Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Wednesday. Great to have you with us today. We've got a very big show. The president of the United States just announced that we have a complete and total blockade of an entire country going on. And if you're like me, you probably wonder yourself, How does this affect my life?
Chapter 2: What recent events have escalated tensions with Venezuela?
What does this have to do with me? I'm glad you're asking that question. We're going to explore that in just a moment. I'm going to give you details that the media are definitely not giving you about what's going on in Venezuela. That is ahead on the program. Also, additionally, we've got these boat strikes we've been doing. The United States has been.
And Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, they go over to the United States Senate to give an update on all of that. I've got the details there, what the senators are saying about that subject and how ridiculous these Democrats continue to be. Also at Brown University, the hunt for the gunman continues. And the Brown University staff, well, I think we are crossing from incompetence to cover up.
I'll explore the details. That's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Also, Rachel Bovard joins us. We'll talk about the latest in the United States Senate and why you and I are trying to so aggressively browbeat them into submission to save our country. That's all ahead. We've got a lot to get to. You already know the name Blackout Coffee, by the way.
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Chapter 3: How is the U.S. responding to the drug boat strikes?
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Chapter 4: What details are emerging about the Brown University shooting?
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Okay, here's the thing.
I just asked the chat. If you're listening to the podcast, I asked the chat as we were about to get the show started, does everyone want me to address the Susie Wiles vanity fair thing from yesterday, from Tuesday? And I got pretty overwhelming yeses. We got some noes, but we got some overwhelming yeses. So I'll give you my quick rundown on this story if you'd like.
And here's what I'm thinking about all of it. So yesterday morning, the New York Times, I said Vanity Fair, but let me start. The New York Times runs a derivative piece, like a condensed, heavily distorted recitation of the Vanity Fair interviews that Susie Wiles has apparently been doing over the course of the entire Trump administration.
She did 11 of these things with a guy called Chris Whipple, which is a hilarious name, but she was talking to this guy pretty candidly. And in her candid conversations with this Vanity Fair reporter, she said a couple of things, including that she said that President Trump has an alcoholic's personality. Now, that got drilled down to just that quote.
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Chapter 5: How are the Clintons involved in the Epstein hearings?
The New York Times delivered it as, oh, he's got an alcoholic personality. Susie Wiles crapping all over President Trump. And they made it seem like she was just completely out of control and she hated everybody around her and she was shit-talking the whole administration. That was the frame-up from the New York Times yesterday.
But if you spend five minutes actually looking for the details on all of this, you begin to realize that the New York Times had really distorted what the hell Susie Wiles was even saying. And Vanity Fair, for its part, was also trying to imply that there was some sort of underlying drama going on between various members of the administration, Susie Wiles, the president, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio.
It was all kind of one big wrap up smear. And insofar as Susie Wiles has any culpability here, it's in talking to Vanity Fair. Nothing that she said in these interviews. And by the way, she's not denying any of the quotes. Nothing that she said is actually controversial or crazy or worth throwing a shit fit over. In fact, it was all fine. I have some quibbles, a couple policy quibbles with her.
I'll get into those in just a moment. But for the most part, it was totally fine. Certainly the interpersonal stuff, I wasn't scandalized by any of it. The worst thing is that she talked to Vanity Fair.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the blockade announced by President Trump?
Who gives a shit about Vanity Fair? Why are we even talking to these useless, dried up, shriveled, feckless, dangerous in the past, certainly, and useless... publications who have no bearing on the average American. It's kind of like an old way of thinking. It's like, why don't we suck up to Vanity Fair? Maybe they'll give us glowing coverage. They're not going to give you glowing coverage.
They took a bunch of shitty photos of you, put them online, and then tried to crap all over you after you gave them rampant access. How many times do you have to get smacked by these evildoers before you realize they're never going to play ball with you, they're never going to be nice to you, and you're never going to come out looking even fair? Forget good, even just given a fair treatment.
So stop talking to Vanity Fair. That's the sin in all this. But the rest of it, it's a joke. It's a joke. It used to be in the old days, a decade ago or 20 years ago, if you had an interview that didn't go well with Vanity Fair, oh no, it could actually signal the end of your political career.
You'd have to be like getting your resume together, get your cardboard box, carry everything out of the office. Nowadays, it's a total joke. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Yesterday, the whole Trump administration rallied behind Susie Wiles. They're like, she's great. She's actually kind of holding the whole thing together. She's been a wonderful chief of staff. And as Don Jr.
said yesterday, while so many other Republicans were abandoning Donald Trump, after the 2020 election, Susie Wiles didn't. She stayed by his side, she fought with him, and she helped get him across the finish line in 2024. Susie Wiles is loyal to President Trump, and in turn, President Trump is loyal to her. Yesterday, President Trump said he's perfectly fine with Susie Wiles.
