February 6, 2026

"this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway/like, do you see that smirk? that brief 'ain’t i a stinker' grin? beneath contempt."

"i can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this/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"

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

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) February 4, 2026 at 10:41 AM

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.

64 comments:

Beasts of England said...

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.

mccullough said...

This is a Race Grifter spouting off

Kai Akker said...

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?

Beasts of England said...

’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?

narciso said...

shes a ghoul, thats why they hire her, whoever did

RCOCEAN II said...

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.

narciso said...

play stupid games, win stupid prizes

mccullough said...

Jamelle is a dude. A Righteous Black Man Speaking Truth to Power!

Skeptical Voter said...

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.

CJinPA said...

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.

Beasts of England said...

’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?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Jamelle is a racist POS.

Aggie said...

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.

Ambrose said...

NYT columnists are such an unserious group. The world's a morality play where they are always right and everyone they oppose is wicked.

Tofu King said...

He's literally worse than literally Hitler (Trump).

narciso said...

jd is very good, jamelles just been gutted and doesn't know

narciso said...

the fact the agents were latino doesn't enter intoit

Hassayamper said...

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.

Jim Gust said...

Every single day I learn that I don't yet hate the MSM enough.

narciso said...

blue scream is like the wraiths in pitch black

William said...

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.

Dude1394 said...

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.

narciso said...

yeah for you is like what they did to alex in clockwork orange

Wince said...

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?"

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narciso said...

blue scream is like 28 days later, one minute they are sane then they jump into a frothing rage, (like brendan gleeson)

BarrySanders20 said...

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.

n.n said...

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.

Grundoon said...

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.

john mosby said...

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

boatbuilder said...

"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!!!"

narciso said...

the Times should be kindling, but they don't burn very well, and digitally, well it's useless,

john mosby said...

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

narciso said...

remember ramos and campean, scapegoated by the Bushes,

Ampersand said...

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.

narciso said...

for shooting a trafficker,

Fred Drinkwater said...

"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.)

Peachy said...

ALL leftists are lying liars who lie. That's why they are leftists.
Lying is part of their religion.

Peachy said...

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.

john mosby said...

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

n.n said...

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.

Beasts of England said...

’"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.

Kevin said...

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.

john mosby said...

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

rehajm said...

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…

narciso said...

well ellison is a denebian slime devil,

n.n said...

A Blue and polluted Sky is a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.

john mosby said...

Denebian slime devils are born that way. Ellison made loads of deliberate decisions over the years to become what he is. CC, JSM

Smilin' Jack said...

"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.

The judge said...

Right on, JSM!

Wince said...

Vance should have used more emphasis.

Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?

Vance: For what?

Temujin said...

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.

Fred Drinkwater said...

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.

Rosalyn C. said...

Wasn’t Bluesky supposed to be the venue where nice liberals could escape from the horrible toxic environment of X?

narciso said...

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

narciso said...

jamelle is black, I don't know who this dweeb is,

Hassayamper said...

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.

narciso said...

because they wanted to protect them from accountability,

Hassayamper said...

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.

Wince said...

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.

Paul Zrimsek said...
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Beasts of England said...

’Not won, Garland and Biden's DOJ collusively settled the case.’

Reaction redacted.

Paul Zrimsek said...

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.

hombre said...

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.

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