Below is my column in the New York Post on the unhinged response to Vice President J.D. Vance’s historic defense of free speech in Europe. The chorus of criticism from press and pundits was immediate. Literally speaking through tears, German diplomat Christoph Heusgen responded to VP Vance: “It is clear that our rules-based international order is under pressure. It is my strong belief that this more multipolar world needs to be based on a single set of norms and principles.” Indeed, it is and that is a good thing. Vance was speaking truth to transnationalists who view free speech as a threat to the “international order” that they maintain. The response from the American left was even more bizarre. Not only did CBS’s Margaret Brennan suggest that free speech caused the holocaust, but Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that Vance, in defending free speech, used “some of the same language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust.”
Here is the column:
On Friday, Vice President JD Vance gave a historic defense of free speech at the Munich Security Conference. In front of a clearly hostile assemblage of European diplomats, Vance confronted our allies with their systemic censorship as they demanded more support to “defend democracy.”
For the free speech community, it was akin to Ronald Reagan’s call: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Vance questioned how our allies could claim to be the bastions of freedom while denying free expression to their citizens.
He then delivered this haymaker: “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.”
Not surprisingly, the Europeans sat on their hands while glaring at Vance for calling them out for their hypocrisy. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius declared Vance’s remarks were “not acceptable.” An unnamed German official in attendance declared, “This is all so insane and worrying.”
The outrage of the Europeans was only surpassed by our own anti-free speech voices in government, the media and academia.
Commentator and CNN regular Bill Kristol called the speech “a humiliation for the US and a confirmation that this administration isn’t on the side of the democracies.”
It appears that free speech is no longer viewed as pro-democracy.
Indeed, it could be outright fascism.
In one of the most bizarre attacks, CBS anchor Margaret Brennan confronted Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vance’s support for free speech given the fact that he was “standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”
In other words, it was free speech that brought Hitler to power and caused the Holocaust.
Brennan’s statement is completely detached from history and logic.
Germans did enjoy free speech protections after World War I, though the Weimar Constitution was more limited than the First Amendment. However, one of the first things that the Nazis did in coming to power in 1933 was to crack down on free speech and criminalize dissent. Censorship is the harbinger of authoritarianism and Germany is the ultimate example of how no censorship system in history has ever succeeded in killing one idea or stopping a single movement.
Brennan could not have picked a better country to utterly destroy the point that she was trying to make in favor of limits on free speech.
Germany continued to censor and criminalize speech after World War II, targeting the neo-Nazi movement and other prohibited viewpoints.
Authorities charged citizens for everything from wine labels to ringtones with banned content. The government has sought to force figures like X owner Elon Musk to censor Americans and others to combat anything that it deems “fake news” or “disinformation.”
Of course, Germany’s massive censorship effort has done little to deter the thriving neo-Nazi movement. What it has done is chill the speech of ordinary citizens. One poll of German citizens found that only 18% of Germans feel free to express their opinions in public. Only 17% felt free to express themselves on the internet.
Other nations joined in the harrumphs with equally disingenuous statements, including the United Kingdom. British diplomats expressed shock despite their systemic suppression of free speech, including arresting citizens for simply praying to themselves near abortion clinics.
The British have doubled down on censorship with sweeping new laws. Hundreds have been arrested recently for speech crimes like spreading “fake news” or disinformation that could lead to “non-trivial psychological or physical harm.”
Previously, British citizens were arrested for criticizing religious groups or opposing homosexuality or immigration. In one case, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime.
The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
In 1963, John F. Kennedy went to Germany to declare “Ich bin ein Berliner” to express solidarity with those who were fighting for the right to live and speak freely behind the Iron Curtain.
More than 60 years later, Vance returned to essentially declare “Ich bin ein Amerikanischer,” affirming our commitment to a right that not only defines the United States, but once defined Western civilization. He argued that if we are to defeat our foreign adversaries, we must first protect those rights that distinguish us from them.
The response of our press and pundits only proved Vance’s point. We have returned to the moment described by Tom Paine during our Revolution, a time that would “try men’s souls.”
Those opposing free speech today are like “the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot” who, Paine warned, would “shrink” from the defense of our values.
