JD Vance

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Agreed. He is the student and Learning from the Master. He is doing well.

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Ohio? West Virginia? Louisiana? (Any southern state?)

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If Pete Hegseth’s Wednesday gut punch was not enough to rile up the European grifters, JD Vance jumped into the ring and did a body slam in a speech today at the opening of the Munich Security conference. It lasted approximately 20 minutes and was met with mostly stony silence. The Eurocrats were not a happy lot. Vance made the following key points:

Internal Threats: Vance argued that the primary threat to Europe comes “from within,” not from external actors like Russia or China.
Free Speech: He accused European governments of censoring free speech and retreating from fundamental democratic values.
Immigration: Vance described immigration as the most “urgent” challenge facing European nations2.
European Defense: He briefly mentioned that Europe must significantly enhance its own defense capabilities1.
Ukraine Conflict: Vance touched on the Ukraine war, expressing hope for a “reasonable settlement” following President Trump’s announcement about initiating peace talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Vance made a point of chiding European hypocrisy on the issue of free speech:

Unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners,” he added, before rattling off a list of examples aimed at illustrating his point: European Union officials’ threats to shut down social media “the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be ‘hateful’ content,” Germany’s raids on people posting misogynistic speech online, Sweden’s jailing of an activist who burned the Quran in public, and “safe access zones” around abortion clinics established in the United Kingdom.

For Europeans and others watching, Vance had a MAGA message: “In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town, and under [U.S. President] Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square,” he said, to scattered and hesitant applause—one of the few times he got any.

Vance was especially tough on the Europeans for meddling in Romania’s election, which left the crowd steaming:

Several times in his speech, Vance singled out Romania, which late last year annulled its elections due to alleged Russian interference uncovered by Romania’s security services and is scheduled to hold them again. “You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections—we certainly do—you can condemn it on the world stage, even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with,” he said.

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He's the padawan

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Wish he were President

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