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Vance cozies up to Germany's far-right, scolds E.U. leaders for not engaging with extremists
Last edited Sat Feb 15, 2025, 08:48 PM - Edit history (1)
While Vance scolded European leaders for not engaging with “alternative viewpoints,” the Trump administration continues to undermine free expression at home.
https://bsky.app/profile/georgialee.bsky.social/post/3liaj72b76k2x
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jd-vance-germany-far-right-afd-europe-rcna192344
Vice President JD Vance has taken his tacit support for Germany’s far-right political party up another troubling notch. On Friday, he met with a leader of the extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Munich — but not before scolding European leaders for what he characterized as an intolerance for differing viewpoints....
Vance’s meeting with Weidel came one day after he chastised European leaders at the Munich Security Conference for shunning far-right parties in their countries, effectively keeping them from gaining too much power behind a political firewall. Vance singled out German leaders for refusing to engage with the AfD, and said that restrictions on free speech were a bigger threat to the continent than Russian or Chinese actions.
“To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or, God forbid, vote a different way — or even worse, win an election,” Vance said.”.....
Yet as Vance scolded European leaders for stifling free speech and not engaging with “alternative viewpoints,” the Trump administration has continued to rapidly institute changes across the federal government that critics say undermine free expression and punish those whose views it disagrees with.
Those moves include removing references to trans and nonbinary people across government agencies; eliminating federal diversity programs; threatening to deport students who protested Israel’s assault on Gaza; banning books in schools that serve military families; and directing the Federal Communications Commission to revive complaints against media outlets that don’t report on the president favorably.
Vance’s meeting with Weidel came one day after he chastised European leaders at the Munich Security Conference for shunning far-right parties in their countries, effectively keeping them from gaining too much power behind a political firewall. Vance singled out German leaders for refusing to engage with the AfD, and said that restrictions on free speech were a bigger threat to the continent than Russian or Chinese actions.
“To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or, God forbid, vote a different way — or even worse, win an election,” Vance said.”.....
Yet as Vance scolded European leaders for stifling free speech and not engaging with “alternative viewpoints,” the Trump administration has continued to rapidly institute changes across the federal government that critics say undermine free expression and punish those whose views it disagrees with.
Those moves include removing references to trans and nonbinary people across government agencies; eliminating federal diversity programs; threatening to deport students who protested Israel’s assault on Gaza; banning books in schools that serve military families; and directing the Federal Communications Commission to revive complaints against media outlets that don’t report on the president favorably.
Both Vance and Musk want Nazis to be in control of the German government. This is sick
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