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MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:06 PM Jun 2025

JD Vance is in Butte, MT

and apparently headed to the little town of Dillon, MT. His trip here to Missoula was cancelled at the last minute last Saturday. At least here in Missoula, we’ve got a luxury resort that’s a draw…Dillon? Not so much. It’s a little cowboy town. Crypto scheme? Peter Thiel’s data center? Curious.

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/air-force-2-lands-in-butte-vp-enroute-to-dillon

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JD Vance is in Butte, MT (Original Post) MontanaMama Jun 2025 OP
Hmmmm..... lastlib Jun 2025 #1
lol! MontanaMama Jun 2025 #19
OMG! Grim Chieftain Jun 2025 #44
Not much going on in Dillon. Population around 4000. Small University and a talc mine. BluesRunTheGame Jun 2025 #2
Yes! MontanaMama Jun 2025 #4
Is the talc mine deep underground? Safe from nukes and what all? mucholderthandirt Jun 2025 #24
I've been there to pick up product and as far as I can tell it's a surface mine. BluesRunTheGame Jun 2025 #29
Small University? Hmmm. ReRe Jun 2025 #31
Teachers College BluesRunTheGame Jun 2025 #37
You're right. Still, I hope he is protested right out of town. ReRe Jun 2025 #40
Whatever he is up to, it is no good. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #3
That's for sure. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #5
Well one possibility is something I can not post in detail. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #25
That is a sure thing with this crowd! Initech Jun 2025 #39
I spent a week in Dillon one afternoon! A HERETIC I AM Jun 2025 #6
Wouldn't that be something? MontanaMama Jun 2025 #7
I flew into Butte a couple times during the pandemic A HERETIC I AM Jun 2025 #10
I drive through Butte all the time. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #12
We've driven that pass in the winter cilla4progress Jun 2025 #27
Overthrowing the government? travelingthrulife Jun 2025 #8
That's my vote. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author WarGamer Jun 2025 #11
Well...I'm definitely NOT a YS fan. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #14
Same.. cilla4progress Jun 2025 #28
Guess they heard that the "Legends of the Fall" boys were there, Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #13
THAT MontanaMama Jun 2025 #16
Never been to Montana, but I would like to visit.... Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #21
Brad has a place north of Missoula MontanaMama Jun 2025 #23
WTaF. Dillon Montana? And then boom, out befoer it gets dark? Maru Kitteh Jun 2025 #15
Yes. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #17
Can't believe I'm hoping it's "just" run-of-the-mill grift and corruption Maru Kitteh Jun 2025 #22
Same! MontanaMama Jun 2025 #43
Montana ought to put a tariff on landing fees BlueSpot Jun 2025 #18
I approve this message. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #20
My bet is on crypto. gab13by13 Jun 2025 #26
There's a huge crypto mine planned for Butte. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #30
News story says a military cargo plane also landed in Butte suegeo Jun 2025 #32
The C17 that accompanied AF2 MontanaMama Jun 2025 #33
Coup headquarters? spanone Jun 2025 #34
That seems to be the suspicion. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #35
My brain initially read, "JD Vance is a butt." Reader Rabbit Jun 2025 #36
Always trust your first instinct. BluesRunTheGame Jun 2025 #38
That's definitely true! Initech Jun 2025 #41
This plot has thickened so much, you could stand on it. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #42
You can just feel it in the air. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #46
The plot thickens. I swear: I didn't know someone had already said that. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 #45

BluesRunTheGame

(1,926 posts)
2. Not much going on in Dillon. Population around 4000. Small University and a talc mine.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:31 PM
Jun 2025

Very interesting…

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
4. Yes!
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:51 PM
Jun 2025

There’s a Patagonia outlet and the state teacher’s college. This seems really crazy to me.

mucholderthandirt

(1,753 posts)
24. Is the talc mine deep underground? Safe from nukes and what all?
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:10 AM
Jun 2025

I have a strong feeling something is about to happen. The end game is in sight. Call me a conspiracy theorist if it makes you happy, but none of the stuff that's been happening for years is my imagination. People haven't spent all this time and money just to walk away. They've had a plan, and it doesn't include anyone but the elite.

