Below is my column on Fox.com on the alliance of some on the American left with Europeans in combatting the United States as a menace to world order. From Hillary Clinton to Nina Jankowicz, Europeans are hearing tales of alarm and agony from liberals warning that the United States is a growing global threat.
Here is the column:
In his historic speech in Munich this year, Vice President J.D. Vance confronted the Europeans over their attacks on free speech, declaring “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” That is manifestly true, but it appears that there is something that certain Americans can still do for Europe. As the European Union ramps up its long-standing campaign against free speech, it is increasingly calling upon Americans to make the case against both free speech and the United States.
The Europeans and globalists see the Trump Administration as a threat in the effort to create transnational governance systems. German diplomat Christoph Heusgen became emotional in responding to Vance, declaring “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.”
American politicians and journalists quickly added their voices of condemnation. CBS anchor Margaret Brennan confronted Secretary of State Marco Rubio to suggest that Vance’s support for free speech was outrageous because he was “standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Brennan’s bizarre suggestion that free speech contributed to the death camps was amplified by Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) who accused Vance of using “some of the same language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust.”
After the Munich speech, some of the leading anti-free speech figures in the world gathered at the World Forum in Berlin. I was one of the few speakers from the free speech community at the conference that declared “A New World Order with European Values.” Various Americans were present to reaffirm the worst about the United States as a nation descending into tyranny.
The two most celebrated figures were Bill and Hillary Clinton, who also criticized the current Administration.
The appearance of Hillary Clinton was particularly chilling for the free speech community at the Forum. Clinton has been unrelenting in her attacks on free speech and is a favorite of globalists who want to create this new world order. After Musk bought Twitter with the intention of restoring free speech protections, Clinton called upon the European Union to use its infamous Digital Services Act to make Musk censor her fellow Americans. She has also suggested arresting those spreading disinformation.
The EU did precisely that and is now threatening Musk with confiscatory fines unless he resumes the censorship of Americans and others.
After returning from Berlin, I testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee and warned about the building threat to free speech from the use of the DSA.
Since then, the EU has moved forward with its aggressive campaign against U.S. companies and figures who are not yielding to their expansive censorship demands.
They continue to rely on Americans to make the case against the United States and they are finding a long list of eager experts.
Many are disgruntled Democrats after the election or “disinformation experts” left without positions or grants after the start of the Trump administration. Unemployed censors now roam the Earth like rōnin, or masterless disgraced samurai. They are finding opportunities in Europe where free speech in a virtual free fall.
It was not surprising, therefore, that Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared this week before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the United States, which she called a world threat.
How the “Mary Poppins of disinformation” came to alight upon the European Union is little surprise. Appealing before one of the most anti-free speech bodies in the world. The “New World Order with European Values” notably does not include robust protections for free speech.
I have been a long critic of Jankowicz. After the Biden Administration reluctantly disbanded her board, she later moved to join a European group as a foreign agent to continue her work to block views that she considers disinformation.
Jankowicz fed the anti-American fervor sweeping over Europe. While she was called to address Russian disinformation, she went out of her way to attack the United States as a global menace: “Before I describe the details of Russia’s recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America.”
The false portrayal of the United States as a lawless, autocratic nation no doubt thrilled the Europeans. In announcing her heading a private disinformation group called the American Sunlight Project, Jankowicz used the same hysteria to attract donors, insisting that “Disinformation knows no political party. Its ultimate victim is our democracy.”
Of course, Jankowicz herself has been accused of spreading disinformation and advocating censorship.
The ultimate irony is that Jankowicz knows that she can count on many of us in the free speech community to support her right to spread such sensational and inflammatory information. She has every right to trash this country and the results of the election.
Jankowicz has clearly found a home with globalists in Europe where our “Mary Poppins of Disinformation” is “practically perfect in every way.”
Of course, these “defenders of democracy” are advocating for precisely what they are condemning in seeking greater state controls over speech and individual rights.
The new diaspora of disgruntled American liberals and censors will find eager European audiences to hear their tales of woe.
