Just how stupid Vance really is was demonstrated yesterday in the full glare of publicity: he addressed the Munich Security Conference, to tell all those Goddamned YURPEENS just how wonderful Himself and his world view were. He lectured them about FREEZE PEACH and MOXY, as if the USA had both, and YURP had neither. This went down like a cup of cold sick.
Which may have had something to do with there being no curbs on freedom of speech anywhere in western Europe, while the Trump gang are excluding those who do not toe their particular line from press briefings, and accompanying The Donald on Air Force One. Trump and his supporters have significant past form for harassing media folk of inconvenient view.
Also, as the Guardian pointed out, “Many in the hall were swift to say that Vance had still refused to accept that Trump lost the US presidential election in 2020, a refusal that ultimately resulted in a mob of the president’s supporters attacking the US Capitol”. Trump’s acceptance of MOXY is the kind where he wins. Vance is too scared, or stupid, to accept reality.
And get this claim: “For years we have been told everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values, everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defence of democracy, but when we see European courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others we ought to ask ourselves if we are holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard”. Whoops, flat-out lie time!
It also extended to believing he would secure more approval by cracking this year’s Lamest Joke Ever™. The BBC’s Frank Gardner noted “He made a joke at one point saying, ‘if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk’. And then he paused for the applause, to be met with absolute dead silence”.
False equivalence. Paranoia. More stupidity. Meanwhile, in the USA, supposed land of FREEZE PEACH and MOXY, judges are under attack for upholding the law, when that law goes against one of Trump’s executive orders (an executive order is not law, and the President cannot make law without the agreement of Congress). Instead, Vance kicks YURP.
But YURP enjoys freedom of speech, and of expression, rather more than the USA right now, with media outlets self-censoring to keep on the right side of the Trump gang. Vance is too stupid to see that comparing western European Governments to totalitarian states, while his own country is ruled over by an enfeebled man-baby and an unelected Nazi, is not a good look.
Good of him, though, to remind YURP that it needs to look after itself rather more, and depend on the Trump régime rather less. Vance could do worse than letting us all know what his country’s position on Ukraine really is. Because, right now, we don’t know. Except that Trump gives the impression he is about to sell the Ukrainians down the river.
Then he can learn a bit more about YURP. And stop being a moron.
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Vance visited Dachau in the company of a 97 year-old Holocaust and then met the leader of the fascist AfD.
Words fail me.
As several foreign policy experts have said, Vances speech ended with 'goodbye and good luck'. Which was the only meaningful part of it. Yes, the bulk of it will have gone down a storm with the Tory press, and right wing press across Europe, but the majority of European leaders, left, right or centre, were unimpressed.
Why? Not just because it was ill informed MAGA gibberish, but because its vacuous tone was quite deliberate. Vance was sent to deliver Trumps message - you're on your own. Perhaps, unintentionally, Trump for once has done something right. To face Putin, Europe must now look to itself. Something we haven't done since 1941. Whether the far right will put a stop to that, is now the biggest question.
The recent burblings from Pete Hegseth took the biscuit tho' false equivalence central......
The problem the US has always had is that no one in recent history has dropped a bomb on it and they believe this will always be the case. Do you think Vance knows Russia is only a few miles from the US?
The US has lots of war history and vets, but it is all 'over there'.
The closest they have had was 9/11.
Ah yes.....Dan "If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure" Quayle. As thick as pigshit.
The minor British equivalents are Dipshit Lammy and 30p Lee. Over in Europe there's, for instance, unelected Von Der Lyin' [sic] from a nazi family and Mad Meloni from a fascist family.
The Yanks aren't the only ones to produce poisonous morons and sociopaths. Britain has nothing to be complacent about, not with the most corrupt city in the world as its capital and a pm who doesn't even pay for his suits and glasses.
Quayle, Schmayle. At least the Yanks got rid of him pronto - but that was then, now they elect his equivalents, as Britain elects them.
And don't get me started on Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Stumblebum Ford, Carter, Senile Reagan, the Bush dynasty, Clinton, Obama, Senile2 Biden and now Trump. A roll of dishonour and criminality.
Eddie Izzard used to introduce himself to USAnian audiences by stating “I'm from Europe, where the history comes from”. I once saw a yahoo flying a Confederate flag on his pickup truck in Fairbanks, which was part of Russia when the Civil War ended.
Worry not, Tim. You're out of the firing line for the moment. But Britain isn't.
The "centrist not-at-all fascist" Stürmer wants to put British soldiers in harm's way in the Ukraine war. All, of course, to the delight of the nazi-supporting Rothermere Daily Heil. Nor, equally of course, would he send any of his own children into that sordid meat grinder. The utter, utter warmongering shithouse.
Meanwhile, Britain would last about 20 minutes in a nuclear exchange. While Stürmer cowers under a rock in Omaha.
im sure this snot nose arsewipe was in a couple of episodes of Star Trek the Next Generation
You can literally feel the spirit of Charles DeGaule saying "I told you so".
The French have been pushing for Europe to be independent of the US for decades, they now stand vindicated.
The UK' approach of being America's vassal, has proven to be a total disaster.
The UK is now, also thanks to the clusterfun that is Brexit, in a very humiliated position.
You can almost hear Charles DeGaule saying "I told you so." He warned about this scenario.
One suspects Trump will use the UK to undermine Europe, and our subservient politicians (whose pudded up nationalism and talk of sovereignty evaporates when it comes to America) will play the role of loyal vassals.
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