by Jim Hoft
Vice President J.D. Vance delivered his first major speech in Europe on Friday speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
During his speech VP Vance did not hold back – just like his boss!
J.D. Vance, the former attorney, US Senator, and Marine Corps veteran from Ohio, blasted the EU elites who threaten Elon Musk and insist on ridding the continent of free speech.
J.D. Vance did not hold back reminding the Europeans about their nauseating record of lecturing Americans with bratty children like anti-Semite Greta Thunberg.
Vice President J.D. Vance: More and more all over Europe, they’re voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration. Now, I happen to agree with a lot of these concerns, but you don’t have to agree with me. I just think that people care about their homes, they care about their dreams, they care about their safety and their capacity to provide for themselves and their children, and they’re smart.
I think this is one of the most important things I’ve learned in my brief time in politics, contrary to what you You might hear a couple of mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don’t generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy. It’s hardly surprising that they don’t want to be shuffled about or relentlessly ignored by their leaders. It is the business of democracy to adjudicate these big questions at the ballot box.
I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns, or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections, or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy. Speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference.
Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential.
Trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. But what no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their please for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t.
Vice President J.D. Vance is going to steal our hearts if he doesn’t watch it!
Bravo!
Both Vance and Hegseth have been hitting it out of the park over in Europe this week. Better than Vance’s words were the stony looks on EU faces at MSC while he said them. And Vance then met with Weidel, the AfD leader Musk spoke about that upset EU.
Next up today is a Vance/Rubio/Zelenskyy meeting on ending the war in Ukraine. Hegseth already outlined in Brussels yesterday 3 ‘unlikely to happen’ parameters: NATO, return to pre 2014 borders (Crimea off the table), US troops. Likely a framework 47 already discussed with Putin. Possible end deal shape: Putin gets back Russian Kursk, Zelenskyy gets back all non-Russian speaking Donbas and rest of Ukraine, EU provides security guaranteeing troops in some buffer zone.
Lots of things moving at Trump speed now.
I especially hope the EU takes on the buffer troops role, and Trump makes it clear it’s their border problem, not ours.
I am all for peace in Ukraine, but remember, there is no war there, only a Special Military Operation. Putin does not even dare to call it war, if you do, he will jail you.
In this situation, saving on support for Ukraine is as wise as Karen Bass’s saving $17M on firefighting budget for LA.
Do you support all efforts by the CIA and USAID to bring about regime change around the world, or are you only for ousting Putin by any means necessary!?
Do you reject USAID food and medicine for the poorest people in the world?
Impoverished People in North Caroline and Florida were told by FEMA to suck it up, while USAID was paying 100% of the cost of UKRAINE media that spouted the government line of lies, as found by Musk, all very much to the inconvenience of Damnocrats
US VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE SPEECH IN MUNICH, FEBRUARY 14, 2025; FULL TEXT
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/us-vice-president-jd-vance-speech-in-munich-february-14-2025
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NYTimes Headline with the usual misrepresentation, February 15, 2025
“Vance Implores Europe to Accept Extreme Parties”
“Casts Shunned Groups as Legitimate Vessels of Voter Resentment”
Vance’s speech is mainly about Free Speech, Censorship and Mass Migration in Europe
It is indeed amusing how the political wheel turns. It was not long ago that the Democrats detested USAID and were highly critical of it. Then they discovered how to get it to export their own distorted views and they learnt how to direct funding to enrich themselves.
Yes. USAID is a fraud. DOGE revealed the fraud, waste and abuse. Just how much of their budget went to feeding the poor and distributing medicine? Who knows? I can only imagine the waste over the years that has been spent. Where is the return on investment for the American taxpayer? Shut it down. People like Samantha Powers don’t give a damn about feeding the poor or distributing medicine. If she did there would not be the fraud, waste and abuse. Her and others who have held this post did little if anything to channel taxpayer funds into productive endeavors. The same goes for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. All the same, just a different side of the coin.
I wanted to say “no you effin moron!” But that might be construed as abuse.
Name one such program that has been cut since the USAID portfolio was tucked back under the State Department.
Time for a true audit which is i think happening. USAID is halted f the moment. Food and medicine is not on the table. We will watch the reports coming in who exactly gets what. It will be…revealing.
It is the age old: who profits?
