Ana Navarro: “[Vice President JD Vance] also came in… strategically prepared to disarm us with niceness. He came in being affable and laughing easily and being very nice. I mean, it worked on you, [Joy]. Didn't work on me.” pic.twitter.com/CKDFqQesGp
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June 20, 2026
"He came in strategically prepared to disarm us with niceness.... It worked on you, didn't work on me."
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"My hate for my political opponents is tuned to a 10, and there is not way for me to dial it down"
What if YOU adopted strategic niceness and used it to interview a Republican? Who knows what kind of TV moments that could provoke!
But he had the perseus shield just in case
I’m paring down my FB list of friends. If somebody posts an obscenity laden diatribe, it’s instant blocking. Repeated hyperbolic political rants earn a block. I’ve got 700+ FB friends. If at the end of this cycle I’m down to 25, that’s OK. I’m fed up with the now prevailing media habit of refusing to be polite and restrained in what is a public arena.
The statement in this video is incredibly perplexing. You’re objecting to basic politesse and being reasonable? And, you’re proud of that? You’re not open to persuasion, but you still want to have a talk? What’s the point?
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Strategically nice?
These are not normal people. This is not how normal people think. But it IS how typical leftists think.
They all expect we're a cross between Hitler, Mussolini, Bull Connor, and Bill Clinton's friend, Robert Byrd. When they find out we're just nice people who think differently than they do, they have to label it a devious plan to disarm them.
This is not how a normal human thinks.
I think it was David Foster Wallace who wrote a short story where a woman warns another never to let a man give her an orgasm.
Great now i got that image (teh horror)
It is the mark of a well-formed human being that they can disagree without being disagreeable. It is not niceness that should be strategic, but offensiveness.
I'm sorry, but I could not even make it to the one minute mark. Screeching harpies.
I’m surprised she didn’t invoke the trendy new political word: “perfomative” niceness.
…some people are just nice. I’d wager JD is one of those people…
Or, you know, act like an adult and have a spirited debate with mutual respect. The Left are nothing more the petulant children, and should be treated as such.
The sweetheart on the far right acted offended she wasn't included in the description of "nice Republican".
She voted for Kamala in 2024. GFY.
She let mueller torture her father
Joy Behar(D) is a demon.
In Greek mythology, Carpies are monstrous bovine-women hybrids known as the "cows of Zeus".
Iman: I stand corrected.
Well i was going with medusa ymmv
The conservative woman in the green dress—what the heck is she wearing? Doesn’t The View have a wardrobe department?
They spent it on feedstock,
rimshot…
Kindness. The fiends! Will they stop at nothing?
Next metaphors and similes the beast
Stop this world, let me off
There's just too many pigs in the same trough
There's too many buzzards sitting on the fence
Stop this world, it's not making sense
They are very silly slatterns
I could only put up with about thirty seconds of this video. Every single one of these harpies is toxic.
They just can't comprehend that, republicans are nice normal people, too.
JD Vance wants to soften his image, so he appears on The View to apologize for past comments and present himself as a gentler, more empathetic man. This isn’t moral growth, it’s pure political expediency. In 2021, his anti-woke MAGA warrior schtick was advantageous. In 2026, with his numbers underwater among female voters, the approachable version is now expedient. He’s not discovering his values; he’s chasing his market.
Vance is intelligent, articulate, and unflappable. He showed up relaxed, tried a canned joke about being on a show full of MAGA Republicans, and played the self-deprecating everyman, talking about his kids while smoothly deflecting questions on policy and immigration.
Then he goes on Fox News, and the real Vance reappears: contemptuous and combative, the man who once called many congressional Democrats “terrible people.” The two versions don’t square. The View performance doesn’t land because it isn’t authentic.
He’s a gifted writer and a smart guy, but right now he’s playing a character. He should drop the act and speak plainly to the American people. The authentic JD Vance is the one who slammed America’s allies at the Munich Security Conference. He’s the one who brought Zelensky into the Oval Office and berated a wartime leader in a way that was mortifying for both of them. That’s the authentic Vance — not the one trying to be cuddly and self-deprecating when the audience demands it. It’s just a show. Voters are increasingly rewarding authenticity, which can’t be faked.
Trump has it: he says what he wants, flips positions without apology, and owns it. That consistency of character — for better or worse — is his brand. Vance’s brand feels inauthentic, and that’s making it very hard for him to win over voters.
This was the apology tour. They had to explain themselves to their audience, who were slavering for displays of incivility. How dare they be tolerant to the Trump lackey, letting him speak ! But they covered their transgression admirably. It's what Bah-bah-wah would have wanted, you see.