The anti-free speech movement that has swept over Europe has finally reached our shores.
Vance drew a bright line in Europe and we will all have to decide on which side to stand. Some obviously have made the decision to stand with Europe.
For the rest of us, we will stand with free speech.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Another excellent column. Margaret Brennan is giving Joy Behar a run for her money as the dumbest woman on TV. But this is just the latest in a long string of these instances where Brennan gets caught herself spreading disinformation or even lies. She did it during the debates last year too.
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Professor Turley,
Both sides – the left and the right – are rewriting history to better serve their current political ends. Although Weimar Germany initially attempted to censor the Nazis, I haven’t found much evidence that this was prevalent or widely enforced from about 1927-1933. (Happy to review anyone’s peer reviewed documentation to the contrary.)
Regardless, neither freedom of speech nor censorship were the primary factors triggering the rise of Nazi Germany. The Great Depression and the threat of revolutionary communism were much bigger factors. These destabilized the state during that period, which weakened its ability to forcibly impose censorship in any material way.
Bottom line – it is ridiculous to examine the rise of Nazi Germany without considering the impact of the largest economic collapse of the twentieth century, and the fact that both sides do this is just further evidence that Professor Turley and his liberal counterparts in the media are fueling the “Age of Rage.”
That kind of both-sides-ism doesn’t withstand scrutiny. Today’s pro-freedom voices have never claimed that (a) the rise of Nazism was *caused* by suppression of speech, or (b) it should be examined without reference to the dire economic conditions prevalent in Germany in the 1920s and 30s. What they do claim is that it is ridiculous to say the rise of Nazism was caused by freedom of speech. They are correct in that, and the left, together with the media, is wrong both to promote censorship and to blame the rise of Nazism freedom of speech.
I think Pres. Trump’s aproach to free speech is nuanced and common sense. His approach is NOT anything goes. Note his lawsuit accusing CBS News of intentionally deceiving the voters in the way it edited the Kamala Harris interview (to cover-up her inability to think and to speak clearly). CBS went way out of its lane as journalists, and acted as PR arm of the Harris campaign. Her shortcomings turned out too much to overcome, but what if she had won with the help of media waging public fraud on her behalf?
The President is on the right track using civil lawsuit to challenge deceitful political infowarfare. He is drawing the line at honest reportage, or at least refraining from intentional public frauds. The public square is not allowed to become a playground of unrestrained political competition where the best liars win governing power.
I would call it calibrated free speech — where the public square welcomes all ideas even if uncomfortable to hear — but draws the line a premeditated manipulations to dupe the public into making uninformed choices.
We’re headed in the right direction with the CBS suit. Even if it fails, it will get people thinking about their right to not be propagandized under the excuse of “free speech”.
Trump’s approach to free speech (and most other things) is to support whatever benefits him personally. The CBS lawsuit is a perfect example. He says he’s anti-regulation and then threatens to axe the CBS merger for anti-trust reasons unless CBS settles his frivolous defamation case against him.
Booooooring 🥱
The corrosion of a productive political process is the result of polemics and tribalism, which unleashes paranoia.
The political media have eagerly joined in, and taken up tribal audience pandering — choosing the most inflammatory zeal from the opposition. This convinces the audience that “they are all like that”, again playing on age-old social instincts of tribal identity. “They are all the same”. The mutual distrust and paranoia feeds on itself.
I’ve come to the conclusion that unmoderated speech venues are no good for political problem-solving, which requires mutual trust, rules of civility, and a moderator to uphold the norms of the venue.
Whether JD’s speech will do any good, only time will tell. The real test gets underway Sunday in Germany.
It is a binary ideological universe. There is good. And there is evil. There is freedom. And there is enslavement. There is republican democracy. And there is dictatorial communism. There is the Constitution of the United States of America. And there is the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx.
Nature and God gave man free will.
Each man must choose.
Very eloquent, Mr Turley. But I notice that you never criticize what is not only the most corrupt sector of American government but also its most repressive machinery and the greatest destroyer of Americans’freedom, which is the one that employs you: the judiciary. The American judiciary is little less than a system of organized crime, in which the real crooks sit on the benches and send the law-abiding citizens to prison (or worse). Yet nothing but silence from even the best legal practitioners like you.
