I was a bit mystified by President Trump's pick of JD Vance for VP. I still don't fully understand the move, but an article I read this morning added a bit of clarity:
https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/rupert-murdoch-trump-doug-burgum-vp-j-d-vance
Bottom line: Rupert Murdoch HATES Vance to the point that the article claims Murdoch has been calling Trump multiple times per day heading up to his selection with one of the messages being "Anyone but Vance".
My question while reading the article was "Why?", and that's finally hit on at the very end with a Tucker Carlson quote:
""A lot of supposedly conservative news outlets turn out to have zero interest in anything their readers and viewers care about. Instead, they’re focused on promoting pointless wars. That’s why they’re working so hard to destroy J.D. Vance before Trump can pick him. Let’s hope they don’t succeed,” Tucker Carlson, who worked for Fox News from 2009 until 2023, told NOTUS in a statement."
Now, that quote isn't evidence, but Tucker is very plugged in. Perhaps Vance was selected in part because he doesn't have puppet strings attached to him.
Though that still doesn't explain Vance's ridiculous comments about the President a couple of years ago.
Regardless, I still don't fully understand the Vance pick. But the thought of Rupert Murdoch having heart palpitations about Vance as VP certainly makes me more comfortable with President Trump's choice.
They go into these universities, and part of the game is to make contacts and get into networks, not just study. So of course if they are given the chance to join something like that they will. I suppose it's likely those societies are similar to something like Freemasons, there are levels they filter their members through whether those levels are official in the club or not, and on the lower levels the members may never find out exactly what they are a member of, but will see it only as some sort of social club where they meet, talk, socialize, have some fun parties etc. and will not necessarily ever learn anything about what maybe happens on the higher levels and networks of their club, except maybe some obscure hints when they are tested for deeper inclusion but will not pass those tests.
Sure there are rumors, but a lot of people will not pay any attention as they assume any rumors are always just rumors by people who have no clue about what the whole thing is about. And then, if they ever learn there was some substance in those rumors they will as surprised as any close family members or friends of most serial killers who would never have thought their dad or uncle or brother or whoever would be able to do something like that.