If you think the best of people instead of the worst, niceness is automatic. Augustine says it's soul-saving.
“JD Vance wants to soften his image, so he appears on The View to apologize for past comments and present himself as a gentler, more empathetic man.”
Another mind reading post. This “Indefinitely” guy is basically “Carnack, the divine mystic from the East” on the old Johnny Carson show. Every post, the mind reading.
The View is staffed with assholes full of TDS... and they expect everyone else to be an asshole like they are. Vance is simply a gentleman and acts like one. And that is hard for those with TDS to understand.
Yea, being a bitch is what they are.
"He came in strategically prepared to disarm us with niceness.... It worked on you, didn't work on me."
Leftists admitting that they believe treating people nicely is a tactic for taking advantage of them.
Sounds about right.
"You’re not open to persuasion, but you still want to have a talk?"
But they don't want to "have a talk". They want to shut down any potential conversation and screech "Gotcha"!" as often as they possibly can, while not allowing an opposing opinion to be heard.
You can tell that's so when they ask a question and then immediately interrupt to object to something that hasn't been said yet. Or maybe ever.
I'm reminded of very early in Colbert's Early Show run, I think he was trying to be more even-handed, admonishing the audience when they wanted to boo Cruz's statement that he believes in democracy; "However you feel, he's my guest, so please don't boo him."
https://youtu.be/xSQPqBVyuOg?t=12
But just a year or two later, he had abandoned that and was admonishing his audience for cheering Trump's firing of Comey. Taken aback, his response was "Huge, huge Donald Trump fans here tonight," and then proceeded with his monolog completely at odds with the audience response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoP8cmuFU0&pp=ygUeY29sYmVydCB3aGVuIHRydW1wIGZpcmVzIGNvbWV5
Once a program establishes its audience, the viewpoints just continue to harden.
Yea, she isn't smart enough to realize what she's saying about herself with that.
Notorious bimboes of The View acknowledge that “nice” is only a tactic, confirming what we knew about them. Stupidity, however, is not a tactic for them. It is an incurable condition along with hypocrisy.
IEE: “He’s a gifted writer and a smart guy, but right now he’s playing a character.” Unlike Democrats who seem perpetually nasty Vance, like normal people, has several facets to his personality. Speaking of playing a character, IEE, ….
Wise words from J.D. Vance: “You can’t just kill your way out of every problem.”
Northing works on an ancient, vile slut like Joy Behar, except .45 ACP.
Politicians all have (or try to have) a "nice" side. Behar and Co. don't notice that Democrat politicians are also playing nice when they do their show. They don't see Hillary Clinton's profanity-filled rages and, if they don't ask any serious questions, they don't see Xavier Becerra wax indignant over having to answer any serious questions.
Rosie O'Donnell, who Newsweek termed "The Queen of Nice" is coming back from exile to be Jimmy Kimmel's summer replacement. I doubt she will be particularly nice. Newsweek's reference is only comprehensible when you consider that guests on Jerry Springer and Morton Downey Jr were throwing chairs at each other at the time.
They just carp all the time, old country lawyer. Bitch ‘n’ Moan…
One must ask, "What is wrong with this person"? How much soft soap and politeness does it take to eliminate the venomous poison that is her normal personality? At some point, someone faced with this nonsense has to say, "Frankly Maggie, I don't care."
“When someone comes to your house, you treat them well, then publicly shit-talk them after they leave”
A choice to not like someone else. A choice. It’s always a choice. Your words reveal your heart. She probably feels superior to Vance. A cut above. A better human being.
Again - Joy Behar (D-idiot) thinks the Senate can be gerrymandered.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
As opposed to disarming them with something other than niceness?
I, Joy Behar herself, was the only one sharp enough to detect the scurrilous plot of niceness and was able to defeat his attempt at pleasantness. I take no personal credit, it is just the guift of my innate superiority.
Um.... so Chuck claims that the "real vance" who calls some Democrat congressmen terrible is... wrong? Omar, AOC, Tsliab or whatever she is... they are objectively terrible.
Rancida Tilapia is teh name…
There are lots of interesting intelligent women out there. ABC ought to hire some.
@IEE - he called the congressional Democrats "terrible people?" Isn't that hate speech? Shouldn't he be prosecuted?
Remember when Norm McDonald disarmed them with niceness? That was epic.
Not even one commentator seems to have thanked Vance.
Very funny. One bitch-hag acts pleasant for a commercial break, and they have to beat her with a sack of oranges.
Women are spooky.
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