I did not mean to be anonymous:
Stephen Baskerville
Professor of Political Studies
Collegium Intermarium, Warsaw
Author, “Taken Into Custody” and “Who Lost America?”
Professor Baskerville – he does occasionally criticize judges. Here’s a fairly recent example:
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/27/blood-feces-and-terror-the-trump-pardons-trigger-judicial-rage/
Where did you get the idea that Professor Turley is employed by the judiciary? He is not. He is employed by George Washington University.
Prof. Baskerville – I would like to seem more criticism of the Judiciary, though Turley has done some.
And more recently we have seen lots of criticism of its politicization – which is a major problem.
But that is NOT the only problem. You appear to be noting that judicial decisions even in non-partisan envirnoments
often have little to do with the law or constitution, or even the facts.
Both in the civil and criminal domains.
When reminding democracies and those who are entrusted to lead them of the sanctity of a core principle of democracy (free and uncensored speech) is taken as little other than the same language Hitler used to justify the Holocaust, it is time to come to grips with what Western Civilization and its democracies are confronting. Something entirely ironic and very disturbing is happening when western powers today have taken to acting against democracy much the same as Hitler did.
On August 8,1939 future prime minister Winston Churchill penned a letter to the American people that he hoped would awaken them to the dark realities of the times. When he wrote “there is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world”, he was of course speaking of Japan’s existing two-year war on China and Germany’s looming war on Europe as real and inevitable threats. Fast forward 86 years and it is an American vice-president awakening European people to the “hush” of another kind.
I am sure the European leaders who grimaced the most at Vance’s remarks quickly recognized the threat to their hidden and underlying principles, and that others felt they were being lectured. Indeed, they were and it is time they were.
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1939-in-the-wings/a-hush-over-europe/
Which party in Germany is pro-free speech?
The one that wants to ban wearing hijabs in public? (That would be the AFD, which Musk/Vance/Trump is supporting.)
The point is that no one in Germany wants free speech for all Germans. So the only real reason to meddle in their domestic affairs is if you think it will help you bolster your own domestic support. That is, of course, the real reason for Vance’s speech.
^ stupidest comment of the day ^
There is a difference between supporting and opposing their supression.
The ACLU fought for the first amendment rights of Nazi’s to march through Skokie.
They did not “support” Nazis.
This idiotic spin is typical of those on the left.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/irish-court-secretly-allowed-police-to-spy-on-media-outlet/
https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1845901081957527959
This is what we’re dealing with here in Ireland.
Vance was right.
Joe- Sorry for you. I am of Irish extraction but 2 centuries removed. Others have joined the family who are more recently moved from Ireland. Loved visiting Ireland but difficult to read about the goings on in your government. I thought they had a revolt in 1916 and later that was supposed to have eliminated that sort of statism
It strikes me that, even in this age, the German culture prizes orderliness and conformity over freedom. I have observed this nature deeply ingrained in regards to engineering, business affairs, local traffic, or lodgings. I am not at all surprised by the German abhorrence to the American ideal of free speech which can get rather messy.
So it follows that “Brennan’s statement is completely detached from history and logic.” Ms Brennan managed, in this one moment, to combine in heights seldom seen: ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, and condescension.
Wouldn’t there have to have been some degree of free speech in the Weimar Republic in order for Hitler to have Mein Kampf widely enough read to have influence?…to allow him to do public speaking when he was still a nobody?
I think that was the context of Margaret’s assertion. Hitler utilized speech freedom to rise to power, then clamped it off once there. Her assertion that speech freedom allowed the Germans to be duped into electing a psychopathic dictator who left his nation destroyed and defeated. Clearly Hitler was manipulative and inauthentic in vying to win the Chancellorship. Why wasn’t his inauthenticity revealed?
Rubio’s response — the quick witted lawyer — changing the timeframe to AFTER Hitler came to power — evasive, but effective in getting Brennan to back down.
No. She drew a direct line between free speech and genocide.
That is asinine.
Free speech didn’t cause genocide, or even “lead to it”, or even allow it.
Every 20th century despot other than Stalin used speech to come to power.
