JD Vance Said in 2021 He Wants to Ban Porn

The left has dug up an interview with JD Vance from 2021 in Crisis Magazine where he said he wants to ban porn:

If there was a policy prescription to change this, it wouldn’t be in the realm of manna. It would be in the realm of sex. And there is no current politician brave enough to go after that issue with the vengeance that is needed.

I spoke with Vance. When I asked his thoughts on porn and birth control and their effects on familial decline, Vance admitted he wants to outright ban pornography. He went on to say, “I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other.”

He’s dead right about the interaction, or lack of intentional interaction.

I don’t think he’s talked about this publicly since then, or they would be talking about it.

But hey – these days, that’s a pretty hardcore statement.

I think Vance has good physiognomy, and I don’t really disagree with anything he says. He says a lot of good things. I’m concerned about the fact that he’s from Yale and he’s married to an Indian, but he could end up surprising me.

He’s a part of a wave of politicians supported by Silicon Valley billionaire and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Thiel worked with Elon Musk at PayPal. They supposedly hate each other now, but I do see coordination between Thiel’s political financing and Musk’s moves to buy Twitter and his recent attacks on the Democrat mob. There are a lot of other people in Silicon Valley – rich and powerful people – who are not happy about the virus nonsense and the current Democrat program to collapse the economy. A lot of these people also have connections to the Chinese.

It’s pretty clear that this marginal elite in Silicon Valley is going to attempt to make a move on the establishment, and I support this 100%. I don’t really even care what their plans are – they’re not Jewish so it couldn’t possibly be worse than what we have now.

This having been said – Thiel has had a hard time finding candidates to run, so everyone he does run is going to be hit or miss. They could easily be using him just to get in office and then go full-swamp. Josh Hawley is a candidate he’s supported, and he is I guess better than all of the rest of the Senate combined (except Rand Paul and Ron Johnson – Ted Cruz should retire because he’s fat and retarded), but he’s also not super-great.

There are signs that Vance will be better than Hawley – Hawley refused to go hard against the Ukraine war hoax, while Vance is out there saying he doesn’t care about the Ukraine at all. But again – this is before he’s in office. Once he’s in office, it’s possible to get completely new donors and just abandon Thiel. I mean, he can’t have him assassinated, so what power does he have, other than hoping Vance actually agrees with him and will fight for his agenda?

Of Thiel’s candidates, Blake Masters, who is running for Senate in Arizona, is my favorite. He has some gayish mannerisms, but he’s probably just a bit metrosexual. He’s married (to a white woman) and has three kids (all sons!). Masters is on point with all the boilerplate populist stuff (I don’t mean to disparage by calling it “boilerplate” – I agree with it), but he’s also said that Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto is one of the most important things people can read, which is ultra-based. As readers are aware, Kaczynski is one of my biggest influences, personally (we have the full text of the manifesto here on the site). I’m big on the idea of tech CEOs being Uncle Ted respecters.

Thiel recently endorsed Joe Kent for Congress.

My opponents are again spreading lies about me.

I strongly condemn Nick Fuentes's politics, especially in regards to our ally Israel.

I ignored his invitation to speak at his recent conference in Orlando, and I am not aware of nor do I accept any endorsement from him.

— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) March 3, 2022

Kent seemed okay – he is regularly shilled by Tucker Carlson – but we were all very disappointed when he denounced Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes after Greene attended his conference earlier this year. He didn’t just denounce him as a “racist” – he literally cited our greatest ally.

I'm honored to have Peter Thiel's support. The American First movement is coalescing around our campaign. Stay tuned. #SaveAmerica #AmericaFirst

— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) May 20, 2021

That is literally the opposite of what we want for America First. The biggest impediment to America First policy is this commitment to Jews and Israel. Trump was consistently thwarted by Jews and Israel. I don’t expect people to go out there and call for Jews to be rounded up, but there is simply no way that “greatest ally” is going to get us anywhere.

That said, it doesn’t appear that Kent was getting money from Thiel when he said that, so maybe now that he is he’ll back off. The Thiel wing is very against wars, and “I support Israel” basically means “I support endless war.”

When you combine all of this with the Musk moves, the Marc Andreessen and Chamath Palihapitiya pushback, recent statements by Paul Graham, and a lot of other stuff coming out of Silicon Valley, it very much looks like a challenger has appeared.

Again – I don’t even care what they’re going to do. It can’t be worse than what we have.