Jonathan Turley is the author of best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
German diplomat Christoph Heusgen became emotional in responding to Vance, declaring “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.”
It is hard to believe a German diplomat could be so forgetful of his European roots.
I had a physician mentor who is German, earned MD-PhD degrees in Germany, and advanced his training as a brilliant research scientist oncologist. He left Germany believing he had better opportunities in America, and he succeeded in every metric. Years after we met, however, he commented often on the decline of Europe in general, but Germany specifically. These left him disillusioned about Germany’s once great intellectual contributions to science, math, philosophy, music, and others. Christoph Heusgen tosses the aforementioned into the trash can. He would visit Germany, then return to America and weep in front of me, telling me how he didnt recognize Germany.
As a non-German it is jarring to see what Germany has become, and worse how Americans are enthusiastically celebrating the current intellectual acedia. It almost seems impossible to think, given our current trajectory, that our Western Civilization was founded, in part, on the teachings of Greek philosophers like Aristotle, philosophical ideas that St Augustine (354 – 430 AD) incorporated in his work De Trinitate vis a vis Aristotle’s ten categories, then later Plato. St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1275 AD) devoured and robustly applied the writings of Boethius, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, St Augustine, Neoplatonists Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Anselm of Canterbury, and John Scotus Eriugena, and others to Christianity in his classic work Summa Theologica.
The West has been in decline for decades. Americans could seek to reverse it by educating themselves on our Western Civiliztion intellectual roots, and then influence their immediate world. But are they up for the challenge?
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
3. Let us then discuss these virtues afresh, going more deeply into the matter.
Let it be assumed that there are five qualities through which the mind achieves truth in affirmation or denial, namely Art or technical skill,15Scientific Knowledge, Prudence, Wisdom, and Intelligence. Conception and Opinion are capable of error. 3. [2]
The nature of Scientific Knowledge (employing the term in its exact sense and disregarding its analogous uses) may be made clear as follows. We all conceive that a thing which we know scientifically cannot vary; when a thing that can vary is beyond the range of our observation, we do not know whether it exists or not. An object of Scientific Knowledge, therefore, exists of necessity. It is therefore eternal, for everything existing of absolute necessity is eternal; and what is eternal does not come into existence or perish. 3. [3] Again, it is held that all Scientific Knowledge can be communicated by teaching, and that what is scientifically known must be learnt. But all teaching starts from facts previously known, as we state in the Analytics,16 since it proceeds either by way of induction, or else by way of deduction. Now induction supplies a first principle or universal, deduction works from universals; therefore there are first principles from which deduction starts, which cannot be proved by deduction; therefore they are reached by induction. 3. [4] Scientific Knowledge, therefore, is the quality whereby we demonstrate, 17 with the further qualifications included in our definition of it in theAnalytics,18 namely, that a man knows a thing scientifically when he possesses a conviction arrived at in a certain way, and when the first principles on which that conviction rests are known to him with certainty—for unless he is more certain of his first principles than of the conclusion drawn from them he will only possess the knowledge in question accidentally.19 Let this stand as our definition of Scientific Knowledge.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6
Human language gene inserted into mice genome. What do you think of that, Estovir?
Listen to KJB regarding oral arguments , porn in classrooms. She told the parents to find another school. Paraphrased
Utterly unprincipled… incredible ignorance? Lots of social points?
The “rules” of western rules based order are
Free Speech
and
Free Trade.
it is the EU that is violating the rules.
Ok. Freedom derives from philosophy. One prong being it derves from ethics and the nature or physics. Is that principled or unprincipled freedom of speech? Consider laws derived from that and are principled or unprincipled. Ethics, morals… are the laws for all freedoms.
Child porn in classrooms? Ethical? Seriously
Free trade? Absolute or ethical? Free trade of organs? People?
Why not free trade of organs ?
Free trade of people – i.e. slavery is a violation of the freedom that free trade requires.
So there is no such thing as free trade in people.