Lenin
Hitler
Castro
Mussolini
THEN they suppressed speech, and the atrocities began.
You’re missing the key question.
Hitler rose to power from a jail cell, because of his writings and speeches. He exploited free speech to obtain power and then stomped it out with violence and intimidation.
Brennen wasn’t claiming that “free speech leads to dictatorship”, but rather, that there is a possibility of this.
How do a free people manage their public square and media to prevent paranoid, evil forces from amassing power?….totalitarian power?
It seems the key is to be on the lookout for inauthenticity and manipulative use of information. The best recent example is the way CBS News edited Kamala’s interview to conceal her unreadiness to be President. That deviousness on CBS’ part didn’t work out. But go back to Hunter’s laptop cover-up 3 weeks before the country voted in Joe Biden — that whopper worked!
If we can’t count of journalists to expose perfidity and deceitful infowarfare — and instead face them eagerly contributing to public deception, we’re risking an awful lot. We have to take a careful, calibrated response to attempts to dupe us for political gain –but doing NOTHING about it is reckless and escapist.
Hitler was elected in 1933, Krystal Nacht did not occur until 1938. The einstatzgruppen – the first executions of jews took place in the USSR in late 1939 and proved a major problem – soldiers killing large numbers of people tended to go mad. The first gassings did not take place until 1941 in Auschwitz and those were of Polish and Soviet soldiers
Auschwitz II were the real killing took place did not open until 1942 and the large scale genocide did not start until late 1943.
Hilters genocidal mania took a decade to come to full fruit – because it was necescary to take complete control fo the press to be able to do so.
“because it was necescary to take complete control fo the press to be able to do so.”
That is why if anyone were to be called a Hitler, Biden should be, based on all his actions and his desire to control social media. It acted as a pressure valve for the MSM’s lack of attention or care that all voices need to be heard. That is why people who complain about censoring social media because of things they don’t like should think twice.
“How do a free people manage their public square and media to prevent paranoid, evil forces from amassing power?….totalitarian power?”
Free people can do that as they please – including your suggestions.
That is not the question.
The question that is relevant to todays post is what can GOVERNMENT do ?
And the answer is NOTHING.
Government makes it worse.
ATS the time line problem was Brennan’s The Holocaust can long after Hitler took power.
The supression of free speech was Necescary to bring about the Holocaust.
The always reliable Babylon Bee strikes again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/deranged-maniac-fires-off-over-17-memes-in-crowded-german-shopping-mall?
https://babylonbee.com/news/von-trapp-family-crosses-the-alps-into-switzerland-to-escape-free-speech?
#74. Yavohl, mein herring!
Anyway, dissent ist nich allowed. Free speech means lies are included and truth. Only truth can be spoken. The ministry of truth shall tell you the truth you must think, speak and write. No lies shall be tolerated. Any thoughts other than the truth shall be unacceptable.
Existentialism or imposing meaning.
Sprechen zie Deutsche? Yawohl! Das ist gut!
#74 mein lieben
WWII and WWI and the genius , John Maynard Keynes, cannot be ignored.
#74. Remember when backing up (reverse) things may appear to be smaller than they actually are.
You know why Maggie “The Caterwauler” Brennan said the stupid thing that she said??? Because, like the Shills here, she feels compelled to always say something negative about Trump, and his team. No matter what, she has to downplay it or cast aspersions on it. When Trump ends the Ukraine war, people like her will poo poo it.
When you are in that kind of mindset, you have switched off the Thinking Part of your brain, and all that is left is some sort of primitive, limbric, reptile-brain part, that just wants to chew on something, to gobble up some meat and salivate and drool, and pass gas.
Since Vance praised Free Speech, she had to say the opposite – that Free Speech is bad. If Vance had said that Free Speech was bad, she would have said that Free Speech is great! But he didn’t, so she said that Free Speech sucks, – and since the Democratic Party is all in on the “Trump is a Nazi” trope, that is what she used to back up the Free Speech sucks reply.
Hence, you get the utterly ridiculous statement that Free Speech was behind the Holocaust. Don’t be surprised if Harvard gives her an Honorary Doctorate in History.
SLAM: is my latest submission being ‘moderated’ or is it outright censorship, like what drove me away from YouTube during the Covid-19 ‘scamdemic?’
