Take a moment to appreciate Harry Truman‘s negotiating skills. He got Hitler to surrender everything, agree to Germany’s occupation and then shoot himself in the head.
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But he didn’t win a peace prize.
aug 24, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
And of course those two atomic bombs we dropped on Japan were masterful feats of "negotiation."
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Wait. Hitler negotiated? I thought I knew history.
aug 25, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
IKR?
aug 24, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Or Gerald Ford’s negotiation for the end of the Vietnam War. Such brilliant diplomacy.
aug 24, 2025, 9:52 pm • 8 0 • view
In a nutshell: Putin can attack other countries and the US will let him kill and steal with impunity because Trump would like to participate in some killing and theft as well. Canada and Greenland have been in his sights.
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Don’t forget the Panama Canal!
aug 24, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 0 • view
There are so many sovereign nations to conquer. The real question is, where to start.
aug 24, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Hirohito negotiated a good deal for himself.
aug 24, 2025, 8:01 pm • 5 0 • view
I doubt that Trump nor Vance can convince Putin to blow his brains out, but if they can that'd be great.
aug 24, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
HUH?! Hitler committed suicide and Japan surrendered ONLY AFTER TWO nuclear bombs devastated two major cities!
aug 25, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 1 • view
aug 25, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
was even a better negotiator with Japan, apparently (US, don't do this technique today, please)
aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 5 0 • view
Vance is ignorant. Sadly, I fear this aligns with the intelligence of most Americans.
aug 25, 2025, 7:07 am • 0 0 • view
Kudos!
aug 25, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
A heartbeat away from the presidency.
aug 25, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
Has this fool read a history book? Ever?
aug 24, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I am so tired of these idiots!
aug 24, 2025, 11:00 pm • 6 0 • view
Mr Vance, we have the Aztec Empire on line 1 The Inca Empire on Line 2 The Union Army on line 3 The North Vietnamese on line 4 The Romans on line 5 The Normans on line 6....
aug 24, 2025, 8:40 pm • 17 0 • view
He said Biden put people in jail “Willy-nilly”. Kristen no question? I’ll ask @Who??”
aug 24, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
The surrender of Japan and Germany required no concessions on our part. We did not let King George keep Massachusetts. We did not let the confederacy keep some slaves.
aug 24, 2025, 9:29 pm • 7 3 • view
Reread the history of the Reconstruction. Sure they weren't slaves but they weren't free men.
aug 25, 2025, 12:42 am • 3 0 • view
True! But not the point.
aug 26, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
True indeed, but all wars are not ended through concessions by the victor. We did indeed bungle reconstruction, but that was after the shooting stopped.
aug 26, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Harry S Truman, the real author of “The Art of the Deal” - anything else is a cheap knock off.
aug 26, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
I remember reading in history books as a child how Hirohito masterfully negotiated for two atom bombs to be dropped on Japanese cities.
aug 24, 2025, 7:56 pm • 53 2 • view
And everyone knows how Truman out-negotiated Hitler to sign that treaty letting the US and Britain conflagrate Dresden.
aug 25, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
I liked that story
aug 24, 2025, 9:42 pm • 5 0 • view
also trump is like so good at negotiating with russia as we have seen even the lie is a steaming pile of turds
aug 24, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
This is how you negotiate hostile takeovers and bribes. Not diplomacy. It’s nothing but a $ grift.
aug 24, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
excellent point: Did Truman negotiate with Hitler? Only if by “negotiation,” you are thinking of this scene in The Fifth Element where someone says of Bruce Willis character “where did he learn to negotiate like that!!?”
aug 24, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't forget Emperor Hirohito, Harry was a negotioator so good he could bring grown manly-men to their knees with tears in their eyes.
aug 25, 2025, 1:18 am • 0 0 • view
And as others have mentioned, Truman also convinced Hirohito, a living god at the time, to vapourize hundreds of thousands of his worshippers and cripple future generartons with cancer as part of a plea deal to renounce his title as the Sun God and agree to American occupation of Japan
aug 24, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
To be fair, Stalin had a piece of that negotiation...
aug 24, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Hiroshima?
aug 24, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
The civil war ended with unconditional surrender. That was kind of a big event.
aug 24, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I think he doesn’t understand what unconditional surrender is.
aug 24, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
After being president for only a few days!
