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You know things are going well when hypocritical and self-righteous European authoritarians are in a snit, and things are going very, very well. Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, and took the opportunity to remind the assembled European dignitaries of the importance of free societies, and the basic elements of such societies, including the freedom of speech and respect for a loyal opposition. In response, predictably, the despotic European leftists, who hate the freedom of speech and are busy crushing dissent, are weeping and gnashing their teeth at Deep Set Eyes Man Bad.
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Tony says
The Leftists in Europe want to legally silence their critics to help gain more power and more control. Similarly, Muslims seek this growing totalitarianism because Muslims desire to impose Islamic Law, Sharia, against Non-Muslims.
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) to fight against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist, Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more).
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous Muslim war, a religious duty, against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS(MTO) for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
WPM says
The current leaders of Europe and their overlord ruling elites hate free speech it slows down or reverses their agenda. When pointing out the truth the average European citizen’s cultural ,freedom ,and standard of living is being stripped away to appease the future thousands of Moslems tribes. That will be fighting each other after the average European citizen is dead and gone. The ruling elite want a divided under educated ,government dependent society to rule .If three quarters of the world kill each other in bloody conflict ,and they can (the elite) stay safe in the bunkers making coin on it they would be happy campers.
Yogi Bear says
I was deeply impressed by the speech Mr. Vance gave.
gravenimage says
As was I, Yogi.
somehistory says
“Major Media Outlet Caught Twisting JD Vance’s Words”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/major-media-outlet-caught-twisting-jd-vance-s-words/ar-AA1z4AYf?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=4c3628e267b94ac2e5451d707835b4ed&ei=35
Every move they make, every word, is used to fear-monger. Mr. Trump said he would cut out the taxes on social security and the media, along with the dems, claimed he will ‘cut social security.’
No surprise that the people across the ocean have reacted the same way. They are further along in pandering, acquiescing, to mozlums, and in other areas just as bad as the dems and their gangs in the U.S.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Thanks for the link.
It’s hard to believe, many decades ago, that one could actually trust the major media outlets.
No more.
somehistory says
You are welcome, James. And yes, it seems so long ago that we expected the ‘news’ people to just tell us the news. Now, they tell us what to think and their version of “right.”
40 rounds says
The problem with the European elite is that they think Americans are, to quote Dennis Miller, a bunch of collective Jethro’s and therefore the elites believe they are morally and intellectually superior.
Westman says
They think the same about their own average citizen.
40 rounds says
Hee Haw 🤠
gravenimage says
Grimly true…
Westman says
When visiting France, meeting another American who had worked there for years, I was surprised to hear his analysis of French administrative culture as, “those looking for some privilege that no one else has.”
It seems the leftover European Aristocracy has never completely weaned itself from the notion of special privilege that reigned during feudalism and its royal gifts. Is parliamentary government actually intended to offer representation to all or is it intended to keep the Aristocracy in power by fracturing its competition into smaller uncooperative factions?
We watch these “leaders” organize into three and four-letter groups, trotting off to some special place to plan the world’s future, flirting with economics, environment, sanctions, and wars – a new Feudal System on a world level with citizens still the money tree and cannon fodder.
Vance to European Aristocracy: “You are not more special than the citizens whose voices you suppress.”
European Aristocracy: “Yes we are. Our economy may be in tatters, immigrants are bleeding us, our armies cannot defend us, and our citizens are sick of us, but you have no right to speak to us that way!”
Vance: “Nor do your citizens.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This was a watershed speech, and something told me that this has the seal of Vance, rather than Trump, written all over it. After all, President Trump usually lets other countries do their thing, and doesn’t bother about what relationships governments have w/ their citizens. VP Vance, by contrast, pointed out to them the hypocrisy of them cancelling elections like in Romania, or wanting to sabotage the German elections against the AfD, and made it clear that such a Europe would not be worth defending
Even though he didn’t mention Momika by name, I’m glad that he called out Sweden for jailing the other Salwan for burning a qur’an to protest the killing of Momika. He also pointed out to the case in Britain where a woman was arrested for praying for her aborted fetus. I hadn’t heard about the latter, and this makes the UK a country even worse than Cold War era USSR. While the Soviets were Atheistic, I doubt that even they tormented their citizens for such acts. In fact, it puts Britain civilizationally on par w/ China
One thing I would have liked Vance to tell his hosts: to start respecting the privacy of other nations, and not interfere in their internal affairs. He alluded to it indirectly in his references to Greta Thunberg vs Elon Musk, but he needed to be more explicit. Essentially, he should have told the EU that they better not dare dictate to an American company (X) whether they could or couldn’t have two Americans (Trump & Musk) discuss political events in the US. That particular thing didn’t touch Europe at all, yet the EU was talking about censoring X for that interview
However, this speech gives us a good idea of Vance’s foreign policy philosophy, which I happen to prefer slightly to Trump’s
Waldorf says
@Infidel: you write:
‘One thing I would have liked Vance to tell his hosts: to start respecting the privacy of other nations, and not interfere in their internal affairs.’