And the law of unintended consequences. Study the case of Live Aid in the mid 1980s. The context and what actually happened. The result is, all considered, zero or close to. Money in the pockets of regimes and arms dealers. Government officials and NGOs in the middle. This is NOT a happy ending..
As usual you read only the headlines and not what really was fixed.
Opposing Putin invading his neighbors is now the same as trying to oust him?
Why did he ‘invade’ his ‘neighbor’?
If it had been all-out war, it would have ended long ago, or escalated beyond the region. It has been a limited military operation. It need not have been even that had not the West broken promises and treaties and orchestrated the entire episode.
Support for Ukraine should never have included interference by supplying weapons or the CIA-sponsored coup that unseated a democratically elected government to place a US puppet in its place.
For all his faults, the blame does not lie in Putin’s lap.
Putin isn’t responsible for 3 times sending Russian troops into the Ukraine in order to capture Ukrainian assets that Putin desired?
Have you peeked under the headline of any article about Ukraine in the last 20 years, or just getting your ‘news’ by reading Ricky Greene posts?
More than peeked. Have you looked beyond the propaganda from whatever you call “sources”?
Hate to break it to you, but the history of the region extends rather farther back than 20 years. However, if you would like to limit the discussion to more recent events we could discuss the disregarded Minsk Accords, the promises of not expanding NATO, or the eight-year artillery bombardment and other harassment of Russian-speaking citizens of the Donbas region. Suffice it to say, that the situation is somewhat more complex than your one-liner indicates any understanding of.
I also invite you to consider that the same gang who is selling the “Russia is Evil Incarnate” campaign is also shoveling the Climate crisis manure. I suggest at least as much scrutiny be applied.
I think you misunderstood my comment back to MarkW post. Having been in the foreign service and having taught int’l relations at university, yeah, I think i have a decent grasp of the situation.
But to be clear, Russia did t start the genocide, the west did. Your response as Mark Whitney agrees with my view; the MarkW post is lost in the CNN Sea of Ignorance.
Do elaborate. If that is the limit of your argument I am pretty sure that Putin sending troops into disputed territories in his backyard is more reasonable than, say, the US sending them into almost every nook and cranny on the planet at one time or another.
I think Trump is making it clear that Europe needs to increase its defense posture (spend more money), so that the U.S. can count on Europe being able to take care of itself in most situations, which will allow the United States to concentrate its main military defense efforts on deterring China.
Trump wants a strong, Democratic Europe.
Indeed. That, and to scrape the EU off our shoes. They have long been vassals to the DC elite to their detriment, and the detriment of the American people. In addition, they have swallowed the Kool-Aid of climate suicide and only hamper our own efforts to administer the antidote. Left to their own devices their priorities might improve, as might ours.
Incumbent EU leaders are hellbent on reintroducing the feudal system with themselves lording over the peasants.
My question is who is going to pay for rebuilding Ukraine? Kiev was a beautiful city west of the Dnepr River. I know I walked a lot around the city. I also visited the other major cities along the river and also visited further west in farm country.
Putin is a thug, He was photographed by Bild in east Berlin with some Stasi during the east west Berlin problem when the Soviets were harassing the west Berlin airlifts.
I met many nice people on my several trips to Ukraine many of whom had their lives destroyed.
I also met many nice people in Russia on my trips there.
I had a conservation with my ex today and she agrees finally that the war was a complete waste with approximately 700K Russians killed or wounded. Putin did however have a great PR campaign going convincing the Russian people that the war was justified by what was happening in Donbas region. That could have been negotiated instead Putin years ago expressed his desired to see the Soviet Union reformed.
Russia already had a base in Crimea with no need to take it. Afterwards I had an email conversation with a female cardiologist who said the Russians came in and completely took over medicine and shunted Ukraine meds aside. (If you don’t know you wouldn’t necessarily want to be treated by either).
Anyway I think Russia should be made to pay for the destruction they caused by money to rebuild.
“Made to pay”? By whom? War sucks. Trying to make it fair is a lost cause.
For starters, they could lose all their money invested in the West.
Who pays for reconstruction is a very complicated question. It probably should be delinked from simply ending the war.
