Thank you for publishing this. Having scanned the document, I can’t for the life of me figure out why other news outlets refused to do so. The report seems like a collection of open source materials with cogent analysis put together by professionals.
Thanks, Ken, for going where the information lies, in whichever meaning of the term applies. We need an actual free press, not a bunch of subservient gatekeepers!
Wow, I skimmed some of this. It's absolutely fascinating. It looks like Vance has a lot of well thought out, and independent of ideological, opinions.
As a 20 year Independent that has mainly leaned left and voted for Democrats, I have become increasingly disillusioned with Democrats. In 2016 I paid no attention to Trump because Republicans weren't on my so called radar then, and same with 2020.
Due to the disastrous foreign policy and use of lawfare of Biden/Harris and DNC I've started looking elsewhere. I'm a Californian so it doesn't really matter who I vote for but I still want it to reflect my conscience.
In paying more attention to Stein and Trump/Vance I did notice that Trump picked Vance which signaled to me he wanted an independent and less interventionist candidate than a typical Neocon RINO, like Cotton or Rubio. That's a good thing. I think corporate media has quashed the 'real' Vance because he really is smart, appealing, articulate and is an original thinker.
Upon skimming the dossier I see that. He is less extreme than MSM makes him out to be, is willing to rethink his positions because he's been shown new evidence/insights, as in his feelings re:Trump.
Thank you, Ken, for sharing this. We need way more journalists like you who share the truth when it is publicly newsworthy, which I agree this is. I look forward to reading this in full!
Same here. I might not read too many articles (nothing against Ken I'm just lazy and don't read too much), but I'll stay a subscriber purely for the moral conviction to actually do this 🙏
Note that Twitter is blocking people from sending a link to Ken's articles in DMs
Which means that not only are they monitoring DMs but they are censoring them. I have screenshots
If you try and send the url of Ken's article to someone else in a Twitter DM it rejects it and says
"This request might be automated. To protect our users from space and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later"
Try it yourself. Try and send someone this in a DM
Thank you so much for trusting the American public to decide for ourselves what is “newsworthy,” especially while legacy/corporate/Beltway media is showing us their whole a** on this. I just subscribed to your Substack in gratitude.
Well done, Ken. Btw, after you were suspended from Twitter, my account was locked for “posting personal information”. Strangely enough, the offending tweets were links to other columns you wrote. No “personal information” was involved. Just love this free speech champion who owns the platform. (Read sarcasm.)
I've been following you for a long time, but I just became a subscriber because of this . Thank you, thank you for your journalistic integrity, and publishing this despite the very clear personal career risks in doing so. It's a shame other people and outlets are and have been too cowardly to publish this, work like this is what a free press in a democracy should be about.
Good for you. This entire premise that it's the media's job to help the government withhold information from the public is a complete inversion of it's role.
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" indeed.
Like a lot of bad media habits of late, it started with the reaction to Trump, perfectly described by the NY Times after the 2016 election.
"Though Mr. Assange did not say so, WikiLeaks’ best defense may be the conduct of the mainstream American media. Every major publication, including The Times, published multiple stories citing the D.N.C. and Podesta emails posted by WikiLeaks, becoming a de facto instrument of Russian intelligence."
I have followed him ever since I read his Hillbilly Elegy. He is an intelligent centrist who leans somewhat conservative due to his Appalachia roots. It is a culture I know a bit about myself. The military and being in DC gave him a worldview.
Thank you for publishing this. Having scanned the document, I can’t for the life of me figure out why other news outlets refused to do so. The report seems like a collection of open source materials with cogent analysis put together by professionals.
Thanks, Ken, for going where the information lies, in whichever meaning of the term applies. We need an actual free press, not a bunch of subservient gatekeepers!
Wow, I skimmed some of this. It's absolutely fascinating. It looks like Vance has a lot of well thought out, and independent of ideological, opinions.
As a 20 year Independent that has mainly leaned left and voted for Democrats, I have become increasingly disillusioned with Democrats. In 2016 I paid no attention to Trump because Republicans weren't on my so called radar then, and same with 2020.
Due to the disastrous foreign policy and use of lawfare of Biden/Harris and DNC I've started looking elsewhere. I'm a Californian so it doesn't really matter who I vote for but I still want it to reflect my conscience.
In paying more attention to Stein and Trump/Vance I did notice that Trump picked Vance which signaled to me he wanted an independent and less interventionist candidate than a typical Neocon RINO, like Cotton or Rubio. That's a good thing. I think corporate media has quashed the 'real' Vance because he really is smart, appealing, articulate and is an original thinker.
Upon skimming the dossier I see that. He is less extreme than MSM makes him out to be, is willing to rethink his positions because he's been shown new evidence/insights, as in his feelings re:Trump.
Thank you, Ken, for sharing this. We need way more journalists like you who share the truth when it is publicly newsworthy, which I agree this is. I look forward to reading this in full!
Secret Trumper
Just became a paid subscriber because of this. 🙏🏾
Same here. I might not read too many articles (nothing against Ken I'm just lazy and don't read too much), but I'll stay a subscriber purely for the moral conviction to actually do this 🙏
Yup same.
Note that Twitter is blocking people from sending a link to Ken's articles in DMs
Which means that not only are they monitoring DMs but they are censoring them. I have screenshots
If you try and send the url of Ken's article to someone else in a Twitter DM it rejects it and says
"This request might be automated. To protect our users from space and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later"
Try it yourself. Try and send someone this in a DM
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier
Thank you so much for trusting the American public to decide for ourselves what is “newsworthy,” especially while legacy/corporate/Beltway media is showing us their whole a** on this. I just subscribed to your Substack in gratitude.
Well done, Ken. Btw, after you were suspended from Twitter, my account was locked for “posting personal information”. Strangely enough, the offending tweets were links to other columns you wrote. No “personal information” was involved. Just love this free speech champion who owns the platform. (Read sarcasm.)
Exact same here. I wrote a tweet linking to Ken's substack home itself. Not the dossier. Not even the article about the dossier. Just Ken's substack
And got my account locked for posting "private personal information"
What a goddamn farce
I've been following you for a long time, but I just became a subscriber because of this . Thank you, thank you for your journalistic integrity, and publishing this despite the very clear personal career risks in doing so. It's a shame other people and outlets are and have been too cowardly to publish this, work like this is what a free press in a democracy should be about.
Good for you. This entire premise that it's the media's job to help the government withhold information from the public is a complete inversion of it's role.
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" indeed.
Like a lot of bad media habits of late, it started with the reaction to Trump, perfectly described by the NY Times after the 2016 election.
"Though Mr. Assange did not say so, WikiLeaks’ best defense may be the conduct of the mainstream American media. Every major publication, including The Times, published multiple stories citing the D.N.C. and Podesta emails posted by WikiLeaks, becoming a de facto instrument of Russian intelligence."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html
No, publishing true, relevant information, regardless of the source, doesn't make the media a "de facto instrument" of anything.
Intentionally suppressing it to further an agenda might though.
This is why we subscribe
Tha k you for doing what others won't.
Never been more proud to be a paid subscriber 🫡
Thanks Ken, what you do is invaluable.
Ken - thank you. I’ve been wondering why the media was sitting on this. Hats off sir!
Thanks Ken.
I have followed him ever since I read his Hillbilly Elegy. He is an intelligent centrist who leans somewhat conservative due to his Appalachia roots. It is a culture I know a bit about myself. The military and being in DC gave him a worldview.