Italy was liberated from fascism and the murderous Nazi occupation 80 years ago tomorrow. During Fascism and later under Nazi rule, Italians were at risk if they voiced opposition. The Allies which included most EU countries and the UK were the good guys who sought to restore freedom. Now, they are fighting to do what they fought against. The EU
and the anti-free speech loons have aligned themselves with all the despotic regimes who came before because to censor speech is the first step to authoritarianism.
Glad to see Turley posting his columns on Fox.com. Fox News just released their poll on Trump’s approval rating 100 days into office. Trump has 44% approval & 55% disapproval. JD Vance has 42% approval & 51% disapproval.
56% disapprove of Trump’s handling of foreign policy, 56% disapprove of his handling of the economy & 59% disapprove of his handling of inflation.
The only issue Trump has a net postive approval is border security. 55% approve & 40% disapprove. 47% approve of his handling of immigration while 48% disapprove. The top issue with voters is inflation & high prices.
Look forward to more of Professor Turley’s timely posts about Hillary Clinton & American liberals.
So Trump is doing much better than Biden.
“Leading Liberals”, precisely who Trump meant when he spoke of “the enemy within”, as the enemy (of free speech and American ideals) with (America)!
Nina Jankowicz looks like the witch Elizabeth Selwyn who was burned alive in the year of our Lord 1692. May the flames cleanse thy soul of this evil.
If Europeans look to Bill Clinton for a moral vision does that mean there will be teenager-brothels in Paris?
The U. S. should offer each one of this crew of lying miscreants a $10MM bonus to renounce their citizenship and emigrate to the “democratic” Europe that they seem to love and respect so well. Maybe “George” could get $100 to accompany them. There they can all spew manure from every bodily orifice to their heart’s content, and we won’t need to pay them any mind at all.
“…this more multipolar world needs to be based on a single set of norms and principles.” Specifically which norms -the German kind? Did you learn nothing last century, Herr Heusgen?
Of course the Muslim world far outweighs Germany in terms of raw numbers of people. So, will the Germans submit? The problem with this statement you quoted, ” It is my strong belief that this more multipolar world needs to be based on a single set of norms and principles”, is that what will result, based on what we have observed of Europe lately, in is a world with no norms or principles except raw force.
Yes
“ She has also suggested arresting those spreading disinformation.
The EU did precisely that and is now threatening Musk with confiscatory fines unless he resumes the censorship of Americans and others.”
Who was arrested? Turley doesn’t say. Misinformation perhaps?
If Elon want to keep X in Europe he’s going to have to abide by their rules. We expect Tik Tok to abide by ours so why wouldn’t Elon need to abide by their rules? Americans don’t have free speech rights in Europe like we do here. There are certain rules that the platform must abide by if it wants to operate in the EU. We arrest foreign students for exercising their free speech rights here. We threaten punishment of students who exercise their political views and protest here. Turley loves to proclaim that Europe is anti-free speech, but he conveniently omits our own government’s attacks on free speech because it involves Trump and we know what happens when you criticize Trump. You get the MAGA treatment and be subject to denigrations and smears for daring to criticize Trump.
George, the point is not if someone has been arrested but the calling for such imprisonment of those with whom you disagree by a prominent leader of the Democratic Party. Do you think that Clinton doesn’t mean it when she calls for the confinement of the political opposition. What should be included in her statement are the words arrest and confinement for the rest of their lives if necessary unless they agree to spend time in a reeducation camp. We understand. You’re right on board with that George.
George, during Trumps first administration did the federal government put pressure on facebook or twitter to censor posts by leftists? The answer is no! Did the Biden Administration put pressure on facebook and twitter to censor posts by those on the right? The answer is yes. The history is now very well known. Yet you have the gall to talk about Trump denigrating his opposition. All politicians denigrate the opposition. Those on the left denigrate their opposition by calling them Nazis. The line is crossed when demanding that social media not allow the opposition to speak its mind. We understand George. Your part of the, I’m in the right and if you say otherwise the shackles and imprisonment will be your destiny crowd. You dance around saying it right out loud but we hear you load and clear George. Once again you expose yourself for who you are.
“ George, during Trumps first administration did the federal government put pressure on facebook or twitter to censor posts by leftists?”