There are several partial possibilities. Impounded Russian western assets. Private investment on ordinary commercial terms. US investment in return for critical minerals (the REO gambit already on the table). IMO 47 will delegate all that to a bunch of others. He only promised to end the war. Promises made, promises kept is a mantra.
Russia will not let who pays be de-linked from peace negotiations. Also Trump had acknowledged the rational Putin has consistently given for the military operation.
Far from being a rationale, the casus belli was one that any nation would rightly invoke. The blame is widespread among the Western nations and the Borderland itself, but mostly on the elite now being routed from the DC swamp.
A nation getting ready to defend itself is a casus belli?
As to not wanting NATO on its border, there are already 7 NATO nations on Russia’s border. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway, Finland and Turkey.
Yes. Would you be as sanguine about a cluster of belligerents crowding our borders, with an avowed foe supporting and supplying them? I think not.
What cluster of belligerents? NATO is a purely defensive alliance. Only an aggressor is afraid of a defensive alliance.
NATO is wholly unfit for purpose in 2025. And it certainly isn’t appropriate to assess them as ‘defensive’ and all militarization flowing from this is harmless. C’mon…
All evidence to the contrary. I suggest even a cursory study of the actual events involved. Expansion is aggression as is violation of agreement. See Minsk Accord, for example. NATO is anything but a passive defense body.
This is the CIA war. Have Biden pay.
‘Putin is a thug, He was photographed by Bild in east Berlin with some Stasi during the east west Berlin problem when the Soviets were harassing the west Berlin airlifts.’
Do tell. A quick search shows that the Berlin Airlift ran from June 1948 to May 1949. Since Putin was born in 1952, it would have been difficult for him to have been hanging around with the Stasi at that time.
As far as who should pay for the rebuilding of Ukraine, I would suggest that Biden and his equally corrupt puppet masters in the deep state bear full responsibility.
Not full, as Ukraine choose to be a puppet, and chose to allow all the GOF research, and chose to Kick the Bear for the west.
The Damnocrats call Trump a thug
The Damnocrats do not like realists, because they upset their playbooks
Wait, I’m confused. Isn’t Ukraine in a unique position of economic opportunity?
Think of all the jobs that have been created by destroying so many buildings! All those broken windows must surely create massive amounts of economic activity.
Other less fortunate countries can only generate jobs by erecting bird shredders.
Will Ukraine pay for the 11,000 Russian speaking Ukrainians they killed during the 2014 through 2022 genocide?
upvoted
Richard scored one there.
The corrupt Ukraine government chose to fight in March 2022, instead of taking the very generous peace agreement.negotiated in Turkey
The rest is history,
The US and Europe lost at great cost
Russia has gained,, and is still gaining, at great cost
Europe pays for the repair of left-over Ukraine
Russia pays for the repair of the territories it gained
All sanctions are lifted, a modus of live and let live returns
I would call that reasonable. The US taxpayer (and debtor) has paid enough, however, all those in this nation who orchestrated the affair should be held to account. I won’t hold my breath.
You mean the US and UK orchestrators?
They too but the UK leadership does not answer to me.
The US leadership does?
or you just mean, theoretically accountable’?
This all very well when it’s happening to someone else’s country. I suspect you would be singing a different tune if it was happening to yours.
Ukraine leadership VOLUNTARILY decided to keep on fighting
They “did it” to their own country and many died and were seriously wounded, and many were enriched beyond their wildest dreams.
Rebuild the country?
Start with the $multi billion clawback from the self enriched!!
As much as I appreciate that you and your “ex” were able to have cordial discussions today, what does that have to do with the point? What does it have to do with a war instigated by NATO? It has been something just shy of a western-sponsored genocide of Ukes. It is sickening. But responsibility rests 100% on the west side of the Dneiper.
Ukraine will never get Crimea and the other four provinces, where the people voted over 90% to be part of Russia again, as they were for 400 years.
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Ukraine is accused of point-blank killing half the people in some villages in Kursk, i.e., genocide.
Such vengeful genocides would reoccur, if the five Russian areas were handed back to Ukraine AZOV ultra-nationalists
Crimeans wanted to be part of Rissis (90%)
But in Donbas 2/3 wanted ti remain part of Ukraine and 1/3 wanted to be an independent nation because Kiev was corrupt.
Your 90% claim for Donbas is total BS.
It is based on the results of elections supervised by independent observers from outside Europe. They saw no material irregularities.
