Comments by "TaichiStraightlife" (@TaichiStraightlife) on "JD Vance stuns Munich conference with critique on European democracy | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take" video.

  1. JD Vance is never correct, because he always lies. He has no standing to talk about Free Speech because Free Speech is penalized the very same day in the White House, where the AP (Associate Press) was penalized for not using "Gulf of America", trump's bizarre and abrupt re-invention of the Gulf of Mexico. Instead continuing to use the common name that has stood the test of time for 400 years, From the Washington Post: "According to a letter from AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Julie Pace, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday warned of access restrictions if the wire service “did not immediately align its editorial standards” with the gulf-name mandate. The AP held firm, and the White House then blocked a reporter from an Oval Office event and later blocked another reporter from an event in the Diplomatic Room, according to the letter. The blocking of AP access continued throughout the week, including events at the White House on Thursday and a presidential trip on Friday. A White House official on Friday tweeted that the wire service’s “privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One,” would go to “the many thousands of reporters who have been barred from covering these intimate areas of the administration.” The AP has been a member of the 13-person presidential press pool for more than a century. How outraged is the White House press corps regarding this naked violation of the First Amendment? Not sufficiently: In her press briefing Wednesday, Leavitt faced questions from only one reporter — CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — about the matter. As Leavitt recited her position, she might as well have been stomping on a copy of the Bill of Rights under the lectern: “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the ‘Gulf of America,’” Leavitt said, noting that major tech firms have acknowledged the change. With that, the president’s spokesperson in Orwellian fashion recategorized an editorial judgment as an assertion of fact. And yet Vance has the temerity to suggest that he (without sin) can lecture Europeans about Free Speech. What a hypocrite.
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  2. JD Vance is never correct, because he always lies. He has no standing to talk about Free Speech because Free Speech is penalized that very same day in the White House, where the AP (Associate Press) was penalized for not using "Gulf of America", trump's bizarre and abrupt re-invention of the Gulf of Mexico. Instead continuing to use the common name that has stood the test of time for 400 years. From the Washington Post: "According to a letter from AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Julie Pace, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday warned of access restrictions if the wire service “did not immediately align its editorial standards” with the gulf-name mandate. The AP held firm, and the White House then blocked a reporter from an Oval Office event and later blocked another reporter from an event in the Diplomatic Room, according to the letter. The blocking of AP access continued throughout the week, including events at the White House on Thursday and a presidential trip on Friday. A White House official on Friday tweeted that the wire service’s “privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One,” would go to “the many thousands of reporters who have been barred from covering these intimate areas of the administration.” The AP has been a member of the 13-person presidential press pool for more than a century. How outraged is the White House press corps regarding this naked violation of the First Amendment? Not sufficiently: In her press briefing Wednesday, Leavitt faced questions from only one reporter — CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — about the matter. As Leavitt recited her position, she might as well have been stomping on a copy of the Bill of Rights under the lectern: “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the ‘Gulf of America,’” Leavitt said, noting that major tech firms have acknowledged the change. With that, the president’s spokesperson in Orwellian fashion recategorized an editorial judgment as an assertion of fact." And yet Vance has the temerity to suggest that he (without sin) can lecture Europeans about Free Speech. What a hypocrite.
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