes when politely engaging the other party. When he looks up as he forms a response, I took that smile as one that saw the pretextual construct as being a little ridiculous, and then he proceeded to tell him so. Nothing about his behavior was unpleasant or arrogant.
Yancey Ward said...
Pretti didn't deserve to die in that incident
Yes, he did. Anyone and everyone who violently resists arrest deserves to die.
The bullshit needs to stop. Blacks (Floyd, Jacob Black) Leftists (Good, Pretti) need to understand they are not above the law, and when the cops start to arrest them they WILL be arrested.
The violent resisting needs to end.
@Althouse, what happened to your vaunted "cruel neutrality"? Not so neutral when it's a lefty protestor who has gotten himself killed, right?
For the record, Alex Pretti caused his own death. He had a right to be armed, yes. Let me not merely concede that point, but instead let me stipulate that he also had a responsibility not to create a situation that can escalate to lethal force.
In other words, Pretti died of stupidity, leavened with arrogance and a lack of self-control.
"The violent resisting needs to end."
And it needs to stop being called "protesting".
YRU on bluesky?
bagoh20 said...
"If you take a gun into a group of armed men with the intention of opposing whatever mission they are on, you should expect the possibility of being shot. Only a fool would fail to consider that. I think he did consider it, and did it anyway. The danger was foreseeable, and easily avoidable. He underestimated the risk he was taking, and it was fatal. That happens when you do that."
I agree with this, except, I think Pretti KNEW the risk he was taking, and did it anyway. He knew he would be a martyr if killed.
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