Europeans were invited by Russia to observe, but did not “want to come”, as part of the isolation strategy, which has finally collapsed after senile Biden departed.
Can you imagine world salad Harris WRITING a speech like Vance’s?
The Europeans were finally told to f. off.
No more playing the US for a sucker; because there is nothing left to suck.
There will be reciprocal tariffs that mirror what Europe, etc., has, which means Europe cannot compete, because we have much lower energy prices using our own fossil fuels, of which the CO2 will grow more flora and fauna and crops to feed hungry people. What is not to like?
There were no elections or votes for independence i Donbas before 2022 that showed 90% wanted to be part of Russia. You are still confused or lying. You are making up history.
Polls up to 2022 showed very few residents of Donbas wanted to be part of Russia. Once Russia invaded, it became dangerous to say that, so people did not. Also, 1 to 1.5 million Donbas residents fled to Russia after the war started to save their lives. Not because they loved Russia.
Ah, but you forgot the timeframe. Even Putin was willing to let the Donbas Ukrainian if it retained a form of independence and security f russian speaking people there against the ultra nationalists. All that was ignored and the west pushed the propagandist lie that Putin wanted Ukraine by any means so any negotiations were merely exercises in stalling…by the West!! And several important people have stated exactly that plus you can directly go back to statements from Obama onwards about regime change in Russia.
After Putin started his operation in Ukraine after continued aggression by the Ultras egged on by the West the people from the Donbas voted massively for full independance which the West then said was a fraud as they didnt like the result. We see the same thing playing out in Georgia and Rumenia. It’s the Playbook..
“Trump speed” That’s good!
Long may it last, what a refreshing change.
Rud, this might be be the right settlement. But I don’t think its at all likely as a durable one. Its a mistake about Putin and Russia to think it is. Putin will never settle for it. Or if he does, it will be only temporary, where that means a couple of years to rearm and rebuild, and then take the next bite. As for the EU guaranteeing anything with troops? The EU has effectively disarmed, it cannot guarantee anything.
You have to bear in mind that Russia is governed by the direct descendants of a genocidal authoritarian regime, Its not a normal country, as the proposal assumes. Have you read Conquest? To get a valid picture of it you have to imagine that some kind of temporary peace had been agreed in Europe in 1942 or ’43, the regime remained in power, the camps had continued into the late fifties and after some political turbulence we are now negotiating with a revived Greater Germany headed by the former head of the SS or SD who has made no secret of his adherence to Germany’s mission to take control of all of Europe.
It may be that with Europe in its present shape its unstoppable, but don’t kid yourself, there are only two choices at the moment, one is to help Ukraine fight it to a standstill. The other is that Ukraine gets swallowed, and Poland and the Baltics are next. And after that?
There is some point in this process where it starts to affect quite vital American interests. The question is, how far you are prepared to let it go, and what you are prepared to do to stop it at that point. The Channel?
And how much will it cost, then, to put a stop to it? If its even possible at all.
Such horse manure
It is quite stunning to witness the lie of Putin wanting to invade Europe. By any parameter considered, this idea is so stupid only educated ‘intellectuals’ could come up w that.
The really odd thing is that this once disgarded domino hypothesis is taken out of the closet, dusted off and used again by politicians as if it was real and people actually feel the need to believe that. It is idiotic, mindblowingly stupid, unhistorical. It makes no sense.
Russia has neither the means nor the desire to invade as you suggest. They can hardly wish to try to hold the west of Ukraine, much less the other nations you offer.
The best move would be to dismantle NATO and let Europe find its own boundaries, many of which were disputed long before the Soviet Union existed or controlled them. The US has no place in that determination.
I don’t think there is any strong reason to think Putin wants to take over Germany or France. It would be rather a mouthful. But where do you get your confidence about the Baltics and the members of the former Soviet Union in Eastern Europe?
Its a matter of historical record that Russia, under different regimes and over the years, has attempted to take over Poland. Ever heard of the Partitions? In other news remember the Hugarian uprising? Remember Prague Spring?
Russian imperialism, whether Soviet or Tsarist or the current variety is a reality, both to the east and to the west, and its not clear where it stops.