Yes they did. Trump and some Republicans called on Facebook to remove certain posts because they found them offensive and untruthful.
“ Did the Biden Administration put pressure on facebook and twitter to censor posts by those on the right?”
Pressure, yes. Telling them to remove content, no. The Supreme Court ruled that pressuring media to follow their own rules is not censorship.
“Yes they did. Trump and some Republicans called on Facebook to remove certain post”
Correct, though very complex.
First CISA dates all the way to Obama and was operating during the whole 4 years of Trump’s first administration, actively censoring Republicans. So during the first Trump administration an Obama concocted group funded by the federal government unbenownst to Trump was censoring Trump and republicans on social media using Federal funds to do so.
But there were also an extremely small number ofinstances where the Trump WH contacted FB and other social media and asked them to do something about offensive posts. That was very rare, it was wrong, it was unconstitutional.
Additionally Trump frequently publicly opines that someone should do something about the free speech of left wing nuts. As a private citizen that is bad but 1st amendment protected speech.
As a president it is highly unwise, but not illegal or unconstitutional – acting on it would be unconstitutional.
Henry II famously asked “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” resulting in the murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170.
It is not wise for people in power to even hint at ordering people to do something that would be improper to do.
But it still happens all the time.
““ Did the Biden Administration put pressure on facebook and twitter to censor posts by those on the right?”
Pressure, yes. Telling them to remove content, no.”
False – they told them to remove content. And they did so large scale
“The Supreme Court ruled that pressuring media to follow their own rules is not censorship.”
Absolutely completely false.
The supreme court – 9-0 with Sotomayor writing the opinion ruled against government censorship in NRA vs NY.
On June 26, 2024, the Court ruled 6–3 that the states lacked standing to bring suit in Murthy v. Missouri .
They said absolutely nothing about the merits of the case.
There were several critical factors in the outcome of this case – while I disagree with the courts decision, read the dissent by Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas, citing NRA vs Vullo
the majority analysis is still instructive regarding many of the TRO’s today.
First Murty was a TRO case, NRA was an actual damages case.
The majority went into a great deal of discussion that you can not grant a TRO based on what MIGHT happen in the future, because of evidence that govenrment censored you in the past.
The plantiffs did not have standing to address a hypothetical future harm.
Essentially SCOTUS said that if Murty had been brought as a lawsuit for damages against the defendants, they like the NRA in Vullo would have won.
I think the majority analysis is NOT correct with regard to an ongoing pattern of violating a constitutional right.
Though it absolutely is correct with respect to the myriads of TRO’s being granted against Trump reccently.
SCOTUS should read Murty with respect to the recent immigration cases.
Plantiffs are alleging that they MIGHT not get due process in the future and they MIGHT be deported illegally and therefore are entitled to a TRO. But as the court found in Murty hypothetical future harm even where there is a pattern in the past is not a basis for injunctive releif where no fundimental constitutional rights are involved.
The situation is even worse regarding the TRO’s on spending and terminating employment.
The plantiffs in those cases have no actual rights at all being violated – much less one as fundimental as free speech, but have TRO’s to stop alleged future harms that can be resolve with claims for actual damages should those harms ever materialize.
Regardless, Murty was NOT decided on the merits 0 it was decided on the standing of the plantiffs and that fact that the case was to stop speculative future harm – not a claim seeking damages for past harm through censorship.
While NRA vs. Vullo was a claim against NY, for the ACTUAL harm that occurred as a consequence of government coercing third parties to censor.
Regardless, SCOTUS did NOT find that government did nothing wrong.
They found that a TRO is NOT the proper releif for past bad conduct, and that claims of future bad conduct were speculative.
Likelyu a driving factor in the decision was the public statements of the Biden administration that GEC and CISA had been disbanded – SCOTUS can award damages for harm already done.
It can not issue injunctions barring alleged future bad conduct by actiors hat no longer exist.
Except that as Turley noted and has been recently reported – CISA and GEC and other censorship agencies were NOT shutdown, they just went under ground. More evidence that theleft lies if they breath.
Right track/wrong track is the highest it has been in a long time.