He's very happy with her. They met yesterday, they talked, and everything seems to be going great. And God willing, it continues to be the case. But let me dwell on some of the big items for a moment, the quotes that everybody's obsessing over. This whole thing that, oh, Donald Trump has an alcoholic's personality. What do you think she's talking about? What do you think she's even talking about?
Donald Trump doesn't drink. So the media are pretending, obviously, like, oh, Donald Trump is a total drunk. That explains why he's so crazy. No, it doesn't even make any sense, that recitation of facts. So once you actually start looking at the quotes, here's what you learn. Susie Wiles was reflecting on the big personalities that she's known throughout her own life.
That would include her own father, the famous Pat Summerall, Most of us know him by his longtime existence and work in the booth, in the football booth alongside John Madden, the legendary Pat Summerall. Pat Summerall was an alcoholic. She grew up with an alcoholic father. And fortunately for Pat Summerall and their family, the final two decades of his life, he was completely sober.
He was able to conquer that particular issue in his life. But he was a big personality, is what she was explaining to this interviewer. She was trying to open up her heart. She was explaining the way she thinks about the world. And she said that alcoholics tend to, especially when they're drinking, have these grandiose views of what they can achieve.
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Chapter 7: What controversies surround Susie Wiles' Vanity Fair interview?
And then he goes, and if it's Marco, I'll give you a thousand dollars. Vanity Fair described that as, quote, underlying tension being revealed in the administration. Now, I don't know what world these idiots come from, but here's the world that I come from. If I tell a photographer, hey, will you make sure that all my buddies look shittier than I do? Would you do that? What is that?
Well, one, it's self-effacing, suggesting that I look shitty to begin with. And two, it's ribbing. It's just giving your boys a little bit of shit. That's the whole point. These humorless idiots write it down as if it's a sign of drama in the administration. Now, is there going to be disagreements and perhaps very vocal disagreements going on between people inside of any administration?
Yes, these are a bunch of alphas. These are type A personalities all showing up to work every day with perhaps in some cases small, but also big differences of opinion about the way to get things done. But they all work for the final decider, the one guy, the guy you elected, the president of the United States. And that's the way that guy has to forge ahead.
We live in a world where there's way less drama in this Trump administration than there was in the first one. So while everybody's trying to like create drama, like Vanity Fair and the New York Times, the rest of us, we should be laughing it off. It's stupid. And you and I both know, how many rodeos have we been through now?
We both know that we are literally one truth social post away from the media moving on to the next thing and pretending like it's the smear or the scandal that's gonna take down the Trump presidency. So again, and AJD 1063, I hope that you're not talking to me because that's a dumb opinion. Stop making excuses for unforced errors. I'm not making excuses for any unforced errors.
I started my conversation by saying Susie Wiles should not have talked to Vanity Fair. That's the mistake here. But the rest of it, the lasting consequences, it's bullshit. It means nothing.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the blue slip process in the Senate?
It means nothing. Literally everyone's going to move on. The people who love Trump and the people who hate him. Everybody's going to move on. I've seen this too many times. I have a Vulcan-like assessment of the way these things go. It's all very stupid. It's all completely stupid. Also, apparently, Susie Wiles said in the quotes that J.D. Vance is... What did she say?
Oh, she said he's been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. And J.D. yesterday goes... He was in Allentown, Pennsylvania yesterday, and he goes, conspiracy theorists? You're damn right I'm a conspiracy theorist. The only things I'm a conspiracy theorist about are all the things that end up being real conspiracies, he says. Boy, do we have a lot of evidence for that.
You know, Trump-Russia collusion was a complete hoax. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was, of course, the source of the virus. The masks don't work. The jab doesn't stop transmission. The jab actually has, in many cases, terrible consequences for people. Oh, he's a conspiracy theorist.
At this point, if you don't theorize about the conspiracies that are being done against us, you have not been paying attention to the conspiracies that have been done against us. So good for J.D. Vance. That's it. All right, Calypso Bikes says, all right then, let's move on. And because Calypso Bikes is the producer of this program, we will now move on. Thank you, Calypso.
All right, so here's the thing. I said to you a moment ago, we're one Truth Social post away from everybody going hysterical about something else. Well, sure enough, we got a Truth Social post. We got a Truth Social post last night from the president of the United States about Venezuela. And, of course, the media are going apoplectic, apoplectic about all of this.
And here's what the president said. You ready for this? And I'm going to break it down for you because I think people need to understand what the hell is going on in Venezuela. Our media have no idea, by the way. Like we've got all sorts of people in the legacy press. What is Trump talking about? He's just making stuff up. He's really he's making stuff up. All right, let's assess it.
Here's what President Trump said in the Truth Social piece. Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before. Until such time as they return to the United States of America, all of the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.
You got that? Oil, land, other assets that they previously stole from us. Dwell on that, all right? We'll get back to it. The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves. Drug, terrorism, human trafficking, murder, and kidnapping.
For the theft of our assets and many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling, and human trafficking, the Venezuelan regime has been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Therefore, today, I'm ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela.
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