The thing you have to remember when thinking about this is that Russia is a country which a generation or two ago embarked on a systematic program of mass murder lasting several decades. They really did kill somewhere between 10 and 20 million of their own people in a sort of frenzy comparable to the Holocaust or to Rwanda. The gulags and show trials and purges really did happen. Unlike Germany they have never made any effort to admit and account for that, and there is a basic continuity of regimes. This is not to be regarded as just another normal country.
This is all well documented by excellent historians. Its a Chamberlain-like fantasy to think these are people you can do business with. What you can do is set limits and deter. It used to be called containment.
As for your idea about dismantling NATO, that is rather a giveaway. Europe has found its own boundaries. The issue with Russia is that its the only one that doesn’t accept them, and it has shown itself prepared to invest huge resources and take huge casualties in the effort to start a reconquest of the former Soviet territories. For no rational reason.
The only empire I have seen that consistently seeks to encompass territories beyond its own scope is the one centered in Washington, DC.
The various entities across Europe have long and variously attempted to encroach upon each other, and the disputes involved have likewise varied and evolved to such a degree that it seems beyond any reasonable attempt to sort them out. It is certainly not within the proper concern or ability of the US to do so.
As for the current authority in Russia, I do not see any degree of aggression that compares to the ones of the past. Putin has expressed no desire to invade Poland, though he has suggested that parts of Ukraine and perhaps the disputed part of Germany might be rightly ceded to that nation. Nor does he want to reestablish the Soviet Union or expand to its former bounds. That is a fallacy. He is well aware of the difficulties such an arrangement would entail. The presence and expansion of NATO is the destabilizing element in the region and no doubt that is the intent.
What constitutes the greatest threat from modern Russia has always been an economic union with China. Indeed, it is safe to say at this point that the real threat from any power in the Eastern Hemisphere is solely economic. Russia’s military activity has been in the interest of securing its own borders and protecting Its hereditary population. To that end, it is indeed prepared to invest blood and capital. It need not invade any part of Europe. It simply needs to establish a consistent economic presence and develop a relatively stable competitive currency. That alone would devastate the global hegemony of the increasingly debased US dollar. The warrior boogeyman advertised about Putin is largely a marketing ploy to prop up that failing currency and the military and financial establishment that depends upon it.
Russia is prepared to invest its vast resources to challenge that economic hegemony. The US and its vassal European nations continue to squander their resources and the blood of others to maintain a crumbling status quo.
In January and February 2022 Putin has expressed no desire to invade Ukraine.
Got it?!?
No, I don’t think you do. Far from it.
It is rare for me to disagree with you Michel, but I must.
Trump is going to end the ongoing World War IV aka Cold War II by expanding the scope far beyond Ukraine to include arms reduction agreements with China and reintegration of Russia into G7.
What we have managed to achieve in Ukraine under the puppet regime of Dementia Joe has been the depletion of the West’s armory and treasury, driving Russia into an alliance with China, putting us at grave threat of Chinese aggression.
The Donbas region of Ukraine is predominantly Russian-speaking,and Russia is not giving it back
Hegseth the US Defense Secretary said a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders was unrealistic. He said that BEFORE the negotiations began. Only a big dummy would have done that
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Vance said the option of sending US troops to Ukraine was “on the table,”
Vance and Hegseth are Dumb and Dumber
Here is an article about Vance’s typical half truths and BS:
Vance uses half-truths to lecture a European audience well aware of the threat of authoritarian rule | CNN
Wow, that article was full of misinformation….
It’s CNN, that’s what they do best.
Let’s not feed the troll. Regrettably he got me to take the bait already once.
That article is complete nonsense, so ist your answer.
It’s completey correct to say, the US values and EU/Germany values aren’t compatible anymore concernig democraty and free speech f.e.
What these Germans were answering later was hilarious and expectable, a kicked dog is barking 😀
Vance hits te mark, he was dead-on. 😀
No wonder you get so many down votes,
According to Vance, the WSJ article was full of lies and miss quotes. Couldn’t expect any thing else from the mockingbird media.
Bluster is part of negotiation. So is stating the obvious. They are not dumb at all. Calling names is rather childish, though.
“Better than Vance’s words were the stony looks on EU faces at MSC while he said them.”
There weren’t many people smiling in the audience. 🙂
The truth hurts sometimes.
We are going to get a lot of truth out of the Trump administration.