Consumer confidence is the highest it has been since early 2020.
Trumps unfavorable rating in his first term was never below 50% – it has been below 50% most of his 2nd term and is 50.9% right not. Trump’s first term favorable rating was never above 46% – it is 47% right now
George, a woman arrested in London for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. How’s that for an arrest.
And…? She was arrested for violating a buffer zone. Not for praying.
If that was all there was to it, then anyone passing through that so called buffer zone should be arrested, correct? No of course that wasn’t all she was arrested for. It was precisely the “action” of praying within that so called buffer zone that got her arrested. And even more precisely, since she was silently praying, the officers had to ask her what she was doing in there and it was only after determining she was praying that she was arrested.
You lying POS.
No george she was arrested for silently praying.
The bufferzone is ONLY for those protesting the abortion clinic.
People who are NOT engaged in protest against abortion are not subject to the buffer zone.
Otherwise the clinic could not operate.
“Americans don’t have free speech rights in Europe like we do here.” (With not a jot of criticism.)
Behold the Left’s moral relativism, which when applied to cultures becomes cultural relativism.
Unless of course America is accused of an alleged evil: “We arrest foreign students for exercising their free speech rights here.”
Then, somehow, that relativism morphs into a for-the-moment moral absolutism.
George,
Musk must abide by EU rules to operate in the EU.
And just as we are seeing with Tariffs the US government can say – Stop F#$King with our businesses and people or we will F#$K with you.
I hope to see the US impose signficant consequences on the EU for requiring US businesses to censor, especially when they require censoring americans and even more so when they require censoring americans in america.
There are many things the US can do – though some might require congress, and easy one might be to bar US Social Media companies from operating in countries that engage in political censorship.
The EU has a significant population problem.
The EU is already subsidizing families having more children.
But this is not correcting the problem.
There are serious economic consequences for a nation that falls short of th replacement rate for population.
At some point countries are going to take more agressive actions.
You can expect starting with China – but likely soon after in the EU,
Abortion to be banned,
non-reproductive sexuality to be criminalized – gay, trans,
And discussions of abortion or non-reproductive sexuality to be banned.
And it is likely to be the left driving this.
This is what happens when your ideology rests on the highly subjective “greater good” concept.
The US government has historically fought to expand the freedoms that we cherish in this government to the rest of the world.
That is literally what WWII was about.
Musk is trying to keep rocketry alive. He doesn’t want his children riding donkeys, grinding corn with rocks , dying of old age at 50, I’m guessing.
WHILE DAVOS flies in jets. The masses cannot have civilization. There’s too many of them.
EUrope (sic) has gone French. Of which means, It has slipped into the French way of ‘Modalities’ talk, of which becomes, not a settlement of equality but an agreement of asymmetric benefit to the Host (When dealing with the Modalities of the French, the French (Host) most always seem to benefit the most).
They (E.U.) should cut-the-crap out and set some rigid terms (return to a basic order).
Dismiss the ‘Modality Talks’ (The restrictive political rhetorical(s) to Free Speech) so that flow can be re-establish.
You need Free Speech to allow ‘flow’ of confluent conversation – i.e.: Constructive Talks. Without free flow (free speech) the conditions are deadlocked.
As of today, it appears (to Americans) that Free Speech is deadlocked in Europe. Contributing to their societal problems.
France imported some moslem breeders. Not to worry.
Oh geez. Turley sure loves to drum up disinformation himself. Trump is making America look bad and he’s succeeding in every possible way. From disastrous tariff policy, attacking free speech, and being lawless. Not to mention his deliberate refusal to follow Supreme court orders because he doesn’t like the outcome.
Trump has alienated our allies by threatening to annex Canada and Greenland and insulting them with abandon until things started to go bad for Trump. Hegseth and JD Vance’s denigration of Europe in the now infamous Signal chat doesn’t help things either.