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 5 0 • view
The GOP. There aren’t sending us their best, folks.
aug 24, 2025, 11:02 pm • 7 1 • view
There is no "best" in the GOP to send.
aug 25, 2025, 8:04 pm • 3 1 • view
Nice work capturing such an important moment in world history with one paragraph! 👍 “Take a moment to appreciate Harry Truman‘s negotiating skills. He got Hitler to surrender everything, agree to Germany’s occupation and then shoot himself in the head.”
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Post of the year so far. Brilliant.
aug 25, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
What an idiot.
aug 25, 2025, 9:51 am • 0 0 • view
Wormtongue. He talks plausibly but it's 100% low-grade bullshit.
aug 24, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
More verbal vomit from JayDee!
aug 24, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view
They all just talk shit, constantly now. It’s the interviewer’s job to call them on it.
aug 24, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
A fool, a hack and desperate to ingratiate himself with virtually anyone, about anything. This is what a large portion of America has chose. "Bye, bye Miss American pie."
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
@JDVance knows better; he just presumes - with apparent justification - that his ignorant followers do not. The infuriating part: The media also knows better but constantly gives him a pass.
aug 24, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Huh? I missed that "surrender everything" chapter.
aug 25, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
aug 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
They didn't call him "Give 'Em Hell Harry" for nothing.
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Grimma Wormtongue called. He wants to know if J.D. is teaching a master class on subterfuge, and where he can sign up.
aug 24, 2025, 9:20 pm • 9 1 • view
JD Vance wasn’t always an idiot. But like Ted Cruz, also a very sharp guy, the current state of the party is avoiding facts and intellectual curiosity at every turn. See Carlson wreck Cruz for details. Vance, like Trump, is running by the moment. The idiot act will catch up to him like Cruz.
aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
This made my year!
aug 25, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
We really need a Harry Truman who can negotiate this way with Trump.
aug 25, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
Did they not have schools where this idiot grew up?
aug 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 8:01 pm • 12 0 • view
JD is not the brightest bulb on the Xmas tree, that actually goes for all Republicans/MAGA scumbags.
aug 24, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Apparently the veep is not a student of history- The Allied leaders agreed that there would be no negotiations with Germany in 1945, only unconditional surrender.
aug 25, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah yes… the historic ‘Treaty of Hitler’s Bunker of Death’. Some great photo opps for Harry! 🤦
aug 24, 2025, 9:20 pm • 2 0 • view
More lies
aug 24, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
WW1, WW1, The American Civil War, the various Napoleon wars. All famously ended with some simple peace negotiations and everyone went home and everything was fine forever
aug 24, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
The level of ignorance is truly breathtaking.
aug 25, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Did he say he went to college?
aug 24, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 4 0 • view
There are no smart people in this administration.
aug 25, 2025, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, yes--the "unconditional surrender" negotiation. Also--let's talk about the negotiation at Appomattox Court House.
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 8 0 • view
He’s as Bat shit crazy as his Mentor Peter Thiel !
aug 25, 2025, 9:44 am • 0 0 • view
another 'baffle them with bullshit' response from an unqualified slug
aug 25, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Christ this hillbilly is stooopid.