The fact that Margaret Brennan is blaiming the Holocaust on free speech should not be surprising. The intellectual impoverichment of the American Left has left it with two rhetorical weapons: calling their opponents racists, and calling their opponents Nazis. Somehow, every alarming event or thing needs to be fit into one of these boxes. So, if you oppose free speech, you need to associate it with either Hitler or the Klu Klax Klan. Brennan did about the best she could in the circumstances.
edwardmahl: nice comment, may I add a third “box,”—(along with Nazi or KKK)– just being plain ole “right-wing.”
When I am driving in the car and have NPR on the radio, all I hear is “right-wing” this and “far-right” that….
–Never presented as an alternative way of viewing a topic, always preceded with the “right-wing” label.
All that subliminal prepping….
Lin – the MSM uses the term “far right” very frequently, and usually it just means “leans conservative.”
They also use “without evidence” if they don’t like something somebody said, even if it is obviously true.
They are intellectual dwarves, yet they look down their noses at everyone else. Definitely not the best humanity has to offer.
VP Vance described Europe’s condition as terminal cancer, offering a recovery plan. Europeans, meaning the people, are just realizing their dire state. One can say, albeit falsely, that the USA acted within 4 years, while it’s uncertain if Europe will respond quickly enough to recover.
We can say facetiously, “Don’t worry. Europe will always be there for us when she needs us.” But we should believe Europe looks at the U.S. with that thought. But Vance turned the premise upside down, stating, “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.”
The words of Vance resonate with freedom-loving people, and the words needed to be heard. Most of the coverage appears negative, but the underlying message becomes known by the presentation of it. Those who can think will understand. The question is, can those people stop it?
Germany is probably the worst offender. At the risk of sounding trite, Vance went into the belly of the beast. Did he slay the dragons? Time will tell, but there is precious little time. Yes, we still believe in free speech and the right of individual freedom.
The Chair of the Munich Security Conference broke down in tears and could not finish his speech. The European response to his display of weakness with a standing ovation says it all. Once mighty, Europe crawls defeated by feeble men today, ala Chamberlain of yesterday. On its own, if it does not fall to Russia, it will fall to Islam.
But they can find solace in our media. CBS’s Margaret Brennan argued, “. . . a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Nominate her for Goebbels Nazi Germany Propaganda Award-to avoid fascism, nazism, and other Holocaust isms in America; we need to dump free speech. Is she that stupid to believe what her words mean? Someone, please give her the 1984 Dictionary, Oceania ed. where Thinkpol thrives, just for thee.
#74. Half of Germany was abandoned to Stalin after ww2. Was it worse than the actual war? Probably, it lasted until 1984?
Jonathan: It certainly is “the American moment” when JD Vance tells European leaders they can no longer count on the US as an ally. That alliance of 80 years is over. Vance told Europe the US is going alone. The DJT administration now asserts special rights, the right to disregard the views of Europeans when it comes to Ukraine and Palestine. That’s why Marco Rubio specifically excluded Europeans and Ukraine from talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia over the fate of Ukraine. Rubio wants to impose a dictat in which Ukraine will be forced to turn over territory and its oil and gas reserves to Putin. It will now be a US/Russian axis.
As to Palestine the Rubio/DJT/Israeli plan is to exclude Europe from bringing peace and independence for the Palestinians. Under the DJT/Rubio plan the Palestinians will be expelled and Gaza turned into seaside resorts for the world’s elites. Independence for the Palestinians is no longer on the table. That’s in violation of international law and many UN resolutions calling for an independent Palestinian state.
In the Western hemisphere “the American moment” means the DJT administration is again asserting special rights. The right to take over Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal and the right to unilaterally rename the Gulf of Mexico. It’s all part of DJT’s new “Manifest Destiny”. It’s his authoritarian style.
The Munich Security Conference demonstrated the Europeans don’t accept DJT and JD’s “new world order”. They are pushing back. The reporting is that Europe is realigning its priorities. Since the US is no longer a reliable trading partner because of US tariffs, Europe is now looking at new trading partners. Canada is the focus. European countries are now considering not buying oil and gas from the US. Canada has promised to increase oil and gas production to serve Europe instead of the US. “Buy only Canada” is now the mantra. Canadians are now boycotting American products. This will have a devastating impact on the US economy. For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s true in physics and it’s true in international relations.