It’s hard to believe that Turley would be naive about this, but it’s possible he’s just shilling the Fox News narrative because it’s his job. Trump seems to be trying to “Brexit” America from the rest of the world because his America first agenda sees himself as the only savior capable of “bringing back the glory” for America. He’s doing the opposite and it’s going badly. His approval ratings are tanking an he’s worse than his previous ratings of his first term. Trump the moron is not improving the economy. He’s crappin all over it and pretending it’s going to improve any day now.
Opinion only George.
” From disastrous tariff policy,”
The economy is doing fine, jobs are being created and massive revenue is coming in.
AND nations are negotiating towards REAL free trade.
Seems like a win-win to me.
‘attacking free speech”
Only in your head.
“and being lawless.”
Again how so ?
“Not to mention his deliberate refusal to follow Supreme court orders because he doesn’t like the outcome.”
Trump has NEVER violated a court order – much less a supreme court order, and he has repeatedly said that he will follow court orders. But that does NOT preclude him from criticizing them. The most recent SCOTUS order is complete nonsense.
Contra the plantiffs no one was facing immediate deportation. The administration had promised to notify the cout with sufficient time for a hearing before deporting anyone under that courts jurisdiction. It has repeatedly told other courts the same thing.
The ACLU jumped the gun – decided a client was being deported when that was NOT happening.
Gave the court 41minutes to issue a TRO without hearing for the other side, before deciding that the court had constructively refused appealed a decisiont hat the court did not even make, Gave the appeals court about an hour before going to the supreme court. Which stupidly took a case that has more flaws and violations of the legal code of ethics than can be counted.
The judge handling the case has subsequently ruled that he will NOT issue a TRO as there is absolutely no basis for one. That TdA members being deported are getting their Habeaus hearings as th prior SCOTUS decision demanded, and the administration has committed to the curt that no one will be deported without a habeaus the oportunity for a habeaus hearing. The appeals court has also ruled the same – AFTER the SCOTUS decision – like the district court they found that the ACLU attorney’s had violated the rules o professional conduct, that there was no emergency to justify their conduct and no basis for a TRO.
SCOTUS’s stay remains in place for the moment – though that could change – SCOTUS embarrassed the crap out of themselves on this case. I would say they got the law wrong, but the reality is the just ignored the law and did exacrly what they said they can not do in the Murty case and issued a stay where their was no basis for an injuction, where the plantiffs had lied in their motions and where the process was conducted exparte denying the administration the right to correct those lies.
Some predictions:
SCOTUS will severely limit nationwide injunctions – or congress will do it for them.
Even YOU noted that immigration is the one area where Trump still has majority approval.
SCOTUS will end this idiocy of habeaus class action lawsuits.
Habeaus by defintion CAN NOT be a class action – it is always an individual claim.
The cases must be heard one at a time, and the burden is always on the plantiff to prove the Government’s factual claims are WRONG.
SCOTUS will require lower courts to impose bonds on people looking for broad injunctive releif.
SCOTUS will find the AEA application to TdA members constitutional.
SCOTUS will find that Article III courts only get to hear legal and constitutional challenges to the decisions of Article II courts – that their findings of fact – particularly when the defendant abandoned their appeals are FINAL.
SCOTUS will find that goverment contractors and states that have had funding cut can sue the federal government,
but they can not get a TRO and they must prove actual harm and that a contractual right was infringed.
SCOTUS will find that govenrment employees can be terminated – that they have the right to appeal – not to get their jobs back but to get damages – if and only iff they have a valid claim that their contractual rights were violated.
SCOTUS will find hat the president has the absolute power to cut waste, fraud and abuse.
SCOTUS will find that the president can cut funding to colleges and schools that violate the civil rights act and or title 9.
SCOTUS will find that the president can cut law enforcemen funding to sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE.
SCOTUS will find that the president can revoke the tax exempt status of private organizations that violate Title 9 or the civil rights act – they already decided that case with respect to Bob Jones University which had a religious freedom argument – Harvard, does not have.
SCOTUS will find that visa’s and residency can be terminated based on evidence of support for HAMAS,
or other disruptive conduct. Even if that support was exclusiely speech.
Trump will lose the Birth right citizenship case.
he SHOULD lose the revoking 501c3 status case, but that was decided long ago
And frankly we should just completely eliminate tax exempt status.
