Vance Reveals His Biggest Fear About The Rise Of AI: ‘Never Submit To It’
'Both your minds, but also your hearts, are the opposite of artificial.'

When Benjamin Pennington was a kid, he liked to play Army with friends, and his room was filled with Army prints and model military planes. “Ben’s dream and life calling from an early age was to be an American soldier,” his obituary says.And that he was. A Kentucky native, Pennington enlisted at 18 and was later stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, where he fell in love with his new state. He hiked 14ers, snowboarded and pursued a life of faith. In January, he was baptized at Zeal Church in Colorado Springs.Two months later he was dead.The 26-year-old staff sergeant is one of 13 Americans who have been killed as part of the so-called Operation Epic Fury, a war of choice started by President Donald Trump that has injured more than 400 Americans, pummeled the economy, destabilized the Middle East, and left the United States the conflict’s humiliated loser.Pennington’s death is just one grievance that will meet Vice President JD Vance when he arrives in Colorado Springs on Thursday to deliver the commencement address at the Air Force Academy. Vance will be visiting a city that has suffered direct attacks from the administration. He will be showing his face in a state that has been a repeated target of vindictive and damaging acts of petty retaliation by the White House.Vance owes Coloradans an explanation.The Iran war has distressed Colorado Springs in many ways. Home to five military installations, the city instantly was put at risk by Trump’s attack on Iran. “Colorado Springs is a massive target, much like Huntsville, much like Tampa, other centers of gravity for defense technology,” cybersecurity expert Scott Edwards told KOAA News.Worse, the administration has intentionally wounded the city. Last year it announced it would move U.S. Space Command from Peterson Space Force Base to Alabama. Trump didn’t even pretend that this was a strategic or practical move. It was pure punishment. He dislikes how Colorado runs its elections, which experts across the board laud as safe and secure.The Space Command spite exemplifies the administration’s posture toward Colorado in general. Having singled out the state as a political opponent, the administration Vance represents treats Colorado like a foreign enemy to be harassed and abused with no fidelity to its constitutional duty to act in the interest of all Americans. It is breaking up the renowned atmospheric science hub NCAR in Boulder, it has denied disaster recovery funds for wildfire and flooding emergencies, it has withheld money for food and childcare in the state, and it has tried to undermine the state’s election systems.This is all so destructive. But it’s also outrageously immoral. U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Lafayette put it succinctly when he said, “The president has declared war on our state.”Vance was the source of perhaps the administration’s biggest recent insult to the state when he named Tina Peters as a prime example of a person who could receive a payout from a corrupt new pool of taxpayer money that Trump created. Peters, an election denier and Trump ally who was convicted of felonies for helping to breach her own election equipment when she was Mesa County clerk, caused incalculable harm to trust in Colorado elections. But Vance claims she’s “innocent,” and, solely to indulge his lying boss, he wants to take money out of your pocket to put in hers.What does Vance have to say for himself? How does he expect to visit Colorado and just ignore what his administration is doing to the state? Where does he get the nerve to stand in front of 900 graduating cadets of the academy when the administration has so recklessly misused America’s brave fighting men and women? How does he explain why Pennington had to die?Pennington’s family remembered him as having lived “servant-hearted and in sacrifice to others.” That’s the kind of character that makes Americans proud of their armed forces.But the man who will step to a podium at Falcon Stadium on Thursday serves an administration that exhibits no evidence of those traits.
'Both your minds, but also your hearts, are the opposite of artificial.'
Vice President JD Vance said he worries about how emerging AI will be used in warfare, urging graduating Air Force cadets to not allow technology to supersede their judgment.
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are separated by one point in a potential 2028 presidential primary preview, according to a new Emerson College Polling survey.
Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are neck-and-neck in a new poll on a hypothetical Republican presidential primary as chatter builds about who could lead the GOP in 2028. An Emerson College Polling survey found Vance with 36 percent support among Republican voters, nearly tied with Rubio at 35 percent. They were…
The General Services Administration joins the White House fraud task force to combat waste and abuse in federal contracting and procurement systems.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the 2028 Republican primary is shaping up to be a chaotic affair. Supposedly, it’s anyone’s game, as Vice President JD Vance is weaker than he appears, while potential adversaries, including Marco Rubio, are gaining an advantage.This view is untethered from reality. The fact is that the 2028 Republican nomination is Vance’s to lose. The faulty prevailing opinion has calcified for two reasons: a poor reading of history and a deficient understanding of the political landscape.JD Vance has had one of the fastest rises to the executive branch in modern American political history. “George H.W. Bush is the only sitting vice president in the last 190 years (since 1836) to be elected president,” an MS Now analyst recently wrote. He is not alone: the “190 years” number has been trotted out by those who contend that Vance stands little chance of winning the presidency in 2028.On its face, this line of argument should be ignored because comparing the politics of 1840s America to the present is a fool’s errand: The country has changed significantly in that time, as has the party system.Looking to history But even if one disregards this, another historical fact emerges: For much of American history, the vice presidency wasn’t “worth a bucket of warm piss,” to borrow an infamous line from Vice President John Nance Garner. It was mostly used to balance a presidential ticket geographically and had little power on its own, as the office was typically a capstone to one’s career rather than a stepping stone to the presidency.Particularly ambitious politicians instead sought the position of secretary of state, which often acted as the president’s chief adviser. Every commander in chief from Thomas Jefferson through John Quincy Adams served as secretary of state, as did Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, and a host of individuals who lost the presidency.Andrew Jackson broke this mold by picking Van Buren, his ideological successor, to be his vice president, as Jackson was specifically seeking to undertake a long-term political revolution. He was the only president to select his second-in-command for such a purpose — that is, until Donald Trump picked JD Vance.Since Van Buren won the presidency in 1836, only three incumbent vice presidents sought to succeed a two-term president of their own party: Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, and Al Gore. Nixon and Gore lost razor-close contests. Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and would likely have been president had the infamous butterfly ballot not confused a few thousand voters in liberal Palm Beach County into voting for arch-conservative Pat Buchanan.Out of the remaining incumbent vice presidents who ran, two did so after one-term presidents suddenly dropped out — Hubert Humphrey after Lyndon Johnson and Kamala Harris after Joe Biden — and were therefore forced to run abbreviated campaigns. The third, John Breckinridge, ran in the four-way 1860 election in which his party was split in two, a situation that’s not analogous to today. The final incumbent vice president, John Adams, ran after George Washington and won, but he did so under an entirely different electoral system.The tally of incumbent vice presidents running after a two-termer of their same party is two large wins (Van Buren and Bush) and two incredibly narrow losses (Nixon and Gore). The wins tally jumps to three if Adams is included.This is hardly a reason for Vance to be concerned with history being a hindrance to his hopes of winning the White House. Plus, neither Nixon nor Gore was running as specific ideological inheritors of their respective presidents’ legacies. Gore arguably ran away from Bill Clinton, while Van Buren and Bush were successors — and they both won.RELATED: The Trump administration is cracking down on fraud Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesAhead of the pack“It’s anybody’s to win” is a second piece of conventional wisdom stated without evidence. Polling on the GOP 2028 nomination so far reveals an indisputable picture: Vance is dominating his competition. The RealClearPolitics average has him at around 40% — which is 20% ahead of his nearest competitor. A recent Echelon poll had Vance similarly ahead, as have a bevy of others. Only a recent Atlas poll shows Marco Rubio leading Vance. But there are numerous reasons to question that poll, from the sudden massive swing to Rubio to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leading the pack among Democrats.In the Trump era, political analysts have grown accustomed to one man dominating the Republican Party’s primary contests. But Vance’s dominance two years out is also historically stronger than most previous nominees not named Trump.In 1986, although George H.W. Bush was leading, he was stuck at 29%, in front of Senator Howard Baker by only 13%. In 1998, his son George W. Bush led with 30%, only 16% ahead of Elizabeth Dole, who had not yet been elected senator.
During Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, Vice President JD Vance highlighted a horrific case of Minnesota health care fraud that allegedly resulted in the death of one elderly individual who was not receiving adequate care from his fraudster provider.President Donald Trump stated that he is proud of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, led by Vance, noting that the task force has found billions of dollars in fraud.'We expect that there are tens of thousands of people who are collecting fraudulent money to take care of people, and they’re not actually taking care of them.'“In two months, we’ve exposed tens of billions of dollars of defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted numerous fraudsters, and stopped billions of suspicious payments,” Trump stated. “Oh, you haven’t seen anything yet.”Trump stated that reports from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Vance revealed massive sums of stolen taxpayer dollars.“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump continued. “Just hundreds of billions of dollars were stolen. And no other administration would do what we’re doing. They let it go. Everybody was getting rich. And I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it.”RELATED: The Trump administration is cracking down on fraud Kent NISHIMURA/AFP/Getty ImagesVance thanked Trump for his leadership and promised that the task force would “find a lot more” fraud. “I always try to remind the American people that fraud is fundamentally a crime with two victims,” Vance said, referring to the American taxpayers and those with legitimate needs who should be receiving government benefits but do not because of fraudsters. Vance highlighted a recent alleged case in which an elderly individual died “because he wasn’t getting adequate care.” Yet the individual who was supposed to be taking care of him was still collecting taxpayer-funded benefits.RELATED: 'Complete disgrace': JD Vance issues ultimatum to states to crack down on Medicaid fraud Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe Department of Justice announced last week that a suspect was charged with participating in a $1.4 million fraud scheme, allegedly billing for services that were not provided. “The defendant in the prosecution announced today submitted claims for vulnerable recipients who required 24-hour care, one of whom was found deceased a day after being billed for services he did not receive,” a DOJ press release read.“We think that exact type of fraud has been replayed all over our country,” Vance told Trump during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. “We expect that there are tens of thousands of people who are collecting fraudulent money to take care of people, and they’re not actually taking care of them.” Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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