As to JD Vance’s speech to European leaders the same rule in physics applies. Europeans are repelled by Vance’s alignment with right wing parties in Europe, like the neo-Nazi NFD party in Germany. With the experience of the Holocaust Germans are not about to let the NFD dominate the conversation. And you, like Elon Musk, are in the strange position of defending the “free speech” rights of the NFD–the resurgence of neo-Nazism in Germany. The descendants of Adolph Hitler will welcome your support for their xenophobia and racism!
This is such a load of hogwash that its amazing you can bring yourself to write such tripe.
FREE SPEECH IS ANTINAZI you moron.
CENSORSHIP is the fruit of those descendants of Adolph Hitler (he had none, he never had kids) would embrace.
CENSORSHIP is how the NAZI party came to power. PERIOD.
So calling censorship Nazism is a complete lie and is part of that “misinformation” that you whining weasels whine about so much.
You can lie through your teeth all you want, because the free speech you’re speaking against lets you.
But this “new world order” you’re talking about that is merely FREE SPEECH.
You’re anti-American, and anti-freedom for speaking out against it and know this.
MOST Americans stand for free speech, so you’re going to be awfully lonely in those ranks of the pervs and transvestites and other helpless hapless fools who are trying to turn us into Nazi Germany while simultaneously claiming “FREE speech” is a value of the Nazi party.
Those aren’t just lies you’re spouting, they’re easily disproven by cracking open any history book on the subject.
Chris Weber,
Well said.
Do you really believe that free speech/censorship was a bigger issue than either the Great Depression and the threat of communism?
The Weimar Republic was weak, particularly after the Great Depression, and was unable to engage in censorship in any material way.
Saying “period” in all caps seems a bit reductive. History is complex, and usually many variables contribute to the rise and fall of governments.
Sooo, I check in this morning, and the first thing I see is your stupid post about racism and xenophobia. Color me surprised that you did not slip something in about castrating kids, and transphobia.
You are like enigmainblack. You live somewhere back in time, like maybe 1962, and you like to pretend that you are a Freedom Rider, toodling around backwoods Mississippi, smoking dope, and making out with some liberal nympho Jewish chick from Bryn Mawr, in the backseat of a Nash Rambler – I know those were heady times, and the fact that the KKK might catch you and string you up, made the sex better BUT -It isn’t 1962 any more.
The colored folks got the right to vote, and the right to go to school wherever, and then proceeded to screw things up to the point where most people don’t give a hoot about them anymore, and even worse, are tired of pretending that they give a hoot. An 80%+illegitimate birth rate and crime out the wazoo will do that.
But you are someone who will never wake up and smell the coffee, because you live inside your own head – in Fantasy Land, and while Europe descends into a new authoritarian regime you will remain oblivious – because all you hear is that Jewish chick, in the back seat, crying Oy, mein go’yer libe!!! in between recanting quotes from Foucault and Malcolm X.
A bit OTT, as they say across the pond. Vance did not say the US is going it alone – his speech certainly suggested it is time to re-examine and reframe the alliance structure (a point with which the NATO Secretary-General does not disagree). The preliminary meeting between the US and Russia is to establish conditions for the negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine. The EU may not be at the table when the talks start (no loss there), but Ukraine will be, and, perhaps, other Europeans.
Palestine is a construct, not a real nation. Arab nations, notably the UAE through its ambassador, are (trying) to put together a coherent plan for Gaza going forward. No mas Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, or the PLA.
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is one thing. Greenland and Canada are safe from takeover, however, Trump may be able to demonstrate Panama has not honored the terms of the agreement ceding control of the Panama Canal.
Not a reliable trading partner? Please. And, it’s more likely the Canadian economy will suffer in the long term, not that of the US, particularly the energy sector.
This will clearly come as a surprise, but offensive speech is still protected speech. Advocating 1st Amendment-style free speech hardly equates to an alignment with neo-Nazis.