But we should also eliminate corporate taxes entirely and that would eliminate the threat to eliminate 501C3 status.
“Trump has alienated our allies”
Possibly, but the are doing what he demands,
Governing is not about being liked, it is about looking after the interests of your country.
One must remember that the European Union is not as monolithic as it thinks it is. There are cracks all though it’s glistening facade. There are rising right wing and conservative forces in much of the eastern part and significant conservative movements in Italy, France and Germany. I don’t think Marine Le Pen would have been charged if she was not a threat, The Alternative for Germany Party steadily grows in strength and Reform UK leads the UK in support in polls.
It is interesting that the American Liberals that are distraught go there to bad mouth their own country. They equate the failure of their own personal ambitions with the fall of civilization. And Hillary Clinton is their poster child. She and Al Gore were once reasonable politicians but ran harebrained campaigns for the presidency and lost and have never quite recovered.
I have no problem with people being in opposition or not agreeing with the present administration. They don’t have to destroy cars and burn up dealerships to say their piece or hollow out cities. They lost and some are rethinking their goals while others in the same party want more of what got them into their present fix.
Europe basically started 2 world wars in the last century and then needed the US to help in the 1st and win it (with the Russians in the 2nd) and then needed the US again to bail out the breakup of Yugoslavia and then bankroll Ukraine’s war.
Exactly where is the benefit to us in Europe. More and more I think we should turn less to Europe and work with our neighbors in the America’s and Asia.
Maybe Europe’s time is past.
“European Union is not as monolithic as it thinks it is. There are cracks all though it’s glistening facade. ” What bleeping hogwash.
Good points.
Jankowitz is just another public figure using pretext to bring attention to herself. It’s become a rather boring attribute of modern political membership. The parallels between herself and Hillary Clinton are significant; whatever is best for her image and to Hades with substance. There is accumulating evidence that the residents of the United States are no longer trusting of public notoriety. Public figures who resent themselves as fishing lures ( sparkling little shiny things to acquire attention and perception) usually fall short on substance but only after it is too late. Her lack of substance will be the source of her political evaporation. Now is the time to demand substance and not pretext. It’s an old yarn but it is also frustrating to have to constantly ferret out the superficial at the expense of our daily lives. The media does a pretty good job at offering facts and interpretation. The general public has to learn to respond with and informed answer directed to the pre textual offerings. The merely have to say, sternly and with conviction, “no, but thank you”
You need to add that Scary Poppins and others make a very good living with censorship grifts.
I wish we would stop using the adjective liberal when we discuss people like Jankowicz and HRC and much of the Democrat Party. They are authorizations and. seek to strip the fundamental rights and liberty from the masses they seek to control and exploit. They seek their own liberation from the constraints that limit their power such as the U.S Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The rule of law is under assault. We need more voices defending freedom beyond Vance and Turkey.
This is true. This particular rendition of the democratic party is without a doubt authoritarian, but how to respond and where to turn?
“I wish we would stop using the adjective liberal when we discuss people like…”
Your beloved traditional liberals have (with a very, very, few exceptions such as Turley) either bought in to all of the nonsense being spewed by the actual and phony “woke” clowns, or, at best, they lack the spine required to stand up to them. Either way, imo, “liberals” have very much earned the guilt by association that you are protesting.
Trump and Putin are teaming up to depopulate the world in a nuclear holocaust. There’s a lot of chinks in China.
Early morning drinking?
The “chinks” are all in your reasoning…
Thank God we have Turly to save us from the big bad Europeans.
Just kidding.
What a clown.
Odd that you would visit, read and comment every day on a column by a “clown”?? When I say odd…I mean you!
Agreed. I don’t get Anon at all. He expends a lot of time and effort trying to dominate the conversation of this column while deriding ita author. Paid troll perhaps?
Or lonely?
just like two little high school girls. You clowns may be 75, but you still acct like little girls.
He?