I was impressed with Vice President Vance. I think his head is in the right place, right there with Trump. That’s a very good thing.
Vance ‘28!
and ‘32!
Trump/Vance is my idea of CLIMATE CHANGE
Sit back and enjoy the show
‘Security guaranteeing EU troops’? That will/ might only happen under a UN mandate. Putin will stall and talk but move on double speed militairily, until he reaches russian objectives.
Good for Vance.
“Vice President J.D. Vance is going to steal our hearts if he doesn’t watch it!Bravo!”
It’s him or Leavitt to take over from Trump in 2028.
Karoline Claire Leavitt : She won’t be old enough.
How dare he?
I watched his whole speech today. J.D. Vance is a KEEPER.
Besides the topic of his speech being spot on, just his ability as an orator is amazing. I trust he might have ‘practiced’ it but he did the whole 15 odd minutes without a teleprompter or at least I didn’t see him look at one. Contrast that to ANY current Democrat leader and most Republican ones. Chuck Schumer is probably wondering where the beer and avocado were…
Its speeches like this and similar where you can tell he’s not only supremely intelligent but what he really believes because it comes natural, none of it seems forced.
He’s clearly a conservative family man whose been deeply scarred by his mother’s addiction and family situation while growing up. But as an atheist libertarian I’m not at all threatened by him. It’s refreshing to see a politician say “I’m 100% pro-life but know the citizens don’t see it the same so I’m willing to support a law allowing limited abortion” (Paraphrase). This is as opposed to Nancy Pelosi who will proudly try to proclaim being Catholic (not just ‘Christian’) but also claim that there is a ‘fundamental right to abortion’. The latter is entirely inconsistent with Catholicism. If Pelosi actually claimed she’s Catholic and pro-life but as a representative of her constituency she believes the law should allow for ‘limited abortion’ (not a ‘right’) than at least she wouldn’t be a hypocrite…she’d also be booted out of the Democrat party it would make her head spin.
He really is a pretty impressive package.
Big future for him.
He came from a totally dysfunctional red neck family
His grandmother instilled in him the will to make a difference, because only she saw his worth
Read the book he wrote and watch the movie
He had a teleprompter to make sure the audience got the intended message with nothing omitted
If he did ‘ok’, but I certainly didn’t see him look down or ‘at’ anything resembling a teleprompter…loses something if he was….
With luck the Western World will have the benefit of four years of Trump business sense and sound economic policies followed by eight years of Vance common sense and sound security policies.
The left wing liberal Woke world championed by the WEF needs to be completely and utterly destroyed,
Net Zero must be consigned to the garbage can where it belongs along with all the so called green energy subsidies that are destroying energy security for no benefit to mankind of the Planet.
I think Musk (and probably Trump) are getting ready to get involved in UK politics. Musk is a supporter of Reform and said he was going to donate $100 million to their cause.
Vance met with “far” right opposition in Germany.
I think the conservative Trump administration is going to be promoting conservative causes all across Europe. You know: Free Speech, Free Elections, Free Enterprise. Personal freedom.
It’s going to be fun watching the democrats decide who to run against VP Vance when Republicans nominate him for President of the United States of America in a few years.
Maybe Kamala can go down again.
She will do another Ode to Joy, with massive hiring of celebrities.
I will be LMAO as Vance cruises to the White House with a landslide.
ROFL! I thought Scissor was European, but you’d have to be American to know her reputation.
What’s Willie Brown got to do with this?
She’s been saying that she would be interested in another shot at the White House.
And it hasn’t even been a month 🙂
It appears 47 has studied ‘The Art of War’ by Sun Tzu. To paraphrase, “let your plans be as dark as night, but when you strike, let it be a thunderbolt.” It was a dark four years, and now we have multiple thunderbolts.
And the Damnocrats are REELING
It really is about walking cycling or catching the bus-
EV breaks produce emissions that are more toxic than diesel exhausts
Not just the brakes, but the entire bus as it catches fire on a cold winter day.
The stupidity of it all is off-the-charts
As an interested observer, it seems like events happening in Europe are heading for a rerun of the “Rendezvous With Destiny” saga with the alternate US strategy in play.
He is broadly correct but until a month ago the USA was a worse culprit than Europe.
It is amazing the US made the U turn to reality, and how ossified Europe did not,, even during Vance’s speech.