Nope. I’m a european (Ireland) and I can tell you the vast majority of us welcomed Vance’s speech.
Were you aware that the German Green Party once tried to legalise paedophilia (down to two-year olds) ? And that the politician involvrd – Justin Tritten – was a member of the German Commjnist Party ? Of course you weren’t, because the european left are beloved of your media and they’d never cover such a story.
(Look it up in the Der Spiegel english edition, it gives the most comprehensive account in english)
How about the fact that asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa have committed over 7,000 rapes in Germany since Merkel let them in? They even organised mass-rapes on New Yr’s Eve a while back (500 in one night). Or that there have been thirty bomb attacks in Sweden in the past month by Somali and Arab gangs ? The stabbing in the UK, the one in Dublin, the 2 yr old and mother killed in the terrorist attack at a nurse’s union march a few days ago, the mass stabbing in the kindergarten a few weeks back, the mass stabbing by an Afghan at the weekend which killed a 14 yr old Austrian boy ? This shit is happening two or three times a week. And that’s just the terrorist crimes, not counting the rapes and robberies involving weapons.
The people dickhead media and democrats in the US are telling uou are far-right are just a regular cross section of society, mostly socially liberal (like the lesbian leader of the AfD who is married to a Sri Lankan woman) and some moderate conservatives. Even the left-wing Social Democrat Party which governs Denmark has called Islamic migration a disaster and has put a stop to it. Sweden – another left-wing govt – are trying to reverse the immigration there.
The people Vance was addressing – the unelected members of the European Commission and their bosses there that day in Munich – are anti-democratic, pro-censorship, anti-free speech lunatics. German citizens have been jailed and fined for mocking politicians. One woman was convicted for calling the ‘prophet’ Mohammad a peadophile. The prick is dead, and it wasn’t slander – he married a six year old and raped her at nine. The point is important – Bangladeshis and Iraqis use his example on which to base their age of consent laws. And many islamist are raping little girls here. Look up muslim grooming gangs in Rotherham, UK. Or the recent protracted gang rape of a 12 year old girl by 19 mostly muslim immigrants.
As for europe’s so-called democratic example:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/irish-court-secretly-allowed-police-to-spy-on-media-outlet/
Piece of advice – when you know fk-all about a country/countries and the shit we’re dealing with, keep your mouth shut.
Joseph, yours is a voice of truth that needs to be heard far and wide. Too many know-nothing spout BS on this blog. As for DM, I am quite certain he is a bot programmed to print “Jonathan:” followed by the day’s DNC talking points.
Joseph-nice to see your note. There are a lot of people here in the USA that are ill informed about Europe, who have never lived there or even visited. I do read a variety of news from Europe and know that all is not well. Hope to see you write more. It is refreshing to see more voices with different history and experience.
So during the negotiations between US & Russia, Putin wants Zelensky removed from Ukraine.
But Putin that old coyote, back shooter, ambush predator will eliminate anyone who challenges him.
It appears that Great Britain never really learned their lesson from their a$$whipping 1776-1783.
And Trump is going to learn from the asswhipping Putin and Xi are going to roll out on him. Trump’s going to open up the oil market to Putin, Russia’s going to be flush with cash again, Putin will rebuild the army bigger, and then invade former non-Russian Soviet satellite countries. Xi will invade Taiwan. The American dominance of the global market will be over. Just like you want it, traitor.
Bwahahahahahahaha what a stooge ^^^
On the surface, it seems odd that the media would be “all in” on the suppression of free speech. The First Amendment is their lifeblood, no?
But it’s the same kind of odd that occurs when, for example, a large oil company favors more regulation. How does one explain that, when the company’s existence and profitability depends on a free business environment?
Or does it? A large oil company’s biggest threat is not government regulation, it is a dynamic upstart company that is more efficient and energetic and can take away significant market share from such advantages. The large established oil company is huge, well established, and can absorb the cost of more burdensome regulations much better than the dynamic startup. Now . . . draw the analogy to the MSM.
OldManfromKansas- You knocked it out of the ball park. Big business loves big government. Competition?-just let the government legislate the competition right out of the picture. Then you don’t have to deal with those messy things like listening to customers, improving efficiency, developing new product lines. It’s just so tiresome.