Hmmm, isn’t that exactly what Vance was doing? I mean ‘disrespecting’ the ‘privacy’ of other nations? Isn’t this disrespect spot on though?
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ (Genesis 4; 1-9) Yes, in a way I am.
If Europe takes it upon itself to comment on what’s happening in the US, then why not the other way around?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
“Brother’s keeper”, or US taking care of Europe is one thing. But what I was talking about was Europe having the temerity to tell the US – a sovereign, independent country – who our companies can give a platform to, and that too, when we’re just talking about Americans, no European entity
Had they objected to Musk’s interview w/ Alice Wiedel, it would have been one thing: at least, one of the subjects in question is within the Eurozone. But in that case, neither was, but the EU was interfering anyway. JD ought to have read them the riot act, which he unfortunately didn’t, for diplomatic reasons or otherwise
gravenimage says
Waldorf, *no one* is preventing European nations from commenting on the US, which they do all the time–and which we are not trying to restrict or prevent, insulting as this so often is.
Hank says
Great speech. He nailed it.
He mentioned the uncontrolled Muslim invasion. Why should the US do anything about Ukraine if the “self-righteous European authoritarians” are giving it all away anyway (freedom of speech, Judeo-Christian values, citizens rights to privacy, banking privacy, a war on cash, etc.)?
The despotic European leftists are warring against common sense. Ukraine shows clearly that one rocket on the network and you can’t buy or sell food because the backup system of cash is taken away from the citizens. War against the Judeo-Christian culture and replacing it with Islam, war against plastic, war against your money by either taxing it to death or micro-managing citizens, war against a male and female gender, etc.
WPM says
The hollowing and crying when Europe NATO nations will have to put up or shut up and pay the new contract amount of 5 percent of their GNP for NATO defense .Right now it is 3.5 percent and the only NATO nation that pays what it should is Poland.
Ernie says
Thank you , J.D. Vance for breaking a lance for democracy in Europe . It is out of concern, honest and fair . I appreciate your criticus as a European citizen. . God bless you .
Ernie says
Critique
Captain Quirk says
Criticism
Hans Brinker jr. says
Ernie must be Dutch.
gravenimage says
+1
skeptiker says
Die Feinde der Freiheit, die Demokratieverachter, die ungebildeten und inkompetenten Schwätzer und Wichtigtuer konnten auf der Münchener Sicherheitskonferenz als Reaktion auf die Rede von Vance in voller Pracht bewundert werden.
Die häßliche Fratze des Totalitarismus in ihrer Schönsten Form mit Steinmeier, v.d. Leiyen, Scholz, Pistorius, Söder, Habeck und Merz als geistige Tiefflieger medienwirksam aufpoliert, zeigt die ganze moralische, kulturelle und intellektuelle Verwahrlosung, die von einigen einflussreichen Strippenziehern befeuert werden.
Die Rede von Vance war ein deutliches Statement. Der Schuß war nicht zu überhören. Mal schauen, wann sie in Brüssel merken, dass der Zug schon längst abgefahren ist. AFUERA
gravenimage says
*Ja*.
onsameteam says
This speech will be in a presidential library one day on behalf of its presenter.
It will be watched over and over again, like a Reagan speech, not for banter but for the positive message of optimism it brings.
His speech was an “offer” not a scolding, even if some want to spin it that way, watch it again, he was incredibly clear, we are on the same team. Let’s defend our common values,
gravenimage says
Agree–it certainly should be.
Luchtpint says
As an indigenous citizen of a mainland European country, I thought this was a very impressive speech. I totally agree with much of what JD Vance had to say, and these things needed to be said.
It’s will remain unlikely that our self-proclaimed elites in Western Europe however are going to take this to heart any time soon. They’ll probably keep their shenanigans going, just like the supposed elites in the USA are doing at this point.
In any case, I see some potential for JD Vance to run for next president of the USA after Trump’s administration. That could be quite an interesting development.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Could you imagine “cackling Harris” or “tampon Tim” giving a speech like that?
WPM says
Cackling would have throw out a word salad and they would be given her a stand ovations these soulless elites .They are use to American’s footing the bills and providing aid to them in time of crisis ,while they talk trash about American cultural and beliefs in private cocktail parties .The only people these elite hold in more contempt then the Americans is their own people.
James Lincoln says
Just wondering if the Munich Security Conference will have JD back for a repeat visit next year…
somehistory says
Only if enough people who heard are in seats of power and realize he was being Truthful.
Those who want to restrict the freedoms of people who may have a dissenting voice, will have to realize they are in the wrong and then admit it.
gravenimage says
Vance to Europeans: Free Speech is Good. Europeans: This is Unacceptable.
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A fine speach from JD Vance–I am very impressed. That so many in Europe resoonded to a call for allowing freedom of speech–even of those who diagree with him–with opprobium is deeply disturbing.
somehistory says
“Italian PM defends JD Vance’s Munich speech at CPAC
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni appeared via video at CPAC on Saturday (February 22), where she praised Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference. ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italian-pm-defends-jd-vance-s-munich-speech-at-cpac/vi-AA1zAeqd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b78d600b068049cad207a089cf02a920&ei=24