Europe cannot admit the US made the right call
The US needs to hit Europe over the head some more until it finally sees the light
Nah–US needs to pull the plug on the EU and let them figure their own way out of the darkness
I mean it was a pretty low bar, but Vance is making the previous VP look like a total idiot.
Or more correctly, exposing her as the idiot she is actually is.
Harris was an idiot well before Vance came on the scene
Trump picked Vance, his best selection after Musk.
Vance convincingly outed Harris as an idiot, multiple times, during the campaign
Musk has no Congressional oversight, a HUGE conflict of interest and is breaking laws by invading federal databases. He should be arrested. His anonymous people are young and have no right to view or change confidential information. Read Only was a lie. Republicans would never celebrate a Democrat doing this.
Republicans are hypocrites.
Musk is a loose cannon professional BS artist who should be arrested.
He makes quick fraud conclusions that are false or greatly exaggerated and presents almost no evidence of fraud.to support his conclusions. The $8.2 million from USAID to Politico was mainly BS, It was not fraud at all, nor was it for what Musk claimed it was for
The Musk comparison with Thunberg, who has never had any real political power, is ridiculous. The usual Morano hyperbole. He is a low quality hack writer, and Trump cheerleader, best known for hyperbolic EXAGGERATED COMMENTS ON FOX NEWS
Trump continues to ignore Congress and courts: Constitutional limits on executive powers, with his unprecedented power grab. This precedent is far more important to our freedom and the future of the United States than money wasted on Net Zero!
RG: “Musk has no Congressional oversight, a HUGE conflict of interest and is breaking laws by invading federal databases. He should be arrested.”
TDS/MDS
RG: “Republicans would never celebrate a Democrat doing this.”
Well, it would never happen. Why would Democrats cut their own pork? On the outside chance that a Democrat would do what Musk is doing, Republicans would support the effort. Maybe you have RDS, too.
RG: “Trump continues to ignore Congress and courts: Constitutional limits on executive powers, with his unprecedented power grab.”
Completely untrue. Now, you are just making things up. Trump has the authority to do just what he is doing. The High Court will uphold his authority to direct all members of the Executive Branch. Most of this wasteful spending was not specifically authorized by Congress, but was authorized by Executive Branch bureaucrats. Whatever an Executive Branch bureaucrat can authorize, the head of the Executive Branch, President Trump, can reverse, and Congress is not involved. So no violation of the Separation of Powers.
You have no idea what you are talkig about
All spending is authorized by Congress and all taxes are too.
Trump is enacting or planning to enact huge taxes called tariffs.
Please tell us what Trump has done that was approved by Congress other than approving his nominees, There is nothing. He is acting like a dictator and you LOVE that.
Democrats would cut whatever they wanted cut, such as defense spending, when they regain power, if Trump sets this dictator-like precedent of cutting whatever he doesn’t like with no Congressional approval.
Trump attacks USAID which is less than 0.5% of total federal spending
Democrats in power would attack the defense spending, which is 13.3%
“Trump attacks USAID which is less than 0.5% of total federal spending”
In 2024 the USAID budget represented around 1% of the total federal budget.
1% of $6.75 trillion = $67.5 billion
“You have no idea what you are talkig about
All spending is authorized by Congress and all taxes are too.”
Yes, but Congress authorizes money for different generl programs, like giving out International Aid, but does not say how the money should be spent because,many times, they don’t know what is going to be needed in the future, so they leave these decisions to the bureaucrats. The Executive Branch agency bureaucrats are the ones who decide whether to fund a particular program, after Congress has allocated them a lump sum to distribute, without specific instructions from Congress.
If an Executive Branch bureaucrat has the authority to allocate funds, that means he can give out the funds to a particular project, or he can refuse to fund that project, or he can fund it, and then later on, defund it, because he is the overseer of the spending.
Anything an Executive Branch bureaucrat can do, the president can also do, since he controls all Executive Branch bureaucrats.
If Congress authorizes a specific spending program, specific enough to bypass the bureaucrats decisionmaking, then President Trump cannot stop that program or its funding on his own. That would be up to Congress to decide.
Trump has not tried to defund any specific program Congress authorized, he is just reversing some of the bureaucrats decisions that took place as part of that law.
