JD Vance is in Butte, MT

[MontanaMama]

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

[lastlib]

1. Hmmmm.....

I thought he was in Butt, DJT.

Maybe a doppelganger?

[MontanaMama]

19. lol!

[Grim Chieftain]

44. OMG!

I had a glass of Jameson and thought it said "Is JD a butt?" Well yes, yes he is.

[BluesRunTheGame]

2. Not much going on in Dillon. Population around 4000. Small University and a talc mine.

Very interesting…

[MontanaMama]

4. Yes!

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

[mucholderthandirt]

24. Is the talc mine deep underground? Safe from nukes and what all?

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]

29. I've been there to pick up product and as far as I can tell it's a surface mine.

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

[ReRe]

31. Small University? Hmmm.

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.

[BluesRunTheGame]

37. Teachers College

I doubt there’s much happening there over summer break.

[ReRe]

40. You're right. Still, I hope he is protested right out of town.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Whatever he is up to, it is no good.

[MontanaMama]

5. That's for sure.

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]

25. Well one possibility is something I can not post in detail.

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

[Initech]

39. That is a sure thing with this crowd!

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. I spent a week in Dillon one afternoon!

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]

7. Wouldn't that be something?

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]

10. I flew into Butte a couple times during the pandemic

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]

12. I drive through Butte all the time.

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

[cilla4progress]

27. We've driven that pass in the winter

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

[travelingthrulife]

8. Overthrowing the government?

[MontanaMama]

9. That's my vote.

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.

[MontanaMama]

14. Well...I'm definitely NOT a YS fan.

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.

[cilla4progress]

28. Same..

never watched it, never will

[Jack Valentino]

13. Guess they heard that the "Legends of the Fall" boys were there,

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

I LOVE that movie.....

[MontanaMama]

16. THAT

would be my hope.

[Jack Valentino]

21. Never been to Montana, but I would like to visit....

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]

23. Brad has a place north of Missoula

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]

15. WTaF. Dillon Montana? And then boom, out befoer it gets dark?

Nothing legitimate or beneficial can be in process from this.

[MontanaMama]

17. Yes.

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]

22. Can't believe I'm hoping it's "just" run-of-the-mill grift and corruption

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

[MontanaMama]

43. Same!

It feels like a violation to have them around.

[BlueSpot]

18. Montana ought to put a tariff on landing fees

They'd be making a bundle.

[MontanaMama]

20. I approve this message.

[gab13by13]

26. My bet is on crypto.

[MontanaMama]

30. There's a huge crypto mine planned for Butte.

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]

32. News story says a military cargo plane also landed in Butte

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]

33. The C17 that accompanied AF2

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.

[spanone]

34. Coup headquarters?

[MontanaMama]

35. That seems to be the suspicion.

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]

36. My brain initially read, "JD Vance is a butt."

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

[BluesRunTheGame]

38. Always trust your first instinct.

[Initech]

41. That's definitely true!

[Scrivener7]

42. This plot has thickened so much, you could stand on it.

[MontanaMama]

46. You can just feel it in the air.

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

[mahatmakanejeeves]

45. The plot thickens. I swear: I didn't know someone had already said that.

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