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why we need PBS, for adults.
aug 24, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
No “JD” . “If you go back to WW2” you will see that evil was defeated then forced to negotiate.
aug 24, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I swear half the dumb stuff that comes out of mouths of guys like Vance is because they’ve played too many Paradox games.
aug 24, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
@kristen Walker was disappointing. Seemed more like an interview Fox would do. I suspect the #Trump admin won’t do interviews unless there is an agreement not to fact check or question anything they say
aug 24, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
My dad was part of the German occupation forces in WWII. I’m glad he’s not alive to see what’s happening today. He hated Trump. He hated Nazis. He loved his country and democracy. Be like my dad.
aug 24, 2025, 10:17 pm • 8 0 • view
Would be nice if Truman could speak to and negotiate with Donny...
aug 24, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Can we have Truman's head in a jar (Futurama style) have a sit down with Trump? 🤔
aug 24, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 1 • view
I also like how Corporal Maybeline has reduced “unconditional surrender” to a “negotiation”.
aug 24, 2025, 8:04 pm • 13 1 • view
Stop talking like you’re going to force them then. Would the US give up territory to end a war? It doesn’t even want the Gulf of Mexico to be called ‘the gulf of Mexico’. These people should not be mediating. They have too much interest in the outcome.
aug 24, 2025, 8:28 pm • 2 0 • view
His strategic use of Fat Man and Little Boy was a brilliant negotiating tactic. The Japanese found themselves and gave into all of his demands.
aug 25, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
Vietnam was a negotiated settlement, after we lost the will.
aug 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Clearly failed his history courses, eh?
aug 25, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Well, maybe for Stalin …
aug 25, 2025, 5:47 am • 0 0 • view
The only real negotiations that took place in 1945 were between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta… and they did not go well.
aug 25, 2025, 5:46 am • 0 0 • view
This is what happens when you elect an Ivy League lawyer - they think they are so smart, so special, so brilliant. Don’t forget it was Ivy League John Roberts who has destroyed the VRA and empowered an authoritarian.
aug 24, 2025, 10:09 pm • 3 0 • view
😂 lol
aug 24, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
His eye makeup looks really good today as he enjoys the sound if his own voice. Worthless POS.
aug 24, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Get thee to a bunker!
aug 24, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
They never stop lying.
aug 24, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Art of the deal
aug 24, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 8:09 pm • 15 2 • view
Those soldiers would be rolling in their graves with righteous fury over the capitulation to fascists in the US today.
aug 24, 2025, 9:25 pm • 16 0 • view
I’m into body language study, and JD’s slouch, giving sideway, listening w/o listening based on trying to suppress back talk, tell you all you need to know about condescension, inauthentic “relaxed posture,” and cliched Ivy League know-it-all w/o much knowledge says it all.
aug 24, 2025, 10:42 pm • 3 1 • view
What a blown opportunity for Kristin Welker to point out in real time how terrible his example was
aug 24, 2025, 9:34 pm • 7 0 • view
She never will. She has her marching orders.
aug 25, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Once Fat Man and Little Boy sat at the table, the negotiations went swingingly
aug 25, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
What? With them shooting each other in the head? Why must there be wars anyway? Innocent people die because of these childish PISSING MATCHES.🤨
aug 24, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
FJDV
aug 25, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
Get rid of this administration ASAP!
aug 24, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
For a dumb guy, JD is really dumb. And he will running the US when Trump croaks on a Happy Meal.
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Vance is dumber than a bag of hammers.
aug 24, 2025, 9:33 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s not how the timeline went. Truman (and Churchill and Stalin) made it clear there would only be unconditional surrender. The Allies were sweeping across a destroyed Germany and the Red Army was literally just blocks away from Hitler’s Berlin bunker when he killed himself.
aug 24, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Now do Trump
aug 25, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
2/ What remained of the German military command surrendered shortly afterwards. On May 7, 1945 in Reims, France, and a day later in Berlin to obtain the signature of Russia’s representative in the former Nazi capital.
aug 24, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
There was a real breakthrough in the negotiation process after German side decided to make Karl Dönitz their representative.
aug 24, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn't look like paid vacations in India are good for JD "Trump is Hitler". Otoh, he probably gets his brain Palantir'd by "Anti-Christ" Thiel every day, so how could he possibly retain any real data like that UK is a nuclear power, or UK's population composition.
aug 24, 2025, 8:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Now that’s the art of the deal! Not these current losers, losing all the time. So much losing.
aug 24, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view