I’ll bet that convinced RG! I better not bet.
Trump is as clean as the driven snow.
Oh, Tom!
Many Damnocrats purposely leave it VAGUE, so that shenanigans can be played for many years.
Also, the money is doled out to get Damnocrat votes, a giant log-rolling scam costing the US taxpayer at least ONE TRILLION EACH YEAR
Musk and Trump knew there was a lot of shit, but, unbeknownst, they hit the jackpot.
The Danmocrats are buried in it, and see no way out as more shit is coming.
You’re exactly correct, Tom.
Coming back to Vance at MSC..
What he finally was asking is, that you have the right to spread your BS as you mostly do and have not to fear to be cancelled, in contrast, you even get answers, it’s discussed openly, OK, some answers are aggressive, but that’s result of your offending style to comment.
Not true. Many, if not most, programs do not have line items approved by Congress. Congress has left it up to the Executive branch to determine how and where money will be spent.
Musk works for Trump in the White House. As such, he is part of the Executive branch. You mistakenly give Musk the power to do what is being accomplished. That is not true, everything is approved by the President, making it very legal.
Congress has delegated so much authority to the Executive branch over the last 50 years it isn’t funny. Both parties have eaten at the trough of uncontrolled spending. We finally have a President who says, “No longer! If you gave me the power to make regulations and decide how much money programs receive, then live with it.”
Congress has delegated so much authority to the Executive branch
Good point. They never imagined it would be used like this, but they’re paying the consequences of their actions.
And that’s literally true in many cases – how many of them have been there for the last 40 years and are responsible for it?
If the only result of Trump’s second term is that Congress takes back the authority it has granted executive agencies to write laws and control their own budgets, I will consider that a great success.
Maybe there’s a thin spot in the padding in his room ?
😉
The Damnocrats see their federal fiefdom threatened. They are nothing without it.
Trump merely wants to run the government departments more efficiently, to reduce the deficit and get more bang for the buck
He and Musk and many Damnocrats had no idea THERE WAS THAT MUCH FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE
A godsend for Trump
A disaster for Damnocrats
It’s helpful that the troll lets his mask slip from time to time. Let’s all ignore him. He’s a loser. Sad so sad.
So, i take it you are not a big fan of FDR then?
From the article: “Spanks EU Elites”
That’s a great description! 🙂
I have a feeling that the Trump administration is going to deliberately shake up the EU just like it is shaking up the American Democrats. I think Trump sees real problems in Europe and Vice President Vance voiced those concerns, and no doubt, Trump will emphasize those concerns when he comes to Europe, too.
Get ready for a Trump rollercoaster ride in Europe.
Those same European elites, part of the Golden Horde, have been spanking the US on trade since the Kennedy Round, and greatly enriched themselves in the process.
The only way out is to fight tariff with tariff, tax with tax, subsidy with subsidy, until they croak.
The Norwegian farmers are subsidized to their armpits “to preserve the Norwegian way of life”.
The US should not buy any Norwegian farm products
Other than cheese, I am struggling to think of any Norwegian farm products sold in the US.
Jarsberg cheese, jetost, King Olav Sardines, Crispy bread, Crackers, all very good but expensive, the list is very long
A brilliant speech and a good joke that fell on deaf ears. In particular the Germans lived up to the caricature that they have no sense of humour. The German defence minister (!) was particularly livid about having been told the truth, so much so that he banged the table to applause of the other dumbfeks present. Prussian authoritarianism appears to be alive and well. But not for for long one may hope.
At least 12 years of Republican governance is looking to be more of a possibility every day.
Republicans are looking good. Democrats are looking bad.
Dont confuse German w Prussian. Check yr history..
For several years I ran division that handled several government contracts. Yes, Congress approved the hundreds of billions of dollars that was eventually paid to our firm and others, but their approval was pretty much the end of their involvement unless somebody tripped a wire and had to explain things to a committee. But as far as actually paying the money, or deciding not to, well that was 100% executive branch decisions made entirely by unelected agency staff working under the direction of an unelected agency heade who may or may not have been approved by the senate., So also were the many audits, all by unelected government contractors acting under the direction of unelected agency types.
Spot on!
And now is the first time an independent audit will take place. It will be revealing and hard to ignore…
It reminds me of the rating agency scandal after the 2008 financial crisis..