Hiding away in some underground complex, safe from pollution, from wars, from climate destruction? Easily done for the few, wait it out a few generations and let Earth repair herself. Then they all get to be kings of their kingdom. Until the infighting starts, because every king needs serfs. How do you pick which among them will be demoted?

And damn me, but I need to order in some more food and water, because it's going to be nasty out here.

BluesRunTheGame

(1,926 posts)
29. I've been there to pick up product and as far as I can tell it's a surface mine.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:56 AM
Jun 2025

Some talc mines are underground. Depends on how deep the deposits are. The company that owns the mine is Barrett’s Minerals.

ReRe

(12,164 posts)
31. Small University? Hmmm.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:08 PM
Jun 2025

Remember when he and his family went on vacation somewhere up East and they were heckled? Don't reckon there's some rowdy liberal students on campus? Just thinking out loud.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
5. That's for sure.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:52 PM
Jun 2025

It’s not hunting season and Vance by all accounts isn’t an angler. There’s no other reason to be in Dillon other than to keep shit a secret.

Irish_Dem

(79,723 posts)
25. Well one possibility is something I can not post in detail.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:32 AM
Jun 2025

I will just say that perhaps plans are being made for a certain person to take a new job?

A HERETIC I AM

(24,841 posts)
6. I spent a week in Dillon one afternoon!
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:01 PM
Jun 2025

As big of a waste of decent carbon as he is, at least he picked a pretty piece of the country to go away to!

While I don't wish death on any innocent lives, I would read with much glee the fact that the altimeter on AF-2 had not been set properly for the altitude of Butte Airport on takeoff.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
7. Wouldn't that be something?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:13 PM
Jun 2025


I was shocked that a 757 could even land in Butte. Short runway, high altitude. Pilots are amazing.

As you know…There’s not much in Dillon.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,841 posts)
10. I flew into Butte a couple times during the pandemic
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:49 PM
Jun 2025

It has a 9,000' runway, but it is at 5550' elevation.

But you probably know, those aircraft that fly the Vice Asshole aren't taking off anywhere near their max capable weight.

Flying in there the 2 times I did back in 2021 & 2022 it was on a CRJ or similar though. When I went out there from Jacksonville, it was a 3 leg ticket; JAX to DFW or ATL, then SLC then Butte.

But those guys in the "sharp end" (as the Brits like to call the front of the plane) of AF-2 know what they're doing. Like I said, I don't want to read about any innocent deaths.


But the world would not weep for one less fascist, that's for sure.

I got to play in the snow!
Westbound, top of Homestake Pass, headed to Butte, February, 2021
https://vimeo.com/512785044

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
12. I drive through Butte all the time.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:58 PM
Jun 2025

Never flown into that airport! Your video of Homestake Pass is ON the money. Most of the year.

cilla4progress

(26,487 posts)
27. We've driven that pass in the winter
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:32 AM
Jun 2025

With semis jackknifed all over the road! Thankfully most on the other side, heading east. We were heading west, home.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
9. That's my vote.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:20 PM
Jun 2025

He got outed last weekend and didn’t make the trip here to Missoula. Poor dude intended (lie) to go to mass at a Catholic Church. He’s such a fraud. Government overthrow sounds much more plausible.

Response to MontanaMama (Original post)

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
14. Well...I'm definitely NOT a YS fan.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:06 PM
Jun 2025

Sorry. I know people love the show. When the film crews were here in town, most of us were annoyed.

Dillon is amazingly beautiful. Most of Montana is and there isn’t a day that I’m not grateful for that.

Regarding Vance being here…I cannot help but wonder what the payoff is for him/them…whoever. Why here? Why not some rando hotel in DC? Why not a zoom meeting? Why not Atlantic City? 10 days ago, I kind of got that they would land here in Zoo-Town and get shuttled in swanky limos to the Paws Up…but Butte to Dillon? Strange. Maybe there’s a billionaire with a sweet place out in the woods where they’re hatching a plan for the end of FOTUS. Anything is possible.