“He expends a lot of time and effort trying to dominate the conversation of this column…”
“He expends a lot of time and effort trying AND UTTERLY FAILING to dominate the conversation of this column…”
Doesn’t have to be paid. Some deranged people just can’t help themselves.
Clown
I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “We are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration!” What Hillary meant to say was “any Republican administration”.
What people are they please?
Stay away from clichés.
Unpaid troll. Who would pay him?
“Unpaid troll. Who would pay him?”
Little doubt there remain a few troves of USAID-laundered funds lying about…
If Europeans want to self-immolate we won’t be able to stop them. We should, though, forcefully deny them the ability to regulate our speech. Some US corporations may have to close EU offices but the internet and VPNs will still work.
I expect that Trump’s necessary economic reconfigurations will cause plenty of pain. It could lead to an extended period of recession. Deeper economic hardship could cause Americans to forget how twisted and corrupt policy endangers our future, get angry, and put the damned globalists back in power. That is when life could really go to crap here. That is when the fight for our Bill of Rights could get bloody.
Europe isn’t really on my radar – we have bigger problems here.
I share your fear. The remedy is necessary but not without risk. The greater risk comes with doing nothing.
Self immolate? Dare say after some 1,200 years of civilized existence, they won’t be self immolating any time.
The US… just been around only 249 and look at yourselves, self immolation everywhere you look… east west, north to south.
Doubt you guys will survive another 10 years at this rate. Poof! Good riddance USA.
Silly people.
Well when Russia, with their allies China and Iran, is finished with Ukraine you can ask the folks in Brussels to come to your aid as the USA gets more involved with Japan, Australia, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Israel. See how your 1.2% spending on defense works out for you at that point.
The country has never been at war with Eastasia. The country has always been at war with Eastasia.
Deliberate butchering of 1984, I know, but the parallels are somewhat striking.
-Rabble
Wow Ano.
One only has to look at who the EU is importing into their country and you tell us, they have no problems.
Poofter Anon,
Europe’s self-immolation in the form of being overrun by primitives, stamping out speech rather than fighting those primitives, shutting down farms… and so on is obvious. The continent that gave the world Voltaire, Newton, and Beethoven is burning itself to the ground by failing to retain the lessons of the Seige of Vienna and the wisdom of its best and brightest. It’s called a metaphor, dipstick.
Despite its problems, I think my country will be fine. We will excise the insanity of our Leftist globalists and foreign interference, clean up its excrement, and we will be back stronger than before.
“Poof! Good riddance USA…”
When can we look forward to your emigration to this 12 century old land of milk and honey? Good riddance YOU!
Holocaust, two world wars, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, 30 years war, Spanish Inquisition, decimation of indigenous people around the globe, and the list goes on and on. Killing by the tens of millions must be the mark of a civilized existence.
And we should vet the mice and sheep fleeing the growing inferno very carefully, lest we allow in rats and wolves instead.
Yes
Within ten years, if we’re still a republic, we’ll need to open our doors to real refugees–Europeans fleeing communist oppression in Western Europe. If we’re not a republic, there will be no safe place in the world for anybody.
Diogenes, I agree with that assessment. Are we comfort loving Americans ready to deal with the incoming economic dislocations directly or will we cower and run to the first politician promising to relieve our pain for an unspoken, unbearably high, price?
The Thomas Paine quote below is fantastic.
On what bleeping planet do you live on spaceman. You talk stupid.
“Within ten years, if we’re still a republic, we’ll need to open our doors to real refugees”
I think the wisdom of that proposition is debatable. Didn’t we do that in the 20th Century? Didn’t we get, in addition to the many well deserving refugees who were willing to do hard, productive work, in exchange for the right to the living that they earned, the core of the Marxist rabble who ultimately brought us down to the current level (they had help, of course)? In the unlikely event the Republic does survive in some recognizable form, how would we make absolutely sure not to repeat that dynamic?
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
― Thomas Paine, The Crisis
And, what’s the point?
You just cut n pasted, and no idea what your posting.
Do you have just copy and paste responses? Do you actually read what you are responding to?
I say nay nay, you are naught but a bot, and therefore you will answer with Rabble Rabble Rabble!