Jack Valentino

(4,338 posts)
13. Guess they heard that the "Legends of the Fall" boys were there,
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:06 PM
Jun 2025

and his S.S. team advised that he go elsewhere.....










I LOVE that movie.....

Jack Valentino

(4,338 posts)
21. Never been to Montana, but I would like to visit....
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:21 PM
Jun 2025

I recall it being mentioned in some song which I learned in elementary school,
back in the early 1970's...

Sure it is a beautiful state, with a not-so-beautiful state government...
but more progressives than most of those "plains" states between the Mississippi and the west coast.....

(although Montana has more mountains than most of those)




Brad Pitt seemed to be fixated upon movie roles based in Montana,
when you take "A River Runs Through It" into the mix... lol
in his "breakout" period, at least...




MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
23. Brad has a place north of Missoula
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:49 PM
Jun 2025

in the Flathead. He, like a lot of the movie folks like to come here because nobody is impressed them. I think they must hate it and also love it.

Yeah…our not so beautiful state government is awful. On the upside of that, our MT Supreme Court just keeps holding up abortion rights all day every day. I’ll take that as a win.

https://montanafreepress.org/2025/06/09/montana-supreme-court-strikes-down-2021-abortion-restrictions/

Maru Kitteh

(31,240 posts)
15. WTaF. Dillon Montana? And then boom, out befoer it gets dark?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:10 PM
Jun 2025

Nothing legitimate or beneficial can be in process from this.


MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
17. Yes.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:14 PM
Jun 2025

According to the airspace restriction schedule. It’s close to what the original restrictions were for Missoula last weekend.

Maru…something’s not right. After the tech meeting at the Paw’s Up with Musk, Thiel et Al 10 days ago, I don’t know what to think. My tin foil hat is buzzing. Nothing is an accident anymore.

Maru Kitteh

(31,240 posts)
22. Can't believe I'm hoping it's "just" run-of-the-mill grift and corruption
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:23 PM
Jun 2025

and nothing worse. These people are SO gross. I just want them out of here.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
30. There's a huge crypto mine planned for Butte.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:38 AM
Jun 2025

A kid I went to high school with is part of the group hatching that mess. He was a bully then and he probably is now. He and his girlfriend killed Ted Binion in Las Vegas. They went to prison but were later released on a technicality. Anyway, he’s probably bullying the good people of Butte to get their mind through regulators. SMDH.

suegeo

(3,101 posts)
32. News story says a military cargo plane also landed in Butte
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:34 PM
Jun 2025
https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/air-force-2-lands-in-butte-vp-enroute-to-dillon

A military cargo plane has also landed in Butte and been on tarmac since Tuesday morning. Air Force 2 is also currently on the tarmac.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
33. The C17 that accompanied AF2
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:01 PM
Jun 2025

was most likely hauling his armored SUV’s to get him from Butte to Dillon. Not 100% sure on that but the C17 was also supposed to come with AF2 when they planned their Missoula trip last Saturday.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
35. That seems to be the suspicion.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:09 PM
Jun 2025

Plenty of millionaire, billionaire types with private homes in that part of MT where they could meet. Reddit outed him on his trip to Missoula last week and clearly it was quickly rescheduled.

Reader Rabbit

(2,746 posts)
36. My brain initially read, "JD Vance is a butt."
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jun 2025

My eyes eventually figured it out, but my brain wasn't wrong, metaphorically speaking.

MontanaMama

(24,610 posts)
46. You can just feel it in the air.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 09:29 PM
Jun 2025

Something big is happening. I don’t think that’s hyperbole.

mahatmakanejeeves

(68,195 posts)
45. The plot thickens. I swear: I didn't know someone had already said that.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 09:05 PM
Jun 2025

I’ve been through Dillon. Pretty part of the country.

This got posted on Thursday night:

Vance secretly meets with Fox News owners amid network's LA protest lies

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